Andreas Prochaska

Andreas Prochaska born December 31 1964 in Vienna Austria is an Austrian film director screenwriter and film editor He grew up in Bad Ischl and later moved to Vienna to study journalism and theatre studies though he did not complete his degree In 1985 he began working in the film industry as an assistant to director Paulus Manker and gained practical experience across multiple departments including sound design directing production and editing for both film and television Prochaska first worked as a coeditor on the Tatort episode Flucht in den Tod 1987 and as an editing assistant on Wolfram Paulus film Nachsaison 1988 He later collaborated with director Michael Haneke initially as an editing assistant on Bennys Video 1992 and 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance 1994 before serving as editor on The Castle 1997 Funny Games 1997 and Code Unknown 2000 He made his directorial debut in 1998 with The Three Post Robbers an adaptation of the childrens novel by Christine Nöstlinger which became a success at the Austrian box office After directing several television films and series episodes he turned to the horror genre with Dead in 3 Days 2006 a slasher film notable for having its cast speak in Austrian dialects The films success led to a sequel two years later In 2010 Prochaska directed his first comedy The Unintentional Kidnapping of Mrs Elfriede Ott which won the inaugural Austrian Film Award in 2011 and earned him the prize for Best Screenplay He received the Bavarian Television Award and an International Emmy Award in 2012 for directing the television film A Day for a Miracle Das Wunder von Kärnten His Western thriller The Dark Valley 2014 brought him the Bavarian Film Award for Best Director in 2013 and won eight German Film Awards in 2014 with Prochaska nominated for Best Director He lives in Purkersdorf near Vienna with his wife Astrid an art therapist and their four sons His son Daniel Prochaska is also a film editor and director from Wikipedia