Robert Cibis
Founder & CEO @Ovalmedia Group
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WORK HISTORY
Founder & CEO @Ovalmedia Group
Berlin, DE
Robert Cibis and Lilian Franck’s careers began in 1998 after their film studies in Paris. They united around storytelling - showing people something new and challenging the commonplace. But it was a hard fight to win people over to innovative projects. The two found that both investors and audiences had to be coaxed away from familiar terrain and that each project had to find an individually tailored solution.The theatrical documentary ‘Pianomania’, for example, centres on piano technician Stefan Knüpfer and his search for the perfect sound, accompanied by world-class pianists Lang Lang, Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Alfred Brendel. The film was awarded, among other prizes, the Semaine de la Critique prize at Locarno, the Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco IFF and the German Film Award for Best Sound. It also had a very successful cinema release in 25 countries worldwide.OVALmedia strives to further understanding of today’s world in order to champion for the common good. This belief is self-evident in two of our most recent projects, Free Lunch Society (2017), which addresses the very real possibility of a universal basic income and trustWHO (2018), a searing exposé into the influence of privatization on global healthcare. Free Lunch Society also marks OVALmedia’s first foray into theatrical distribution, as the OVAL team was able to coordinate a crowd-sourced premier event, which saw the film open in 100 German cinemas on its first day of release, with 100 debates after the screenings.Boundaries no longer exist between different kinds of media. As new media bears witness to the ever-developing integration of Science, Business and Art, we recognize how vital it is that OVALmedia is able to adapt to this. We work to pursue ideas that transcend fixed media categories and disciplines.
EDUCATION
Sapienza Università di Roma
Cinema - Dipartimento di Arti e scienze dello Spettacolo (DASS)
ATELIER LUDWIGSBURG-PARIS - Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg/La Fémis
Script and Project Development, Financing, Production, Distribution and Marketing
Discovery campus
International Documentary development & production
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
Maîtrise, Film
SKILLS
ABOUT ROBERT CIBIS
Nobody wants to be subjugated by others, but it happens all the time. The most brutal instrument of power is stories. Whether it concerns guilt narratives, viral psy-ops, victim narratives or tales of omnipotence - as a media maker, Robert Cibis can make people aware of narrative patterns and thus empower others and himself. Robert Cibis is chief executive of the OVALmedia group based in Paris, Rome, Berlin and Cologne. A jack of all trades, Robert Cibis aspires to provide new perspective to the thorny social issues of our times, and thus enriches the understanding of the audience and sparks viewers to act. His skills in a variety of media (film, TV, web, virtual reality, exhibitions, books, etc.) allow him to pursue these aims sustainably.
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