Helmut Grasser

Helmut Grasser (* 1961 in Klagenfurt) is an Austrian film producer of Allegro Film. Helmut Grasser founded the film production company Allegro Film in 1989, which he has managed to date and with which he has produced more than 60 films. In 1993 he directed "Die Wahlfährter" his only time. In this two-hour documentary he accompanied the Austrian populist Jörg Haider from election to election event and gave election helpers and voters uncommented place for their comments on Jörg Haider and their election motifs. He won the Prix Europa for the best television film of the year. As a producer he achieved his greatest success with the documentary "We Feed the World" (2005) with over 200,000 visitors in Austria and a multiple of them abroad. In 2013 he won the German Film Prize (Lola) for the best documentary "More than honey" (director: Markus Imhof) In 2014, "Das Finstere Tal-E (Director Andreas Prochaska)" won the German film award "Lola-E, and nine times the Austrian film prize, including the prize for the best film. Helmut Grasser is regarded as a pioneer for the genre film in Austria. With "In 3 days you are dead" the horror film gained a foothold in the domestic film scene. From 1996 to 2001 he was a member of the selection committee of the Austrian Film Institute, as well as between 2009 and 2012?. From 2002 to 2006 he was a member of the board of trustees of the Filmfonds Wien and since 2002 he is a member of the European Film Academy. From 1999 to 2005 he was spokesman of the Austrian Film Producers Association (AAFP) and then until 2006 its president. In that year, after disagreements between the commercially oriented, mostly larger film production companies with the small, artistically ambitious societies via state funding, Helmut Grasser founded the Austrian Film Academy. On 7 December 2014, Helmut Grasser was awarded the Cultural Prize of the State of Carinthia.