Werner Boote

Werner Boote is an Austrian filmmaker, director, writer & keynote-speaker.

Plastic Planet is one of those rare call-to-action documentaries that roused viewers to do something against plastics and accomplished countless changes in legislation, industry and society. Boote won numerous awards, including the Golden Romy for "Best Documentary Feature".

His film Population Boom examines the well-known nightmarish vision of overpopulation. It premiered internationally at the cph:dox filmfestival in Denmark and won the Green Me Award for "best green documentary" in Berlin.

After the evocative documentary Everything´s Under Control, his new movie The Green Lie about greenwashing is his new box office hit. It´s world premiere took place at the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale).

On October 24th 2024 Werner Boote was awarded the `Honorary Gold Medal of Service to the Republic of Austria´.

Career

Born in 1965 in Vienna, Werner Boote started out as a cable boy at ORF (Austrian Broadcaster). He studied drama and theater arts, journalism and sociology at the University of Vienna and at the film academy.

After years of being an assistant director (to Robert Dornhelm, Ulrich Seidl, Bud Spencer, Marvin J. Chomsky and others), Boote began making his own films in 1993.

His initial focus was on music, including the videos Anouk - Sacrifice (1999) and Andrea Bocelli - Tuscan Skies (2002). Numerous award-winning documentaries followed, for example Kurt Rydl - The Gladiator (2007), which was nominated for the FIPA European Film Award.

His countless corporate image films have been highly decorated.

From 1993 to 2002 Werner Boote lived and worked in Amsterdam. He now resides in Vienna.

Movies

Keynote-speaker, panelist & presenter

He directed over 60 films

Contacts

Questions concerning a movie
• Plastic Planet	The Party Sales
• Population Boom	NGF Geyrhalter Filmproduktion
• Everything´s Under Control	NGF Geyrhalter Filmproduktion
• The Green Lie	e&a film
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festival appearances	festivals@wernerboote.com
press	presse@wernerboote.com
book Werner Boote as a speaker	Team Karin Burger