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Coronoia 21

A man's descent into madness while isolated in a lengthy Corona lock-down.

  • Robert Sigl
    Director
    Laurin, Lexx, Hepzibah
  • Robert Sigl
    Writer
    Laurin, The Christmas Tree
  • Robert Sigl
    Producer
    Laurin
  • Robert Sigl
    Key Cast
    "Haunted Man"
    School's Out
  • Annette Kreft
    Key Cast
    "Haunting Woman"
    Die Insel der Angst
  • Rostislav Stepanek
    Cinematography
    Hepzibah, Borgia
  • Markus Urchs
    Composer
  • Max Grundl
    Editor
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    9 minutes 50 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    April 30, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    0 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Germany
  • Country of Filming:
    Germany
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Santa Monica Short Film Festival / Austin Film Festival / Chicago Film Festival
    Munich
    Germany
    European Premiere
    Nominated for Best Horror Film
  • Santa Monica
    United States
    May 23, 2021
Director Biography - Robert Sigl

Robert Sigl was born in 1962 and raised in Germany. From 1981 to 1986 he attended Munich Film School. His diploma work LAURIN won him the Bavarian Film Award for Best Direction of a Newcomer. Since then he has directed several acclaimed feature films and TV movies in Canada, France, Hungary, Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic. He has received numerous development fundings for his projects and screenplays and he has worked for U.S. Networks Showtime and SciFi Channel with stars like Malcolm McDowell, Eleanor Tomlinson (female lead in Bryan Singer's JACK THE GIANT SLAYER) and others. Three-times-Oscar winning composer Howard Shore has expressed his interest in providing the soundtrack for Sigl’s upcoming 15-Million-Dollar-production MANDYLION (previously: THE SPIDER.) Furthermore, Robert Sigl received a nomination for the German Director's Award Metropolis 2012. Robert Sigl's first novel, WURDILAK, was published in Germany and Switzerland and is currently seeking an English/American publisher.
Robert Sigl is also an actor. He played in essential parts twice under the direction of famed fellow director Dominik Graf.

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Director Statement

CORONOIA 21 was shot entirely on a Samsung Galaxy S7 smartphone on a zero budget. Because we were only two to three people while filming we could spontaneously shoot and take advantage of the rare snowfall in Munich. Due to the very small time window during these kinds of snowfalls in our region we had to act promptly. In a professional production of a narrative film these "panoramic" wide shots of the nocturnal city wrapped in heavy (and real!) snow flurries including the actors acting in it would not have been possible.