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Lenard F. Krawinkel [* born 23.11.1966 in Hannover] is a German start up entrepreneur, film director, writer & producer.

Bio Lenard F. Krawinkel is an award winning filmmaker and serial entrepreneur. Before Lenard founded the Berlin based social mobile company Zoobe, he had cofounded the animation studio Ambient entertainment and made a name for himself as one of Germany’s pioneers in CG animated feature films such as „Back to Gaya“ which was the first in Germany and distributed by Warner Bros. Zoobe introduced the functionality of Animojiis to the mobile market and became the world leader in character voice messaging with 250 Millions videos and an average of 600.000 videos being created on a daily basis. Apple launched Animojiis on their IphoneX as one of their standard features in 2017. Lenard became active as mentor, business angel and organizer of small entrepreneurial events.

Films "Come to Boroboro Country" 1993, 7 min, Beta SP Fake documentary about a strange cult in East Germany, WDR

"No Question of Pity" 1993, 30 min, Beta SP Documentary about mentally handicapped people, SFB

"Elective Affinity" 1994, short film 3 min, 35 mm A satirical parable about German reunification Distributed by Warner Bros. International

"Take Me" 1995, short film, 15 min, 35 mm A comedy about dirty talk Cast: Nadja Brunckhorst, Jale Arlekan und Irm Hermann

"Amazing Grace" 1996, short film, 8 min, 35 mm A story of reconciliation, Munich Academy for Television and Film (HFF) Cast: Manfred Andrae, Grant Benton, Calvin E. Burke DoP: Michael Ballhaus

"Nid d'amour" 1997, short film 7 min, 35 mm An homage to Polanski's "Repulsion", FEMIS Paris Cast: Gwuenaelle Simon and Djibril Glissant

"First Love" 1997, 135 min, S16 pilot and two episodes for ZDF Cast: Denise Zich, Klaus Wennemann, Sabine Grabis, Chrisitan Oliver, Eva Habermann, Chiara Schoras, Andreas Bucker, Otto Kern, Karl Schönböck Produced by UFA Film GmbH

Sumo Bruno director, cowriter 1998/2000, first feature for theatrical release Cast: Hakan Orbeyi, Oliver Korritke, Julia Richter, Martin Seifert Produced by Studio Babelsberg and distributed by Senator Film

Boo, Zino & the Snurks director, producer 2001/2004, first CG animation feature out of Germany Produced by Ambient Entertainment GmbH & distributed by Warner Bros.

Awards Zoobe Red hering global – awarded for being among the top 100 global start ups Nominee, Goya, Best Animated Feature Film, Lenard F. Krawinkel and Holger Tappe, 2007. Goya_Award_for_Best_Animated_Film Deutscher Innovationspreis (2004, Back to Gaya) 34th Giffoni Filmfestival (2004, 2nd place Kids Section, Back to Gaya) Junior Film Festival Stockholm (2005, Bästa lågstadiefilm, Back to Gaya) Nominee, International Fantasy Film Award, Best Film, Fantasporto, 2005,