Filmographie (engl)

From 1975-81 Pepe studied Media & Communication at Freiburg University and was a
founding Member of Media Workshop Freiburg (MWF). He has completed about 30
films/videos as author/director in the filmcollective MWF and in 1978 he won the National
Documentary Award for the "entire output" of MWF. He became a member of the European
Film Academy in 1994 and graduated from the European producers school EAVE in 1995. In
1994 he won an Academy Award (Oscar®) for the Live-action Short "Black Rider". In 2000 he
won the National Film Award (Lola®) for Best Director for "Homegame".

Beside his work as a director/writer, Pepe works as a teacher (directing films) at various film schools in Germany (dffb in Berlin, film academy in Ludwigsburg, ZFP) and works as a dramaturgical advicer and producer for documentary films. Currently he is working with Austrian director Michael Glawogger (Megacities) as creative partner/co-producer on his new film "working man'sdeath". He is creative partner of producer Mirjam Quinte (Quinte Film Production) and is a
commission editor at the National Cultural Film Fund (BKM) in the Ministry of Culture of
Germany.

In the year 2008 Pepe became a Professor for Film at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg (HFBK) and beside this he founded the production company "bittersuess pictures GmbH" (together with (Susa Kusche, Robert Gold, Uwe Spiller and Andrea Roman) in Berlin.