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David Brandstaetter

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Synopsis: The story takes place in today's Ghana. According to Trokosi custom, if someone commits a crime, traditional leaders order that a young girl from that family be sent to the shrine as a form of atonement. The chief priest and his entourage genitally mutilate and sexually abuse the girl. Against all odds, the protagonist of the story escapes the shrine. PUNCTURED HOPE follows her life from the age of innocence to premature adulthood, against a backdrop of real and very animated African village life.

Director Bruno Pischiutta - Born in Udine, Italy in 1947, Bruno Pischiutta began his film career in the late 60's as an actor in films by Francesco Rosi, Nanni Loy and Billy Wilder. In 1975 he founded the Centro Iniziative di Azione Culturale in Rome. He made his directorial debut in 1975 with COMPAGNE NUDE, and he moved to Canada in 1983. His other films include ULTIMO INCONTRO A VENEZIA (1977), ISOLA MECCANICA (1978), THE COMOEDIA (1981), LIFE'S CHARADE (1987) and MAYBE (2003).
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Born in Graz, Austria, on June 7, 1977, David Reinhard Brandstätter discovered an early talent for playing piano and writing orchestral music. Growing up as a film music enthusiast in a musical family, David attended piano lessons starting at the age of six at the conservatory of Graz. Brandstatter graduated at University Salzburg FH MultimediaArt in 2001 and worked at the Vienna based game company Rockstar Games as a composer/sound designer and as a project manager at Sony DADC in Salzburg. Since 2011, David is managing director at Tectonic Slide Entertainment, a 3D animation company based in Vienna.
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    10,000 BC (2008)
    10,000 BC
    5.1
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    • 2008
    James McCaffrey and Sam Lake in Max Payne (2001)
    Max Payne
    9.2
    Video Game
    • Additional Crew(Xbox version)
    • 2001
    Timothy Gibbs, Wendy Hoopes, James McCaffrey, and Kathy Tong in Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (2003)
    Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
    9.1
    Video Game
    • Sound Department(as David Brandstätter)
    • 2003
    Punctured Hope: A Story About Trokosi and the Young Girls' Slavery in Today's West Africa (2009)
    Punctured Hope: A Story About Trokosi and the Young Girls' Slavery in Today's West Africa
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    • 2009

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    • Theme Planet
      6.6
      Short
      • lead sound designer
      • 2007
    • Timothy Gibbs, Wendy Hoopes, James McCaffrey, and Kathy Tong in Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (2003)
      Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
      9.1
      Video Game
      • audio designer (as David Brandstätter)
      • 2003
    • Der Clou! 2 (2001)
      Der Clou! 2
      6.4
      Video Game
      • sound designer
      • sound effects
      • 2001

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    • 10,000 BC (2008)
      10,000 BC
      5.1
      • additional orchestrator
      • 2008
    • John Light and Felicitas Woll in Dresden (2006)
      Dresden
      6.6
      TV Movie
      • composer: additional score
      • 2006
    • Benno Fürmann, Jan Josef Liefers, and Nadja Uhl in Die Sturmflut (2006)
      Die Sturmflut
      5.2
      TV Movie
      • composer: additional score
      • 2006

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    • Fairuza Balk, Ray Liotta, Tom Sizemore, Luis Guzmán, and Philip Michael Thomas in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002)
      Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
      9.2
      Video Game
      • general support (Xbox version)
      • 2002
    • Grand Theft Auto III (2001)
      Grand Theft Auto III
      8.6
      Video Game
      • general support: Xbox version
      • 2001
    • James McCaffrey and Sam Lake in Max Payne (2001)
      Max Payne
      9.2
      Video Game
      • video production (Xbox version)
      • 2001

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      • June 7, 1977
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