Leon Roskoni

Leon Roskoni is a junior Director, Producer and Director of Photography from Hesse, Germany. Born "Leon Valentin Roskoni" as third and youngest child of his father in Gelnhausen Germany, Leon grew up in a small municipality named Birstein in Hesse. At age 11 he discovered art and fun of filmmaking. In his school-time Leon visited more than four different schools and switched classes six times. Before graduating from Friedrich-August-Genth school in Wächtersbach, Germany he became committed to student representation and educational law, in which capacity he was elected President of the Students Council of the Friedrich-August-Genth-School in 2015 but had to resign before a second turn due to his graduation. In further he worked with the State Students Council of the Parliamentary Republic of Hesse, where he was elected chairman twice. Roskoni had his breakthrough at the age of 15 when he won the award for best picture for a short subject film he produced in school in a students short-film contest held by the hessian broadcasting institution "hr-fernsehn". Ever since, he kept working on projects with children and students. In 2016 Leon Roskoni was honorably awarded the certificate of merit of the Main Kinzig County. In 2015 he was named / appointed "Kunsttalent" ("art-talent") by 'Städel Museum Frankfurt', 'Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt' and 'Liebieghaus Frankfurt', three of the major art galleries in Germany which enabled him to hold an vernissage and exhibition in Städel Museum, the most renowned art institution in Hesse and one of the major European art collections existing. Since September 2016 Leon Roskoni working and studying in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. In February 2017 Leon started working as a guest lecturer at the Frankfurt Academy of Stage Arts, holding courses about acting in front of the camera and camera-acting.