BIO
Mahan was born in Freiburg. After highschool in Paris he studied music, sounddesign and psychology at the Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and the University of Glasgow. He lives and works in Berlin.
Projects with his music have been shown at MOMA, New York (The machine which makes everything dissapear) in french and german Television (Arte, TV5, ZDF, 3Sat...) and at numerous film festivals like Berlinale, Sundance, SIFF and DOK Leipzig.
Besides his work for the movies, he has worked on numerous campaigns of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, as for example the El Siglo de Oro - Diego Velazques (2016) and the Botticelli (2015) expositions. He also worked on campaigns for the Royal Dramatic Theater of Sweden (2019,2020).
Besides his work as a composer, he enjoys writing audio plays.
Latest News
June 2024
Whatever Happens next (by Julian Pörksen) is on stream at
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/filme-im-mdr/whatever-happens-next/mdr-fernsehen/Y3JpZDovL21kci5kZS9zZW5kdW5nLzI4MjA0MC80NTI0MjQtNDMyODU5
January 2024
The Trailer for the book release of Marlene Assmann's "Alles gut? Alles gut." is online.
https://www.jacobystuart.de/buecher-von-jacoby-stuart/erscheint-demnaechst/alles-gut-alles-gut/
Juli 2023
Mini-Portrait für Andreas Stichmanns Beitrag im Rahmen des Ingeborgbachmann Preises. https://bachmannpreis.orf.at/stories/3206654/
February 2023
Whatever happens next is shown on RBB
https://www.rbb-online.de/film/mediathek/w/whatever-happens-next.html
June 2022
Fly so far, for which I wrote the music together with Nils Bucher, is going to be shown on several festivals, starting at the Instituto Cervantes, in New York on June 20th and the Philadelphia Latino Filmfestivla, June 3rd
Mai 2022
Tagebuch eines Uberfahrers ist in der ZDF Mediathek
April 2022
Max Paul Maria released his album "Paradigm Beach". I had the pleasure of arranging and playing some string sections and keys for some of his songs.
https://open.spotify.com/album/5mWB7Regvo2dPAbNFtP1MK
February 2022
Whatever Happens Next ist ab 15.2.2022 in der MDR Mediathek
November 2021
Fly so far wins the price for best documentary feature at Festival international de cine en centroamérica Icaro24
April 2021
The Ibero-American Cinema Competition Grand Jury Prize of the Seattle International Film Festival goes to FLY SO FAR (NUESTRA LIBERTAD) directed by Celina Escher (El Salvador/Sweden)
https://www.siff.net/news/siff-2021-award-winners.
Fly So Far wins Activist Documentary Award at moves that matter festival, Amsterdam
April, 26.2020
SOMETIMES WE SIT AND THINK im rbb und als Stream
https://www.rbb-online.de/film/mediathek/s/sometimes-we-sit-and-think-and-sometimes-we-just-sit.html
März 2020
Die Hörspielserie "Lockdown" von Julian Pörksen und dem Schauspiel Köln mit neuen Folgen immer Montags und Samstags
Events
March 13, 2024
Fly so far – Haft nach Fehlgeburt
Haus am Dom, Frankfurt, 19 Uhr.
12 April 2023
Screening von «Fly so Far» und Diskussion am Human Rights Film Festival in Zürich
October 2022
Fly so far is on Aljazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/witness/2021/9/24/miscarriage-of-justice-a-fight-for-womens-rights-in-el-salvador
13.5.2022
Tagebuch eines Uberfahrers in der ZDF Mediathek
April 2021
Fly so far at Seattle, International Film Festival, Hot Docs Toronto and Movies that Matter Festival Amsterdam
March 21, 2021
"Schnack" release on urplay.se and at 5pm on SVT2
March 27-29 2020
Kärleksinvandrarna is going to be shown at Sveriges Kortfilmfestival 2020