page_title: Kingz (film)
section_title: Background
hierarchical_section_title: Kingz (film) / Production / Background
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Olli Banjo beim Splash-Festval 2006 in Chemnitz
context_page_description: Kingz is a 2007 German short action science-fiction horror film created by Benni Diez and Marinko Spahić about two young thugs who go to a nightclub to close out a drug deal only to find something is not quite right about some of the patrons, including the owner; the ensuing mayhem involves martial arts, swordplay, and gunfighting. The short film was shown at international film festivals and won a Méliès d'Argent in 2009.
  In 2017, Kingz received a general theatrical release through its inclusion in the Canadian science-fiction horror anthology film, Galaxy of Horrors.
context_section_description: Benni Diez developed a love for horror and science-fiction filmmaking in the early 1990s, and worked for agencies and production companies in Bavaria before enrolling at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in 2002, where he specialised in visual effects and animation. There, he first collaborated with Marinko Spahić, another student at Baden-Württemberg, on a short mixed live action animation film titled Druckbolzen (Pressure Bolt, 2003), made for €250.
caption: Olli Banjo [de] in 2006
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