Peter Gornstein

Background

About Peter Gornstein

After finishing art school Peter's working life began at Sony Pictures Imageworks, where he went on to become a staff concept artist, working on CONTACT, STARSHIP TROOPERS and STUART LITTLE and many more films while there. Later as lead concept artist for IO Interactive he worked on FREEDOM FIGTHER, KANE AND LYNCH and the HITMAN series. Venturing into directing Peter started by directing numerous commercials, music videos and short films. He was nominated at the CANNES FILM FESTIVAL as Best Young Director. His short film SUNRISE won the Fuji Film international short film award, the FotoKem award and the Panavision award and was in official selection at several international festivals. His New Danish Screen film PEACEFORCE won the Canal+ Prix at the CLERMONT- FERRAND FILM FESTIVAL, the world’s largest short film festival. PEACEFORCE was nominated for a Robert (the Danish Oscar) and was in official competition around the world. Working in Television Peter directed the TV documentary film BAG I KLOVN as well as directing FUNNY HA HA and several other TV projects. Peter then went on to direct 27 episodes in a row of LIVE FROM BREMEN contributing to the show becoming the second most watched TV show in Denmark. Peter Was the Global Cinematic Director at Crytek owning the creative quality of all story and cinematics company wide. He was also the Cinematic Director, Art Director and co. writer on RYSE a next generation, story driven X BOX ONE game. This earned Peter a VES nomination for outstanding visuals in a video game, as well as two D.I.C.E. nominations, one for Art Direction and one for best performance by a main character in a video game.(Marius Titus) At SIGGRAPH 2014 Peter won best real-time graphics for RYSE Son of Rome as well as being shortlisted for his short animation film: Legend of Damocles. Currently Peter is working as Cinematic Director Consultant for Io-Interactive. Peter’s website: