LICHTBOGEN FILMPRODUKTION is an independent film production company founded by Rob Tregenza and Kirk Kjeldsen.

Rob Tregenza has written, directed and photographed four award-winning feature films, which have been screened at the Cannes Film Festival in the “Un Certain Regard” category and the Berlin Film Festival in the Panorama section. Over the years, his films have also appeared at the festivals of Toronto, Sundance, Rotterdam and Edinburgh. He has also distributed films that include Jacques Rivette's "Haut/bas/fragile" ("Up/down/fragile"), Michael Haneke's "The Seventh Continent" and Aleksandr Rogoschkin's "Chekist" through Cinema Parallel.

His work has been positively reviewed in The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times and by such prominent critics as Vincent Canby, Dave Kehr, Jonathan Rosenbaum and Roger Ebert. A retrospective of his films was also shown at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. But perhaps the highest recognition has been the attention of one of the most important directors of the twentieth century, Jean-Luc Godard, who hand-selected Tregenza’s “Talking to Strangers” to screen again at the 1996 Toronto International Film Festival. Godard describes passages in Tregenza’s films as “remarkable and at times astonishing, that is, softly imbued with the marvelous.” He further explains that in Tregenza’s cinematic world, “reality walks hand in hand with fiction.”

The essay, “Cinq Lettres à et sur Rob Tregenza” (“Five Letters to and about Rob Tregenza”) appears in the book Jean-Luc Godard: Documents, published in 2006 by the modern and contemporary art institution of Paris, Le Centre Pompidou. Tregenza has also had an award-winning career as a commercial director and cameraman for clients like IBM, DuPont, CSX, Blue Cross Blue Shield and has worked as a Director of Photography for other independent filmmakers including Bela Tarr and Alex Cox. He received his PhD in 1982 from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and has been a professor and chair of numerous film departments, lecturing on his “5 Dance Steps of Mise en scene,” which he developed in the 1980s and 1990s while teaching at UCLA and Howard University.

Kirk Kjeldsen received an MFA from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts and a Ph.D. from Szkoła Filmowa w Łodzi / PWSFTviT (the Łódź Film School in Poland), where he’s currently an adjunct doctor. As an undergraduate, he also studied at Lafayette College and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn in Germany. He has taught screenwriting and production at numerous other schools and universities, including VCU’s School of the Arts and the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB). He was a finalist or semi-finalist in a number of screenwriting fellowships and competitions, including The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, and he has developed and sold material to Hollywood, independent and foreign producers.

During his studies at USC, Kjeldsen was a development assistant at The Sundance Institute. He was also a staff and freelance reporter for a number of newspapers and magazines, and he has produced more than twenty-five short films shot on 35mm. Kjeldsen's first novel, "Tomorrow City," was published by Signal 8 Press in 2013. His novel "The Depths” was included in the New Jersey Star-Ledger's 10 Best Books of 2018 list and was nominated for the 2019 Library of Virginia Literary Awards, and his novel “East” was nominated for the Dzanc Prize for Fiction.

Lichtbogen’s first production, the 35mm feature Gavagai, was shot in Telemark, Norway, and premiered in the U.S. in August of 2018. The film was included in the “Best of 2018” lists of a number of publications, including The New Yorker and the Los Angeles Times. Lichtbogen’s second film, The Fullness of Time, is currently in development.