Filmography

Participant of the MEDIA training program “Animation Sans Frontières” 2010/11
(MOME, Hungary; The Animation Workshop, Denmark; Gobelins, France)

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Light Years

VFX Project / Graduation Short Film / Sci-Fi Drama

24 min. – 85 VFX Shots – 2011 – D: Florian Knittel
-> VFX Producer & Coordinator

• 33. Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis 2012 – Mittellanger Wettbewerb

Angelinho

2D-animated graduation shortfilm about a boy and his Guardian Angel.

4 min. – 2011 – D: Maryna Shchipak – www.angelinho.com
-> Producer, Compositing

Wunderkind

Trailer for the 18th Festival of Animated Film Stuttgart

1 min. – 2011 – D: Marco Erbrich, Vincent Langer, Georg Schneider
-> Producer

Rooms

Trailer for the 18th Festival of Animated Film Stuttgart

1 min. – 2011 – D: Jennifer Bury, Manuela Molin
-> Producer

Reboot_BRD

Doc-Feature about how the Internet changes Politics.

30 min. – 2011 – D: Viktor Apfelbacher
-> Producer, Sound, 2nd Camera, Sound-Mixing

Die Hand vor Augen

26 min. – 2010 – D: Dustin Loose – www.diehandvoraugen.de
-> Producer

• 32. Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis 2011 – Mittellanger Wettbewerb

Liebesfilm

Documentary about the love between a handicapped couple.

27 min. – 2009 – D: Maximilian Haslberger – www.liebesfilm-derfilm.de
-> Co-Editor, Sound, Sounddesign & Sound-Mixing

• Screening at the 43. Hofer Filmtagen 2009

Rot Gold Schwarz

Shortfilm about three people who fight for their existence and clash in a removal-center.

15 min. – 2010 – D: Verena Jahnke - www.rotgoldschwarz.de
-> Producer, Sound-Mixing

• Screening at 31. Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis 2010

Oury Jalloh

Semi-documentary shortfilm about the life of the asylum-seeker Oury Jalloh and how he burnt to death in a German prison cell in 2005.
30 min. – 2008 – D: Simon J. Paetau – www.ouryjalloh-derfilm.de
-> Co-Writer, Producer & Sound

• Screening at 26th Kassel Documentary and Videofestival 2009
• German Youth Video Prize 2009, 1st Prize Age Group 22-25
• 1st Prize Fiction at Political Shortcuts Int. Short Film Festival Koblenz 2009
• German Human Rights Film Prize 2008 – Category Amateur

Paloma

Shortfilm about the deportation of a chilean immigrant.

9 min. – 2006 – D: Simon J. Paetau – www.scenemissing.de/paloma
-> Producer & Editor

• German Youth Video Prize 2007, 1st Prize Age Group 16-20
• Screening at Cartagena International Film Festival 2007, Colombia
• Short Cuts Cologne no. 9 – Juryprize Cologne Shorts 2006

Rolltreppe abwärts

Feature film about a boy and his downfall in society.

Based on the youth novel of Hans-Georg Noack

73 min. – 2005 – D: Dustin Loose – Distributor: Zorro Film – DVD-Distributor: Lingua-Video.com – www.rolltreppe-derfilm.de
-> Co-Writer, Editor, Production Manager, Continuity