In 2002 I completed the Media Course at East 15 Acting & Filmmaking School, Essex University. I got my first job in a BBC production straight after graduation and soon started to develop my own film projects. My first short film Illegal (2006) premiered at Cinequest, was screened at the LA Shorts Fest, and received several awards. The film was licensed and broadcast internationally and published on DVD. Commentary (2009) premiered at the Warsaw Film Festival, was screened at the Viennale and competed at the Flanders Film Festival in Ghent for a nomination as Best European Short Film (European Film Awards). Film scholar Laura Rascaroli wrote a paper on Commentary and its instrumental use of voice-over in essayistic documentary making. I continue to explore aspects of subjective cinema in my work.
I was born 1965 in Vienna to a Dutch father and a German-Polish mother. I spent my early childhood in Italy and completed academic studies in Vienna (PhD, University of Economics), Rotterdam (Diploma in European Studies, Erasmus University) and Cambridge (Master of Science, MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology). In the 1990s I worked as a consultant in Berlin helping to privatize the former East German economy. Then I served on the Board of Directors of a mining company and later became an industrial entrepreneur in Saxony. In 2001 I moved to London and established Concept Films in 2003. To date my productions have received more than 40 film festival screenings and 20 awards.
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