This course will save you money (a lot), energy & time…
I have created films for over 30 years. And I love telling stories.
For businesses with my own company (Mercedes-Benz, BOSCH, Carl Zeis, …), an independent feature film, 6 full-length documentaries and several shorts.
Last month I have received the ‘Master of Storytelling’-Award from the Druk IFF in Bhutan and it reminded me that it is time to share my experience with young filmmakers.
Because what we do is very important!!
The online course ‘Serendipity filmmaking‘ distills my several decades-long experience and offers a dozen challenges that will help you to focus on what burns inside of you:
THE NEXT STORY!!
(The course will be available in Fall 2025. Subscribe to my newsletter to be updated when it hits the digital shelves…)
TO BE A HOLLOW BONE (INTRODUCTION)
1. Why my heart decided to create this course (free)
2. The Jaguar’s hut: Find your essence
3. Is your vision big enough?
4. The Trojan Horse of the Storyteller: The importance of what we do
5. The Courage to be a Storyteller
6. How I met Jane Goodall in Vienna
7. The Okinawa lesson
STORYTELLING & PITCHING
8. The train is running
9. Every story has a consciousness!
10. The rhythm of dreams
11. How we did the impossible: ‘The Big Black’
12. ‘Lo que hay.’ (Take what you have)
13. Reverse Archetyping
14. The financial side
15. Our Mexican adventure
16. Research til you drop?
17. JFDI – ‘just f***ing do it!’
18. All doors are open…
19. Are you a Copycat?
20. Supporting or destroying narratives
21. Be honest
HUNTER & GATHERER (FILMING)
22. leading from the back
23. One Man Army
24. Your secret weapon: Courage
25. On the Road…
26. Interviews from the heart(s)
27. HD? 4K? 8K?
28. The B-Roll
29. The Slow Motion B-Roll
30. The necessity & beauty of ‘sound only’
31. Be nice, say ‘Thank you’…
32. A matter of Trust
33. Collecting credits: You will thank me later…
34. Should I do contracts?
HARDWARE & SOFTWARE
35. Does technology make a good film?
36. My personal equipment I trust
37. My personal software I trust
38. A studio in a van?
39. Back your back up
40. Money’s out?
EDITING
41. Should you want deadlines?
42. On being ‘perfect’
43. Handling 20 hours of interview material?
44. Version numbers & creative naming
45. My view on ‘Artificial Intelligence’
46. Stock footage
47. You will transform what you have transformed…
48. Be the audience!
49. On Audio mixing
50. Kill your darlings…
DISTRIBUTION
51. A critical view on Awards & Festivals
52. Activate the tribe
AND BEYOND…
53. The growth lies beyond…
54. Spiritual Guidance
55. The blank canvas…
+ 17+ challenges
+ interviews with guests on intuition, independent filmmaking, the essence of Arts and more…
Golden Dragon for BEST DOCUMENTARY
BEST PRODUCER
Critic's choice Award: BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Honorable Mention: BEST DIRECTOR
New film project starting, filming in Dubai, Bali, Europe, Colombia, Mexico & the U.S.
Starting as a project mentor for international Documentary...