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…)
INTRODUCTION
1. Why I had to create this course
2. The Jaguar’s hut: Find your essence
3. Is your vision big enough?
4. the Trojan Horse: The importance of what we do
STORYTELLING & PITCHING
5. The train is running
6. Every story has a consciousness!
7. The rhythm of dreams
8. How we did the impossible: ‘The Big Black’
9. Reverse Archetyping
10. Our Mexican adventure
11. Research til you drop?
12. ‘Lo que hay.’ (Take what you have.)
13. JFDI – ‘just f***ing do it!’
14. Are you a Copycat?
15. Be honest
HUNTER & GATHERER (FILMING)
16. One Man Army
17. Your secret weapon: Courage
18. HD or 4K?
19. The B-Roll
20. The Slow Motion B-Roll
21. The necessity & beauty of ‘sound only’
22. Be nice, say ‘Thank you’…
23. A matter of Trust
24. Collecting credits: You will thank me later…
25. Should I do contracts?
HARDWARE & SOFTWARE
26. Does technology make a good film?
27. My personal equipment I trust
28. My personal software I trust
29. A studio in a van?
30. Back your back up
31. Money’s out?
EDITING
32. Should you want deadlines?
33. On being ‘perfect’
34. Handling 20 hours of interview material?
35. Version numbers & creative naming
36. My view on ‘Artificial Intelligence’
37. You will transform what you have transformed…
38. Be the audience!
39. On Audio mixing
40. Kill your darlings…
DISTRIBUTION
41. A critical view on Awards & Festivals
42. Activate the tribe
AND BEYOND…
43. The growth lies beyond…
44. Spiritual Guidance
45. The ‘nothingness’…
+ 14 challenges
+ interviews with guests on intuition, independent filmmaking, the essence of Arts and more…
Very grateful to have received the Master of Storytelling Award in Bhutan (June 2025)
World Premiere (GERMANY)
World Premiere (MEXICO)