About

Before pursuing my masters degree in directing in October of 2023 in Berlin, I have been working in a range of fields within the film industry, spanning equipment rental, film distribution and production and film journalism.

In early 2023 I was production assistant for the German-American coproduction September 5, a dramatic feature, tackling the infamous attacks during the 1972 Olympic games in Munich from the most immediate and never before done point of view: the perspective of the ABC reporters covering the games from their Munich-based studio. The film was produced by BerghausWöbke Filmproduktion (Thomas Wöbke & Philipp Trauer) and Projected Picture Works (Sean Penn, John Palmer & John Wildermuth) and directed by Tim Fehlbaum and is currently nominated for a Golden Globe as best picture. I was given the chance to be a featured extra in the film and am grateful for Tim that my scene didn't land on the cutting room floor :)

 

Leading to September 5, I was a production assistant with Constantin Film Development in West Hollywood and Ziegler Film in Berlin, project assistant and office manager at Syrreal Entertainment and assistant to the producers and project manager at CAB Film.

At Syrreal Entertainment, I communicated with English-speaking partners and translated contractual materials, pitch papers and screenplays for the ZDFneo serial Sløborn and the CBS show Ze Network starring David Hasselhoff. 

With CAB Film, I continued to translate all of the above, proofread the translations of others and supported the production office during pre-production, principal photography, and post-production of Greenlight – German Genius, a series, produced in collaboration with Warner (TNT) and Wiedemann & Berg TV.

 

Prior to this, as American Studies major at Humboldt University of Berlin, I was enrolled in a one-year enduring exchange program in California, where I majored in film, with a minor in Cultural Studies at University of California, Irvine and UCLA, particularly focusing on Asian American-Histories. Following the completion of my program at Irvine, I interned with Constantin Film`s West Hollywood offices as production assistant. My assignments included compiling a list of potential directors for an upcoming project, communicating with agents, checking the avails of talent, reading screenplays and novels on cinematic potential, as well as translating research material and blurbs from English to German and vice versa.

 

Here I learned valuable mediative and intercultural skills working in a German / American setting. Particularly insightful was to experience the distinctions yet also congruencies of these industries on both sides of the Atlantic. 

 

At that point, I had already worked in almost all areas of film, including film journalism at Germany’s predominant movie-magazine Cinema’s editorial headquarters in Hamburg, with the largest film-equipment rental facility Cinegate in Cologne and production assistance for production company Ziegler Film as well as assisting the CEO at distributor Delphi Film here in Berlin. Among other pieces, I wrote articles for the Berlin International Film Festival in both English and German. 

 

From February throughout May 2017, I lived in O’ahu, Hawai’i conducting research on the European internment experience at Sand Island and Honouliuli internment camps, following the events at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

I was fortunate enough to speak to the last remaining survivor of these installations and even visit the former camp sites. In accordance with the globe-spanning nature of this topic, this thesis was read by both my former professor at UC-Irvine and German professor in Berlin.

 

In March of 2017, I returned to O’ahu to be an extra in the feature film Triple Frontier directed by J.C. Chandor which was released on NETFLIX in March 2019. This was likely rather insane and I would do it again any day.