about me

I was born 1971 in Brasil and raised in Vienna, Austria. Growing up in the European household of two open-minded doctors, I travelled a lot and started to take pictures as a teenager. After school I started to make corporate movies in Frankfurt and applied for the AFI (American Film Institue). I spent two years with fantastic teachers, colleagues and an enourmous task load (and earned an M.F.A.) – and found myself working a camera operator and director of photography in Los Angeles day and night for the next five years. After that I needed a break and started working back in Europe. Things went well and I was asked to do the pilots (and seasons) of a few new tv series (Schlawiner, CopStories, Vorstadtweiber, Kalahari Gemsen) on Austrian National TV (ORF). I had a lot of fun creating a unique visual language for each of those series, when life called me and brought a few feature films to me. It was a challenge again to find pictures suitable for the big screen and tell a story in only 90 minutes. Beside that I am often asked to shoot documentaries with religious or environmental aspects which I really enjoy. Every now and then I’ll do a short film because I like the spirit of emerging directors and their approach to stories.
film companies
clients
awards
- Epo Film
- Golden Girls
- Feature Film
- MR Film
- Gebhardt Productions
- Satel Film
- Produktion West
- Geyerhalter Film
- Stockhaus Film
- Cameo Film Köln
- Fischer Film
- Viennatainment
- Lotus Film
- Satisfiction
- Cinevision
tv stations
- BBC
- ORF
- Servus TV
- ORF III
- Arte
directors
- Harald Sicheritz
- Paul Harather
- Jake Scott
- Judd Apatow
- and many more…
- Audio Vision (Frankfurt)
- BMW / Rolls Royce Flugzeugmotoren
- IPS International Plastic Supplies
- Coca Cola
- Ö3 Hit Radio
- Jolly Buntstifte
- Koch Records / Cecilia Bartoli
- Recheis Nudeln
- Deutsche Stahl AG
- Skyline Design
- Opec Foundation
- Wieselburger Bier
- Lagnese / Iglo
- Erste Bank und Sparkassen
- A & O
- Cunard White Star Line / Queen Elizabeth
- Swarco Futurit
- Techno Haus
- Siemens
- Rudolfinerhaus
- Shinergy Libro Konzern
- Boehringer Ingelheim
- Kronen Zeitung
- Ehapa Verlag
- Live in Concert
- One
- Alphaville
- Best International Fiction Feature | Lanus Int. Film Festival 2018 (feature film Das kleine Vergnügen)
- Best Director | South Film and Arts Academy Festival 2018 (feature film Das kleine Vergnügen)
- Board of Director’s Award | North Carolina Film Awards 2017 (feature film Das kleine Vergnügen)
- Best Foreign Film | LA Femme Int. Film Festival 2017 (feature film Das kleine Vergnügen)
- Critic’s Choice Award | Sci-On Film Festival 2017 (short film Intransit)
- Area 51 Award | Sci-On Film Festival 2017 (short film Intransit)
- Winner Foreign Film 2nd Runner Up | Myrtle Beach Int. Film Festival 2016 (short film Die Postgötter)
- Best Actor | Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival India 2016 (short film Die Postgötter)
- Founders Award | North Carolina Film Awards 2016 (short film Die Postgötter)
- Honorable Mention Best Screenplay | Parma Int. Music Film Festival 2015 (feature film La vie nous appartient)
- Utopia Award | Parma Int. Film Festival Italy 2015 (feature film La vie nous appartient)
- Best Feature Film & Special Jury Prize | Olympia Film Festival for Children and Young People 2015 (feature film La vie nous appartient)
- Special Mention | Social World Film Festival 2015 (feature film La vie nous appartient)
- Winner “Premio + Alti” | Vittorio Veneto Kids & Teens Film Festival 2015 (feature film La vie nous appartient)
- Cultural Prize | Seoul Guro Int. Kids Film Festival 2015 (feature film La vie nous appartient)
- Winner of New German Directors Show Case 2012 | Saatchi & Saatchi (short film Zu Eng!)
- Best Film | Saratov Film Festival 2008 (documentary Einst süße Heimat)
- Gewinner shorts on screen | ORF 2005 (short film Elektronikschrott)
- Silver Plaque Award | Chicago Int. Film Festival 2005 (feature film Souvenirs des Herrn X)
- Silberne Venus 2002 (Alphaville)
- Goldene Venus 2001 (UPC U-Boot)
- Certificates of Merit | 32. Chicago Film Festival (information film about child abuse for the state of California)
- 2nd Place | Phoenix Film and Television Festival (information film about wastage of water for the state of California)
my equipment
Sony f65 | Sony FS7 | Cooke Lenses | Mitchell Geared Head (Kurbelkopf) | miscellaneous accessory