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Citizenship: UK/Austria (dual)
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Languages: English, German, French, Italian, Hungarian, Russian
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
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2007-8: Oak Three Films, Singapore
Writer/Director Imagineers
(1hr on concept car development for Nat Geo - completes April 2008)
2007: APV Media, Singapore/Hong Kong
Editing director Nissan
(1hr on car industry for Nat Geo - completes end 2007)
2007: Driven Productions, Singapore
Writer/Director Megastructures - Venetian Macau
(1hr on casino for Nat Geo - completes November 2007)
2007: APV Media, Singapore/Hong Kong
Writer/Director Inside the National Palace Museum
(1hr about Taiwan museum for Nat Geo)
2006 - 2007: West Park Pictures, London
Series producer Walking the World
(10 x 1hr for Travel Channel US + 3 x 1hr for Reader’s Digest)
+ director 2 episodes (Salzkammergut - Austria & Great Wall of China)
2006: West Park Pictures, London
Director reconstructions & reversion Gestapo
(3 x 1hr history, History Channel International)
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2005: The Right Angle, Singapore
Director Crossings: Tony Tan Caktiong
(1hr biog of the Philippines' king of burgers for long series, Discovery)
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2005: APV Media, Singapore
Director Silkair 185
(1hr anatomy of a plane crash, for Nat Geo)
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2005: West Park Pictures, London
Producer/Director Zhou Enlai - The Beloved Premier
(½ hr archive biography for China Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
exhibition at County Hall, Westminster)
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2005: West Park Pictures, London
Producer/Director Fly Me!
(1hr on history of airline stewardess for Channel Five & Discovery-Times)
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2004: Bang Productions, Singapore
Director Chivas (1min commercial for CNN Asia)
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2004: Bang Productions, Singapore
Supervising Producer Crossings: How Man Wong
(1hr biog of explorer for long series, Discovery)
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2004: Bang Productions, Singapore
Supervising Producer Asian Enigma II
(17min feature on mystical Qigong, for Discovery Asia)
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2004: West Park Pictures, London
Development Producer Scenic Walks
(R&D for 3 x 1hr high-end travel series for Reader's Digest)
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2004: Gerald Kargl Filmproduktion, Vienna
Concept, story & script Deep Sky (90min cinema feature doc)
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2003: Bang Productions, Singapore
Producer/Director Digital Cool
(1hr on digital Korea for Discovery Asia/International)
Highly Commended for Editing, Asian TV Technical & Creative Awards 2004
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2003: Alliance Atlantis, London
Executive producer Geo 2004 series (20+ x 1hr Arte/Medienkontor)
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2003: Bang Productions, Hong Kong
Producer/Director/Writer Hong Kong's Big Bet
(1hr on racing and gambling for National Geographic Channels International)
Highly Commended for Editing, Asian TV Technical & Creative Awards 2003
Highly Commended for Camera, Australian Cinematographers Society Awards 2003
2003 - : Real Pictures, Sydney & London
Appointed London director of Sydney-based production company
Producer Tampa (drama-doc for ABC Australia, NRK)
1998 - 2003: Café Productions, London
Producer/director Scenic Cruises (3 x 1hr travel Reader's Digest)
Producer/director/camera Journeys Into Hell (6 x 1hr Discovery/ZDF)
Producer/director Future Tense (14 x 8' Discovery/SBS Australia )
Editorial Producer GEO series (20 x 1hr Arte/SWR/Discovery)
Development of documentaries & series, including:
Shaking the Lemon Tree, Nature Untamed (TLC),
Through Their Eyes (with Point de Mire, Montreal),
Flying into the Future (Discovery/ARD),
Shostakovich - A Very Private Life (with adr Productions, Paris),
Big Bang (science magazine, with Becker Entertainment, Australia),
Liquid History, Cover Up/Dr. Freezelove
2001 - 2002: Discovery Campus
Giving seminars to European documentary-makers
on story development, writing & presentation to international broadcasters
2000: Dox
(proposed UK documentary channel) Planner broadband services
2000 - : As freelance
Little Kahuna (feature screenplay in progress)
Second Chance (drama series concept & pilot)
O'Malley's Night, Gyöngyi, Pig & Rabbit, etc. (short stories/novellas)
Documentary proposals include:
Death of the Banana (1 x 1hr, threatened disappearance of staple)
Looking for Lefties (3 x 1hr, presented by Michael Portillo, with Siguy)
Tibet (1 x 90’, insight into the country, with Jia Teng, Shanghai)
Power Structures (6 x 1hr, architecture & history, for Discovery Asia)
Settlers (1 x 1hr, revisionist colonial history, for Discovery, with Siguy)
Depths of the Mind (4 x 1hr, science of the mind, with Leopard Films)
Flying for the Swastika (1 x 1hr, story of Nazi aviation technology)
O5 (1 x 1hr, story of Austrian resistance in WWII)
Heroes of the Reich (3 x 1hr, complete story of internal resistance)
New Worlds (6 x 30', World Music as it’s never been seen)
Hong Kong Movies (3 x 1hr, story of world’s 3rd biggest movie industry)
Looking for Aliens (1 x 1hr, science of astrobiology, with Kargl Film)
Cosmic Catastrophes (1 x 1hr, dynamic astronomy, with Kargl Film)
Full-length animated feature under development:
L’Enfant et les Sortilèges (with Maurice Sendak)
1998: Discovery Channel, Germany
Story development & pre-production of historical documentary:
AIRLIFT - die Berliner Luftbrücke (with NDF Munich)
1994 - 97: Pilot Productions, London & Budapest
Senior development producer - single documentaries & series
Senior producer/director CENTRAL EXPRESS,
current affairs series from Central & Eastern Europe for RAI2, NHK, FR3:
(Romania: Leper Colony, Oil Diggers;
Ukraine: Odessa Police, Lviv Masochist, Crimean Tartars;
Moldova/Transnistria: Back in the USSR)
Producer MEDIA/Eurimages-funded documentary Bosnia Blues
1998 - 99: African Broadcast Network
Design, presentation and concept for multinational network
1991 - 94: Vienna News International, Vienna
English-language co-ordinator/producer for international TV productions
(Austria, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Scandinavia, Latvia);
News reporting/production for international agencies & stations (Reuters, BBC, CBC, etc);
Reportage/documentary from Austria, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, Macedonia
Producer/director documentary: Paraguay, A Land Apart (1hr)
1991 - 94: Worldwide Television News (WTN)
Agency reporter/stringer for Austria and region
1991 - : Gerald Kargl Filmproduktion, Vienna
Screenplays for cinema features:
The Big Time (comedy)
Somebody Else (comedy)
Neighbours (short)
Treatments for cinema features:
A Winter's Tale (thriller)
Sonnenwende (German-language drama)
Scripting & AP: Vienna Lights (hotel video) and Astronomy (educational series)
1993 - 94: Sternstunden Filmproduktion, Vienna
Scripts for German TV comedy series: Taxi; Padres of Vienna; Lok
TV/cinema feature script (English/German): Ralph & Inigo
1991 - 93: Selikovsky Film, Vienna
English-language scripting and voice-overs for art TV series
1989 - 91: Papa's Balloon (full-length feature script)
1990: Production Asst Landesstudio NÖ, ORF (Austrian TV)
As director/producer/editor:
1985 The Sea (8mm/colour/silent/10 min)
1986 The Princess and the Thief (16mm/colour/15 min)
As 2nd AD:
1989 Beethoven & Bonaparte (dir. Michael Powell, $18m)
1990 The Castle ($20m)
1985 - 1988: National Film & TV School, England: 16mm & video
9 Crouch Hall Road, London N8 8HT, UK
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