schmidtFilm

schmidtFilm takes a look behind the scenes. We develop and produce documentaries, reports, image and art films. Exciting, visually powerful and international.

For almost 20 years schmidtFilm for clever entertainment. Our films tell stories that are exciting and entertaining. They discover people and cultures, the unknown and take you beyond the obvious. Our thematic focus is on art, culture, music, current affairs, history and science. The documentaries, reports and television features take us to a wide variety of times, topics and worlds.
Accordingly, we do not only produce for German public television. Numerous documentaries have been produced in international collaborations, such as the Supersonic Award-winning documentary “Paths through the Labyrinth” about the great composer Krzysztof Penderecki or the German-Irish co-production “Irish Oranges” directed by Anna Schmidt. We have also produced numerous reports and documentaries for Dutch and Austrian television as well as for arte. Our films have taken us from the Antarctic to Dubai and China.

We also develop themes and material for cinema and television and produce art and image films. We have an excellent and reliable research department and are also happy to assist you as a location scout for eastern Germany, the Netherlands, Georgia and India.

Anna Schmidt

Writer/Director

Anna Schmidt graduated from the Special School for Music in Wernigerode. She studied journalism and musicology at the University of Leipzig and political science at the University of Amsterdam. She graduated in 1993 with a degree in journalism and musicology. After completing her studies, she worked as a freelance author for the radio program mdr Kultur and as a permanent editor at RTL. She has been a freelance author, director and producer since 1995. In 1998 she founded the film and television production company SchmidtFilm. Anna Schmidt realizes reports, features, documentaries at home and abroad for various television stations including: MDR, ARD, ZDF, 3sat, Arte, Dutch television, Servus TV, Deutsche Welle, RTÈ , TVP . Her main topics are: Art: music, theater, literature, visual arts; history, society, science.

Susann Krüger

Writer/Director

Born in Leipzig and grew up in Bad Doberan and Rostock. Exchange year at High School West Liberty, Ohio, USA and Abitur 2002 in Rostock. Studied Communication and Media Studies, General and Comparative Literature, Educational Science at the University of Leipzig. Afterwards, she worked as an editor at Hinstorff Verlag Rostock and at the local university radio station “mephisto97.6” (editor and speaker). Editorial internship at the cultural magazine of MDR television “artour” and since then freelance work at schmidtFilm. Project assistant for the European youth participation project “Cash & Carry” of the Federal Agency for Civic Education and the European Union.

Gerlinde Feller

Producer

Gerlinde Feller, born in Westphalia, studied ethnomusicology and Indology at the Free University of Berlin. During her studies, she spent several research stays in India and Nepal and also worked for the sound art gallery “singuhr” in Berlin. After her studies and several internships – at the Zubaan book publishing house in New Delhi and at the German Bundestag – she worked as a research assistant and doctoral candidate at the University of Göttingen. Since 2012, she has been writing texts, researching and documenting a concert tour of the GewandhausChoir Leipzig to India as a freelancer for schmidtFilm.

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