Florian Opitz is a freelance documentary filmmaker, author and journalist. He was born in Saarbruecken, Germany, in 1973. Florian studied history, psychology and English at the universities of Cologne and Heidelberg and graduated as M.A. Since 1998 Florian has been working as a freelance filmmaker and journalist for several European TV stations, including ARD, ARTE and ZDF. Florian so far has made several political documentaries, mainly about subjects related to globalization and history, next to films about Jack Kerouac, Charles de Gaulle, Naomi Klein, the history of the skinhead movement and several more.