Michael SeeberMichael was born in 1954 in Innsbruck (Austria) and studied Biochemistry in Innsbruck and Mainz (Germany). He founded a cellar theatre in Innsbruck being active not only as a director but also as an actor on stage, and started writing his first scripts and novels. He was awarded the Theodor Körner Price for Literature by the Federal President of Austria in 1986. In 1988 he set up the Vienna-based film production company Prisma Filmproduktion GmbH. Since then he has been working as a scriptwriter, director, developer and producer.From 1994 to 1998 Michael was a Board Member of Documentary, the documentary funding section of MEDIA I. In 1995 he participated in the training programme EAVE.Michael‘s credits include more than thirty creative documentaries for cinema and TV as well as feature films (partly international coproductions), a.o. internationally awarded films as Luna Papa (1999) and Bella Martha (2001).A selection includes the documentaries Postadresse 2640 Schlöglmühl (1990), Schuld und Gedächtnis (1992), Emigration N.Y.(1996) and the TV-documentary Die Risikogesellschaft (1995) all by directed by Egon Humer. Further the documentaries Koshmar (1992) by Heinz Stussak; Teddy Kollek (1995) by Amos Kollek; Rest in Pieces (1997) by Robert Pejo; Am Stein (1995) by Othmar Schmiderer, and Erwin Chargaff (1996), a TV-documentary by Ebba Sinzinger. Feature film productions include Die totale Therapie (1996) by Christian Frosch; Beresina (1999) by Daniel Schmid; Luna Papa (1999) by Bakhtiar Khoudojnazarov; Lovely Rita (2001) by Jessica Hausner; Bella Martha (2001) by Sandra Nettelbeck, and Vollgas (2002) by Sabine Derflinger.Since early 2007, Michael has been working as a freelance producer and scriptwriter, most recently in close cooperation with Golden Girls Filmproduktion GmbH, Vienna (Austria). Since 2009, Michael has been working as a tutor and adviser for the MEDIA training programme SOURCES 2 (Stimulating Outstanding Resources for Creative European Script Writing).
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