Markus CM Schmidt, born in 1967, worked as projectionist and film-editor’s assistent in Munich before he started studying film-editor at the filmschool in Potsdam-Babelsberg in ‘92. During his studies he directed his first feature-length documentary on holocoust-survivors, shot in Poland and Israel. Since he finished filmschool in ’98, he works as film-editor for feature length cinema films as well as for TV-documentaries. In early 2003 he started a filmmakers initiative against the upcoming war in Iraq during Berlinale film festival, that was shown on the same festival 12 days later. (freedom2speak.net)
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