David Schurmann

David Schurman (born 1974 in Florianopolis, Brazil) is a Brazilian film director.

Career

Schurman first showed a passion for film making at the age of 13, when he started filming the adventures during the Schurmann Family first circumnavigation of the world. He got a formal degree in Cinema in New Zealand. He subsequently completed his education in the United States. He has worked internationally, directing and producing television shows, documentaries and commercials films.

As the producer/director/cinematographer of the Schurmann family adventures, he has registered images from around the world, especially during the Magellan Global Adventure (1997–2000).

In 2007, Schurmann released his first motion picture film, The World Twice Around, a documentary that won two awards in the Recife Film Festival in Brazil, for Best Film according to the public and Best Sound Editing. It also took the award for best film in the CineBrasil Film Festival Buenos Aires (Argentina), Milan (Italy), Rome (Italy) and New York City (USA).

In 2011 David released Missing, a transmídia project and suspense/horror mockumentary film. The project, developed and shot for under US$35,000, questioned what was real on the Unternet and the social networks.

Between 2009 and 2012 he produced and directed the documentary film and series U-513 Lonely Wolf, about the great search and find of the German submarine U-513 sunk in the coast of southern Brazil.

Schurmann has ended principal photography of the motion picture film Little Secret which is inspired on the story of Katherin Schurmann, his adopted sister.[1][2]

He is currently producing and directing Orient Expedition an 11-part documentary series for National Geographic Channel about his families latest around the world expedition.

Selected filmography

References

  1. ↑ Variety, Variety.com, 19 December 2014.
  2. ↑ Débora Miranda, "David Schürmann fará filme baseado na história de sua irmã adotada", Globo.com, 19 August 2008.

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