Director

Jens Schanze

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Directed movies: 4Directed series: 0All crew credits: 5

TMDB ID: 550847

IMDb ID: nm1142620

Known for: Directing

Born: January 1, 1971

Age: 55

Place of birth: Bonn, Germany

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2001 - 2026

Years active: 26

Wikidata: Q1687352

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Biography

Award-winning documentary filmmaker Jens Schanze was born in Bonn in 1971. In 1987, he spent a year living in the USA. In 1990, he embarked on a degree in Forestry at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and, in 1992, began working in television as an assistant director. In 1994, Schanze spent a year in Bolivia working on a project for Conservation International before he began his studies at the University of Television and Film in Munich in 1995. Through the production company Mascha Film, which he co-founded with Judith Malek-Mahdavi in 2002, he has directed numerous prizewinning documentaries including WINTERKINDER (2005) and PLUG & PRAY (2010). In 2014, he became a Professor of Film and Video Design.

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