Michaela von Schweinitz
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Biography
Michaela von Schweinitz is an award-winning director with over twenty years experience in filmmaking. Starting out as a cinematographer she supported her young family shooting and producing numerous documentaries. She filmed for non-profit organizations, with students and in underserved communities. Continuously honing her skills in fictional story telling she wrote, directed and produced films which screened at renowned short film festivals, were broadcast in Germany and won awards in the US. In 2003 she moved to Los Angeles and was hired to direct her first independent feature comedy, a punk rock love story. Michaela von Schweinitz was a board member of the Alliance of Women Directors serving as Chair Of Membership and as Newsletter Editor until she moved to New York in 2017 and became an active member of New York Women In Film and Television.
Known For
American Masters is a PBS television series which produces biographies on enduring writers, musicians, visual and performing artists, dramatists, filmmakers, and others who have left an indelible impression on the cultural landscape of the United States.
American Masters
Street dancer Thomas Uncles is from the wrong side of the tracks, but his bond with the beautiful Megan White might help the duo realize their dreams as they enter in the mother of all dance battles.
Dance Flick
A Secret Service Agent is held captive in the trunk of a car and endures high-speed mental and physical torture as terrorists attempt to extract needed information for their sinister plot.
Brake
After her adulterous husband asks for a divorce, a high-powered attorney takes him captive, refusing to release him until he commits to working on their marriage together. When his impatient mistress shows up, not to mention an opportunistic gardener, things start to get seriously complicated.
Serious Moonlight
Based on a New York Times article depicting a single dramatic day in the life of a Latina gang leader in South Central L.A.
Down for Life
This documentary for PBS by award-winning filmmaker David Grubin and narrated by Richard Gere, tells the story of the Buddha’s life, a journey especially relevant to our own bewildering times of violent change and spiritual confusion. It features the work of some of the world’s greatest artists and sculptors, who across two millennia, have depicted the Buddha’s life in art rich in beauty and complexity. Hear insights into the ancient narrative by contemporary Buddhists, including Pulitzer Prize winning poet W.S. Merwin and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Join the conversation and learn more about meditation, the history of Buddhism, and how to incorporate the Buddha’s teachings on compassion and mindfulness into daily life.
The Buddha
Two brothers reconcile their relationship over the death of their father after they inherit his craps table and gambling debt. A dark comedy set in the world of underground casinos.
Getting Back to Zero
David, a Jewish resistance fighter, flees for his life as he is being hunted by Nazi soldiers and is saved by a ferocious German Shepherd, who ultimately becomes his savior.
David and Goliath
Lilly convinces her best friend René to join her on a nocturnal trespassing adventure. The two young women break into a zoo and enter an idiosyncratic animal kingdom where the boundaries between fear and desire begin to blur.