David Schurmann is a film director, producer, screenwriter, explorer, author and CEO.
Early life Schurmann started filming at age 13 during the Schurmann Family first sailing circumnavigation of the globe.
He received his formal training in film and television in New Zealand, completing his education in the United States. He has since worked as a director and producer of feature films, television programs and documentaries.
Career As producer/director/cinematographer of the Schurmann Family Adventures, he has filmed around the world, most notably during the Magellan Global Adventure (1997–2000).
In 2007, Schurmann released his first feature film, The World Twice Around, a documentary that won two awards at the Recife Cinema Festival (Cine PE), for Best Film and Best Sound Editing. In 2011 he released Missing, a suspense/horror mockumentary film.
Between 2009 and 2012, he produced and directed the documentary and series U-513 Lonely Wolf, about the search and discovery of the German submarine German submarine U-513 sunk in the coast of southern Brazil.
Schurmann then directed and produced the feature film Little Secret, based on the story of Katherine Schurmann, his adopted sister.Variety, Variety.com, 19 December 2014.Débora Miranda, "David Schürmann fará filme baseado na história de sua irmã adotada", Globo.com, 19 August 2008. The film, which he worked on for six years, was chose as the Brazilian submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film in 2017.
In 2017, the National Geographic released the 11-part series Orient Expedition, which Schurmann directed and produced.
In 2017, Schurmann and his family founded Voice of the Oceans and officially launched it on August 29, 2021, after four years of development. The global initiative to fight plastic pollution in the oceans includes a nautical expedition, a science project, an open innovation program, and an education project. With the global support of the UN Environment Program (UNEP).
In 2022, he directed My Penguin Friend starring Jean Reno and Adriana Barraza, with photography by Anthony Dod Mantle and production design by Mercedes Alfonsin.Deadline
Filmography
Films Fiction YearTitleNotes2011Missing 2016Little SecretBrazilian submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film2024My Penguin Friend2026By a Thread
Films Documentaries YearTitle1995Em Busca Do Sonho2007The World Twice Round2021U-513 Lonely Wolf
Series Documentary YearTitleNetwork1996Get Real1996-2005Magellan Global Adventure2017Orient ExpeditionNational Geographic2022Voice of the Oceans ExpeditionCanal Off
Selected books Da Inspiração à Tela - a jornada de um filme - non-fiction, filmmaking book 2020. Ao Vento - non-fiction book 2009.
References
External links
Voice of the Oceans initiative website U-513 film website Schurmann Family Official Webpage Production company website
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