Michaela von Schweinitz

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 p…