Person
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
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Dance Flick
Assistant Camera

The Buddha
Lighting Production Assistant

Brake
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Serious Moonlight
Electrician

Down for Life
Second Assistant Camera

Getting Back to Zero
Second Assistant Camera

David and Goliath
Bella

Head or Tails
Executive Producer
Filmography
- 2016Head or TailsExecutive Producer
- 2013Getting Back to ZeroSecond Assistant Camera
- 2012BrakeSecond Assistant Camera
- 2010Down for LifeSecond Assistant Camera
- 2010David and GoliathBella
- 2010The BuddhaLighting Production Assistant
- 2009Serious MoonlightElectrician
- 2009Dance FlickAssistant Camera
- 1986American MastersFirst Assistant Camera
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