Matthias Staehle was born in 1975 and studied Visual Communication in Film at the Academy of Fine Arts Hamburg. After his studies, he worked as a freelance director and founded the production company meerfilm and the audiovisual label musicfiction (www.musicfiction.de). A selection of his films as a writer and director include: the shorts Leaving (1999), Johnny´s Ark (2001), 4 o´clock (2002), 50 Euro (2003), Window to Chile (2004), Advent, Advent (2004), Desertion (2005) and the feature Mikrofan (2007).

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