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 circumnavigation of the globe. He received his formal training in film and television in

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, completing his education in the

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. He has since worked as a director and producer of feature films, television programs and documentaries.

Career

As producer/

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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 great 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 ''

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'', based on the story of Katherine Schurmann, his adopted sister. 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

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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

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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 ''My Penguin Friend'' is a 2024 biographical family adventure film directed by David Schurmann, written by Paulina Lagudi Ulrich and Kristen Lazarian, and starring Jean Reno and Adriana Barraza. It is based on the true story of fisherman João Pe ...

'' starring

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and

Adriana Barraza Adriana Barraza González (born 5 March 1956) is a Mexican actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for '' Babel'' (2006). Early life Barraza was born in Toluca, Estado de Mexico, the daughter of Celia (née ...

, with photography by

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and production design by Mercedes Alfonsin.Deadline

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Filmography

Films Fiction

Films Documentaries

Series Documentary

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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