Marc Weigert (born June 3, 1970) is an Emmy-award-winning film producer and film/TV

visual effects Visual effects (sometimes abbreviated as VFX) is the process by which imagery is created or manipulated outside the context of a live-action shot in filmmaking and video production. The integration of live-action footage and other live-action fo ...

supervisor and 2nd unit director.

Career

Weigert was born in

Bad Harzburg Bad Harzburg (; Eastphalian dialect, Eastphalian: ''Bad Harzborch'') is a spa town in central Germany, in the Goslar (district), Goslar district of Lower Saxony. It lies on the northern edge of the Harz mountains and is a recognised saltwater spa ...

, Germany. He studied directing and producing from 1991 to 1994 at the

Film Academy Baden-Württemberg The Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg (German: ''Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg'') was founded in 1991 as a publicly funded film school in Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The Filmakademie is one of the most internationally renowned film ...

, where he met Volker Engel who become Weigert's business partner in the production company Uncharted Territory, LLC. Weigert moved to Los Angeles in 1994. In 1995, Weigert founded the company Dreamscape Imagery Inc. with his wife Stacey. In 1999, he founded the production company Uncharted Territory LLC with Volker Engel. The first production, and Weigert's first film as a producer, ''

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'', was shot in 2001 in Mexico. In 2005, Weigert wrote the screenplay ''Southern Skies'' and produced the miniseries '' The Triangle'' together with Engel and Kelly Van Horn, for executive producers

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and

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. In 2006, Weigert won the

Emmy Award The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the television industry. A number of annual Emmy Award ceremonies are held throughout the year, each with their own set of rules and award categor ...

for '' The Triangle''.

External links

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Marc Weigert personal website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Weigert, Marc 1970 births Living people Mass media people from Lower Saxony German visual effects artists Visual effects supervisors Primetime Emmy Award winners