Tobias Weber (born 14 February 1977) is a Swiss film director, screenwriter and technology entrepreneur. He is best known for directing the interactive feature film '' Late Shift'' (2016), for which he won the

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. Working as a commercial director he was looking for alternative forms of advertising and branded entertainment, when he re-discovered his fascination with multi-branched storytelling that rooted in the adventure games he played and choose your own adventure books he read as a kid, a format that he now applied to movies. He shot an interactive

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film in 2013 and set up interactive movie technology company CtrlMovie AG the year after. In 2015 he shot LATE SHIFT in London, the interactive feature-length film that he wrote together with Michael Robert Johnson. The film was first released in 2016 at the Cannes Film Festival (Next), travelled on to festivals such as the

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, Raindance and the Locarno International Film Festival and won multiple awards including a BAFTA Cymru award. The CtrlMovie technology was subsequently adopted by Hollywood studios such as

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, 20th Century Fox and Amblin Partners. Together with his partners Tobias Weber runs CtrlMovie AG as well as Los Angeles based production company Kino Industries LLC.

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Late Shift

CtrlMovie
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Weber, Tobias 1977 births Living people Film people from Zurich Advertising directors Alumni of the London Film School Swiss advertising people Swiss film directors