Director & Writer

Made for strength

LEVI’S

As a young Jew in Germany, Levi Strauss is forced to emigrate to America due to racist hostility. But the situation there doesn’t seem much better, until he makes in invention that has an impact on the world until today. The story of the first jeans.

2018 / Spec Spot / 90’’

 

AWARDS
Spotlight 2019 > Bronze Winner
The Young Ones, ADC 2019
> Gold, Best Cinematography
> Merit, Craft in Writing
New York Festivals Advertising Awards 2019
> Bronze, Best Overall production
> Bronze, Best Cinematography
Porsche Award 2019 > Bronze Winner
Golden Award of Montreux 2020 > Gold Medal

Production
Schmidbauer Film / HFF Munich
Producer
Tanja Schmidbauer, Andreas Schmidbauer
DOP
Lukas Nicolaus
Make-Up
Viktoria Stieber, Cornelia Schlinger
Costume-Design
Alina Scheiler
Cast
Tim Rietz, Felix von Bredow, Josef Eder, Ben Reynolds, Konrad Wipp, Raphael Dwinger
Editing
Benjamin Leichtenstern
Color-Grading
Zé Maria Abreu-Santos
Sound-Design
Andreas Goldbrunner, Gerhard Auer
Music
David Reichelt