CLAIRE DE LUNE

Director – Timm Oberwelland

Timm Oberwelland, born 1969 in Bielefeld, Germany, is an actor, producer and director.

After graduating summa cum laude from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los

Angeles in 1994 he co-founded the LA-based production company Zeal Pictures. Over the next

10 years Timm produced and directed a variety of music videos, commercials and feature films,

including SIMPATICO, starring Jeff Bridges, Nick Nolte and Sharon Stone, as well as the TV-series AMERICAN FIGHTER PILOT, executive produced by Tony and Ridley Scott.

He is a founding partner of Berlin-based Syrreal Entertainment, through which he has produced

a string of feature films and television programs, including the first ever German Netflix series

DOGS OF BERLIN.

In 2015 he – along with two partners – took over TOBIS Film, one of Germany’s leading

independent film distribution companies, through which he has since released more than 30

international feature films in Germany and Austria while also starting up TOBIS Film’s

production department in 2017.

Its first production, THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL IN THE WORLD, was a critical and commercial hit, garnering three German Film Academy Award nominations and winning the Bavarian Film Award in 2019. In 2019 TOBIS also entered the television production arena with the German series SLØBORN, a co-production with Syrreal Entertainment and German public broadcaster

ZDF.

This was followed by CATWEAZLE, starring Otto Waalkes, Julius Weckauf, Katja Riemann and

Henning Baum, which won the audience award of the Bavarian Film Award

Timm is a member of the German Film Academy, the European Film Academy as well as the

Screen Actors Guild.