Marc Lutz/Stefan Staub and Sean Wirz
Photo: Marc Lutz
Marc Lutz was born in Swabia in 1975 and graduated from the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in 2002 with a degree in advertising film directing. He is a passionate author, dramaturge and director of series and short film formats in the genres of fiction, documentary, advertising and image films, and has received over 30 national and international awards to date. He is currently developing episodic narrative formats and transmedia format architectures for German and international streaming services with Zeitsprung Filmproduktion in Cologne. He specializes in worldbuilding with a focus on content and character development and has been developing stories in open formats, including their transfer into suitable narrative formats and format architectures. Since 2001, he has taught at a total of eight universities in Germany and Switzerland. His teaching focuses on open-format material development for short, linear and interactive narrative formats, worldbuilding with an emphasis on storytelling, the development of format architectures, and the development of digital (transmedia) distribution strategies. Since February 2021, he has been head of the ‘Branded Motion’ major at the University of Applied Sciences in Graubünden in the Multimedia Production program. From 2018 to 2020, he was professor of ‘Expanded Storyworlds and Transmedia Storytelling’ at the Media Campus of Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences.
Photo: Marc Lutz
Stefan Staub (born 1980 in Bern) lives in Zurich and has been working as a freelance screenwriter for feature films and series since 2014. In 2010/11, he completed the Drehbuchwerkstatt München screenwriting workshop and in 2019/20 the SERIEN.lab in Berlin. His screenplay for the film DER LÄUFER (2018) premiered at the renowned San Sebastian Film Festival and was nominated for two categories at the Swiss Film Awards. He also gained a wide range of professional experience in film distribution and film festival organization. Sean Wirz (*1988 in Bern) is a director and writer. His short films ENTROPY OF THINGS (2022), UNLEASH (2020), YARA (2019) and AKASHA (2017) have been screened at numerous film festivals worldwide. His latest short film GRENZENLOS celebrated its world premiere as an episode of the ten-part docu-series FUTURA! (2022) at the Zurich Film Festival. In addition to fiction and advertising, Sean creates films with a social character. Sean lives in Bern and dives into the cold waters of his beloved Aare river in every season.
Project
Our project is based on the true but almost unbelievable story of two friends who have taken completely different paths in life and meet again as adults after many years. In collaboration with our mentor, we would like to develop a fundable concept and treatment for an episodic series format. We envision a hybrid real-life and animated film and would like to clarify how we want to use animation techniques to tell our story in a compelling way for an international streaming audience.
