David Schurmann

Career

Known for Little Secret Brazil's 2017 official Oscar entry, Schurmann first showed a passion for film making at the age of 13, when he started filming the adventures during the Schurmann Family first circumnavigation of the world. He got a formal degree in Cinema in New Zealand. He subsequently completed his education in the United States. He has worked internationally, directing and producing television shows and documentaries films.

As the producer/director/cinematographer of the Schurmann family adventures, he has filmed around the world, especially during the Magellan Global Adventure (1997–2000).

In 2007, Schurmann released his first motion picture film, The World Twice Around, a documentary that won two awards in the Recife Film Festival in Brazil, for Best Film according to the public and Best Sound Editing. It also took the award for best film in the CineBrasil Film Festival Buenos Aires (Argentina), Milan (Italy), Rome (Italy) and New York City (USA).

In 2011 he released Missing, a transmídia project and suspense/horror mockumentary film. The project, developed and shot for under US$35,000, questioned what was real on the Internet and the social networks. The film became a transmídia success story.

Between 2009 and 2012 he produced and directed the documentary film and series U-513 Lonely Wolf, about the great search and find of the German submarine U-513 sunk in the coast of southern Brazil.

David then directed and produced the motion picture film (fiction) Little Secret which was inspired on the story of Katherin Schurmann, his adopted sister. the film six years in the making, became Brazil's official Oscar representative in 2017 and had a successful box-office career.

In 2017 National Geographic Channel released Orient Expedition an 11 episode series, directed and produced by David Schurmann.

David is a film director and producer, author, lecturer, father and CEO of the Schurmann group.

Selected filmography