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Eric Friedler (born June 20, 1971 in Sydney, Australia) is a German-Australian award winning documentary director, screenwriter, journalist and author.

Life and Work
Friedler's 2018 feature documentary, ''It Must Schwing! The Blue Note Story'', executive produced by Wim Wenders, produced by Silke Schutze, US producer Renée Silverman, had its North American premiere at Telluride Film Festival 2018. It tells the story of Francis Wolff and Alfred Lion and their Jazz label Blue Note Records. According to Frankfurter Allgemeine, It Must Schwing "totally breathes life into their work."

His 2016 feature documentary, Aghet - Ein Völkermord, won the Armenian national award. This documentary was screened for members of United States Congress and Senate who commended the film's documentation of the Armenian genocide.

Friedler's film, The Fall: The End of Honecker, 2012 about the final days of East German Chairman, Erich Honecker, has bin cited by The University of Cambridge as "a landmark of German documentary in the 21st century."

For his documentary The Silence of the Quandts, he was awarded the Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Award for investigative television journalism. He also won the World Gold Medal at the New York Film Festival in 2009 with this documentary.

Friedler co-produced the first Tatort filmed in Hamburg with the Turkish actor Mehmet Kurtuluş. The film won the German Grimme Audience Award 2009.

In addition to directing and producing films, Friedler heads the special projects department for culture and documentaries at NDR. Friedler lives in Hamburg with his wife and two children. Before Friedler first started working for the German broadcasting company NDR in 2002, he worked for several years as an editor and reporter for the political magazine program „Report“ at SWR. For the German public broadcaster ARD he created and produced several documentaries and movies. After graduating high school in Cologne, Germany, Friedler did a journalistic trainee programm in the USA at the German-Jewish newspaper „Aufbau“. There, he worked for different radio stations and newspapers.

Filmography (Selection)

 * 1995: Der Partisan
 * 1998: Blutige Beute. Das SS-Raubgold und die verschwundenen Akten (SWR documentary)
 * 1999: SS Kriegsverbrecher aus dem Allgäu (SWR report)
 * 2000: Verstümmelt
 * 2000: Zeugen aus der Todeszone
 * 2001: Dr. Illegal - Deutsche Doktortitel gegen Geld
 * 2003: Konvoi in den Tod - Die Amerikaner und ein Massaker in Afghanistan (NDR report)
 * 2004: Für Allah in den Tod (ARD/NDR report)
 * 2007: The Silence of the Quandts (Das Schweigen der Quandts)
 * 2009: Berlin 36
 * 2010: Aghet - Ein Völkermord
 * 2011: The Olympia Scheme (Die Olympia Intrige)
 * 2012: The Fall: The End of Honecker (Der Sturz - Honeckers Ende)
 * 2012: A German Boxer (Ein deutscher Boxer) (NDR documentary)
 * 2012: Nothing but the truth - 30 years Die Toten Hosen (Nichts als die Wahrheit - 30 Jahre Die Toten Hosen)
 * 2013: The Voice of Peace - Der Traum der Abie Nathan
 * 2014: The Girl (Das Mädchen - Was geschah mit Elisabeth K.?) (ARD documentary)
 * 2016: Der Clown (ARD documentary about The Day the Clown Cried, )
 * 2018: Eskimo Limon - On Winners and Losers (Eskimo Limon - Eis am Stiel. Von Siegern und Verlierern oder Die bittersüße Geschichte einer unendlichen Filmproduktion) (NDR documentary)
 * 2018: It Must Schwing! The Blue Note Story

Awards and nominations (Selection)

 * 2003: Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Award / Promotional Award for TV-Journalism
 * 2003: SONY International Impact Award
 * 2005: Axel-Springer-Preis / Best Report for Für Allah in den Tod
 * 2008: Deutscher Fernsehpreis / Best Documentary for The Silence of the Quandts
 * 2008: Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Award for investigative television journalism for The Silence of the Quandts
 * 2009: New York Film Festival / World Gold Medal / Best Documentary for The Silence of the Quandts
 * 2009: Grimme Audience Award for Tatort: Auf der Sonnenseite
 * 2010: Deutscher Fernsehpreis / Best Documentary for Aghet - Ein Völkermord
 * 2010: Armin T. Wegner Humanitarian Award for Aghet - Ein Völkermord
 * 2011: New York Film Festival / World Gold Medal / Best Documentary for Aghet - Ein Völkermord
 * 2011: Grimme-Award / Best Documentary for Aghet - Ein Völkermord
 * 2011: Robert-Geisendörfer-Preis for Aghet - Ein Völkermord
 * 2013: Grimme Award for Ein deutscher Boxer
 * 2014: International Grand Prix for Author's documentary in Monte Carlo / Bronze Medal for The Voice of Peace
 * 2014: Grimme Award for Best German documentary for The Voice of Peace
 * 2014: Grimme Audience Award for The Voice of Peace