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Andreas Knuffmann
Andreas Knuffmann (born February 20, 1964 in Meerbusch) is a German director and film producer.

Knuffmann's life
Knuffmann attended the Arndt-Gymnasium in Krefeld and studied European Business Studies at the Aachen University of Applied Sciences, the Napier University of Edinburgh and the Ecole Superieur de Commerce de Compiegne in France, graduating in 1992. In 1993, he began as a trainee at SAT.1 Nachrichten in Hamburg, subsequently working as a reporter and editor.

After working for the production companies Polyphon and Multimedia, where he produced two seasons of the hospital series Alphateam - Lebensretter im OP, he founded the Hamburg-based film production company "Boomerang Filmproduktion" in 2002, which focuses on the development and production of non-fictional content and industrial and image films. In 2011, his film Emiglia won the "Golden Ottocar " film award for best reportage at the International Motor Show film festival in Frankfurt am Main.

In 2014, he produced the documentary Macao Gladiators about the Macao Grand Prix road racing motorcycle event. The film was selected at festivals worldwide and won several film awards, including the Gold Award for "best documentary" at the film festival in Jakarta, Indonesia in 2014. The sequel to the film about the Northwest 200 road racing event, Northwest Gladiators, also won several film awards.

In 2017 and 2018, he produced the documentary The dying king about big cat hunting, which is still permitted in South Africa. Knuffmann researched and filmed with a hidden camera and documented together with the animal welfare foundation Vier Pfoten. The film won the award for best international documentary at the Paragon Film Festival in Los Angeles, among others.

From 2017 to 2021, he co-founded the virtual reality application Concert VR together with his partner Sebastian Deyle in Berlin, an app for virtual concerts in 3D and 360 degrees. In 2020, he founded the Helping Hands initiative "Hamburg's Helden" together with Peter Pabst from Eyescream Filmproduktion GmbH, Hamburg. At their own expense, the two filmmakers produced short portraits of Hamburg citizens who are committed to helping others. Together with speaker and coach Wilbert Olinde, he co-founded the podcast format "Schaiter Haiter" in 2020.

In 2023, Knuffmann released his new international documentary "Western Cape - Home of Ubuntu" on the streaming platform Vimeo. For three years, him and his team accompanied several people in the Cape Town region in the Western Cape province. Among others, he portrays a fellow prisoner of Nelson Mandela. They are all united by an ancient African philosophy: UBUNTU - I am because you are!

Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela repeatedly called on people to turn to each other, to be there for each other. A teaching of charity, tolerance and respect. Among other things, it portrays a fellow inmate of Nelson Mandela who spent 8 years in prison with him on Robben Island. The film also describes life in the Imizamo Yethu township in Hout Bay. The film is being distributed globally by the renowned world sales company www.autentic.com and won several awards on international festivals.

Knuffmann is an inspirational speaker and creative Freigeist, pushing the limits with his media agency and production unit www.boomerang-film.de

The company focuses on content creation and employer branding for corporate purposes with AI tools like SORA, Leonardo.ai and mid journey.

Knuffmann is married, has three children and lives in Hamburg and South Africa.

Awards (selection)
2010: "Golden OttoCar" for the film Emiglia at the IAA film festival in Frankfurt am Main, category "Best Reportage"

2014: "Gold Award" for the documentary Macao Gladiator at the International Film Festival of Indonesia in Jakarta, category "best documentary"

2015: "Gold Award for best international documentary" for the film Northwest Gladiators at the International FilmFestival Documentary Feature in Djakarta (Indonesia)

2020: For the short film Heute in einem Jahr: Special Mention: Director Short Film, Andreas Kaufmann, at the Five Continents Film Festival (46th FIOCC Festival) Venezuela

2017: "Best Documentary Feature Film" for The dying King, INCA Imperial Film Festival in Lima (Peru)

2018: "Best international documentary" award for The dying King, Paragon Film Festival in Los Angeles

2020: Five Continents int. Film Festival, Venezuela, 2020, Audience Award 1st. place for the short film "Heute in einem Jahr"