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Erik Schinegger Movie
Producer and Director Wolfgang Santner, Producer Claudia Farrokhnia, Writer and Producer Bill “Red” Huch, and Writer and Producer Anna-Lisa Nilsson are developing the feature film Finding ERIK along with German co-producer Michael Souvignier from Zeitsprung Pictures. Screenplay and story by Anna-Lisa Nilsson and Bill “Red” Huch. Wolfgang Santner is set to direct the film. Filming will take place in Los Angeles and Austria, where Erik Schinegger still lives with his wife, Christa. The true story tells about Erik Schinegger's life. Erika innocently lives the first 19 years of her life not knowing she is biologically a boy. She becomes a world-class gold-medal skier. With genetic testing identifying her as a male, she is denied participation in the 1968 Winter Olympics. Finding ERIK is the true story of Austrian superstar skier and ski world champion Erika Schinegger and the uphill battle to grow into her true identity: manhood. The feature film is an American - Austrian Co-Production.