User:Wolfgang Knoepfler

Wolfgang Knoepfler was born 10.05.1962 in Bad-Aussee, Austria. He finished secondary school at the age of 15 and started an apprentice ship as office clerk. In 1981 he moved to Vienna the capital of Austria where he worked as sales manager for various automobile companies. 1986 he joined forces with director Jochen Bauer "Geheime Reichsache". Wolfgang's first job in the film industry was to be the personal assistant to Mr Bauer on the "Tatort" episode "Flucht in den Tod" and the "Eurocops" episode "Die Bestie vom Bisamberg". In 1989 he joined "DoRo Filmproduction" as production manager, where he was responsible for producing video clips and tv-magazines. For the world football championship in Italy 1990, the official video clip, with music composed by Georgio Moroder and the song "Un estate Italiana" performed by Gianna Nanini and Eduardo Benatto, was produced. Further video clips include: Falco - Data the Groove, EAV - Ding Dong, Queen - Breakthrough, Marius Mueller-Westernhagen - Sexy etc. From 1991 until 1993 he worked for Dame Valerie Jane Morris Goodall in Gombe Stream National Park together with Charlotte Uehlenbroek, Dr Anthony Collins and Bill Wallauer. After returning to Europe in 1993 he joined the film industry again. Working mainly on documentary films for the ORF-Universum strand. In 1995 and 1996 he worked with Tobias Moretti on various episodes of the "Commissar Rex" series and in 1997 he worked with Michael Haneke on the Cannes nominated feature film "Funny Games". From 1998 - 2005 he specialized again in documentary films. He was the production manager for "Swimmers in the Desert" a theatrical release documentary about the real English Patient - Count Laszlo Almassy and produced "The Lost Mines of the Pharaoes" which was filmed in Afghanistan and includes the last interview with the late Ahmed Shah Masood in Afghanistan on August 22, 2001, two weeks before his assassination and the attack on the Twin Towers in New York. He was furthermore involved in various Wildscreen Festival l nominated documentaries including the animation/science/natural history mini series "The Future is Wild" and "Magic Trees of Assam" narrated by Sir David Attenborough. The mini series "Deep Jungle" directed by David Allen and excutive produced by Brian Leith for National Geographic, WNET, PBS, France5 and ITV, won "best popular tv-series" award at Wildscreen 2006 and an Emmy Award for best website. From 2004 until 2007 he worked at Diverse Bristol as line producer and was one of the driving forces behind the internationally acclaimed series "Beyond Boundaries" for BBC2. He also produced the 12 part series "Mission Africa" for BBC1 which was hosted by Nick Knowles and Ken Hames. After more the 20 years of working as a freelance production manager and line producer in 45 countries around the globe, he founded in 2008 his own production company "Magic Touch Films cc" in Namibia. 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