About Manuel Werner

After starting as a casting assistant for daily soaps, TV series and TV shows, extensive education in production, post-production, editing, graphics and visual effects, Manuel joined the ARRI Digital Film in house educational program and learned the technical side of filmmaking and creative side of post-production in depth.

Manuel worked in production companies as an assistant producer, post-production supervisor and production manager. He founded the production company bbp with Henning Ferber, who is nowadays a well known feature film producer. Those days bbp focussed on music-videos and smaller commercials.

During his time with bbp Manuel started to prove his talents as a filmmaker fast and furiously, shooting music videos until he made the next step into the commercial world.

Benefiting from his great knowledge of all aspects in filmmaking he did not lose any time to establish himself as one of the young german directors, with a stunning number of ads and music-videos.

Already his first spot made it on the Shots New Directors Showcase and Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors Showcase.

His handwriting varies from feature film looks and storytelling, documentary and modern lifestyle oriented visuals, to challenging, even experimental styles. Always trying to use as less as possible digital visual effects and post-production work as possible.

He loves food, cooking and documentaries, which explains his liking for food oriented projects and honest, true-to-life settings.

Manuel often edits his films himself and feels at home on Media composer as well as Premiere Pro. He owns analog and digital film equipment and likes all things analog whilst heavily using all things digital.

Additional Skills and Info.

Full editing skills on Avid Mediacomposer, Adobe Premiere Pro and Final Cut.

Music Editing and Arrangement on Ableton Live.

Basic Color Grading on Resolve.

Certified trainings on Softimage 3D.

Visual Effects Supervising Trainings with Harrison Ellenshaw (Star Wars).

Has experience with Bluescreen, Greenscreen, Motion-Control, Steadycam, Gimbals, Russian and Ultimate Arm, the classic dolly and crane work and all the other modern gear around.

From Anamorphic to Boroscope, Vintage to Ulramodern Lenses.

Owner of a RED Dragon-X 5K Camera with lenses, ready for immediate shooting.

Languages: German, English, Basic French. A little Russian.

Manuel currently lives in Berlin and has shooting experience in the following countries:

Argentina, Austria, Australia, Balearic Islands, Bulgaria, Canada, Canary Islands, China, Croatia, Czech-Republic, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Italy, Ireland, Japan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania,Namibia, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Serbia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, USA, Uruguay, Romania, Russia.