Maximilian Gurschler

Script Writer, Director: Short Film, 2nd Assistant Director

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E-mail	max.gurschler@gmail.com
Phone	+39 339 2255581

Short description

Directed multiple festival-selected short films, worked on TV-documentaries and currently working on his first documentary for cinema. Experience as screenwriter and consultant (also for projects of the Filmakademie Wien). Has completed the ESF Course for Production Assistant Jobs at the ZeLIG Filmschool. Speaks fluently English, German and Italian and has basic knowlegde of French. Regularly works as 3rd or 2nd AD. Recently created and directed the political Webseries "Südtiroler Blinddates".

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Filmography

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Year	Title	Director	Production company	Section
2017	Herrgott für Anfänger	Sascha Bigler	Lotus-Film GmbH	Television movie

Script Writer

Year	Title	Director	Production company	Section
2022	Vitale Verbindungen - Südtirols Passstraßen	Markus Frings	Mediaart Production Coop	Television documentary
2022	Südtirol - Zwischen Sprachen zerrissen	Ines Pedoth, Maximilian Gurschler	ORF	Television documentary
2022	Inertia	Thomas Marciano	Filmakademie Wien	Short film
2017	Meditation	Pranav Gandhe	London Film Academy	Short film

Director of Photography

Year	Title	Director	Production company	Section
2017	Stalking Death	Laurie Waplington	London Film Academy	Short film

2nd Camera Assistant

Year	Title	Director	Production company	Section
2017	Etiquette	Danny Hua	London Film Academy	Short film

Set Photographer

Year	Title	Director	Production company	Section
2017	Begegnung	Lorenz Benacchio		Short film

Runner

Year	Title	Director	Production company	Section
2018	Percht	Béla Baptiste	Filmakademie Wien	Short film

Trainee (Production)

Year	Title	Director	Production company	Section
2021	Sisters	Linda Olte	Albolina Film GmbH (Bolzano)	Feature film

Director: Short Film

Year	Title	Director	Production company	Section
2022	You're lying!	Maximilian Gurschler	Giafatto Entertainment	Short film
2019	Seduction of the Masses: The Prayer for Sebastian Kurz	Maximilian Gurschler	Universität Wien	Short film
2018	Trash Life	Maximilian Gurschler		Short film

Director: Commercial/Video

Year	Title	Director	Production company	Section
2023	Südtiroler Blinddates		Initiative für mehr Demokratie	Web series

2nd Assistant Director

Year	Title	Director	Production company	Section
2023	Das fliegende Klassenzimmer	Carolina Hellsgård	UFA Fiction GmbH (DE)	Feature film
2022	Herzogpark	Jochen Alexander Freydank	LETTERBOX Filmproduktion GmbH (DE)	Television series

Production Sound Mixer

Year	Title	Director	Production company	Section
2020	passwort:symphonie1 - Music Education	Max Calanducci	Wiener Philharmoniker	Web series

Education

Period			Institution/Location
2020	-	2020	Filmschule ZeLIG
2019	-	2019	Universität Wien
2019	-	2022	Universität Wien
2018	-	2019	Sapienza Università di Roma
2017	-	2017	London Film Academy
2016	-	2017	Filmakademie Wien
2016	-	2019	Universität Wien
2010	-	2015	Sprachengymnasium Schlanders