Thomas Peter Friedl

Thomas Peter Friedl born January 3 1967 in Munich is a German media entrepreneur and film producer He started his career in the film industry in 1989 at Germanys media house Constantin Film Until 2008 Friedl was member of the board and served as President Distribution Marketing and COO of Constantin Film AG a company he left at the beginning of 2008 after 18 years Friedl distributed the two most successful German films Michael Bully Herbigs Der Schuh des Manitu and TRaumschiff Surprise As an international distributor Friedl was in charge of productions such as the first three Resident Evil films House of the Spirits or Perfume The Story of a Murderer Friedl also led various campaigns for the Academy Awards including Nowhere in Africa Academy Award for Best Foreign Film 2001 and Downfall nominated for Best Foreign Film 2005 In 2008 Friedl joined UFA Cinema and took over responsibility as producer and CEO of UFA Cinemas operations Friedls producer credits include among others the movie adaptation of the childrens and youngadult bestsellers Devils Kickers and The Twins at St Clares plus the comedy The Theory of Relativity in Love Sabine Kueglers autobiographical bestseller Jungle Child Other titles include the thrillers The Fourth State directed by Dennis Gansel and The Coming Days the romantic comedy Jesus Loves Me and The Weekend which was adapted from the eponymous bestseller by Bernhard Schlink Friedl left UFA Cinema end of 2012 to join forces with leading German producer and CEO of XFilme Creative Pool Stefan Arndt Friedl and Arndts new production entity The Amazing Film Company TAF which focuses on high commercial English speaking feature movies for worldwide exploitation Currently Friedl is preparing the international productions A Year in the Merde Honky Tonk Pirates Prototype Cathys Book and Fatherland Fatherland is based on Robert Harris bestselling novels Friedl is a member of the European and German Film Academy where he served many years as creative director and producer of the German Film Awards He is also Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Children Charity Organisation Artists for Kids which he founded in 1999 together with his friend and partner Bernd Eichinger Source Article Thomas Peter Friedl from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30