David Schurmann

Schurmann is best known for directing and producing Little Secret, selected to represent Brazil at the Oscars in 2017. David first showed a passion for film making at the age of 13, when he started filming the Schurmnns first around the world sailing expedition. He graduated from film School in New Zealand, and completed his education in the United States. His work includes TV series for GLOBO TV such as the 36 part series Magellan Global Adventure (1997-2000) and 28 episode series Expedição Oriente (2004-20016). In 2007, Schurmann released his first motion picture film, The World Twice Around, a documentary that won two awards in the Recife Film Festival in Brazil, for Best Film and Best Sound Editing. It also took awards for best film in the CineBrasil Film Festival Buenos Aires (Argentina), Milan (Italy), Rome (Italy) and New York (USA). In 2011 he released Missing, a controversial trans-mídia project and suspense/horror mockumentary film. The project, developed and shot for under US$35,000, questioned what was real on the Internet and the social networks. Between 2009 and 2012 he produced and directed the documentary film a U-513 Lonely Wolf, about the great search and find of the German submarine U-513 sunk in the coast of southern Brazil. He also produced and directed Orient Expedition, 10 episode documentary series for National Geographic Channel Latin America. His fiction directorial debut was Little Secret, inspired on the true story of Katherine Schurmann, his adopted sister. The film is Brasil's official selection for the 89th Academy Awards.