Friedrich Moser (documentary filmmaker)

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Friedrich Moser at the Elevate Festival 2016 in Graz.

Friedrich Moser (born December 7, 1969 in Gmunden ) is an Austrian filmmaker and journalist .

Life

After finishing school at the Stiftsgymnasium Kremsmünster , Friedrich Moser studied history and German in Salzburg and Bilbao . He began his professional career in 1998 as a TV journalist in Bolzano , South Tyrol. Since 1999 Moser has mostly worked as a writer, director, producer and cameraman and is the maker of over 20 documentaries, including the movie The Brussels Business about the lack of transparency and the influence of lobbyists on the decision-making process in the European Union . Moser's second international documentary, A Good American, is about codebreaker William "Bill" Binney , who developed the groundbreaking surveillance program ThinThread, but which was stopped by the National Security Agency (NSA) before implementation . In 2001 he founded his own film production company, blue + green communication. His television documentary Terrorjagd im Netz was nominated for the Grimme Prize in 2018.

In addition to his work as a filmmaker, Friedrich Moser teaches at the Department of Economic and Social History at the University of Vienna and at the Oberschule for Commercial Graphics in Bressanone.

Filmography

Moser (r.) With producer Michael Seeber and composers Guy Farley and Christopher Slaski from A Good American (2017)
  • 2002: The Franzensfeste - A fortress and its history (TV documentary)
  • 2012: The Brussels Business
  • 2014: The rock paintings of Val Camonica (TV documentary)
  • 2014: In the Labyrinth of Lights (TV documentary)
  • 2016: A Good American
  • 2017: Terror hunt online (TV documentary)
  • 2019: Beer - the best film ever brewed

Awards

  • 2018: Nominated for the Grimme Prize for "Terror hunt online"

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Moser (film director)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ participants . In: Elevate Festival . September 29, 2016 ( elevate.at [accessed November 9, 2016]).
  2. ↑ THE BRUSSELS BUSINESS - in theaters from March 16. March 19, 2012, archived from the original on March 19, 2012 ; Retrieved November 9, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Director Friedrich Moser on "Terror hunt on the net". Retrieved September 15, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Terror hunt on the net (RBB / ARTE) . ( grimme-preis.de [accessed on January 27, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Moser, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 7th December 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Gmunden