Michaela Von Schweinitz

Kiss Productions
Actor, Director, Filmmaker, Producer and Screenwriter

New York City, New York

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December 2014

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About Michaela

Michaela von Schweinitz is an award-winning director with over twenty years experience in filmmaking.

Starting out as a cinematographer she supported her young family shooting and producing numerous documentaries. She filmed for non-profit organizations, with students and in underserved communities.

Continuously honing her skills in fictional story telling she wrote, directed and produced films which screened at renowned short film festivals, were broadcast in Germany and won awards in the US.

In 2003 she moved to Los Angeles and was hired to direct her first independent feature comedy, a punk rock love story.

Von Schweinitz was a board member of the Alliance of Women Directors serving as Chair Of Membership and as Newsletter Editor until she moved to New York in 2017 and became an active member of New York Women In Film and Television.

In 2018 she joined Naked Angels NYC where her thriller-murder mystery "Alice Is Gone" was read and where she reconnected with her first love 'acting'.

Currently she is writing a feature length comedy "Catch of a Lifetime" and is in development with a Sci-Fi TV Series.