Christian Becker

Born in Krefeld, Germany as the son of a lawyer couple, he started making short films. After school in 1991 he studied business, but left to work in the movie business in different jobs from production assistant to unit manager. In 1994 he started studying sat HFF Munich Filmschool, where he produced more than 15 short films and commercials. His biggest success was the short "If it don't fit, use a bigger hammer" by his friend Peter Thorwarth for which they got a foreign 'Student Academy Award'-Nomination. During Hof Film Festival he met former Kinowelt founder Thomas Häberle and formed in 1997 the production companies 'Indigo Filmproduktion GmbH' and 'Becker & Häberle Filmproduktion GmbH'. With their F.A.M.E. Film & Music Entertainment AG, Christian Becker and Thomas Häberle merged their labels with Curt Cress (Artforce music publishing) and Michael Bischoff (mb Medienvertriebs LLC) and took the company public on Germany's booming Neuer Markt stock exchange in Frankfurt in August 2000. Subsequently, Becker and his old Indigo team went on to found 'Rat Pack Filmproduktion' and 'Westside Filmproduktion' together with European power house Constantin Film in 2001 where they produced over 100+ feature films & Fernseher series.