Michele Gentile

Michele Gentile was born in 1987 in the south of Germany. He founded the production company "Little Big Talents - Creative Media", is editing for German TV-Series and is working on feature films. After reaching his technical college entrance qualification in Reutlingen, Michele traveled the Australian continent for one and a half years. In addition to farm work, he was particularly involved in coal mining. He was already sure of a place as a mining engineer at Brisbane University. Due to compulsory military service, however, he had to return to Germany. In the course of his service in 2009, he traveled to Afghanistan as a patrolling soldier for six months under ISAF. In Kabul, he made his first documentary film " On Mission". Michele then spent two years in charge of the "Cinema Jenin" peace project in Palestine. Together with Palestinian students, he began shooting his first feature film "The Projectionist" in Jenin in 2010. However, the production came to a standstill when co-producer Juliano Mer Khamis was shot dead in spring 2011. In the summer of 2011, he began shooting in The Hague as co-director for the film "The Court". This was released in 2013. The film premiered in The Hague at the "Movies That Matter" festival and at the "Warsaw Film Festival", where it was nominated as the best documentary film. In the meantime, he realized as a director the films "The Projectionist - The Story of a Film", "Good bye Syria" and "Paddy's Mum" for the EinsPlus format of ARD - !LEBEN. Michele then began editing TV series such as "Dr. Klein", "SOKO Stuttgart", "Großstadtrevier" or the new main evening format on ZDF "Team Alpin". At the end of 2016, he founded the film production company "Little Big Talents - Creative Media", which mainly produces commercials for renowned companies, designs various TV series intros and develops 3D animations. Since 2019 he has been working as a director and author on his short film debut and his feature film debut.