
Robert Sigl
EDUCATION:
Directing: Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film HFF, Munich, Germany 1986
Screen Writing: Drehbuchwerkstatt München, Munich,
Germany 1989
AWARDS:
Bavarian Film Award 1989 for Best Direction of a Newcomer
Nominated for Max-Ophüls-Award 1989
Nominated for the GERMAN DIRECTOR AWARD METROPOLIS 2012
LANGUAGES:
Fluent English, German & conversational French
DEVELOPMENT FUNDINGS:
for the projects THE SPIDER, THE 13th DISCIPLE, MEDUSA,
LAZARUS, WURDILAK and Dan Simmons’ CHILDREN OF THE
NIGHT by MEDIA, FFF BAYERN, FFA
CONTACT:
ROBERT SIGL
FILM DIRECTOR – CV
Burgstr. 2
80331 Munich
Germany
Phone: + 49 (0)89 - 308 99 54
Mobile: + 49 (0)171 - 355 14 85
info@robert-sigl.de
www.robert-sigl.de
Represented by:
Blake Friedmann Literary,
TV and Film Agency
Agent: Conrad Williams
122 Arlington Road
London NW17HP UK
Phone: +44 (0)20 72 84 04 08
MAIN CREDITS:
THE XY FILES / AKTENZEICHEN XY UNGELÖST (2014-2019) Crime Series / 13 Episodes / more than 70 short films / SECURITEL / ZDF
HEPZIBAH aka: THE VILLAGE (2010) Feature Film / English Language / UFA FILM / PRO7
VIENNA CRIME SQUAD / SOKO WIEN - DONAU (2008-2011) TV Series / 11 episodes / SATEL / ZDF
SCENE OF THE CRIME – AVENGING ANGEL / TATORT (2005) TV Movie / TELEFILM SAAR / ARD
SCENE OF THE CRIME – TARGET / TATORT (2001)
TV Movie / TELEFILM SAAR / ARD
THE INVESTIGATOR / DER ERMITTLER (2002 – 2005)
TV Series / 2 episodes / MONACO FILM / ZDF
SCHOOL'S OUT 2: THE ISLAND OF FEAR / DIE INSEL DER ANGST (2000) TV Movie / REAL FILM / RTL
SCHOOL’S OUT / SCHREI – DENN ICH WERDE DICH TÖTEN (1999) Feature Film / REAL FILM / RTL / US-Distribution: Fangoria/MTI
LEXX – THE SERIES (1999) TV Series
/ SALTER STREET FILMS for SCI-FI CHANNEL USA
GHOSTHUNTER JOHN SINCLAIR (1998) TV Series
/ ENDEMOL / RTL
ALARM FOR COBRA 11 (1997) TV Series / POLYPHON / RTL
LEXX – THE DARK ZONE: 4.0. GIGA SHADOW (1996)
TV Movie / English Language / SALTER STREET FILMS FOR SHOWTIME USA / STARRING: MALCOLM MCDOWELL
GROSSE FREIHEIT (1995) TV Series / MULTIMEDIA / ZDF
STELLA STELLARIS (1994) Mini Series / BAVARIA FILM / ZDF
LAURIN (1989) Feature Film / English Language /
BAVARIAN FILM AWARD FOR BEST NEWCOMING DIRECTOR
/ Writer/Director & Co-Producer SALINAS FILM
THE CHRISTMAS TREE (1983) Short Film / Writer/Director
& Co-Producer / HFF Munich
THE CABIN (1982) Short Film / Writer/Director &
Co-Producer / HFF Munich
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Director & Author
Robert Sigl was born in 1962 and raised in Germany. From 1981 to 1986 he attended Munich Film School. His diploma work LAURIN won him the Bavarian Film Award for Best Direction of a Newcomer. Since then he has directed several acclaimed feature films and TV movies in Canada, France, Hungary, Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic. He has received numerous development fundings for his projects and screenplays and he has worked for U.S. Networks Showtime and SciFi Channel with stars like Malcolm McDowell, Eleanor Tomlinson (female lead in Bryan Singer's JACK THE GIANT SLAYER) and others. Three-times-Oscar winning composer Howard Shore is going to provide the soundtrack for Sigl’s upcoming 15-Million-Dollar-production THE SPIDER. Furthermore, Robert Sigl received a nomination for the German Director's Award Metropolis 2012. Robert Sigl's first novel, WURDILAK, was published in Germany and Switzerland and is currently seeking an English/American publisher.
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