Famous on Famous

Werner Herzog was born in Munich in 1942. He grew up in a remote mountain village in Bavaria and studied History and German Literature in Munich and Pittsburgh. He made his first film in 1961 at the age of 19. Since then he has produced, written, and directed more than sixty feature and documentary films, such as Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), Nosferatu (1978), Fitzcarraldo (1982), Lessons of Darkness (1992), Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997), My Best Fiend (1999), Invincible (2000), Grizzly Man (2005), Encounters at the End of the World (2007), Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010). Werner Herzog has published more than a dozen books of prose, and directed as many operas. Werner Herzog lives in Munich and Los Angeles.

André Singer was born in 1945 in London. He has had a long and distinguished career as both filmmaker and anthropologist. For the BBC, he founded the documentary series Fine Cut where he met and worked with filmmakers such as Jean Rouch, Fred Wiseman, DA Pennebaker and Vikram Jayanti. He has been working on fourteen of Werner’s films. As an Executive Producer and through his company Spring Films in London, he worked on Josh Oppenheimer’s films The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence. As a director he was awarded the Peabody and Emmy for his film Night Will Fall, and last year completed an antinuclear film Where the Wind Blew.