Former Wiedemann & Berg Managing Director and producer Justyna Muesch is becoming a member of forces with ex-colleague Sofie Scherz-Fleischer (referred to as Scherz) and director Alireza Golafshan to launch Munich-based unbiased manufacturing firm Story Garden.
They’re being joined within the enterprise by Thomas Herberth and Florian Brüning on the Munich and Vienna-based firm Horse&Fruits Movie Productions, which they created with Golafshan some 10 years in the past.
The brand new firm will deal with growing and producing high-end movies and collection for the German-speaking market, throughout all style.
Producer Muesch, manufacturing and line producer Scherz and Golafshan have been working collectively efficiently for years.
Over the summer time, they launched their third joint venture, Golafshan’s comedy Alles Fifty Fifty, which received the Bavarian Movie Award for Greatest Director in 2024. Earlier collaborations embrace The Goldfish in 2019 and JGA: Jasmin.Gina.Anna in 2021.
Below the enterprise, documentary producers Herberth and Brüning will roll the Munich-based operations of Horse&Fruits into Story Backyard, whereas the Vienna workplace will proceed to function below the Horse&Fruits banner.
The duo’s present productions embrace on Sheep, an revolutionary collection about speaking sheep for ZDF and ORF. Story Backyard and Horse&Fruits Vienna are additionally planning German-Austrian co-productions.
“After fantastic experiences with nice companions I’ve been fortunate sufficient to work with to date, I’m thrilled to have discovered the best setup to begin our personal firm with Sofie, Alireza, Thomas and Florian,” mentioned Muesch.
“Along with the tasks Alireza might be directing, we need to uncover new abilities. Thomas and Florian additionally deliver experience in prime quality documentaries, so we complement one another completely.”
Muesch was Managing Director and producer at Wiedemann & Berg Movie till the tip of 2023, the place current credit embrace the dramas Darkish and The Three Investigators – Legacy Of The Dragon in addition to the 2023 German hit Weekend Rebels (aka Weekend Warriors).
Apple introduced over the summer time that it was getting behind a U.S. remake of the latter title, produced by The SpringHill Firm and Plan B.
Sofie Scherz-Fleischer has over 15 years {of professional} expertise as a manufacturing and line producer and was most lately govt producer on the function movie Alles Fifty Fifty.
As manufacturing supervisor at Wiedemann & Berg Movie and Wiedemann & Berg Tv, she oversaw movies together with Jga – Jasmin.Gina.Anna, The Three Investigators and The Legacy of the Dragon, The Goldfish and Nightlife, Germany‘s most profitable movie of 2023
