ANGELO

Markus Schleinzer was born in Vienna in 1971. From 1994 to 2010 he worked as a casting director and was engaged in the production of approximately 70 feature films, including several films by Jessica Hausner, Ulrich Seidl and Michael Haneke. In 2008, working as a casting director on Haneke’s The White Ribbon, he was given the chance to train the child-actors, to prepare scenes and work with them on set, in front of the camera. Out of this experience he decided to try his own luck as a filmmaker. Michael is his provocative feature film debut as director and scriptwriter. Schleinzer is also working as a theatre and film actor himself.