Markus Lerchbaum is a 23-year-old filmmaker from Vienna. From 2016 - 2019 he studied filmmaking at the University of Applied Sciences in Salzburg, Austria and at the EWHA Womans University in Seoul, South Korea. He developed, directed and edited several fictional short films. In 2018, he assisted award-winning Pakistani director Sabiha Sumar and spent four months in Karachi, Pakistan. In 2019, they collaborated on the documentary "The Culture of the Kalash" commissioned by the German broadcasting channel "arte". Back in Austria, he continued working and collaborating on documentary projects together with Sabiha and started studying Political Science. Since 2020, Markus has been volunteering as a video editor and fundraiser for the human rights organisations "Asyl in Not" and the "Niger Delta Initiative Austria".
appreciations:
Social Political Short Film Festival
nomination: „“ (quotation marks) 2018
nomination: „“ (quotation marks) 2018
Los Angeles CineFest
nomination: „“ (quotation marks) 2018
nomination: „“ (quotation marks) 2018
Melbourne Independent Filmmakers Festival
„“ (quotation marks) 2018
„“ (quotation marks) 2018
YOUKI Internationales Jugend Medien Festival
nomination: „“ (quotation marks) 2018
scholarship, WK Österreich 2018
nomination: „“ (quotation marks) 2018
scholarship, WK Österreich 2018
scholarship, European Forum Alpbach 2019
Independent Days | Internationale Filmfestspiele Karlsruhe
Freischwimmer 2020
Freischwimmer 2020
YOUKI Internationales Jugend Medien Festival
nomination: Freischwimmer 2020
nomination: Freischwimmer 2020
video&filmtage Wien
Freischwimmer 2020
Freischwimmer 2020
For further information please contact:
markus.lerchbaum@gmx.at
After so much seriousness, here's a picture of me & flowers
Timothy Straight (left) and Markus Lerchbaum (right) at the premiere of their film "Freischwimmer" in 2020
at the Urania, Vienna (Copyright: Video & Filmtage Wien).
at the Urania, Vienna (Copyright: Video & Filmtage Wien).
Thank you!