ORLANDO LÜBBERT

Screenwriter and Film Director. He started in film as assistant to Chilean director Patricio Guzmán. In 1972 he began writing and directing the feature documentary "Los Puños Frente al Cañón". In 1974 he went into exile in Mexico and settled in West Berlin, where he lived until 1995. There he spent most of his professional career, where, in addition to teaching, he wrote screenplays, specialized in film dramaturgy and made documentaries for German television. In 1986 he was selected for the first Berlin screenplay workshop with the comedy "The Children of Mickey Mouse". In 1994 the original script "La Mirada desde el Circo" is selected for the SOURCES Screenwriting Workshop of the MEDIA-Program of the European Community. The German version of the comedy "Los Hijos del Ratón Mickey" was premiered in Germany in 1996 under the title "Irren ist Männlich".