Erwin M. Schmidt has worked in production, international sales and for film festivals and has an avid interest in new narrative formats and new distribution channels. He co-founded the Berlin based FilmTech Office (www.filmtechoffice.com), curates infiniTIFF (www.tiff.ro/en/infiniTIFF), the section for new forms of storytelling at the Transilvania International Film Festival, and organizes the monthly FilmTech Meetup Berlin (www.meetup.com/FilmTechBerlin). He is the managing director of the German Film Producers Guild.