David Schurmann

Who is David Schurmann?

David Schurman is a Brazilian film director.

He first showed a passion for film making at age 13, when he started filming the adventures during the Schurmann Family first circumnavigation of the world. He got a formal degree in Cinema in New Zealand. Afterward, he completed his education in the United States. He has worked internationally, directing and producing television shows, documentaries and commercials films.

As the producer/director/cinematographer of the Schurmann family adventures, he has registered images from around the world, especially during the Magellan Global Adventure.

In 2007, Schurmann released his first motion picture film, "The World Twice Around," a documentary which has won two awards in the Recife Film Festival in Brazil, for Best Film according to the public and Best Sound Editing. It has also taken the award for best film in the CineBrasil Film Festival Buenos Aires, Milan, Rome and New York.

In 2011 David released "MISSING" a transmídia project and suspense/horror mockumentary film. The project developed and shot for under US $35,000 questioned what was real on the Unternet and the social networks.