I am René. I’m an internationally working creative from Vienna, Austria. I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Film-, Theatre- and Media Studies and I was educated in directing at FAMU, the National Film School of the Czech Republic and one of the oldest and most prestigious film schools in the world. 

More importantly though, I have been making films since the age of 12 … no, wait … actually, if you count documentary filmmaking, I have stalked people with cameras ever since my father gave me a VHS camcorder for Christmas in 2000, when I was six years old.

When it comes to storytelling you could go even further back: I have immersed myself in my own made-up stories ever since I can remember. The small black & white picture on this page, for instance, shows little me acting out my own, alternative version of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.

Not only through the example of Shakespeare have I come to appreciate early on that a good story, as opposed to the storyteller, never dies. – It lives on through its telling. I consider myself a person who, through all the areas of work I have listed on this website, keeps stories alive and shares universally true human emotions and experiences.

And when I die, the stories will not. Why?

Because someone else will wrap a tablecloth around their shoulders and put leaves on their head to tell them.