Marc Eberle born 1972 in Heidelberg, Germany studied Language, Literature and Culture of North America, History and Media Culture at the University of Hamburg. He holds an MA in Film and TV from Royal Holloway, University of London. He worked as researcher at Archive Films in New York and helped to set up Cambodia’s largest private TV station, Cambodian Television Network, CTN, as producer, director, production manager and coach of the local staff. Currently he is teaching documentary filmmaking at the Goethe Institute in Phnom Penh as well as pursuing his love of making films.
Since January 2011 Marc has produced short films as correspondent for Dutch broadcaster VPRO’s slot METROPOLIS
in Cambodia, Thailand and Burma.
Starting January 2012 Marc has been appointed Artistic Director for DocNet South East Asia, a two-year regional training initiative funded by the EU and Goethe Institut with numerous panels, round tables, workshops and a masterclass in Indonesia, The Philippines, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and Burma. As part of the project Marc plans, curates and oversees the implementation of ChopShots, the new international Documentary Filmfestival held in Jakarta from December 5-9 2012.
Marc Eberle has previously directed documentaries for ARTE, NDR, WDR, SWR, BR, MDR, ZDF and Discovery Channel in Oman, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia. His latest documentary, The most secret place on earth – The CIA’s covert war in Laos (NDR/ARTE, WDR, Filmfund Hamburg, Filmfund NRW, MEDIA new Talents, MEDIA, developed in the framework of the Discovery Masterschool,) opened in German cinemas early 2009 and has been screened at over ten international filmfestivals and was nominated for the north German Film Award, the History Makers’ Award in New York, the Golden Panda at Sichuan intl. Filmfestival, China, the World Television Award, Banff, Canada.
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