Teutonic Beginnings
After a successful birth in Germany in the 80s, I started acting in amateur theatre at the age of eight. I remained confined to supporting roles until I was ten. Everything changed when I was finally able to express my lust for life in my school play, playing thundergod Thor from the height of my 1m10.
I was 17 when I received my first “salary” as a moviemaker: I won a first prize for my short film Culex. Since then, my life has oscillated between the joy of acting and the need to create.
France, douce France
At 18 I left school to run away with a German circus. After six months of touring, I decided to try my luck in Hong Kong, and I landed… in Paris, where I settled for good.
When I started in France, I worked as an acrobat and actor and made my film debut in 2003 in the film The Statement by Norman Jewison (Oscar winner for In the Heat of the Night).
After a few appearances on television, in 2004, I participated in my first French feature film, La Maison de Nina, the last film by Richard Dembo.
I created a first comedy-musical show in 2006, a web series in 2007, and started writing a feature film in 2009. My screenplay L’Hôtel Parfait was supported by the French screenplay grant Bourse Beaumarchais-SACD.
Mias.fr
At the beginning of 2012, I participated in Berlinale Talents. Later that year I founded mias.fr my production company, to support the creation of my film projects. The same year the shortcom Sacha et Brouno (with David Talbot and Bruno Paviot) was released, which was presented at the La Rochelle Web Festival, among others.
With Mias Media, we have produced award-winning short films selected in festivals around the world (New York City Independent Film Festival, Athens International Film & Video Festival, Leeds International Film Festival, Galway Film Fleadh, Off-Courts Trouville, Rhode Island International Film Festival, and others), as well as numerous music videos and digital ads.
Between 2013 and 2017 I played with theatre company Irina’s Dreamtheatre on tour and in festivals (Festival dei due Mondi in Spoleto, among others) and I participated in several creations at the Théâtre National de Nice, under the direction of Irina Brook. In 2015 I created and played in my first one-man show, Autre Chose.
The Netherlands
At the beginning of 2024, I joined forces with Benjamin Bonnet by becoming an associate producer at Mood Films.
Today, my life is split between Paris and Amsterdam, where I launched Mias Films in 2025 to develop new audiovisual projects. With Mias Films, our first short film, Sensitive Hearing, written and directed by me, was produced in 2025.
When I’m not writing or directing, I act for the screens, radio, and, more rarely, the stage. And no, I still haven’t set foot in Hong Kong.
