# Jens Schanze

*German film director*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/jens-schanze

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Movie Director ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999))
- **Category:** Directors
- **Country:** Germany
- **Born:** 1971
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Award-winning documentary filmmaker Jens Schanze was born in Bonn in 1971. In 1987, he spent a year living in the USA. In 1990, he embarked on a degree in Forestry at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and, in 1992, began working in television as an assistant director. In 1994, Schanze spent a year in Bolivia working on a project for Conservation International before he began his studies at the University of Television and Film in Munich in 1995. Through the production company Mascha Film, which he co-founded with Judith Malek-Mahdavi in 2002, he has directed numerous prizewinning documentaries including WINTERKINDER (2005) and PLUG & PRAY (2010). In 2014, he became a Professor of Film and Video Design.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 35.1 / 100
- **Momentum:** 1.7 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 2.9 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 25.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 58.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1142620/ (@nm1142620)

## Sources
- [Jens Schanze](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1687352)
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- [Jens Schanze](https://www.themoviedb.org/person/550847)

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