Festival Director - Unified Filmmakers Festival
Florian Deyle is the managing director and co-founder of DRIFE Filmproduktion and a partner in tnf Telenormfilm. He studied political science and publishing before graduating from the University of Television and Film Munich. Since founding DRIFE, Florian has worked as a producer of feature films and TV movies. He is a member of the German Film Academy and the European Film Academy.
In 2021, he and his wife Patricia Mestanza-Niemi launched the Unified Filmmakers Initiative, organised the first Unified Filmmakers Festival and put the UFM Media Library online. The UFM Network and the UFM Marketplace, the last two components of the platform, will go online in November 2022.