Marc Weigert

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Marc Weigert (born June 3, 1970) is a film producer and film/TV visual effects artist.

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[edit] Early career

Weigert was born in Bad Harzburg, Germany. While in highschool in Goslar, Germany, he developed an interest in filmmaking. He moved on to study directing and producing from 1991-1994 at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg. There he met Volker Engel, who would later win the Academy Award (Oscar) for the visual effects of "Independence Day" and become Weigert's business partner in the production company Uncharted Territory LLC. During his studies, Weigert was visual effects producer for Volker Engel on the TV movie "Der letzte cosmonaut", directed by Nico Hofmann. The movie won the "Prix Futura". He also produced several commercials and award-winning short films for German TV. Weigert moved to Los Angeles in 1994, after receiving a scholarship from a German producer's association.

[edit] Later career

In 1995, Weigert founded the company Dreamscape Imagery Inc. with his wife Stacey. He became VFX Project Manager for the movie Independence Day (1996), for which Weigert created Digital Assistant for Visual Effects, a project management software to manage, schedule and track the filming of VFX elements. In conjunction with the software, Weigert also developed a design for a visual effects production board, in conjunction with manufacturing company Hollywood Production Boards. Between 1996 and 2000, he created new software versions to include the post-production process. Digital Assistant for Visual Effects has been used for several feature films, including Stuart Little, Alien: Resurrection, Flubber, Volcano, Godzilla, Wing Commander, Monkeybone, Bless the Child, and X-Men, as well as on TV movies and series. Dreamscape Imagery Inc. sold the source code to the Internet company Creative Planet, Inc. in 2000.

As visual effects supervisor for Dreamscape, Weigert worked on a plethora of international feature films, TV movies, series and commercials, most notably Disney's Flubber, Seven Days To Live, Muppets from Space and The Drew Carey Show. He also worked on several documentaries, earning Dreamscape the CINE Golden Eagle award.

In 1997, Weigert held the master class "action with effects" for the European Film Academy. He also taught digital compositing classes at the Art Institute of California - Los Angeles and was speaker at the iHollywood Forum in Los Angeles

In 1999, he founded the production company Uncharted Territory LLC with long-time friend and colleague Volker Engel. The first production, and Weigert's first movie as a producer, Coronado, was shot in 2001 in Mexico. The movie was written by Weigert, Engel and director Claudio Faeh. In 2003, Weigert co-produced the movie Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King and served as visual effects director together with Volker Engel. Dark Kingdom, aka "Ring of the Nibelungs" is based on the same Germanic myth as Richard Wagner's opera series Der Ring des Nibelungen. In-between film productions, Uncharted Territory also created the Intermedia logo animation which premiered before Terminator 3 and provided visual effects services for Roland Emmerich's Day After Tomorrow in 2004. In 2005, Weigert wrote the screenplay "Southern Skies" and produced the mini-series The Triangle together with Engel and Kelly Van Horn, for executive producers Bryan Singer and Dean Devlin.

In 2005, Weigert won the EMMY AWARD for The Triangle.

In 2006, Weigert wrote the screenplay "Force Majeure" und co-wrote "Raising Phoenix" and "Red Sea" with writer Kurt Frey and Volker Engel. He also served as visual effects supervisor on the Canon (company) commercial "Welcome To The Playground".

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