Michaela von Schweinitz is an award-winning director with over twenty years experience in filmmaking. Starting out as a cinematographer she supported her young family shooting and producing numerous documentaries. She filmed for non-profit organizations, with students and in underserved communities. Continuously honing her skills in fictional story telling she wrote, directed and produced films which screened at renowned short film festivals, were broadcast in Germany and won awards in the US. In 2003 she moved to Los Angeles and was hired to direct her first independent feature comedy, a punk rock love story. Michaela von Schweinitz was a board member of the Alliance of Women Directors serving as Chair Of Membership and as Newsletter Editor until she moved to New York in 2017 and became an active member of New York Women In Film and Television.