Moritz Erdt
Community Builder
Project Manager
Filmmaker
Founder
Hi, I’m Moritz,
founder of the Filmmakers & Movie Nerds, a hands-on community for creatives with a passion for films, hands-on attitude, the heart on the right side and a will to make movies. With expertise spanning photography, filmmaking, and digital communication, I craft engaging experiences while empowering others to create visual stories themselves.
What I like & do
is bringing people together and enabling them to push themselves. Especially, when it comes to overcoming procrastination and overthinking - traits I’ve been fighting myself for years. I give people a creative kick in the buttocks, so they start creating. As photographer, digital designer and project manager I approach visual storytelling from all stages of the process.
Creations
Building an international community with 2,500+ members
Created two member exclusive Film Festivals in Berlin.
Created a Filmmaking Challenge with 80 participants.
Worked on and shot dozens of short films.
Wrote and directed 5 shorts myself so far.
Community Building
As the founder of Filmmakers & Movie Nerds, I’ve built an international community for creatives who collaborate on filmmaking projects, share resources, and support each other’s growth.
My first community building experience was for a party photography website: gesichterparty.de. As the third board member, I helped growing a forum for students in 2001 to a full grown community with 300,000 members in the course of years.
On a corporate level, I worked for telefónica, managing a community for start up founders in the hear of Munich.
Filmmaking
Through my short films, I explore the nuances of human connection, identity, and emotion. My work combines compelling narratives with visually striking imagery to provoke thought and inspire audiences. Coming from photography, DOP was my natural go-to but I soon learned to love writing, directing and producing; my favorite role now.
Writing and directing has a very interesting appeal to it. To create a visual art piece out of nothing by focusing and leading the collaboration of many talented people can be a very exhausting but just as humbling and rewarding feat. It’s pretty addictive, actually.
Photography
With over two decades of experience, my photography captures the essence of stories through powerful visuals. From documenting exclusive events for brands like Mercedes Benz and Red Bull to creating intimate photo essays, my lens always seeks to tell a meaningful story.
I’ve been always interested in telling people’s stories by taking their portraits. In Australia, I learnt that portraiture is an art of itself and is mainly about project energy on a person so that radieate back into my lense. What kind of energy you want depends on the purpose of the photo.
Project Management
With extensive experience as a creative project manager, I have successfully led teams across diverse industries. At a design company in Munich, I managed international workshops and collaborations in industrial design, delivering innovative solutions for global clients, juggling up to 1 million Euro Design projects.
At a learn tech company in Saarbrücken, I designed and implemented tailored eLearning programs for major corporations like IKEA, McDonald’s and BMW combining creativity and strategic thinking to ensure timely, high-quality results.
