Thor Freudenthal

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Thor Freudenthal
Born c. 1972/1973[1]
West Berlin, West Germany[2]

Thor Freudenthal (German pronunciation: [ˈtoːɐ̯ ˈfʁɔʏdn̩taːl], born c. 1972/1973)[1] is a German director and screenwriter who generally works in film.

Freudenthal was born and raised in West Berlin, West Germany.[1] He attended the Berlin Academy of Arts, and later moved to Southern California as an exchange student at CalArts.[1] He started out as an animation director on short films like Mind the Gap, Monkey Business and The Tenor. He also worked on conceptal/visual art work at Sony Pictures Imageworks on films like Stuart Little, The ChubbChubbs! and Stuart Little 2. He later worked as second unit director on Disney's The Haunted Mansion. In 2005, he directed the short film Motel which was his first live-action film. He then worked as director on Hotel for Dogs in 2009 for DreamWorks Pictures. He directed the live-action/animated feature film, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, based on the book by Jeff Kinney.

[edit] Filmography

Year Film Job
1994 Mind the Gap Director, writer
1996 Monkey Business
1998 The Tenor
1999 Stuart Little Creative and visual effects development
2002 The ChubbChubbs! Character designer, storyboard artist
Stuart Little 2 Conceptual artist
2003 The Haunted Mansion Second unit director
2005 Motel Director, writer
2009 Hotel for Dogs Director
2010 Diary of a Wimpy Kid Director, storyboard artist[3]
2012 Ramona's World Director
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters Director

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d [1]
  2. ^ http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_16276.html
  3. ^ The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary by Jeff Kinney

[edit] External links


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