Producer - Tobis Film
After completing his acting studies at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and his first roles in film and television, Timm Oberwelland founded Zeal Pictures in 1994, based in Los Angeles, and over the next 10 years produced several US films and TV series, including Simpatico with Sharon Stone, Jeff Bridges and Nick Nolte, as well as the TV series American Fighter Pilot, which was created in collaboration with Tony and Ridley Scott.
After completing an MBA at IMD, Lausanne, and subsequently working as a manager for a German trading company, he returned to the film industry in 2012 as a producing partner of Syrreal Entertainment GmbH, Berlin, and as a producer of several cinema documentaries produced in the USA. During this time, he was responsible for the Holocaust documentary No Place on Earth and the first Netflix documentary The Short Game, among others.
Since July 2015, he has been the managing partner of Tobis GmbH, Berlin. In addition to acquisitions, he is also responsible for the production and development of cinema and TV productions.
Tobi's first in-house production, THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL IN THE WORLD, attracted more than 500,000 viewers to the cinemas in 2018 and was nominated for three German film awards, including the best film of the year.
The next Tobis production CATWEAZLE became the fourth most-watched German film in 2021 despite the pandemic and won the Audience Award at the Bavarian Film Awards in May 2022.
Tobi's latest production JAGDSAISON, directed by Aron Lehmann, will premiere at the Munich Film Festival 2022.