Ortwin Freyermuth
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Entertainment lawyer[1]
Film producer
Ortwin Sam Schneider-Freyermuth | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 1958 (age 67) |
| Alma mater | University of Gottingen University of California |
| Occupations | Co-Founder, Vice-Chairman and General Counsel at Cloud Imperium Games Entertainment lawyer[1] Film producer |
Ortwin Sam Schneider-Freyermuth (born November 1958) is a German American video game executive, entertainment lawyer and film producer.[2][3] He currently holds the position of co-founder (together with Chris Roberts), vice-chairman and general counsel of Cloud Imperium Games.[4] He is also known for having been the CEO of film production company Capella Films[3][5] and for producing the 1997 director's cut version of Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot.[6][7]
Ortwin Freyermuth studied law at the University of Göttingen and at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he completed his Master degree with a thesis on film distribution and copyright law in 1986.[3][8] In the early 1990s, he was part of a group of German film producers who pioneered a new business model, acquiring the production and distribution rights for several Hollywood films with both financial and popular success.[3][5] After having previously served as a legal advisor to Chris Roberts' Ascendant Pictures[9] and other production companies, he founded Cloud Imperium Games with Roberts in April 2012[10] to create the video game Star Citizen.[11][10]
Freyermuth is the brother of German journalist and author Gundolf S. Freyermuth.[12]
Academic works
- Deutsch, Erwin; Schneider-Freyermuth, Ortwin; Koenig, Ulrich (January 1985). Die Vervielfältigung von Filmen durch Hochschulen und ihre Einrichtungen : rechtliche Probleme untersucht am Beispiel des IWF- Filmverleihs (in German). Berlin; Tokyo: Springer (published 1985). ISBN 978-3-540-15728-1. OCLC 38444169.
- Ortwin S Freyermuth (1986). Film distribution and modern video technology : the shift of motion picture distribution into the private sphere and its impact on copyright protection (Thesis (LL. M.)). Los Angeles: University of California. OCLC 16163525.