埃里克·施米特，Born in Mainz, Germany in 1980. His debut feature film, Cleo, is the third of his works to screen in the Generation section. He won the German Short Film Award with Nun Sehen Sie Folgendes; overall his short films have won over 100 international festival and film prizes. In 2018, he founded the Seven Elephants production company with directors Julia von Heinz and David Falko Wnendt and producer Fabian Gasmia. He is currently working on the science fiction film Rebels.