Biography
Frank Geiger was born in Villingen-Schwenningen in 1969. At the beginning of the 1990s he began to work in the film industry. From 1996 to 2000 he was a freelance producer in the advertising film sector; concurrently he worked as a screenplay editor from 1998 to 2000, among others for the Tele-München Group and Pro7 Media AG.
In 2000, he founded the brave new work film production company in Hamburg with Mohammad Farokhmanesh and Armin Hofmann. With this company he produced numerous feature films and documentaries, some of which were award-winning. He made his directorial debut in 2006 with the thriller "Strip Mind". To create the documentary "Reich des Bösen - Fünf Leben im Iran" (2007, director: Mohammad Farokhmanesh) Geiger received the Gerd Ruge Scholarship together with Farokhmanesh. His feature film "45 Minuten bis Ramallah" (DE/FR 2013) was awarded the Audience Award at Biberacher Filmfestspiele. In 2014, he founded the distribution and production company Little Dream Entertainment GmbH together with filmmaker Ali Samadi Ahadi.
Geiger's other productions (together with Farokhmanesh) include the spy film parody "Die Mamba" (AT/DE 2014) with Christoph Maria Herbst, as well as the animated film "Teheran Tabu" ("Tehran Taboo", DE/AT 2017), which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival 2017 in the section 'semaine internationale de la critique' and ran at other international festivals until its release. In collaboration with Mohammad Farokhmanesh he directed the documentary "Kleine Germanen" ("Little Germans", DE/AT 2018), about children of right-wing extremist parents. It was released in German cinemas in May 2019.