Markus CM Schmidt, born in 1967, worked as projectionist and film-editor's assistent in Munich before he started studying film-editor at the filmschool in Potsdam-Babelsberg in'92. During his studies he directed his first feature-length documentary on holocoust-survivors, shot in Poland and Israel. Since he finished filmschool in'98, he works as film-editor for feature length cinema films as well as for TV-documentaries. In early 2003 he started a filmmakers initiative against the upcoming war in Iraq during Berlinale film festival, that was shown on the same festival 12 days later. (freedom2speak.net)
For the documentary "Marry Me" by Uli Gaulke & Jeanette Eggert, he received the german film-editors award in 2004. As an editor, he has also worked on documentaries such as The Cleaners and Mali Blues amongst others. He has directed award-winning films, including feature-length documentaries like The Last Catch and Sleeping Monsters.