Education
He subsequently completed his education in the United States.
He subsequently completed his education in the United States.
Schurman first showed a passion for film making at the age of 13, when he started filming the adventures during the Schurmann Family first circumnavigation of the world. He got a formal degree in Cinema in New Zealand. He has worked internationally, directing and producing television shows, documentaries and commercials films.
As the producer/director/cinematographer of the Schurmann family adventures, he has registered images from around the world, especially during the Magellan Global Adventure (1997–2000).
lieutenant also took the award for best film in the CineBrasil Film Festival Buenos Aires (Argentina), Milan (Italy), Rome (Italy) and New York (United States of America). In 2011 David released Missing, a transmídia project and suspense/horror mockumentary film.
The project, developed and shot for under United States$35,000, questioned what was real on the Unternet and the social networks. Between 2009 and 2012 he produced and directed the documentary film and series U-513 Lonely Wolf, about the great search and find of the German submarine U-513 sunk in the coast of southern Brazil.
He is currently producing and directing Orient Expedition a 11 part documentary series for National Geographic Channel about his families latest around the world expedition.