Career
Peschel has been working in film since the 1990s. He taught himself film-making, starting with music videos for popular independent music acts like Frank Black (Ex-Pixies) who wrote the soundtrack for “Fight Club”. His first two short movies and 2, shot on Super-8 about two slackers succeeded to gain cult status in Hamburg, winning audience awards at two German Film festivals.
Peschel later worked as cameraman for German directors Klaus Lemke, Wolfgang Büld and Fatih Akin.
After directing short and mid-length films, Peschel co-directed the mockumentary Dicke Hose with Miles Terheggen in 2009 to critical acclaim. Peschel"s second feature film set in Algeria, Spain and France is his first directorial work with an international theme.
