Education
University of Music and Performing Arts.
director screenwriter film producer
University of Music and Performing Arts.
His film Dog Days was shot over three years during the hottest days of summer. The final part of the trilogy, Paradise: Hope, premiered in competition at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival. Seidl was scheduled to attend the 2014 Jerusalem Film Festival, but cancelled his visit due to the political tension in the region.
Seidl grew up in a Catholic family.
Although at one point he wanted to become a priest, he studied journalism and drama at Vienna University instead. Afterwards, he studied film-making at the Vienna Film Academy where he produced his first short, One-Forty.
Two years later he produced his first full-length film, The Balliol
In 2005 he was a member of the jury at the 27th Moscow International Film Festival.