Mathias Schwerbrock

Mathias Schwerbrock (born in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) is a producer, director, writer, and line producer. He is the founder of the film company Film Base Berlin GmbH, which co-produced the internationally acclaimed film Don 2.Schwerbrock has produced over 30 projects, wrote, directed and served as line producer, executive producer and service producer on several films.

After Studies of philosophy and linguistics in Düsseldorf Mathias startet his career in Munich directing commercials and the short films Killing Boxes (Panorama Berlinale) and a medium length film Lumen (Hof). In 1994 he went to Berlin working as a production manager on a number of German feature films with directors Wolfgang Becker, Max Färberböck, Nico Hofmann and Rainer Matsutani before he moved on to line-produce mostly international feature films in China, Israel, US, Canada, Russia and France. After executive-producing the films Nightsongs (Competition Berlinale) and Hamburger Lektionen by Romuald Karmakar he co-produced the Bollywood Action-Blockbuster DON 2 with Excel Entertainment, Mumbai, directed by Farhan Akhtar featuring Shah Rukh Khan.

In 2011 his company Film Base Berlin service-produced the European Shoot of the series The Transporter for Atlantique Films in Paris followed by the South-Korean action-pic The Berlin File directed by Ryoo Seung-wan. In 2013/14, Mathias was line producing the Berlin shoot of Dreamworks' biopic The 5th Estate on Wikileaks founder Julian Assange directed by Bill Condon and Marjane Satrapi's Mandalay Vision production The Voices. In Israel he produced Sharon Rhyba Khan’s documentary Recognition and Erez Pery’s The Interrogation followed 2016 by Ofir Graizer’s The Cakemaker.

In 2021 Mathias has been line-producing the SKY UK Series Then You Run and service-producing the Berlin shoot of the Killing Eve season 4 and has produced the Netflix documentary ELDORADO for The Thursday.Company. In 2023 he is co-producing the documentary After The Evil by Tamara Erde with Gloria-Films in Paris and is developing the feature film A Road Without A Name with Tamara Erde.

During all this time Mathias has been holding lectures at the Film University Potsdam and the Berlin based Film Academy DFFB, as well as at the Ludwigsburg Academy and the Focal Institution, teaching young Line Producers the skills of producing and international production.

works as a Tutor:

Bertelsmann-Stiftung Cologne, 1999/2000/2001, Budget Controlling in the Production Process

German Film- and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB), March 2005, Budgeting for Directors

German Film- and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB), Feb. 2006 Budgeting for Producers

FOCAL, Foundation for professional Training in cinema and audiovisual media, Jan 2007 PRODUCTION VALUE Workshop, Training of Line Producers & 1rst Ad’s in Geneva, Suisse

FOCAL, Foundation for professional Training in cinema and audiovisual media, Jan 2008 PRODUCTION VALUE Workshop, Training of Line Producers & 1rst Ad’s in POTSDAM, Germany

FOCAL, Foundation for professional Training in cinema and audiovisual media, March 2008 Workshop, Training of Line Producers & 1rst Ad’s in Zurich, Suisse

ISFF Berlin - Lecture on international Coproductions - Jan 2010

EPI, Erich Pommer Institute - Lecture on int. Co-Production with Don II Case Study - dec 2010

FOCAL, Feb 2011 Getting Bigger Workshop, Zürich Suisse

University of Film and Television (HFF) Konrad Wolf in Potsdam-Babelsberg, Jan. 2012 Financing for Producers

FOCAL, Foundation for professional Training in cinema and audiovisual media, Jan 2012

PRODUCTION VALUE Workshop, Training of Line Producers & 1rst Ad’s in MALTA

FOCAL, Foundation for professional Training in cinema and audiovisual media, Jan 2015

PRODUCTION VALUE Workshop, Training of Line Producers & 1rst Ad’s in Helsinki 2015

FOCAL, Foundation for professional Training in cinema, Amsterdam Jan 2016

PRODUCTION VALUE Workshop, Training of Line Producers & 1rst Ad’s in Bilbao Jan 2017

UNIVERSITY OF LUDWIGSBURG, Lectures on International Producing and Budgeting 2018

FOCAL - NETFLIX India Workshop, Training of Line Producers in Mumbai April 2019

FOCAL - AMAZON India Workshop, Training of Line Producers in Mumbai August 2019

PRODUCTION VALUE Workshop, Training of Line Producers & 1rst Ad’s in Budapest Jan 2020

UNIVERSITY OF LUDWIGSBURG, Lectures on International Producing and Budgeting 2021

PRODUCTION VALUE Workshop, Training of Line Producers & 1rst Ad’s in Lausanne Jan 2022

UNIVERSITY OF LUDWIGSBURG, Lectures on International Producing and Budgeting 2022

UNIVERSITY OF LUDWIGSBURG, ELP - training of executive & Line Producers 2022

EAVE Participant with the project BIG FEAR as writer in Bergen, Norway

EKRAN Participant in Warsaw Andrej Wajda School with the Project REAL by Dirk Schäfer

Member of the German Producers Association

Member of the European Film Academy

Member of the Producers Guild America p.g.a.

Member of the groundcontrol.network