Tilman Scheel (DE)

Tilman Scheel is the ManagingDirector of Reelport GmbH. Born 1970 in Hanover Tilman studied art history and law in Hamburg and Berlin. In 2001 he became a lawyer with Arthur Andersen and Ernst&Young consultants, his areas of expertise being company and media law.

In July 2004 he developed Reelport, an online film submission platform for festivals like Oberhausen and Tampere. In 2005 Tilman founded the Reelport GmbH as an independent company. By now 21.000 film makers and sales companies have uploaded more than 28.000 short and feature films to 70+ film festivals and markets including the Marché du Film, Cannes, or the Tallinn Black Night Film Market.

In 2008 Tilman created Europe’s Finest with the support of MEDIA. Europe’s Finest has by now acquired the Pan-European theatrical rights to more than 70 film classics of from Werner Herzog to Roman Polanski and a dozen current Cannes and Berlin participants, digitised them in 2k DCI cinema format and screened them in hundreds of digital cinemas in 16 European territories.