Summary
Udo Flohr is a Berlin-based director, writer and producer with over 10 years leading film projects through his company GeekFrog Media and a parallel career as a science and technology journalist at MIT Technology Review. His background spans founding a tech magazine publisher, academic teaching in linguistics and geography, and early editorial roles at Byte and DER SPIEGEL, giving him a rare mix of storytelling, technical literacy and entrepreneurial chops. He combines long-form filmmaking with rigorous research and translation experience, often bridging complex scientific topics for broad audiences. Fluent in both creative and analytical disciplines, he also holds film directing training across Europe and New York and a Certificate in Contract Law, which informs his practical approach to production and rights management. An intriguing throughline: he moves easily between crafting narrative features and explaining technology, making him effective at projects that require both cinematic vision and subject-matter credibility.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Contract Law, Certificate, Contract Law at HarvardX
Master of Arts (M.A.), Linguistics | Psychology | Geography, Master of Arts (M.A.), Linguistics | Psychology | Geography at Leibniz Universität Hannover
Film Directing, Film Directing at Wetzlar | Berlin | New York
German, English, French