Oliver Keidel, born 1968, is a screenwriter, script-advisor and film editor. In 1997 he received his degree in Directing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Germany. In 2006 he won the German Screenplay Award for the feature film “Dr. Alemán” (Director: Tom Schreiber). Keidel has spent most of his life abroad, his projects have been written and shot in the USA, Colombia, Ethiopia and Spain, in the respective language. In 2011/12 Keidel and students from the Blue Nile Film Academy in Addis Ababa developed the award-winning children’s film project “Horizon beautiful” for which he composed part of the film music as well. In 2016 he conceptualised and edited the music film “El Viaje” with director Nahuel Lopez in Chile, and subsequently intensified his collaboration with various Chilean and Argentine authors. The oddball-heist movie “Schrotten” (Scrappers) from 2016, co-written bei Keidel, takes place in a wild and warm-hearted parallel society in the middle of Germany. Keidel’s stories come from a globalized world in which different people and cultures regularly misunderstand and inspire each other.