FLORIAN LIVES IN BONN WITH HIS WIFE AND HIS TWO SONS. HIS PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND LIES IN THE WORLD OF ADVERTISING AGENCIES. WORKING FOR GLOBAL NETWORKS AS A CREATIVE DIRECTOR, FLORIAN CREATED SUCCESSFUL INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGNS FOR 12 YEARS BEFORE JUMPING SHIP AND BECOMING A FILM DIRECTOR. FLO SHOOTS COMMERCIALS, VIRALS, DOCUMENTARIES AND WEBISODES. IN RECENT YEARS, HE HAS ALSO BECOME ONE OF THE EARLY PIONEERS IN HIGH-END AI-DRIVEN FILMMAKING. FLO DEVELOPS ADVANCED HYBRID AI WORKFLOWS AND HAS ALREADY CREATED NUMEROUS AI TRAILERS, MICRO-FILMS AND COMMERCIAL SPOTS – SEVERAL OF THEM AWARD-WINNING. HE HAS ALSO TAUGHT PROFESSIONAL MASTERCLASSES ON AI CINEMATIC CRAFT FOR CREATIVES FROM AGENCIES AND PRODUCTION COMPANIES, SHARING INSIGHTS DIRECTLY FROM REAL PRODUCTIONS. HIS TWITTER PROJECT TINY TALES WAS HONOURED WITH THE GRIMME ONLINE AWARD, ONE OF THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS CULTURAL AWARDS IN GERMANY. THE SUBSEQUENT BOOK WAS PUBLISHED IN 2011 AND BECAME AN INSTANT SUCCESS, SELLING TENS OF THOUSANDS OF COPIES. IN 2019, FLO TURNED FOUR OF THE TINY TALES INTO FILMS FOR HIS SHORT-FILM PROJECT MICRO MOVIES – THE WORLD’S SHORTEST FEATURE FILMS. THE FILMS HAVE WON NUMEROUS INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL AWARDS. FLORIAN IS A MEMBER OF THE ART DIRECTORS CLUB OF GERMANY AND THE GERMAN COMMERCIAL FILM ACADEMY.