As a very young man Michael R Roskam was passionate about grafic novels comicstrips and cinema Inspired by the great Belgian tradition of comicstrip artists like Hergé he decided to become a comicstrip artist himself and went to StLucas Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels There he discovered painting and contemporary art He graduated but also got involved into writing fiction meanwhile keeping his passion for the image alive by drawing and experimenting with video After several jobs as a journalist De Morgen newspaper and a copywriter SaatchiampSaatchi advertising he wrote a script for a short film By directing this himself he returned to the roots of his creative urge cinema The result was his first short movie HAUN He finally found out what hed always been looking for movement Since then he worked as a moviemaker CARLO prod CCCP his second short won several prizes at national and international festivals and was shown on different tvchannels and movie theatres in Europe His third short THE ONE THING TO DO prod CCCP premiered in December 2005 at the Leuven International Shortfilm Festival were the film won the Audience Award In November 2007 he went to LA to shoot TODAY IS FRIDAY prod SAVAGE FILMM ROSKAM a short film based on an Ernest Hemingway story
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