Rodney Sewell is a filmmaker and film editor with more than 30 years' experience in film & television production.

Trained in Australia and based in Munich, he works on international and German-language non-fiction productions. He is a capable storyteller and director and a highly experienced editor.

Bilingual in English and German, he is a member of the German Society of Film Editors (BFS).

As 2011 drew to a close, Rodney finished the edit of the DOKfilm production Das Milliardenversprechen, Gisela Baur & Ralph Gladitz's 75 minute social documentary on the superrich and their responsibility to society. The "all-star" cast includes Warrren Buffett, Bill & Melinda Gates, Baronne Ariane de Rothschild, SAP's Hasso Plattner and Nicolas Berggruen (Arte/RBB/SWR/BR).

For Vienna-based Terra Mater Factual Studios, Rodney edited Ruth Berry's blue-chip science doco The Neanderthals' Dark Secrets (52 min), an exploration of a 49,000 year old cold case.

He edited and post-produced the documentary Ich Überlebte - deutsche Schicksale am 11. September (produced and directed by Emanuel Rotstein for History Channel Germany). Premiered on August 27th, the film has been picked up by History Channel US and licensed to Sky Germany, ZDF and Bild.de.

In July he edited the ServusTV special presentation Der Fluchthelfer - Wege in die Freiheit to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall (dir: Astrid Nora Moeller, prod: megaherz).

In summer 2011 Rodney directed and edited a documentary on Urs Althaus, the first black model on the cover of a major US fashion magazine (prod: megaherz for the ServusTV series Was wurde aus...).

In April he acted as Local Producer and German language interviewer for Futuristic Films / Genesis Inc documentary Kids' Dreams, directed by Oscar and Emmy nominee Daniel Junge.

He produced and edited the documentary Urgewalten Lech for ServusTV (Dir: Stefan Panzner and Alexandra Seegerer), nominated for Best Bavarian Film at the 2011 NaturVision Film Festival, selected for the Tegernsee Bergfilm Festival and picked up for international distribution by Red Bull Media.

His trailer History Award 2010 (History Channel Germany) won the Eyes and Ears Trailerfestival 2011 in the category Social Spot 360° Campaign.

For ServusTV he produced 20 documentary shorts in the Horizont series.

He directed and edited the Audi Self-Perception training film for Topalsson GmbH and bb-media Munich and has edited numerous BMW Individual and BMW M Series films.

He co-developed ServusTV's portrait series Wir sind Österreich with megaherz film und fernsehen, directing several episodes and editing more than a dozen programmes.

Rodney has produced and directed cultural and ecological documentaries shown on Arte, ZDF, BR, NHK Japan and ABC Australia. As well he has researched and realised films on Derek Jarman, Lorin Maazel, Claudio Abbado, Waltraud Meier and Gore Vidal. He co-wrote the narration for the award-winning international documentary Terrible Lizards of Oz.

He lectures in post-production supervision at the Bavarian Academy of Televison and has been a guest on panels dealing with high-definition television and docutainment with Documentary Campus. He attended the World Conference of Science and Factual Producers in Dresden in December 2010, editing the "What's the Buzz?" compilation with Storyhouse Productions.

As still photographer, Rodney is producing the portrait project Generation Damned, photographed in Israel in 2010.

He produced, wrote and co-directed the short comedy "41 Sekunden", seen at 60 festivals in 24 countries and licensed for distribution by MTV America. The film was banned in Russia and voted best short film in MTV Logo's Season 5.

He owns and operates an editing facility a stein's throw from Munich's Oktoberfest site.