Christian Ditter

Christian Ditter born 1977 is an award winning director producer and screenwriter who has worked on films television and commercials He is best known for his films The Crocodiles 2009 Love Rosie 2014 How to Be Single 2016 and the Netflix series Girlboss 2017 Ditter was born on March 9 1977 in Giessen Hesse He graduated from the Evangelisch Stiftisches Gymnasium Gütersloh in 1996 and went to the University of Lüneburg from 1997 to 1998 majoring in Applied Cultural Studies He then focused his studies on directing at the University of Television and Film Munich from 1998 to 2006 While in school Ditters short films Enchanted 2000 and Grounded 2003 won numerous awards at international film festivals His debut feature film French for Beginners hit theaters in 2006 He subsequently directed on the Adolf Grimme Prize and the German Television Awardwinning series Turkish for Beginners 2007 and on the awardwinning series Doctors Diary 2008 In 2008 he adapted the popular German childrens book The Crocodiles for the big screen The film won over fifty audience and jury awards at international film festivals and was followed up by two sequels The Crocodiles Strike Back 2009 and The Crocodiles All for One 2010 which he directed and produced respectively He moved on to writing and directing Germanys first major adventure film shot entirely in 3D Vicky and the Treasure of the Gods which debuted at No 1 in the German box office In 2014 he directed his first Englishlanguage feature Love Rosie starring Lily Collins and Sam Claflin In 2016 he followed it up with his US debut How to Be Single starring Dakota Johnson Rebel Wilson Leslie Mann and Alison Brie After working with Kay Cannon on How to Be Single they partnered with Charlize Therons company Denver and Delilah to create the Netflix series Girlboss in 2017 loosely based on the book Girlboss by Nasty Gal founder Sophia Amoruso Ditter is currently serving as the showrunnerdirector on the Netflix series Biohackers which is set to be released in 2020 Description above from the Wikipedia article Christian Ditter licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia