Florian Guthknecht
Seagrass not only stores our planet’s largest reserves of sugar – it protects beaches worldwide from erosion cleans water like an sewage treatment plant. No other living creature on earth reaches a lifespan of almost 80,000 years. It is a nursery and habitat for countless species and purifies the sea water like a gigantic sewage treatment plant. With these superpowers, seaweed can help slow global warming. The film accompanies the leading seagrass researchers from the tropics to the Mediterranean and the Baltic Sea.
Director Biography – Florian Guthknecht
Born in Fürstenfeldbruck (Germany) 1969
Universities of Augsburg, Munich (Germany), Florence (Italy)
European Union scholarship,
Final degree: Master of Arts 1994 (Summa cum laude)
Director, Autor, Producer for ARD, ARTE, ZDF, ORF, 3SAT
Founder Flowmotion Film Production, Munich 2000
Teaching post at the University of Augsburg
Teaching post at University of Salzburg/Austria
Presenter (Path of Dreams, Expedition, World of Animals, Mystic Places ARD/ARTE/ORF
