Photo: Philip Selkirk To the pressroom Founder of Selkirk Pictures & Enterprises Ltd. Philip Rattray Selkirk was born in 1964 in BicesterOxfordshire, England. The man is a blend of Scottish, English, German, Austrian and Transylvanian blood. At the age of three he decided to spend more time in the land of his German ancestors and, after his school days, he moved to Vienna to study philosophy, history and the culture of coffee houses. In 1987 he felt he wanted to witness the Fall of the Berlin Wall in person. Hence, he left the Austrian capital for the German metropolis. It took the Germans two more years to realize it was high time to put an end to dividing their own nation. Philip experienced the historic moment on 9 November 1989 while assisting Tom Brokaw, the legendary anchor man of NBC. However, he was not yet convinced to work in media and opted for a career in bricks and mortar. He joined one of the leading real estate developers in Berlin after he graduated in economics and business administration at the Free University of Berlin (West). After five years of wheeling and dealing in immovables he, in 1997, with plenty of business and life experience finally made the move into the film industry. Initially, he worked with the film producer Dieter Geissler – renowned for his “Neverending Story” – and his production company Cinemagic. Two years later, Selkirk joined the management body of Taunusfilm (later Cinemedia-Group) in Wiesbaden – the place where he was brought up! As an executive producer he was in charge of the German-Canadian coproductions Blackwoods and Heart of America directed by Uwe Boll. In the summer of 2002, Selkirk founded his own company, Selkirk Pictures & Enterprises. A year later, Selkirk debuted with Castro, a documentary on the Cuban leader and president. Selkirk Pictures specialise on film documentaries for the international market.