Stephan Trockle

For the last 20 years Stephan has worked for an extensive number of broadcasters, production
companies, distributors, branding agencies and media consultancies, in the UK, the US, Germany and
Luxembourg. Previous employers include BBC Drama, CLT-UFA International, Company Pictures,

Concorde Filmverleih, Headline Pictures, MediaXchange, PRO7 Media and the RTL Group. Stephan’s first
feature film, QUARTET, was directed by Dustin Hoffmann, starring Dame Maggie Smith, Sir Tom
Courtney, Billy Connolly, Pauline Collins and Sheridan Smith, and premiered in the UK during the London
Film Festival in October 2012. His second feature film, INVISIBLE WOMAN directed by Ralph Fiennes,
starring Ralph Fiennes as Charles Dickens, Felicity Jones and Kristin Scott Thomas, was nominated for
an Oscar at the 2014 Academy Awards.

Stephan Trockle started his academic career with being accepted to Germany's most prestigious film and
television school, Hochschule fuer Film & Fernsehen HFF in Munich in 1998, where he produced two
student films, including 1999 Rosebud Award-winner MIRACLE BABY.
Leaving the school at the end of 1999 to extend his professional career outside of Germany, he continued
his studies again in 2001, when he did his B.A. Media & Arts at Royal Holloway University (2004: First
Class Honours). For his M.A. in Producing Film & Television (2005: Distinction), he was tutored by
BAFTA-nominated producer Tony Garnett ('Beautiful Thing', 'Kes', 'This Life') and awarded the Channel 5
and the AHRB Scholarship.

As part of the compulsory community service in lieu of the German military service. Stephan worked for
15 months with HIV and AIDS patients in Munich, before he spent an additional three months in a
Croatian Refugee Camp in Split.
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For nearly 18 years Stephan has been in relationship with Spanish Fashion Photographer Carlos Lumiere
who he finally married in August 2012 in Cuenca, Spain.