Philipp Leinemann started his filmstudies at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) in 2004. Since then he realized numerous short films and commercials and together worked as an author with Matthias Glasner and Jürgen Vogel on the cinema project DENN WIR SIND ANDERS. His graduation film TRANSIT was awarded with the production prize at the Munich Film Festival and ran at several festivals, most recently at the International Film Festival in Shanghai.