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[ A horse on a virtual set. A da Vinci sex machine. A Berlinale screening. A chewing gum ad that was called existentially threatening. And a debut feature shooting this summer. ]
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A queer reimagining of the Marlboro Man. Johnny gives up smoking and finds love with another man. Virtual Production turned Frankfurt into Manhattan. Live horse on set, US police car, Backstreet Boys track. Direction, scripting, and financing in one hand.
Mockumentary series that went viral on TikTok. People taking label organization too seriously. The kind of spot that gets shared because it's genuinely funny.
Satirical climate spot. The humor lands before anyone realizes it has a point. Won Spotlight Award Gold.
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Contributed as AI Artist on this project — generating 27 unique futuristic retail environments that were projected onto the LED volume for a one-day Virtual Production shoot. The AI-generated worlds physically interacted with the real set, casting reflections onto products and faces. High-energy rap video contrasting a grey NO-World with a vibrant YO-World. Aired across all 11 MediaMarkt countries.
AI-driven campaign for Storck's Mini Mates collaboration with Schleich.
Full AI video campaign including Black Friday and Grinch Bag stop-motion concepts. End-to-end AI production.
AI-generated visuals combined with hand-crafted design and illustration.
Full AI commercial. Direction, production, and AI artistry end-to-end.
AI social content. Vertical format for social platforms.
First commissioned commercial at age 21. Pitched directly to Jung von Matt (Florentin Hock), who connected him to Eis.de's CEO. Da Vinci builds a sex machine while the Mona Lisa watches. Became their official international campaign.
A dark alley that's actually a red-light district. A driver picks up a sex worker who lectures him about his carbon footprint. Nextbike supported it and shared it. "Fahr Fahrrad, du Ficker!"
A standoff between a horse-drawn carriage and a reindeer. Two nights in the Black Forest with fog machines, horses, and real reindeer. Rapper Eunique as the carriage driver. Hella licensed the film for their own campaign.
Seven freezing February nights near Stuttgart. Friendship, adulthood, tenuous bonds. Handheld, improvised. Filmed in Aidlingen, Baden-Württemberg.
Glitzer
im Gesicht
International Title: LOOSE
The sterile smell of corridors. The strange timelessness of common rooms. The rhythmic squeak of that one loose tile outside room 204 every morning. Three young men leave a psychiatric clinic and drive south — confronting their bodies, their masculinity, and everything they've been running from.
Shooting Summer 2026 · 90 min · German
Co-Director & Writer: Sina Diehl
Screenplay: Adrian Schwarze & Josia Brezing
Production: Schiwago Film (Marcos Kantis)
Casting: Matt Sheppard (UK)
Production Design: Larissa Bonitz
Editor: Max Färber
Visual References: Charlotte Wells, Lukas Dhont, Francis Lee
School Dropout.
Filmakademie
Survivor.
Josia Brezing has been making people uncomfortable in the best way since he was 17. Born 1997 in Aidlingen, German-Romanian. News editor at regional TV before becoming the youngest student admitted to Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. Exchange semester at London Film Academy. UCLA Hollywood Workshop.
His work moves between comedy commercials, documentary, AI-driven production, and narrative film — not because he can't decide, but because the interesting problems live in the gaps between formats. A Nextbike spot set in a red-light district won the Deutscher Wirtschaftsfilmpreis. A queer Marlboro Man reimagining got nominated at the Clio Awards. A short film for SWR/ARTE screened at the 73rd Berlinale. For MediaMarkt, he generated 27 AI environments for an LED volume shoot aired in 11 countries.
His debut feature Glitzer im Gesicht shoots summer 2026 with SWR and WDR. He runs NO NOTES, a filmmaker-first AI studio based between Berlin and Ludwigsburg.