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A Day in the Life On Set

Executive Producer, shareholder, and CEO of COLD’N’TOWN PRODUCTIONS GmbH, based in Munich and Los Angeles. Professor for Visual Effects at the University for Television and Film in Munich (HFF München). Professor for Concept Art, Drawing, and Design at Media Design University of Applied Sciences in Munich (MD.H München).

Since 1993, Coldewey started Computer Animation as a pioneer and produced various commercials as a freelancer. In 1995, he founded with Producer Eberhard Junkersdorf (THE TIN DRUM) the largest Animation Studio in Germany at the time: Munich Animation Film and directed the animated feature THE FEARLESS FOUR (Warner Bros.). In 1997, he directed the animated feature HEAVY METAL 2000 (Columbia Tristar, USA, produced by Kevin Eastman, creator of TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES). In 1998, Coldewey founded TRIXTER and started his own IPs like the franchise of MAGIC LILLY (based on KNISTER’s children books HEXE LILLI) and the French co-production DRAGON HUNTERS. On the service work, he is credited for movies like: AVENGERS 1 and 2, IRON MAN 2 and 3, CAPTAIN AMERICA 1, 2 and 3, CLOUD ATLAS, GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY Vol. 2, SPIDERMAN HOMECOMING, CAPTAIN MARVEL, JIM BUTTON 1+2, BIOHACKERS and many more.

Besides his work with the students, he is currently producing the animated TV series MAGIC LILLY, a 52 half-hour show about a 14-year-old teenage girl who can do magic because she possesses a book of spells. The show will air in 2026.