Arno Krimmer
- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Arno Krimmer owns Ascending Global Group (AGG) having offices in Munich, Vienna, Dubai and Mumbai. AGG produces feature films, TV and web series, animation feature films, Animated TV series, documentaries as well as computer / video / mobile games.
Krimmer was born in Munich, Germany. When he was 11 years old, his family shifted from Germany to Greater Vienna, Austria. There he graduated from high school and attained a Masters degree at the University of Vienna in the subjects of Cinema, Theatre, Media Studies (major) and Journalism and Mass Communication, German Literature and Philosophy (minors). During his student years he worked for feature film, TV series and ad film productions, wearing a variety of different hats and working in Production Dept, Camera Dept, Art Direction Dept and as a Sound Assistant (Boom Operator).
In 2008 Krimmer became a Professor at the prestigious Film & TV Institute of India in Pune. There he ran the Dept of Screenplay Writing working under the guidance of Head of Dept Anjum Rajabali who wrote Raajneti starring Ranbir Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Toofan starring Farhan Akthar and The Legend of Bhagat Singh starring Ajay Devgn. Krimmer welcomed many great scriptwriters in his class, eg Jaideep Sahni, Head of Story at Yash Raj who wrote Chak De! India starring Sharukh Khan & Amole Gupte who wrote Taare Zameen Par starring Aamir Khan, Sriram Raghavan, director/writer of Andhadhun and Bernd Lichtenberg, scriptwriter of Academy Award-nominated Good-Bye Lenin!
After that Krimmer worked for several years as freelance scritpwriter - eg for the popular Lilly the Witch (2004)-series based on the children books of KNISTER which have sold more than 25 million copies - and freelance producer before founding the AGG-group in 2013 which is active in producing international feature films, Bollywood feature films as well as games.
International Cinema - Krimmer is one of the Producers of international feature film Hand of Dante directed/written by Academy Award-nominee/Cannes-winner Julian Schnabel. The film is starring Jason Momoa, Gal Gadot, Oscar Isaac, Gerard Butler, Al Pacino, John Malkovich. Team of producers include Martin Scorsese, Drake and Jon Kilik who earlier produced the Hunger Games-films, the films of Julian Schnabel and the films of Spike Lee.
Bollywood - AGG's Hindi-language feature film Once Again (2018) was realized together with European channels / funding institutions MDM, ARTE & ZDF and was sold to Netflix International in 2018. Once Again was for many weeks one of the most trending films on Netflix India. The film had its TV premiere in June 2020 when it was aired on pan-European channel ARTE.
Games - AGG's game Encodya (2021) was published in January 2021 on STEAM for PC and Mac and later also released for Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4 & 5, Xbox and mobile phones. It received excellent reviews and was described as "Blade Runner meets Studio Ghibli" and as one of the year's best games in its genre.
Krimmer was born in Munich, Germany. When he was 11 years old, his family shifted from Germany to Greater Vienna, Austria. There he graduated from high school and attained a Masters degree at the University of Vienna in the subjects of Cinema, Theatre, Media Studies (major) and Journalism and Mass Communication, German Literature and Philosophy (minors). During his student years he worked for feature film, TV series and ad film productions, wearing a variety of different hats and working in Production Dept, Camera Dept, Art Direction Dept and as a Sound Assistant (Boom Operator).
In 2008 Krimmer became a Professor at the prestigious Film & TV Institute of India in Pune. There he ran the Dept of Screenplay Writing working under the guidance of Head of Dept Anjum Rajabali who wrote Raajneti starring Ranbir Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Toofan starring Farhan Akthar and The Legend of Bhagat Singh starring Ajay Devgn. Krimmer welcomed many great scriptwriters in his class, eg Jaideep Sahni, Head of Story at Yash Raj who wrote Chak De! India starring Sharukh Khan & Amole Gupte who wrote Taare Zameen Par starring Aamir Khan, Sriram Raghavan, director/writer of Andhadhun and Bernd Lichtenberg, scriptwriter of Academy Award-nominated Good-Bye Lenin!
After that Krimmer worked for several years as freelance scritpwriter - eg for the popular Lilly the Witch (2004)-series based on the children books of KNISTER which have sold more than 25 million copies - and freelance producer before founding the AGG-group in 2013 which is active in producing international feature films, Bollywood feature films as well as games.
International Cinema - Krimmer is one of the Producers of international feature film Hand of Dante directed/written by Academy Award-nominee/Cannes-winner Julian Schnabel. The film is starring Jason Momoa, Gal Gadot, Oscar Isaac, Gerard Butler, Al Pacino, John Malkovich. Team of producers include Martin Scorsese, Drake and Jon Kilik who earlier produced the Hunger Games-films, the films of Julian Schnabel and the films of Spike Lee.
Bollywood - AGG's Hindi-language feature film Once Again (2018) was realized together with European channels / funding institutions MDM, ARTE & ZDF and was sold to Netflix International in 2018. Once Again was for many weeks one of the most trending films on Netflix India. The film had its TV premiere in June 2020 when it was aired on pan-European channel ARTE.
Games - AGG's game Encodya (2021) was published in January 2021 on STEAM for PC and Mac and later also released for Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4 & 5, Xbox and mobile phones. It received excellent reviews and was described as "Blade Runner meets Studio Ghibli" and as one of the year's best games in its genre.