Presenter

Kariem Saleh was born in Osterode am Harz, Germany in 1986. After finishing high-school he participated in the summer program of the well known USC School of Cinematic Arts and worked as an intern at Stan Winston Studios in Los Angeles. Back in Germany he became a trainee at Rise Visual Effects Berlin.
He began studying animation and visual effects at the German Film Academy Baden-Württemberg, from which he graduated in 2015. Here he produced several stop-motion and computer animated shorts as well as life-action films. Alongside studying he became a character animator and visual effects artist on international feature-film productions. Today Kariem works as a director and filmmaker.