About Felix

Felix van Kann is a German screen and TV-writer and director from Frankfurt am Main who just graduated from the screenwriting/directing program at Columbia University. He was recently a participant in Impact x Netflix DACH’s prestigious 2022 Accelerator Program for German-language writers during which he sold and developed the sports drama series Fanatics for Netflix.

In 2021, Felix received a Sloan Screenplay Grant for his feature screenplay Upstreamers about doping in professional tennis. The project, a German/US co-production, has also recently been developed in the prestigious Film Independent Producing Lab where it was awarded a Sloan Production Grant.

Felix‘ pilot Legends of Local League was one of four finalists for the Humanitas Student Comedy Fellowship in 2021 and helped him secure a Writing Fellowship with Dynamic TV in Los Angeles. He now develops a crime-mystery show, Ghost Town, with the company.

In 2019, his documentary Die Adler von 1960 (The Eagles of 1960), about the first German soccer team to reach the Champions League final, received a development fund from HessenFilm und Medien in Germany and was just awarded a production fund from the same institution earlier this year. 

Felix is drawn to comedies and dramas with an often absurd and dark tone, exploring themes such as irrational obsessions, fragile masculinity, and boyhood, often inspired by his experiences as a semi-professional tennis player. In tennis, Felix held a world ranking in doubles and was a hitting partner to former World Number 1 Angelique Kerber. He lives in Los Angeles where he currently works on thepost-production for his thesis film The Devil on Screen as well as multiple TV and feature film projects. In his last year at Columbia University, he taught undergraduate students as a Screenwriting Teaching Fellow. Recently, he was selected to the 2022 cohort of the prestigious BAFTA Newcomers Program.