As
producer/
director/
cinematographer of the Schurmann Family Adventures, he has filmed around the world, most notably during the
Magellan Global Adventure (1997–2000). In 2007, Schurmann released his first feature film,
The World Twice Around, a documentary that won two awards at the
Recife Cinema Festival (Cine PE), for Best Film and Best Sound Editing. In 2011 he released
Missing, a suspense/horror mockumentary film. Between 2009 and 2012, he produced and directed the documentary and series
U-513 Lonely Wolf, about the great search and discovery of the German submarine
German submarine U-513 sunk in the coast of southern Brazil. Schurmann then directed and produced the feature film
Little Secret, based on the story of Katherine Schurmann, his adopted sister. The film, which he worked on for six years, was chose as the
Brazilian submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film in 2017. In 2017, the
National Geographic released the 11-part series
Orient Expedition, which Schurmann directed and produced. In 2017, Schurmann and his family founded Voice of the Oceans and officially launched it on August 29, 2021, after four years of development. The global initiative to fight
plastic pollution in the oceans includes a nautical expedition, a science project, an open innovation program, and an education project. With the global support of the UN Environment Program (UNEP). In 2022, he directed
My Penguin Friend starring
Jean Reno and
Adriana Barraza, with photography by
Anthony Dod Mantle and production design by Mercedes Alfonsin. ==Filmography==