ANDREAS SIMON

Founder & MD

Andreas produced more than a thousand commercial productions with his company GAP films: including many highly acclaimed productions - also with complex visulal effects - and international campaigns like the famous C&A commercials in the nineties, directed by Niko Karo; the DaimlerChrysler Roland Emmerich project „Infinity“; the worldwide spot-campaign for Allianz; big budget image films for German Telekom, German Post and Siemens. Under the direction of acclaimed directors Charley Stadler, Sönke Wortmann, Anno Saul, Detlef Buck, Marcus Nispel, Roland Emmerich, Helmut Dietl, Arne Feldhusen, Sharon von Wietersheim, Hans Petter Moland, Marco Kreuzpaintner, Inigo Westmeier, Lennart Ruf; and a large number of productions for the automotive industry with specialised car directors as Jürgen Bollmeyer and Matthias Zentner, for Mercedes, BMW, VW, Audi, Jaguar, Toyota, and many more.

Two German „Bundeskurzfilmpreise“ and numerous awards at international Festivals; screenplay developments and financing for feature film productions „Jenseits der Stille“, directed by Caroline Link and „Dead Fish“, directed by Charley Stadler; service productions for American clients, and the development of patented interactive TV advertisment ad-specials.

As director and producer Andreas realized many car commercials for BMW, he won first prize awards in New York and Montreux. He also founded FlowWorks GmbH an IT company for digital media distribution for clients as SAP, Siemens, MTV Europe, Bavaria, ProSieben und web-TV broadcasters.

Being the producer in charge he financed and produced Drachenmädchen / Dragongirls (2013/14), a full length cinema documentary production shot in China that gained wide attention in the media and national TV news. The film with „Prädikat besonders wertvoll“ won the First Award Internat. Film Hot Docs Toronto 2013, the Deutscher Kamerapreis 2013, and others

CHARLEY STADLER

Director & Partner

As a GAP principal for 20 years Charley has directed more than 200 commercials for some of the biggest global brands in the world like Microsoft, McDonalds, Toyota, Snickers, Adidas, Ford, Allianz, Garnier and Porsche.  He also directed eight US Pentagon psychological awareness films for the education of Arabic youth.  Charley has received well over 100 international directing awards, including Cannes, Epica, ADC and numerous Gold medals and has worked with stars such as Sean Connery, Sharon Stone, Billy Zane and Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr.  

In 2016, Filestage named Charley the 37th best commercial director in the world.  The Head of TV of BBDO calls him "Germany‘s Golden Boy", and "Who's Who" lists Charley in its book of most influential creative people.  Charley directed/co-wrote the $15 Million feature film "Dead Fish", starring Oscar nominees Gary Oldman (Dracula, 5th Element) and Terence Stamp (The Limey, Superman), as well as Robert Carlyle (Trainspotting,The Full Monty, James Bond) and Spanish actress Elena Anaya ( Almodovar's - In the Skin I live in).

Charley received a Masters Degree in visual communications.  He began his career shooting for magazines such as Face and MAX Covers for brands like Big Star Jeans and bands like Metallica.