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filmmaker/producer/game designer thomas wallner
 thomas selim wallner german/canadian
thomas wallner

thomas selim wallner owner of deep inc. is an award-winning german/canadian filmmaker .
wallner was a co-founder of xenophile media in 2001 .
-lsb- http://www.deep-inc.com] he has worked with rhombus media since 1995 .
thomas wallner is a producer , writer , director and game designer working in feature film , television , games and interactive media .
in addition to producing innovative cross-media properties for television , he has written and directed eight award-winning feature documentaries that have been broadcast in more than 30 countries .
a leading figure in the creation of participatory narratives he brought the underground genre of alternate reality gaming into the television mainstream , culminating in xenophile media 's emmy award winning fallen and regenesis .
in 2007 wallner developed the story concept for late fragment , canada 's first interactive feature drama produced by the nfb and the canadian film centre .
thomas is a recipient of numerous honours including two emmy awards with a total of five nominations , three geminis , a rose d'or , two sxsw interactive awards , two webbys and two cnma 's .
he was nominated for interactive producer of the year at the 2011 cnma awards .
his documentary , `` the guantanamo trap '' won the special jury prize at the 2011 hot docs film festival .
wallner described being put on the `` no-fly list '' in 2005 , after declining to submit to an iris-scan when he tried to travel to the usa .
he stated this was his inspiration for `` the guantanamo trap '' .
