Having begun his career in 1978 in lighting and grip, he
jumped to advertising and quickly worked his way up to executive
producing for Jim Johnston, John Pytka, Ed Barnett and Andrzej
Karpinski.
In 1985, he helped found Stiefel & Company in NYC, and
was Executive Producer for Richard McCarthy, Steve Tobin, Peter Kagan,
and Jon Francis, expanding Stiefel to LA and producing the multi-million
dollar Merrill Lynch “Bull Across America” campaign, amongst others.
In
1988, Sven worked exclusively with Jon Francis as executive and line
producer for six award-filled years.
In 1994, Sven opened his own production house, RCR Inc.,
launching with a prestigious Saturn shoot for Hal Riney/SF. That same
year Sven was offered an executive and line producer job with Paul
Dektor at Dektor Film, which continued for the next 13 years, where he
supervised dozens of major national accounts including Michelob, Nike,
AT&T, Wachovia, Huggies, and Dove. Throughout this period, Sven also
produced RCR Inc. projects, working with public service agencies such
as Amnesty International as well as corporate clients like Epson,
Clarion Hospitals, and the Indiana and Illinois Lotteries.
In recent years, Sven has produced a variety of specs and short films, including a 28-min. short
My Husband’s Son
(winner Best Actress Festival du Cinema de Paris, and a festival
selection in Edinburgh, London, Los Angeles, South by Southwest, and
others). His efforts have earned numerous awards including Cannes, Clio
and MOMA.
Currently Sven is in production for the upcoming Comic Book Masters,
a feature documentary that will premiere at Comicon 2010, about the
wizards who have created the most popular comic book heroes of all time.