Frederic Kau was born in Düsseldorf but moved to Munich at a young age. He attended boarding school in England, where he stayed on to study Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Following his studies, he moved to Munich to work as a management consultant. During this time however, his love for film didn’t let him go and he eventually choose to return to England to study at the London Film School. Here he discovered his passion for directing, which he is now pursuing further at the Hamburg Media School