Heinrich Hadding graduated with honors from the film department at Ithaca College's Roy H. Park School of Communications in 1997. His senior film "Breaking Dawn" participated successfully at various student film festivals. Since 2000 he's been closely affiliated with Soenke Wortmann's production company Little Shark Entertainment as a writer, director and creative producer. He is married, has a daughter and son, and lives in Warburg, Germany.