Rotterdam Lab

Jan Kühne

Jan Kühne has worked in a wide variety of positions in the German film business, from commercials to TV shows. In 2009 he founded with his friend and colleague Maximilian Lais the production company Chinzilla Films, where he – till today – works as screenwriter, director and producer. In 2015 he celebrated international success with the viral trash hit Alientampon - a proof of concept trailer. In 2019, his mystery web series True Demon was published for the German internet-broadcaster funk/WDR, which won several international awards. In 2020 he produced the first German audio sitcom Callboy for the podcast-app FYEO by ProSiebenSat.1. Jan is currently writing his debut feature film script, funded by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW.

Chinzilla Films – Germany

Chinzilla Films is a creative full-service production company, founded in 2009. The company works on various fiction film projects like TV shows and feature films with a focus on action-driven and fantastical stories. The company also works for local broadcasters, event- and advertising-agencies by producing commercials, live-shows or branded content. Their internationally award winning webseries True Demon was the first mystery-horror series for the broadcaster WDR, the second largest in Europe. As a technology-driven company they use their inhouse virtual production and VFX resources to tell visually stunning stories.

Projects in development 

Bug by Jan Kühne (mystery drama)

Released films

Callboy by Joseph Bolz, 2020 (audio fiction comedy)
True Demon by Jan Kühne, 2019 / 2021 (mystery webshow/TV show)

Jan Kuhne