Michael Roesch

Michael Roesch (born April 24, 1974) is a film director, film producer and screenwriter. He collaborates on his movies with fellow filmmaker Peter Scheerer.

A movie aficionado since he was a kid, Michael Roesch started shooting short 8 mm movies at age 12. While Roesch was at college, he worked as a film journalist for several newspapers and magazines. Later he started together with his writing partner Peter Scheerer a successful career as a screenwriter, and worked in various production capacities. Among their screenwriting credits are Alone in the Dark,House of the Dead 2 and Far Cry.

In 2006 Roesch and Scheerer directed their first feature, the vampire thriller Brotherhood of Blood, starring Victoria Pratt, Sid Haig and Ken Foree. The movie had its world premiere at the prestigious Sitges Film Festival in Sitges, Spain in October 2007. In the US and Canada, Sam Raimi´s label Ghosthouse Underground acquired the movie, and released it through Lionsgate.

In 2007 Roesch and Scheerer directed Alone in the Dark II, starring Rick Yune,Lance Henriksen and Danny Trejo. It is a sequel to the 2005 film Alone in the Dark.

Michael Rösch

Michael Rösch (born May 4, 1983) is a German and Belgian (since 2014) biathlete. Michael Rösch has been junior world champion four times, three times in the relay and once in the sprint distance in 2003. On December 16, 2005, he took his first official world cup podium with a second in the 10 km sprint and on January 15, 2006, he won his first and so far only world cup victory in Ruhpolding when he beat Raphaël Poirée. Rösch is the son of the former biathlete Eberhard Rösch.

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