About us

Our founder, Mr. Martin Schneider-Lau pursued his dream by moving to Hamburg from Braunschweig, started up with a 3 years apprenticeship in Atlantic Film, a film laboratory company.

After completion, he stayed one more year in Atlantic Film as a Film Kopien Fertiger (Film Copying Technician). Then he worked 2 years in Bergmann Film as an Intern.

After that he started his career as a Cameraman, a freelancer.

In 1980, he founded his first company AVM Schneider located the basement of his house, as a small Film and Post Production Company.

He worked for the leading advertising agencies like LINTAS, McCann, JVM S+J etc. at the time.

In 1987, AVM registered as a limited company - AVM Schneider GmbH.