Julian Schleef, born in Wiesbaden in 1984, studied Film, Television and Animation at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. Since the founding of btf (bildundtonfabrik), as Creative Head of Post Production, he and his team have shaped the visual signature and post-production of a wide range of btf's productions, including the Netflix series How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast) and King of Stonks, the Disney+ series Pauline, the Netflix documentaries POLDI and Shiny_Flakes, and the ZDF show Neo Magazin Royale. Drawing on his experience as a VFX and post supervisor, design director and editor, he combines creative, organizational and technical perspectives, and is driving how btf can meaningfully evolve its creative processes across all phases of production through generative AI. The btf team's work has received numerous Grimme Awards and German Television Awards.