Christian Hörlesberger was born in 1980. He has been interested in film making since he was a youngster. In 2000 one of his first short movies was broadcasted in German television and got a nomination for the "Shocking Shorts Award" in Munich.
2000 - 2005 he studied film making at the Filmschool Vienna. In this time he became acquainted with mostly all departments of film making. He directed short films and music videos - some of them were screened on several film festivals worldwide (e.g. Warsaw, New York, Singapore, Verona, Jacksonville).
2007 - 2010 Christian Hörlesberger co-managed the company Red Rabbit Film and he wrote, directed, and produced corporate videos, commercial clips, event videos, videos of comedy shows and performances.
He worked on the documentary "Syra Marty - Dächli Leni goes to Hollywood" as cinematographer, sound mixer, editor, animator and co-producer. The film was released in Swiss cinemas in January 2010.
2010 - 2017Christian Hörlesberger edited broadcasts for the Austrian Broadcast Corporation ORF.
The Drehstrom film production was founded in 2011.
Christian Hörlesberger works as producer, director, director of photography, and editor. He also makes visual effects and animations.
Depending on the scope of each project he cooperates with reliable partners like directors of photography, sound mixers, music productions, make-up artists etc. - with the goal to achieve the best outcome for the client.
Recent produced films range from viral Internet commercials, corporate- and image-films, animations, music videos to TV-commercials.
Every project is planned and calculated individually; every project offers new special tasks and challenges, which have to be tackled; and the experience and know-how of recent productions is incorporated into every new project.
Since 2014 the Drehstrom film production has been also producing video stock footage.The clips can be downloaded from the folowing websites:
2017 - 2019 the Drehstrom film production was sponsoring as official film production partner the iab webAD - the Austrian award for Online advertising.
The Drehstrom film production produced videos for COPDAktiv's awareness campaigns 2019 - 2023.
The Drehstrom film production has been producing videos with the winners of the Vienna Health Award since 2019.
Since 2025, the one-person company Drehstrom Filmproduktion e.U. has also been registered in the commercial register at the Handelsgericht Wien.