Bernhard Drax

Background

About Bernhard Drax

Bernhard Drax works in traditional feature documentary, public broadcasting, virtual reality and music production. A champion of user-created digital content in VR he is well known for the award-winning mixed-reality documentary series "The Drax Files: World Makers" on YouTube. Bernhard has delivered trans-media concepts for clients such as MIT, the MacArthur Foundation and was lead developer for the Emmy nominated PBS project "Deep Down: The Virtual Mine". For the US Department of State he documented their unique 2010 "Kansas to Cairo" student exchange program between Cairo and Los Angeles, which was facilitated through various online platforms. From to 2001 Bernhard worked as news producer and engineer at KPFK Radio in Los Angeles and from 2002 to 2004 Bernhard served as news director at NPR member station KAZU in Pacific Grove. He was instrumental in transforming the local news operation by producing high quality local content as well as training reporters and technical staff. Bernhard wrote the score for the feature documentary "Login2Life", which was released internationally in 2013 after having a successful run on German public broadcasting network ZDF and Austrian channel ORF. He wrote and produced a cross-over arrangement of Bizet's "Habanera" from the Carmen opera, which became the basis for the viral "MeTube" music video by artist August Schram and was nominated at the Sundance Film Festival 2014 as well as winning 30 other international awards."MeTube2" followed at the Sundance Film Festival 2016 [featuring his work with the Bavarian State Opera Munich]. Bernhard released his award-winning feature documentary "Our Digital Selves" in 2018 and followed it with "Virtual Cultures in Pandemic Times"(2022), both films in collaboration with the University of California at Irvine, made possible by a grant from the National Science Foundation. Bernhard Drax studied music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München and Audio Engineering at the University of California at Los Angeles.