Born in Russia in 1963, Ippolit Wischinsky came early to the West, where he made his first independent movie, DOOMSDAY TRIPTYCH, which was long considered lost but is now being restored with the help of public funding. Mr Wischinsky began his career as an intern working with Academy Award winner Milos Forman and other refugees from Eastern Europe at Columbia University, New York. He also worked as a writer and script coach for Federal Austrian Television. For ten years, he was artistic head of Pygmalion Theatre in Vienna. He wrote several award-winning plays and toured the world with some of his performances. His rendition of Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis was shown more than 600 times worldwide. In addition to his script-doctoring work, Wischinsky has consulted many blue-chip companies on their public image and has been instrumental in developing many of their primary campaigns. Wischinsky is also active in various areas of pedagogy -e.g. he initiated the 'Vienna Goes L.A.' program, after-school activity for Austrian children, teaching them how to use filmmaking as a tool to overcome cultural boundaries. Ippolit Wischinsky gives lectures about movie language around the globe, including Hollywood. Also, he gave a TED talk on corporate storytelling. Recently he gave lectures at the University for Economics St.Gallen, the Art University Linz, FilmArche Berlin and several Austrian academies.
Wischinsky was also a student of the late philosopher Sir Roger Scruton.