# Roland Emmerich

> Roland Emmerich is a seed investor in Hollywood backing Photography. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Hollywood, United States
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Apr 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/rolandemmerich
- Website: https://x.com/rolandemmerich
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/roland.emmerich/

Roland Emmerich is a seed investor in Hollywood focused on Photography. Roland Emmerich began his career in his native Germany. In his childhood, he pursued painting and sculpting. While enrolled in the director's program at film school in Munich, his student film Das Arche Noah Prinzip (1984) went on to open the 1984 Berlin Film Festival. The feature became a huge success and was sold to more than 20 countries.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 50% |
| Series A | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Utopai Studios | Utopai is an AI-native entertainment company, building a generational studio. We develop and own original IP, produce it, and build the technology that makes it, all in one company. Each side compounds the others: Originals create demand, Production turns AI-native content into market-ready films faster and more economically than a traditionalstudio, and PAI, our AI engine, learns from every project. Our ambition is to build a generational media company, and in time the world’s leading studio.Partnerships: Zhejiang Huace Film & TV Co, ZDF, Globoplay, Carmelo Anthony / Creative 7 Productions / James HardenFilms in Production:JOURNEY TO THE WEST \| Status: Production \| Targeted Release Date: October 31, 2026 \| Logline/Description: “Journey to the West: The Lost Five Hundred Years“ will explore the “untold origin” story of how the 1592 mythological book’s protagonist — the imprisoned Monkey King, Sun Wukong — would grow to protect a monk, Jin Chanzi.CORTES \| Status: Pre-Production \| Targeted Release Date: May 2027 \| Logline/Description: In 1519, a charismatic Spanish captain — Hernán Cortés — leads 500 men and a handful of horses into the heart of the Aztec Empire. Two years later an entire civilization is gone. Decades on, the soldier-chronicler who marched with him, Bernal Díaz, writes the conquest's memoir with pride in his heart and tears in his eyes.SPACE NATION \| Status: In production \| Targeted Release Date: TBD \| Logline/Description: Space Nation presents an engaging two-act narrative exploring humanity's response to a disastrous first contact event. The story begins by establishing two distinct paths: civilian evacuation via massive Ark ships, contrasted with military resistance organized by the Space Nation alliance.HALF MOON \| Status: Production \| Targeted Release Date: February 2027 \| Logline/Description: A bullied thirteen-year-old Korean-German girl and her emotionally wounded aunt — strangers to each other — spend a fractured summer on a remote North Sea island, where surviving each other becomes the only way either of them can survive themselves. |  | Series A | Apr 01, 2024 | https://x.com/UtopaiStudios |
| Flimmer | Flimmer has created a platform that allows viewers to watch the latest trailer from Cinema, DVD & Blu-Ray and Video On Demand and reward them for their attention with movie tickets, or DVD/Video on Demand Coupons. At the end of the trailer, viewers will be asked a question about the content.- If the answer is correct, they will getcredited with up to 10 cents. |  | Seed | Sep 20, 2013 | http://flimmer.de |

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## FAQ

### What does Roland Emmerich invest in?

Roland Emmerich invests primarily in Photography startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Roland Emmerich last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Roland Emmerich closed in Apr 2024. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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