Birk Garlef Drude grew up in various small villages in Germany and stayed there until he graduated from school.
Very early he became interested in making films and composing music and after getting his hands on some decent software the latter became a side hobby.
After school Birk moved to Carlisle in England to study Film & Television Production at the University of Cumbria. It was here that he decided to turn his hobby into something more serious and started to compose soundtracks for various small film projects he was involved in.

His work for the short film "A Twin Seldom Comes Alone" was nominated at the "University of Cumbria Student Film Awards 2016" in the category "Best Sound" and his score for "DEDSEC: Left Behind" won in the category "Best Sound" at the Wangeneye Awards 2017.
At the UOC Media Awards 2018 his short film 'His Last Minutes' won in the 3 categories 'Best Film', 'Best Editing' and 'Best Actor' while his camerawork for the film 'Warehouse' won in the category for 'Best Cinematographer'.
'His Last Minutes' was also screened at the Keswick Film Festival 2018.

His latest work as a cinematographer and composer was the independent short film 'Embers' which was released Summer 2018.

Alongside working on new film and music projects, Birk is also currently working at the University of Cumbria as part of the AV department.