Marcus Vetter graduated in 1991 in Economics and in 1994 in Media Theory and Practice. His studies included residences in Buenos Aires and Madrid as well as practical internships in the media and film business. He was selected for the Discovery Campus Master School 2004, a 10-month European training programme in international co-productions in the nonfiction sector.

Since 1994 he has been working as a TV editor, producer and director at ARD/SWR in Baden-Baden and Stuttgart. He received attention at national and international film festivals and won numerous prizes, among others 3 Adolf Grimme Awards. Currently, he is working on a film project called “Cinema Jenin” about a father of a Palestine boy killed by Israeli soldiers as they confused his toy weapon with a real one. The father decided to donate his son's organs to Israeli children.

Among his films and documentaries are: “The Tunnel”, “Ein Schweinegeld”, “War games”, “La Florida”, “Streets of the Duped”, “The Unbreakables”, “My father the Turk”.