After attending university, Jens Schanze worked as a freelancer for the Bavarian TV show „Unser Land“. After working abroad and joining the project „Conservation International“ in Bolivia, he enrolled at the University of Television and Film (HFF) in Munich in 1995. He started „Mascha Film“ together with Judith Malek-Mahdavi, in 2002. His recent, critically acclaimed film „Plug & Pray“ deals with the current situation in the scientific field of artificial intelligence.