His film Cockneys vs Zombies won multiple awards, while The Warriors Gate was an international fantasy action epic produced by Europacorp.

[1] He grew up in Berlin, where his father was a scientist specializing in high-energy transmission tubes for lasers, and his mother was an alternative medicine enthusiast.

[2] Hoene's two brothers became scientists, but he went to study graphic design at Central Saint Martins art school in London.

[2] Hoene's early work after graduation was on creating animated music videos, starting with "Return Trip" for DJ Mr.

[2] A 2003 music video Hoene made for Tom McRae's song "A Day Like Today" had objects in a flat symbolize evoking memories by coming to life and fading away.

[8][9] Hoene's first television advertisement for Partizan was "Doggy Style", for singles travel company Club 18-30, featuring copulating canines.

[2] Hoene and two screenwriters, James Moran and Lucas Roche, spent a year and a half developing the screenplay that became the motion picture Cockneys vs Zombies in 2012.

[37] In 2023, Hoene directed Little Bone Lodge, also known as The Last Exit, a thriller film about two criminals in a home invasion in the Scottish Highlands meeting a family with its own secrets.