Adjudicators 2012
Bettina Braun
Bettina Braun is a documentary filmmaker. She is founding member of the filmakers' network "LaDoc" in Cologne. In 2011 she released "Wo stehst du?" (91 min, ZDF Das kleine Fernsehspiel). She studied at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne and is now a freelance director, author and lecturer.
Barbara Christin
Barbara Christin lives in Siegen. She is a Professor of Video Production at the University of Applied Sciences at Kaiserslautern. Her research work focuses upon documentary films on the World Wide Web. After her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf, she was a freelance editor for German Television.
Christian Fischer
Christian Fischer lives in Cologne. He studied filmmaking and literature in Marburg, Bonn and New York. He released mutual short films that were shown at several international festivals. He is author of the book "Traumkino"
Adjudicators 2011
Andrea Dittgen
Andrea Dittgen is a board member of FIPRESCI and head of the German Film Critics Association. She is also the editor of the German daily newspaper Die Rheinpfalz, and writes for the bi-weekly film magazine filmdienst. Andrea Dittgen has been a FIPRESCI juror at numerous international film festivals including Cannes, Miami, Mannheim and Oberhausen.
Anja Wiese
Anja Wiese lives in Düsseldorf. She studied at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne and is now a Professor of Media Design and Video Production at the University of Applied Sciences in Bielefeld. She studied at the Academis of Fine Arts in Münster and Düsseldorf.
Barbara Christin
Barbara Christin lives in Siegen. She is a Professor of Video Production at the University of Applied Sciences at Kaiserslautern. Her research work focuses upon documentary films on the World Wide Web. After her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf, she was a freelance editor for German Television.
Gunnar Friel
Gunnar Friel lives in Düsseldorf. He is a guest teacher for Video/Hypermedia at the Academy of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf and at BAU, Escuela de diseño in Barcelona. He studied at at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. Gunnar Friel and Anja Vormann have released mutual projects since 2002.
Adjudicators 2010
Christiane Büchner
Christiane Büchner lives in Cologne. She studied at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne and is now a documentary filmmaker. In 2009 she released "Perestroika - Umbau einer Wohnung". This documentary was shown at several international festivals. She has been a member of the Programme Commission in Oberhausen at the "Internationale Kurzfilmtage" since 2001.
Judith Samen
Judith Samen lives in Düsseldorf and is a Professor of Photography and Video at the University in Siegen. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf and regularly takes part in exhibitions.
Karsten Wiesel
Karsten Wiesel lives in Hamburg. Ten Years ago he founded the "Flensburger Kurzfilmtage", an annual short film festival, with the section "Tricky" for animated films. He studied filmmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg and works as a maker of short films and documentaries.
Barbara Christin
Barbara Christin lives in Siegen. She is a Professor of Video Production at the University of Applied Sciences at Kaiserslautern. Her research work focuses upon documentary films on the World Wide Web. After her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf, she was a freelance editor for German Television.
