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Frissen a szemétbe

Valentin Thurn 1963-ban született Stuttgartban, jelenleg házas és három gyermek apukája. Thurn szellemi atyja és rendezője számtalan televíziós dokumentumfilmnek, amelyek a következő csatornákon futottak: a német ARD és ZDF, a francia-német Arte, a Deutsche Welle TV, a Transtel, a Swiss Television DRS, valamint helyi csatornákon, mint a SWR, WDR, NDR, BR, ORB és a HR. 2003-ban megalapította filmprodukciós cégét, a THURN FILM-et, amelynek központja a németországi Kölnben található. Thurn szerzőként publikált a Die Woche, a Die Zeit, a Natur & Kosmos és a Merian magazinok hasábjaira, illetve rádióadásoknak is a szellemi atyja. Különböző témákban írt könyveket, publikált az elsivatagosodásról WüstenErde címmel, a kelet-európai környezeti kérdésekről Klessenfeind Natur címmel, illetve nevéhez fűződik a Directory of Environmental NGO’s in Central and Eastern Europe című munka. A következő nemzetközi konferenciákon és workshopokon találkozhatunk vele oktatóként: a Goethe Intézetben Mumbaiban, a Miguel Alemán Alapítvány keretében Mexikóvárosban, az Ökoturizmus kongresszuson Johannesburgban, a Guayaquilon Ecuadorban, az RTL Journalistenschule-on Németországban, Ecopresscenter keretében Macedóniában, Third World Journalists Networkön és a The Ethics in Economy Networkön Németországban, a Fachhochschule-on Kölnben és az International Congress of Investigative Journalists konferecián a 2008-as lillehammeri események helyszínén Norvégiában. Thorn tagja az International Federation of Environmental Journalists alapítóbizottságának, és általános titkári pozíciót is ellátott a szervezetnél 1993-tól 2001-ig. Ezenfelül tagja a Reporters without bordersnek, a Netzwerk Recherche-nek (nyomozói tudósító hálózat) és az AGDOK-nak (német dokumentumfilmes egyesület).

1917 - The Real October

The Polgar Variant

Yossi Aviram, born in Jerusalem in 1971, is an Israeli writer and director. A graduate from the Sam Spiegel Film & Television School of Jerusalem, Yossi Aviram splits his career between his work as a director of photography and his own films. In 1998, the Year of Israel in France, he participated in a cultural exchange with the well-known French film school, La fémis. He directed his second short film, ANNA during the four weeks he spent in Paris. His first feature, The Dune, won Best First Feature Film Award at Haifa Film Festival, and has also been selected for San Sebastian, San Francisco and other film festivals.

Schrott

Balázs Mészáros was born in 1991 in Dunaújváros, Hungary. He has worked as a video-journalist. He graduated from the University of Theatre and Film Arts, Budapest in 2017 as a documentary film director.

Aislado

Jo Müller was born and raised in Essen, and graduated from Gymnasium Essen-Werden in 2011. His first experiences in visual media were gathered through his internships with a photography studio and television production company. In 2012 he did a voluntary year of social work, living and working in the Dominican Republic, and upon his return to Germany, took up studies in cinematography at ifs international filmschule köln. Müller graduated with a Bachelor of Arts specialized in Visual Arts. His first short films, Sockenwäsche (2014, 5’) and Update Required (2016, 3’), animated films, allowed him to try out the roles of writer and director. His first feature-length film, Aislado (82’), completed in 2016, is a documentary film he spent three months filming in the Dominican Republic. He has worked at bildundtonfabrik (btf) in Cologne since September 2016.

Zoltan M. Geller was born 1991 in Sombor (Serbia), but was raised in the beautiful provinces of Southern Germany. After his high school graduation he voluntarily served in the civilian service for six months at a school for disabled children. After an internship as an assistant cameraman at a Munich-based production company he started an internship in the editing department, where he discovered his dedication to film editing. In 2012 he attended the study program, “Editing Picture And Sound“, at ifs international film school in Cologne, and graduated with a BA in 2016. Since 2016, he has worked as a freelance film editor and member of the German film editors association BFS.

Bag Mohajer - Refugee Bag

Adrian Oeser is a Frankfurt-based journalist and filmmaker. He has studied television journalism at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg since 2015. In the past few years he has made documentary movies including, With heads held high. Living and surviving in kibbutz Ma'abarot (www.docview.org), and the cross-media project, "An exception" (www.eine-ausnahme.de). Oeser recognizes the importance of bringing underrepresented perspectives to public discourse, and emphasizing both the political dimension and the ambivalence of human experience. He likes to listen to stories, and sees his films as an outlet for his interviewees’ perspectives.

The Long Distance

Daniel Andreas Sager was born in Berlin in 1985, and grew up in Moscow. He studied social anthropology and philosophy at Leipzig University, and directing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. Sager attended the film school UCINE, in Buenos Aires, for one year with a grant from the State of Baden-Württemberg. He also participated in the Script Masterclass, Docu-Village, at the Haifa Film Festival in Israel with a scholarship from the Filmakademie BW. His diploma film. The Long Distance, received the NOFEAR! Award in 2015. He is currently a master-class student pursuing his Ph.D. at the Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, and participates in the Nipkow Program as a Nipkow grant-holder. He also works as a writer and editor for ze.tt (zeit online), and as a freelance writer, director, journalist and cinematographer, living in Berlin.

Urban Cowboys

Born in 1981, Paweł Ziemilski graduated from the the Łódź National Film School and the Wajda School in Warsaw. His short documentary and fiction films have received widespread publicity at numerous film festivals around the globe and have earned many prestigious awards. His documentary, Rogalik received an IDFA nomination in 2012. It has also been shown and awarded at festivals such as Zagreb Dox, Alcine Festival (First Prize), festivals in Oberhausen, Beijing, Bucharest, Cracow and others. Apart from directing, Paweł Ziemilski is involved in social animation and organizing workshops for those deemed “troubled youth”.

No Country for the Poor

László Bihari has designed online campaign videos for non-profit organizations for the past nine years. He is one of the founders of the creative team, ZPOK. This is their first documentary film production.

Mother's Imprint

Kata Olah began work as an editor, host, and director for a variety of television productions in the mid 1990's. For 10 years, she produced television series and short films. It was only in 2010 that she began to focus on directing. In that year, she completed a documentary for HBO entitled Romacops. Since then, she has directed several mid-length documentaries and popular science miniseries. Her first short fiction, En Passant, has won a number of international awards.

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