Bernhard Karl
Conception, Festival and Program Direction
(The Munich Film Academy) and director's assistant at the
theatre Münchner Kammerspiele, especially to Dieter Dorn
and Peter Zadek, then freelance theatre director; 2001 till
2007 Casting Director at Anja Dihrberg Casting for such
artists as for Sönke Wortmann, Soren Kragh-Jacobsen, Wes
Andersen, Jaco van Dormael,and Hal Hartley ("Fay Grim").
Since 2008 "International Programmer"at the Munich Filmfestival.
Charlie Cockey
Program
American, born in Maryland, raised in Idaho, moved to
San Francisco in 1962. Active there in the 1960s music
scene as guitarist, singer and songwriter, performing folk
music, rock & roll, and, occasionally, classical. In 1976
he opened "Fantasy, Etc", a specialty science-fiction,
mystery and adventure bookshop which he ran for 25
years. Currently operating out of Brno / Czech Republic,
he is also European Film Programmer for Cinequest Film
Festival in San Jose California.
Kathrin Bessert
Shorts Program and Legal Consulting
A jurist and qualified bank clerk, she has worked for
different theatre productions, in a law firm specializing
in stage law, and done project management for an artist
in Berlin. Working stay in Sydney / Australia, several trips
to Africa. From 2003-2005 she was Casting Assistant at
Anja Dihrberg Casting, and since Sept. 2005 assistant
director of the Kinofest Lünen.
Frédérique Desfossez
Programm Adviser
Becomes director of the Theater Tacheles and develops
dance theater festivals like „Solo“ with Sasha Waltz und Kitt Johnson. Works on several theater and film productions with
Dirk Cieslak „Lubricat“, Bettina Hoppe and Barbara Teufel.
Since 2003 a freelance filmmaker and fotografer. At present
she is working on the concept and developing of a Europeen Traveling Film Festival.
Constanze Witt
Creative Director and Development
at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, where she specialised in
film animation. The short film „Funkel", which she painted
and animated, has been shown at more than 20 festivals worldwide, winning many awards in the process. Currently
at work on "Juan y Medio", a personal documentary
about her chilean family. With Ramin Ramezani she
founded "80gramm", they developed a series of short
animated films for arte.
Ramin Ramezani
Art Director
studied visual design and worked as a communications
designer specializing in Corporate Identity and On Air
Design. Since 2001 he has been an electronic music
DJ and producer, and a freelance art director and sound
designer. Together with Constanze Witt he founded
“80gramm“, they developed a series of short animated
films for arte.
Nikola Mirza
PR-Management and Press
assistant at the International Short Film Festival Ober-
hausen, MEDIA Desk Germany (European Commission),
and at the independent film production company zero
film. In 2004 he founded the public relations agency
Jelly Press, working for movie members filmproduction
("GG 19"), Labyrinth Kindermuseum Berlin, Verband
der Agenturen, Bundesverband Casting and the Babylon
Mitte cinema.
Daniela Kellner
Film Traffic and Sponsoring
www.jellypress.de
main focus on film economy and history, experience in
film production as unit manager for international TV and
movie productions. In 2002 she was involved with the
foundation and general management of "NaturVision",
the first nature and wildlife filmfestival in Germany.
In 1998 she worked for the „Berlin & Beyond“ Film Fest-
ival in San Francisco. Since 2004 she has been solely
responsible for their film traffic.
Gaston Geilenkothen
Website-Programming
since 1988 done programming, in several computer lang-
uages. In 2000 he founded framepage.de (internet pages
for small businesses), 2002 started commpage.de which
does electronic tele-communication data processing and
internet consulting, currently serving about 120 small
business clients and programming of internet pages. In
2006 cp-dent.de (specific for dentists).
Johanna Brücker
Assistant to the festival direction
www.commpage.de
Leipzig and Paris, held various positions for Swiss Films
at the Cannes, Berlin and Locarno International Film Fest-
ivals. She also does vocals and guitar in two bands in
Leipzig. Since 2006 she has been doing practical trai-
ning at Anja Dihrberg Casting in Berlin.
Blandine Costaz
French Liaison
rature at the Sorbonne nouvelle in Paris and acting with
former comedie francaise member Ives Furet. She cur-
rently lives and works in Berlin as an actress (Sophien-
saele, Maxim Gorki Theater, Deutsches Theater), and,
since 1998, as a professional speaker and translator.
Geraldine Voss
Guest Services Manager
www.costaz.de
Studied drama, film and television theory. From 2002-
2006 she was assistant producer at Colonia Media Film-
production, and an organizer at both the lit.cologne
(the International Festival Literature) and c/o pop (the
Festival for Electronic Popculture) in Cologne . In 2006
she worked in guest services at the 56th Berlinale
(Perspektive Deutsches Kino and German Cinema), and
since 2006 has been Casting Assistent at Nina Haun /
Ufa Film Production.
In cooperation with…
Timothy Grossman
Cinema
at the DEFA Filmstudios, programmer at the Babylon
Mitte (1992/93), founder and owner of the Balazs
cinema, open air cinemas Podewil, Museumsinsel,
Kulturforum Charlottenburg and Weißensee, and since
2005 has been manager of the Babylon Mitte cinema.
www.babylonberlin.de