junges dokfest: A38-Production Grant Kassel-Halle

Violena Ampudia was born in Cuba. Her films explore interpersonal relationships and growth processes, particularly from a female perspective, using collaborative and artisanal techniques such as stick animations and cyanotype. Her works have been shown and awarded prizes at Fipadoc, Dei Popoli, and the Kassel Dokfest, among others.

Marcie K. Jost works in the film and media arts sector as a producer and consultant for dramaturgy and production. In addition to jury work for festivals, she was on the Berlinale Talents selection committee for 14 years. She is co-owner of worklights media production GmbH, board member and freelancer of the Werkleitz Gesellschaft, as well as production manager of the European Media Art Platform EMAP and production manager of the Professional Media Master Class.

Christian Klisan, born in 1977, studied Culture- and Media Education in Merseburg, Saxony. After graduating in 2005 he worked as a freelance media educator and in film for German Federal Cultural Foundation and the Federal Agency for Civic Education. Since 2007 he works for the Media Authority of Saxony Anhalt (MSA) organizing the project “Medienmobil”.

Sibylle Roth studied photo engineering and media technology in Cologne from 1999 to 2003. After graduating, she initially worked as a freelancer before becoming a permanent media educator at the Medienanstalt Hessen in 2015. In her job, she enjoys working with children and young people and leads various media projects in daycare centers, schools, and clubs.

Elias Adamietz is 17 years old and attends the 12th grade at Jacob-Grimm-Schule Kassel. He especially loves cinema because of its focused space that demands his undivided attention, imposes him a perspective and challenges him to dig deeper. He is very interested in the invitation to a subjective perspective, as well as the attempt of objectivity.

Julien Bante, 20 years old, is a 13th-grade student at the Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg School in Kassel. In his free time, he is passionate about watching films. He is particularly interested in characters, dialogue, and plot developments – and he especially enjoys watching video essays about the films afterwards.

Enie Holzhauer is 18 years old and attends the Q3 at Jacob-Grimm-Schule in Kassel. In the face of artificial intelligence and the spread of misinformation, she sees documentary film as an important counterbalance, as it creates space for background information, realities, and complex contexts, and is thus a tool for asking questions, stirring things up, and questioning perspectives.