Guests

Roman Paul
Film: Wadjda

Conversation with the audience:
Wednesday, 20.11.2013, 8:00 pm (Opening), Studio Museum

Roman Paul holds a Masters Degree in Theatre, Film and Media Studies as well as American and German Literature from Goethe University in Frankfurt.
He started his career in the film industry as Director of Acquisitions for the arthouse distributor “Prokino” in Munich. In 1999 he took over as Head of International Acquisitions at Senator Film Distribution in Berlin. He founded Razor Film Produktion in Berlin with Gerhard Meixner in 2002, and also served as an acquisitions consultant for Celluloid Dreams World Sales in Paris until 2006. Roman Paul is a member of the European and the German Film Academy and of ACE (Atélier du Cinéma Européen). Additionally, since October 2013 he is head of the Atélier Ludwigsburg-Paris.
This year two of his productions were nominated for prestigious film awards: Wadjda was Saudi Arabia’s candidate for the Academy Awards; The Patience Stone was nominated for the European Film Awards.

Sabiha Sumar
Film: Good Morning Karachi

Conversation with the audience:
Saturday, 23.11.2013, 8:30 pm, Studio Museum
Tuesday, 26.11.2013, 6:00 pm, Studio Museum

Sabiha Sumar was born in Karachi, Pakistan in 1961. In the 1980s, she studied political science, history and film in New York and Cambridge. In 1992 she founded her own production company “Vidhi Film“, gaining the independence to make socially critical films. Sumar’s first feature film,Silent Waters, that had its German premiere at the Film Festival Women’s Worlds 2003, was internationally succesful and was awarded the Golden Leopard in Locarno. Especially Sabiha Sumar’s award-winning documentaries show how sociopolitical topics shape her work. Religious fundamentalism and its effects, particularly for the life of women in her home country Pakistan, are time and again the focus of her critical observations.

Filmography (selection):
2011: Good Morning Karachi (feature film)
2011: Saving Face (documentary)
2008: Dinner with the President (documentary)
2007: On the Roofs of Delhi (documentary)
2003: Silent Waters (feature film)
2003: For a Place Under the Heavens (documentary)
1996: Suicide Warriors (documentary)
1994: Of Mothers, Mice And Saints (documentary)
1988: Who Will Cast The First Stone (documentary)

Awards (selection):
2012: International Documentary Association, Award for Saving Face
2008: Sundance Film Festival, nomination fort he Grand Jury Prize for Dinner with the President
2003: Locarno International Film Festival, Golden Leopard and three more film awards for Silent Waters
1998: San Francisco Film Festival, Golden Gate Award for Who Will Cast The First Stone

Fernando Trueba
Film: The Artist and the Model

Conversation with the audience:
Thursday, 21.11.2013, 8:00 pm, Opening Waldhorn Rottenburg
Friday, 22.11.2013, 8:30 pm, Studio Museum
Saturday, 23.11.2013, 6:00 pm, Studio Museum

Fernando Trueba was born in Madrid in 1955. He first wanted to become a painter, until he discovered that his gaze was more talented than his hands. He experimented with the super 8 camera and worked as a film critic for several years. In 1980 he had a big success with the feature film Ópera Prima and shortly afterwards founded the production company “Ópera Films“. He worked with different genres – documentaries, short films, animations and TV productions. In 1992 he returned to cinema with the feature film Belle Epoque and received the Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film.
His music-cartoon movie Chico & Rita was also nominated for an Academy Award in 2012. His film La niña de tus ojos with Penelope Cruz received 12 Goya Awards. As a music producer, he has been awarded the Grammy several times for his records with the Cuban Latin Jazz pianist Bebo Valdés.

Filmography (selection):
2012: The Artist and the Model
2010: Chico & Rita
2004: El milagro de candeal
2001: Calle 54
1998: La niña de tus ojos
1992: Belle Epoque
1990: El Sueño del Mono Loco – Twisted Obsessions
1986: El año de las luces
1980: Ópera Prima

Awards (selection):
2012: San Sebastian Filmfestival, Silver Seashell for The Artist and the Model
2011: European Film Award for Best Cartoon Movie for Chico & Rita
2012: Academy Award nomination for Best Cartoon Movie for Chico & Rita
2005: Goya Award for El milagro de Candeal
1993: Two Goya Awards for Belle Epoque
1994: Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for Belle Epoque
1995: BAFTA Award for Belle Epoque
1989: Two Goya Awards for El Sueño del Mono Loco
1987: Berlinale, Silver Bear for El año de las luces
1980: Venice Film Festival, AGIS Award for Ópera Prima

Johanna Bentz
Film: Die Verführungskünstler – The Seduction Artists

Conversation with the audience:
Wednesday, 27.11.2013, 6:00 pm, Studio Museum

Johanna Bentz was born in Munich in 1982. After graduating from high school, she traveled to South America, Asia and Eastern Europe and worked on photo-journalistic projects with sociopolitical references. From 2005 onwards she gained experience with film internships, and in 2006 she already shot her first long documentary, SO LEBEN WIR, with inhabitants of a camp accommodation for asylum seekers in Munich. During her studies at the Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg she was a trainee at the studio of TV-channel ARTE in Mainz and received her diploma in directing/documentary in 2012 for her documentary THE SEDUCTION ARTISTS, which was awarded with the Cagliari-scholarship.

Filmography (selection):
2011 Die Verführungskünstler (documentary)
2008 Drei Frauen für Toni (documentary)
2007 Das Leben ist kurz (documentary)
2006 Notiz (short film)
2006 So leben wir (documentary)

Awards (selection):
2009 & 2011 Caligari-Scholarship-Award
2006 Victor-Klemperer-Prize

Susanne Jäger
Film: Das Dschungelradio - Palabra de Mujer

Conversation with the audience
Sunday, 24.11.2013, 4:00 pm, Museum Kino 2

After studying psychology and communication design, Susanne Jäger gained her first experience as camera woman and director by filming in a drug rehabilitation center in the US. Afterwards she did her postgraduate studies in Film/TV in Cologne, with the graduate thesis film Vater und Feind, which won several awards. For The Jungle Radio she received the media award of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). As writer, director and producer, Jäger takes on social and political topics in her movies. Her documentaries have been aired on ARD, WDR, 3sat and arte.

Filmography (selection):
2012 Zu Hause in der Kälte – Wenn Frauen frieren müssen
2010 Hungrig – Essen aus dem Müll
2009 Günter Wallraff: Schwarz auf Weiss – Eine Reise durch Deutschland
2009 Palabra de Mujer – The Jungle Radio
2005 Vater und Feind

Awards (selection):
2012 Media award of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development for The Jungle Radio
2011 New York Film Festivals, Gold medal in the category Investigative Reports for Schwarz auf Weiß
2010 Film Festival Espiello (Spain) – Best documentary for The Jungle Radio

Patricia Lewandowska
Film: Status of Life

Conversation with the audience:
Wednesday, 27.11.2013, 4:00 pm, Studio Museum

Patricia Lewandowska was born in 1975 in Poland and came to Germany at the age of 12. From 1997 to 2001 she worked as a material and camera assistant, afterwards she studied cinematography at the German Film- and TV-academy Berlin (dffb). Status of Life is her graduate thesis film.

Filmography (selection):
Direction:
2012 Status of Life (documentary, 72')
2007 Weil der Mensch ein Mensch ist. (documentary, 60')
2007 The secret (short film, 3')
2006 Jelenia Gora (short film, 13')
2003 Black in the face (short film, 7')

Camera:
2013 Balkan Spirit. Regie: Hermann Vaske (documentary, 70')
2010 Die Entbehrlichen. Regie: Andreas Arnstedt (feature film, 110')
2010 Auf Wiedersehen Papa. Regie: Sandra Nedeleff (short film, 25')
2006 Letzte Runde. Regie: Erik Lange (short film, 13')
2005 Molly's Way. Regie: Emily Atef (feature film, 84')
2004 Fahrtwind. Regie: Philipp Wolf (short film, 12')

Fatou Mandiang Diatta (Sister Fa)
Film: Sarabah

Conversation with the audience:
Friday, Nov. 11, 2013, 6:00 pm, Studio Museum

The rapper Sister Fa was born in Dakar, Senegal in 1982. As a teenager she had already started recording her first demo-tapes, in 2005 she won the Senegalese Hip Hop Award for Best Newcomer. In her music she confronts a.o. the issue of genital cutting of women in Senegal, as well as forced marriage and HIV/Aids. After having moved to Berlin in 2006 she founded her own band, fusing Rap, Soul, Jazz and Reggae. In 2009 she performed at the concert of the United Nations in New York along with artists such as Harry Belafonte, John McLaughlin and Angélique Kidjo. The documentary Sarabah accompanies Sister Fa on her journey to Senegal, where she presents her campaign “Education sans Excision“, in which she explains the risks of female genital cutting. For her commitment she received the South African award “Freedom to Create“in 2011.

Discography (selection):
2010: LMNZ – WorldWide Rap (compilation)
2009: Sarabah: Tales from the Flipside of Paradise (solo album)
2008: Many Lessons (compilation)
2005: Hip Hop Yaw La Fal (solo album)
2003: Tous Rappons le Sida (compilation)
2002: Art City (compilation)

Awards (selection):
2011: Cape Town, South Africa – she receives the Freedom to Create Award for her commitment for girls and women in Senegal

Awards for Sarabah (selection):
2013: Festival du Film Humanitaire, Paris: Jury Prize
2012: Montreal International Black Film Festival: Best Mid-Length Documentary
2012: CINE Golden Eagle for Independent Dokumentary Feature
2011: Movies That Matter Film Festival: Golden Butterfly for Best Documentary

Mohamed Nabil
Film: Jewels of Grief

Conversation with the audience
Wednesday, 27.11.2013, 6:00 pm, Museum Kino 2

Director and journalist Mohamed Nabil grew up in Morocco, studied in Canada, worked in Russia and now lives in Berlin. His scientific and journalistic interests lie in the areas bordering “normality” and the people that move in these areas. His CV and multilingualism help him to not only portray destinies, but also question the state of society. Since 2009 he has produced movies dealing with the situation of women in Germany and Morocco with his own company “Mia Paradies Productions“.

Filmography:
2012 Jewels of Grief (documentary)
2010 Frauenträume (documentary)
2006 – Philosopher (fiction short film)

Awards:
Festival International du Film Documentaire Khouribga, Morocco, 26.-29.10.2011
Winner of the Prize for the Best Direction for Women’s Dreams
12th Dhaka Filmfestival, Bangladesh, 12.-20.1.2012 Special Mention for Women’s Dreams

Daniela Parr
Film: Initiation ceremony for a Mosuo girl

Conversation with the audience:
Monday, 25.11.2013, 4:00 pm, Studio Museum
Monday, 25.11.2013, 6:00 pm, Museum Kino 2

Having studied “Film and Media“ at the Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg in Ludwigsburg and at UCLA in Los Angeles, Daniela Parr currently teaches as a lecturer at the College of Esslingen in the department of media pedagogy. She leads film seminars on the topics screenplay, directing and camera, and she offers workshops for the preparation of the entrance examination at the Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg in Ludwigsburg and at the College for Film and TV HFF Munich. In 2012 she spent two months in China shooting a film with the matriarchal community of the Mosuo.

Filmography:
2011: Die Tochter – eine Clansaga aus dem Matriarchat der Khasi

Lukas Roegler
Film: Ware Frau

Conversation with the audience
Sunday, 24.11.2013, 4:00 pm, Studio Museum
Sunday, 24.11.2013, 6:00 pm, Studio Museum / Round table conversation

Lukas Roegler has worked as a freelance journalist and producer since 2004. As director of the documentary Sisters of No Mercy, about Nigerian human trafficking, he won several national and international awards for film and journalism. Since 2008 he has been a freelancer in the department for documentaries at TV-channel WDR and is jointly responsible for choosing projects and developing international co-productions. With his own production company, nindo films, he aims at producing movies that focus on sociopolitical issues. He had a bilingual upbringing, studied political science and completed the North America Program (NAP) in Bonn and Montreal.

Filmography:
2012: Ware Frau
2007: Sisters of No Mercy/Meine Hölle Europa

Awards (selection):
2013 Nomination for the Prix Europa for Ware Frau
2009 Silver Screen Award at the U.S. International Film & Video Festival Los Angeles
2008 Documentary Film Silver World Medal at the New York Festivals
2008 "Goldener Gong" Media Award for Extraordinary Achievements in Journalism
2007 Audience award at Africa World Documentary Film Festival in St. Louis/USA and Lagos/Nigeria

Petra Spamer-Riether
Film: Die Töchter der Göttin. Bei den Moso in China

Conversation with the audience
Monday, 25.11.2013, 4:00 pm, Studio Museum
Monday, 25.11.2013, 6:00 pm, Museum Kino 2

Petra Spamer-Riether studied chemistry from 1976 to 1982 in Heidelberg. Afterwards she worked for 13 years as a freelance journalist at TV-channel SWR and currently works as a writer and film director for TV-channels NDR and WDR.

Filmography (selection):
2012 Der Edelstein-Express – Mit dem Zug durch Brasilien
2010 Die Frauen der Krupps
1993 Die Töchter der Göttin. Bei den Moso in China

Sabine Constabel

Round Table Conversation:
Sunday, 24.11.2013, 6:00 pm, Studio Museum

Sabine Constable works in social services for prostitutes in the public health office in Stuttgart and offers support for prostitutes. She also works as a volunteer for the Caritas Association in the Women’s -Café La Strada/Strich-Punkt, which offers advice about getting out of prostitution and health counseling for prostitutes. In June 2013 she held a speech at the Bundestag on the topic “Public hearing for combating human trafficking and the surveillance of places of prostitution”. She demands the re-instatement of mandatory health counseling, psycho sociological counseling locations for prostitutes, and the right of residence for the victims of human trafficking. She says: “The presentation of lobbyists in the prostitution business that depicts miserable, coerced, and impoverished prostitutes as regrettable exceptions or marginal phenomena within the prostitution business, does not reflect reality. Furthermore, sexuality is a deeply intimate act and is inseparably connected to women’s personality. Women are not commodities for sale!

Manfred Paulus
Film: Made in Ash

Conversation with the audience:
Sunday, 24.11.2013, 8:30 pm, Museum Kino 2
Monday, 25.11.2013, 6:00 pm, Studio Museum
Round Table Conversation:
Sunday, 24.11.2013, 6:00 pm, Studio Museum

Manfred Paulus, born in 1943, is a retired detective chief superintendent and associate lecturer at the Police Academy of Baden-Wuerttemberg, and he also works in state and federal police training schools. Until 2003 he was head of inspections at the Criminal Investigation Department in Ulm where he mostly investigated sexual violence and criminality in the red light district. He continues to do prevention work in Eastern and Southeastern Europe, in order to prevent trafficking in women and children in the countries of recruitment. In his book “Frauenhandel und Zwangsprostitution, Tatort: Europa” (Trafficking in Women and Forced Prostitution, Crime Scene: Europe) he talks about recruitment and smuggling methods in these countries. He has written numerous articles for specialist journals, radio and TV.

Collin Schubert
Film: The Patience Stone

Conversation with the audience:
Monday, 25.11.2013, 8:30 pm, Studio Museum

The psychologist and sociologist Collin Schubert has been working as an expert on “Women’s Rights in Islamic Societies” at TERRE DES FEMMES since 1999. Her main points of interest are matrilineal societies, the role of women and the image of women in Islam. In 2004 she received the citizen award of the University City of Tuebingen for her Afghanistan-commitment.

Helmut Sporer

Round Table Conversation:
Sunday, 24.11.2013, 6:00 pm, Studio Museum

Helmut Sporer has been Director of the Special Commission of the Criminal Police Investigation Office in Augsburg responsible for human trafficking. With the “Augsburger Weg” (The Augsburg Way) he summarizes the concept used by the Augsburg criminal police: “Prostitution – Human Dignity and Self-Determination as Central Criteria for New Regulations”. It is his opinion that German laws were made flexible so that prostitutes could work with self-determination. But the opposite is the case. Sporer is convinced that “brothel bosses, pimps, and human traffickers have profited, only 5-10% of the prostitutes work of their own free will, around 90% of them work under coercion or only appear to be willing.” “Prostitution is not a job like any other and therefore should not be under the jurisdiction of commercial law. Prostitution has always been surrounded by highly criminal circumstances and that will never change.” Commissioner Sporer gave a position statement in the German Bundestag about drafting a law for combating human trafficking and for monitoring places of prostitution. In October he presented his assessment of the German prostitution law and its consequences to the European Parliament.