Agnes Lisa Wegner

After taking degrees in American studies and film sciences in Berlin and African-American studies at Harvard University, she worked for several years in non-governmental organisations in Germany. In 2013, she began to work as a freelance writer and filmmaker. Since then, she has written and directed a number of films that have screened in international festivals as well as on German public television and Netflix Europe. Her award-winning documentaries foreground an intense engagement with topics including discrimination, racism, human rights and solidarity.