Sonja Heinen

Head of the Berlinale Co-Production Market and project manager of the World Cinema Fund, she has been a driving force behind the international co-productions of films and funding films from developing countries. She started out at the Filmstiftung NRW in Düsseldorf, where she became assistant to executive director Dieter Kosslick and especially responsible for international contacts, organizing the Co-Production Meetings and developing the International Co-Production Market Cologne. She then worked as a producer and project coordinator for Gemini Film and International West in Cologne before joining the Berlinale.