Name: Talents Tanks: Day 1
Start: 2023-02-19 10:30:00
Location: HAU2

Designed to encourage our Talents to reflect on some of the industry’s most pressing issues, the Talents Tanks return this year under the banner: “A Film Community of the Many.” Over three consecutive mornings, Talents and guests will meet for large and small-scale group activities that will get them to explore their strengths and resources, and how these may be used to foster equality, diversity, and inclusion on sets and beyond. Our first day will invite filmmakers to reflect on the circumstances that shaped their skills. Through a set of exercises, the Talents will be given space and time to reflect and centre themselves. The goal of the day: to show how vast and diverse a pool of talent—and Talents—we boast!

Thomas Biniasz

A psychologist, executive coach and management consultant, Thomas Biniasz founded his own consultancy company, biniasz und partner, in 2016, with a focus on sustainable and agile leadership. His core competencies are executive coaching, the development and implementation of leadership programmes and the facilitation of change processes in large organisations. He has worked for national and international organisations for two decades.

Christine Tröstrum

Christine Tröstrum is a cultural manager, organisational developer, trainer and coach. She has been in charge of Berlinale Talents since 2004 and in 2014 was joined by Florian Weghorn, with whom she has been co-running it ever since. Christine has worked in the international film and media industry for more than two decades and, among many achievements, was responsible for pioneering digital projects in the film industry and the animation co-production market Cartoon Movie in Babelsberg. She has been supporting companies in the areas of strategy, leadership and change management for many years, and since 2021 is a Managing Partner in the academy and consultancy biniasz und partner.

Florian Weghorn

Florian Weghorn is the Programme Manager of Berlinale Talents. Together with Nikola Joetze, he heads the initiative and advises its seven international branches and the alumni network around the globe. He holds an MA in Theatre, Film and Television Studies from the University of Cologne. Florian joined Berlinale Generation in 2002 and served as the co-director and curator of the programme from 2008 to 2014. Between 2012 and 2019, Florian was also a member of the Berlinale Competition Selection Committee. He has written and edited several publications on film and youth culture.