Chief Operation Officer (COO) of German Federal Fim Board. She started her career in 1992 as head of the film commission in Hamburg, then joined production company Kinowelt in 2000 as a producer. From 2004 to 2005 she was provisional head of the film funding department of the FFA. Christine then moved on to Lübeck where she became the managing director of the Film Fund Schleswig-Holstein, before becoming project director of the German Federal Film Fund (DFFF).

Managing director of German Films, where she was responsible for public relations and press, international festivals and Das Rendezvous, an annual German-French film meeting prior to her current position. Before German Films, she was in charge of acquisitions at Tobis Filmkunst and worked as a producer at a.o. Regina Ziegler Filmproduktion.

A former director of the Goethe-Zentrum in Reykjavík, Frank W. Albers joined the Robert Bosch Stiftung in 2001. As a senior programme manager, he has developed and established the Film Prize of the Robert Bosch Stiftung, which encourages cooperation between up-and-coming filmmakers from Germany and their peers from the Arab world and Eastern Africa.

A producer, alumnus of Berlinale Talents 2012 and co-founder of Detailfilm and Zentropa Hamburg, Henning Kamm now runs Real Film in Berlin. His films have won a German Film Award, a Crystal Globe at Karlovy Vary and a Golden Dove at DOK Leipzig and have screened at festivals including the Berlinale, Sundance and Venice. He produced SHARQIYA (Berlinale Panorama 2012), PRAIA DO FUTURO by Karim Ainouz (Berlinale Competition 2014) and THE LAMB by Kutlug Ataman (Panorama 2014).

Veronika Grob is a funding advisor for Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, concentrating on newcomers, development, production and serial drama. Before that, she worked for ten years as a programming executive in the film and series department of Swiss National Television. She was also editor of the annual Swiss film book “Cinema” and head of the board of the Xenix cinema. From 2007-2011 she was on the Zurich Film Foundation’s committee for funding fiction films.