Leipzig, Germany

Daniela Adomat worked for twenty years in various positions of the German television industry and was jointly responsible for formats such as “tagesschau“, “MDR Aktuell“, and “Brisant“ as a reporter, planner and editorial manager. Today, she is head of Licensing, Film and Series departments at MDR Fernsehen as well as the contact for all kinds of questions about short films.

Leipzig, Germany

Katrin Kleeberg studied journalism at the Leipzig School of Journalism. She then worked, among other positions, in corporate communications and at the ddp news agency in the Dresden regional office as a correspondent and Chief on Duty. Since 1998, she has been working as a freelance journalist, book author and public relations consultant. From July 2023, she is vice president of the SLM (Saxon State Authority for Private Broadcasting and New Media).

Chemnitz, Germany

Egmont Elschner is a media psychologist and specialist for Media Didactics. He worked in different functions at several German theatres, amongst them as assistant director, director, actor, dramatic adviser and theatre manager. From 1999 to 2010, he was Head of the Studio of the Saxon Broadcast Channel for Education in Chemnitz (SAEK). He also worked as a guest lecturer for several educational institutions.

Brussels, Belgium

Felix Vanginderhuysen graduated with a Masterʼs degree in Social Sciences from the University of Louvain, Belgium. He was the managing director of Jekino-Films. In 1988, he founded the European Childrenʼs Film Association (ECFA) and has served as its Secretary General ever since. In 1989, he founded the European Youth Film Festival Flanders in Antwerp. In 2007, he received the Flemish Culture Prize from the Ministry of Culture.

Erfurt, Germany

Silke Haverkamp studied Pedagogy (Diploma) with a focus on intercultural communication and counseling. She was involved in various cinema and television film productions as production manager and realized numerous fictional and non-fictional formats as editor and producer. She is currently an editor in the fiction department of the ARD and ZDF childrenʼs channel.

Skopje, North Macedonia

Igor Angjelkov completed interdisciplinary studies in journalism and a master’s degree in media and communication at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. He writes as a critic in the field of film, music and literature for numerous magazines as well as for his own website “herojnaedenden.mk”. and works as a writer for television and radio. Since 2018, he has also been the programme director of the International Film Festival for Debut Films “KineNova”.

Madrid, Spain

Jose Solís is a Honduran cultural critic based in Madrid. He is an active writer for numerous newspapers, including the New York Times. In 2020, he founded the BIPOC Critics Lab, which is designed to train and create work for emerging Black, Indigenous and People of Colour theatre journalists. He has been the director of the programme ever since. Furthermore he is the creator and host of the web series/podcast Token Theatre Friends, where he engages in conversation with theatre artists.

Rogau, Germany

Holger Twele successfully completed his masters in literature and theater sciences as well as in psychology and philosophy in Erlangen. Since then, he has been a freelance journalist for multiple papers, journals, and websites. Until 2007, he worked in Nuremberg for municipal film works and was a lecturer on film for the German Federal Agency for Political Education. He led the online version of children and youth correspondence in the years 2008 to 2014 and has been working with the Federal Association of Youth and Film e.V. as well as the German Center for Childrenʼs and Youth Film in Remscheid.

Ritthem, Netherlands

Dr. Rinke Dellebeke-van-Hell graduated with a Masters degree in Culture and Arts from the University Tilburg in 2000 and finished her PhD in Practical Theology in 2016 at VU University Amsterdam & ETF Leuven. Until 2014, she worked as a film programmer and publicity worker for several (movie)theatres. She is also active as a free lance film critic for several Christian publications and as a teacher and researcher for several Dutch Universities of Applied Sciences and the Belgian university ETF Leuven. She currently holds a position as Programme Manager for a Primary School Teacherʼs Training Programme at HZ University of Applied Sciences in Vlissingen. Since 2016, she is a member of INTERFILM.

Munich, Germany

Dr. Martin Ostermann studied Catholic theology, German language and literature and philosophy and wrote his doctoral thesis on “Stories of God – The search of God in Literature and Movies” in 2008. He is head of the media office in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising and a lecturer at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt with film seminars. He has also been working as a youth protection inspector for the FSF and is a member of the Catholic Film Commission in Bonn.

Hannover, Germany

Anja Klinkott works as a media educator and scheduler for the Lutheran Church of Hannover. She advises honorary and full-time church officials as well as teachers in the use of media, gives training courses and writes film recommendations for periodicals as well as film reviews for the ecumenical series “Church and Cinema”. One focus of her work is the use of short films in the classroom and the didactic work related to them.

Bucharest, Romania

Olimpia Melinte is a theatre and film actress. She graduated from the University of Arts “George Enescu” in Iași with a Masterʼs degree in Dramatic Arts. She has participated in many theatre productions on the stage of the National Theatre in Iași and has also been a successful actress for numerous critically acclaimed films since 2010. Since 2022, she has been a member of SIGNIS.