Team
Dorothee Wenner is a filmmaker, curator, and writer. She works at the Berlinale in the pre-selection of the Panorama section and at the World Cinema Fund. She is also an external curator for film at the Humboldt Forum. As a filmmaker, her most recent projects are the web series Kinshasa Collection and Sunday in Berlin . Her experience, particularly from these two projects, will significantly and constructively inform this new endeavor.
Ansgar Vogt works as a project manager for DW Akademie (Deutsche Welle) and as artistic director for the Cartagena International Film Festival in Colombia. Previously, he was a programmer at the Berlinale, as well as a screenwriter and creative producer for German film production companies (including UFA). His productions have reached up to 10 million television viewers and have received awards such as the Golden Camera. Ansgar Vogt also works as an expert consultant for various German federal ministries and evaluates extensive project proposals within the framework of the European Social Fund.
Elisabeth Mansfeld’s career is built at the intersection of finance, business, media, and social impact.
Having held leadership roles across international asset management, the Alfred Herrhausen Society, impact investing, and startup mentoring with encouraging ventures, she has seen firsthand how cross-sector collaboration drives meaningful change.
Driven by the conviction that powerful stories and images can challenge assumptions, inspire empathy, and give root to new ideas, Elisabeth serves as an Advisor to Participation Films. In this role, she develops strategic partnerships with businesses, foundations, investors, and public institutions. She believes that impactful documentaries do more than inform they shape conversations, shift perspectives, and spark tangible action by connecting transformative storytelling with the partners who can amplify its reach.
Mihir Moshiur is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker working across storytelling, motion design, and hybrid media. He started in production design and expanded into post-production, branding, and communication design. Mihir has exhibited internationally and received recognition from the Asian Art Biennale and Munich Music Video Awards.
With over eight years of experience across South Asia and Europe, he collaborates with studios and brands to create immersive visual narratives. Based in Berlin, Mihir explores AI, VR, and sustainable methods to push the boundaries of new media art and storytelling.
Karoline Schulz is a film editor who works on documentaries that have been screened at national and international festivals, in cinemas and on television. She also works on documentary projects for universities, museums, political organisations and research institutions.
She is interested in people and their stories in their contradictions, their conflicts, and the sometimes astonishing ways they find to cope with their circumstances. And she is particularly keen on stories that not only tell a tale, but may also move something in people, in perspectives, or perhaps even beyond.
LEA NAJJAR grew up between Vienna and Beirut and completed her first year of studies at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon in 2014. In 2021, she received my diploma in Documentary Film Directing from the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg, Germany. Her first feature-length documentary, Kash Kash , had its world premiere at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen. She is currently a member of ‚ The Good Media Network‘ team in Berlin, where I contribute to organizing the ‚Documentale‘ Festival.
MANUEL MEINHARDT strives for films with relevance, social impact and hope. These films can be long, short, fictional, real, colorful, dark, funny, heartwarming, overwhelming, abstract, silent or full of music. Films that tell the stories of people who matter.
It’s Manuel’s warmest pleasure to find a visualization for these stories and to meet wonderful humans along the way. After all, he works on a brighter future without giving up on moody lighting.
