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Levin Peter
Writer & Director

Levin Peter was born in 1985 in Jena, Germany. His first documentary “Prestes Maia” (in co-production with ZDF/ARTE), about the largest occupied building in Latin America, was shot in 2007 in São Paulo. In September 2008, he started to study documentary filmmaking at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. His feature-length documentary “Beyond the Snowstorm” won the First Steps Award for „Best Documentary“. His works have been shown and awarded at various international film festivals. Since 2014, Levin Peter works as a director based in Vienna. Together with Elsa Kremser he recently started his own production company, RAUMZEITFILM.

FOR WHOM I MIGHT DIE (Short Fiction / 20 minutes / 2016)
Festival: Diagonale – Festival of Austrian Film

HEIMSUCHUNG (Installation / 25 minutes / 2015)
Festival: Cresc. Biennale für Moderne Musik, Frankfurt am Main

A PROMISE (Documentary / 70 minutes / 2012)
Festivals: Visions du Réel Nyon ‚International Competition‘, Vilnius Documentary Film Festival, Istanbul Documentary Film Festival, Achtung Berlin, Alanya Film Days

SONOR (Documentary / 37 minutes / 2010)
Festivals: ‚Honorary Mention’ Visions du Réel International Competition, Festival dei Popoli, Hofer Filmtage, Kasseler Dokumentarfilmfest, ‚Best Academic Award’ FEST Portugal, ‚Best Director’ BosiFest Belgrad, Gold Panda Award Szechuan ‚Nominated’, ForumDoc Belo Horizonte, Hamburg International Short Film Festival

NACHTWALD (Installation / 11 minutes / 2009)
Festival: ExGround Filmfestival Wiesbaden

PRESTES MAIA (Documentary / 52 minutes / 2008)
Festivals: Nominated for the German Human Rights Film Award, MDR Young Film Award ‘Best Documentary’, Rio Int. Film Festival, Thessaloniki Int. Film Festival, FIPA Biarritz, Nominated at MiradasDoc, Nominated at ‘World Against Torture Award’ IFF Geneve

Sarah Schmidt
Producer

Born 1982 in Hamburg. She started out as a runner at various film productions and trained as clerk for audiovisual media at the ProSiebenSat1 Media AG, later as an assistant for Sat1. In 2009, she started to study producing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. In 2015, she founded HolySchmidt Film Company and worked at Studiocanal Berlin in the co-procuction and acquisition department. Sarah now works as freelance producer, consultant and lecturer in Berlin.

BOULEVARD’S END (Documentary / 15 minutes / Producer / 2014 / Director: Nora Fingscheidt)
Festivals: New Directors / New Films MOMA, Melbourne IFF, Hofer Filmtage, Kassel Documentary Festival, Pärnu IFF, Sehsüchte FF, EMAF, Ljubljana Short FF,
Worldfest Houston ‘Gold Remi Award’, NW Short FF Kanada ‘Best Documentary’, Cluj Int. Short FF ‘Jury Award’, Moscow Jewish FF ‘A Short Story Award’

DEAR BROTHER (Fiction / 46 minutes / Producer / 2013 / Director: Nora Fingscheidt)
Festivals: Max-Ophüls-Prize Saarbrücken, Husumer Filmtage, Filmschau Baden-Württemberg

SYNKOPE (Short Fiction / 25 minutes / Producer / 2010 / Director: Nora Fingscheidt)
Festivals: Nominated for the German Short Film Award, ‘Honorary Mention’ at Filmfest Dresden, Max Ophüls Prize Saarbrücken, Sehsüchte IFF, Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Wendland Shorts, Shorts at Moonlight Frankfurt a.M., Filmfest Eberswalde, Interfilm Berlin, Bamberger Kurzfilmtage, Oldenburger Kurzfilmtage

Yunus Roy Imer
Cinematography

Born in 1987 in Zurich, Switzerland. From 2007 to 2008, he read at the Zurich University of the Arts, major subjects in film and photography. After that he studied cinematography at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. Since 2011 he works as a freelance DOP, mainly in fiction films and documentaries, but has begun working in commercials as well.

NSU PROZESS, DAS PROTOKOLL DES ZWEITEN JAHRES (TV Feature / 90 minutes / B-Camera / 2015 / Director: Soleen Yusef)
FLO (Documentary / 90 minutes / 2015 / Director: Julian Vogel)
A PROMISE (Documentary / 70 minutes / 2012 / Director: Levin Peter)
SYNKOPE (Short Fiction / 25 minutes / 2010 / Director: Nora Fingscheidt)
SONOR (Documentary / 37 minutes / 2010 / Director: Levin Peter)

Stephan Bechinger
Editor

Stephan was born in Hof and studied Indology at first. In 2007 he was a student at the European Film College in Denmark, which led him to study editing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg the following year. During his studies he spent a year abroad in Israel where he worked as a volunteer at Cinema Jenin and studied at the Sam Spiegel & Film Television School in Jerusalem. In 2014, he was nominated for the the Filmplus Avid Advancement Award for the BEST EDITING on the film „Boulevard‘s End“. In 2015 he graduated with „Beyond the Snowstorm“ and is now working as a freelance editor. Stephan lives in Berlin.

BOULEVARD’S END (Documentary / 15 minutes / 2014 / Director: Nora Fingscheidt)
SCHWARZER ZUCKER (Fiction / 45 minutes / 2014 / Director: Kristin Franke)
DEAR BROTHER (Fiction / 46 minutes / 2013 / Director: Nora Fingscheidt)
A PROMISE (Documentary / 70 minutes / 2012 / Director: Levin Peter)
SYNKOPE (Short Fiction / 25 minutes / 2010 / Director: Nora Fingscheidt)