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D'Hub
The Good Media Pitch
Oct 15, 2024, 9.00 AM @ Festival Center D'24
Event language: English
The Good Media Lab and Pitch is a new initiative that uniquely brings documentary film-makers together with non-profit organizations, foundations, civil society organisations, research institutes, policymakers, brands, and media representatives to address today’s most pressing social and environmental challenges. It’s more than just collaboration—it’s a dynamic platform for the creation of powerful, purpose-driven partnerships that have the potential to bring about real change.
Six projects have been selected by an international jury. Over the course of a six-month journey, their makers have been provided with the skills to develop their impact campaigns and have been guided through the development of a pitch. The programme will culminate in The Good Media Pitch, where the selected projects will present their campaigns to an interdisciplinary audience of top-tier partners and funders, sparking opportunities for lasting impact.
This is Germany’s very first film and impact programme, and we are thrilled to be presenting you with the first six projects that have participated in it.
A bit of background information for you: back in 2007, the Doc Society (formerly BRITDOC) came up with the idea of the Good Pitch programme in partnership with the Sundance Institute and the Ford Foundation. To date, there have been fifty-four events (both in person and virtual) held across fifteen countries. The Good Media Pitch has been organized by The Good Media Network and is very much inspired by Doc Society’s Good Pitch.
We would like to extend our special thanks to our partners and supporters:
Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg, AG Dok, The Storyboard Collective as well as GIPA and DocSociety.
Tickets
D'Hub
Oct 15
9.00 AM
Festival Center D'24
Program Info
Welcome
Welcome and Introduction to the Programme
Moderation
Anna Ramskogler-Witt
Anna Ramskogler-Witt began her career in the film industry in 2006 at Vienna's Pool Film Distribution, where she set up the education programme. Since the beginning of her career, she has been convinced that documentaries can achieve a longer life and a larger audience through an impact approach. From 2019 - 2023 she served as Artistic Director of the Human Rights Film Festival Berlin. Together with Vivian Schröder, she founded The Good Media Network in 2024 and serves as the Artistic Director.
Vivian Schröder
Vivian Schröder started her career in the film industry producing commercials in the entertainment sector.Since 2012 she has been working closely with Boekamp & Kriegsheim.There she focused on the production of documentaries and series.Through B&K's production The Bornio Case, she got to know the principle of Impact Producing and has been working as Germany's first Impact Producer since 2020. She co-founded The Good Media Network and Dokumentale.
Valentin Thurn
Director Valentin Thurn gained international recognition with 'Taste the Waste - Global Food Waste' and '10 Billion - How can we feed everyone? Both films were huge hits with audiences and won numerous awards at home and abroad. In 2003, he founded ThurnFilm GmbH in Cologne and has since produced films by other authors and directors - always with a focus on socio-political content. In 2022 he was elected as one of the board members of AG Dok.
Pitch: Sisterqueens
Guests
Clara Stella Hüneke
Clara Stella Hüneke studied video art and made her bachelor's documentary 'Parko' in Athens in 2015, about a squatted car park. She worked as a junior producer at Vice until she started studying directing at the Film Academy in 2018. Her animated film 'Auf bald, deine Clara' was screened at the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film and many other festivals. Sisterqueens' is her graduation film and the opening film of the documentary section.
Ida Hausdorf
Ida Hausdorf is a freelance social media manager, editor, and impact strategist. Her multifaceted studies in psychology and communication (BA) and television and cross-media culture (MA) make her an all-rounder in digital communication strategies and social media storytelling. In her work on projects like the award-winning Instagram profile IchbinSophieScholl and the climate justice campaign ‘Not Just Celsius’, she focuses on the intersection of digital narration.
Moderation
Anna Ramskogler-Witt
Anna Ramskogler-Witt began her career in the film industry in 2006 at Vienna's Pool Film Distribution, where she set up the education programme. Since the beginning of her career, she has been convinced that documentaries can achieve a longer life and a larger audience through an impact approach. From 2019 - 2023 she served as Artistic Director of the Human Rights Film Festival Berlin. Together with Vivian Schröder, she founded The Good Media Network in 2024 and serves as the Artistic Director.
Pitch: Offside—Eichi and the FC Pio
Guests
Blumenthal Loraine
Loraine Blumenthal is a Berlin-based documentary film-maker and producer. Her debut feature The Mayor’s Race screened at over thirty international festivals and won several best documentary awards. She has extensive experience working on documentaries for broadcasters like Arte, ZDF, 3Sat, and WDR. Loraine is currently directing her second feature, Abseits—Eichi und der FC Pio (AT) for ZDF Kleines Fernsehspiel and works as a freelancer on independent productions.
Gregor Streiber
Gregor Streiber was born in Berlin. He worked as a freelance producer for almost a decade while studying law, before going on to found his own production company. Since 2001, Gregor Streiber has produced more than 400 programmes for German and international broadcasters, including ZDF, arte, WDR, BBC, HBO Europe, NHK, IKON, and 3sat, ranging from features and reports to award-winning documentaries.
Moderation
Vivian Schröder
Vivian Schröder started her career in the film industry producing commercials in the entertainment sector.Since 2012 she has been working closely with Boekamp & Kriegsheim.There she focused on the production of documentaries and series.Through B&K's production The Bornio Case, she got to know the principle of Impact Producing and has been working as Germany's first Impact Producer since 2020. She co-founded The Good Media Network and Dokumentale.
Pitch: In our Backyards (WT)
Guests
Juan Francisco Donoso
Juan Francisco Donoso is a documentary filmmaker who has produced a film that gets under your skin with In our Backyards (working title). He has participated in The Good Media Lab and Pitch and worked with an international team of experts on the impact campaign for his film as part of the Film and Impact Lab.
Jessica Valdez
Jessica Valdez is a project manager, cultural programmer, educator, and audiovisual producer who takes a feminist and anti-colonial perspective in her work on climate justice and reproductive rights issues. In Germany, she has been an organizer in the immigrant rights movement, especially in relation to access to education and freedom of movement.
Pitch: The Ice Builders
Guest
Fabio Saitto
Fabio Saitto is an Italian producer specializing in films, documentaries, and TV series. He is known for tackling complex contemporary issues with an approach aimed at raising awareness and bringing about change. Founder of the production company Point Nemo, Fabio collaborates with emerging directors and international productions to bring universal stories with strong social and environmental impact to the audience, distinguished by their attention to visual storytelling.
Pitch: Children of Korntal
Guests
Julia Charakter
Julia Charakter, born in 1984 in Ukraine and raised in Germany, studied German literature and media before graduating in film and screenwriting from the Internationale Filmschule Köln in 2018. Her short documentary Unbarmherzig was shown at Cannes, and she won the DEFA Förderpreis at DOK Leipzig in 2023. She works as a screenwriter, director, and producer in Cologne.
Jonas Eckert
Jonas Eckert, born in Berlin, started in acting before becoming a cameraman and photographer. He worked for an Indian TV channel and returned to Germany in 2012 as a freelance cameraman. His film Without Mercy was shown at Cannes, and his documentary The Children of Korntal premiered at DOK Leipzig in 2023, winning the DEFA Sponsoring Prize.
Moderation
Valentin Thurn
Director Valentin Thurn gained international recognition with 'Taste the Waste - Global Food Waste' and '10 Billion - How can we feed everyone? Both films were huge hits with audiences and won numerous awards at home and abroad. In 2003, he founded ThurnFilm GmbH in Cologne and has since produced films by other authors and directors - always with a focus on socio-political content. In 2022 he was elected as one of the board members of AG Dok.
Pitch: The Family Approach
Guests
Daniel Abma
Daniel Abma (born 1978 in the Netherlands) moved to Berlin after finishing his degree in primary school education. He worked as a media literacy teacher before beginning his studies in film directing at the Film University Babelsberg. His feature-length documentaries Beyond Wriezen (2012), Transit Havana (2016), and Autobahn (2019) have been shown around the world at film festivals like Karlovy Vary FF, IDFA, and DOK Leipzig, and have won several awards. Abma focuses on observational, character-
Britta Strampe
Britta Strampe studied communications and political science, psychology, film, and television production. Before founding the production company BANDENFILM together with Laura Klippel, she worked as a production manager on international documentaries and as a story scout for one of Germany’s leading independent arthouse distributors. The Ordinaries by Sophie Linnenbaum was her multi-award-winning debut as a producer and premiered in the main competition of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in 2022.
Lisa Nawrocki
Lisa Nawrocki studied digital media culture (BA) and media studies (MA) at the Film University Babelsberg. During her studies, she produced short films and spent four years working in programme, marketing, and festival management for Sehsüchte International Student Film Festival. Since 2020, she has been the Focal Point for the UNESCO City of Film Potsdam. She also works as a production assistant for BANDENFILM, moderates at film festivals, and curates events.
Moderation
Marta Golba-Naumann
Producer, curator, owner of ENDORFINA studio company based in Warsaw and Berlin and co-director of HER Docs Foundation. In 2015 and 2017 she was awarded by Polish Audiovisual Producers Chamber of Commerce for the best producer’s debut for documentary ’15 Corners of the World’ by Zuzanna Solakiewicz and multi-awarded drama “All These Sleepless Nights” by Michał Marczak. Since 2021 she has been developing the industry section within HER DOCS Film Festival.
Tickets
D'Hub
Oct 15
9.00 AM
Festival Center D'24
