This year’s jury
Max Gleschinski
Max Gleschinski was born in 1993 and has worked as a freelance filmmaker since 2014. After a Bachelor of Arts (English Studies/Philosophy), eight short films and various music videos, he finalized his feature film debut KAHLSCHLAG in 2018, which won the German Cinema New Talent Award in Hof, without any participation by a TV broadcaster or university. Max lives and works in his hometown of Rostock.
Tini Tüllmann
Tini Tüllmann (director/scriptwriter) studied at the London Film School and the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and worked on numerous films by renowned directors as a sound assistant, director’s assistant and caster. Her first feature film FREDDY/EDDY had its debut at the 50th Hof International Film Festival, was awarded the first Heinz Badewitz Prize and afterwards received numerous prizes at home and abroad. The three episodes of SOKO HAMBURG, which she directed, are currently being broadcast by ZDF.
Franziska Weisz
Franziska Weisz, born 1980 in Vienna, played in Ulrich Seidl’s HUNDSTAGE, before completing her studies in Development and Environmental Policy at King’s College in London. She then re-entered the acting profession with Jessica Hausner’s HOTEL, which premiered in Cannes in 2004. At the following Berlinale in 2005, HOTEL lead her to the award as European Shooting Star. Since 2015 she has been a TATORT investigator alongside Wotan Wilke Möhring (NDR). In autumn 2019, the feature film THE DIVER (director: Günter Schwaiger) with Franziska Weisz in the leading role will be released in the cinemas as well as ICH WAR NOCH NIEMALS IN NEW YORK (director: Philipp Stölzl), with her in a guest role.
Director Edgar Reitz (whose films include, among others, HEIMAT and DIE ANDERE HEIMAT) was the mentor of the Hof Gold Prize 2018, which was awarded to Luzie Loose for the film SWIMMING. This year Bernhard Sinkel, director, screenwriter, producer and head of the film department of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, has taken over this task.
This year’s jury
Alice Agneskirchner
Alice Agneskirchner was born and raised in Munich, studied Political Science and Ethnology, was assistant director at the Salzburg State Theater and studied at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF from 1989 to 1994. Whether everyday police life, hairdresser stories, bachelors in a Bavarian village, a senior citizens’ flat in Berlin, hunters in the German forest, children of the youth ensemble in the Friedrichstadt-Palast, or tracking down the question: How HOLOCAUST got on television – Alice Agneskirchner tells in her documentaries about what moves people, makes them happy or sad – and, moreover, what keeps us together as a society.
Hans Andreas Guttner
Hans Andreas Guttner made numerous documentaries for cinema and television. His most important work is the cinema pentalogy EUROPA – EIN TRANSNATIONALER TRAUM. His most recent feature documentary films are SEAN SCULLY – ART COMES FROM NEED (2011), BEI TAG UND BEI NACHT (2014-16) and DIE BURG (2018-19).
Thorsten Schütte
German filmmaker Thorsten Schütte has worked for over 20 years as a writer, director and producer in documentary. He is a founding member of the Stolen Moments – Namibian Music History Untold Research Group. Since 2002, he is in charge of the documentary and fiction department at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg.
