People

Kyrill Ahlvers

BA Film | Director of Photography

Alumni

DoP (a. o. LOST IN HOPE)

Julia Angerer-Zimth

BA Film | Screenwriting

Alumni

Author (a. o. BABA NAM KEBAP)

Luise Brinkmann

BA Film | Directing

Alumni

Director (u. a. BEAT BEAT HEART)

Noor ul Muntaha Khan

MA 3D Animation for Film & Games

Students

Keyan Abdollahi

BA Film | Screenwriting

Alumni

Aleezay Aftab

MA Serial Storytelling

Alumni

Umar Afzal

MA 3D Animation for Film & Games

Students

Utkarsh Agnihotri

MA 3D Animation for Film & Games

Students

Jimena Aguilar

Head of Digital Narratives

Team

Emily Ahmad

MA Serial Storytelling

Alumni

Maximilian Aigner

BA Film | Creative Producing

Alumni

Producer (a. o. HALF PAST NINE)

Irmak Akar

MA 3D Animation for Film & Games

Students

Jude Akwetey

MA Serial Storytelling

Alumni

Deniz Akyol

MA Digital Narratives

Students

Hani Al-Adham

MA 3D Animation for Film & Games

Students

Ziad Aladdin

MA Digital Narratives

Alumni

Tunde Aladese

European Showrunner Programme

Alumni

Writer | »MTV SHUGA«, »TRANSATLANTIC«

Alessandra Albano

BA Film | Director of Photography

Alumni

Mascha Albl

BA Film | Creative Producing

Alumni

Producer (a. o. HEAVEN WITHOUT EARTH)

Lea Albring

MA Serial Storytelling

Alumni

Christopher Albrodt

BA Film | Creative Producing

Alumni

Producer (a. o. AUSTER, FLOCKE & PROSCHINSKI)

Aylin Alici

BA Film | Screenwriting

Alumni

Author (a. o. JUNA)

Narina Allakhverdian

MA 3D Animation for Film & Games

Alumni

Katja Aller

Lecturers

Research Assistant and Comparative Media Scholar

Fernando Alvarez

MA Serial Storytelling

Alumni

Lisa Ambjörn

European Showrunner Programme

Alumni

Lecturers

Writer | »Young Royals«, »Sick (Sjukt)«

Marcel Amruschkewitz

Lecturers

Head of Programme VOX

Sigrid Andersson

Lecturers

Film coach, director, actress (o. a. »Systemsprenger«, »Babylon Berlin«)

Willi Andrick

MA Film

Alumni

Peter Anlauf

BA Film | VFX & Animation

Alumni

VFX & Animation (a. o. PAUL)

Sameh Aransa

MA 3D Animation for Film & Games

Students

Ana Carolina Araque

MA 3D Animation for Film & Games

Students

Malte Arnemann

MA Serial Storytelling

Alumni

Aneeza Ashraf

MA 3D Animation for Film & Games

Alumni

Zubair Ashraf

MA Digital Narratives

Alumni

Sarah Ashworth

BA Film | Screenwriting

Students

Matthias Atzinger

BA Film | Directing

Alumni

Director (a. o. UNDER THE SKIN)

Krish Bachani

MA 3D Animation for Film & Games

Students

Carolin Backes

BA Film | Screenwriting

Alumni

Author (a. o. ANIMA EX MACHINA)

Matthias Backmann

BA Film | VFX & Animation

Alumni

VFX & Animation (u.a. REWIND, GRUMMET)

Marie Pauline Bagh

BA Film | Directing

Alumni

Daniel Bangura

MA Digital Narratives

Alumni

Kirsa Bardon

Accounting / Budget Control

Team

(sie/ihr | she/her)

Christoph Bargfrede

BA Film | Editing Picture & Sound

Alumni

Editing and Sound Design (a. o. AUSTER)

Rebeca Barona

MA 3D Animation for Film & Games

Students

Liliana Lisette Barragan Sanchez

MA 3D Animation for Film & Games

Students

Björn Bartholdy

Professor Media Design at Cologne Game Lab

Professors

Co-founder of the Cologne Game Lab at TH Köln, Project Lead Virtual Bauhaus, Goethestrasse 56, Games Technology Network

Paula Bateman

MA Serial Storytelling

Alumni

André Becker

BA Film | Director of Photography

Alumni

DoP (a. o. THE STRAY)

Christian Becker

Lecturers

Director, Editor and Producer

Ute Becker

BA Film | VFX & Animation

Alumni

VFX & Animation (a. o. LITTLE HEROES)

Simon Behrendt

BA Film | Editing Picture & Sound

Alumni

Sara Bell

Assistance Public Relations

Team

Rabii Bellazi

MA 3D Animation for Film & Games

Alumni

Christian Belz

MA Film

Students

Nathalie Bender

BA Film | Editing Picture & Sound

Alumni

Editing and Sound Design (a. o. THE BLEAK FARM)

Thore Bendixen

MA Entertainment Producing

Alumni

Mar Bendocchi Alves

MA Serial Storytelling

Alumni

Prof. André Bendocchi-Alves

Professor Editing Picture & Sound

Professors

Sound Designer and Editor a. o. DER HAUPTMANN (German Film Award »Best Sound Design«, European Film Award as »European Sound Designer«), FRATRICIDE (Silver Leopard Film Award Locarno)

Timo Berg

Lecturers

Animation Supervisor (a. o. »The Grinch«, »The Super Mario Bros. Movie«)

Juan Bermúdez

MA Film

Alumni

Mikko Beste

BA Film | VFX & Animation

Alumni

VFX & Animation (a. o. WAR SCENE)

Julia Bettermann

BA Film | Screenwriting

Alumni

Luisa Beuschlein

BA Film | Creative Producing

Alumni

Producer (a. o. CHARLY)

Steffi Beyer

BA Film | Director of Photography

Alumni

DoP (a. o. OF STONES)

Daniel Bickermann

Lecturers

Screenwriter and dramaturge (a. o. »Tatort – Das ist unser Haus«)

Brigitte Biehl

Lecturers

Professor for Creative Leadership at SRH University of Applied Sciences, Berlin

Kevin Biele

BA Film | Directing

Alumni

Director (a. o. LONG TIME NO SEE)

Ute Biernat

Lecturers

CEO, UFA Show & Factual

Ebru Sara Bilen

BA Film | Editing Picture & Sound

Alumni

Editing and Sound Design (a. o. JACKFRUIT)

Helga Binder

Lecturers

Deputy Head of Funding at "Film- und Medienstiftung NRW

Jonathan Birk

BA Film | Director of Photography

Students

Kritika Singh Bisen

MA Digital Narratives

Students

Eric Bitencourt

MA Serial Storytelling

Alumni

Nina Bodry

MA Serial Storytelling

Alumni

Giovanna Boeri van der Zee

MA Serial Storytelling

Alumni

Lilly Bogenberger

MA Serial Storytelling

Alumni

Maximilian Bohl

BA Film | Creative Producing

Alumni

Producer (a. o. RED, RED, RED)

Anna-Maria Böhm

MA Serial Storytelling

Alumni

Ciara Borgards

BA Film | VFX & Animation

Alumni

VFX & Animation (a. o. FLYING FROM WAR)

Benedikt Georg Born

BA Film | VFX & Animation

Students

PhD Nils Bothmann

Third-party Funding Acquisition Officer

Team

Quality management

Team

Mile Božičević

European Showrunner Programme

Participants

»Hubble Bubble« (co-creator, writer), »On the Border« (writer)

Marc Brasse

Lecturers

Director, writer, producer (NDR) (a. o. »Die Mutigen 56 – Deutschlands längster Streik«, »Hape Kerkeling – Total normal«)

Josephine Brauer

BA Film | Production Design

Alumni

Production Designer (a. o. LONG TIME NO SEE)

Isa Braun

BA Film | VFX & Animation

Alumni

VFX & Animation (a. o. ROOTS & WINGS)

Monika Bremen

Executive Assistance

Team

Festival Coordination

Team

Ray Anand Bremer

BA Film | Creative Producing

Alumni

Daniel Brennecke

MA Serial Storytelling

Alumni

Uta Briesewitz

Lecturers

Cinematographer, Director (»The Wire«, »Stranger Things«, »Westworld«), USA / Germany

Julian Brink

MA Serial Storytelling

Alumni

Reinhold “Ringer“ Broil

Lecturers

Contruction Manager

Anna Brotkin

European Showrunner Programme

Alumni

»Aikuiset/Adults«, »Rakkaat lapset/Perfect Sisters«

Lucas Brunelli Donnard

MA Digital Narratives

Alumni

Yael Brunnert

MA Serial Storytelling

Alumni

Arthur Brux

BA Film | Directing

Alumni

Director (a. o. HEAVEN WITHOUT EARTH)

Tanja Bubbel

European Showrunner Programme

Alumni

»Charité«, »Smilla’s Sense of Snow«

Luisa Buchholz

BA Film | Production Design

Alumni

Maren Buchholz

BA Film | Production Design

Alumni

Production Designer (a. o. AUSTER)

Holger Buff

Lecturers

Freelance Sound Designer (a. o. »Der Ast, auf dem ich sitze«, »Trained to See – Three Women and the War«)

Leander Büge

BA Film | Director of Photography

Alumni

DoP (a. o. SPARE PARTS)

Uwe Bünker

Lecturers

Casting Director and owner of Bünker Casting GbR

Juliane Bürckel

BA Film | Directing

Students

Hannah Burgmann

BA Film | Editing Picture & Sound

Alumni

Lars Bürmann

BA Film | Directing

Alumni

Milan Buse

BA Film | Screenwriting

Students

Lina Butz

MA Entertainment Producing

Alumni

Lia Campbell

MA Film

Students

Zeyd Taha Candan

MA Digital Narratives

Students

Prof. Ciro Cappellari

Professor Cinematic Storytelling In A Social Context

Professors

Professor Directing

Professors

Author, Director, DoP a. o. ABDULLA IBRAHIM: A STRUGGLE FOR LOVE (Adolf Grimme Award), SCHWARZFAHRER (Oscar®)

Fabiana Cardalda

Lecturers

Senior Colorist (a. o. »Und morgen die ganze Welt«, »Riefenstahl«)

Marina Cardozo

MA Serial Storytelling

Alumni

Sylvain Caron

European Showrunner Programme

Alumni

Writer, Producer | »THE CAGE«, »BALTHAZAR«

Darius Cernota

BA Film | Creative Producing

Alumni

Producer (a. o. THE PANTHERESS)

Jonah Sinan Cetinel

BA Film | VFX & Animation

Students

Fernando Chan

MA 3D Animation for Film & Games

Students

Julia Charakter

BA Film | Screenwriting

Alumni

Author (a. o. ALJOSCHA UND DAS FEUER, UNBARMHERZIG)

Olivia Charamsa

BA Film | Creative Producing

Alumni

Producer (a. o. BEAT BEAT HEART)

Daniel Chaves Gómez

MA Serial Storytelling

Alumni

Mengqi Chen

MA 3D Animation for Film & Games

Students

Aleksandra Chmielewska

European Showrunner Programme

Participants

»Glitter« (creator, head writer, creative producer), »Cracow Monsters« (story editor)

Daniel Chour

Lecturers

Art Director (a. o. »The Queen’s Gambit«, »Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes«)

Joy Chun

Lecturers

Creator & CEO at QOLABO GmbH

Jana Cisar

Lecturers

Independent film producer and production manager

Carlo Clever

BA Film | VFX & Animation

Alumni

VFX & Animation (a. o. HUGO)

Joshua Coen

BA Film | Creative Producing

Students

Dennis Colquhoun

BA Film | Creative Producing

Alumni

Producer (a. o. LOST IN HOPE)

Jeannine Compère

BA Film | Editing Picture & Sound

Alumni

Editing and Sound Design (a. o. FLOCKE UND PROSCHINSKI)

Michael Comyn

Lecturers

The Time Signal Limited

Alexander Conrads

BA Film | Creative Producing

Alumni

Producer (a. o. FATHERLY LOVE)

Javiera Cortes

MA Digital Narratives

Alumni

Marsha Courneya

MA Digital Narratives

Alumni

Rianne Cox

MA Digital Narratives

Alumni

Dávid Csicskár

European Showrunner Programme

Alumni

Writer, Director | »TÓTH JÁNOS«, »ELEPHANT«

Nevin Çubuk

BA Film | Directing

Alumni

Keith Cunningham

Lecturers

Writer, Script Consultant, and Screenwriting Trainer (»The Soul of Screenwriting«), USA

Sonja Cyrus

BA Film | Production Design

Alumni

Production Designer (a. o. THE TRAFFIC LIGHT)

Michael Dämmig

BA Film | VFX & Animation

Alumni

VFX & Animation (a. o. BLOOM)

Jannis Danikas

BA Film | Director of Photography

Alumni

DoP (a. o. THE SCREAM)

Didi Danquart

Lecturers

Director

Deborshi Datta

MA 3D Animation for Film & Games

Students

Sophie Daugsch

BA Film | VFX & Animation

Alumni

VFX & Animation (a. o. YûGEN)

Alexander Daus

Lecturers

Screenwriter, freelance dramaturge

Paul Davies

Lecturers

Supervising Sound Editor and Sound Designer (a. o. »Saint Maud«, »Love Lies Bleeding«)

Antonio de Luca

Technical Disposition / Electrical Specialist

Team

Lemba de Miranda

MA Serial Storytelling

Alumni

Robert Decani

BA Film | Directing

Alumni

Lukas Decker

MA 3D Animation for Film & Games

Students

Leo Decristoforo

BA Film | Director of Photography

Alumni

DoP (a. o. IM DUNKELN IST ES WÄRMER)

Maren Demant

Lecturers

CEO Invisible Room & Digital Designer / XR Designer

Said Demirci

MA 3D Animation for Film & Games

Students

Lejla Demiri

MA Serial Storytelling

Alumni

Lea Derenthal

BA Film | Production Design

Alumni

Laura Deriemaeker

MA Serial Storytelling

Alumni

Janos Derks

BA Film | Editing Picture & Sound

Students

Charlie Dewulf

European Showrunner Programme

Alumni

»Brak/Broke«, »Liefdestips aan Mezelf/Love Tips to Myself«

Sophie Madeleine Dieng

BA Film | Editing Picture & Sound

Students

Plamena Dimitrova

MA Digital Narratives

Students

Julian Dohmen

BA Film | Screenwriting

Alumni

Author (a. o. FAREWELL 2.0)

Jakob Dombrowski

BA Film | Director of Photography

Alumni

Samuel Dommermuth

BA Film | Director of Photography

Students

Hanna Doose

Lecturers

Director, author, lecturer

Friederike Dörffler

BA Film | Editing Picture & Sound

Alumni

Editing and Sound Design (a. o. THE SCREAM)

Matija Dragojević

MA Serial Storytelling

Alumni

Adrian Draschoff

Lecturers

Creator & CEO at QOLABO GmbH

Paul Dreisen

Lecturers

Head of VFX/VFX Supervisor

David Drink

MA Entertainment Producing

Alumni

Dorian Dubel

BA Film | Screenwriting

Alumni

Author (a. o. AUF NULL)

Prof. Dr. Frédéric Dubois

Professor Digital Narratives – Theory

Professors

Author, Producer, Journalist and Scholar specialized in digital media; award-winning interactive narratives such as ATTERWASCH and FIELD TRIP

Isi Duchemin

BA Film | Production Design

Alumni

Kira Duckwitz

MA Serial Storytelling

Alumni

Tim Dude

BA Film | Screenwriting

Alumni

Marie Dülberg

BA Film | Production Design

Students

Zoé Dumas

BA Film | Director of Photgraphy

Alumni

DoP (a. o. EL MÁRTIR)

Christof Düro

Lecturers

Actor, learning teacher and communication consultant

Jannika Edler ifs internationale filmschule köln alumni

Jannika Eberhardt

BA Film | VFX & Animation

Alumni

VFX & Animation (a. o. GRUMMET)

Patricia Eckermann

Lecturers

Show and series author, novelist (a. o. »Elektro Krause«)

Miriam Edinger

Head of Public Relations

Team

Tim Egner

BA Film | Editing Picture & Sound

Alumni

Editing and Sound Design (a. o. MADE IN GERMANY)

Niva Ehrlich

BA Film | Directing

Alumni

Director (a. o. SPARE PARTS)

Eliane Eid

MA Digital Narratives

Alumni

Antonia Eilers

BA Film | VFX & Animation

Students

Hazem ElHakeem

MA 3D Animation for Film & Games

Alumni

Hady Aymen Elshafey

MA 3D Animation for Film & Games

Students

Leon Emonds-Pool

BA Film | Director of Photography

Alumni

DoP (a. o. SHOOTER)

Lydia-Maria Emrich

BA Film | Directing

Alumni

Director (a. o. THE PANTHERESS)

Cedric Engelbrecht

BA Film | Production Design

Alumni

Production Designer (a. o. UNDER THE SKIN)

Cedric Engels

BA Film | Creative Producing

Alumni

Producer (a. o. ROCKET ROACHES), content creator and science YouTuber (DOKTOR WHATSON)

Felix Engstfeld

BA Film | Screenwriting

Alumni

Author (a. o. WACHSÜCHTIG)

Jakob Erdelen

BA Film | Screenwriting

Alumni

Author (a. o. MONONOKE)

Alexandra Ertan

MA Entertainment Producing

Students

Verena Euler

Coordination BA Film

Team

Coordination Screenwriting

Team

Bent Evers

MA Entertainment Producing

Alumni

Katharina Eyssen

Lecturers

Writer, Creator, Showrunner (»The Empress«, »Holiday Secrets«), Germany

Mahshad Farhangi

MA 3D Animation for Film & Games

Students

Waldemar Fast

Lecturers

Character Animator, Animation Director

Johan Fasting

Lecturers

Writer, Creator, Showrunner (»Makta (Power Play)«, Norway

Lisa Fechner

BA Film | Screenwriting

Alumni

Author (a. o. PUPPENSPIELER, GUTE NACHT)

Alessio Federico

BA Film | Screenwriting

Alumni

Author (a. o. AS IF IT WERE THE LAST TIME)

Teresa Fernández-Valdés

Lecturers

Writer, Producer, Showrunner (»Grand Hotel«, »Velvet«, »The Cable Girls«), Spain

Ivana Filipic

MA Serial Storytelling

Alumni

C. Aslı Filiz

MA Serial Storytelling

Alumni

Heike Fink

Project Management Masterclass Non-Fiction

Team

Autorin, Regisseurin

Melanie Finschi

MA Entertainment Producing

Students

Elias Förderer

BA Film | Directing

Students

Daniela Frank

MA 3D Animation for Film & Games

Students

Ulrike Franke

Lecturers

Filmproduktion LoekenFranke (a. o. »We Are All Detroit«, »Göttliche Lage – Eine Stadt erfindet sich neu«)

Ilaria Fravolini

MA Serial Storytelling

Alumni

Elmar Freels

Lecturers

Screenwriter, Headwriter (»Almania«, »Knallerfrauen«), Director, Producer

Beate Freier

BA Film | Creative Producing

Alumni

Mats Frey

MA Serial Storytelling

Alumni

Nina Frey

Assistance Creative Producing

Team

Iring Freytag

Lecturers

Layout Artist, 3D-Animator (a. o. »Die Häschenschule 2 - Der große Eierklau«)

Prof. Dr. Joachim Friedmann

Serial Storytelling

Professors

Lecturers

Screenwriter a. o. IN ALLER FREUNDSCHAFT (Bambi Audience Award) and LINDENSTRAßE (Golden Camera, Grimme Award)

Franz-Ferdinand Fuhr

MA Entertainment Producing

Students

Mike Fuhrmann

BA Film | Creative Producing

Alumni

Producer (a. o. THE STRAY, THE TRAFFIC LIGHT)

Editing and Sound Design (a. o. O CHALE)

Coordination Professional Training Screenwriting

Team

Jakob Gehrmann

BA Film | Director of Photography

Alumni

DoP (a. o. KLAUSENTREIBEN)

Jón Gunnar Geirdal

European Showrunner Programme

Alumni

»My Funeral«, »The Teacher's Lounge«

Zoltan M. Geller

BA Film | Editing Picture & Sound

Alumni

Editing and Sound Design (a. o. LOST IN HOPE)

DoP (a. o. HORST)

Prof. Katalin Gödrös

Professor Directing

Professors

Director a. o. MUTANTEN (a. o. Berlinale), SONGS OF LOVE AND HATE (Internationalen Wettbewerb Locarno), as well as JAKOBS ROSS (a. o. Filmfest München)