Anne Schultka
Anne began her career as a Project Manager at KIDS Regio in April 2018 and became a board member of the German Children’s Film Association in 2022. In collaboration with the association and the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, she published the research report Children in Film Culture Children in Film Culture (2021). She also initiated and supervised the pan-European research project Keeping Up with Children as an Audience (2024), providing in-depth insights into how children aged 7 to 11 engage with, interpret, and value film and media content. Anne is the author of the Cine Regio Gender, Equality and Diversity Report (2021 & 2024). In 2025, she also contributed to the first Cine Regio Young Audience ReportFrom 2023 to 2025, she led the industry programme of the German Children’s Media Festival Golden Sparrow, and since 2024, she has served as Head of Industry for the Lübeck Meetings at the Nordic Film Days Lübeck. In 2025, she took on the additional role of Head of Studies at the Academy for Children’s Media, a training and development programme for writers of original film, book, and series content for young audiences in Germany, now in its 25th year. She holds an MA in Media Management and a BA in Intercultural Studies, Psychology, and Economics.
Karolina Śmigiel
At the Wajda Film Center, she runs LET’S DOC. LAB, a program dedicated to developing documentary film production for young audiences in Poland. She is also the Director of the LET’S DOC Documentary Film Festival for Young Audiences and an accomplished film producer. Since 2015, she has been a board member of UNI-SOLO Studio, where she has produced several documentaries, including The Dragon Spring (2017, dir. J. Wszędybył) and Letters from Wolf Street (2025, dir. A. Talwar), which had its world premiere at Berlinale 2025 (Panorama) and its international premiere at CPH:DOX. She is currently producing Nanga Dream and developing the films Goodnight Princesses, Vegan Vampire and Goodbye Dolls. She also co-produced the French-Polish documentary Out from the Shadows (dir. P. Séraudie) and the Polish-Romanian documentary The End of the Valley of Tears (dir. J. Wszędybył). She is an alumna of Emerging Producers 2022 (IDF Ji.hlava), IDFAcademy 2022, and EURODOC 2023.
Dimitris Zachos
He is a filmmaker and producer based in Athens, Greece. He works across fiction, documentary, and video art, creating projects that explore social awareness, identity, and collective memory. He is a founding member of Long Shot Films and collaborates widely with artists and institutions in cinema and the performing arts. His recent works include the short film Vouta (2020), which won awards at the Drama International Short Film Festival and was screened internationally; the feature documentary Loxy (2024), co-directed with Thanasis Kafetzis; and Return to Depot (2025), which received the Audience Award at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. He studied Computer Science before turning to Film Directing at the Film Department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Alongside his directing career, he teaches film practice and theory and designs video installations and theatrical projections for major cultural institutions, including the National Theatre of Greece and the Athens & Epidaurus Festival. He is currently developing new documentary projects focusing on contemporary Greek realities and transnational narratives.
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