Executive Board & Members
Documentary Campus Executive Board
Head of Board:
Dr. Patrick Hörl (Autentic, Munich)
Deputy Head of Board:
Marco Visalberghi (DocLab Productions srl, Rome)
Deputy Head of Board:
Rea Apostolides (Anemon Productions, Athens)
Treasurer:
Christine von Preyss (Parthenon Entertainment Limited, Germany)
Secretary:
Stefano Tealdi (Stefilm International srl, Turin)
Board Member:
Dr. Kristina Hollstein (ZDF Enterprises GmbH, Mainz)
Special Representative according to § 30 BGB:
Donata von Perfall, Director (Documentary Campus, Munich)
Documentary Campus Member Companies
As a charitable association registered in Munich, Documentary Campus e.V. is a strictly non-profit organisation. Launched in 2000 by German media enterprises, the association was joined in 2003 by selected European non-fiction companies. Member companies support the initiative financially and benefit by gaining access to new ideas and projects, qualified professionals and high-quality training.
Anemon Productions is an independent production company based in Athens, Greece. It was founded in 2003, bringing together the expertise of five filmmakers and producers. Anemon produces documentaries and television programmes for the Greek and international market. Recent work includes co-productions with ARTE, ZDF, YLE, HISTORY TV, AVRO, TV3, TSR, ERT, SKAI TV and the GREEK FILM CENTRE, and focuses on society, history and current affairs. The company also develops and produces international cross-media projects in partnership with museums and educational institutions.
Represented by: Rea Apostolides & Yuri Averof
Autentic invests in high quality factual content production and distribution. The company represents a broad range of factual and documentary programmes, acting as a distributor and a provider of channels and editorial services for media companies worldwide. Being platform-neutral, Autentic delivers its services to both linear and non-linear players in the global market. Autentic operates subscription based channels in several countries, including ‘Spiegel Geschichte’ on Sky Deutschland, and ‘Explore’, ‘History’, and ‘Code’ in Southern Africa. Autentic’s team helps broadcasters and aggregators to bridge the gap between creative resource and the engaged viewer. Autentic was founded in 2008 by Patrick Hörl and Jan Mojto. The company is based in Oberhaching near Munich, Germany. Held by Patrick Hörl and Jan Mojto’s BetaFilm, one of Europe’s biggest distributor of TV content, Autentic offers a unique background of expertise in both the German and international market.
Represented by: Dr. Patrick Hörl, Head of Board, Documentary Campus
Headquartered in the UK, Discovery Networks Western Europe is a division of Discovery Communications, the number one non-fiction media company in the world. It has 18 channel brands reaching 243 million cumulative subscribers in 17 countriesincluding the UK, Germany, Italy, Norway and Netherlands. Discoveryis a media company with content at its core. It provides entertaining programming that gives people the opportunity to explore their world and satisfy curiosity. Its portfolio of networks include Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, TLC, Real Time, DMAX, Quest, Discovery World, Discovery HD Showcase, Discovery Science, ID: Investigation Discovery, Discovery Travel & Living, Discovery Historia, Discovery Turbo and Animal PlanetHD.
Represented by: Dan Korn
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DocLab Productions srl. is an independent production company based in Rome, Italy. It was founded in 1999 by producer-director Marco Visalberghi on the strength of his 20 year experience producing science and natural history documentaries for the Italian and international markets. DocLab tends to focus on science, history, culture and current affairs, more recently developing a number of feature-length documentary projects. It works in partnership with Gabriel Films in the US, La Compagnie des Taxi Brousse and Bonne Pioche in France, and Ma.Ja.De in Germany.
Represented by: Marco Visalberghi
France Télévisions is France’s foremost audiovisual group. The three major public channels, France 2, France 3, and France 5 have been the cornerstones of the company’s development. In 2004 the group was enhanced with the integration of RFO, the French Overseas Territories network, and in 2005 two new digital channels were added: France 4 and France Ô. With close to 400 million Euros per year invested in new drama, documentaries, animation and live performances, France Télévisions is the major funder of audiovisual production in France. Thanks to the quality and variety of its five channels, France Télévisions is the premier bouquet of free digital channels in France, with a 33% market share over the year.
Represented by: Ann Julienne
Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion is one of the few German production companies specializing in the production and distribution of documentary programmes worldwide. In collaboration with authors and international independent producers, GBF develops and produces creative, award-winning documentaries, TV theme evenings, documentary series, reports and cultural-TV-magazines. As well as producing documentaries for the German national market, our goal is to produce high quality TV productions for the European and international market. Accordingly, GBF has established an extensive network with co-producers worldwide. We are maintaining successful working relations with all major German and European broadcasters, such as ZDF, ARD, NDR, SWR, WDR, arte, 3-sat, BBC, YLE, DR2, SVT, NPS, ORF, etc.
Represented by: Christian Beetz & Reinhard Beetz
GEDEON Programmes is one of Europe’s leading producers of high quality television programmes destined for international broadcast. Established in 1995, the company productions cover documentary films, feature films, TV magazine shows, youth and short programmes. The films produced cover a wide range of subject material from science and adventure to history, wildlife and culture. Headed by Stéphane Millière, GEDEON Programmes is also known for documenting major scientific discoveries in the realms of archaeology and palaeontology. To date, the company has delivered some 700 hours of films and received more than 300 awards throughout the world. GEDEON’s programmes are produced in HD and often include CGI graphics as well as historic reconstitutions. GEDEON Programmes is an independant group including 4 subsidiary compagnies: BILOBA FILMS - feature film, G3D - 3D production, TERRANOA – international distribution, THE PICTURE FACTORY - image bank.
Represented by: Stéphane Millière
Established in 1969 by Rudolf Klingohr as a small family-owned enterprise, Interspot Film has since grown to become one of the biggest and most successful independent film and video production companies in Austria. From the start, Interspot Film has devoted itself to the production of high-end history, cultural, scientific and natural history documentaries. Under the management of producer Heinrich Mayer-Moroni Interspot Film has proved as a reliable partner in internatinal co-productions with broadcasters all around the world including Discovery Channel US and Canada, National Geographic Channel US and Canada, WGBH/NOVA, BBC, Canal+, ARTE, ZDF, WDR as well as with major distributors as Fremantle Media, ZDF Enterprise, ORF Enterprise, Granada etc.
Represented by: Heinrich Mayer-Moroni
Junge Goetter was founded in 1996 and has been converted into a limited liability corporation in 2000 by their associates. The kingdom of heaven of the "Junge Goetter" offers project monitoring as well as the full execution of the production of fictional and non-fictional projects. Junge Goetter has a long experience in producing docu Soaps and factual entertainment, developing of TV-Shows and format, as well as story developing for fictional and non fictional projects. Junge Goetter momentarily consists of 15 employees and one director.
Represented by: OnnO Ehlers
kreativKraft is an independent film-production company based in Graz, Austria. It specializes in international co-productions of prime-time TV documentary films. We work with Smithsonian Networks, the History Channel, ARTE, ORF, ZDF, etc. in the areas of science, history and nature and for reenactment docu-dramas. The award-winning films made by kreativKraft have been some of the most successful international co-productions of the past few years.
Represented by: Klaus T. Steindl
Founded 30 years ago MedienKontor produces high quality TV productions for the German and international markets, ranging from such as the award-winning documentary series „360° - Geo Reportage“ (ARTE), investigative documentaries (“Theme evenings”, ARTE) and docutainment productions (RTL and Sat.1) to TV movies and feature films for cinema.
Represented by: Theo Baltz
OTTONIA Media GmbH was established in 1998 and is responsible for non-fiction TV productions within the Bavaria Film Group, one of Europe's largest and longest-running media operations. Broadcasting around 4,000 minutes annually, OTTONIA specialises in documentaries, reportages and magazine programmes. It carries out its extensive projects in conjunction with regional, national and international partners. Based in Berlin, OTTONIA also has offices in Leipzig, Magdeburg and Stuttgart. Bavaria Film GmbH has a 51% majority shareholding in OTTONIA, the remaining 49% being held by DREFA Media Holding GmbH. OTTONIA Media sees the collaboration with Documentary Campus e.V. as an opportunity to nourish qualified authors and programme makers, to smooth their way into the increasingly complex media landscape and to develop joint international marketing and collaboration strategies.
Represented by: Simone Baumann
Parthenon Entertainment Limited is a multi-media rights management company which develops, produces and distributes a diverse portfolio of high quality factual and children's properties for the global marketplace. Founded in 2002 by Carl Hall, former managing director of HIT Wildlife, Parthenon is ranked amongst the top independent UK producers and distributors and has built a reputation for delivering high rating series and specials for clients around the world. With operations in Europe and North America, Parthenon's international reach provides a presence across all key territories for the exploitation of its content and a platform for continued growth and development.
Represented by: Christine von Preyss
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SPIEGEL TV SPIEGEL TV, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the well-known German magazine "Der SPIEGEL", has been around for more than two decades now. The original aim was to present classical SPIEGEL-style journalism in a manner suitable for television. What started out in 1988 with SPIEGEL TV MAGAZIN has grown into a production company with two of its own television channels, SPIEGEL GESCHICHTE and SPIEGEL TV Digital, and six different broadcast windows on RTL, Sat.1 and VOX. The 240 staff members supplied last year 508 hours of factual programming. SPIEGEL TV is an award-winning producer with a strong focus on history, science, discovery, social issues and current affairs. Its productions acclaim regularly the audiences and critics – many of them produced in cooperation with broadcasters like ARD, ZDF, ARTE, BBC, WGBH, National Geographic.
Represented by: Cassian von Salomon
Spring Films is a UK TV production company, led by the noted film-maker and former BBC commissioner, Dr. André Singer. Formerly with West Park Pictures, André Singer has moved his entire team and launched a new entity, Spring Films. While at the BBC, André Singer initiated the whole Michael Palin travel series starting with Pole to Pole and the Fine Cut strand, which later became Storyville. He has worked with Stephen Fry (2007 Emmy Award winner) on numerous BBC shows, including a recent a six-part series Stephen Fry: in America. (Winner of the National Television Award 2010) and a follow-up BBC series, Last Chance to See (6 x 1hrs). With more than 300 hours of programming to his credit, Andre has also produced several films with acclaimed director Werner Herzog. Spring Films latest Herzog film will be Death Row (2011) a feature length documentary (for cinema/More4 True Stories) also re-made as a four-part series for Channel 4.
Represented by: André Singer
Stefilm is one of the leading documentary production companies in Italy. It is committed to creating and distributing documentary programming which brings Italian themes and talent to the rest of the world and to re-establishing a thriving documentary culture in Italy. Stefilm's productions have been co-financed with over 50 broadcasting, institutional and independent partners in Europe and North America. The company produces one-offs and series on historical, social and cultural issues. Stefilm's award winning films include CITIZEN BERLUSCONI, nominated for a Grimme Award in the year 2004; PORTO MARGHERA – VENICE 59th Mostra del Cinema di Venezia 2002, SORRISO AMARO (RICE GIRLS) 60th Mostra del Cinema di Venezia 2003 and MoMA New York, International Documentary Fortnight.
Represented by: Stefano Tealdi
Story House Productions is a film and TV production company with offices in Berlin, Munich and Washington, D.C. (USA). In 2010 an additional production site was opened in Halifax, Canada. There are around 120 salaried employees working at all four locations. With an annual production volume of roughly 6,000 minutes Story House Productions is one of the leading production companies for science and factual entertainment programming in Germany. Our focus is on the production of high-quality programming formats for both the German and the international markets. Our know-how ranges from clips to magazine and news reports to high-end documentaries and entire magazine formats. Currently STORY HOUSE Productions is working on a launch show for the first worldwide 3D-channel for the American Discovery Network, to go on air in February of 2011. In Germany Story House Productions produces successful blue chip programming for ARD and ZDF (such as Terra X), as well as HD documentary series like “Galileo am Sonntag“ and “Galileo X.Perience“ for the Pro 7 network. Among Story House Productions' media partners are RTL, RTL2, ProSieben, Sat.1, Kabel1, ZDF, NDR, SWR, BR, N24, Spiegel TV, Phoenix, 3Sat, Servus TV (AT), TV2 (DK), Discovery Channel (USA), TLC (USA), Discovery-Times (USA), PBS (USA), National Geographic (USA), The History Channel (USA), True-TV (USA), NBC (USA), MSNBC (USA), BBC (GB). Numerous prestigious international honours and awards for direction and script writing, among them two Emmy nominations, are the results of this work.
Represented by: Thomas Zwiessler
TANGRAM International GmbH continues in the tradition of TANGRAM Christian Bauer Filmproduktion. Since Christian Bauer’s sudden passing in 2009, the team at TANGRAM International has built on the traditional strengths and aims of the company: To work internationally in the world of creative documentaries and in the competitive market of high-end series production. With our knowledge of the market and our commitment to the adventure of making documentaries, we hope to both inspire and be inspired by the collaboration with filmmakers and producers under the umbrella of Documentary Campus.
Represented by: Dagmar Biller
West Park Pictures, a factual division of DCD Media, is a production company based in London specializing in documentaries for the international marketplace. Led by André Singer, West Park Pictures has had considerable success in the past few years with its work with German director Werner Herzog (The Wild Blue Yonder, Opera Short: La Bohème) and with presenter and polymath Stephen Fry (Stephen Fry: HIV & Me, Stephen Fry in America, winner of a National Television Award 2010, and Last Chance to See). Other work includes Theatreland, Jonathan Miller’s Backstage at La Bohème, the feature documentary Horses, and several series for Reader’s Digest.
Represented by: Charles Thompson
ZDF Enterprises was founded in the year 1993 as a 100% private subsidiary of ZDF, one of the biggest and most renowned television broadcasters in Europe. On behalf of ZDF, ZDF Enterprises is responsible for worldwide programme sales, the implementation of international coproductions, license purchasing for quality programmes, marketing online rights and the merchandising of strong ZDF programme brands. In addition to its commercial activities for ZDF, ZDF Enterprises has also been able to establish itself successfully as an independent market player in both national and international environments. As part of a powerful Group, the company has at its disposal the largest German-language programme collection in the world, consisting of series and mini-series, TV movies, documentaries and children’s programmes. As an internationally successful enterprise in the production and distribution of high-quality documentary films, ZDF Enterprises views Documentary Campus e.V. as an important element amidst their international strategic collaborations.
Represented by: Dr. Kristina Hollstein
