We want more – Strategies and demands for women working in the film business
MODERATED BY ANKE SCHÄFER
Women film-makers, producers and festival networkers are cordially invited to come and develop strategies and demands aimed at generating higher levels of publicity, visibility and – not least – funding for films made by women. The Think Tank will inspire us to think even the apparently impossible! We will pick up on themes from the forum entitled »You Cannot Be Serious – a Discussion on the Status of Women Directors« which took place during this year’s Berlin Film Festival at the initiative of the Dortmund | Cologne International Women’s Film Festival and the New York Athena Film Festival. The debate thus continues! Results and statements will be condensed in the form of a video trailer.
LaDoc – The Documentary Film Women’s Network in Cologne
Making a documentary film means developing ideas, filming with real people, allowing a highly distinctive film dramaturgy to evolve – and lending expression to a nuanced view of the world. To make professional documentary films, you also need to be familiar with the world of film production and the way TV companies and film promotion boards work. This overall environment demands of the film-makers a good deal of stickability and the readiness to accept risk and compromise. In the hope, then, of being able to act in unison and improve our own production conditions, around 25 freelance women authors, film editors and cinematographers meet up once a month to share their experience and exchange views – this since the autumn of 2003.
As varied as our films are – black & white or colour, celluloid or digital, still or shrill – what unites us is the documentary film and the realisation that working together makes better sense than working against one another. Whether there is female view of reality or whether our working conditions are typical for women … well, we are not always agreed. But we do agree that we can learn and benefit from one another and that together there is a much higher chance of getting the management teams and decision makers to listen to our arguments and demands. (ww.ladoc.de)
Anke Schäfer
Anke Schäfer ist Systemische Theatertherapeutin und Mitglied der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Theatertherapie, systemischer Film-Coach, Medienkünstlerin und Filmemacherin. Sie ist außerdem Mitglied in den Dokumentarfilmnetzwerken LaDoc und AG Dok – einer bundesweiten Organisation. Ihre Ausbildung zur kreativtherapeutischen Supervisorin absolvierte sie zwischen 2008 und 2011 beim Institut für Theatertherapie Berlin (ITT). 2012 schloss sie eine Weiterbildung in Drehbuch-Aufstellung am Syst-Institut in München an. Anke Schäfer studierte Video- und Performance-Kunst bei Nam June Paik und Nan Hoover an der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf und absolvierte ein Postgraduierten-Kunststudium an der Jan Van Eyck Akademie Maastricht. Ihre Arbeiten, die sie weltweit ausstellt, wurden für zahlreiche Preise nominiert, darunter für den Prix de Rome 1997 (NL). Anke Schäfer war von 1995 bis 2000 Gastdozentin im Bereich Medienkunst, Film- und Kunstgeschichte an der Kunstakademie Maastricht, außerdem an der Hochschule für Bildende Kunst Braunschweig sowie der Kunstakademie Enschede (2000).
