Female Gaze

Born in Bielefeld in 1990, Greta Isabella Conte completed a master’s degree in cinematography at Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF in 2024. Encouraged to follow her intuition, she developed her approach to creating an intimate connection between camera and subject. In 2024, she also received IFFF Dortmund+Köln’s Female Gaze Award in the feature film category for her graduation film Die feige Schönheit. Her work has been nominated, among other things, for Best work shot on film and has screened at numerous international festivals.

Eva Maschke was born in Cologne in 1976 and grew up in the nearby Eifel region. After completing vocational training, she worked for two years as a physiotherapist before switching to film. Between 2002 and 2007, she studied film and media with a focus on camera and cinematography at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. She then worked as a writer, director, cinematographer and producer both in Germany and abroad, and from 2018 to 2022 as a cinematographer with WDR Cologne. She has worked as a cinematographer at SWR Baden-Baden since 2022. Many of her works have screened at renowned film festivals. In 2011, she received IFFF Dortmund+Köln’s Director of Photography Award.

Gisela Tuchtenhagen, born in 1943 in Koszalin (Poland), fled to northern Germany in 1944. At 15 she moved to Paris, where she lived until 1963. From 1968, she studied at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (dffb) – founded just two years previously – as one of its first female students. A trained photographer, she developed a distinctive cinematographic style that balances closeness with respectful distance, a quality that defines the imagery of her films. From 1971 to 1979 she worked as a cinematographer, writer, director and editor with documentary filmmaker Klaus Wildenhahn. In addition to teaching, she continued making her own documentary films until 2022.