Jury member SHOOT | Head of organisation Female Gaze
Offering emerging talent a platform, the SHOOT – KHM & IFFF Dortmund+Köln Award for Emerging Female Artists of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) is a collaboration between the KHM’s Equal Opportunities Team and IFFF Dortmund+Köln. It is being awarded for the sixth time this year.
The prize goes to Lisa Bühl for her latest film El Sueño (The Dream, co-directed by Carolina Jimenez). The film follows a group of children on Colombia’s Pacific coast. Through their unique perspective, the children draw us into their magical universe, one that is shaped by contrasts and apparently haunted by its past.
The award carries a prize of € 1,000. The jury was made up of the film-makers and curators Conny Beißler, Elke Kania and Nicole Rebmann.
In their jury’s statement, it says: »The chosen perspectives and the confident camera work are testimony to Lisa Bühl’s mature sense of composition and atmosphere – the result is enchanting.«
Jury member SHOOT | Head of organisation Female Gaze
Nicole Rebmann studied social pedagogy at Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Comparative Social Studies at Maastricht University of Applied Sciences and at the University of North London, and did further education in cultural management in Cologne which led her to work at film festivals.
She worked with the Feminale from 2006 in various organisational and programming capacities, she also continued to work for Internationales Frauen Film Fest Dortmund+Köln (Focus and Panorama sections). Since 2022 she coordinates the competition for women DoPs. Alongside her work as a curator and as a programme and guest services coordinator for various film festivals (Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Berlinale) and member of the selection committee of KFFK Short Film Festival Cologne, she is the office manager of WDR AKTIV.
»We (still) do not have social equality. We can’t wait for things to change on their own. I want to be able to show films about everything – films made by women. Women who a take critical stance but never lose enthusiasm for their fantastic content.«
Awardees
2025: Lisa Bühl
2024: Laura Engelhardt
2023: Hanna Noh
2022: Luka Lara Steffen
2021: Angelika Herta
2020: Anna Ansone
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