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rashomon

Rashomon eV was initiated during the second edition of the Sommer.Film.Akademie Lausitz and founded on 10.09.2022 in Görlitz.

After two successful events, first as a private initiative, then in partnership with the local association „Neisse Center for Contemporary Arts eV“, the team wanted to create their own identity in the form of a registered association.

The name „Rashomon“ is derived from the 1950 film of the same name by Japanese director Akira Kurosawa and the short story on which it was based. Both focus on a murder case experienced and described differently by all the people involved. Since then, the Rashomon effect has stood for the unreliability of testimonies in criminal psychology in which an event can evoke completely contradictory interpretations and reveal all perspectives.

As filmmakers, we deal with the visualization of these different perspectives. The exchange of experiences, points of view, and perspectives are essential elements for mutual understanding and appreciation and thus necessary in order to grow together.

The philosophy of the association and our Summer.Film.Academy builds on these experiences and perspectives. We promote the exchange of knowledge, skills, and interests in filmmaking and any collaboration beyond. Together we learn with and from each other across languages, countries, and cultures, thus seeing eye-to-eye.

The city of Görlitz, as the center of the association, is located in the intersection of Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic. It is also in the immediate vicinity of the ancestral settlement area of Sorbians, an ethnic minority.

Our approach is regional and urban – we see ourselves as mediators between the world of film, the metropolitan areas of Dresden, Berlin, Prague and Wroclaw, and the regions of the Lusatia and Euroregion Neisse.

Under cooperation partners you will find local initiatives, associations, film festivals, public institutions, and other educational and cultural institutions.

Rashomon e.V. was initiated during the second edition of the
Sommer.Film.Akademie Lausitz initiated and founded on 10.09.2022 in Görlitz.

After two successful events, first as a private initiative, then as part of as part of the friendly
association „Neisse Center for Contemporary Arts e.V.“, the team was it a concern to give their
request an own identity in the form of a registered association.

The name „Rashomon“ is derived from the film of the same name by Japanese
director Akira Kurosawa in 1950 and the short story on which it is based.
Both focus on a murder case that is experienced and described differently
by all the people involved. Since then, the Rashomon effect has stood for the
unreliability of testimonies in criminal psychology in which an event can evoke completely
contradictory interpretations and reveal all perspectives.

As filmmakers, we deal with the visualization of these different perspectives.
The exchange of experiences, points of view, and perspectives is an essential element for mutual understanding and appreciation in order to grow together.

The philosophy of the association and our Summer.Film.Academy builds on these experiences and perspectives and promotes the exchange of knowledge, skills and interests in filmmaking and any collaboration beyond. Together we learn with and from each other and across languages, countries and cultures at eye level.

The city of Görlitz as the center of the association is located in the middle of the
border triangle of Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic as well as in the
immediate vicinity of the ancestral settlement area of the ethnic minority of the Sorbians.

Our approach is both regional and urban – we see ourselves as mediators between the world of film
in the metropolitan areas of Dresden, Berlin, Prague and Wroclaw and the regional Lusatia and the Euroregion Neisse.

Under cooperation partners you will find local initiatives, associations, film festivals,
public institutions and other educational or cultural institutions.

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JOIN OUR TEAM

We are still looking for support before and especially during the event – if you are
interested in becoming part of our team e-mail us to

lausitz@sommerfilmakademie.org

or via direct message on

Instagram.

We are looking forward to it!

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JOIN OUR TEAM

We are still looking for support before and especially during this year’s Academy –
if you are interested in becoming part of our team, please write us at
lausitz@sommerfilmakademie.org or via direct message on Instagram.

We are look forward to hearing from you!

sebastian
schönberger
idea & program

Sebastian is an essay filmmaker, former guest lecturer and editor in Berlin. He shoots music videos, interviews and experimental essayistic films.
He gained his first experience with director Hubertus Siegert. In the course of the project Stadt auf Probe he was a guest in Görlitz for a few weeks and during this time learned to love Lusatia beyond its borders.
At the SFA, he takes on tasks in strategy development and program design and builds up international cooperations.

Sebastian is an essay filmmaker, former guest lecturer and editor in Berlin. He shoots music videos, interviews and experimental essayistic films.

He gained his first experience with director Hubertus Siegert. In the course of the project Stadt auf Probe he was a guest in Görlitz for a few weeks and during this time learned to love Lusatia beyond its borders.

At the SFA, he takes on tasks in strategy development and program design and builds up international cooperations.

alexandra
leibmann
project management

Alex was born in Siberia, grew up in Aschaffenburg and started her studies in Visual Communication at the Kunsthochschule Kassel in 2015.
In 2019, she won the Rundgang Award of the Uni- versity of Kassel with her first short documentary film JUNGS VON DER KANTE.
She graduated in 2022 with a major in Film & Moving Image and Intermedia Photography with the documentary METZGERGRÜN. In it, she provides intimate insights into various residential worlds in the „feel-good city“ of Freiburg and deals with social inequality on the basis of gentrification.

bodo
heiss
finance & team

bodo heiss
finance & team

Bodo works as a Creative Producer and Production Manager in the area of Fiction Feature Film in Berlin.
He lived in the US for a long time and likes to share his knowledge about film financing, production, distribution or startup in German or English with a lot of passion. As a graduate in business administration and economics, he has international project and management experience in the communications and entertainment industry.
In addition to his family ties, he has already been involved in a number of film productions in Saxony.
In the context of the Summer Film Academy Bodo takes care of strategic questions of orientation as well as cooperations, financing and accounting.

zoé
salome
besigk
social media

zoé salome
besigk
social media

Zoé lives in Görlitz and is a graduate in the Production Assistance and Camera and Lighting courses at the Saxon Film Academy.
In the course of her internship, she joined the academy in the summer of 2022 and has since been a permanent member of the team, assisting with planning, procuring film equipment and managing the Summer Film Academy’s social media channel.

Zoé lives in Görlitz and is a graduate in the Production Assistance and Camera and Lighting courses at the Sächsische Filmakademie.
In the course of her internship, she joined the academy in the summer of 2022 and has since been a permanent member of the team, assisting with planning, procuring film equipment and managing the Summer Film Academy’s social media channel.

karoline
herre
cooperations

Just like Zoé, Karo came to the Academy last summer as an intern and became an indispensable part of our team overnight.
Karo lives and works in Görlitz in the event area and, in addition to website and social media operations, also coordinates the processes during the Academy in July and August 2023.

britta

schoening
program consulting

britta
schoening
program consulting

The freelance director lives and works in Berlin. After studying politics, Britta studied directing with a focus on documentary film at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg and UCINE in Buenos Aires. Her award-winning documentaries „FRAGMENTE MEINER MUTTER“, „#WIDERSTAND“ and „MOZART RECYCLED“ screened at numerous International Film Festivals and on television.
At the 54th International Hof Film Festival, she served as a jury member for the Granit Documentary Award.
Most recently, she was featured in the 5-part documentary series NEONSTAUB – DIE STRAßEN VON ST. PAULI on SWR.
Through the documentary film KŘIŽERKI (The Easter Riders), which she is realizing together with Sebastian and Upper Sorbian filmmaker Sophia Ziesch, she came into contact with Lusatia.

otto
kronschwitz
projects

Otto has been working as a busy filmmaker and cameraman in Görlitz for several years. His orders come from business, theater or directly from himself.
As an experienced young professional, he takes over the technical supervision of our New Talents and actively supports us on location.

florian

schnell
tutorig

florian
schnell
tutoring

Florian first studied scenic arts at the University of Hildesheim. In 2008, he switched to the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg to study directing.
His work is characterized by the fact that he realizes the films as a mixture between real and animated film.
In 2014 Florian finished his studies with the graduation film OFFLINE, which premiered at the Max Ophüls Preis Film Festival in 2016 and was released in German cinemas in February 2017 and can be seen internationally on Netflix.
Florian coordinates the content of the young talent section „Talents“ before and during the Academy.

vanessa
ivan
event management

Vanessa graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture (B.A.) and is currently still in her last year at the Adbk Munich studying time-based media with Julian Rosefeldt.
Through the Munich Kammerspiele, where she worked on „WUT“ – a performative production by Nicolas Stemann, she developed video concepts for the theatrical space. Currently, she focuses on collaborations with musicians and creates visual live shows such as „The evolution of Disco Music“ for the jazz club Domicil Dortmund.
With her duo „Ivo Profan and the Kobayashi“ she creates a collage-like mulitversum of politics and klamauk which is expressed in space through video, sculpture, images and texts.
During the SFA Vanessa supports among other things the Talents in editing and sound and organizes the musical evening events in our additional program.

jaschar

markazi

noubar
workouts

jaschar
markazi noubar
workouts

Jaschar was born in Essen in 1990. After school, he took part in the independent touring theater project Theater Total in Bochum and participated as a performer and actor in productions at the Ruhrtriennale in 2010 and 2011.
From 2012 to 2016 he studied acting at the Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences in Alfter near Bonn. As part of the diploma production Shoot/Get Treasure/ Repeat directed by Michael Funke, he performed in various roles at the Cologne Theater im Bauturm, Theater Görlitz, Sorbian National Theater Bautzen and at the international acting school festival Sétkani/Encounter in Brnó, Czech Republic, among others.
In the run-up Jaschar supports the planning regarding relevant topics from the field of acting. During the two weeks on site in Görlitz he will regularly help the team and the participants with warm-up and loosening exercises to keep their mental and physical balance.

nina
kozel
kitchen

From creating conscious food exeriences and recipe development to the production of food videos, kitchen planning and cooking – Nina is into somethingwithfood.com. Since food, its production, preparation and combinations are totally her thing, but the daily kitchen work not so much, she cooks mainly on retreats or at events and of course for herself and friends.

At the summer school Nina takes care of the kitchen planning, food concept and food sourcing.

From recipe development to the production of food videos to kitchen planning and cooking – Nina is professionally involved with food. Since food, its processing and combinations are fully her thing, but the daily kitchen work rather not so, she cooks mainly on retreats or at events and of course for friends.
Nina takes care of the kitchen planning and as part of the cooking team she also prepares the lunches for the participants during the academy. Her favorite meal.
In addition to a sharp knife, she also has Milan in her luggage, who has already supported her the last two summers at the Pizzeria „cocolores“, a pop-up pizzeria at Coconat (where Nina also works „on the side“ when she is not cooking in the cold storage).

stephanie

lebolt
translation

stefanie
lebolt
translation

Steffy was a participant in the 2022 Academy and became a part of our team.
She was born and raised in Virginia. She holds a BA in interdisciplinary arts administration, a combination of arts business, media studies, acting, and business, as well as an MFA in Theatre Directing.
Steffy has been a freelance artist in Berlin since August 2022. Her work here includes teaching (Catalyst Berlin, InterACT English), editing and translation (ZDF, The Princeton Review), and creating new independent theatre/dance/film interdsiciplinary work, in collaboration with local artists.
For SFA, Steffy handles translation and assists with event planning.

leonie
kircher
text

Leonie graduated from high school in Cairo, studied photography and now works full-time as a scientific museum assistant for the National Museums in Berlin with a focus on the Middle East.
She edits texts for us and helps with the structural planning of the Academy.

steffen

cieplik
support

steffen
cieplik
support

Steffen produces commercials and image films, music videos, documentaries and much more under his label creoflux. He is a true jack-of-all-trades, as he produces everything from concept to film music from a single source – with a large portion of cinema flair.
Since 2020, he has been working and living alternately in Görlitz and Potsdam. He was a participant in the first edition, has tasted blood in the implementation of fictional films and supports us together with Luisa, Sophia and Otto with his skills as an all-rounder in the implementation of the film project.

tom
rodig
intern

tom rodig
intern

Tom is currently studying culture and management at the University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz in the fifth semester. He has experience in cultural work in the rural area of Upper Lusatia. Tom leads a workshop in creative writing sponsored by the university.
As part of his internship at the university, Tom joins us in March and over the course of the months will assist with grant applications and the development of further local collaborations.

SOPHIE
BOCK

Projektleitung & Locationmanagement

Sophie arbeitet im Festengagement als Schauspielerin am Staatstheater Cottbus und engagiert sich im sorbischen Künstlerinnenkollektiv „Kolektiw Wakuum“und anderen Cottbuser Initiativen. Sie absolvierte ihr Schauspielstudium an der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste und wird seit 2020 vom „Lucky Punch Management“ Berlin vertreten. Sie lernte Görlitz intensiv durch unsere erste Akademie im Juli 2021 kennen und hat sich vom Fleck weg in die Stadt und ihr Umland verliebt. Sophie ist als Teil des Leitungsteams und verantwortlich für die interne Kommunikation und Koordination. Während der Akademie übernimmt sie das Locationmanagement vor Ort im Kühlhaus..

FELIX
SCHUSTER

Lokale Kooperationen

Der Wahlgörlitzer Felix Schuster arbeitet als Kulturmanager und verantwortet in seiner Position als Projektkoordinator seit einigen Jahren erfolgreich das Festival für zeitgenössische Kunst Zukunftsvisionen. Bereits in seiner Masterarbeit Chancen und Potenziale der Stadt Görlitz als Standort für Filmproduktionen im Fachbereich Kultur und Management an der Hochschule Zittau/Görlitz beschäftigte er sich eingehend mit den spartenspezifischen Möglichkeiten vor Ort. Felix fungiert als Ansprechpartner vor Ort wo er lokale Kooperationen aufbaut und so die Anbindung an die Region stärkt.

SUSANNE
ASSMANN

Moderation und Filmprojekte

Die freischaffende Filmregisseurin aus Erfurt realisiert Dokumentationen und Kurzspielfilme. Ihre filmische Laufbahn startete Susanne direkt nach dem Abitur mit dem Filmmaking Certificate an der London Film Academy. Es folgten diverse Assistenzen und Praktika, das Studium Visuelle Kommunikation an der Bauhaus-Universität, sowie freie Auftragsprojekte. 2019 gewann sie den KONTAKT Nachwuchspreis der Mitteldeutschen Medienförderung. Während der Akademie sorgt Susanne für die Organisation- und Kommunikationsstruktur der Filmprojekte.

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SEBASTIAN SCHÖNBERGER IDEA & PROGRAM ALEXANDREA LEIBMANN PROJECT MANAGEMENT
BODO HEISS FINANCE & TEAM MANAGEMENT KAROLINE HERRE WEBSITE & COOPERATIONS
ZOÉ SALOME BESIGK SOCIAL MEDIA BRITTA SCHOENING CONSULTING OTTO KRONSCHWITZ PROJECTS
FLORIAN SCHNELL TUTORING VANESSA IVAN EVENTMANAGEMENT JASCHAR MARKAZI NOUBAR WORKOUTS
NINA KOZEL KITCHEN STEPHANIE LEBOLT TRANSLATION LEONIE KIRCHER TEXT
STEFFEN CIEPLIK TUTORING TOM RODIG INTERN

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