This year's submission deadline has expired and numerous films have found their way to our festival office.

Now it's the turn of our selection committee!
You want to know what those ladies and gentlemen are dealing with exactly?

Well, they keep their eyes and ears open throughout the year, fly to film festivals all around the world, get wind of any promising films that are completed, keep in touch with directors – and spend one month a year sitting in front of the television for so long they can no longer see straight.

And not only that: their decisions are awaited with curiosity and eagerness by the two thousand filmmakers and producers, journalists, other film festivals and, last but not least, the viewers, because they are the ones that decide which films will make the competition and the international programme.

The DOK selection committee for the festival is composed equally and evenly of four men and four women, namely:

Festival Director DOK Leipzig, filmmaker

Born 1966 in Hamburg, 1996 graduation from the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) dept. IV "Documentary film and television journalism".
From autumn 1997, establishment of a new Chair of Television Journalism at the HFF as assistant to Professor Gerd Ruge.
1999 development, establishment and Director of Studies role for the Discovery Campus European education programme for documentary filmmakers.
1999 – 2002 Board Member of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Dokumentarfilm (ag.dok)
2000 – 2002 Director of Studies at Discovery Campus e.V., including the establishment of the Discovery Campus Masterschool .
2001 - 2004 Board Member of the European Documentary Network (EDN)
2002 Board Member of the Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival München e.V. (Munich International Documentary Film Festival)
since 2004 Director and Managing Director of the DOK Leipzig

Film publicist and journalist

Born 1953, studied German, Romance languages and architecture in Marburg, Paris and Frankfurt. Film publicist and translator since 1980. Editor of the journal "Filmkritik" until 1984. 1990-95 Press Officer at "Tobis Filmkunst", television journalist since 1996. Curator of the Berlinale-Retrospektive 2005. Ralph Eue lives and works in Berlin.

Filmmaker and author

Born 1951 in Hamburg, 1971-1977 studies in literature, history, politics and philosophy; University of Hamburg, Staatsexamen (MA equiv.). 1977-1979 studies/residency in the USA, Canada and South-East Asia. Journalistic work, radio, television, trade press; since 1979 active as freelance filmmaker/author in Hamburg. 1980 co-founder of film production unit (Rhizomfilm) with Monika Hielscher, 1992 Board Member of the Hamburger Filmbüro, 1995/98 Managing Director of the Hamburger Filmbüro; 1998 founding member of the Hamburger Filmverein, 1999 member of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Dokumentarfilm, 2003 participation in the Discovery Campus Master School, member of the EDN/European Documentary Network.

Author and Dramaturge

born in 1962 in Dresden; film studies at HFF Potsdam-Babelsberg; 1990-2002 programme director of Filmkunsthaus Babylon in Berlin, since then free-lance author of documentary films, dramaturge and curator, amongst others selection committee of the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen; presently working as film journalist at "zero Film".

Author and film publicist

Born in 1965 in Spremberg/Niederlausitz. Studies in cultural studies, ethnology and literature, in Leipzig; since 1993 freelance author for print/TV (including Leipziger Volkszeitung, junge Welt, die tageszeitung, MDR, WHDTV/USA); academic publications on biographical research and folk culture, since 1991 in various functions at DOK Leipzig, including 1995-2003 Press Spokesperson; selection work for the Sheffield International Documentary Festival; since 1998 also involved with the Festival of East European Cinema Cottbus; curator and project management for film series; university teaching posts; collaboration as author on documentary films and publications regarding documentary films.

Author and dramaturgical advisor

Born in 1973; 1992-99 Humboldt University of Berlin: theatre and film studies as well as English and American studies, academic degree: Master of Arts; 1996-99 Manfred Durniok Produktion für Film und TV: script editing & proof-reading, research; 1999 script/direction/production of the short feature film „Einer ist immer dabei“ (There is always one) in collaboration with H. Leissner & U. Havemann (short film competition entry for the 2000 Max Ophüls Prize); 2000-2001 Goldsmiths College, University of London: postgraduate programme „M.A. Feature Film“, academic degreee Master of Arts; 2002 Volksbühne am Rosa Luxemburg Platz, Berlin: assistant to the dramaturge; 2002-2003 Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg: freelance work for the film funding department; since 2003 also freelance author (e.g. for SFB/Radio Kultur; the „Amerika“-Magazin; „Tippgemeinschaft“ of the Leipzig-based German Institute for Creative Writing), script editor and dramaturgical adviser (e.g. for Medienboard, T&G Films, Prounen Film, LISUM Berlin-Brandenburg); 2003-2006 Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg: funding consultant for documentary films; 2007 DOK Leipzig: organization of and film selection for the Leipzig Screening.

Programme Director for Animated Film at the DOK Leipzig

Born in 1968. Studies in cultural studies and media/communication science in Leipzig. One year study and residency in London and Bologna respectively. Since 1992 annual organisation and moderation for the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film. Since 1997 involvement in the animation film Leipzig and Programme Director for animated film at DOK Leipzig since 2006.

Media Scholar

Born 1978 in Nuremberg. Graduates in Communication and Media Studies, Cultural Studies and Computer Science in Leipzig. Since 2000 scientific co-editor of the independent research project "Animation in New Media": publications, workshops and film programmes on diverse aspects of (digital) animated film. Since 2006 programme assistant for animated film at DOK Leipzig.