NEW SUPERVISORY BOARD FOR GERMAN FILMS

The shareholders of German Films have elected a new board. The new supervisory board chairman is producer Peter Herrmann, who succeeds Martin Moszkowicz. Mariette Rissenbeek, managing director of German Films: “With Peter Herrmann, we were able to win an experienced producer and Oscar^®-winner and an absolute authority of the German and international film industry for our supervisory board. We look forward to working together with him. We would like to thank Martin Moszkowicz for his fantastic work over the last four years. With great commitment and expertise, he supported and promoted the strategic re-organization of German Films to become a more efficient body of support for German films abroad.”

The shareholders are selected the supervisory board for a two-year period. In addition to Peter Herrmann, who represents the German Producers Alliance on the board, Petra Müller, managing director of the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, was newly elected to replace Kirsten Niehuus, managing director of Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg. FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW regularly alternate a seat on the board for a two-year period each to represent the regional funding institutions as shareholders of German Films. Confirmed in their seats on the board are: Peter Dinges (CEO of the German Federal Film Board), Ulrike Schauz (Dept. Head of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture & the Media), Antonio Exacoustos (managing director of ARRI Worldsales, representing the Association of German Film Exporters), and Jana Cernik (managing director of the German Short Film Association). The full list of shareholders of German Films can be found on page 52 of this magazine.