Team 2024
The International Poetry Film Festival of Thuringia is an annual festival dedicated to the genres of poetry film and video poetry. The center of the festival is the presentation of the Weimar Poetry Film Award at the Lichhaus cinema. The festival wants to stimulate and perpetuate the exchange between literature and media art, between filmmakers and authors in Thuringia and Central Germany. Weimar is a place of literature and art, and a city of great poets and poetry. It lends itself particularly well to such an ambition. The festival is characterized by the close connection between an international competition, its own film production, and the Poetry film magazine.
Ana Maria Vallejo
Festival Director and Curator / Bauhaus-University
Ana is an animator and filmmaker. She loves papercuts, collage and experimental films. She’s co-founder of the Weimar Animation Club. She curates together with Guido Naschert the competition
http://anavallejo.de/
Photo: Trevor Johnson
Catalina Giraldo Vélez
Festival Director / Head of Visual Design / Bauhaus-University
Catalina is a visual designer and animator and part of the direction team where she takes care of keeping all strings together in the planning of the festival. In addition, she also coordinates our design team and takes care of the web design. She’s co-founder of the Weimar Animation Club. https://gatomonodesign.com/
Photo: Trevor Johnson
Guido Naschert
Festival Director and Curator / Literary Society of Thuringia
Guido is the festival’s director and manages the Literary Society of Thuringia. Together with Aline Helmcke he founded the “Poetry film Magazine” and the Weimar Poetry Film Award. He curates the competition, as well as the international program. http://www.guidonaschert.de https://www.literarische-gesellschaft.de/
Photo: Trevor Johnson
Aline Helmcke
Festival Team / Poetry film Magazine
Aline is a filmmaker and animator with many years of experience with the poetry film genre. Together with Guido Naschert she founded the Poetry film Magazine and the Weimar Poetry Film Award. https://ahelmcke.com/
Camilo Londoño Hernández
Festival Team / Graphic Design
Camilo is a Colombian cuir (queer) writer, visual artist, and independent curator. He graduated with a master’s in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies at the Bauhaus Universität-Weimar. His work plays with the borders of images and words. Now, he is in charge of our visual identity.
Website: camilolondono.net
Photo: Carlos Santos
Elijah Aran
Festival Team / Social Media
Foto: Trevor Johnson
Franka Sachse
Festival Team / Workshop
Franka is an animating animator and an independent filmmaker. As teacher at School of Art and Design Kassel she is animating young talents to animate. She’s co-founder of the Weimar Animation Club. This year she is teaching our stop-motion-workshop at the ACC Gallery. www.instagram.com/frankasachse/
Photo: Alejandra Arévalo
Jessica Krecisz
Festival Team / Curator
Jessica is a media artist and filmmaker. Her work explores and mixes fiction, documentary and animation. Shiro is a fluffy Samoyed who never leaves her side.
Photo: Daša Geiger
Juliane Fuchs
Festival Team / Networking
Juliane coordinated for many years the Film Institute of the Bauhaus University Weimar and co-founded the former backup_festival at the University. She supports our team with her many years of experience in festival organization and in the film industry.
Photo: Alejandra Arévalo
Katharina Mänz
Festival Team / Performances
Katharina is Media Art and Design Student. She is part of the Production team.
Photo: Trevor Johnson
Lena Angert
Festival Team / Press & Social Media
Lena is a student of Theatre, film and media studies in Vienna and works freelance in media education. She is in charge of press and public relations and manages the social media channels.
Lucien Sieber
Festival Team / Universities Program
Lucien studies a double major in art education at the Bauhaus University.
Natalia Azuero
Festival Photographer
Nicolas Concha
Festival Team / Web development
Rokzog is in charge of web development and takes care that our website works without problems.
Nicolás Quintero Mosquera
Festival Team / Web Design
Nicolás is an independent film maker, musician and sound artist, studying Media Arts and Design at the Bauhaus University.
Polina Mitiaeva
Graphic Design
Sandra Reyes
Festival Team / Trailer / Screenings
Meet Sandra! She’s an independent filmmaker and passionate about animation, storytelling, image and sound. During the festival she is in charge of video editing and has the mission of the screening projection in situ at Lichthaus Kino.
Photo: Trevor Johnson
Sebastian Giraldo - Bitghost
Festival Team / Sound Design & Music
Bitghost is an electronic music project from Bogotá, Colombia. Bitghost produces all music tracks and creates the sound design for our trailer and during the screenings at the theater.