Team
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-Universität Weimar
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. She teaches at the Bauhaus-Universität.
http://anavallejo.de/
Photo: Nathalia Azuero
Catalina Giraldo Vélez
Festival Director / Head of Visual Design / Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
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 and teaches at the Bauhaus-Universität. https://gatomonodesign.com/#!projects
Photo: Nathalia Azuero
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: Nathalia Azuero
Anya Ryzhkova
Social Media
Anya is an animator, masters student at Bauhaus University Weimar and responsible for design and animation in our social media team. This year she curated the New Talents programme together with Lucien Sieber.
Photo: Trevor Johnson
Camilo Londoño Hernández
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
Social Media
Foto: Trevor Johnson
Franka Sachse
Phonotrope 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 Phonotrope Workshop together with Ben Sassen at the LiteraturEtage.
www.instagram.com/frankasachse/
Photo: Alejandra Arévalo
Juliane Fuchs
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
Lena Angert
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
Curator / Production
Lucien studies Art Education at Bauhaus-Universität and has been curating the special international program “New Talents” with productions from the universities since last year.
Nicolas Concha
Web development
Rokzog is in charge of web development and takes care that our website works without problems.
Nicolás Quintero Mosquera
Web / Production
Nicolás is an independent filmmaker, musician and sound artist who studied Media Arts and Design at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. He helps to feed and update our website and is part of the production team for this year’s screenings.
Polina Mitiaeva
Graphic Design
Polina studies Visual Communication at the Bauhaus University Weimar. She supports our team by designing graphic applications for the festival.
Sebastian Giraldo - Bitghost
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.
