Meet the Experts Consultancies

With over a decade of experience (Cinéma Defacto, Avenue B, Bathysphere), Maud Berbille founded MB17 FILMS in 2022. Specialized in international co-production and supporting strong female voices, she produced My Wonderful Stranger (2024) and Libertalia (2025). In the documentary field, she collaborates with ARTE (Rispondimi, A First Film Diary) and is currently developing Jeanne Nouchi’s Anatolia, supported by the CNC and Chicken & Egg. A graduate of Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris and La Fémis (Screenplay Expertise), Maud’s first feature developments are backed by ARTE Cofinova. She is a member of the 2026 EURODOC program.

Managing Director of Creative Europe Desk Munich, an information office of the Creative Europe MEDIA Programme of the European Union. Creative Europe MEDIA offers support to the European audiovisual sector across the value chain, from training and development to production, distribution and exhibition. Creative Europe Desks in all member states of the programme inform about these funding opportunities and give advice on preparing applications for funding.

Natalia Imaz is a Germany-based documentary producer with over 25 years of experience. Through parabellum film, she produces internationally acclaimed documentaries, with a focus on women directors, emerging voices, and stories shaped by migration, identity, memory, and social change. At this year’s festival, she participates both as a producer—with The Woman Who Poked the Leopard and Niñas Escarlata in the programme—and as an executive board member of DAE – Documentary Association of Europe, a network of 700+ professionals that shares resources, fosters collaboration and provides advocacy across the documentary sector. She is available for consultations on production and DAE’s work and network, and open to discussing potential collaborations.

Tamer Nady is an Egyptian filmmaker working across cinema and moving image practices, engaging with questions of medium, identity, and history. His work as a producer, cinematographer, and editor has been screened and awarded at major international festivals and institutions, including Visions du Réel, Berlinale, Rotterdam, and the Venice Biennale. His credits include Fiancées (2019), The Tedious Tour of M (2023), and I Am Hymns of the New Temples (2023). Alongside his practice, he works as a film lecturer, mentors emerging filmmakers, and serves on selection committees within leading film schools. He is a EURODOC member, BIPOC EuroDoc Cluster Lead, and co-founder of Cellar Door Studios in Cairo.

Thomas Slatter is a film producer and curator based in Munich. After his first entrepreneurial experience in communications and marketing, he began his studies at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) with a scholarship from VFF, the German film and television producers' copyright collective. In 2024, he won the DOK.talent Award, which enabled the financing of his first feature-length documentary, POLITIK IST PERSÖNLICH (co-produced by ZDF and HFF). Through his own company, Sommer Slatter Film, and as programmer of the Zuger Filmtage film festival, he is actively involved in the film scene and advises the Munich-based film distributor Cine Global on acquisition and online communications.

Nadja Smith is a Funding Manager with the German Federal Film Board (FFA), responsible for the jury-based film funding with a focus on feature-length films in project development and production. Before joining the FFA, she worked as a Producer focusing on documentaries for theatrical release and international co-productions.

Julia Teichmann is serving as Head of Documentary at German Films and additionally supervises the Marketing & Subtitling Support Documentary. She has worked as a curator and is still working as a moderator, among others for DOK.fest München, the Festival of German Cinema in Ludwigshafen am Rhein and the International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg. She was also a film critic for such publications as Berliner Zeitung and Filmdienst, and regularly served on juries at national and international film festivals.

Silvia Tiedtke studied literature and communication in Bamberg, Munich and Swansea, Wales. After completing her doctorate in German literature, she coordinated, among other things, an international doctoral programme at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, organised a symposium on Susan Sontag and published an anthology on the American writer, essayist and director. Silvia Tiedtke is responsible for the areas of story development (including feature film and series, treatments), Gender Incentive and project development as well as for diversity.