International Co-Production with the DACH Region. Spotlight on Greece

Rea was born in the United Kingdom and grew up in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, and Cyprus. She studied Ancient and Modern History at the University of Oxford, and Modern Greek History and Literature at King’s College London. Based in Athens, she produces documentaries for Anemon, focusing on history, culture, gender, and films for young audiences. Rea co-organises CineDoc, a documentary screening network operating in cinemas across five cities and 20 Aegean islands in Greece. She was also a co-founder of Moving Docs, an initiative run by EDN that supported the pan-European distribution and promotion of documentaries across Europe between 2014-2018.

Thomas Kufus started his career as a director of documentary films as a self-taught filmmaker in 1987. In 1990, he founded the production company Zero Film in Berlin, initially for documentary films and, from 2011 onwards, also for fictional works. The company’s catalogue, now under the name Zero One Film, includes over 150 cinema and television productions, many of which were realised as international co-productions, premiered at major festivals, and received prestigious awards such as the German and European Film Awards as well as the Grimme Awards.

Sophia Rubischung is a Swiss-Austrian citizen based in Zurich. She holds a Master of Arts in History and English Literature from the University of Zurich. She is an alumna of EURODOC, ProPro, IDFAcademy, IDFA Project Space, TFL Extended Series, Doha Film Institute Producer's Lab, and Racconti Script Lab (IDM Südtirol). In addition to her work in production, she is a freelance lecturer specializing in film history and analysis.

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.