Student Short Film Competition Judges

For th evaluation of our student competition, we got support from the Berufskolleg Bottrop.

From right to left side: Phil Kupka, Marijana Aleksic, Dimitrios Lallos, Ahmad Amo, Max Beyer

The team is supported by Linda Verweyen and Patrick Ritter.

Linda Verweyen studied in her bachelor's degree 'Expressive Arts in Social Transformation' with a specialization in the social and individual relevance of film production and reception. She is currently studying film with a focus on directing in her master's degree at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences, focusing on participatory film production, documentary-fictional form and social change processes through art. Her participatory graduation film "Halima" received funding for graduation films from the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW.

Patrick Ritter (M.A.), cultural worker from Bochum, studied Empirical Cultural Studies, Sociology and English Literature at the University of Tübingen. In 2015, he came to the Ruhr area for a traineeship in project management at Urbane Künste Ruhr and has since worked mostly in participatory art and cultural projects as a curator, workshop leader and author. Some of his stations: Interkultur Ruhr (Regionalverband Ruhr), former Zukunftskademie NRW Bochum, Kommunikationsmuseum Frankfurt, the Endstation.Kino in Bochum, IFAK e.V. (MSO in Bochum), the BIH Looks Around Film Festival in Bottrop and others.