Awards 2019
The Sustainable Impact Award acknowledges and celebrates the power of documentaries to contribute for a lasting change. The award, endowed by the Federal Foreign Office with 3.000 EUR, will be presented at the Human Rights Film Festival Berlin 2019 for the first time.
Per Byman
CEO of NRC Flüchtlingshilfe Deutschland.
Selmin Çalışkan
Director of Institutional Relationships in the Berlin Office of the Open Society Foundations
Marie Steinmann
Founder of One Fine Day e. V. and ONE FINE DAY FILMS
The price, endowed with EUR 3,000 by the Bundeskanzler-Willy-Brandt Stiftung, honours a documentary film for its outstanding artistic and editorial achievement. It will be presented by Peter Brandt at the Human Rights Film Festival Berlin 2019.
Fred Abrahams
Associate Director for Program Human Rights Watch
Karin Albers
Filmmaker and visual artist (www.almafilm.de)
Marion Döring
CEO of EFA Productions gGmbH
Malte Mau
Head of Press and Public Relations Bundeskanzler-Willy-Brandt-Stiftung
Martina Dase
Director of Media & Communications Save the Children
The prize, endowed with EUR 3,000 by the UNO-Flüchtlingshilfe national partner of UNHCR, honours eight short films by young filmmakers under 24 on the subject of “What do human rights mean to you?” The best submissions will be shown during the festival.
Dirk Wilutzky
Producer and Director
(2015 Oscar for CITIZENFOUR)
Anetta Kahanes
Founder and Board Member of the Amadeu Antonio Stiftung
Gunnar Solka,
Actor
Jabora Speder
Human Rights Film Festival Berlin
Sophia Oppermann
Founder and CEO "Gesicht zeigen!"
Stephan Lamby
Film Maker and Producer
Adnan Maral
Actor, Author and Producer
Bernhard von Grünberg
Member of the Honorary Board of the UNO-Flüchtlingshilfe
