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marcel kolvenbach,
writer, director and producer is the founder of publicnomad productions: author driven documentaries for TV, online and cinema.
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AWARDS (selection)
* Audience Award "Best Film" 20th Jewish Film Festival, Punta del Este, Uruguay 2023
* Audience Award "LÜdia", Kinofest LÜnen 2022
* ARD Program Award, 2019
* Grimme Online Award, 2015
* Environmental Investigation Award, Japan Festival 2015
* Gold Word Medal, New York Festivals 2014
* Best Green Report, Green Screen Festival 2013
* Marler Television Award 2007
* German Human Rights Film Award 2006
* Bronze World Medal, New York Festivals 2005
Throughout my career, I have explored the intersection of visual media, human rights, and social responsibility. My documentaries for cinema and television including ATOMIC AFRICA, DÜGÜN and the award-winning SEARCHING FOR FRITZ KANN, have been recognized at festivals and broadcast internationally. They reflect my enduring engagement with questions of memory, identity, and justice.
In the collaborative and transformative project IN SITU on poverty and cancer in marginalized communities in Argentina, I expanded my documentary practice to include scientific work in collaboration with the University of Buenos Aires, resulting in various scientific publications.
From 1997 to 2000, I lived and worked in New York as a journalist for ARD, and my earlier involvement with the RIAS Berlin Commission remains an important anchor of my transatlantic perspective. Later, I was based in Bruxelles and worked in many countries in Europe and Latin America, focusing on journalism and investigative reporting. From 2009 to 2012, I lived in Kampala, Uganda, and traveled with my camera to 12 African countries.
Since 2017, I have held a professorship in documentary film at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM). My teaching philosophy is centered on dialogue, experimentation, and the development of a strong personal voice in students work.
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