Anna-Katharina Gerson is an art and film historian with over 25 years of experience in the European cultural and media sector. For over ten years, she was programme and festival director of the B3 Festival of the Moving Image in Frankfurt, both curatorially and organisationally, and prior to that she conceived the film and media section of the Frankfurt Book Fair.

Her focus is on cross-media formats at the intersection of film, literature, art and immersive technologies such as virtual reality and artificial intelligence. She has many years of experience working with national and international institutions – from the Berlinale to Creative Europe, from film funding organisations to cultural foundations and state ministries. Her eye for narrative forms and cultural developments was shaped not least by her origins in a cinema family in the Black Forest.

Cornelia Hammelmann has been active in the European film and media industry for over 30 years. After working in various film and television productions both in Germany and abroad, she became the Managing Director of the former MEDIA Desk Hamburg, and later served as Project Manager of the German Federal Film Fund (DFFF). In this role, she was involved in numerous international projects, including Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel and Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies.

As a recognised networker, she brings in-depth experience in script consulting, text development, moderation, and entrepreneurial project work.She is a member of the European Film Academy and an advisor to the Ischia Film Festival.