This year's submission deadline has expired and numerous films have found their way to our festival office.

Now it's the turn of our selection committee!
You want to know what those ladies and gentlemen are dealing with exactly?

Well, they keep their eyes and ears open throughout the year, fly to film festivals all around the world, get wind of any promising films that are completed, keep in touch with directors – and spend one month a year sitting in front of the television for so long they can no longer see straight.

And not only that: their decisions are awaited with curiosity and eagerness by the two thousand filmmakers and producers, journalists, other film festivals and, last but not least, the viewers, because they are the ones that decide which films will make the competition and the international programme.

The DOK selection committee for the festival is composed equally and evenly of four men and four women, namely:

Festival Director DOK Leipzig, filmmaker

Born 1966 in Hamburg, 1996 graduation from the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) dept. IV "Documentary film and television journalism".
From autumn 1997, establishment of a new Chair of Television Journalism at the HFF as assistant to Professor Gerd Ruge.
1999 development, establishment and Director of Studies role for the Discovery Campus European education programme for documentary filmmakers.
1999 – 2002 Board Member of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Dokumentarfilm (ag.dok)
2000 – 2002 Director of Studies at Discovery Campus e.V., including the establishment of the Discovery Campus Masterschool .
2001 - 2004 Board Member of the European Documentary Network (EDN)
2002 Board Member of the Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival München e.V. (Munich International Documentary Film Festival)
since 2004 Director and Managing Director of the DOK Leipzig

Film publicist and journalist

Born 1953, studied German, Romance languages and architecture in Marburg, Paris and Frankfurt. Film publicist and translator since 1980. Editor of the journal "Filmkritik" until 1984. 1990-95 Press Officer at "Tobis Filmkunst", television journalist since 1996. Curator of the Berlinale-Retrospektive 2005. Ralph Eue lives and works in Berlin.

Filmmaker and author

Born 1951 in Hamburg, 1971-1977 studies in literature, history, politics and philosophy; University of Hamburg, Staatsexamen (MA equiv.). 1977-1979 studies/residency in the USA, Canada and South-East Asia. Journalistic work, radio, television, trade press; since 1979 active as freelance filmmaker/author in Hamburg. 1980 co-founder of film production unit (Rhizomfilm) with Monika Hielscher, 1992 Board Member of the Hamburger Filmbüro, 1995/98 Managing Director of the Hamburger Filmbüro; 1998 founding member of the Hamburger Filmverein, 1999 member of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Dokumentarfilm, 2003 participation in the Discovery Campus Master School, member of the EDN/European Documentary Network.

Author and Dramaturge

born in 1962 in Dresden; film studies at HFF Potsdam-Babelsberg; 1990-2002 programme director of Filmkunsthaus Babylon in Berlin, since then free-lance author of documentary films, dramaturge and curator, amongst others selection committee of the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen; presently working as film journalist at "zero Film".

Author and film publicist

Born in 1965 in Spremberg/Niederlausitz. Studies in cultural studies, ethnology and literature, in Leipzig; since 1993 freelance author for print/TV (including Leipziger Volkszeitung, junge Welt, die tageszeitung, MDR, WHDTV/USA); academic publications on biographical research and folk culture, since 1991 in various functions at DOK Leipzig, including 1995-2003 Press Spokesperson; selection work for the Sheffield International Documentary Festival; since 1998 also involved with the Festival of East European Cinema Cottbus; curator and project management for film series; university teaching posts; collaboration as author on documentary films and publications regarding documentary films.

Producer and Festival Director

Programme Director for Animated Film at the DOK Leipzig

has been Festival Director of the International Short Film Festival –Filmfest Dresden till summer 2010. Before that, she worked in the position of a Research Fellow at the Institute of Communication and Media Studies at Leipzig University after completing her studies there in 2002 and taught courses on film and television analysis. Aside from her work as film editor for diverse radio stations and magazines, Annegret Richter has also been actively involved with the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animation Film since 2001 and curated the special animated documentary programme there in 2008. Animated documentaries also happen to be the theme of her dissertation.

Media Scholar

Born 1978 in Nuremberg. Graduates in Communication and Media Studies, Cultural Studies and Computer Science in Leipzig. Since 2000 scientific co-editor of the independent research project "Animation in New Media": publications, workshops and film programmes on diverse aspects of (digital) animated film. Since 2006 programme assistant for animated film at DOK Leipzig.

Author and University Lecturer

Ph.D Media scholar for film studies and new media, curator for film and new media festivals and free lance journalist. Between 1995 and 2008 she worked as a researcher and/or guest professor at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, the University of Leipzig, and the University of Fine Arts in Berlin. Currently, she is press relations officer at the gameslab, University of Applied Sciences, Berlin. Her research areas are animation, new media, film & television analysis, computer games and media theory. She has selected and curated for various renown festivals. She is a member of the editorial board of "Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal", Sage, and a board member of the German Institute for Animated Film.