John Goetz
John Goetz is an award-winning writer, investigative journalist and filmmaker. His films have been shown on the German public broadcaster ARD, on ARTE, DR, SVT, and Channel 4 and at film festivals around the world. His film “Snowden’s Great Escape” won the best documentary prize from the German Television Academy in 2015. His film “Secret Wars” which exposed Germany’s previously unknown role in the US war on terror was awarded the RIAS Prize in 2013. The author of three books, Goetz has also worked as a producer at CBS’s “60 Minutes” at the CBC’s “fifth estate”. As a staff journalist at DER SPIEGEL, he was awarded Germany's Nannen Prize for his story about a German war crime in Afghanistan. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Sunday Times, the Guardian, and the German newspaper the Süddeutsche Zeitung. In 2011, he joined the broadcaster NDR as Editor of Investigations. Born in Chicago and raised in New York, John has lived and worked in Berlin since 1989.
Ben Hopkins
Screenwriter, filmmaker and novelist Ben Hopkins was born in Hong Kong and grew up in London, where he studied at the Royal College of Art. He speaks English, German, Italian, Turkish and French and has lived in London and Istanbul. Today he resides in Berlin. His films include features and shorts, fiction and documentary, and have won awards at festivals such as Berlin, Locarno, Antalya and Toronto Hot Docs.
Poul-Erik Heilbuth
Poul-Erik Heilbuth is an award-winning Danish documentary filmmaker an award-winning Danish documentary filmmaker. In 2018, Poul-Erik Heilbuth was awarded the highest award for television in Denmark, Årets Otto, by the Danish Producers Association for his "high level of ambition," his "insistence on thorough research," and his "unyielding commitment to the search for truth." A number of Poul-Erik Heilbuth's documentaries have been screened around the world, including his most famous film about Edward Snowden in 2015, "Terminal F/Chasing Edward Snowden." The film won the Best Documentary of the Year in Germany in 2015, awarded by the German Academy of Television. For "The man who lied the world into war" he received the AIB award for "best investigative documentary".