DOK.digital – The Future of Storytelling

Vinzenz Aubry is a German-French designer and media artist. He is co-founder of the design studio sansho, where he designs and develops new digital narrative formats for music, culture and editorial applications. Vinzenz regularly exhibits and teaches at universities in the field of web and new media.

Felizitas Hoffmann completed her Bachelor's degree in Ethnology and Art/Music/Theatre at the LMU Munich in 2014. Since 2014 she has been studying documentary film and television journalism at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF). In 2017 she founded the art collective Hybris together with Theresa Hoffmann and Natalia Jobe.

Isabel's heart beats for good storytelling - preferably on new playout paths and platforms. She also likes: different perspectives & different imagery. That's why she brought webdokus to production at rbb, tested WhatsApp for tagesschau and worked for funk as a format developer and editor. Their funk format "Jäger & Sammler" got her and her team nominated for the Grimme Award and the Grimme Online Award.

Born 1983 in Wetzikon, raised in Toggenburg (SG). After high school Joël Jent worked as a flight attendant and secondary school teacher. From 2004 to 2010 he studied political science, film studies and social/economic history at the University of Zurich, graduating in 2010 with a Master of Arts degree.
Over the years since 2003, Jent has produced several documentary and short film projects, including his own directorial work. Since April 2011 he is working for Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion - since 2014 as producer and since 2018 as partner. As a producer he was responsible for the feature films IRAQI ODYSSEY (TIFF and Berlinale) and BAGHDAD IN MY SHADOW (Locarno) by Samir, as well as the short film FACING MECCA (Student Academy Award) by Jan-Eric Mack.

Joël Jent was invited to Cannes in 2016 by EFP - European Film Promotion as "Producer on the Move" for Switzerland. He is a member of the European and the Swiss Film Academy. In 2017 he was appointed co-director of the practice area "Creative Producing" at the Zurich University of the Arts.

Since 2015 Felix Klee has been studying Directing for Documentary Film at the HFF Munich. In 2016 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Munich with a diploma. He studied painting with Prof. Fries and time-based media with Prof. Rosefeldt. From 2011 to 2014 he studied painting with Prof. Hartmann at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg. He is currently working on short films with the Mexican director Gisela Carbajal and the Cameroonian director Cyrielle Raingou. 

Since 2015, Matthias Leitner has been responsible for the storytelling lab story: first and since 2018 web: first for Bayerischer Rundfunk. He also works in digital development as a project and idea manager. He has received various awards for his journalistic work, and the federal government's cultural and creative industries have appointed Matthias Leitner as a Fellow in 2017.

Stefan Marx has been an integral part of Berlin's tech startup scene for several years. Before, he was mainly on the road as a co-founder and product developer for his AR/VR startup Viorama, founded in 2015, of which the technology was sold in 2018. With the startup and their app "Splash" Stefan and his co-founders were able to collect 2.5 million Euros seedfunding in early 2016 after winning the startup competition on the SXSW. 

Stefan studied Philosophy of Technology at the TU Berlin and Design Thinking at the Hasso Plattner Institute. His expertise lies in innovative product development, interface design and game engine programming.

Marta Orosz is a business journalist at Correctiv research centre. In 2019 she headed the investigative research Grand Theft Europe on the largest ongoing VAT fraud in Europe, involving 35 editorial offices from 30 countries. Prior to that she researched the cement industry and free trade agreements. Together with Stern magazine she published stories about sexual abuse on WDR. Marta is currently studying at the MBA School and Institute of Journalism at New York University and is researching about billionaires and coronavirus for Forbes USA. 

Anne-Sophie Panzer founded ZAUBAR together with Stefan Marx at the beginning of 2019. The company develops new narrative formats for artistic and journalistic storytelling in augmented reality and implements them technically and in terms of content. (previous customers: Tagesspiegel, BR, SWR). Anne-Sophie has a Master's degree in Public Policy and worked as a video journalist and author while studying at the University of Potsdam. She has worked for Alex TV, Xen.On TV, her own productions and books and during various internships at RBB, ZDF Frontal 21 and MDR.

Jutta Schirmacher is a speaker at the Bavarian Regulatory Authority for Commercial Broadcasting (BLM) in the field of media competence and youth protection and is a foundation officer at the Media Education Foundation Bavaria, which was founded by the BLM. She studied media, law and political science at the Philipps University of Marburg and completed an apprenticeship at Hubert Burda Media. As a film consultant for the BLM, she has also been entrusted with the preparation of the meetings of the FFF Bayern awards committee since 2014. Since 2016 she has been a jury member of the German Film and Media Evaluation (FBW).

Sebastian Sorg is a creative project developer for film and innovative media who is based in Munich, Germany. After creating and managing DOK.forum at DOK.fest Munich, he focussed on project development, financing strategies and funding.

Sebastian Strobel is a communication designer with a conceptual focus on digital narrative formats for culture, society and business. As co-founder of sansho, he has been working in interdisciplinary teams on the conception, design and implementation of web-based projects since 2017.