JURY FOR SPECIAL TOPIC AWARD 2024
We are thrilled to have secured the participation of the following three experts for the jury of our special theme at the Greenmotions Film Festival 2024. With their expertise and passion for film and sustainability, they have selected the winning films. We sincerely thank them for their commitment and invaluable support!
Claudia Carolin Münch
Claudia Carolin Münch is a freelance documentary filmmaker as well as a video and performance artist based in Freiburg. In addition to creating documentary films and video projects for the independent dance and theater scene, she works as a mentor for GIRLS GO MOVIE and was actively involved in the video collective ecapio for many years. Her films have been screened at numerous national and international festivals.
She studied Fine Arts in the Film Department at the Kunsthochschule Mainz and at the state art school “Instituto Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes” in Montevideo, Uruguay. She also completed training in stage dance at the School for Dance, Improvisation & Performance (TIP) in Freiburg.
Rich Felgate
Rich Felgate is a climate activist turned documentary filmmaker, based in London. His debut feature film is FINITE, winner of multiple awards including the FIPADOC Impact Grand Prix and the Audience Award at Greenmotions Film Festival 2023. Whilst making the film, Rich spent a year and a half living in protest camps with communities opposing opencast coal mining in the UK and Germany. He is now in production on a new feature doc called Everything Is Fine following activists in the group Just Stop Oil.
Alexa Weik von Mossner
Alexa Weik von Mossner is an Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Klagenfurt and currently a visiting professor of Media Culture Studies at the Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg. After several years working as a TV production manager for SWR in Stuttgart and later as head writer for the ARD youth series FABRIXX, she earned her PhD from the University of California, San Diego, and completed her habilitation at the University of Klagenfurt after a postdoctoral phase in Switzerland. As an internationally recognized film scholar, she currently focuses on interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary reception research. She also leads the research project “Visionen der Nachhaltigkeit” funded by the Innovation Campus for Sustainability (ICN), which presents engaging and solution-oriented documentary films on sustainability at the Harmonie Cinema in Freiburg.