About me
Creative Producer & Organizational Developer
Content which provokes minds and questions standards is my creative home. So welcome to my living room: Who´s perspectives and voices are represented? Who is heard or seen and why?
I am based in Berlin. My two areas of expertise are a matter of perspective, focus and creativity. The claim to create newness within media formats is labor- and staff-intensive and thus requires targeted coordination. So not only in production itself I establish an environment for efficient processes but also in a broader way.
For two years I initiated, developed, and changed processes and communication structures @UFA. I developed a diversity and inclusion commitment which was the first of its kind in any German media company.
As a creative producer my aim is to produce content in which empowered and inclusive stories are explored. As an organizational developer I create structures in companies where this will be possible.
Films
Have a look at these wonderful narrative features and documentaries.
Co:creation: Ein Kunst Experiment
(2023 I 56 min I Documentary I ARD Kultur)
Producer for Turbokultur GmbH
Hieronymus Bosch’s „Garden of Delights“ has inspired five artists to work together to create a modern, digital version of the garden.
The „Garden of Delights“ is a well-known work by the Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch. This work now becomes the inspiration for the documentary of a major art experiment realised by WDR for ARD Kultur. Five artists working with digital and video art create a new Garden of Delights together.
Wer ist uns?
(2022 I 60 min I Digital Theater /Fiction)
Producer
Director: Caro Schwarz
Aliens contact humanity. They are looking for a human to represent humanity in an intergalactic committee. An artificial intelligence is supposed to help in this process by selecting from the applications. The viewers form control groups, can decide between the applicants in interactive elements.
Munich 72 - 50 Years (WT)
(2022 I 3 x 45 min I Docu-Fiction)
Producer / Line Producer (Germany)
By Amazon Prime & Channel 8
Distributed: Telepool
The series, Munich – 50 Years On, investigates the events that preceded and led to the tragedy in 1972 during the Olympic games. We use documentary interviews with people who were on the scene, giving them the opportunity to tell their story. Fictional scenes will be incorporated to understand, for the first time, all three sides to this story: the Israeli, the Palestinian and the German. Through this unique approach, this series tells complex narratives with subtlety while also keeping viewers fascinated with the fast-paced, dramatic events.
EPHIMERON
(2015 I 25 min I Documentary)
Producer/Director
Ephimeron is a cinematic investigation of the atmospheric, of urban life in Exarchia, a district of Athens. With a curious eye, the film follows the question of what constitutes the lived peculiarity of this district, which stands for anarchy and revolution, and why it is like this.
LOOKING FOR LAUGHTER
(2014 I 13 min I Documentary)
Producer/Director
Festival premiere: Cinema south (Israel) 2014
The delicate question of how our society deals with the taboo subject of the Holocaust is posed in an extraordinary way. The combination of partly staged encounters and documentary aspects invites the audience to a humorous discussion.
In production/development
Have a look at these wonderful narrative features and documentaries, which are in production or development.
SPIRIT DIVINE
(Feature Fiction I Psychological Drama with Thriller elements)
Producer
Writer/Director: Sorina Gajewski
Developed in:
– Torino Next Feature Lab, 2023, Italy
– HerArts Lab 2023, Naples, Italy
A young doctor experiences an existential crisis while visiting her father at a radical, esoteric resort in Andalusia, which teaches men how to cry.
FIRST TASTE
(2022 in production I 30 min I Documentary)
Producer
Director: Sorina Gajewski
Funded by: BKM
Presented at: Talent Award Pitch, Dok.fest Munich 2023
A group of coffee farmers in Macenta, West Africa. A barista in a hip Berlin café. One grows the coffee, the other prepares it – until a moment they share from different perspectives: Tasting Macenta’s coffee. For one, something commonplace; for the others, the first time in their decades of work.
What I do
In an advisory or executive capacity, I accompany projects and creatively working people and companies in achieving their goals.
Creative producing
Making a film is hard work and the most beautiful task in the world. I´m a lucky son of a gun to produce and develop formats with very talented people. To develop films and stories, to produce and to reach out to a an audience is what drives me.
Organizational Development
The claim to create newness within media formats is labor- and staff-intensive and thus requires thaughtful coordination. I consult to explore and establish an environment for efficient processes, to ensure a sustainable and solid growth of strategic key topics within the organization.
Green Consultant
I have received an MBB scholarship to become a green consultant as part of the Green Actors Lounge. From 2023, I will advise producers on their way to more sustainability.
Educational training & experiences
Here are some milestones which describe my journey have a look at my educational training & experiences.
Education:
2018
Free University Berlin
MA Arts - & mediamanagement
2014
Ludwigs Maximilian University of Munich
BA Anthropology & educational science
Work and projects:
2022 - ongoing
TurboKultur GmbH
Producer / Creative Producer
2021 - ongoing
Freelance Producer, Creative Producer & Consultant
2019-2021
UFA GmbH
Manager for organizational development
2017
ZKR Berlin & IKM
Exhibition Management
„Tracing Utopia“ CAFA Beijing,
2016
Freie Universität Berlin
Project coordination „Karawane in die Zukunft“
media empowerment project for German-Turkish youth, by Mercator Foundation & IKM (https://kidz796.wordpress.com/)
2014-2015
KINOMATON Berlin
Research & productionassistent
Director Enrique Sánchez Lansch
Stay In Touch
- Milena.Krmek(at)Outlook.de
- itsme_milenak