Team

TEAM

Anna Ramskogler-Witt

Artistic Director

Anna Ramskogler-Witt

Artistic Director

Anna Ramskogler-Witt is the founder of The Good Media Network and the artistic director of Doxumentale. For nearly two decades, she has been shaping projects at the crossroads of film, human rights, communication, and social impact. Her career includes key roles at Vienna’s Pool Filmverleih, the human rights film festival This Human World, as a PR agent for international film premieres, and at the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), before leading the Human Rights Film Festival Berlin from 2019 to 2024. With Doxumentale, Ramskogler-Witt has built a vibrant platform where documentary film, new media, and public discourse converge—international, interdisciplinary, and firmly committed to social engagement.

Veronika Neubauer

Art Director

Veronika Neubauer

Art Director

Veronika Neubauer is a freelance art director and graphic designer based in Berlin. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and has been working since 1998, focusing on editorial design and branding. Since 2020, she has been active in festival design, overseeing visual concept, branding, and art and creative direction for the Human Rights Film Festival Berlin (2020–2023) and, since 2024, for Doxumentale.

Ida Hausdorf

Programme Curator

Ida Hausdorf

Programme Curator

Ida Hausdorf is Programme Curator at Doxumentale. Previously, she worked as an editor, impact producer, and social media strategist.
She has an interdisciplinary background in Psychology and Communication (B.A.) as well as Television and Cross-Media Culture (M.A.), with her academic work focussing on how media shapes perception and collective memory. Her experience with digital narratives and impact-driven projects—including the digital storytelling project IchbinSophieScholl, the climate justice campaign NotJustCelsius, and her work as an impact producer—shapes her approach to documentary storytelling at the intersection of content, reception, and social change.

Jana Sepehr

Head of Communications + Marketing

Jana Sepehr

Head of Communications + Marketing

Jana Sepehr was born in Hamburg and studied sociology, globalization and (development) policy in Kiel, Maastricht and San Diego. For her master's thesis at the University of Ghana, she researched the migration of doctors and the consequences for the healthcare system. She has been a freelance journalist since 2015, including for Die Zeit, Der Spiegel and ZDF. At Doxumentale, she is in charge of the communications and marketing department.

Manuela Winkler

Head of Production

Manuela Winkler

Head of Production

Manuela Winkler has spent many years working in documentary film and in the development of international festival and industry formats. After graduating in TV production and gaining practical experience in film production, she joined Documentary Campus in 2007. There, she worked closely with filmmakers, festivals, and funding institutions across Europe, contributing to the long-term development of the international training programme Documentary Campus Masterschool.
As a Programme Manager, she conceived and delivered a wide range of formats—from workshops and labs to multi-day conferences for leading European film festivals. Through this work, she developed a deep understanding of the documentary ecosystem and the relationships between artistic practice, professional development, and audiences. Her focus lies in building reliable structures that allow creative work, mediation, and public engagement to grow sustainably. For Doxumentale, she serves as Head of Production, working closely with the team to ensure the festival runs smoothly.

Roberta Maddalena

Production + Volunteers Coordinator

Roberta Maddalena

Production + Volunteers Coordinator

Roberta Maddalena is a visual artist and filmmaker. After graduating from the Politecnico di Milano with a degree in communication design, she worked as an illustrator, animation director and artist for international brands, music labels, and fashion houses. In 2018, she moved to Berlin, where she studied filmmaking, specializing in cinematography with a focus on documentary and short-form storytelling. At Doxumentale, she supports production workflows by facilitating collaborations between cinemas and schools while coordinating the volunteer team.

Kenna Capalbo

Working Student Editorial, Marketing, + Communications

Kenna Capalbo

Working Student Editorial, Marketing, + Communications

Kenna brings a unique blend of experience in social work and film to Doxumentale. She began her career in New York City’s film industry before transitioning into advocacy at the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, where she supported individuals navigating the criminal legal system. She now centers her work on the intersection of community engagement, documentary film, and journalism, with a focus on creating meaningful opportunities for people to tell their own stories. Alongside her professional work, she is pursuing a graduate degree in Geographies of Global Inequalities at Freie Universität Berlin.

Vera Siller

Intern Partnerships

Vera Siller

Intern Partnerships

Vera Siller supports the Partnerships at Doxumentale and is currently pursuing a Master’s in Innovation and Organisation of Culture and the Arts at the University of Bologna. She previously worked at the Goethe-Institut in Paris and as a project manager at the intersection of education, culture, and international cooperation. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Communication in Social and Economic Contexts from University of the Arts Berlin. As a fellow of the European Forum Alpbach, she focuses particularly on international cultural policy issues and the role of culture in European dialogue.

Sofia Ortiz Kindiuk

Working Student Social Media

Sofia Ortiz Kindiuk

Working Student Social Media

Sofia Ortiz Kindiuk supports Social Media and Communications at Doxumentale and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Applied Literary Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. She previously worked with the World Cinema Fund at the Berlinale as well as in event and social media management at Holtzbrinck Berlin. She completed her Bachelor’s degree in German-Spanish Studies at the University of Regensburg and the Complutense University of Madrid. Her main interests lie in transcultural perspectives, pop culture, Latin America, and social issues.

Yvonne de Andrés

Curator Books

Yvonne de Andrés

Curator Books

Yvonne de Andrés is a cultural manager with many years of experience in publishing. She specializes in the development and organization of cultural and educational events in cooperation with foundations, embassies and institutions. Her focus is on gender equality, democracy and freedom of expression. She actively contributes her expertise as an advisor, jury member and board member of the German Women's Council and as a member of various cultural associations such as BücherFrauen. She is instrumental in setting up the non-fiction book section of Dokumentale.

Alexandra Weltz-Rombach

Curator D'Lounge

Alexandra Weltz-Rombach

Curator D'Lounge

Alexandra Weltz-Rombach is a filmmaker and producer based in Berlin. She has a master's degree in cultural studies, comparative literature and history. Her audiovisual productions include documentaries, short films and online formats. Since 2020, she has headed the Galerie Auslage project, which sees itself as a curatorial laboratory for art, books, objects and ideas and works according to the principles of DIY culture, the copier, speed and mobility, experimentation and temporary and interim use as a Berlin model. She supports Dokumentale as a curator of the D'Lounge.

Marie Ketzscher

PR & Media Partnerships

Marie Ketzscher

PR & Media Partnerships

Marie Ketzscher is a PR specialist operating both nationally and internationally, focusing on culture and science. Whether it's conceptualization, execution, or consulting, her range of services spans from traditional press work to cross-media media partnerships. Her current projects include Dokumentale, the Pop-Kultur Berlin festival, filmPOLSKA, the PANDAwomen Festival, and the AI project KIDD ("Artificial Intelligence in the Service of Diversity"). From 2012 to 2017, she worked at the Animation Institute of the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, and from 2017 to 2021, she served as a senior PR consultant. Since 2011, Marie Ketzscher has been writing for the online magazine Berliner Filmfestivals with a focus on animation and feminism, and since August 2020, she has been co-editor-in-chief. Additionally, she advises and supports festivals with program curation and lectures (dokumentART Festival 2018, Under the Radar Vienna 2019 and 2020, the Austrian Cultural Forum Berlin 2021, and the Festival of Animation Berlin 2021). She supports Dokumentale as a PR expert and in the field of media partnerships.

Vivian Schröder

Impact Consultant

Vivian Schröder

Impact Consultant

Vivian Schröder began her career in the film industry by producing commercials in the entertainment sector. Since 2012, she has worked closely with Boekamp & Kriegsheim, a production company in Berlin. There she focused on the production of documentary films and series, including Scitech Tv for the Arab market and Because Of Who I Am for arte/rbb. Through the B&K production The Bornio Case, she got to know the principle of impact producing and has been working as Germany's first impact producer since 2020, giving international workshops and accompanying the theatrical release of films such as Total Trust. Since 2019, she has been working intensively on setting up a film and impact program in Germany based on the model of DocSociety's Good Pitch and has coordinated initial formats such as the Climate Story Lab Berlin and Impact Day 2024. In 2024, she co-founded The Good Media Network with Anna Ramskogler-Witt. She served as the company’s Impact Director until January 2026 and has since suppored the team as a trusted and highly valued impact consultant.

Lina Eikelmann

Impact Outreach Consultant

Lina Eikelmann

Impact Outreach Consultant

Lina is a freelance journalist and filmmaker based in Berlin. Alongside her Master’s studies in Communication at the Berlin University of the Arts, she works at the intersection of film and journalism as a producer, author, and curator. She is particularly passionate about amplifying documentary films through an impact-driven approach, and thereby allowing powerful stories to resonate also beyond the cinema.

Julius Hackspiel

Co-Curator VR & Games

Julius Hackspiel

Co-Curator VR & Games

Julius Hackspiel (he/him) is an independent curator and creative producer. He completed a multidisciplinary film studies program at BHT Berlin and has been a member of the Filmrauschpalast cinema collective for several years. He gained professional experience at the XR production company NowHere Media and on the program team of the digital conference re:publica. As the initiator and co-curator of the Gamerausch event series, he connects video game culture with cinema and is currently part of Futura Cinema's incubation program with this format. He is providing consulting services to Doxumentale 2026 in the area of interactive media and narrative forms.

Chenlu Ni

Intern Production

Chenlu Ni

Intern Production

Chenlu Ni is a filmmaker, composer, and researcher working across media and visual culture. His current research focuses on Thai queer media in Europe and the transnational circulation of intimacy, desire, and online fandoms. His short film Berlin, Alexanderplatz was screened at FIRST International Film Festival Xining.