Dortmund Award for Women Directors of Photography 2007

Jury

Jury and festival director: B. Paassen, C. Pijman, S. Maintigneux, S. Räbiger

Sophie Maintigneux
Born in Paris in 1961, Maintigneux has been a freelance cinematographer since 1984. She has worked with Eric Rohmer, Jean-Luc Godard, Michael Klier, Jan Schütte, Helga Reidemeister and Sylvie Banuls. She has been repeatedly commended for her work as with the Prize of Cinematography of German Film Critics in 1991. Maintigneux teaches cinematography (at the German Academy for Film and Television Berlin and at the Academy for Media Arts Cologne) and she is a board member of the Association of Women in the Film Industry. Maintigneux works and lives in Berlin and she is a fourth-time member of the Dortmund jury.

Claire Pijman
Pijman studied at the Dutch Academy for Film and Television in Amsterdam. Since 1990 she has freelanced as cinematographer and director at home and abroad. She has won the Grand Prize at the Dance on Camera Festival in New York in 2000 and 2001 for the dance films R.I.P. and Wiped by director Annick Vroom. She has worked with Wim Wenders, Lars von Trier and Robby Müller, amongst others. From 2000 to 2004 she was board member of the Dutch Association of Cinematographers.

Bernadette Paassen
Born in Straelen in 1971, Paassen studied cinematography at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg until 1997. This was followed by graduate exchange studies at the Polish Film Academy Lodz. She has been living and working as a freelance cinematographer for feature and documentary films in Berlin since 2001. For her work on the documentary In den Schubladen (In the Drawers) by Nathalie Schwarz she was awarded the femme totale Prize of Cinematography sponsored by the e-m-s new media AG in 2005.