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Florian Heinzen-Ziob

Born 1984 in Düsseldorf, Germany. After leaving school, he worked at the Düsseldorf theatre as assistant director and as an editor and animator in Hamburg.

2006 – 2012 he studied media arts and film direction at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, where he wrote and directed a range of feature and animated films and documentaries, which were screened in the competition programmes at several international festivals.

2012 – 2015 he produced and directed his first feature-length documentary film "Original Copy" in Mumbai, India. At the same time, he began developing and producing films with schoolchildren around Cologne and also founded his own production company "polyphem".

Florian Heinzen-Ziob lives and works in Cologne, Germany.


Georg Heinzen

Born 1953, Georg Heinzen studied German literature and history at the Heinrich-Heine-University in Düsseldorf und scriptwriting at the University of Film and Television in Munich.

Georg Heinzen writes scripts for feature film and tv movies. As headwriter he creates tv series like "SK Kölsch". Georg Heinzen is teaching scriptwriting at the International Filmschool, Cologne.

2011 he lived as artist in residence fort Art Foundation North Rhine-Westphalia in Mumbai, India. There he worked as lecturer at Whistling Woods Filmschool, Mumbai, and the Film- and Television Institute of India, Puna.

Georg Heinzen lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany.