The Producers

Hans Robert Eisenhauer – Producer

As commissioning editor for ZDF-ARTE, Deputy Program Director and Head of Theme Evenings for ARTE, Hans Robert’s more than 60 theatrical lengths commissions for TV and Cinema include since 1992 Oscar nominated Buena Vista Social Club by Wim Wenders, Super8Story by Emir Kusturica, and Oscar-winner Taxi To The Dark Side by Alex Gibney. After his retirement from ZDF/ARTE Hans Robert is living is running Ventana-Film GmbH., focused on international documentary-films, including cultural and current affairs TV programs. His work as a producer includes the two German-Syrian co-productions Return to Homs and Oscar nominee Of Fathers and Sons which had their world premiere at IDFA 2013 and 2017. Both films have been awarded with the Grand Jury Prize for the best International Documentary at the Sundance Film-festival 2014 and 2018.

Dirk Laabs – Director

Dirk Laabs is an investigative journalist and filmmaker. He is the author of the books Heimatschutz (Homeland Security) about the NSU (with Stefan Aust) and Der deutsche Goldrausch – die wahre Geschichte der Treuhand (The German Gold Rush – The True Story of the Treuhand). Laabs is the winner of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation's Documentary Film Prize and the Axel Springer Prize (second place) for Die Fremden im Paradies – warum Gotteskrieger töten (Strangers in Paradise – Why Holy Warriors Kill). He has received a grant from the Ruge Foundation and was awarded the Volkswagen Foundation's "Opus Primum" prize. Laabs has spent years researching Islamist and international terrorism. His documentaries have been screened at numerous festivals and on television in Germany, Switzerland, and throughout Europe.