Julia Berg is a freelance filmmaker and writer. She received her MA in Visual Anthropology from the University of Manchester (UK). Before, she studied documentary and fictionfilm direction at the Film Academy Beijing (P.R.China); Social Anthropology and Chinese Studies at the University of Hamburg and Visual Communication at HfbK Hamburg (Germany).

She has researched, written and co-directed several documentaries for television (arte, ZDF, etc) and completed an internship at the ARD-Studio in Beijing. A main focus lies on China, as she speaks fluently Chinese and has long term fieldwork and ethnographic film production experience there. Other countries she has cross-cultural filmexperience in include Syria, Vietnam, Cambodia, Australia and some European countries. 

Julia Berg is a lecturer for Ethnographic Film and Video at Universität Bremen and Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

 

Filmography

• Dresdner Schnauzen, Dokusoap ZDF, 30x45min, P: doc.station, 2007, Author

• Yin und Yang im Allgäu, Dokusoap ZDF-arte, 5x27min R: Andreas Pichler P: filmtank hamburg, 2005, Book and Concept, Co-Director

• In Fremden Diensten, Doku BR-arte, 52min, R: Marc Eberle P: filmtank hamburg, 2004, Book, Assistant Director, Sound      

• Fluten, Doku ZDF-arte, 75min, R: Niels Bolbrinker P: filmtank hamburg, 2004, Production Management, Assistant Director, Sound

• The Most Admired Man, Doku, 28min, P: Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, 2002, Book, Director, Kamera

 

Film Festivals

The most Admired Man (2002):

• Bilan du Film Ethnographic, Paris (2003)

• Beeld voor Beeld, Amsterdam (2003)

• RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film (2003)

• Sheffield International Documentary Festival (2003)

• NAFA Film Festival, Tartu (2004)

• Göttingen International Documentary Festival (2004)

• XII Intl Festival of Ethnographic Films Nuoro (2004)

• Moscow Intl. Visual Anthropology Film Festival (2006)

 

Special Mentions at:

• Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) Filmfestival, U.K.

• Göttingen International Film Festival

• Nuoro International Festival of Ethnographic Film