KERSTIN NICKIGBorn in 1971 in Duisburg/Rheinhausen (Germany)2006-2007 Project Manager of the Documentary Human Rights Film Festivals "Nationality: human" in the South Caucasus, based in the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Tbilisi (Georgia)since 2004 Living and working in Berlin as a freelance documentary filmmaker, founder and board member of the production company “time prints” in Berlin (2005)since 2001 Project Manager for the NGO "Upsala e.V." that runs a circus project for street children in St. Petersburg/Russia (Upsala circus)2001-2003 Additional studies in film direction at the Academy for Film and Television in Potsdam/Germany and the National Film School in Lodz/Poland. Various internships in film productions and on film sets1998-2001 International Project Manager (social, cultural, human rights issues) in the NGOs, e.g. "German-Russian Exchange" (in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Berlin)1990-1997 Studies of Russian and German languages and literature at the Universities of Bochum, Cologne, MoscowAwards:· Co-Production Price, Robert Bosch Stiftung, 2008· Competition: “Mein Leben in Sicherheit”, 3sat/ DOK Leipzig, 2008· Best Short Film/ City of Prague Award at One-Word-Film Festival 2006 in Prague· FIPRESCI Award of the International Film Critics at Krakow Film Festival 2006· Special Mention, Krakow Film Festival 2006· First German short films award at the Short Film Festival in Ludwigsburg in 2005
Filmography:· NOWHERE IN EUROPE (KEIN ORT), D/PL 2009, documentary, 98 mins, ZDF/3sat, TVP, about Chechen refugees in Europe, Festival screenings at DOL Leipzig 2009, GoEast Wiesbaden 2010, Visions du Réel Nyon 2010.· THE OPERATION, documentary, 37 mins, D 2007, about a police raid in a small town in Russia. Festival screenings in Prague, Warsaw, Glasgow, Mumbai, Kiev etc.·"MY DEAR MUSLIM…", documentary, D 2005, 35 mins, a portrait of the personal experiences of a refugee Chechen family living in Poland, several international festivals and awards.· A NEW LAND, documentary, 36 mins, D 2004, a German-Russian lesbian love story, several international festivals.
Filmography:· NOWHERE IN EUROPE (KEIN ORT), D/PL 2009, documentary, 98 mins, ZDF/3sat, TVP, about Chechen refugees in Europe, Festival screenings at DOL Leipzig 2009, GoEast Wiesbaden 2010, Visions du Réel Nyon 2010.· THE OPERATION, documentary, 37 mins, D 2007, about a police raid in a small town in Russia. Festival screenings in Prague, Warsaw, Glasgow, Mumbai, Kiev etc.·"MY DEAR MUSLIM…", documentary, D 2005, 35 mins, a portrait of the personal experiences of a refugee Chechen family living in Poland, several international festivals and awards.· A NEW LAND, documentary, 36 mins, D 2004, a German-Russian lesbian love story, several international festivals.