Team

TEAM

Birgit Schulz Managing Director, Producer & Filmmaker
	Birgit Schulz was already a successful photographer when she founded the company in 1993. Since then she has achieved remarkable success as a filmmaker and producer working in partnership with public television broadcasters throughout Germany. Her emphasis is on social-psychological exploration and in-depth portraits. Nearly all of her company’s productions for cinema and TV have won national or international awards. She is a graduate of the EAVE training programme. In 2009, Birgit Schulz’s documentary The Lawyers – a German Story was released in cinemas. It ranked among the top five German documentaries of 2009 and received the Phoenix Documentary Award and two Grimme Awards. As producer of the cinema film Beyond Borders – Stories of Freedom & Friendship, Birgit Schulz was awarded the VFF Documentary Film Production Award at the Dokfest Munich 2018.
Monika Mack Journalist, Producer
	Freelance journalist and producer. After graduating with a MA from the University of Cologne, she worked in the PR and language transfer departments of the broadcaster ARTE in Strasbourg, for a postproduction/ subtitling company in Düsseldorf and for the WDR/ARTE department in Cologne. Her responsibilities included project management, language adaptation of international film productions and public relations. She has also completed various work placements in France and Spain. She is highly familiar with the requirements and slot definitions of the European TV stations. Since 2006, she has been working as a freelance producer and freelance production manager for the film production company Bildersturm. She is a graduate of the Eurodoc training program and, in addition to project development, PR and production management is also in charge of expanding international contacts and planning international co-productions.


Sabine de Mardt Partner & Producer
	Sabine Mardt (née “Müller”) started out as a a production manager and line-producer in the early 90s before becoming a producer. She has worked on numerous German and international productions, feature films and documentaries which were shot all over Europe, Canada, the USA and South Africa. In addition to her long-term collaboration with the Cologne-based Gemini Group and Eyeworks, she joined BILDERSTURM in 2004 in a management and production capacity. Her filmography as a producer includes films such as the international co-productions “Meurtre à l'etage” (French-German TV movie), “Americana” (US-Dogma movie), “Marlene Dietrich her own song” (US-German theatrical documentary), Triggermen (US-German theatrical movie), Le silence de Lorna (French-Belgium-German theatrical movie). Since 2018 head of Gaumont Germany.