DFG Tutors
Simon Aeppli
Simon is an editor and filmmaker who has a background in Film and Video. He is a lecturer at the University of Wales Institute in Cardiff, and has also been a media educator in London at the Institute of Education ARCO PLUS, WAC performing Arts and Media College, The Place, and New Vic College. He has also worked as a speaker with the British Council and the East London Moving Image Initiative, London.
His recent Filmography includes:
The Truth Truck, FIVE & DFG films 2006
The Grand Prix Priest, Film London, ITV London, DFG Films 2005
Star Radio, Artist in residence Cardiff, Wales 2005
Eden 2003/04, Artist Film and Video Development & Completion Award 2004, Film London
Terra Firma 2002 in collaboration with choreographer Nic Sandiland, Arts Council of England Capture2 Commission.
Christian Bauer
Christian graduated in German and English Literature, American Affairs and History. e was a film critic for major German newspapers before he started making films himself in 1980. To this date he has directed close to sixty documentaries and produced many more.
Christian´s feature doc Missing Allen was awarded “Best Documentary“ in Montréal (FCMM 2001) and at Venice International TV Festival (Canal Grande 2002) and was nominated for the European Documentary Film Award 2003.
Missing Allen was followed by The Ritchie Boys, which opened HotDocs in 2004 and was shortlisted for the Academy Awards 2005. Christian also gained recognition as producer of high budget documentaries for the international market such as The Human Odyssey and Metropolis – The Power Of The Cities I and II.
For Christians latest project “The Great Radio War – How The Cold War Was Won With Hard Facts and Hot Music” initial shooting has begun in Munich and Budapest. The Great Radio War is a coproduction between Tangram, ARD/arte and several other European broadcasters.
Christian is a member of the European Film Academy. His Munich based company Tangram has been listed among 100 most influential documentary production companies worldwide by Realscreen Magazine
Bob Bentley
Bob Bentley works in documentaries, arts, history, science and drama. Recently he produced/directed two programmes in the BBC2 series “British Film Forever”. Before that he wrote/directed/produced two “Battlefield Detectives” for The US History Channel, two programmes in the BBC series “Private Life of a Masterpiece” and two “Art Crime” drama/docs for the BBC and Bravo. At the Millennium he directed nine drama/doc inserts for “2020 - A History of the Future” for CNN.
Other notable productions include a “Bard on the Box” with Adrian Noble of the RSC an “Omnibus” on opera legend Jessye Norman and a profile of singer Dame Janet Baker. “For the Sake of the Children” was about photography of children for the C4’s series “Films of Fire”. Science documentaries include &