JANNIKA QUAAS
DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER & JOURNALIST
JUL
2024
NYKE Screening at Filmpalette Cologne
It has been a delightful screening of NYKE with protagonist Nyke Slawik at Filmpalette Köln thanks to Arndt Klocke and everyone who came to watch and ask exciting questions.
Cologne became very dear to our whole film crew not just because of the two years of shooting in the city. To screen the film during Pride week 2024 one year after finishing shooting at Cologne-Mülheim was a true full circle moment.
Photos by János Buck
JAN
2024
Young Europeans Jury at FIPADOC in France
Together with six other Young European directors and filmmakers, Jannika was part of the Jeunes Européens Jury at FIPADOC in France. With perspectives coming from Kosovo, Hungary, Spain, Italy, Germany and France, the jury was able to give one Young Europeans Story Award to one of the 12 documentaries in their section.
It was an extraordinary selection and not at all easy to make a decision. The intercultural program was funded by Erasmus Plus in France, Creative Media Europe and is supported by many others, among them the Doc Around Europe Network.
The week was full of inspiration and passionate discussions with an intelligent and kind team and the wonderful guidance and hospitality by FIPADOC.
NOV
2023
TV release of NYKE
On November 9, Jannika's diploma film NYKE was released in the program series "Junger Dokumentarfilm" in SWR television and the ARD media library. The director and her team have been working for two years on this documentary.
still photography by Hannah Schwarzl
film poster by Rebecca Zahor
JULY
2023
Graduation Filmakademie
In July, Jannika became part of the graduation class 2023 of Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. She finished the final exam of her directing study program with the documentary feature NYKE (former working title WHO ARE THE PEOPLE?) which she made in a joint production with the public broadcaster SWR, EIKON Media GmbH, Filmakademie Baden-Württember and the film subsidy MFG Baden-Württemberg.
MAR
2023
Young Documentary Film NYKE
in production
Jannika's diploma documentary feature under the working title "WHO ARE THE PEOPLE?" was able to convince the selection committees of Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, the national public broadcasting channel SWR, the production company EIKON Media and the MFG, the film subsidy of the state Baden-Württemberg in several pitching sessions, and is now produced in the SWR program series of "Junger Dokumentarfilm".
Jannika will continue to tell Nyke Slawik's story at the Bundestag and investigate in political representation and equality in German politics. Since June, the crew, consisting of students and alumni of Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, has been shooting for the new documentary production.
JAN
2023
Lützerath
The team consisting of cinematographer Hannah Schwarzl, location sound mixer Jeremias Brunner, production assistant Noah Vaca Weber and director Jannika accompanied the mass demonstration in the German coal mining area, Lützerath, on January 14 for their documentary. Lützerath has already been part of Jannika's latest 2021 documentary "Germany Represent". The disappeared village since then has become an even bigger symbol of conflict – on one hand between the interest of one of Germany's biggest (fossil) energy providers RWE, the German federal states, Germany's climate policy in general and people and activists protesting for more climate protection on the other.
Dec
2022
GERMANY REPRESENT is part of the
Official Selection of
Filmschau Baden-Württemberg
GERMANY REPRESENT became a part of the Official Program Selection of the 28th Filmschau Baden-Württemberg. The documentary was screened at Stuttgart's Innenstadtkinos in the first week of December. Jannika, Noah Vaca Weber and Daniel Kling, the assistant director and dialogue editor of the documentary, were present at the screening.
In the course of the festival, Tobias Ignée from SWR 2 Radio interviewed Jannika. The critic called the film an "An empathetic portrait of a new generation of young politicians" and highlighted that the film "gives enough space for own interpretations and shows that political content is exciting because it deals with nothing else than our future".
Nov
2022
GERMANY REPRESENT
nomination at
Biberacher Filmfestspiele
GERMANY REPRESENT got nominated at the film festival Biberacher Filmfestspiele in the section best medium-length film. Jannika and Stefan Erschig, the re-recording mixer of the documentary, were invited to Biberach for a screening and Q&A of the film about Nyke Slawik, Audrey Dilangu and Lilli Fischer.
Oct
2022
SPOKEN ARTS FESTIVAL
in Stuttgart
On October 31, the first edition of SPOKEN ARTS FESTIVAL ended after a week full of rehearsals, events and midnights at Theaterhaus am Pragsattel in Stuttgart. This year’s edition was dedicated to the 1920ies. Jannika participated as a core part of the festival team as the employee of the artistic director Joachim A. Lang. She stepped in some first times in theatre conception, dramaturgy and theatre directing. Meeting and working with an impressive selection of some of Germany's finest artists made the festival a formative experience and introduced the audience to an unique and diverse new concept around different art forms of the spoken word.
photos by Björn Klein
May
2022
GERMANY REPRESENT premiers at the International Documentary Festival Munich
In the first week of May, all crew members and protagonists were invited for the premier of GERMANY REPRESENT at City Kinos in Munich. The film was selected for Germany's biggest documentary festival and nominated in the Student Award section of the festival. After the screenings of the documentary feature, Jannika and her team did Q&As and got in touch with the audience.
MAY
2022
Publication of Newest Short Stories Edition by Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
In "Knapp daneben", students of Filmakademie and the Academy of Performing Arts write about failure, love, life and everything in between. Michael Achilles issued the stories and Alina Yklymova did the enactment with performing arts students. Jannika's story "My relationship with luck" (German: "Mein Verhältnis zum Glück") was one of the presented stories. The edition is funded by the Wüstenrot Foundation Ludwigsburg and unter the patronage of Philipp Keel from the publishing house Diogenes.
JUNE
2022
Presentation of
Portrait Book "Stadtgestalterinnen"
As one of the writers of the portrait book "Stadtgestalterinnen", Jannika was invited to a panel discussion on the occasion of the first public presentation of the new book. It covers different portraits of women with migration history volunteering and engaging regularly in the local community of Ludwigsburg. The book was created together with the Equal Opportunities Office and the Board of Integration of the town of Ludwigsburg.
WORK
GERMANY REPRESENT
YOUNG, FEMALE, POLITICAL
documentary, 58 min
Our image of German politics: old, dusty, male. Our parliaments: far away from an equal political representation of the German population.
But this didn’t stop Nyke, Audrey and Lilli. They’ve become politicians to change the system and to give the young generation a political voice.
CRISIS OF CREATIVES
documentary, 26 min
Since the beginning of the Coronavirus outbreak, the livelihood of many artists is threatened.
The documentary portrays three facets of music, drama and dance. It shows the changed daily life of our protagonists and asks how important culture is to us in times of crisis.
HATE SPEECH
TV magazine, 40 min
Violence starts with language. Hate speech in any form has effects on the people it is directed against and also on those who only read it.
Language and how we use it shapes our society and our living together.
© 2024 Jannika Quaas
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