KARIN BERGHAMMER

Regie | drehbuch | Produzentin
Karin Berghammer has been working on national and international motion pictures, TV films and documentaries as producer, head of development and production manager for Amour Fou Vienna, Navigatorfilm, COOP99 and KGP from 2005 until 2018. She holds a master‘s degree in TV and Film Production from Danube University Krems (2005), was educated at University of Film and Television in Los Angeles (UCLA) and Kaskeline Filmacademy in Berlin (1989-1993). Karin participated at various European script development and production programs from 2009 until 2020, among them EURODOC, EAVE, MIDPOINT COLD OPEN and SOURCES II. Founder of the production company berg hammer film ltd. in 2018 and the former karin berghammer filmproduktion e.U. (2001). Karin is a member of „dok.at“, board member of “FC Gloria. Frauen Vernetzung Film“ and founding member of “Die ProduzentInnen“.
karin@berghammerfilm.at

BARBARA EPPENSTEINER

Producer | Stoffentwicklung

Barbara Eppensteiner was involved in various participatory cultural and media projects from the mid-1980s on. After managing the wienXtra-medienzentrum, which she did from 1997 to 2005, she helped establish the Viennese community TV station Okto. As program director until 2019 she was responsible for formats such as the weekly film program "Oktoskop", for "Das Medienquartett" or mini-series such as "Unter Druck - Zur Mediensituation im CEE Raum". In addition to studying media communication and cultural studies in Klagenfurt, Vienna, London and Berlin, she has completed various in-service training courses on topics such as media and theatre work in socio-cultural contexts or systematic organizational development. Since 2009 she has been teaching in the Interaction Design program at FH Joanneum in Graz. Since 2017 she has been writing regularly as a columnist for the newspaper "kupf". 

barbara@berghammerfilm.at

FRANZISKA ARINGER

Office Management | Assistent to the Producers

After a year abroad in Tel-Aviv, Franzi studied Cultural & Social Anthropology and Philosophy at the University of Vienna, and after graduating in 2017, she added a Master's degree in Journalism with a focus on Visual Communication & Journalism.

While studying, she worked as an assistant to the editorial staff in the production of documentaries and gained a lot of experience in the development, research and creation of documentary formats. For the film "Die Gerechten unter den Völkern - Retter und Helfer im Nationalsozialismus" (2014), she created two of the five featured stories of those people who are honoured as "righteous" by the Holocaust Memorial Yad Vashem. Together with director Andrea Morgenthaler, she won the Silver Dolphin at the Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards for this work. 

Seit 2020 ist sie bei berg hammer film als Office Managerin und Assistenz der Produzentin an Board.

franziska@berghammerfilm.at
Franziska Aringer

ZORAH BERGHAMMER

Assistant Director

Zorah studies writing and dramaturgy at the Vienna Film Academy.

Involved as Script/Continuity in the productions of "Home is here" (Tereza Kotyk), "Iceman" (Felix Randau), "Because the Night" (Rafael Haider), "TNT Boxerstory" (Mark Gerstorfer).

Assistant director on "In der Kaserne" (Kathi Copony), "Leben für den Tod - Menschen am Zentralfriedhof" (Karin Berghammer & Krisztina Kerekes) and as 3rd AD on the Netflix series "Unorthodox" in Berlin.

zorah@berghammerfilm.at