Argentina
Pre-Jury

After over a decade and living in four different countries, Viola Kessel returned to Argentina in February 2020 to take up responsibility for the PASCH initiative („Schulen: Partner der Zukunft“) at the Goethe-Institut.

Based in Buenos Aires, she offers her expertise to teachers, educators, students and alumni of 20 schools in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay, to foster the quality of german teaching, as well as curiosity for unknown countries, new ideas, different media, and people. During the ongoing national lockdown, she is exploring new models of engagement online by creating virtual spaces for personal encounters, learning, and creativity, together with her colleagues. The Science Film Festival will be a space where people can come together, learn, reflect, exchange, and create ideas for a more sustainable form of living.

Inge Stache has been the director of the film archive since 1996 and is responsible for film and media work at the Goethe-Institut Buenos Aires. She curated and supervised German film series and retrospectives, among others. by Alexander Kluge, Werner Schroeter, Harun Farocki, Thomas Heise, Helke Sander, Wolfgang Staudte or Christoph Schlingensief.

Ms. Stache Responsible and coordinated multi-year film and media projects: the Latin American television co-production and short film series Contraseña Verde about children as environmentalists, (2011-2013); the program of teacher training + student project: learning to see. German film goes to school (2011-2013), online films on the history and theory of German film and 2002 (2006-2006). They have compiled various compilations of German author filmmakers and translated them into Spanish. Inge Stache was a jury member at Argentine and social film festivals.

Since November 2019 Katharina Wedler has been working as an expert for teaching at the Goethe-Institut and in her new position she has found a hub for her previous activities.
After Katharina Wedler has dealt with teacher training from a conceptual and academic perspective, she is now putting the knowledge she has already acquired into practice and supporting teachers in their needs directly on site in the countries she serves: Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela. Especially in the professional field, she can draw on and expand on her teaching experience in German as a foreign language.

Part of her work is also the implementation of various projects, such as the Science Film Festival, which Katharina is particularly looking forward to, as this gives her the opportunity to become active on location. Through her studies of Theatre and Media Studies she has also gained valuable insights into these areas and built up a good network, which she can now draw on. In the follow-up work and preparation of projects, Katharina Wedler can draw on her experience as an editor and media designer and bring this to bear in press and public relations work, with the aim of increasing the visibility of PASCH.