Sabine Zimmer (Germany)


After finishing law school with the final law exam, Sabine Zimmer, has been working for over ten years as an assistant director and script supervisor on motion- picture filmsets. From 2004 to 2007 she has been studying film at the FilmArche Berlin, a selforganised filmschool, where she specialized on documentary film. In 2007 she has been realizing the documentary film “Living on the landing/Podestleben”, co-directed by Sandra Budesheim, a film about a homeless women living in the staircase of an apartment building. Since 2008 she is working as an independent author and filmmaker. Her most recent project is a documentary film about the polish community in Berlin which will be released in 2010.