jana cisar Born 1963 in Marianske Lazne (Marienbad), Czechoslovakia, Jana Cisar has lived in Germany since 1969. After studying graphic design, she started work as a theatre production manager (working, amongst others, with David Byrne, Robert Wilson, Lev Dodin, Arie Singer, Anatoli Vassilev, Alexander Lang). She went on as co-founder of the Salzburg film festival FilmSzene and worked for Dctp with Alexander Kluge on broadcasts about Richard Leacock, Les Blank, David Byrne, Brothers Quay and Thomas Brasch. Since 1995 she has been living and working as a freelance producer in Berlin. Jury Activity Short Films Awards 2008 "18 years in Windhoek/Namibia" www.wildcinema.org, www.berlin-windhoek.org Chairperson of the documentary film jury of the Finale Plzen 2007 National Film Festival, Czechoslovakia www.filmfestfinale.cz Member of the short film jury for the Trieste Film Festival 2005, Italy www.triestefilmfestival.it Member of the short film jury for the Festival Cottbus 2004 Festival of East-European Cinema, Germany www.filmfestivalcottbus.de Bio-/Filmography 2011 Producer of  “Hemline”, director: Peter Zach 2010 Executive Producer „Road to Rainbow“ , director: Mo Asumang 2010 Production Advisor in Berlin  “Another night in the free world”, Director: Gina Belafonte, USA 2009 Producer of "Berlin-Stettin", Documentary, Director: Volker Koepp 2008 Producer of “The City named Desire”, Documentary, Director: Peter Zach 2007 Producer of “The City named Desire 1” Video for the “Beyond the Wall” exhibition of the DAAD’s artist programme in coordination with the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the German Federal Culture Foundation Producer of “The House on August Street” Documentary, Director: Ayelet Bargur Produced by Eden Productions Ltd, Tel-Aviv, Israel 2006 Founding of Jana Cisar Filmproduktion Associated Producer of the feature-length documentary "Hammer and Tickle" Director: Ben Lewis, produced by allegro film Paris, France for BBC, Arte/ZDF 2003 Producer of "Gilaven! Sing!" Cinema documentary, Director: Stephan Settele Coproduction with 3 Sat, MDR, MDM World distribution: mdc-int. GmbH Cinema distribution and DVD label: Neue Visionen GmbH Festivals: IFF Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, UMEA, Sweden, Finale Plzen, Czech Republic and Tage des osteuropäischen Films Dresden 2002 Founding of weltfilm GmbH Producer "Netzarbeiter" Documentary, Director: Peter Zach, SFB 2000 Production and film business management ”Der Abendlaender” Documentary, Director: Peter Zach 1999 Press and festival supervision of the dance film "Allee der Kosmonauten” Festivals: Int. Filmfestival Rotterdam, Oslo, Avignon, Montreal and New York. Rose d`Or Montreux, Golden Prague and IMZ, Cologne. 1998 Assistant to Producer Martin Hagemann for film “Viehjud Levi” Director: Didi Danquart, produced by zero film GmbH. Producer”Allee der Kosmonauten” Dance film by Sasha Waltz and Elliot Caplan for Arte/ZDF. Grimme prize for book, direction and production Production Management for "Mit Haut und Haar" Documentary film, Directors: Martina Döcker and Crescentia Dünßer for ZDF Festivals: Visions du Reel Nyon, International Documentary Film Festival Munich 1997 Production Management of music videos for Viva and MTV Producer at the Tiger TV GmbH production company 1996 Research and producer in Prague "Raven-Black Magic Rock"Documentary, Director: Elke Baur Produced by Tiger TV GmbH for Arte and SDR 1995 Producer “Aus der Mitte” Documentary, Director: Peter Zach Produced by PZF-Produktion for “Das Kleine Fernsehspiel”, ZDF 1993/94 Co-founder of Czech Film Promotion, foundation to promote the Czech film industry. Presentations at film festivals and markets such as Berlin and Cannes Set design: “Scenes from the New World” US-Independent cinema film by H. Johnson and G. Ericsson Produced by Karol Martesko, New York City 1991/92 Assistance to artistic directorship of the Int. Film Festival Karlovy Vary Responsible for debut films; selection of European films, organisation of seminar: Distribution in Eastern Europe Film selection for the theme: “Kafka” for the Mittelfest Cividale, Italy 1990 Producer of “Stunde der Filmemacher” dctp by Alexander Kluge, Realisation of portraits of Jan Svankmajer, Les Blank, Thomas Brasch, Richard Leacock, the Brothers Quay and David Byrne. Set Management “Die Erbschaft” Television film, Director: Bertram von Boxberg Production: Jochen von Vietinghoff for ARD Co-founder of the Filmfestival FilmSzene Salzburg (1990-1991) Responsible for film selection, organisation and financing of the festival Bio-/Theater 1990 Production management “Six Characters in search of an Author” by Anatoly Vassiliev, SzeneSalzburg, Salzburg 1989 Production management at the Pushkin Theatre, Moscow during the FRG’s “Moscow Theatre Days” Tour-Manager during the European tour (guest performances at Thalia Theater, Hamburg, Kammerspiele, Munich, SommerSzene, Salzburg) of Maly Teatr by Lev Dodin, St. Petersburg 1988 Production and personal assistant for David Byrne on “The Forest”, a play by Robert Wilson and David Byrne Staff worker for dance and theatre at the City of Munich Department of Arts and Culture