HENDRIK LÖBBERT

Hendrik Löbbert (*1979, Bonn, Germany) studied documentary film, photography and video art in Weimar and Montreal. He produced videos for several German news outlets (including Zeit Online, Die Welt and Tagesspiegel). Over several years he traveled to China to film and edit videos for the car company VW. He was a creative part of Trouble-Teatime in Heiligendamm, an activist documentary that won the cinema for peace prize 2008. Hendrik is co-founder of non fiction society and made various documentaries for German tv (ZDF/3sat, Arte and NDR). 2024 he finished his second feature documentary, Memory Wars, as author, director and co-producer, together with Corso-Film, funded by the Filmstiftung NRW, FFA and DFFF. The film features the work of the highly controversial memory researcher Elizabeth Loftus and dives into some infamous court cases of the last decades - e.g. Rodney King and Harvey Weinstein. Hendrik is a producer, director and author of documentary film in all its forms and formats.

CAROLINE EKTANDER

Caroline Ektander (*1982, Stockholm, Sweden) is a writer and researcher currently completing a practice-based PhD at Bauhaus University Weimar. She has been part of Nonfiction Society since its early days, contributing to research, project development, and scriptwriting. Her core research interest lies in how complex and often invisible issues—such as pollution, toxicity, and social injustice—are mediated in the public realm, and how they can be narrated in ways that highlight their political bearing. Writing across mediums such as academic publications, graphic novels, exhibition texts, and documentary film, she explores how knowledge—scientific or otherwise—is framed, contested, and made sense of, working toward narratives that move beyond polarized perspectives. Caroline is co-author of Memory Wars (2024), a feature documentary about the controversial memory scientist Elizabeth Loftus, and author of Wie viel Gift verträgt die Welt? (2023), an ARTE documentary examining the pervasiveness of chemical pollution and the debates around its regulation.