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Christine Daum-Farber works as a TV journalist, filmmaker and cinematographer, most notably for nano/ 3sat, aspekte/ ZDF and Kulturzeit/ 3sat. Since 1994, she has produced more than 300 pieces for culture and science shows. Born in East Berlin, she left the GDR because of her political engagement two years before the fall of the Wall. She holds a Magistra Artium from the Free University Berlin for Theater and Film Studies, Philosophy and Psychology. Additionally, she has trained as a television journalist and participated in the prestigious Documentary Campus. As a writer and experimental filmmaker, she received several grants from the Berlin Senate. Christine was awarded the ‘Medienpreis Entwicklungspolitik’ by the Federal Ministry for Development Policy. She was jointly nominated with her co-producer Nelson Farber for the ‘LiteraVision’ award 2014, for the best literature piece on German TV. Christine is a 2019 ‘Transatlantic Media Fellow’ of the Heinrich Boell Foundation Washington.