HUBERTUS SIEGERT – AUTHOR, DIRECTOR & PRODUCER
Hubertus Siegert is a Berlin-based film producer and director. Born 1959 in Düsseldorf, Germany, he studied history, art history and the history of theatre
at Freie Universität Berlin and landscape architecture at Technische Universität Berlin.
In 1992, Siegert founded his production company, S.U.M.O. Film which has produced a
couple of shorts, subsequently "Berlin Babylon“, his first full length documentary, on the construction craze after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
"Berlin Babylon" was part of the Berlin International Film Festival in 2001 and was one of the five most successful documentaries at the German box-office in 2001/2002.
In 2004, Siegert produced and directed "Class Life", his critically acclaimed documentary about a class of 20 fifth grade school children which incorporates gifted children and children with severe handicaps alike.
Currently, a international documentary about the consequences of heavy violence is in production, "Beyond Punishment". What does the justice system do to the people most affected by a criminal act, the family who lost a beloved one to a murder and the incarcerated perpetrator?
Since April 2009 Siegert is one of the alternate board directors of the German Film Academy.
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