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Carl-A. Fechner is a qualified educator, journalist, filmmaker and producer. Change is the topic of his life. For 25 years the company has been promoting examples of sustainable living and has won numerous international awards for its documentary films, PR campaigns and crossmedia projects. After producing more than 50 TV documentaries, Fechner produced his first cinema documentary in 2010 called THE 4TH REVOLUTION – ENERGY AUTONOMY. As a winner of the European Solarprize and the B.A.U.M.-Environmental prize, Carl-A. Fechner has long been advocating the need for fundamental change. More about Carl-A. Fechner

In 2002 Gabriele Di Stefano started out at fechnerMEDIA as a Production Assistant working on diverse film projects. In 2006 she became the company’s Head of Production responsible for numerous successful TV and corporate films. In 2009 she took a one-year professional development course by the Cologne Film School and Babelsberg Studios to become a certified production manager and producer.

She has been in charge of the POWER TO CHANGE event campaign since August 2014. Since March 2016 she has been employed as an editor and director at fechnerMEDIA and has already created several image films. She graduated from the Stuttgart Media University in 2014. Prior to that, she specialized in documentary films at the international EICTV Film and TV school in Cuba.

During her Media studies at Bauhaus University Weimar, Johanna has been especially interested in film science, media psychology and media philosophy. No wonder that she graduated with a thesis about the impact of documentaries on human behavior and their motivation to take sustainable action. After working for Greenpeace’s video department, she supports fechnerMEDIA since April 2017 as a producer, director and editor.

Patrick Fait first completed his training at fechnerMEDIA from 2009 to 2013 as a media designer for image & sound and then worked as technical manager. During his time at fechnerMEDIA and his subsequent studies at the FH Dortmund in Film & Sound with a focus on film, Patrick completed numerous projects as a DOP and editor. In 2018, Patrick Fait re-joined our team and since is an integral part of fechnerMEDIA. Contact: patrick.fait@fechnermedia.de

After graduating from technical secondary school and completing her vocational training as a digital and print media designer in an advertising agency, she supervised artistic projects in various specialist areas. In 2016, Michelle began working for fechnerMEDIA – where she created the storyboard for the Daimler Umweltfilm (“Daimler’s Environmental Film”) and illustrations for the animated film "DER WIND DES WANDELS" (“The Wind of Change”). Now she is in charge of creating layouts and illustrations for animated films, posters and print materials as art director for fechnerMEDIA, and is responsible for the company and film websites, which she creates and maintains. Contact: michelle.di.stefano@fechnermedia.de

Since her diploma studies in International Management (BIM), Katja Schwenke is interested in sustainable economic and a change in economic values and systems. In the field of renewable energies, she then built up a start-up company as a management board member of WKN AG for 10 years to become a leading international medium-sized company. In the course of her work as an entrepreneur and executive coach, Katja also trained in documentary film. With fechnerMEDIA's new documentary FRIDAYS (WT), she can pool her interests and support the project as a Creative Producer.

Nora Frick is the project manager of the documentary films FRIDAYS (WT) and WONDERS OF THE SEA 3D. After completing her studies in International Management at the HAW Hamburg, she spent more than ten years working in the area of marketing/sales (i.a. for a German company in the automotive industry). Since March 2019 she enriches the team of fechnerMEDIA, whereby the main focus of her work is project partner management. In addition, she coordinates our events and trade fairs marketing. Contact: nora.frick@fechnermedia.de

From sports to the film industry: Nane Sibbersen learned everything about social media and public relations at the German Handball Federation and the European Handball Federation. In Norway, she wrote her master's thesis on the framing of the Fridays for Future movement and now, full of drive and curiosity, she is taking up a traineeship at fechnerMEDIA to bring the film project FRIDAYS - THE STORY OF A NEW WORLD to the world.

Miriam Schröer loves her chosen home Amsterdam: not only because the bicycle is way more popular than cars. In order to promote sustainable change on a global level, she works as a social media and public relations trainee for the film project FRIDAYS - THE STORY OF A NEW WORLD since 2020. With a master's degree in political science and a great pleasure in creative processes, she can combine her passions at fechnerMEDIA. Before becoming part of the fechnerMEDIA team, Miriam Schröer worked in a theater in Amsterdam as well as in an editorial office in Cologne.