The International TEDDY Jury 2017: MARTIN WOLKNER
Channel: TEDDY AWARD
Date: 2017-02-12

Martin Wolkner studied Linguistics and Film Studies and is the founder and head of homochrom. Established in 2009 as a monthly film series in six cities in North-Rhine Westphalia, homochrom was expanded by a queer film festival in Cologne and Dortmund in 2011. Wolkner initiated the debut film award and federal funding of the German festival co-operation QueerScope in 2016. As a member of the German Film Critics Association he writes for the gay magazine Box, among others. Martin Wolkner has previously worked for the International Women’s Film Festival Dortmund | Cologne and is working in subtitling. Currently he is developing his own film projects as a writer.