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Management

Julia Schneider
Assistant to CEO Film Funding

Telephone: +49 331743 87 10
E-mail: k.niehuusoffice@medienboard.de

Alicia de Diego
Assistant to CEO New Media Funding

Telephone: +49 331 74387 15
E-mail: h.juergensoffice@medienboard.de

Kirsten Niehuus

Film Funding

Since 2004 Kirsten Niehuus has been the CEO of Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Germany’s Capital Region.

Since then she has been responsible for Film and High-end TV funding. 

As a lawyer she has been engaged in entertainment and funding law since 1991. Previous posts include Deputy Head of National Film Fund, Vice President of Eurimages, head of private and public legal departments. She has served as a board member of several institutions from public broadcaster to film schools.

As an Honorary Professor she teaches Film Financing at Film University Babelsberg and other filmschools.

She is bearer of the French order Chevalier of Arts and Literature.


Contact: k.niehuusoffice@medienboard.de

Helge Jürgens

New-Media-Funding

Helge Jürgens is Medienboard's CEO of New Media Funding. A business-administration graduate, Jürgens has held leadership roles in the film and TV industry for more than 20 years.

In recent years, Jürgens held the position of managing director at ARRI Film & TV. Among other functions, his duties included management of the company's strategic realignment. Previously, he served for six years as managing director of Berlin Union-Film, with primary responsibility for the modernisation of the historic company. Prior to this time he held a number of management positions at Endemol Deutschland, serving variously as authorised representative, general production manager, and head of resources management.

Jürgens was a member of the German Association of Technical Film and Television Companies (vtff) from 2006 to 2015, serving on the board of directors for six of those years. As part of his work for the association, he served as a jury member for the BKM Innovation Award and as deputy head of the bargaining commission, among other activities. In addition, he served as a lecturer on production economics at the Filmhaus Köln and the Filmhaus Babelsberg.

During his career, he has overseen the development of more than 200 entertainment, film and serial productions. In recent years, Jürgens has also worked as a business consultant, advising high-profile production companies as well as start-ups.

Contact: h.juergensoffice@medienboard.de