Room for All: A Safer Set Workshop

Paula Alamillo Rodriguez is a producer, director, Netflix-certified intimacy coordinator and co-founder of Amard Bird Films in Berlin. The independent production company focuses on projects with a critical gaze upon society, artistic aesthetics and extraordinary characters. All their films premiered in international festivals like Berlinale, Rotterdam, Toronto or Guadalajara and have been screened and awarded internationally. She attended Berlinale Talents in 2016 and was selected for the Talent Project Market in 2018. She advocates for inclusive and fair productions.

Producer Sonja Klümper is a co-founder of Amard Bird Films, a Berlin-based production company dedicated to addressing social issues and creating queer-focused content. The company champions the inclusion of FLINTA* individuals in all technical and creative roles. Sonja was selected as a producer for the Berlinale Talents program in 2016 and has since led workshops for emerging talents in the following years. She presented three films at the Berlinale in 2017: "The Misandrists and Ulrike's Brain" by Bruce LaBruce, and "Fluidø" by Shu Lea Cheang. Their co-production "Cocoon" was the opening film of Berlinale Generation 2020. In 2022, Amard Bird Films presented "White Sands Crystal Foxes", a 360° immersive film by Liz Rosenfeld, at Berlinale Forum Expanded. In February 2025, their co-production The Visual Feminist Manifesto will premiere at the IFFR Film Festival in Rotterdam. Currently, Sonja is working on the development of a documentary about the queer feminist squat" Liebigstraße 34", which was evicted in 2020.

Erika Lust is an acclaimed indie adult filmmaker. In 2015, she gave a TEDx talk called “It’s Time for Porn to Change.” Her XConfessions project is the world’s first crowd-sourced erotic film series. Every month, she picks two anonymous fantasies shared on XConfessions.com and turns them into explicit shorts. With more than 150 short films, she also produces and finances female guest directors from across the globe and believes in having women in all key positions behind the camera.

A video artist and experimental filmmaker, Ines Moldavsky is a graduate of the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School and the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. Her films revolve around subversive performative acts, using herself as a character and her own identity as a subject of investigation, and often focus on gender, sexuality and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Her recent film THE MEN BEHIND THE WALL won the Golden Bear Award for Best Short Film at the Berlinale in 2018.