Biography

Emmy nominated producer Rosvita Dransfeld is an internationally renowned documentary filmmaker who crafts powerful explorations of the human condition. Her films include Who Cares, Antisocial Limited and Broke, winner of a Gemini award and the prestigious Donald Brittain Award for Best Social/Political Documentary. Dransfeld has become one of Canada's most celebrated contemporary filmmakers. POV Magazine has called her "a modern master of vérité." In her films, she reaches deep into the heart of worlds too often hidden from view, connecting the audience to the subjects on screen and provoke reflection from both. Her ability to capture the full humanity of her subjects and place them at the centre of her stories garnered recognition from America's largest documentary festival Hot Docs, which organized a retrospective of her work in its 2016 Focus On spotlight. Recently Dransfeld completed Memento Mori and Vital Bonds - two high profile documentaries for CBC The Nature of Things and CBC documentary channel, NOVA (PBS), SBS (Australia) and DR (Denmark). In 2019 ID completed two documentaries: Her Last Project for CBC POV, and Queens of Dogsville for Knowledge Network, TVO and Canal D.
- IMDb mini biography by: ID: Produtions

[on screening the documentary Broke. (2009) for the subject's friends]: It was a theatre full of Jewish people and I was sitting there realizing for the first time 'Oh my God, I'm German and I made a film about Shylock.'

[on the filming of Who Cares] - You have to be very respectful. One should go out there without any preconceptions. These women are always under threat so they are very sensitive and they will see through you and see through your lies and pretense, so you have to be honest and careful otherwise they won't talk to you.