Biography

Jonas Dornbach grew up in Perugia, Italy. After graduating from high school, he worked on various film projects before getting a steady job in 2000 at Kinoherz. From 2002 to 2009 he was the CEO of Kinoherz in Berlin. He completed his studies at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin (dffb) in 2006 with the film "On the safe side?" which was directed by David Dietl. The film received the Studio Hamburg Award in 2008 in the category Best Feature Film. In 2007 he completed EAVE training for European producers (Media Programme) and worked as the line producer for Maren Ade's film "Everyone Else". Since 2010 he has joined the Komplizen Film team as a producer, since 2014 as a shareholder and managing director. He works with directors such as Maren Ade, Benjamin Heisenberg, Sonja Heiss, Vanessa Jopp, Valeska Grisebach, Miguel Gomes, Barbara Albert, Jasmila Zbanic, Marc Rothemund, Sebastian Lelio and Hans Weingartner. Jonas Dornbach is member of the International Producer Networks ACE (Ateliers du Cinéma Européen) and EAVE.
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