Biography

Hello and Namaste! My work is about combining film and graphic design for a social cause. In the last years I also got more and more into anthropology, regarding film as a wonderful medium to encounter people and to tell stories.

I studied Media Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Augsburg / Germany and completed my M.A. in Visual and Media Anthropology at the Freie Universität Berlin in 2011. I have worked as a freelance film maker, video editor, photographer and graphic designer since 2003. Besides graphic design, I produce my own documentaries in the field of music and topics that are related to poverty/minorities/violence. I have worked in Nepal since 2004 and produced 3 documentaries there, focusing on the Maoist insurgency that ravaged the country from 1996-2006.

I am one of the main founders of the first cooperative art cinema in Germany (in Aalen) and have collaborated with many other art and social associations such as »Einar-Schleef-Working Committee« in Sangerhausen/Germany or theatre projects with special needs actors/actresses. Since 2003 I am active for »Govinda - children projects in Nepal« as a volunteer in graphic design, fundraising, and concepting.

Since several years I work with danish photographer Jacob Holdt, with whom I toured through the Southern States of the US to document the lives of the people that have been involved in Holdts »American Pictures«.

*21.09. 1979 in Sangerhausen near Halle(Saale), Germany

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
2009-2011 MA Program Visual & Media Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin
2007-2008 study Anthropology, Film Science and Hindi, Freie Universität Berlin
1998-2003 Media Design (graphic design and computer science) at University of Applied Sciences, Augsburg
1998: A-levels

PUBLICATION
Voigt, Christina: »Virtual Nature and Landscapes«. In: Frömming, U. (Hrg.) Virtual Environments and Cultures.Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang (2012 forthcoming)

AWARDS
2011 // Short Film Award Kurzfilmfestival des Fairen Handels for »Teevolution«
2010 // Audience Award Best Student Film, »Dialektus Anthropological Film Festival« Budapest/Hungary for Beneath Everest - Nepal Reborn
2009 // Nomination »Golden Key Award« Dokfest Kassel for Beneath Everest - Nepal Reborn
2005 // Jugendkulturförderpreis Sachsen-Anhalts für »Der Himmel über mir«
2004 // Jugendkulturförderpreis Sachsen-Anhalts für »Tilt«
2001 // 1. Preis Animationswettbewerb Theaterhaus Stuttgart

DOCUMENTARIES
2003: TILT - an international youth musical (30 min)
2004: Der Himmel über mir - Die Kinder des Shangrila Waisenhauses in Nepal (66 min)
2004: SUCHT.gefühle (30 min)
2005: Nie mehr zurück - Einar Schleef und Sangerhausen (30 min)
2006: Aalen jazzt - Dokumentarfilm über die Motownlegende Lamont Dozier (55 min)
2007: Die vergessenen Kinder Westnepals (96 min)
2009: Beneath Everest - Nepal Reborn (edting and cinematography (93 min)
www.beneath-everest.com

FILMFESTIVALS
Milano Film Festival 2011, Dialektus FilmFestival Budapest 2010, Vibgyor Film Festival Kerala India 2010, Keswick Filmfestival UK, 2010, Cape Winelands Filmfestival South Africa 2010, Dokfest Kassel 2009, Human Rights Filmfestival Pristina/Kosovo 2009, Ethnologisches Filmfest Universität Zürich 2009, Grenzland Filmtage Selb 2005, Jugendmedientage Berlin 2005, Open Eyes Filmfest Marburg 2003,

Photos on the right taken by: Mathias Tantius, Jacob Holdt, Heinrich Hartmann, Tulsi Bhandari

Filming in Westnepal


In the US, Southern States

Here even more pics from me in Nepal ;-).