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Weydemann Bros. produces films for the national and the international market. We have a vision of a narrative cinema that is both entertaining and political. For us film is always a critical look at the world and the times we live in. With our films we do not only hope to get people laughing & crying, but to inform them and inspire them to contemplate.

Weydemann Bros. GbR was founded on November 1st 2008 in Berlin, Germany and opened a second office on January 1st 2011 in Cologne, Germany.

Weydemann Bros. is grantholder of the AV Gründerzentrum 2011. Films of Weydemann Bros. are winners of the Robert Bosch Co-Production Prize 2010 and 2011 and the Gerd Ruge Grant 2010 and 2011.

Weydemann Bros. is member of EDN - European Documentary Network and participant of EAVE Producers Workshop 2012, Documentary Campus Masterschool 2012 and ESoDoc 2010.

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Jakob D. Weydemann / CEO

was born in Hamburg/Germany. After his civil service in Milan/Italy he works his way up at filmsets from runner at a TV-Series to assistant director at a feature film. He studies political sciences and starts directing studies at the Filmschool Hamburg-Berlin, the New York Film Academy and as a guest student at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin.
His directing studies at the CECC in Barcelona/Spain he completes in 2008. In 2009 he is invited to the Reykjavík International Film Festival TalentLab and in 2011 to the Young Producers Programme at the Sarajevo Film Festival. In 2010 he wins the Gerd-Ruge-Grant and participates at the MEDIA programms ESoDoc and Documentary Campus.
   
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Jonas Weydemann / CEO
was born in Hamburg/Germany. After his civil service in Florence/Italy he goes to San Francisco, where he works at human resources with the company McKesson and attends workshops at the Hollywood Film Institute. In several film production companies in Munich, Berlin and Hamburg he gains experience, as well as by working at the Berlinale filmfestival and on various filmsets. He studies filmproduction at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin.
Since 2007 he is programming director at the shortfilmfestival Wendland Shorts and participates in the IDFAcademy 2010 and the Berlinale Talent Campus 2011. He wins the renowned Robert Bosch Co-Production Prize and is participant at EAVE.
   
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Marieke Bittner / Producer

was born in Bremen and lives and works now in Berlin for several years. She travelled throughout Europe, studied Cultural Science and finishes in 2010 as “Fiction Producer” at the Filmhaus Babelsberg. Since 2005 she works as assitsant to the producer, line producer and producer at different companies before she joins Weydemann Bros. in 2009 as producer.

In 2010 she participates at the Young Professional Program at the goEast Film Festival Wiesbaden and the Sarajevo Film Festival. In 2011 she wins the renowned Robert Bosch Co-Production Prize with the German-Hungarian project "Roma Rally".