HANS ROBERT EISENHAUER, Producer, Ventana-Film, Germany

As commissioning editor for ZDF-ARTE, Deputy Program Director and Head of Theme Evenings for ARTE, Hans Robert’s more than 60 theatrical lengths commissions for TV and Cinema include, since 1992, Oscar nominated ‘Buena Vista Social Club’ by Wim Wenders, ‘Super8Story’ by Emir Kusturica, Oscar-winner ‘Taxi To The Dark Side’ by Alex Gibney, the Sundance documentary award winners ‘Why We Fight’ and ‘The House I Live In’ by Eugene Jarecki, the acclaimed ‘Up The Yangtze’ by Yung Chang, ‘The Flat’ by Arnon Goldfinger and ‘Mama Africa’ by Mika Kaurismäki.

Hans Robert has also served as director of the Berlin Film Fund and is a member of the German and the European Film Academy, which he helped to create in 1988.

After his retirement from ZDF/ARTE Hans Robert is living in Berlin and runs Ventana-Film GmbH., focused on international documentary-films, including cultural and current affairs TV programs. INSTITUTE PROFILE

Ventana-Film GmbH. produces documentaries for national and international television stations and for the cinema. The company’s managing directors are Hans Robert Eisenhauer and Theo Baltz.

In addition to numerous TV productions for German broadcasters, Ventana-Film's filmography includes international co-productions such as the Polish-German documentary ‘Over the Limit’ by Marta Prus, the Indian-Swiss-German co-production ‘Watch over Me’ as well as Talal Derki's Sundance Film Festival award-winning documentary ‘Return to Homs’ (2014) and Derki's Oscar-nominated ‘Of Fathers and Sons’ (2018).