Film makers'

contact info and websites

Steffen Keulig

marketfilm productions

Unter der Burg 29

21339 Lüneburg

Tel.: +49 (0)4131 / 68 22 32

mobil: +49 (0)176 / 240 22 969

eMail: keulig@marketfilm.de

Website: FdN

Website: marketfilm productions

Sacha Kagan, MA

Institut fuer Kulturtheorie, Kulturforschung und Kuenste

Leuphana Universitaet Lueneburg
Haus 11 Raum 125
Scharnhorststrasse 1
D-21332 Lüneburg

Tel.: +49 (0) 4131 / 78 - 27 24
Fax: +49 (0) 4131 / 78 - 26 89

eMail: kagan@uni.leuphana.de

Website: IKKK

Website: Cultura21 international

About the film makers and producers

Steffen Keulig (film maker)

With more than 10 years of involvement in filming crisis regions and threatened tribal peoples, Steffen Keulig is an experienced and engaged film maker, and regular collaborator of the media center (RMZ) at Leuphana University Lueneburg.

He is the author of several books (in German language) about the contemporary fates of hunter-gatherer societies across Asia, Africa and South America, among which Alptraum Zivilisation (2002).

Steffen Keulig is since 2003 the Chairman of Freunde der Naturvoelker (FdN), German section of Friends of People close to Nature.

Sacha Kagan (film maker)

Research associate at the Institute for Theory and Research on Culture and the Arts (IKKK), Leuphana University Lueneburg, Sacha Kagan is carrying out education, research and action towards the advancement of cultures of sustainability. Land of Thorns is the second film he co-directs, after Paroles Nomades (2003).

He coordinated the 'sustainability stream' of the 2007 conference of the Arts Research Network at the European Sociological Association, and is the editor of the book Sustainability: a new frontier for the arts and cultures (2008).

Sacha Kagan is coordinating the International Network Cultura21 for cultures of sustainability.

David Knaute (executive producer)

David Knaute has been an aid worker for the past five years and he is currently employed by ACTED. His experiences include coordinating the humanitarian response to the tsunami in Sri Lanka; organizing the return
of displaced populations from IDP camps in Northern Uganda; and supporting the development of rural communities in Afghanistan through the National Solidarity Program.

David Knaute has also been involved in starting ACTED operation in Karamoja since early 2007 and he is coordinating the European awareness-raising campaign on Karamoja throughout 2008 and 2009.

ACTED

The Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (ACTED) is an international non-government organization, created in 1993. Based in Paris, it has operations in more than 20 countries accross Central Asia, South Asia, the Middle-East, Central Eastern Africa, Central America and
Europe.

The programmes implemented by ACTED aim at addressing the needs of the populations affected by wars, natural catastrophes and/or economic and social crises.

ACTED has started implementing projects in Karamoja since April 2007. In Nakapirippirit district, ACTED has provided better facilities to schools, community development and has also supported drought-affected communities.

In Europe, ACTED has also developed awareness-raising and cultural programs.