Lukas Reiter completed his training as a media designer for image and sound in 2017 in Frankfurt am Main and began studying directing/documentary film at
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
the same year. During the protests in Hambach Forest in 2018 he was part of the campaign to save the forest. In 2019 the release of his first feature-length documentary film ‘HAMBI - The fight for the Hambach Forest’ was shown on
ZDF - Das Kleine Fernsehspiel, opened the Duisburger Filmwoche and was invited to numerous other film festivals. For the release of the film he founded the production company
Transparent Film. During his time at Filmakademie Baden- Württemberg he released several short films and documentaries in the positions of director, cinematographer, editor and producer. At the moment he is working on the post-production of his next documentary feature
'Normal Protest (AT)'
about Lützerath.
Maite Bengsch, born on Sylt in 1994, has been studying film production at
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg since 2017. She previously worked for a year as a trainee at Wim Wenders' company and afterwards as a production assistant at his production company Neue Road Movies. In 2019 she worked as a line producer for the film
‘HAMBI - der Kampf um den Hambacher Wald’. During her studies she produced four documentaries, three scenic films and three image films. In addition to her studies, she works as a freelance producer - in 2019 she founded her own production company
Transparent Film together with Lukas Reiter. In summer 2022, she directed the documentary feature
‘Radio Europe’, which deals with the question of identity in Europe.
