Festival Speakers

Speakers during the Conference will include dignitaries, politicians, diplomats, academics, actors, movie directors, movie producers, authors, artists, journalists, and representatives from civil society. These speakers will include a large number of individuals from the ICD Advisory Board. To learn more about the ICD Advisory Board, please click here.

The following are among the speakers for the festival:

• Ahmed El Mahmoudy
  Founder, ID Labs Art & Technology Solutions
• Alex Kem
  Organizer, the Kenako Festival, Afrika Medien Zentrum e.V.
• Adetoun Küppers-Adebisi
  President, AFROTAK Tv cyberNomads
• Andrea Gisell Kizua
  African Artist
• Anna Shivute
  Commissioner, the Namibian Film Commission
• Dr. Asogwa Euphemia Chika
  Lecturer and Head of Department of Mass Communication, Kogi State University, Anyigba
• Cornelia Hammelmann
  Project Manager, Deutsche Filmförderungsanstal
• Dagmar Dehmer
  Journalist, Der Tagesspiegel
• Dayo Balogun
  Film Editor and Postproduction Consultant, H264 Media Limited
• Emo Rugene
  Actor
• Hadja Kaba
  Founder, Mama Afrika e.V.
• Isona Admetila
  Representative, World Cinema Fund
• Prof. John A. Kantara
  Professor for Journalism – DEKRA Hochschule Berlin, Author, Producer, Journalist
• Dr. Kalakhi Mohamed
  Cultural Attaché, Embassy of Morocco to Germany
• Prof. Dr. Kishore Chakraborty
  Director of Research - Center for Cultural Diplomacy Studies
• Leon Willems
  Director, Free Press Unlimited
• Marion Lieser
  Managing Director of OXFAM Germany
• Matthias Akaazua
  Post Graduate Student of International Business Management (MBA), Girne American University; Certificate Student, Center for Cultural Diplomacy Studies
• Michael Tecklenburg
  Head, Africa Division and Coordinator, Deutsche Welle
• H.E. Amb. Dr. Mohamed Abdelhamid Ibrahim Higazy
  Ambassador of Egypt to Germany