Maya Reichert Pro

Maya Reichert is Deputy Festival Director of DOK.fest München, supporting Adele Kohout in the festival’s management and artistic direction. After studying at the University of Television and Film Munich, she worked for many years as an academic artistic associate and was actively involved in teaching and higher education policy.

Maya Reichert has been part of the festival since 2009 and took over the leadership of DOK.education, the festival’s film education department, in 2013. She developed programmes such as the “School of Seeing” and the international platform Nextus, opening up innovative approaches to film education. Under her leadership, DOK.education has grown into one of the largest documentary film education programmes in the German-speaking world, reaching more than 8,000 schoolchildren every year. She brings her longstanding focus on film education into her leadership role and is also active as a lecturer in the field of education.

She served for six years on the Federal Government’s Film Funding Committee at the Ministry of Culture and Media. She is a member of the “Freundeskreis der HFF München” (Friends of the filmschool HFF Munich), the “Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft e.V.” (Cultural Policy Society), WIFT Germany, AgDOK, and the München Interactive Network. She is also a founding member of the AG Filmvermittlung (Audiencebuilding, Filmeducation, Filmliteracy) board, which promotes the visibility of the entire professional field.

As a filmmaker, she is responsible for the BR co-production SCHWESTER DOROTHEA, among other things. In 2019, she presented the documentary film Tanz auf dem Vulkan, which was funded by FFF Bayern and shot on the Cape Verde Islands. It was shown throughout Bavaria.