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Benjamin Harris

Head of Programme

Ben­jamin Har­ris is Head of Pro­gramme for Seri­al Eyes. As such, he is respons­ible for the cur­ricular and admin­is­trat­ive over­sight of the pro­gramme.

Pri­or to that, Ben­jamin was the Assist­ant Dir­ect­or of the MFA Pro­du­cers Pro­gram in the UCLA School of Theat­er, Film and Tele­vi­sion for elev­en years. He is a TV writer and a film and tele­vi­sion indus­tries schol­ar, and teaches classes on story devel­op­ment for fea­tures and tele­vi­sion, cre­at­ive pro­du­cing, and the US and inter­na­tion­al media indus­tries.

Ben­jamin has designed exec­ut­ive sem­inars on the US film and tele­vi­sion indus­tries for China’s State Admin­is­tra­tion of Radio, Film and Tele­vi­sion (SARFT) and for Pek­ing University/Jade Bird Inter­na­tion­al. He has taught sem­inars and lec­tures for Sor­bonne University—Panthéon/Institut d’Audiovisuel Nation­al, France; UNIJAPAN and Min­istry of Eco­nom­ics, Trade and Industry (METI), Japan; and Filmuni­versität Babels­berg KONRAD WOLF, Pots­dam.

Ben­jamin is a found­ing mem­ber of the Inter­na­tion­al Co-Pro­duc­tion Net­work (ICPN) and co-organ­iser of its inaug­ur­al scholarly/industry con­fer­ence, “European Co-Pro­duc­tion Sym­posi­um” at the Uni­ver­sity of Copen­ha­gen.

Ben­jamin holds an M.A. in Radio/Television/Film from the Uni­ver­sity of Texas at Aus­tin and an M.F.A. in Pro­du­cing from UCLA. He is cur­rently pur­su­ing his Ph.D. in Cinema & Media Stud­ies from UCLA.

Federica Loddo

Programme coordinator

Itali­an cul­tur­al and event man­ager based in Ber­lin since 2001. Fed­er­ica stud­ied Japan­o­logy and Eng­lish and Amer­ic­an Stud­ies at the Hum­boldt Uni­ver­sity, with a focus on film and media. Fed­er­ica has worked for vari­ous fest­ivals and film pro­jects, includ­ing the Berlinale’s Culin­ary Cinema and the Inter­na­tion­al Con­fed­er­a­tion of Art Cinemas (C.I.C.A.E.), where she developed a good grasp of the inter­na­tion­al exhib­i­tion branch and a pro­found pas­sion for art­houses.