Claudia Andujar - The Lady with the arrows

Heidi Specogna

Heidi Specogna was born in Biel, Switzerland, in 1959 and now lives in Berlin, where she studied at the German Film and Television Academy. Since 1982, she has mainly made documentary films, focussing on socially critical topics and the human rights situation in Latin America and Africa. In 2012, she received the German Human Rights Film Award for her documentary "Esther and the Ghosts" about a traumatised girl in the Central African Republic. In 2018, she was awarded the Grimme Prize as well as the Swiss Film Prize and German Film Prize LOLA for the documentary "Cahier Africain", which tells the story of the victims of Congolese mercenaries between 2002 and 2003. In 2019, she was honoured with the Konrad Wolf Prize of the Academy of Arts in Berlin. She teaches as a professor for documentary film at the Filmakademie Ludwigsburg.