Producer sponsorships for winners of the "German Young Film Award" 2025

Fabian Döring

Fabian Döring is a Berlin-based producer, writer, and director, as well as the founder and managing director of PINK FOX STORYHOUSE GmbH. Founded in 2024, the production company stands for emotional, socially relevant cinema with its own distinctive style. The focus is on author-driven films that combine depth with subtle humor and explore themes such as identity, care, and community. At the same time, the company advocates for fair, family-friendly working conditions in the film industry. Döring began his career as an actor before moving behind the camera. Since 2006, he has worked in almost all areas of film production. In 2016, he became self-employed as a director and writer and, in 2020, was certified as a production manager (IHK)—as the best in his class. His short film AMARO (2019) with Paula Beer won numerous international awards, including "Best Drama" (Arctic Film Festival) and "Best International Short" (Västerås Film Festival). His earlier film FUCK YOU VERY MUCH (2017) was also screened at over 20 festivals and received nominations at the Independent Days Karlsruhe and the Landshut Short Film Festival. In addition to his artistic work, Döring has been involved in larger productions, for example as post-production manager for The New A-Class (Mercedes-Benz) and as production coordinator for the Sky series Then You Run. He has also produced commercials for Siemens, Cornelsen, and Kettler and is a member of PROG - Producers of Germany. With PINK FOX STORYHOUSE, Döring pursues the goal of developing powerful, stylistically distinctive films – combined with the ambition to shape production culture in a sustainable and humane way.

Svenja Vanhoefer

After studying theater, literature, and media studies at LMU Munich, Svenja Vanhoefer completed various directing internships at the Residenztheater, Kammerspiele, and in the independent theater scene before discovering the versatility of the film industry. From 2021 to 2024, Svenja studied production with a specialization in "Executive and Line Producing" as a lateral entry at the Filmakademie Ludwigsburg. Within three years, she played a leading role in producing several short films, the feature film VENA, and the documentary film MORIA SIX, which won the DEFA Promotion Prize and the Leipzig Ring Prize at DOK Leipzig in 2024. Her multi-award-winning feature film debut VENA, a co-production with Neue Bioskop, SWR, HR, and Weltkino, was nominated for the 2025 German Film Award in three categories: Best Feature Film, Best Cinematography, and Best Actress. Svenja was a scholarship holder of the VFF (Federal Film and Television Producers' Association) and a participant in the renowned Hollywood Masterclass at the UCLA Film Academy in Los Angeles. Since the summer of 2025, Svenja Vanhoefer has founded her own film production company, REBELLE Film, together with director Chiara Fleischhacker and producer Charlene Kilthau, which focuses on female storytelling in front of and behind the camera.

Hüseyin Tabak

Hüseyin Tabak is German-Kurdish and was born in 1981 in East Westphalia, Germany. In 2003, he began his film career as an intern, production manager, and assistant director on various film sets. From 2006 to 2012, he studied directing at the Vienna Film Academy under Peter Patzak and Michael Haneke. This was followed by the feature films Your Beauty Is Worthless (2012, including an Austrian Film Award in four categories) and Gipsy Queen (2019, including a German Film Award nomination), as well as directing the children's film The Horse on the Balcony (2012). He has also made two feature documentaries, including Kick Off (2010), which won an award at the Diagonale Film Festival, and The Legend of the Ugly King (2017), which celebrated its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. He later directed the feature film Oskar's Dress (2022), for which he won the Bambi Award for Best National Film, and directed two Tatort (Tatort) episodes. In 2018, he founded the production company Epikfilm together with Mehmet Aktas and has since also produced films by other directors. epikfilm's focus is primarily on young filmmakers.