Christoph Jörg has been producing and commissioning documentaries for over twenty years. From 1994 to 2008, he was Senior Commissioning Editor at Arte France in Paris. Jörg founded Pumpernickel Films in 2009 and has since produced a wide range of award-winning documentaries including Bobby Fischer Against The World, Be Like Others and Love Crimes Of Kabul both for HBO, The Lovers And The Despot and Winnie, which both premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. He was nominated for a News & Documentary Emmy Award in 2010 for Be Like Others alongside director Tanaz Eshaghian, and in 2019, he received his first APSA nomination for One Child Nation.
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and present. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
