After his retirement from ZDF and ARTE in 2011 Hans Robert Eisenhauer moved to Berlin and and started a new career as independent producer with his company Ventana-Film GmbH., focused on international documentary-films, including cultural and current affairs TV programs. Ventana’s German-Syrian coproduction, Return to Homs (2013) by Talal Derki had it’s world premiere at IDFA 2013 and received the Grand Jury Award for the best international documentary film at the Sundance Film-Festival 2014. Of Fathers and Sons is his second film with Derki.
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.
