After six years at leading youth and music TV producer MME, an Adolf Grimme TV-Award for ARD-series POP 2000 and a 2-year-interval in multimedia, Stefan founded Kloos & Co. Medien in 2002 and has since produced numerous award-winning creative documentaries with international TV broadcasters and for the cinema. Kloos is a member of EDN and AG DOK and an alumni of the Documentary Campus Masterschool.
He is one of the most active and experienced German producers on the international market and festival circuit and regularly lectures on documentary film and distribution. Recent award-winning films and coproductions include The Other Chelsea (2010), Putin’s Kiss (2011), Chuck Norris vs. Communism (2015) and Last Men in Aleppo (2017), which has won many awards including at Full Frame, CPH:DOX, Sundance Film Festival and the 2017 Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Documentary Feature.
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.
