Maryanne Redpath is the director of the Generation section of the Berlin International Film Festival.
She began her career at the festival in 1993, working as director’s assistant at the Berlinale Kinderfilmfest and in 2002 she became the section’s co-director. In 2008 she was appointed head of the section, which had been re-labelled Generation in 2006.
Maryanne has been the official Berlinale Delegate for Australia and New Zealand since 2004. In this capacity, she travels every year to both countries to refresh her overview of production and to pre-select films for the various Berlinale programmes. Maryanne is a member of the Asian Pacific Film Academy (APSA) and was also involved in setting up the inaugural Young Audience Award for the European Film Academy. Furthermore, she is the head curator of the Berlinale special series “NATIVe – A Journey into Indigenous Cinema”, which was launched in 2013.
Maryanne was born in New Zealand in 1957 and has been living and working in Berlin since 1985. After gaining a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Classical Studies and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Drama in New Zealand, she moved to Sydney where she deepened her knowledge of theatre at the Drama Action Centre. During the 1980s and early 1990s Maryanne: worked intensively as a multi-media performance artist; was a theatre technician; taught drama to handicapped people and to children; gave art lessons to Aboriginal children in Central Australia; wrote scripts for and directed experimental 8mm and 16mm films; conceptualised and co-presented the Australian children’s television series about health matters, ‘GO HEALTH’; taught English, and translated books and diverse texts. From 1991-1994 Redpath qualified as an authorised teacher of the Feldenkrais method.
Session info: Navigating the Circuit with Maryanne Redpath and Al Cossar
