Person As Property | What Happens When IP is a Human Being?
In today’s cost-conscious environment, the industry often turns to IP with built-in audiences. But when that IP is a real person, unique moral, legal, and creative challenges emerge. How do you balance fact and fiction? How do you navigate ethics and entertainment? This panel explores these issues with examples from both fiction and non-fiction series, shedding light on the complexities of turning real lives into compelling narratives.
Speaker
Pisani-Ferry is a French writer, based in Berlin. She recently created and was the headwriter of “Becoming Karl Lagerfeld” for Disney+. Before that, she co-created “Vampires” for Netflix and wrote on “Kaboul Kitchen” for Canal+ and “Ganglands” for Netflix. She studied Literature and Social Sciences and is an alumna of Serial Eyes (DFFB).
Christian Beetz is the CEO of the documentary powerhouse Beetz Brothers film production, which is specialized in documentary series and international co-productions since the very beginning. The latest productions include Juan Carlos (Cannes Series 2023), Eternal You (Sundance 2024), Crimes Scenes Berlin (Netflix) and the upcoming German Cocaine Cowboy series (Prime Video).
Julia Fidel is a producer, choreographer, and series curator. She studied film and media in Mainz, Berlin, and at Babelsberg Film University, where she headed the student film festival sehsüchte in 2005.
Born in Darmstadt, she lived briefly in New York and London and mostly in Berlin. She enjoys doing multiple things at the same time: from 2019 to 2023, she headed the Berlinale Series section, introducing the Berlinale Series Award in 2023. From 2016 to 2022, she choreographed all dance elements for the series “Babylon Berlin”. Other choreography credits include “A Cure for Wellness”, “Hunger Games: A Story of Songbirds and Snakes”, and “Bumper in Berlin”. She has worked as an advisor for the German festival TeleVisionale since 2022. Since 2023 she has been working as a producer at Intaglio Films GmbH.