Nataly Kudiabor has 30 years of professional experience in the film industry and started her
career at Medienruppe RTL. Soon followed positions at RTL II, ARD Degeto, Ziegler Film and
Grundy UFA.
As Head of Development and producer, she headed the Berlin office of ndf, neue deutsche
Filmgesellschaft, for eleven years.
From 2015 until 2018 Kudiabor was Managing Director of the production company “good
friends” and led the company to success within a few years. The most notable developments
were the award-winning comedy noir series “Arthur’s Law” and the German adaptation to the
Swedish series “Bonus Family”.
Since May 2019 Kudiabor has been working as Executive Producer for UFA Fiction and was
appointed to the management in June 2022.
The series „All you need“ (ARD Mediathek) and „The Mopes“ (TNT) were very well received,
both by critics and audience.
The director of “All you need” – Season 1 was nominated for Bunte New Faces Award 2021.
“The Mopes” was honoured with Audience Award of Grimme Award 2022.
In 2022 her romantic comedy “Die Liebeskümmerer” (The Heartbreak Agency) (Netflix) was
completed and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film 2024 by National Film Awards.
Nataly Kudiabor is one of the Executive Producers of the recent produced first German-
language serie of Apple TV+ “Where’s Wanda?”
She is a member of European Film Academy and International Academy of Television Arts &
Sciences.
Nataly Kudiabor is committed to promote diverse narrative perspectives in front of and behind
the camera.