TUKI JENCQUEL
Producer
Tuki Jencquel is a filmmaker born in Caracas and based in Berlin, with a background in both film and business. He studied directing at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and earned an MBA from IESA, Venezuela’s leading business school.
He began his career as an assistant director on large-scale international TV commercials and on the BBC Storyville documentary Secrets of the Tribe by José Padilha. After directing several short fiction films and managing his family’s business—including the distribution of Montblanc in Venezuela—he returned to filmmaking to document the collapse of his country’s health system.
That story became Está Todo Bien, a feature documentary that screened at IDFA (Best of Fest), Sheffield DocFest, and other international festivals, winning several awards. His second feature, Jackie the Wolf, premiered at Hot Docs in 2023. A deeply personal film about his mother’s decision to pursue assisted suicide, it was produced with France Télévisions and supported by the CNC and Hamburg Film Fund.
In addition to directing, he has worked with Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei as a cinematographer on projects in Gaza and Brazil, and directed an investigative documentary for Deutsche Welle about oil and corruption in Venezuela. He is currently producing a feature documentary in coproduction with 3sat/ZDF, supported by the Hamburg and MV film funds.
Tuki is a member of AG-Dok and an alumnus of Eurodoc 2021.
FILIPPO KONRADIN RICORDI
Producer
Filippo was born in Bologna, Italy. After his studies he took his first steps in film production and since 2018 is based in Berlin. He has been working as an assistant director among others with Victor Kossakovsky on the film “Architecton”, which was presented in competition at the 74th Berlinale, and with Maren-Kea Freese on "The Adventures of the Lausitzerin Wilma", produced by ma.ja.de Filmproductions and featuring Fritzi Haberlandt. His work as a director and producer features a documentary series on JS Bach's "The Art of Fugue" which was selected to participate in EURODOC21 and released on the Italian broadcaster RAI Cultura in March 2024. His portfolio also includes several concert recordings, trailers and EPKs for Universal Music. and Sony Europe. His great passions are piano music, volcanoes and (Italian) poetry and his goal is to understand why and if he will ever connect these.