RENATE ZYLLA

Born in 1955 in Bielefeld, Germany.
Renate holds a Master of Pedagogy with a concentration in media at the University of Bielefeld.
She has professional experience in film and media since 1983 and worked in the film industry as well
(casting and childcare for TV productions).

She wrote editorial reports about films for departments of family and children’s programming of German
TV stations and is an author of media educational material.

Since 1991, she is member of national censorship committee about cinema and TV programs.
She starts her festival career in Berlin at the International Film Festival Berlin in 1986.

In 1988 she became the director of the Kinder Film Fest of the Berlin International Film Fest and worked
in this position till 2002.

She was a cunsultant for the Kinder Film Festival Tokyo (1992 – 2002). In 2003 she became the director of Kodomotachino Kinder Film Festival Tokyo.

Renate Zylla is a director, organizer, manager of film projects and events and has been a jury member at international film festivals around the world.

Since 2009 she is a festival agent for children and youth films and in 2010 she became a program advisor for international film festivals for children and young adults in:
Jakarta (Indonesia), Lucknow (India), Manchester (UK), Montevideo (Uruguay), Nairobi (Kenya),
Seattle (USA) and Winnipeg (Canada).

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