Festival International du Film documentaire Océanien (Tahiti)

Film: Künstlicher Kosmos (Mythen der Südsee IV.)

Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival (New York City)

Film: Ghanaian Video Tales

"kontrast - das Bayreuther Kurzfilmfestival " (Bayreuth)"
Film: Schlossherr sein dagegen sehr
Award: Audience Award
(with Martina Kleinert)

Ethnofilmfest Berlin
Film: Kava –The Drink of the Gods

International Film & TV-Festival Shanghai
Film: Kava – The Drink of the Gods

6th. International Festival of Ethnographic Film of the British Anthropological Society (RAI) Canterbury.
Film: Adire – Indigo Textiles amongst the Yoruba
Award: „Best Film“ in the category: „Material Culture“

2011-

2012

Several grants to realize “UrSprung in der Suedsee”

www.ursprung-in-der-suedsee.de

Fund for project development by FFF (FilmFernsehFonds) Bayern for development of the documentary "Bunlap visiting and revisited"

Commission by Bavarian TV for the production of "Mythen der Südsee", a five part TV-series.

Rersearch fellow at the University of the South Pacific. Grant by the Institute of Pacific Studies to produce a film on the kava ritual.

Several grants by the University of Bayreuth (Iwalewa Haus) to cover travel costs and other expenses of ethnographic research in Nigeria and Senegal.

Grant from the Heinrich Böll Foundation for the production of a film on indigo textiles in Yorubaland / Nigeria.

Grant by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) to carry out a student research project in Ivory Coast.