Annegret Richter

Annegret Richter is an Executive Manager of AG Animationsfilm, a National Association for German Animation Industry. She has been working at the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film in Leipzig (DOK Leipzig) since 2010. Before that she was Director of the International Short Film Festival in Dresden (Filmfest Dresden) and a researcher at the Institute of Communication and Media Studies at the University of Leipzig, where she also taught. She also worked as a film journalist for radio and magazines. 

Today, Annegret Richter curates special programs for various festivals such as a regular animated documentary program (DOKANIM) and a special animadoc program in 2008, both for MONSTRA Animation festival in Lisbon. She is passionate about animated documentary and is writing her thesis about this field. For Fantoche 2016 she composes a special animated short film program on the subject of Humanité Animée together with Director Annette Schindler.