About me

Iris Janssen · Creative Producer / Writer and Director

What drives me is finding stories that touch people and make them think. And shaping them into concepts strong enough that others immediately want the film to exist. From first pitch to finished production, that is where I work best: with a great team, a clear vision, and the stubbornness to see it through.

I know how German film funding works. Not in theory, but from the inside: writing the applications, building the budgets, standing in the pitch room, delivering the reports. I understand what funds look for and how to make a project speak their language.

My background spans fiction, documentary, and series development across international co-productions with broadcasters, labs, and partners throughout Europe and beyond. I bring dramaturgical instinct, financial literacy, and the organizational discipline to keep complex productions on track.

As an alumna of the Akademie für Kindermedien, I have a particular understanding of the creative and structural demands of projects made for young audiences — and the funding landscape that supports them.
I'm not a specialist locked into one format or one genre. I'm a producer who can read a project, find its angle, and navigate the system that turns potential into a finished film.
Based in Berlin. Fluent in German, Dutch, and English. Always looking for projects worth fighting for.