Maryanne Redpath is the director of the Generation section of the Berlin International Film Festival.

 

She was born in New Zealand in 1957 and has been living and working in Berlin since 1985. After gaining a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Classical Studies and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Drama from New Zealand universities, Maryanne Redpath moved to Sydney where she deepened her knowledge of theater at the Drama Action Center. During the 1980’s and early 1990’s, she worked as a multi-media performance artist, a theater technician, taught drama to handicapped people and to children and gave art lessons to Aboriginal children living in Central Australia. Moreover she wrote scripts for and directed experimental 8mm and 16mm films and presented an Australian television series about health matters. She also taught English and translated books and texts. From 1991-1994 Maryanne qualified as an authorised teacher of the Feldenkrais method.

 

In 1993 she began working for the Berlinale Kinderfilmfest, assisting the then director Renate Zylla until 2002, at which time she became the Co-Director together with Thomas Hailer. In May 2008, Maryanne Redpath was appointed head of the section, which had been re-labelled Generation in 2006. Since 2004 she has also been the official Berlinale Delegate for Australia and New Zealand.