Maximilian Haslberger ⢠Producer, Amerikafilm
âThere is no such thing as being apoliticalâ
German producer
Maximilian Haslberger, of Amerikafilm, discussed documentary production in the current situation after being selected for the 2021 Emerging Producers programme.
Why do you produce documentaries? Do you understand documentary film as an instrument of social and political change?
Maximilian Haslberger: As someone who is not much interested in such classification of films, or the question whether things are fictional or not, documentary filmmaking to me is an approach or a practice; maybe a tool. The question whether films influence the life outside of films has been answered in history: