Biography
Sita Scherer is a cultural scholar and filmmaker with a focus on documentary film, essay film, and contemporary moving image, and works in curatorial selection processes in the context of film. She studied cultural studies in Hildesheim, Caldas da Rainha (Portugal) and Leipzig, as well as visual communication in the film and moving image class of Prof. Jan Peters at the Kunsthochschule Kassel, where she graduated with honours. She has been working as a freelance filmmaker since 2018. Her works have been shown internationally and have received multiple awards, including the 2015 Open Frame Award at the goEast Festival for the video installation Essen vom Boden der Geschichte. Since 2022, she has been a member of the selection committee for feature-length documentaries at the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, and since 2024 she has held a coordinating role. She is currently developing the documentary film "Ruf das Schweigen, bis es antwortet".