Eva Knopf was born in Oldenburg. She studied at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, the University of California Berkeley, the Georg-August University in Göttingen, and the University of Amsterdam. She worked as a projectionist in numerous arthouse theaters, teaches in the Visual Media and Anthropology Dept. of the Free University Berlin and is currently a research fellow for the project the "History of Documentary Film in Germany" funded by the German national research foundation. Her films include: the documentaries "Juju Movie – Get rich or die trying" (2011), "Majub´s Journey" (2013) and "Myanmarket" (2017).

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