Heino Deckert was a student at the German Film and TV Academy Berlin (DFFB) and upon graduating in 1991 he founded the production company, Ma.ja.de. Filmproduktions GmbH. Deckert produced more than 100 award-winning documentaries including Rabbit Á La Berlin, which was nominated for an Academy Award® in 2010 for Best Documentary Short Subject. He has produced Victor Kossakovsky’s ¡VIVAN LAS ANTIPODAS!, which was the opening film of the Venice Film Festival in 2011, and, Aquarela in 2018, which was his first APSA nomination for Best Documentary Feature Film. Deckert recently produced Human Flow, which was directed by Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei. He also worked on Maryam Ebrahimi’s No Burqas Behind Bars, which won an Emmy Award and was nominated for the APSA Best Documentary Feature. In 2005, Deckert founded Ma.ja.de. Fiction and produced two fiction film with filmmakers Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth that premiered both at Venice and Cannes. Deckert also has a long working relationship with Ukrainian/Russian filmmaker Sergei Losnitza.
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and emerging. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
