Now based in Denmark, Katja Adomeit is a German film producer who has worked across Asia Pacific and Europe. She worked for Zentropa production company for six years, and when she graduated as a producer in 2012 from the alternative Danish film school Super16 she then founded Adomeit Film. She produced Anna Eborn’s Pine Ridge in 2013, which was selected for Venice Film Festival and won of Best Nordic Doc in Gothenburg, as well as Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure, which became an international success in 2014 and was nominated for a Golden GlobeTM and The Square in 2017, which won the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or and was nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Foreign Language Film. She has collaborated with Afghan filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat on three projects including Not at Home as well as Wolf and Sheep and The Orphanage, both of which were nominated for the Best Youth Feature Film APSA.
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.
