Mike Schloemer was born in Unna/Westfalen in the Federal German Republic. He studied photography in West-Berlin and was a founding member of the legendary Media Collective Freiburg. He is working as cameraman, editor and producer for feature length cinema and TV productions.
A film about Palestinian day-to-day life and resistance, about self-organization in people’s committees and the installation of self-sustaining economic structures: Intifada – On the Way to Palestine documents the uprising in the West Bank and the Gaza-Strip, which begun in 1987. It was aimed against the Israeli occupation and in parts against the PLO-government in exile. The weapons were tax boycott, stones and the installation of cooperatives.
Robert Krieg was born in Bad Ems in the German Federal Republic in 1949. He studied sociology, journalism and ethnology. From 1976 till 1983 he was mainly working in academic research and teaching. Then he began dealing with documentary filmmaking. In addition to working as film-maker and being active in film-politics, he taught at the International School for Cinema and Television in Cuba.