Michael Obert
Michael Obert is an award-winning German book author and journalist who has been compared with the likes of Bruce Chatwin, Jon Krakauer and Ryszard Kapuscinski.
He reports mainly from Africa and the Middle East and writes for National Geographic, GEO, Sueddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, DIE ZEIT and ZEIT Magazin, and many other prestigious periodicals in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, as well for Sunday Times Magazine, GQ France, The Journal (New York), Dagens Næringsliv (Oslo) and Himal Southasian (Katmandu).
Song from the Forest, Obert’s movie debut as a director, had its world premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2013 where it won the IDFA Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary. The movie was considered for the Oscars 2016.
As an Africa expert, intercultural trainer and coach, Michael Obert advises politicians, professionals and organizations and gives the African continent a voice in the Western media. In 2017 he founded the Reporter Akademie Berlin.
Michael Obert was selected for the 2013 European Press Prize shortlist with ‘War Report from Somalia’ and for the 2015 European Press Prize shortlist with ‘Boko Haram’.
He won the 2018 Distinguished Reporting Award with ‘The human catcher‘.
Paweł Kapusta
Paweł Kapusta comes from Poland, works for Wirtualna Polska (www.wp.pl). He is a sports journalist, specializing in football topics. Before coming to Wirtualna Polska, worked for “Piłka Nożna” magazine for 5 years. He worked as a correspondent during the World Cup in Brazil and World Cup in South Africa. In the meantime, he writes social and non-sport reportages for Wirtualna Polska Magazine. In 2017 he was selected to the shortlist of Grand Press Award and at the same year he received the Newsweek prize (The Polish award, granted annually by the Teresa Torańska Foundation associated with the Newsweek Magazine). The award was granted for the article about working conditions of paramedics in Poland. He is 28 years old, lives in Warsaw.
Paweł Kapusta was selected for the 2018 European Press Prize shortlist with ‘Hard to save someone when life is flooding the landing and dripping from 5th floor to the 4th‘