MAREN WICKWIRE
FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, DIRECTOR, DOP, EDITOR
VISUAL VOICES ADVISOR
FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, DIRECTOR, DOP, EDITOR
VISUAL VOICES ADVISOR
Maren Wickwire was born in Germany and founded Manifest Media subsequent to graduation in 2007. She studied Documentary film at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen and the Holon Institute of Technology in Israel, and holds an M.A. in Visual and Media Anthropology from the Freie Universität in Berlin. With wide-ranging experience in directing, producing and filming documentaries as well as working with multi-vocal video installations, Maren has presented her work in more than twenty countries and international film festivals and exhibitions. She is a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts grant and a long time creative collaborator of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and ART WORKS Projects, focusing on peacemaking, conflict resolution and global migration.