Laurian-Luis Schymura (FOUNDER, CEO & PRODUCER @ A GROUP THERAPY)
With a film d'ateur fine arts bachelor and a commercial master in producing at prestigious german filmschools, Laurian is coined by his peers as a bladerunner between art and commerce. Raised by separated parents of no academic or art backgrounds, as a producer and social being, he highly focusses on filmmakers, stories and working relationships that speak a similar language. The result are uncompromised films and loyal partnerships with artists, funders and marketeers alike. His life's mission is forging and defending space for underrepresented cinematic visions.
Filmography (selection)
Producer - Hygge (Feature Drama/Satire - dir. Lena Fakler & Zarah Schrade), 2026 - 47th Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis (MOP)
Producer - When We Saw Each Other More Often (Feature Drama - dir. William Wrubel), 2025 - The Downtown Festival (New York, 2025)
Associate Producer - Tender Cords (Short Drama - dir. Rosana Cuellar - star. Hanna Schygulla), 2024 - 26th Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) - Aesthetica Short Film Festival York (ASFF) - Carmarthen Bay Film Festival (CBFF) - BAFTA & BIFA Qualifying
Distributor - Muxmäuschenstill X (Feature Mockumentary/Political Satire - dir. Jan Henrik Stahlberg), 2024 - 41st Filmfest München (Munich Film Festival) - 46th Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis (MOP)
Creative Producer - Those Who Follow / Mitläufer (Short Drama - dir. Frederic Kau), 2023 - 50th Student Academy Awards Finalist (Student Oscar) - 20th Filmfestival Münster Short Film Competition Winner
Creative Producer - Pandas in Love / Von Friesen und Pandabären (Short Romance - dir. Elena Pilar Nyffeler), 2022 - 24th Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival (TISFF) - 16th Five Lakes Film Festival (FSFF) - 2022 Cannes / Venezia / Hollywood Shorts
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Josephine Hasenjäger (CO-FOUNDER & PRODUCER @ A GROUP THERAPY)
Josephine is a multidisciplinary creative with a focus on visual storytelling and social change. Additionally to bringing impactful projects to life in various fields of media and political activism, Josephine works with a group therapy to find new ways of conscious collaborative storytelling. Josephine also guides students of film production as a lecturer at the SAE institute. From art direction to campaign management, all work revolves around building community, exchanging creative ideas, and confidently challenging existing structures.
Filmography (selection)
Campaign Coordinator; Coordinator: People and Operations - Hamburg testet Grundeinkommen, 2023; 2025-2026
Lecturer: Film production, post production and interactive filmmaking – SAE Institute, since 2022
Consulting Producer - One dances, the Other doesn't (Feature Drama - dir. Emilie Girardin), 2024 - 14th FEMCINE Santiago Women’s Film Festival - 58th Internationale Hofer Filmtage (Hof)
Locations / 2nd AD - Zeit Verbrechen: Gelbe Nacht (Paramount+ Series - dir. Mariko Minoguchi), 2024 - 74th Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Berlinale)
Locations - Love Addicts (Amazon Prime Series - dir. Various), 2023
Junior Producer - Am Ende der Worte (Feature Drama - dir. Nina Vukovic, NDR), 2022
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Claudia Tuyết Scheffel (CO-FOUNDER, WRITER, DIRECTOR & PRODUCER @ A GROUP THERAPY)
Claudia was born to a Vietnamese mother and a German father in Germany. She studied film at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg where she graduated with her first feature film „Lonig & Havendel“. For the documentary „Hass.Hetze.Hoffnung. - The murder of Li Yangjie” she won (with Co-Partner Quỳnh Lê Nguyễn) the Grimme-Prize 2026, Germany’s most renowned award for TV and journalism. In 2021 she published her first novel „Scherben im Plateau“.
Filmography (selection)
2026 - Knut, Bruno, Panda (in development, feature film)
2026 - Bären ohne Visa (in postproduction, hybrid short, 14 Min.)
2026 - Nägel mit Köpfen (in postproduction, hybrid short, 13 Min.)
2025 - Lonig & Havendel / Loney & Havender, 116 Min. (Deutscher Kamerapreis 2026, DoP Yunus Çağ Köylü, Grand Prix Best Director, Best Actor @ Montréal Asian International Film Festival)
2025 - Hass. Hetze. Hoffnung - Der Mord an Li Yangjie, 2x45 Min. TV Documentary (Winner Grimme-Preis 2026)
2025 - SB-Kassen Lover, music video for the band „Blond"
2023 - Erinnern aus post-migrantischer Perspektive, 7 Min., Documentary
2021 - Scherben im Plateau (novel)
2021 - Die Tragödie der Königin Hortense, 17 Min.
2021 - Tan chảy thành nước / Becoming Water/ Wasser werden, 21 Min. (currently in ARD-Mediathek)
2020 - Amputierte Arschbacken / Amputated Asscheecks, 29 Min. (Deutscher Nachwuchsfilmpreis/ German New Talent Award Int. Filmfestival Hannover)
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Quỳnh Lê Nguyễn (WRITER, DIRECTOR & PRODUCER @ A GROUP THERAPY)
Lê was born in 1995 in the Lüneburg Heath. She initially studied cultural studies with a focus on media at the University of Hildesheim. Since 2018, she has been studying documentary film and television journalism at the HFF Munich and is currently working on her graduation film. In 2026, she and Claudia Tuyết Scheffel won the Grimme Prize for the documentary series “Hass.Hetze.Hoffnung.”
Filmography (selection)
2026 Sie haben geschossen. Es tut weh, 90 minutes, documentary, graduation film, in development
2025 Hass.Hetze.Hoffnung, 2x45 minutes, documentary, RTL2, Grimme Award 2026
2024 Frozen Jackfruit, 7 minutes, documentary
2022 State of Anxiety. Or the fear that other people might think you suck, 21 minutes, documentary, Winner Monstrale 2023
2021 Daughters, 20 minutes, documentary, Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis
2019 She wants what she wants, 7 minutes, documentary Filmfest Dresden
2016 Hühnerfuß im Kopfsalat, 11 minutes, documentary, up-and-coming Filmfestival