Markus Nikel

Background

About Markus Nikel

Markus Nikel (1967) For RAI, the Italian Public Broadcaster, he has been working as an author and creative producer on a great variety of documentaries, factual programs, and websites, for general audiences, for school education as well as for adult education, dealing with subjects in the field of Philosophy, History, Art History, Citizenship and Language Learning. The EBU, the European Broadcasting Union in Geneva, appointed him various times as Executive Producer for co-productions of factual TV series. Markus is an elected board member ot the EBU’s Science and Knowledge Experts Group. A strong focus of Markus’ work is in building and coordinating international coproductions of television and cross-media projects. With RAI and TAL (Television America Latina), he has helped to develop and coordinate global public television cooperation projects “All the Colours of Football” (60 x 10’, 30 broadcasters in 20 countries), and “Big Cities”, a global tv series about sustainable urban development in the growing number of the worlds’ megacities. Markus is a regular guest speaker, workshop tutor and advisor to many international TV markets and events (Eurovision Summit, Sunny Side of the Doc, Italian Doc Screenings, Japan Prize, Prix Italia, Guangzhou Documentary Festival, Asian Side of the Doc), and he is regularly invited as a Juror in important Media Competitions (in 2014/15/16/17: NHK Japan Prize, Tokyo; iemmy Awards Prefinals, Vienna; Kids Emmy Final Round, NY, Ecrans de la Chine, Paris; Prix Italia, Turin; ABU Documentary Awards, Kuala Lumpur) In 2014, Markus creates “LUCI DALLA CINA” in Rome, a yearly Festival of Chinese Documentaries. Since 2015, Markus is Advisor for Europe to the International Documentary Film Festival of Guangzhou ). In April 2016, Markus has been elected President of the TV Commission at COPEAM an association of Mediterranean broadcasters. In the past, Markus has been consulting and authoring also for NHK, Japan and EBS, Korea. He worked with broadcaster associations TAL in Latin America, ASBU in the Mena region and ABU in Asia. Over the years, Markus has also be working with various Independent Production Companies in Europe and abroad, helping them to internationally develop their documentary projects.