Renata Keller | Director, Editor, Camera

Renata Keller is a filmmaker and dialogue facilitator based in Berlin and Switzerland. She has worked in visual arts for over thirty years and was until recently also the CEO and art director of the German philosophical quarterly magazine ‘evolve‘. Sie lebt in Berlin und der Schweiz und arbeitet seit 30 Jahren im Bereich der künstlerischen Gestaltung. Bis Ende 2018 war sie Geschäftsführerin und Art-Direktorin der quartalsweise erscheinenden philosophischen deutschen Zeitschrift „evolve“.

With a master’s degree in Applied Imagination at University of Arts in 2006, Renata went on to study documentary filmmaking in London. Renata’slifelong pursuit of philosophical and spiritual questions, along with her interest in women’s development, led her to Gerda Lerner’s work and inspired the creation of Why Women Need to Climb Mountains (2016). Inspiriert von deren Werk entstand der Film Warum Frauen Berge besteigen sollten (2016). In the film True Healing Arises in Freedom (2019) she accompanies the Biochemist Dr. Roger Kalbermatten in his research about the nature of healing plants and their relationship with us humans. Her meeting with Vimala Thakar and her questions about the values of our times has led her to work on the current film In the Fire of Dancing Stillness. She runs various Salons in Berlin and gives various dialog seminars worldwide. www.verticalimpulse.com