Meet the Team

  • Sarah Noa Bozenhardt is a Freiburg-born filmmaker who grew up in Ethiopia. Sarah Noa completed her bachelor’s in Film, Video, and Integrated Media at the Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, winning several awards for her thesis documentary MEDANIT. In 2016, she began studying documentary film directing at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF in Potsdam. Alongside her work as a director, Sarah Noa works as a film tutor for youth and kids. among us women represents the culmination of her filmmaking training and talent, and brings together a range of international creatives, committed to intimate, thoughtful storytelling.

  • Daniel Abate Tilahun was born in the rural village of Megendi. When he was a boy his parents sent him to live and work in the capital Addis Ababa, where he eventually met Sarah Noa’s family. After working on the short film Medanit with Sarah Noa, he began to study directing at the Blue Nile Film and Television Academy in Addis Ababa. Before working on his co-directing debut, Daniel collected a range of production management experience for feature films. Together with Sarah Noa Bozenhardt, he spent more than five years researching, developing and shooting the film among us women in his village in Northern Ethiopia.

  • Sonja Kilbertus

    PRODUCER

  • Hiwot Admasu Getaneh

    CO-PRODUCER

  • Bernarda Cornejo Pinto

    CINEMATOGRAPHER

  • Tewodros Girma

    PRODUCTION ASSISTANT

  • Anna-Marlene Bicking

    COMPOSER

  • Asmamaw Ashagrea

    MAYOR OF MEGENDI

  • Mulu Tesfaw

    CATERING

  • Endale Wasea

    HEAD OF SECURITY

  • Beletu Lema

    TRANSLTOR ON SET

  • Tewodros Teshome

    VILLAGE AFFAIRS

  • Alexandra Praet

    SOUNDDESIGNER

  • Alebel Kindu

    CAMERA ASSISTANT

  • Andrea Muñoz

    EDITOR

  • Meseret Asmamawe

    NIGHT GUARD

  • Laura Espinel

    POST PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR & TITLE DESIGN

  • Tilahun Tafere

    SERVICE PRODUCER

  • Lewam Fsehaye

    SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGIST & HEAD OF TRANSLATION

  • Fireawe Teshome

    ANIMAL WRANGLER

  • Alemitu Ewnetu

    HOUSEHOLD

  • Getachew Tamru

    MUSICIAN

  • Stella Dehne

    PRODUCTION MANAGER GERMANY

  • Besufekad Mulu

    TRANSCRIPTION

  • Bethlehem Fsehaye

    SUBTITLES

  • Wazema Tilahun Tafere

    SERVICE PRODUCER

  • Seblewongel Wondwossen

    PROJECT MANAGER & PR DISTRIBUTION

  • Sandrina koppitz

    IMPACT AND DISTRIBUTION

  • Teresa Ulbrich

    SOCIAL MEDIA/ PRODUCTION ASSISTANT