Team
Urs Dillier has been dealing with film for many years and intensively with film series for about 10 years. As a trained typographer, he worked independently for many years in the field of book, magazine and brochure design (Atelier Urs and Thomas Dillier). From 2009 to 2018 he was responsible for the design and layout of the ProgrammZeitung Basel. He is the main initiator of the series festival project.
Katharina Dillier, a graduate of the School of Applied Linguistics (language teacher) in Zurich, has worked as a proofreader for various newspapers in Zurich and Basel. Together with Urs Dillier, she has visited various film festivals in Germany and France. She has been actively involved in the ‹Serienfestival Basel› initiative since the very beginning.
Daniel Muzzulini musicologist and mathematician, is interested in serial, parallel and network-based narrative forms. He is project manager Sound Colour Space – A Virtual Museum at the Zurich University of the Arts.
Claudia Schweizer works in marketing and advertising sales at PROZ - Kultur im Raum Basel. The trained bookseller and dipl. Marketing assistant has many years of experience in sales, marketing and communication. She also heads the KULTURPOOL, the large advertising combination of Swiss cultural magazines.
Raoul Vogelsanger Self-employed in printing, visual design (video, Lucerne), accounting, catering, bartender
Pia Zibulski (1997) completed her Bachelor's degree in Visual Communication at HKB in 2020 and has been working at the interface of design, communication and cultural work ever since. As social media manager at PROZ, board member and head of graphics at the BScene Music Festival, and as a freelance illustrator in the Basel area, she brings her passion for visual design to cultural projects.
Roland Strub has been enthusiastic about the medium of film since his childhood and has developed into a passionate collector of films (including silent films, classics, blockbusters and series). He studied German literature and linguistics, philosophy and computer science in Basel and graduated with a licentiate in 1995. For ten years he worked as an editor at various publishing houses and since 2006 he has been publishing director of ProgrammZeitung Verlags AG.
Olaf Jäggy's main job is as Administrative Assistant Tax & Legal. Due to his great passion for films, he has been involved in smaller film projects on the side since 2013 and has trained as a screenwriter at the Script Academy in Berlin.
Igor Storchak has been involved in the media sector for over 25 years, has experience in purchasing management and programming at a television station. For more than 15 years, he was the CEO of one of the largest Ukrainian companies for the distribution of films and series. He has participated in the most important industry events and is a producer of feature films, series, documentaries and programs. Igor is the founder of the production company Gingers Media and, since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, has been a co-founder of the Organization of Ukrainian Producers, which published over ten documentary projects in the first year of the war. Since March 2022, he has been living in Basel with his family and three children. He has been a member of Balimage since 2022.
David Gion Müller moves with his works between the moving image and graphic design. After studying film and television production in Berlin, his path led him to Cambodia, where he was able to work as a lecturer at the Limkokwing Design Department in Phnom Penh. At the end of 2017, he returned to Basel, where he has since held various positions at the Gässli Film Festival and worked as a freelance media designer.