Gunnar Dedio grew up in Rostock, on the eastern side of the Wall. After the fall of the Iron Curtain, he studied in Germany and France and founded the film production company LOOKSfilm in 1995. LOOKSfilm became famous for archive-based documentaries and series about world history. In 2019, Dedio took over one of Europe’s largest film archives, PROGRESS, which contains, among other treasures, the entire film heritage of East Germany. The PROGRESS archive grows every month, digitizing film and photo collections from all over the world. With the help of human and artificial intelligence, PROGRESS makes this audiovisual heritage accessible to the worldwide community of filmmakers through the platform www.progress.film. Most of LOOKSfilm’s over 200 film and series productions – many of them award-winning - go to the heart of the story. They tell us about history from different perspectives, by the very people who made it, combining it with impressive archive footage. Among Dedio's most recent archive-based series are "Colonia Dignidad", “Dig Deeper” (both Netflix), "Kids of Courage", "Clash of Futures", “Terror at the games – the munich massacre”, “The Natural Histroy of Destruction” and of course "Afghanistan - The Wounded Land" which achieved numerous nominations for film awards and won Grimme award and Focal award. www.looks.film