
Milena Fessmann
Milena Fessmann has been running her weekly music program, ‘Free Falling – Tuesday 11 p.m.–1 a.m.’, since 1998, in addition to her long-standing work as a DJ in various clubs and as a presenter on Radio Eins, RBB:
http://www.radioeins.de/programm/sendungen/free_falling/
In 1989, she founded CINESONG and has worked as a music supervisor on more than 500 films and series, including recent films such as "All Quiet on the Western Front", "Perfect Days", and "Maria", "Boys from Brazil", "Legacy of Spies" among others.
She hosts events, panels, and press conferences, including the Reeperbahn Festival, c/o Pop, and Soundtrack Cologne. She has a degree in political science and gives seminars on music supervision at the DFFB, KHM, HFF, and BIMM Berlin. Furthermore, she is also a member of the World Soundtrack Academy's advisory board and the European Film Academy.
Sugar Town Filmproduktion GmbH & Co. KG was founded in 2012. Its first project, the documentary ‘The Potential of Noise – Conny Planck’, was released in German cinemas in September 2017, had its world premiere at SXSW 2018, and was released in the US in September 2018. Other projects/co-productions include ‘When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit’, ‘Dino Days’, and ‘Einfach Machen She-Punks von 1977 bis heute’ (Just Do It: She-Punks from 1977 to Today), a documentary about women in German-speaking punk and new wave, released on 1 May 2025.