Ingmar Trost

Ingmar Trost is an Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated producer of documentary and narrative feature films based in Cologne, Germany. He is a member of the European Film Academy and the ACE Producers Network, an alumnus of EAVE, Documentary Campus EURODOC and was Germany’s Producer on the Move at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.

Ingmar holds an MA in Documentary Directing and professionally started out directing and producing documentaries for public television in 2003. In 2010, Ingmar founded Sutor Kolonko to develop and produce creative documentaries and feature films for an international audience. The company has been a point of departure for young authors and directors and has a strong focus on international co-production, especially with Latin America. Ingmar produced the Cannes award-winning Sofia’s Last Ambulance by Ilian Metev as well as Metev’s follow-up 3/4, winner of a Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival 2017. Other credits include: Das Zimmermädchen Lynn directed by Ingo Haeb (FIPRESCI Prize & Award for Best Artistic Contribution Montreal World FF), Rojo by Benjamin Naishtat (Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Actor at the San Sebastian International Film Festival 2018), Teatro de Guerra by Lola Arias (Prize of the Ecumenical Jury & CICAE Art Cinema Award Berlinale Forum 2018), the Emmy-winning Solitary by Kristi Jacobson, Das freiwillige Jahr by Ulrich Köhler and Henner Winckler (Competition Locarno), and The Mole Agent by Maite Alberdi (nominated for an Academy Award).

Ingmar's most recent credits include Los Colonos by Felipe Galvez (Un Certain Regard Cannes), Mutter by Carolin Schmitz (Hessischer Filmpreis), Reas by Lola Arias (Berlinale Forum), and Cidade; Campo by Juliana Rojas (Best Director Encounters Berlinale).

Ingmar Trost is currently developing and producing several documentary and feature film projects, including Schöne Seelen by Tom Schreiber, La Tour de Glace by Lucile Hadžihalilović, as well as the new film by Ulrich Köhler, Gavagai.