Caspar Sonnen

Caspar Sonnen is Head of New Media at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), where he created IDFA DocLab in 2007 as one of the world’s first platforms for interactive and immersive documentary art. At IDFA, Sonnen curates and commissions experimental projects ranging from digital art, virtual reality and artificial intelligence to physical installations, fulldome and immersive theatre. He is co-founder of the Open Air Film Festival Amsterdam and advisory board member of a.o. SXSW Film and MIT Open DocLab. In 2015 he received the EDN Award for Outstanding Contribution to European Documentary Culture.