Doris Metz was born in Bavaria, Germany. She writes and directs documentary films. Previously, she worked as a writer and editor for the national newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung in the fields of media and politics. In 2005, she shot a widely acclaimed documentary film, Schattenväter (Ghost Fathers), about Matthias Brandt and Pierre Boom, the sons of former German Chancellor Willy Brandt and GDR spy Günter Guillaume. Trans: I Got Life, for which she teamed up with co-director Imogen Kimmel, follows the lives of seven transgender people in Munich, Moscow, and San Francisco. This urgent plea for self-determination received the Audience Award at the Munich Film Festival in 2021 and was shown at many other international festivals. Her latest film Petra Kelly - Act Now! had its world premiere at this year’s Munich Film Festival and was honored with the One Future Award. Metz served on the federal board of the German Documentary Association, AG DOK, from 2016 to 2020 and regularly sits on juries at national and international film festivals. She has been a member of the WDR Broadcasting Council since 2016.Together with Imogen Kimmel, she founded Kimmel und Metz Filmproduktion in Munich in 2017.
Doris Metz was born in Bavaria, Germany. She writes and directs documentary films. Previously, she worked as a writer and editor for the national newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung in the fields of media and politics. In 2005, she shot a widely acclaimed documentary film, Schattenväter (Ghost Fathers), about Matthias Brandt and Pierre Boom, the sons of former German Chancellor Willy Brandt and GDR spy Günter Guillaume. Trans: I Got Life, for which she teamed up with co-director Imogen Kimmel, follows the lives of seven transgender people in Munich, Moscow, and San Francisco. This urgent plea for self-determination received the Audience Award at the Munich Film Festival in 2021 and was shown at many other international festivals. Her latest film Petra Kelly - Act Now! had its world premiere at this year’s Munich Film Festival and was honored with the One Future Award. Metz served on the federal board of the German Documentary Association, AG DOK, from 2016 to 2020 and regularly sits on juries at national and international film festivals. She has been a member of the WDR Broadcasting Council since 2016.Together with Imogen Kimmel, she founded Kimmel und Metz Filmproduktion in Munich in 2017.
