Britta Schmeis, born near Düsseldorf in 1972, is a freelance cultural journalist in Hamburg specializing in film and literature. Her first film in a small-town cinema was ‘The Rescuers’. Since then, her passion has shifted to arthouse cinema. Among other things, she was film editor at the German Press Agency and culture editor at Der Spiegel. For many years now, she has been working as a freelance critic for epd Film, Welt am Sonntag and NDR Kultur, among others. She has already contributed her expertise to various juries.