Christian Popp was born in 1971 in Galati, Romania. With a French-German Master Degree in History and Arts he has since 1991 worked as a journalist and film director. Between 1998 and 2003 he was a commissioning editor for ARTE in Strasbourg. From 2003 to 2005 he worked as commissioning editor in the ARTE-department of the RBB Channel in Berlin and Potsdam. He commissioned and coproduced many TV-Programs, from documentary series to magazines, studio debates to on-off documentaries. From 2005 to 2010 he worked as producer, author and editor in chief in Paris and Berlin for interscience film, an independent French-German production company. In 2011 he co-founded in Berlin his own production company DOCDAYS Productions that he left in 2014. In 2012 he established together with Fabrice Estève the Paris based YUZU Productions specialized in international coproductions. Christian is mentoring and moderating at various documentary and transmedia events (Thessaloniki Documentary Forum, LisbonDocs, Vision du Réel, Doc Ouest, IDFA Academy, Diagonale, i_doc, Sunnyside of the Docs, Italian Doc Screenings, Dokumentarfilm-Initiative).
 
Recent films of YUZU PRODUCTIONS include Free to run (ARTE Cinema, RTS, RTBF, theatrical release in 2016), The harder they fall (ARTE 2014), The bloody truth (ZDF ARTE, Smithsonian Networks, S4C, RTBF, VRT 2014), The E-waste tragedy (ARTE, TVE, TVC, Al Jazeera... 2014), Escape from Siberia (ARTE 2014), Debt Machine (ARTE 2015). YUZU Productions has been nominated for the Best French TV Producer Awards 2015 in the category Documentary.
 
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