Name	Dieter Kosslick
Height
Naionality	German
Date of Birth	30-May-1948
Place of Birth	Pforzheim, Germany
Famous for	Acting

Dieter Kosslick is the director of the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale). He has held this post since 1 May 2001 when he took over from Moritz de Hadeln. In 1983 he became involved in film funding, firstly as managing director of Hamburg's cultural film fund (Hamburg Film Office). In 1986 he founded the European Low Budget Forum with the cinema "Kino auf der Alster". In 1988 he became managing director of the city's economic film fund (Hamburg Film Fund - Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein).

The same year, he was a co-founder of EFDO (European Film Distribution Office) and became the president of this European organisation, a post he held until EFDO's dissolution in 1996. In July 2000 the federal state and city of Berlin as well as the Federal Government of Germany appointed him director of Germany's prestigious Berlin International Film Festival. Dieter Kosslick took up his new position in the capital as head of the Berlinale on May 1, 2001.