Cynthia Beatt grew up in Jamaica and the Fiji Islands, studied Art in Britain and then traveled for a year in the Middle East, Iran, Afghanistan and India. She worked with independent and experimental film in London in the 70s, then moved to Berlin and became involved with the International Forum of Cinema and the Arsenal Kino, where she curated a number of large-scale retrospectives of directors Jean Rouch, Powell and Pressburger, Fritz Lang, Rossellini, Max Ophüls, as well as programs devoted to Ecstasy in Film and The Depiction of Aboriginals in Australian Cinema.

She has worked with such directors as Yvonne Rainer, Joan Jonas, Silke Grossmann, Klaus Wyborny, Ulrike Ottinger and Rudolf Thome. Her films include: "Beschreibung einer Insel" ("Study of an Island",1979), "Böse zu sein ist auch ein Beweis von Gefühl" ("Fury is a Feeling Too", short, 1983, with Heinz Emigholz), "Namosi" and "Dakui Gau Trio" (shorts, 1986), "Cycling the Frame" (short, 1988, with Tilda Swinton), "The Party – Nature Morte" (1990, Tilda Swinton, Féodor Atkine, Lutz Weidlich), "The Invisible Frame" (2009, with Tilda Swinton), and "Ein Haus in Berlin" ("A House in Berlin", 2014). She is currently preparing the feature "Heart of Light" to be shot in the Fiji Islands.

Source: German Films Service & Marketing GmbH