FABIAN HALBIG (*1992) studied “Production and Media Business” at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) from 2012 to 2017, where he co-founded NORDPOLARIS with Florian Kamhuber and produced various award-winning short and feature films. During his studies he was a scholarship holder of the VFF, the Studienstiftung des Dt. Volkes as well as the Max Weber Program. In the meantime he worked for Koryphäen Film in the areas of production (among others “For Your Own Good”) and distribution (“The Most Beautiful Couple”). During the corona pandemic, he was co-responsible for the Popup Drive In Cinema Munich.

At NORDPOLARIS he is responsible for production and distribution.

FLORIAN KAMHUBER (*1990) completed his studies in production and media economics at the University of Television and Film Munich. He was a scholar of the VFF and the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes. Together with Fabian Halbig, he founded NORDPOLARIS while still at film school and produced several award-winning films (including “Dinky Sinky” and “Immer Noch Jung”). He worked for Leo Kirch, Jan Mojto, Roger Corman, and Roland Emmerich. From 2016 to 2021 he also produced series projects for the film production company Neuesuper, such as “Hindafing” (BR/Netflix), “Echoes” (joyn) and “8 Days” (Sky).

MELISSA BYRNE studied production and media economics at the University of Television and Film Munich, holding scholarships from VFF and Cusanuswerk.

During her studies, she produced various film projects that won awards such as the Golden Lola at the German Short Film Awards, the Starter Film Prize, and the Jury Prize at the Palm Springs Int. Shortfest.

Her Grimme Prize-nominated HFF graduation feature film “Life is not a competition, but I’m winning” celebrated its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival 2023 and won at First Steps 2023.

She also worked as a writer until 2021, including for Claussen+Putz, Tobis Film, and Hager Moss. Since 2021, she has been a writing producer at NORDPOLARIS and is a member of the German and the European Film Academy.

DANIELA EBELING (*1991). After her studies for Business Administration (2011-2015) and a semester abroad at the Cal. State East Bay (USA) she studied „Production and Media Business“ at the HFF Munich from 2015 to 2020. While she studied, she produced the award-winning film „Schlaf gut, du auch!“ for NORDPOLARIS. Before and during film school she worked as production coordinator and manager for several projects (including Fack ju Göhte 2 & 3, Germany’s next Topmodel, Tatort, Tarantella, The Turncoat). 2018 – 2019 she worked as Junior Producer for filmschaft maas & füllmich before she started to work at Beta Film for three years. Starting out as Producer & Development for Moritz v. Kruedener, she continued work as Content Editor for Koby Gal-Raday. In 2022, she was drawn back to production and worked as a producer for NEUESUPER for six months until she became a producer for NORDPOLARIS in October 2022.October 2022.

FELIX HULTSCH (*1989) studied at the University of Television and Film Munich from 2014 to 2019.
After producing several award-winning short films and the TV documentary “Libyens schwerer Neuanfang” (BR/arte), he graduated with the Student Oscar for the film production “Adisa”, shot in Kenya.

After film school he worked as a junior producer for the feature film “Hilfe, ich habe meine Freunde geschrumpft” (blue eyes Fiction) before becoming production manager for the TV series “Fett und Fett” (Trimafilm) and the theatrical feature films “Jupiter” (Dreifilm) and “Wow! Nachricht aus dem All” (SamFilm).

He has been working as the production manager for NORDPOLARIS since December 2022.

ALINA KRIENETZKI (*1997) studied production and media management at the University of Television and Film Munich from 2017 to 2022. Before and during her studies, she gained extensive practical experience and supervised several projects as a producer and production manager. Parallel to her studies at the HFF, she worked at Lailaps Films.

In May 2021, she began working as a production management assistant at Hager Moss Film. From June 2023, she worked there as a junior production manager and was involved in various television and series productions.

In this position, she took on the position of head production management for the first time for the short-format comedy series “Schlechte Menschen” (ZDF).

Since December 2025, she has been working as the junior production manager at NORDPOLARIS.

REBEKKA SCHUG grew up in Frankfurt am Main. After graduating from high school with a German-French diploma in 2014, she studied economics with a focus on management and marketing at Goethe University Frankfurt, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in 2018. She then worked for Walker+Worm Film for a year, where she was involved in the productions “Chess Story,” “Skin Deep,” and “Sisi & I,” among others.

She is currently studying production and media management at the HFF Munich and plans to graduate in February 2026. During her studies, she was a scholarship holder of the VFF. In addition to several short films she produced at the HFF, she produced the German-British short drama “God Is Grey,” which celebrated its world premiere at LA Shorts and won the jury prize for Best Short Film at the Max Ophüls Film Festival.

She has been working at NORDPOLARIS since April 2025.