film educationalist and museum pedagogue
Julian Namé has many years of experience working as a film educationalist and as a museum pedagogue at the DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Co-founder of the film festival Africa Alive in 1994 and member of its team until 2006, he has been closely involved in a number of various distinct projects including the DFF – MultiMediaGuide, Our DFF – Creating New Spaces of Interaction, on the issue of social inclusion in museums, FilmWissenOnline, an online platform for film enthusiasts, and KiKi – Kinder, Kino und der BEP, focusing on cinema and early childhood education. He has also been leading a film club in Frankfurt continuously for almost thirty years.
Julian has a doctorate in Sociology ad honorem from the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Institute of Sociology and the Humanities, in Puebla, Puebla, Mexico. From 1995 to 2003 he was also a visiting professor at both the University of the Americas, International Relations Dept., and at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Institute of Sociology and the Humanities, in Puebla, Puebla, Mexico.