Maren Hahnfeld joined UCA as a lecturer in Film Production in 2013 following previous academic positions at Kingston, Middlesex and Regent’s University.
Maren is a documentary filmmaker and photographer whose work has been screened and exhibited internationally, most recently at the prestigious Ann Arbor Film Festival in Michigan, USA, and the Caldas da Rainha School of Arts and Design in Portugal. Her work investigates the lives of marginal communities through personal narratives that reflect social or political change.
Currently, Maren is completing a practice-based PhD in Visual Arts at CREAM, University of Westminster, exploring cross-cultural encounters between Syrian refugee and local women in remote, small towns in Germany.

- Contact
- mhahnfeld@uca.ac.uk