Curator, translator, journalist

Originally from lovely Düsseldorf, lived in New York and Petersburg, but mostly Berlin. Studied social sciences, social work, sociology, Russian and film studies in Duisburg, Düsseldorf and Berlin.

Working with film festivals in Cologne, Oberhausen, Petersburg, Minsk, Philadelphia, Selb, Berlin, Wiesbaden as curator, organizer and translator for the past 27 years, specializing in Russian documentaries, member of AG DOK (Germany) and Guild of Non-Fiction Film (Russia), representative of German Documentaries in Eastern Europe.

Igor Prassel was born in 1971 in the Slovenian coast town Koper-Capodistria.

He was a long time co-editor of the only Slovene comics magazine Stripburger.

From 1992 he is running a monthly animation film program at the Slovenian Cinematheque.

He is working as a freelance journalist, animation film programmer and board member for many different film and contemporary arts festivals in Slovenia and abroad.