Partner Pictures LLC has made narrative and documentary feature films since 2008. Our films strive to have an impact. They have premiered and been awarded at major film festivals around the world including Tribeca, Berlin, and Tokyo. Our work is funded through grants, partnerships, and co-productions with organizations like the Sundance Documentary Institute, Fork Films, The Catapult Film Fund, The Jerome Foundation, NYSCA, Film und Medienstiftung NRW, FFA/German Federal Film Board, ITVS, ARD, ZDF, and many others.

SARA NODJOUMI

TILL SCHAUDER

SARA NODJOUMI (Producer) Nodjoumi is an independent film producer and festival programmer. She and Till Schauder recently collaborated on WHEN GOD SLEEPS, co-produced by ITVS, executive produced by Motto Pictures, Catapult Film Fund, and Fork Films, and supported by numerous foundations including the Sundance Institute, Jerome Foundation, and NYSCA. The film premiered in competition at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival and went on to win a number of international awards including the Golden Heynal award for Best Music Doc at the Krakow Film Festival and Most Valuable Film of the Year from Cinema for Peace in Berlin. It has so far played at over 70 festivals all over the world. Nodjoumi and Schauder are currently working on the release of their latest feature documentary REGGAE BOYZ about the healing power of soccer and music in Jamaica. After delighting audiences from Poland to the Bahamas, the film won the Audience Award at the Brooklyn Film Festival in 2019. From 2004-2009, Nodjoumi worked at the Tribeca Film Festival as an Associate Programmer and is currently the Artistic Director of the New York Sephardic Film Festival. She also produced the feature documentary THE IRAN JOB, which was released theatrically and on Netflix worldwide. In Germany, the film was shortlisted for a German Academy Award. For THE IRAN JOB, Nodjoumi managed two of the most successful Kickstarter campaigns of all time. In 2016, she was invited to attend the Sundance Creative Producer’s Summit and in 2017 she was an IFP Cannes Producer’s Network Fellow.

TILL SCHAUDER (Director, Writer, Producer, Co-DP) Schauder, originally from Germany, is a Brooklyn-based writer, director, and cinematographer. His feature debut SANTA SMOKES – which Schauder wrote, co-directed, and starred in – won several awards, including Best Director at the Tokyo International Film Festival and the Studio Hamburg Newcomer Award. In 2012, Schauder completed his critically acclaimed first documentary THE IRAN JOB, which was released worldwide, mentioned as an Oscar contender, and shortlisted for a German Academy Award. His 2017 documentary WHEN GOD SLEEPS premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, won Most Valuable Documentary of the Year from Cinema for Peace during Berlinale, and the Golden Heynal Award at the Krakow Film Festival, along with several other international recognitions. It was also shortlisted for a German Academy Award in 2018 and is currently in consideration for an Emmy. WHEN GOD SLEEPS opened theatrically in Germany and Japan, had its US broadcast premiere on Independent Lens in 2018, and has since been released on Amazon. Schauder also recently completed WARRIORS OF FAITH (GLAUBENSKRIEGER), a feature documentary about Iraqi refugees in Germany combating ISIS through performance arts, for which he won the German Television Academy Award for Best Documentary and the ARD Top of the Docs Award. The film was also a nominee for the Prix Europa. Schauder’s latest film REGGAE BOYZ was called “one of the funniest and most entertaining documentaries to come out in years” by film-rezensionen.de. The film’s broadcast version was again a nominee for the German Television Academy Awards (2018). REGGAE BOYZ most recently finished a theatrical run in Germany won the Audience Award at the Brooklyn Film Festival.