Marc Wiese is an award-winning German documentary filmmaker and member of the German Film Academy. Wiese has been making documentaries for 25 years and has worked in many conflict areas worldwide. He has won numerous international awards for his films.

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Wiese is best known for Camp 14: Total Control Zone, about Shin Dong-hyuk, the only person known to have ever successfully escaped from a North Korean prison labor camp (where he was born), and to breach the borders of North Korea itself to China, arriving eventually in South Korea. Camp 14 received 15 international film festival awards and has been shown in more than 20 countries worldwide. BFI rated the film as one of the most important documentaries of our time.

In the last few years, Wiese has been working on The Dying Democracies Trilogy (2019-2023). The trilogy includes Venezuela: The Country of Lost Children (2023), which follows two single mothers and their children as they navigate the corruption and mismanagement that have turned Venezuela into a failed state; This Stolen Country of Mine (2022), featuring Ecuador’s late presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio as he exposes the corruption of his government contracts with China; and We Hold the Line (2020), on 2021 Nobel Prize winner Maria Ressa’s fight against the Phillipines’ president-turn-dictator Rodrigo Duterte.