The parent company Gebrüder Beetz Media GmbH encompasses three firms with four offices and over 30 employees in Berlin, Hamburg, Lüneberg and Cologne: Gebrüder Beetz Filmproduktion Berlin GmbH & Co KG, Gebrüder Beetz Filmproduktion Hamburg GmbH & Co KG, and Gebrüder Beetz Filmproduktion Köln GmbH & Co KG. The original firm was founded in 2000 by Christian and Reinhardt Beetz and has to date produc
ed more than 50 documentaries. In 2008, due to the firm's continual and increasing success, the firm was converted into a private limited company. In collaboration with authors and independent filmmakers, Gebrüder Beetz Filmproduktion develops and produces high-quality, award-winning short, feature-length and multi-segment documentaries as well as the weekly television cultural magazine "Metropolis" for arte and the daily cultural program "EinsWeiter" for the public broadcaster ARD – EinsFestival. Likewise, Gebrüder Beetz Filmproduktion GmbH enjoys notable and continual success in the international co-production of creative television productions for the European and non-European markets. Gebrüder Beetz Filmproduktion GmbH is also actively involved in the new business area of online television formats. The newly established, internal Cross Media Unit combines our documentary competence with the new thinking, methods and approaches of the Web, computer games and mobile devices to create innovative, cross-media concepts to convey content over the Internet to an international and web-savvy audience. GBF is member of the German and European documentary associations ag-dok , the EDN and the Producer Alliance.