C. Cay Wesnigk (born 1962) studied visual communication at the University of Arts in Hamburg. 1987 he founded the C. Cay Wesnigk Filmproduktion. Since then he has written, directed and produced several feature length and short films. These have all been shown on television, some also have been distributed in cinemas and some also in the video home market. Most of Wesnigks films have been shown and some even have been awarded on festivals all over the world. You can find a list of his films, Trailers, downloads and more information on his work as a filmmaker at agdok.de/de_DE/members_detail/...

In 1995/96, frustrated from the terrible state the doc market was in, and to make some money for a living, Wesnigk worked free lance with an advertising agency specializing in new media and Internet. As creative director he was responsible for the development and production of internet and multimedia presentations. Through this he learned about the possibilities of the new Medium and decided to bring his new gained knowledge back to the film industry. In 2000, together with 120 other producers, directors and authors mostly from the agdok backround) he founded the OnlineFILM AG as a public company to use digital technologies for the distribution of audiovisual content. He has worked as CEO of OnlineFILM (www.onlinefilm.org) since then. After riding the ups and downs of the dotcom crash, finally in 2007 the project Onlinefilm.org, a European webproject to make it possible for filmmakers to very easily upload and offer there films for sale over the internet, was awarded a grant as a MEDIA pilot project and is now in September 2008 (in a 1.0 version) a functioning portal. The first 250 films (not only but mainly documentaries) are online and a sale is conducted about every day. As a European project, www.onlinefilm.org has partnered with production companies and dedicated individuals in many European countries such as Greeece, Italy, Austria, Ireland, Slovenia, Latvia and Lithuania, others are welcome to join.

Wesnigk is also on the board of AG DOK, Germany’s largest community of independent producers (800 members) (www.agdok.de ). And chairman of the board of VG Bild-Kunst, the German collecting agency for creative Artists and Producers of films (www.bild-kunst.de ).