Doris Metz was born in Oberstdorf, Bavaria, Germany. She writes and directs documentary films and is a producer for cinema and television. Prior to this, she was a writer and editor for the Süddeutsche Zeitung in the field of media and politics for ten years. After the fall of the Berlin Wall up until the reunification of Germany, she worked as a reporter for the Süddeutsche Zeitung covering the former GDR. In 2005, she shot a widely acclaimed cinema documentary film – SCHATTENVÄTER (Ghost Fathers) – about Matthias Brandt and Pierre Boom, the sons of Willy Brandt and GDR spy Günter Guillaume. TRANS – I GOT LIFE, her most recent cinema documentary film, for which she teamed up with co-director Imogen Kimmel, follows the lives of seven transgender people in Munich, Moscow and San Francisco and the different paths they take to become the person they really are. This highly relevant plea for freedom, self-determination and a more tolerant society received the Audience Award (Bayern2 and SZ Audience Award) at the Munich International Film Festival 2021 and was shown at many other international festivals. PETRA KELLY – ACT NOW! is the fourth cinema film that Doris Metz has made with renowned cinematographer Sophie Maintigneux.