Ian Hawkins is a self-funded filmmaker from Manchester, UK. After first visiting Berlin in 2005, he made a documentary called My DDR T-Shirt about life in East Germany. He moved to Tegel in early 2011 and set up a small graphic and web design company with his partner. He spends his time working on film projects, occasionally writing blogs and, of course, loving life in Berlin. You can find him on twitter here.