Look Up Films

Look Up Films

Don’t look away

Documentaries have to point their cameras where the world would rather look away.

The company takes its name from Don’t Look Up, the satire in which a comet heads for Earth and almost everyone chooses not to see it. Look Up Films makes documentaries about problems that are easy to ignore and hard to undo, for audiences and decision-makers alike.

Current project

Poster of An Inconvenient Doom

An Inconvenient Doom

A feature documentary about the risk of losing control over advanced AI. It takes the most common objections seriously and lets leading researchers answer them, one by one.

Coming 2027

aninconvenientdoom.com

News

  1. Jul 2026

    Interviews filmed for An Inconvenient Doom in Paris with Stuart Russell.

  2. May–Jun 2025

    First round of interviews filmed in the US, with Eliezer Yudkowsky, Roman Yampolskiy and Buck Shlegeris.

  3. Feb 2025

    An Inconvenient Doom receives development funding from Film- und Medienstiftung NRW.

  4. Oct 2024

    Project pitch at the final event of the Documentary Campus Masterschool in Halle.

  5. Jan 2024

    An Inconvenient Doom is selected for the Documentary Campus Masterschool.

About

Niki Drozdowski pitching An Inconvenient Doom on stage
Pitching An Inconvenient Doom, Halle 2024 · Photo: Documentary Campus

Look Up Films is the production company of director and producer Niki Drozdowski, founded in Cologne in 2023 to make An Inconvenient Doom.

A graduate of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM), Niki has spent two decades writing, directing and producing across feature film, drama series and immersive documentary, for cinema, public broadcasters and international development organisations.

Niki Drozdowski
Selected work

  • in productionAn Inconvenient Doom · feature documentaryDirector, producer · Look Up Films
  • 2020–2022The Hero Inside Us · drama series, 10 episodesCreative lead and showrunner · produced on both sides of the war in Yemen, for GIZ
  • 2017–2019History 360° · three 360° documentaries and a VR appWriter and director · for ZDF
  • 2009–2011Extinction – The G.M.O. Chronicles · feature filmWriter, director, producer · Hof International Film Festival · world sales: Showcase Entertainment (US), acquired by Lionsgate UK and others · produced with Cinema Ergo Sum
  • 2004Duell · short filmWriter and director · Palm Springs Film Festival (Official Selection), NextFrame Festival: Director’s Choice Award and Screenwriting Award

Contact

Look Up Films · Niki Drozdowski · Cologne

info [at] look-up-films.com