Patrick and Dennis Weinert are social documentary filmmakers and photographers from Germany. They focus on under-reported stories within the fields of human rights, armed conflicts and global health.
Since 2017, the brothers have been based in several South and Southeast Asian countries and are currently living in northern Thailand. As freelance correspondents for a range of European public broadcasters, they have spent more than a decade shooting and directing documentaries across Asia and Africa, for example in Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, Congo-Kinshasa, Sudan, Syria, Pakistan and Myanmar. Their films were aired on ARTE, NDR, DW, ZDF, 3sat, ARD Mediathek, SRF, funk and on NZZ Format.
Dennis and Patrick have found their way into the fields of journalism and documentary filmmaking as autodidacts and subsequently established their film production companies Weinert Brothers GbR (Europe) and Weinert Brothers Limited (Asia).
In 2018, medium magazine listed Dennis and Patrick among Germany's Top 30 Under 30 journalists. For their ARTE-documentary on the Ebola epidemic in eastern D.R. Congo in 2019, they received a Peter Scholl-Latour Award for conflict and crisis reporting.
Dennis’ and Patrick’s 2021 reportage on child labour in Pakistan was awarded with the Helmut Schmidt Journalistenpreis (1st Prize, Category Newcomer). When Dennis and Patrick are not working on formatted TV documentaries, they focus on developing their personal experimental photography and film projects.
The brothers have written, curated and published two volumes of documentary photo books (A World in Distress, 2015 & Resilienz, 2019) and have directed and produced their debut essay short film Hinter unserem Horizont (Beyond our Horizon, 2020), which was commissioned by ZDF & 3sat and received a nomination for a Grimme Award.
While living in Vietnam between 2018 and 2021, Dennis and Patrick were invited to renowned film director Trần Anh Hùng’s directing masterclass, which inspired them to broaden the scope of their work beyond journalistic documentaries.
Currently, they are producing and directing their first feature-length independent documentary GOD OF SIGHT.

