Heinz Hermanns was born in Duisburg, Germany. He worked as a social worker in Belfast, Northern Ireland.   In 1981 he founded and directed the Eiszeit cinema during the squaters movement in Berlin . He has been CEO since 1982 and directs “interfilm Berlin – short film festival & distribution”. He co-directed the “Pollicino” short film festival in Catania from 1990 to 1996. He has been the director and co-founder since 2001 of the “Going Underground” short film festival which takes place in the Berlin subway trains. He is also the co-founder and curator of the Zebra Poetry Short Film Festival which has been presenting short films that interpret poetry since 2002. He gives seminars on the language of short films for students and professionals from all over the world.

He began his training at the acting school of the Teatro Biondo Stabile in Palermo in the late nineties, then studied dance and the arts. Simona Malato works in dance with Alessandra Luberti in Angelo per Cristiano, from the photographic work of Francesca Woodman. You are an interpreter in the shows of Claudio Collovà (The family, K The land surveyor, The Waste Land). He works in the international production of Womb-Tomb and Hard to be Pinocchio, directed by Simone Mannino. Again for the theatre, in 2023, he works with Rosario Palazzolo in If they are flowers will die. Since 2012 he has been part of the Antigone Project Collective. He also takes care of the direction of Insomnia 6 a. m. girl, a monologue in which he is also an interpreter. He acts in the cinema in The Macaluso sisters, Mercy, The short summer, A female, Spaccaossa and Stranizza d’amuri.