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BERLINALE 2013 

DDA PRESS ADVISORY 

DDA PRESS OFFICE 

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Potsdamer Platz 3 

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OPENING HOURS 

WEDNESDAY 6 FEBRUARY 

10.00am – 1.00pm 

2.00pm – 6.00pm 

THURSDAY 7 - FRIDAY 15 FEBRUARY 

9.00am – 1.00pm 

2.00pm – 6.00pm 

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Emma Barrett +49 17 61 036 4843 

Lawrence Atkinson +49 17 61 041 8215 

Lucy Drury +49 17 61 054 9729 

Martin McNamara +49 17 61 058 9857 

Nora Brechbuehl +49 17 61 865 4012 

Paul Saunter +49 17 61 7368 528 

Tiffany Kizito +49 17 61 055 2482 

These listings will be subject to various additions, amendments and deletions as the Festival 

approaches, so please make sure that you visit the DDA Press Office upon your arrival in Berlin for a 

full update and to register with us.

CONTENTS 

PROMISED LAND……………………………..………………………………………… Pg. 3 

In Competition (Dir: Gus Van Sant) 

STATE 194 ……………………………………………..………………………………….. Pg. 4 

Panorama Dokumente (Dir: Dan Setton) 

CAPTURING DAD………………………………………………………………………… Pg. 5 

Generation (Dir: Ryota Nakano) 

LOVELACE.……………………………………………..………………………………….. Pg. 6 

Panorama Special (Dir: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman) 

TOUCH OF THE LIGHT.……………………………………………………………….. Pg. 7 

Generation (Dir: Chang Jung-Chi) 

THE LOOK OF LOVE ………………………………………………………………….. Pg. 8 

Berlinale Special Gala (Dir: Michael Winterbottom) 

GMG OMG ………………………………………………………………………………. Pg. 9 

Culinary Cinema (Dir: Jeremy Seifert) 

THE BEST OFFER …………………………………….………………………………….. Pg. 10 

Berlinale Special Gala (Dir: Giuseppe Tornatore) 

KAI PO CHE …………………………………….…………………………………………… Pg. 11 

Panorama Special (Dir: Abhishek Kapoor) 

PRESS MATERIALS ……………………………………………………………………… Pg. 12 

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SYNOPSIS: 

PROMISED LAND 

IN COMPETITION 

In Promised Land, Matt Damon stars as Steve Butler, a corporate salesman whose journey from farm boy to 

big-time player takes an unexpected detour when he lands in a small town, where he grapples with a 

surprising array of both open hearts and closed doors. Gus Van Sant helms the film from an original screenplay 

written by John Krasinski & Matt Damon, from a story by Dave Eggers. 

Steve has been dispatched to the rural town of McKinley with his sales partner, Sue Thomason (Academy 

Award winner Frances McDormand). The town has been hit hard by the economic decline of recent years, and 

the two consummate sales executives see McKinley’s citizens as likely to accept their company’s offer – for 

drilling rights to their properties – as much-needed relief. What seems like an easy job and a short stay for the 

duo becomes complicated – professionally by calls for community-wide consideration of the offer by respected 

schoolteacher Frank Yates (Academy Award nominee Hal Holbrook) and personally by Steve’s encounter with 

Alice (Rosemarie DeWitt). When Dustin Noble (John Krasinski), a slick environmental activist, arrives, suddenly 

the stakes, both personal and professional, rise to the boiling point. 

Director GUS VAN SANT and writer/actor MATT DAMON will be in Berlin to present the film. 

DDA CONTACT: 

Paul Saunter and Alice Gledhill Hall (promisedland@ddapr.com) 

***Interviews are by distributor nomination only*** 

Section: In Competition 

Running Time: 106 minutes 

Official Screening: 7.15pm, Friday 8 February, Berlinale Palast 

Photo Call: 

14.05pm, Friday 8 February, Hyatt Hotel 

Press Conference: 

14.15pm, Friday 8 February, Hyatt Hotel 

Press Screening: 12.15pm, Friday 8 February, Berlinale Palast 

12.00pm, Saturday 9 February, Friedrichstadt-Palast 

Additional Screenings: 

8.45pm, Saturday 9 February, Haus der Berliner Festspiele 

10.45pm, Friday 15 February, Friedrichstadt-Palast 

3.45pm, Sunday 17 February, Friedrichstadt-Palast 

International Press Day: TBC, Thursday 7 February, Venue: TBC 

TBC, Friday 8 February, Venue: TBC 

LOCAL DISTRIBUTORS: 

AUSTRALIA Universal – AUSTRIA Universal - BALTICS ACME Films – BENELUX BFD – 

BULGARIA/ROMANIA/HUNGARY Prorom Media-Trade GmbH – CIS (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, 

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine & Uzbekistan) Paradise – EX- 

YUGOSLAVIA (Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro & Macedonia) Discovery – 

FRANCE Mars Films – GERMANY Universal - GREECE Odeon – HONG KONG Sundream – ICELAND Sena – INDIA 

PVR – ISRAEL Shani Films/Lev Films & Cinema – ITALY BIM Distribuzione – LATIN AMERICA Universal - MIDDLE 

EAST Italia Film – POLAND ITI Cinema – PORTUGAL Lusmundo – SCANDINAVIA Nonstop Entertainment – 

SINGAPORE Shaw Renters – SOUTH AFRICA Ster-Kinekor – SOUTH KOREA CJ Entertainment – SPAIN Universal 

– SWITZERLAND Universal - TAIWAN Applause – THAILAND M Pictures (Major Cinepictures) – TURKEY Calinos 

Films - UK Universal 

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SYNOPSIS: 

If you build the foundations of peace . . . will it come? 

STATE 194 

PANORAMA DOKUMENTE 

This fascinating question lies at the heart of STATE 194, a vital and revealing look deep inside Israel and 

Palestine at the men and women trying to seize an historic opportunity to end the conflict and make 

implementing the two-state solution a reality right now. From the halls of power, across youthful social 

networks and on the streets, it is a remarkable story of those who are attempting to transform an endangered 

thread of hope into something tangible. 

This journey-still-in-progress begins with Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, who in 2009 launched a 

daring campaign to change his people’s destiny. For decades, acts of war and terror, political wrangling and 

diplomacy have failed to solve the territorial disputes of the region; settle the questions of Palestinian 

independence and Israeli security; or halt ongoing violence. But Fayyad envisioned a different approach. 

Taking his surprising inspiration from the Israeli battle for U.N. recognition in 1948 – which centered on 

building the bedrock of civil society to demonstrate their readiness to be a nation -- he forged an ambitious 2year 

plan to pave roads, raise schools and fast-track creating the core institutions of governance across the 

West Bank. Fayyad decided even if statehood was stalled, progress didn’t have to be. The plan achieved rapid 

and dramatic improvements in key development areas, leading President Mahmoud Abbas to take a different 

risk: presenting the case to the United Nations that Palestine was ready to become the 194th member nation. 

Participant Media presents STATE 194 directed by Dan Setton and produced by Setton and Elise Pearlstein. 

The executive producers are Jeff Skoll and Diane Weyermann. The film features cinematography by Hanna 

Abu Saada and Yoram Millo; editing by Brian Johnson and Ariel Setton; and music by Michael Brook. 

Director DAN SETTON will be in Berlin to present the film. 


Alice Zou (alice.zou@ddapr.com) and Alyssa Grinder (alyssa.grinder@ddapr.com) 

Section: Panorama Dokumente 


Official Screening: 8.00pm, Friday 8 February, CineStar 7 

Press Screening: 8.00pm, Friday 8 February, CineStar 7 

Additional Screenings: 2.30pm, Saturday 9 February, CineStar 7 

8.00pm, Friday 15 February, CineStar 7 

International Press Day: 

TBC, Saturday 9 February, Venue: TBC 

TBC, Sunday 10 February, Venue: TBC 

Please note that in order to attend the screenings for STATE 194 you will need to collect a ticket from the 

Festival ticket office by presenting your accreditation. Tickets will be free of charge. 

Please also note that DVD screeners are available upon request at the DDA Press Office. 

International Sales contact: 

Cinephil 

Philippa Kowarsky 

philippa@cinephil.co.il 

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SYNOPSIS: 

CAPTURING DAD 

GENERATION 

Her husband may be dying but the girls’ mother seems quite unmoved. She’s never been able to forgive him 

for having left her for another woman years ago. And so, rather than going herself she decides to send her two 

daughters, aged 17 and 20, to his deathbed. They are to bid their father a fitting farewell, even though they 

can barely remember him. But when the girls finally arrive their father has already died. 

The two young women stick out like sore thumbs in their summer dresses amongst all their black-clad 

relatives. At the funeral they find themselves having to cope with an onslaught of encounters including an 

overly friendly uncle, a hostile aunt and a blind grandmother who gets far too close for comfort. Luckily there’s 

also a delightful young half-brother, about whose existence the girls knew nothing at all. 

Time and again they find themselves asking the same questions: who was their father? And – are we like him? 

A film about family ties and the absence of relationships; about bidding farewell to the departed, anger and 

reconciliation. 

Director RYOTA NAKANO and actresses ERISA YANAGI and NANOKA MATSUBARA will be in Berlin to present 

the film. 


Martin McNamara (martin.mcnamara@ddapr.com) and Tiffany Kizito (tiffany.kizito@ddapr.com) 

Section: Generation 

Running Time: 74 mins 

Official Screening: 5.30pm, Saturday 9 February, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 1 

Additional Screenings: 4.30pm, Sunday 10 February, CinemaxX 3 

11.30am, Saturday 16 February, CinemaxX 3 


1.30pm - 3.30pm, Sunday 10 February, BMW Golden Bear Lounge, Hyatt 

Hotel 

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SYNOPSIS: 

LOVELACE 

PANORAMA SPECIAL 

From Academy Award® winning directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (HOWL, THE CELLULOID CLOSET) 

comes the true story of fame, abuse and betrayal set against the sexual revolution of the 1970s. Starring 

Amanda Seyfried and Golden Globe nominee Peter Sarsgaard, along with an all-star cast including Emmy 

Award winner Hank Azaria, Wes Bentley, Adam Brody, Emmy winner Bobby Cannavale, Academy Award® 

nominee James Franco, Debi Mazar, Golden Globe nominee Chris Noth, Robert Patrick, Eric Roberts, Academy 

Award® nominee Sharon Stone, Academy Award® nominee Chloe Sevigny and Juno Temple. 

In 1972—before the internet, before the porn explosion—Deep Throat was a phenomenon: the first scripted 

pornographic theatrical feature film, featuring a story, some jokes, and an unknown and unlikely star, Linda 

Lovelace. Escaping a strict religious family, Linda discovered freedom and the highlife when she fell for and 

married charismatic hustler Chuck Traynor. As Linda Lovelace she became an international sensation—less 

centrefold fantasy than a charming girl-next-door with an impressive capacity for fellatio. Fully inhabiting her 

new identity, Linda became an enthusiastic spokesperson for sexual freedom and uninhibited hedonism. Six 

years later she presented another, utterly contradictory, narrative to the world—and herself as the survivor of 

a far darker story. 

Directors ROB EPSTEIN and JEFFREY FRIEDMAN and actors AMANDA SEYFRIED and PETER SARSGAARD will 

be in Berlin to present the film. 


Christelle Dupont and Lucy Drury (lovelace@ddapr.com) 

***Interviews are by distributor nomination only*** 

Section: Panorama Special 


Official Screening: 6.00pm, Saturday 9 th February, Friedrichstadtpalast 

Photo Call: 

12:30pm, Saturday 9 


th February, Press Centre, Hyatt Hotel 

12.40pm, Saturday 9 th February, Press Centre, Hyatt Hotel 

Press Screening: 10.55am, Saturday 9 th February, Cinestar 3, Potsdamer Platz 


10.00am, Sunday 10 th February, CinemaxX 7 

5.00pm, Monday 11 th February, Cubix 9 

6.00pm, Friday 15 th February, Friedrichstadt-Palast 

International Press Day: TBC, Sunday 10 th February, Venue: TBC 


AUSTRALIA Roadshow – BENELUX Paradiso – BRAZIL / LATAM Deep Blue/Swen – CANADA eOne – 

CIS (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, 

Ukraine & Uzbekistan) MGN Films – CZECH/SLOVAK Hollywood CE – EX YUGOSLAVIA (Croatia, Slovenia, 

Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro & Macedonia) Blitz – FRANCE Helios Films – GERMANY 

Telepool – GREECE Odeon – HONG KONG PT Parkit – ICELAND Sam Film - INDONESIA PT Amero Mitra – JAPAN 

Nikkatsu – MIDDLE EAST Eagle – POLAND Monolith – PORTUGAL Lusomundo – SCANDINAVIA Mis.Label – 

SINGAPORE Innoform – SOUTH AFRICA Nu Metro – SOUTH KOREA Dacom – TAIWAN Int’l Media Trading – 

THAILAND M Pictures – UK Lionsgate 

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SYNOPSIS: 

TOUCH OF THE LIGHT 

GENERATION 

Based on true events related to the life of Taiwanese piano prodigy HUANG Yu Siang (Siang played by himself), 

this is a story of inspiration, discovery and love. Born to a rural family in Taiwan unprepared for the birth of a 

blind son, Yu Siang was a curious and precocious child. Touch and sound was everything to him. With the love 

of his mother and support of his family, he grew up with no barriers; that is until he had to face the real world 

as he left his family behind in order to attend university where he had to compete on the same playing field as 

the sighted students and to find his own way. 

He soon crossed paths with Jie (Sandrine Pinna), a beautiful but frustrated cold drinks vendor who dreams of 

being a dancer, but whose struggles against the harsh realities of her life render her helpless. However, when 

she witnesses Yu Siang’s fearless determination and understands his optimism and inner peace, she is inspired 

and determined to hold on to her dream. TOUCH OF THE LIGHT- a story of dreams, determination, love, and 

believing in yourself. 

Director JUNG-CHI CHANG and actor YU-SIANG HUANG will be in Berlin to present the film. 


Martin McNamara (martin.mcnamara@ddapr.com) and Tiffany Kizito (tiffany.kizito@ddapr.com) 

Section: Generation 


Official Screening: 8.00pm, Sunday 10 February, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 1 

Additional Screenings: 2.00pm, Tuesday 12 February, CinemaxX 3 

3.30pm, Sunday 17 February, Cubix 8 


Sunday 10 February, Time & Venue TBC 

Monday 11 February, Time & Venue TBC 

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SYNOPSIS: 

THE LOOK OF LOVE 

BERLINALE SPECIAL GALA 

Michael Winterbottom’s “THE LOOK OF LOVE” stars Steve Coogan (24 Hour Party People, The Trip) in the truelife 

story of Paul Raymond, the man behind Soho’s notorious Raymond Revue Bar and Men Only magazine. 

Paul Raymond began his professional life with an end of the pier mind-reading act. He soon realized that the 

audience were more interested in watching his beautiful assistant, and that they liked it even more if she was 

topless. He quickly became one of Britain’s leading nude revue producers. In 1958 he opened his Revue Bar in 

Soho, the heart of London’s West End. As it was a private club, the nudes were allowed to move. A huge 

success, it became the cornerstone of a Soho empire, prompting the Sunday Times in 1992 to crown him the 

Richest Man in Britain. The film focuses on Raymond's relationships with the three most important women in 

his life: his wife Jean (Anna Friel), his lover Fiona (Tamsin Egerton) and his daughter Debbie (Imogen Poots). It 

is a modern day King Midas story, with Raymond acquiring fabulous wealth, but at the cost of losing the 

people who are closest to him. 

Director Michael Winterbottom and cast-members Steve Coogan, Imogen Poots, Anna Friel and Tamsin 

Egerton will be in Berlin to present the film, along with screenplay writer Matt Greenhalgh and producer 

Melissa Parmenter. 

DDA CONTACTS: 

Nora Brechbuehl and Adele Ibbotson (TLOL@ddapr.com) 

Section: Berlinale Special Gala 

Running Time: 99 Minutes 

Official Screening: 9.00pm, Sunday 10 February, Friedrichstadt-Palast 

Photo Call: 

7:30pm, Sunday 10 February, Hyatt Hotel 


7:40pm, Sunday 10 February, Hyatt Hotel 

Press Screening: 6:30pm, Saturday 9 February, CinemaxX 9 

Additional Screenings: 3.00pm, Saturday 16 February, Friedrichstadt-Palast 

10.00pm, Sunday 17 February, Haus der Berliner Festspiele 

International Press Day: TBC, Monday 11 February, Venue: TBC 


HONG KONG Intercontinental – SINGAPORE Shaw – SOUTH KOREA Timestory – BALTIC STATES Acme – CZECH 

REPUBLIC Blue Sky – EX YUGO (Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro & 

Macedonia) Megacom Film – POLAND ITI – RUSSIA MGN Films – SLOVAKIA Blue Sky – BENELUX Wild Bunch – 

FRANCE Pretty Pictures – GREECE Village Roadshow – ICELAND Myndform – PORTUGAL Lusomundo – 

SWITZERLAND Impuls – UK StudioCanal – CANADA / USA IFC – AUSTRALIA Madman Entertainment – NEW 

ZEALAND Madman Entertainment 

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SYNOPSIS: 

GMO OMG 

CULINARY CINEMA 

Who controls the future of your food? GMO OMG explores the systematic corporate takeover and potential 

loss of humanity’s most precious and ancient inheritance: seeds. Director Jeremy Seifert investigates how loss 

of seed diversity and corresponding laboratory assisted genetic alteration of food affects his young children, 

the health of our planet, and freedom of choice everywhere. GMO OMG follows one family’s struggle to live 

and eat without participating in an unhealthy, unjust, and destructive food system. In GMO OMG, the 

encroaching darkness of unknown health and environmental risks, chemical toxins, and food monopoly meets 

with the light of a growing global movement to take back what we have lost. Has the global food system been 

irrevocably hijacked? Is there still time to reclaim its purity, protect biodiversity and save ourselves? 

http://www.gmofilm.com/ 

Director JEREMY SEIFERT will be in Berlin to present the film. 


Alice Zou (alice.zou@ddapr.com) and Alyssa Grinder (alyssa.grinder@ddapr.com) 

Section: Culinary Cinema 


Official Screening: 

Additional Screening: 


10pm, Sunday 10 February, Martin-Gropius-Bau Theatre 

* A limited number of press tickets available. Please check-in with the 

DDA Press Office with your interest 

3:00pm, Friday 15, Martin-Gropius-Bau Theatre 

* A limited number of press tickets available. Please check-in with the 

DDA Press Office with your interest 

Monday, 11 February 

*Please check-in with the DDA Press Office upon arrival for further 

information 

Please note that DVD screeners are available upon request at the DDA Press Office. 

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SYNOPSIS: 

THE BEST OFFER 

BERLINALE SPECIAL GALA 

Virgil Oldman is managing director of a leading auction house. He is a man with his own individual style who 

regularly dyes his hair, never goes out without his finest leather gloves and tries to reveal as little as possible of 

his emotional world. In a secret hall inside the villa in which he lives alone, he has collected hundreds of 

masterful, priceless paintings from many different eras. He has succeeded in acquiring these paintings, all of 

them portraits of women, during his own auctions with the help of his old friend Billy. One day, Oldman 

receives a special assignment: a mysterious young woman, who refuses to appear in person, asks him to sell 

her family’s antiques. But Oldman is not only interested in the classical painting, furniture and material on 

offer. He becomes increasingly fascinated by the mysterious incognito woman, who will only communicate 

with him from behind thick walls and heavy doors. 

Giuseppe Tornatore directs his stylish film about passions, neuroses and intrigue with panache and a sense of 

morbid sophistication. He has chosen to set his plot’s surprising twists and turns in picturesque locations in 

Bolzano, Merano, Vienna and Prague. 

Director GIUSEPPE TORNATORE, actors GEOFFREY RUSH, SYLVIA HOEKS, and JIM STURGESS will be in Berlin 

to present the film. 


Alice Gledhill Hall and Paul Saunter (TheBestOffer@ddapr.com) 

Section: Berlinale Special Gala 


Official Screening: 9pm, Tuesday 12 February, Friedrichstadt-Palast 

Photo Call: 

7.30pm, Tuesday 12 February, VIP Club, Hotel Hyatt 


7.40pm, Tuesday 12 February, Press Centre, Hyatt Hotel 

Press Screening: 6.30pm, Monday 11 February, CinemaxX 9 


9.30pm, Wednesday 13 February, Haus der Berliner Festspiele 

12.45pm, Sunday 17 February, Friedrichstadt-Palast 

International Press Days: TBC, Tuesday 12 February, Venue: TBC 

TBC, Wednesday 13 February, Venue: TBC 


AUSTRALIA Transmission - CIS (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, 

Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine & Uzbekistan) Cascade - EX YUGOSLAVIA (Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia- 

Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro & Macedonia) MCF - JAPAN Gaga – MIDDLE EAST Prime Pictures – 

PORTUGAL Pris 

Italian Press Attaché 

Gianluca Pignatelli 

g.pignatelli@lucherinipignatelli.it 

German Press Attaché 

Vivien Barel 

Vivien.Barel@warnerbros.com 

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SYNOPSIS: 

KAI PO CHE 

(BROTHERS FOR LIFE) 

PANORAMA SPECIAL 

Ahmedabad in Gujarat has always been a unique city in India; its characteristics were carved in stone centuries 

ago. Mysterious labyrinths and secret passages unite the ancient quarters, in which Ishaan, Omi and Govind 

grew up. At the beginning of the film, the three rather different friends decide to make their dream come true 

by turning their passion for cricket into business. From scratch, yet with a vision, they build a cricket academy 

for the players of tomorrow. Time seems to be on their side until heavy communal violence between Hindus 

and Muslims erupts all over Gujarat in February 2002. Kai Po Che recalls one of the darkest chapters in recent 

Indian history in an emotional story of friendship and betrayal that captures its forebodings as well as the 

painful aftermath. Skilfully merging traditional elements of mainstream Indian filmmaking, a sensitive score 

and exquisite use of unique locations, Kai Po Che stands out as an example of modern cinema from Bollywood. 

It deals with India’s reality in a distinctive manner, and is surprisingly different in its ambition to bring back to 

public debate events which were almost forgotten and covered up for too long. 

Director ABHISHEK KAPOOR and producers RONNIE SCREWVALA and SIDDHARTH ROY KAPUR will be in 

Berlin to present the film. 


Adele Ibbotson and Tiffany Kizito (kpc@ddapr.com) 

Section: Panorama Special 


Official Screening: 5.45pm, Wednesday 13 February, Friedrichstadt-Palast 

Press Conference: 11.30am, Wednesday 13 February, Press Centre, Hyatt Hotel 

Press Screening: 9.10am, Wednesday 13 February, CineStar 3 


10.00am, Thursday 14 February, CinemaxX 7 

5.00pm, Friday 15 February, Cubix 9 

2.00pm, Saturday 16 February, International 

International Press Day: Tuesday 12 February, Time & Venue TBC 

Wednesday 13 February, Time & Venue TBC 

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DEMAREST FILMS 

DDA CORPORATE 

Lambert Media Group’s Michael Lambert and Sam Englebardt launched Demarest Films, a specialty financing 

and production company, after formally partnering with private investor William D. Johnson (son of Franklin 

Templeton Investments’ founder). Demarest is funded with private capital, and provides senior and gap loans 

and preferred equity to film and television productions. 

Additional films in their slate include: Robert Luketic’s PARANOIA which stars Liam Hemsworth, Harrison Ford 

and Gary Oldman; David Rosenthal’s A SINGLE SHOT, starring Sam Rockwell, Melissa Leo, and Jeffrey Wright; 

and PENTHOUSE NORTH, a psychological thriller directed by Joseph Ruben, which stars Michelle Monaghan 

and Michael Keaton and will be released by The Weinstein Company. 

Demarest Film’s A SINGLE SHOT, directed by David M. Rosenthal, will world premiere at Berlinale in the Forum 

section. 

Demarest’s Sam Englebardt and William D. Johnson will be available for select media meetings. Please contact 

Dana Archer (dana.archer@ddapr.com) or Alice Zou (alice.zou@ddapr.com). 

DUBAI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 

The Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) is the leading film festival in the Middle East, Asia and Africa. Since 

its inception in 2004, the festival has served as an influential platform for Arab filmmakers and talent at an 

international level, by spearheading the cinema movement in the region. 

DIFF has established itself as a major international festival, while continuing to serve as a premier showcase 

event for Arab cinema, and contributing to the development and growth of the regional industry. DIFF has also 

extended its platform to present and honor excellence in cinema from countries in Asia and Africa. 

Independent and established talents from Asian and African countries with a burgeoning cinema culture are 

given prominent standing in the festival’s program and competition. 

DIFF Programming Director Shivani Pandya will be available for select media meetings. Please contact Dana 

Archer (dana.archer@ddapr.com). 

FOCUS FEATURES INTERNATIONAL 

Focus Features International (www.focusfeatures.com) is one of the world’s leading international sales agents 

and financiers, with expertise encompassing international distribution, marketing and publicity. Its North 

American arm, Focus Features, is a full-fledged studio which generates original and bold films that challenge 

mainstream audiences to embrace content from around the world and deliver commercial success. 

FFI actively cultivates a diverse range of movies from a wealth of sources, whilst having the unique ability to 

tailor international distribution to suit each film, whether licensing distribution rights to independent 

companies or distribution through Universal Pictures International. FFI distributes up to 10 titles annually, 

approximately half of which are produced and financed by Focus Features and half of which come from third 

party partners around the globe. 

The FFI slate also includes Roger Michell’s historical tale Hyde Park on Hudson starring Academy Award ® 

nominees Bill Murray and Laura Linney; the epic fantasy Cloud Atlas starring Academy Award ® winners Tom 

Hanks and Halle Berry from acclaimed filmmakers Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer, and Andy Wachowski; Oscar 

nominated Moonrise Kingdom, written and directed by Wes Anderson and starring Bruce Willis, Edward 

Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand and Tilda Swinton; Closed Circuit, the suspense thriller directed by 

John Crowley and starring Eric Bana and Rebecca Hall; Paul Weitz’s comedy/drama Admission, starring Tina 

Fey and Paul Rudd; psychological thriller Oculus, directed by Mike Flanagan; Arthur Newman, starring Academy 

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Award ® winner Colin Firth and Emily Blunt; and Academy Award ® nominated filmmaker Ruairi Robinson’s 

thriller The Last Days on Mars starring Liev Schreiber, Olivia Williams, and Romola Garai. 

At the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival, Focus Features International will screen Gus Van Sant’s Promised 

Land, written by and starring Matt Damon and John Krasinski. 

Alison Thompson, President of International Sales and Distribution, will be available for select media meetings. 

Please contact Dana Archer (dana.archer@ddapr.com) or Alice Zou (alice.zou@ddapr.com). 

PARTICIPANT MEDIA 

Participant Media (participantmedia.com) is an entertainment company that focuses on documentary and 

non-documentary feature films, television, publishing and digital content about the real issues that shape our 

lives. For each of its projects, Participant creates social action and advocacy programs to transform the impact 

of the media experience into individual and community action. Participant’s online division and Social Action 

Network is TakePart (takepart.com). Founded by Jeff Skoll in 2004, Jim Berk serves as CEO. Participant’s films 

include The Kite Runner, Charlie Wilson’s War, An Inconvenient Truth, Good Night, and Good Luck, The Visitor, 

Food, Inc., The Cove, The Crazies, Countdown to Zero, Waiting for “Superman,” Fair Game, PAGE ONE: Inside 

The New York Times, The Help, Contagion, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, No, Middle of Nowhere, and 

Lincoln. 

Participant Media will have two films screening in the Berlin International Film Festival: The documentary 

STATE 194 featuring Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, and Gus Van Sant’s PROMISED LAND, written by 

and starring Matt Damon and John Krasinski. 

CEO Jim Berk, EVP, Production Jonathan King, and EVP, Documentary Films Diane Weyermann will be available 

for select media meetings. Please contact Dana Archer (dana.archer@ddapr.com) or Alice Zou 

(alice.zou@ddapr.com). 

WORLDVIEW ENTERTAINMENT 

Worldview Entertainment is a leading independent motion picture production and investment company. The 

company finances and produces theatrical quality feature films for worldwide distribution. Worldview is 

backed by a strong capitalization and represented by Creative Artists Agency (CAA). The company was founded 

in 2007 and is based in New York City. 

Worldview’s recent and upcoming slate includes: James Gray’s period drama, Lowlife, starring Marion 

Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix and Jeremy Renner; Guillaume Canet’s crime thriller, Blood Ties; and Academy 

Award® nominee Atom Egoyan’s West Memphis Three biopic, Devil’s Knot, starring Academy Award® winners 

Colin Firth and Reese Witherspoon. 

At the 2013 Berlinale EFM, Worldview will have three films in the market: David Gordon Green’s drama JOE 

starring Nicolas Cage and Tye Sheridan, international sales handled by WestEnd Films; THE GREEN INFERNO 

directed by Eli Roth, with Exclusive Media handling international rights; and Ti West’s horror thriller THE 

SACRAMENT with IM Global handling international sales. 

CEO Christopher Woodrow will be available for select media meetings. Please contact Dana Archer 

(dana.archer@ddapr.com) or Alice Zou (alice.zou@ddapr.com). 

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PRESS MATERIALS 

Press materials are available for download via the DDA PR FTP site: 

http://www.ddapr.com/ftp-sys-demo.php 

Email: berlin2013@ddapr.com 

Password: berlin13 

Images and Production notes are also available to download directly from the 

Berlinale website using your personal press login: 

http://www.berlinale.de/en/presse/presseservice/service.html 

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