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Supporting foundations Page
Funding matters!
the robert bosch stiftung and the manfred durniok Foundation have been supporting
the berlinale talent campus over the past years. their contribution, both financial
and conceptual, are invaluable to its success.
the co-production prize of the robert bosch stiftung
Especially interested in Eastern Europe? The core ambition of
the Co-Production Prize of the Robert Bosch Stiftung is to encourage
collaboration and foster mutual development between producers and
filmmakers in Germany and Eastern Europe. Supporting filmmakers
and producers has had a profound impact over the past years: films
have been screened all over the world and won awards or were Oscarnominated.
Take German producer Stephan Grobe: he joined the
Talent Campus Sarajevo as a guest in 2009 upon learning about the
Co-Production Prize. Having applied with Kazakh filmmaker Katya
Suvorova, their documentary film project SEATOMORROW won the Co-
Production Prize in 2010, and the film THE HOUSEMAID (directed by
Anna Hoffmann), which he produced, was screened at the Berlinale
Perspektive Deutsches Kino in 2010.
Ideally, film projects supported by the Robert Bosch Stiftung
are only the first of many projects between up-and-coming filmmakers
from Eastern Europe and Germany. One example is the collaboration
between German producer Henning Kamm and Hungarian director
Lili Horváth, whose film SUNSTROKE won the Co-Production Prize in
2008 and premiered at the Sarajevo Film Festival; Horváth and Kamm
have joined forces again for a feature-length film.
Nominated for the European Film Award was Paul Negoescu’s
RENOvATION (produced by 2010 alumnus David Lindner), also a winner
in 2008, which premiered at the Berlinale Shorts in 2009 and was
shown at numerous festivals in Europe and beyond.
The Robert Bosch Stiftung’s Co-Production Prize competition
is open to young filmmakers between 18 and 35 and graduates from
film and media academies from Germany and East and South East
Europe. Joint production teams with a producer, director, camera oper
ator (not for animated films) and a screenwriter in a balanced mix
from both regions are allowed to submit projects. The categories
qualifying for three co-production prizes for joint short film pro ductions
are animated film, documentary and short film, and each winning
production can receive up to 70 000 euros in funding.
For more information please contact:
Robert Bosch Stiftung, Frank W. Albers
frank.albers@bosch-stiftung.de
Coordination of the Co-Production Prize, Karin Angela Schyle
schyle@coproductionprize.com
Won the Co-Production Prize in 2010:
Katya Suvorova‘s and Stephan Grobe‘s SEATOMORROW
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manfred durniok Foundation
German producer, filmmaker, photographer and writer
Man fred Durniok was always drawn to distant places. Although a
visi tor of many continents, it was Asia that captured his imagination.
Con si dered a pioneer who brought Asian cinema to the attention of
Western audiences, he promoted and encouraged multicultural
encounters and exchanges through film co-productions. The Manfred
Durniok Foundation, founded by the late filmmaker’s daughter,
Ayano Teramoto, is a non-profit organisation established in 2006 to
support and promote cultural exchanges between Germany and
Asia, to grant scholarships, award prizes and to give financial support
to intercultural gatherings.
It is not only the Berlinale Talent Campus’ decisive inter -
nat i onal perspective and interest in a dialogue that goes beyond
poli tical and cultural borders that makes this cooperation a fruitful
one. Intercultural awareness is a recurrent theme in the films that
Dur niok made and produced; it is that spirit that the foundation
hopes to continue.
The Manfred Durniok Foundation once again supports
Talents from South East Asia attending the 9th edition of the Berlinale
Talent Campus by covering the costs of their travel, as they have
since 2007. Meet fellow East Asian Talents at the Manfred Durniok
Foundation‘s reception on Feb 13 from 12:30-13:45 in the Kaiser saal
(by invitation only).