Titel Kino 2/2002 - german films

Manuel Blanc and Hamburg’s harbor in
"Dream, Dream, Dream"
Location Bavaria at Home
and Abroad
This spring, Universal Studios, Los Angeles, for the first
time will provide the setting for a presentation of Bavarian
know-how in film technique and location qualities. Organized
by the State Ministry of Economy, Transportation and
Technologies in cooperation with Bavaria Film International
and the Munich Chamber of Commerce, the highprofile
film and video expo CineGear 2002 will be the
forum for Bavarian production service companies and the
Film Commission Bavaria, headed by Anja Metzger.
From 31 May to 1 June, anyone interested in shooting in
Bavaria can receive information about the latest developments
in local film production, equipment, locations and film funding.
In April and May, the Film Commission Bavaria also
participated in the world’s most important AFCI Locations
Trade Show in Santa Monica and was present in the
German Pavilion at Cannes’ Marché International du Film
(MIF). Back home in Bavaria, a new service will be of use to
anyone in need of historical buildings for a film project:
through a mediator, the Film Commission Bavaria has
gained access to private castles all over the state and is now
able to offer them to film productions. Further information
under: www.location-bayern.com.
France in Hamburg
Three new German-French co-productions, all supported by
the FilmFoerderung Hamburg, are well underway in
Hamburg and the south of France. Dream, Dream,
Dream (cf. p. 46), directed by Anne Alix, is the first
feature-length film to be accompanied by the German-French
master class at the Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg
in Ludwigsburg. The film, a co-production between
Euripide Productions, Integral Film, Wide Eyes,
Diana Film and T & C Film, was shot in part and edited
and mixed in its entirety in Hamburg. In addition to the
positive experience with the various film services in the
area, Alix also found a musician for the film score. ”We are
always very happy when foreign producers find Hamburg to
be an interesting location for their productions as well as postproduction“,
says Eva Hubert, managing director of the
FilmFoerderung Hamburg.
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The city also plays an important role in Pandora Film’s
German-French co-production Leben toetet mich
(Vivre me tue). Jean-Pierre Sinapi’s film, based on the
novel of the same name by Paul Smail, tells the story of
two North African immigrant children coming to terms with
their lives in Germany and France in different ways. The
documentary Sanary – Letzte Station vor dem
Vergessen from Bertina Henrich (a co-production from
Le Mer du Son Cinéma and Filmtank Hamburg)
describes the town Sanary-sur-Mer as a vanishing point and the
”last tip of Europe“. Between 1933 and 1941, the small beach
town on the Mediterranean coast became a large colony of
German writers, artists and intellectuals fleeing from the
Nazi regime.
FFA Industry Tigers 2002:
Over Euro 21 Million in
Reference Funding
For about 100 producers
and distributors,
the trip to
Berlin at the end of
March 2002 was well
worth it: the Filmfoerderungsanstalt
(FFA)
awarded over Euro
21 million (Euro 3.7
million more than
the previous year)
to the most
successful films of
the cinema boom year 2001. The Industry Tiger 2002
awards were based on the number of tickets sold per film.
And the winners were: the producers MMC Independent,
Kinowelt Filmproduktion and Olga-Film, as well as
the distributors Constantin Film Verleih, Senator
Film Verleih and Kinowelt Film Verleih.
FFA president Rolf Baehr was particularly happy that children’s
films and documentaries were also represented at this
year’s awards presentation. The reference funding was divided
up among features (58.56%), children’s films (39.02%) and
documentaries (2.42%).
Three German Competition
Entries in Nyon
No less than twelve German films and German-international
co-productions were shown at the 8th Festival Visions
du Réel (22 - 28 April 2002) in the Swiss town of Nyon,
of which three German and three German-international
works were screened in the festival’s two competition
sections.
The international competition featured: A Bookshelf on
Top of the Sky by Claudia Heuermann, a portrait of
the New York composer and saxophonist John Zorn, the film
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