Titel Kino 2/2002 - german films

“Benny X“ by Florian Baxmeyer
Kino news
Peters, and Volker Koepp’s new film Uckermarck. In
addition, the German-international co-production
Brodwey.Chemoye Morye by Vitali Manski
(Russia/Germany/Czech Republic) was shown.
Two German-international co-productions were presented as
part of the Regards Neufs, the festival’s competitive section for
debuts: Ima by Caterina Klusemann (Germany/USA)
and Kazi Ni Kiku by Ayako Mogi (Germany/Japan).
Other German and German-international co-production films
at the festival included: Hwa-Shan District, Taipei by
Bernhard Schreiner, Die eiserne Maria by
Ingeborg Jacobs and Hartmut Seifert, Phoenix aus
der Asche by Simone Fuerbringer (Switzerland/
Germany), Thomas Pynchon – A Journey into the
Mind of P. by Donatello and Fosco Dubini
(Germany/Switzerland), as well as Das Haus/1984 and
Volkspolizei/1985 by Thomas Heise.
Founded in 1969, the documentary film festival Visions du
Réel in Nyon is one of the most important of its kind in
Europe. It is primarily dedicated to films ”which, through a
conscious formal and aesthetic choice, impart depictions of
past and present realities as well as their personal and imbued
interpretation“ (festival catalogue).
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Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung’s
Impressive
Program
Over the last years the Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung
(MDM) has sent out a wide range of impulses
which contributed to the dynamic development of structures
in the media industry in Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt.
Alongside strengthening the performance of central German
companies in the film, television and media industries, MDM
pursues in the medium-term the following aims: increasing the
”regional effects“ in the area, the continuation of the settlement
policy and the strengthening of networking within the
industry, as well as the establishment of a practice-oriented
range of training and qualification programs. As a result, cities
in central Germany have recently hosted such well-known
European seminars as Cartoon Creativity, Discovery Campus,
EAVE, Pymalion and Sagas.
Since its foundation in 1998, MDM has supported more
than 250 projects with more than Euro 40 million. Unique
landscapes, remarkable building structures, as well as places
and motives of cultural interest make central Germany an
impressive film location. MDM offers wide-range support in
the areas of material and project development, production
support, distribution and sales, as well as screenings and presentation.
Increasingly, the aspects of further training and market-orientated
film marketing are taken into consideration in
the overall support scheme. One important criteria for support
is a lasting regional effect in the states of Saxony-Anhalt,
Thuringia and Saxony. This year MDM is supporting a number
of historical projects (Luther, Freiherr von Trenck),
road movies (including a German-Finnish-Latvian co-production
under the Mika Kaurismaeki’s direction) and many
other interesting projects. One of the highlights of the 2002
support year will be Peter Greenaway’s trilogy of 120minute
films.
Faster, Easier, Closer: Location
Search Engine for Berlin and
Brandenburg with New Looks
and Functions
Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg’s location office, the
Berlin Brandenburg Film Commission (bbfc), is
launching its new website, www.bbfc.de, with many new
features. Via some 600 locations with over 6,800 photographs,
moviemakers from all over the world can take a closer look
at Germany’s capital region and get straight through to the
”Gate to Germany“. The Berlin Brandenburg Film
Commission is a producer’s first stop.
The huge database HELP, which was first introduced at the
Berlin Film Festival two years ago, functions as an electronic
directory to give producers all the information they need on
locations, shooting permissions and the appropriate contacts.
It now holds more than 2,200 addresses to give the user an
idea of ”who’s who“ in film in Berlin and Brandenburg.
Scriptwriting Camp Freiburg
A script development training for young writers and script
talents organized by the Filmfoerderung Baden-
Wuerttemberg (MFG), the Hessian film fund, the
Goethe Institute Freiburg, TaunusFilm GmbH Wiesbaden and
ZFP will take place in Freiburg from 28 May to 2 June 2002
and in Wiesbaden from 2 - 7 September 2002. The new
concept will feature: Scriptwriting for Documentary Features
Kino 2/2002