Quarterly 2 · 2008 - German Films
Quarterly 2 · 2008 - German Films
Quarterly 2 · 2008 - German Films
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“One of the strengths of Bavaria’s ‘creatives’ is that they can take any<br />
topic or genre and handle it with the greatest of quality. This, the perfect<br />
infrastructure and the high quality of film technique ‘made-in-<br />
Bavaria’ is what makes Munich such an important film location,” is<br />
how FFF Bayern CEO Dr. Klaus Schaefer summed up Bavaria’s qualities.<br />
A musical highlight of the event was the jazz concert by the<br />
Ametsbichler 5, who were accompanied by the renowned Bucharest<br />
pianist Mircea Tiberian.<br />
13TH BABELSBERG MEDIA AWARDS<br />
On 13 June <strong>2008</strong>, the Film & Television Academy “Konrad Wolf ” in<br />
Potsdam-Babelsberg will host the 13th Babelsberg Media Awards. The<br />
event, which is under the patronage of <strong>German</strong>y’s First Lady Eva Luise<br />
Koehler, will award GWFF and RBB promotion prizes for the<br />
Best Graduation Film (feature and documentary), endowed with<br />
€18,000 each, and the GWFF-funded Erich Kaestner Television<br />
Award, endow ed with €25,500 in prize money. Further information is<br />
available from www.babelsbergermedienpreise.de.<br />
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GERMAN DOCS ON<br />
A WINNING STREAK<br />
This spring is proving to be a hot<br />
one for <strong>German</strong> documentaries.<br />
Director Volker Koepp was award -<br />
ed the Grand Prix for his film Elder<br />
Blossom at the recent Cinéma du<br />
Réel in Paris (7 – 18 March). Gerd<br />
Kroske’s Wolli in Paradise – also in<br />
the festival’s competition section –<br />
received a Special Mention.<br />
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The 13th International Docu -<br />
mentary Film Festival ‘It’s All True’<br />
in São Paulo (26 March – 6 April)<br />
also named a <strong>German</strong> documentary<br />
as Best Feature-Length Film:<br />
Dana Ranga’s Cosmonaut Polyakov.<br />
The It’s All True program will also be shown in 5 other Brazilian cities<br />
and is one of the most important documentary festivals in Latin<br />
America.<br />
And the 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (7 – 16 March) gave<br />
the <strong>German</strong>-Greek co-production The Lovers from Axos by Nico<br />
Ligouris three honors: the FIPRESCI Award, the Greek Film Center<br />
Award and the ERT3 Broadcasting Award.<br />
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Volker Koepp (photo © Mélodie Penet/Cinéma du Réel <strong>2008</strong>/<br />
Bibliothèque Publique d’information/Centre Pompidou)
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