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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009Documentaries are an important part of the Berlinale – and the track record of the last 10 Panorama Audience Awards further confirms this: André Heller and Othmar Schmiderer’s Im toten Winkel – Hitlers Sekretärin (Blind Spot – Hitler’s Secretary) (Austria) won in 2002, Andres Veiel’s Die Spielwütigen (Addicted to Acting) (Germany) in 2004, Tomer Heymann’s […]
Florian Gallenberger’s John Rabe
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009Thirtysomething filmmaker Florian Gallenberger’s John Rabe, a biopic of a card carrying member of the Nazi party who saved around 250,000 lives in Nanking, China during the Sino-Japanese War, is a nuanced and skillfully crafted narrative. It features fine performances, multifaceted realism and dramatic ironies that make this particular true story truly worth telling. Despite […]
Deutschland ’09 – 13 short films about the state of the nation
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009One of the highly anticipated films in the main section of the Berlinale was the German Anthology Collection Deutschland ’09 – 13 kurze Filme zur Lage der Nation (Germany ’09 – 13 Short Films about the State of the Nation) (Germany, 2009). Initiated and produced by Tom Tykwer and Dirk Wilutzky’s production company Herbstfilm, the […]
Kai Wessel’s Hilde
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009Hildegard Knef – German actress, singer and writer – was an icon of postwar Germany. Born in 1925, she studied acting at the UFA film studios during the Second World War, became a theater and film actress, then a celebrated Broadway star, chansonnier, and later on in life a best selling author. Kai Wessel’s feature […]
Neele Leana Vollmer’s Friedliche Zeiten – Peaceful Times
Thursday, January 15th, 2009The new year kicked off with another successful German Premiere screening at the Tribeca Cinemas. This time, German Films Service + Marketing’s NY representative Oliver Mahrdt presented Friedliche Zeiten (Peaceful Times) (2008) by emerging filmmaker Neele Leana Vollmer to a NY audience. Based on Birgit Vanderbeke’s book by the same title, this charming drama was […]
nordmedia 150 Prizes and Citations since 2001
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009Since 2001, and as of autumn 2007, 55 nordmedia film productions were awarded 150 prizes. These included: six Lolas in Gold – German Film Awards (the highest subsidized German Cultural Award), a Golden Bear at the Berlinale (the first German production thus honored over the past 18 years) and a Silver Bear for Best Actress, […]
nordmedia Talk – Film Location Bremen
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009From Peter Zadek’s Ich bin ein Elefant, Madame (1968), the first feature-length fiction film shot in Bremen, over Sommer in Lesmona filmed in the 1980s, up to such recent productions as Neele Leana Vollmer’s Urlaub vom Leben (2005) or Fatih Akin’s Auf der anderen Seite (2007) – the nordmedia-Talk Bremen on 4 September 2007 showed […]
nordmedia Christian Petzold – German auteur director
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009Credit nordmedia with a key supportive hand in the striking career of Christian Petzold, acclaimed today as one of Germany’s leading auteur directors. International recognition first came when Petzold’s Die innere Sicherheit (The Inner Security, aka The State I Am In) (2000) was touted as FIPRESCI Discovery of the Year at the 2001 Cannes festival. […]
nordmedia Michael Ballhaus at “Hands on HD” Workshop
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009Only a few German camera professionals are also celebrated for their success in Hollywood, to say nothing of having been nominated three times for an Oscar. One of these is Michael Ballhaus, diploma photographer and born Berliner, who alternately lives there and in Los Angeles. If such a thing exists as a director’s eye, then […]
nordmedia Talk Hannover 2007
Thursday, January 1st, 2009New concepts by today’s producers were aired at the 2007 nordmedia Talk Hannover. Away from television and total buy-out of rights to freely financed cinema coproductions – this fundamental position was keynoted in the formation of S.H.I.P. and X Filme International. The managing directors of both of these newly formed companies in Lower Saxony discussed […]
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