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Thursday, January 1st, 2009The major film festivals in Lower Saxony and Bremen offer an important platform for the international cinema. Conceived as film festivals for the public, they present collectively an interesting forum for the German film market. The festival landscape is broad and rich in diverse facets. Since 2001, nordmedia has been supporting this important and far-reaching […]
nordmedia Interview Jochen Coldewey & Thomas Schäffer
Thursday, January 1st, 2009The following interview with Thomas Schäffer, Managing Director of nordmedia – Die Mediengesellschaft Niedersachsen/Bremen mbH, and Jochen Coldewey, Head of Project Funding at nordmedia, took place in 2006 in conjuction with a KINO Special on nordmedia in October of 2006. As the interview confirms, nordmedia, based in Hannover, was riding a wave of festival successes […]
Thüringen in Berlin 2008
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008In the capital city of Berlin you will find representative Vertretungen of the various federal states. Moreover, there’s a nice tradition that their administrators often invite guests to cultural functions. For the most part, these are exceptionally jovial and informative gatherings. The tables are covered with fruits from the respective federal state, there’s time for […]
Red Bee Media acquires Titelbild Subtitling & Translation 2008
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008Red Bee Media has acquired Titelbild Subtitling and Translation GmbH, a leading European multilingual subtitling and translation service provider. For the first time, Red Bee Media offers high quality translation services into any language while expanding Red Bee Media into the German market. Headquartered in Berlin, Titelbild was established by Mary Carroll in 1996, providing […]
Schüren Verlag: Lebensläufe – Die Kinder von Golzow 2008
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008Class Danielson, director of the 51st Leipzig International Festival for Documentary and Animation Film (27 October to 2 November 2008), paid homage to Barbara and Winfried Junge. Their Die Kinder von Golzow (The Children of Golzow) recently completed its run as the longest documentary cycle in the history of cinema, from Wenn ich erst zur […]
Filmfest Dresden Sommernacht in Berlin 2008
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008Robin Malick, director of the Dresden International Short Film Festival – aka Filmfest Dresden – is always on the lookout for more film friends in Berlin. Last April 1st, he presented a preview of the 20th Filmfest Dresden (15-20 April 2008) in the Vertretung des Freistaates Sachsen in Berlin-Mitte. Then, on April 26, he returned […]
MDM Film Location Sites
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008“Sexy Anhalt” is how Oscar winner Helen Mirren described the region in northern Saxony-Anhalt while the Hollywood project, Michael Hoffman’s The Last Station, was being filmed last April to June. That the attraction of Middle Germany as location site is generally increasing, this is proven by several other large-scale projects produced in the region. Stephen […]
Awards for MDM-funded Films
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008The following is a list of awarded film productions that have been funded by Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, as of October 2008. Only the key prizes and awards at major or relevant film festivals are listed. Also, citations by critical journals and/or film organizations are limited to the best known internationally. It is estimated that some films […]
MDM Training Initiatives
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008Since its founding, the MDM Leipzig has advocated an advanced media-specific training program with an international orientation. Consideration is given particularly to programs anchored in Middle Germany that would be supported with funds from the MEDIA Program of the European Union, as well as to facilitate access to training initiatives by regional representative. EAVE (European […]
MDM Media Talks & Workshops
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008Medientreffpunkt Mitteldeutschland – The Middle German Media Rendezvous took place for the 10th time in 2008. Each year in Leipzig, the representatives of the German media branches, as well as politicians, discuss under a continually changing motto the latest trends and strategies in radio-, TV-, print-, and online-journalism. Several special events, such as roundtable discussions […]
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