Archive for December, 2008
Next Entries »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 […]
MDM Festival Landscape
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008Internationales Leipziger Festival für Dokumentar- und Animationsfilm – The Leipzig International Festival for Documentary and Animation Films – aka DOK Leipzig – is the most prominent German and one of the leading international festivals for artistic documentary and animation films. The festival was founded in 1955 by the Club der Filmschaffenden der DDR (Club of […]
Connie Walter’s Schattenwelt – Terrorist’s Long Shadows
Friday, December 19th, 2008In November 2004, German Film Services launched German Premieres, an ongoing presentation of new and noteworthy German films for the US market. This very successful screening series opened with Dennis Gansel’s Napola. Since then, German Film Service NY representative Oliver Mahrdt has presented more than 15 films to the NY industry, ranging from such high-end […]
57th Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival 2008
Saturday, December 13th, 2008The oldest German film festival on record – launched in 1952, when Walter Thalmon-Gross decided to expand his Mannheim-Ludwigshafen Film Club into an international event – the 57th International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg (IFFMH) (6-16 November 2008) straddles two cities in the populous Rhein-Neckar Triangle, both with university crowds to draw upon to assure an enthusiastic […]
First-ever Khakas film premieres in Abakan Russia 2008
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008Ada Chiri (Land of Our Fathers) , the first-ever film from the Khakas ethnic group, premiered on December 1 in the city of Abakan (pop. 162,000) in the internal Russian republic of Khakasia, located in southern central Siberia. Ada Chiri is a production of the new production company Khakasfilm, with the support of the local […]
Films in Post-Taliban Afghanistan – An Overview 2008
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008When the giant Buddhas on the Silk Road at Bamyan were destroyed by radical Taliban clerics in March of 2001 in accordance with a strict interpretation of Islamic Sharia law, even the Afghan populace was stunned by the disrespect for their own cultural heritage. For in July of 1999 the leading Sharia cleric, Mullah Mohammed […]
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