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“Ulrich Seidl and the Bad Guys” on international Festival Tour
After the international Premier during the 10th Zurich Film Festival, Constantin Wulffs “Ulrich Seidl and the Bad Guys” will be screened at two other upcoming festivals: DOK Leipzig has selected the film for its “international program”: Wed., October 29, 10:30 h & Th., October 30, 14:15 h at PASSAGE KINO. IDFA, the International Documentary Film […]
Audience Award for MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S TANGO
Our production „Midsummer Night’s Tango“ has won the Audience Award in the category of „Documentary Film long“ at the 11th Filmfest Eberswalde (Provinziale). Director Viviane Blumenschein received the award with a radiant smile. „Midsummer Night’s Tango“ has drawn 30,000 viewers into the theaters so far. It has recently been released on DVD.
German cinema release GARDENIA on November 13th
On November 13th, “Before the Last Curtain Falls” will have its German cinema release. The premieres are at Volksbuehne Berlin (3.11.), Abaton Cinema Hamburg (4.11.), Schauspiel Cologne (5.11.) and Euro-Scene Leipzig (5.11.) in the presence of cast and crew. The film dives deeply into the exceptional and heart-warming stories of a group of transsexuals and drag […]
“The Wagner Files” nominated for Emmy Award
We are thrilled to announce that our production „Wagnerwahn“ is nominated for the International Emmy Awards! Ralf Pleger’s documentary is one out of four nominees in the „Arts Programming“ category and represents our cross media format „The Culture Files“. Winners will be announced on November 24, 2014. The annual International Emmy Awards honour the best […]
BERLIN STORIES at Frankfurt Book Fair
Prior to its TV broadcast on 26th November (9:45 pm) on arte, there is the opportunity to see BERLIN STORIES – BOOKS OF A CITY at Frankfurt Book Fair! The film will be screened on Sunday, 12th October, at 3 pm at the ARTE stand. In advance, starting at 2 pm, Manuela Reichart (rbb Kulturradio) […]
BEFORE THE LAST CURTAIN FALLS nominated for “Best Documentary” at Mix Copenhagen
Before the Last Curtain Falls has been nominated in the category ‘Best Documentary’ at Mix Copenhagen film festival. Mix Copenhagen is one of the oldest LGTB film festivals in the world, it presents productions that discuss LGBT topics in a social, political and artistic way. “Thomas Wallner’s beautiful documentary mixes almost wordless choreography with deeply personal […]
Khalo Matabane nominated from the German Academy of Television
The German Academy of Television nominated director Khalo Matabane for his work in ‘Nelson Mandela: the myth & me’. Khalo Matabane is a multi-awarded director. His work includes several of feature length documentaries, drama series so as campaigns and commercials. Matabane creates in ‘Madiba’ a multifaceted picture of the living myth “Nelson Mandela” – provocative, […]
World Premiere of ULRICH SEIDL – A DIRECTOR AT WORK at Zurich Film Festival
Due to his distinctive style Ulrich Seidl is among the most discussed film auteurs of the last years. Always walking a fine line between documentary and fiction, his films bring to light the abysmal aspects of Austrian lower middle class life and provoke with a degree of reality that goes to the limits of endurance. […]
MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S TANGO at Frankfurt Book Fair
All visitors of the Frankfurt Book Fair have the opportunity to see “Midsummernight’s Tango” on screen again! Appropriate to this year’s guest of honour, that is going to be Finland, the film will be shown on October 9th, at 4:30 p.m., in the ARD Kino in ARD Forum.
World Premiere of „BERLIN STORIES – BOOKS OF A CITY“!
On Thursday, 18th of September, “Berlin Stories – Books of a City” will have its world premiere in Haus der Berliner Festspiele. The film will be screened at 9 p.m. as part of the Berlin International Literature Festival. The event is open to all and admission is free! “Berlin Stories” looks upon Berlin from […]
GARDENIA nominated for PRIX EUROPA 2014!
We feel greatly honored: “Before the Last Curtain Falls” has been nominated for PRIX EUROPA 2014 in the category “TV Documentary”. The film dives deeply into the exceptional and heart-warming stories of a group of transsexuals and drag queens in their sixties and seventies, who summon up their bravery to take to the stage one […]
MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S TANGO at Ars Independent Festival
We are very pleased that our co-production “Midsummer Night’s Tango” will be shown on September 27 at 10pm at the Ars Independent Festival in Poland. The film follows three passionate and spirited tango musicians from Argentina, who are searching for the origins of tango. No one would have expected that they journey would bring them […]
MAKE LOVE thrilled Denmark
Our successful sexual education format MAKE LOVE received exceeding interest of almost all big Danish broadcasters and professionals at the Copenhagen TV Festival. Our trimedia format already achieved outstanding audience rates in all media in Germany. Now the success continues in Denmark. Several big danish TV stations and international distributors showed great interest to produce […]
MADIBA and GARDENIA at VIFF 2014
We are delighted that two of our productions will be shown at this year’s Vancouver International Film Festival: our coproduction with Born Free Media (South Africa) “Nelson Mandela: the myth & me” by director Khalo Matabane and the German-Belgian coproduction “Before the Last Curtain Falls” by Thomas Wallner. VIFF is among the five largest film festivals […]