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“One flew over the Kremlin” broadcast on EinsExra
Check it out: The sensational flight of the 19-year-old Mathias Rust across the Iron Curtain will be broadcast a few more days on EinsExtra: Wed, 23rd May at 08.15 pm, Sat 26th May at 11.45 pm and Monday, 28th May 2012 at 07.15 pm
TV premiere “One flew over the Kremlin” on ARD
25 years after the spectacular landing of Mathias Rust on the Red Square in Moscow, Rust talks for the first time in detail about his flight, which left the reputation of the Soviet military in tattern. The exclusive documentary “One flew over the Kremlin – Mathias Rust and the End of the Soviet Bloc” will […]
ARD press conference of “One flew over the Kremlin”
On May 8th, the ARD press conference of our documentation “One flew over the Kremlin – Mathias Rust and the End of the Soviet Bloc” took place in the SOHO House, the former Politburo of the SED. We thank all the journalists and participants for their attendance and the positive response. On the picture are: […]
“Wadan’s World” at Film Festival Genova – ‘Best of DOK Leipzig’
We are glad that the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film presents our award-winning documentary “Wadan’s World” within their selection “best of DOK Leipzig” at the 12. Genova film festival, which takes place from July 2nd to 8th.
“Blood in the Mobile” receives ‘Herbert Quandt Media Award’
After the ‘Cinema for Peace Award’ we are glad to announce the latest prize: “Blood in the Mobile” receives the ‘Herbert Quandt Media Award 2012’ for its outstanding work in the field of business journalism. The Johanna Quandt Foundation will award the prize, that is endowed with 10.000€, to director Frank Poulsen on June 22nd […]
Nomination for “Stéphane Hessel” at the LiteraVision 2012
We are very pleased that our TV-contribition “Stéphane Hessel” by Gabriele Denecke produced for Metropolis/ ARTE is nominated in the final round of the TV competition “LiteraVision 2012”. The jury will take place on Friday and Saturday, 11 and 12 May 2012 at the Literaturhaus München.
Christian Beetz gave a lecture at DOKVILLE 2012
Speaking at DOKVILLE 2012 in Ludwigsburg, a get-together of the documentary industry, Christian Beetz presented potential and future outlook of cross-media projects for the documentary market, using our award-winning interactive webformat “Farewell Comrades! Interactive” as an example.
FOCAL Int. Award goes to “Farewell Comrades! Interactive”
A tribute for the outstanding archive research: For “Farewell Comrades!” we researched in 40 archives in eastern Europe and made a pre-selection of 430 hours. A great deal of work, which got honoured with the FOCAL International Award. Our web format “Farewell Comrades! Interactive” received the prize within the category ‘Best Use of Footage on […]
“Empire Me” wins Special Jury Award at the Worldfest Houston
Good news reached us from Houston, Texas: Our feature documentary “Empire Me” won the Special Jury Award GRAND REMI in the category Best Independent Documentary Feature at this years’ Worldfest Houston. Congratulations to director Paul Poet, who received the second award in a row for his successful film. The 45th Worldfest Houston took place between […]
“Farewell Comrades! Interactive” nominated for the Franco-German Prize for Journalism
The Franco-German Prize for Journalism 2012 annouced their nominees and we are part of it with our documentary web format “Farewell Comrades! Interactive”. The Franco-German Prize for Journalism is classified as one of the most renowed awards for journalism. The award ceremony will be held on June 28th in Berlin.
“Farewell Comrades!” nominated at BANFF MEDIA FESTIVAL
“Farewell Comrades!” goes for the renowned Rockie Awards, also known as TV-Oscars, at BANFF WORLD MEDIA FESTIVAL. The first episode “Victory 1975-79” of our six-part series was nominated within the category ‘History & Biography Programm’. The Banff World Media Awards – affectionately known as The Rockies – are an internationally-recognized awards program celebrating within 26 […]
“Shackleton’s Captain” – German TV premiere at ZDF
For the first time in German TV, ZDF shows our documentary “Shackleton’s Captain”: on Saturday, 21st of april at 8.15 pm. The film is about the famous Trans-Antarctic-Expedition under Sir Ernest Shackleton in 1914. With the help of emotionally moving recreated scenes, this feature-length docudrama recounts for the first time ever the true story of […]
“Autumn Gold” recieved ‘Special Mention’ at Docudays
“Autumn Gold” leaves the Film Festival Docudays in Kiev with a “Special Mention for Optimism’ – an award which makes us feel especially positive…
“Saving the Titanic” – German TV premiere at ZDF
On Easter Sunday our high-end drama-doc ‘Saving The Titanic’ coproduced with ‘Tile Films’, Dublin premieres on German TV (8 April, 11.45 p.m., ZDF). 100 years after the sinking of the Titanic, “Saving the Titanic“ is the untold story of the self-sacrifice and dignity of the ship’s crew in the face of impending death. Underscoring the […]