Category: Type|Filmnews
‚My Heart of Darkness’ awarded as best documentary in Luanda
We are proud to announce that ‚My Heart of Darkness’ won the award as best documentary at the 4th International Film Festival in Luanda (18th to 24th of November 2011). Click on the following link to view a picture of the director at the festival:
“Herbstgold” at the Fast Forward Human Rights Festival
We are happy to announce the participation of our production “Autumn Gold” by Jan Tenhaven at this years’ Fast Forward Human Rights Film Festival in Podgorica, Montenegro. The film will be screened on the 14th of December 2011 as part of the main program.
New York Times picks up “Teenage”
John Savage and Matt Wolf had the great opportunity to write about ‘Teenage’ in The New York Times’ Op-Docs forum. The forum introduces to ‘opinionated documentaries, produced with wide creative latitude and a range of artistic styles, covering current affairs, contemporary life and historical subjects’. Users can directly comment on the article or join the […]
“Autumn Gold” wins Jury Award at the E-Dox Film Fiesta
We’re happy to announce that our production “Autumn Gold” by Jan Tenhaven won the Special Jury Award at the E-Dox Film Fiesta 2011. Each year the festival screens a selection of internationally successful documentaries to the Lithuanian audience, from which the winning film is chosen. The E-Dox Film Fiesta took place between the 26th and […]
“Modern Ruins – Detroit” celebrates its premiere in the motor city
We are looking forward to the US premiere of our production “Modern Ruins – Detroit: Hope for the Motor City” in Detroit. The director Alice Agneskirchner will be present, as well as many of the artists and protagonists featured in the film. The premiere takes place on the 5th of December 2011 at 5 pm […]
“The Kleist File” in Germany, Switzerland and Austria
On the night before the 200. anniversary of the death of Heinrich von Kleist, November 20th ath 08.15pm, our film “The Kleist File” is aired in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. In Germany, the film will be shown on the RBB channel.
IDFA: “Empire Me” available at docs for sale
Our film “Empire Me” will be available at the docs for sale market at the IDFA 2011.
After heated debates: “Farewell, Comrades! (Interactive)” nominated for Prix Europa 2012
After heated debates the project was pulled out of the competition and nominated for the Prix Europa 2012, after the jury could not decide on a unanimous assessement scheme for the project. Prix Europa released a press statement underlining the special quality of the project.
Our series “Pioneers turned Millionaires” on the Smithsonian Channel
We are very proud to announce that the Smithsonian Channel will be showing our series “Pioneers turned Millionaires” on November 17th and 18th. For exact airing times please visit the following link:
“Empire Me” at the Hofer Filmtagen
We are very happy about the successful festival premier of our documentary “Empire Me” by Paul Poet at the 45. Hofer Filmtage, Germany. TV-presenter Gunnar Mergner met Paul Poet backstage and interviewed him about the eccentric phenomena as well as the world wide growing protest movement.
“Teenage”, “Culture Files Interactive” and “Invisible Cities” at IDFA
We are happy that this year three gebrueder beetz projects got selected for IDFA: On Monday, November 21st “Culture Files Interactive” will be presented at 2pm at DocLab, on Tuesday, November 22nd “Teenage” will be pitched at the Central Pitch. This coming Sunday, November 20th, “Invisible Cities” will be presented at the EBU pitch! See […]
Launch new book by Gyoergy Dalos in time for Frankfurt Book Fair
October 12th 2011 the new book by Gyoergy Dalos was presented as the first element of the Farewell Comrades! media event at Frankfurt Book Fair. The author, Christian Beetz and Martin Pieper, the commissioning editor at ZDF/ARTE attended the event.
Screenings of “The Kleist File” in November 2011
We are very glad that our documentary film “The Kleist File” will be screened on many occasions in November 2011, for example as part of the Kleistfestival in the Maxim Gorki Theatre Berlin and also in the Goethe Institutes in Oslo and Bratislava. On November 18th in the film museum Potsdam as well as on […]
“Farewell Comrades! Interactive” in competition for DocLab Award at IDFA 2011
We are looking forward to the IDFA 2011 in November: Our web format “Farewell Comrades! Interactive” has been selected for the competition of the DocLab Award.