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The Tchaikovsky Files @ MiFo LGBT Film Fest in Miami
Our film THE TCHAIKOVSKY FILES – CONFESSIONS OF A COMPOSER celebrates its international premiere at the Miami and Fort Lauderdale (MiFo) Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. It screens April 23 at 3:00 pm in the Regal Cinemas South Beach in Miami. The film radically transfers Peter Tchaikovsky into the present time and draws an emotional psychological portrait. […]
The Land of the Enlightened @Visions du Réel & Hot Docs
Filmed by first-time director Pieter-Jan De Pue on amazing 16mm footage, “The Land of the Enlightened” was already awarded at the Sundance Film Festival. Now it will be shown at two more internationally renowned festivals. The screenings at the Visions du Réel (Switzerland) take place on April 17th and 18th and at the Hot Docs (Canada) on May 2nd, 4th […]
World premiere MALI BLUES @Visions Du Réel
Our film MALI BLUES will celebrate its world premiere at Visions Du Réel, one of the most important film festivals for documentaries. The screenings will take place on April 20 and 21, in the presence of director Lutz Gregor and the team. Following Fatoumata Diawara, the young shooting star of the global pop scene, MALI […]
Falciani’s SwissLeaks nominated for Henri Nannen Award
The webdoc “Falciani’s SwissLeaks – The Great Bank Data Robbery” is nominated for the Henri Nannen Award 2016 in the category “web story”. The award honors outstanding works in German-speaking Journalism. The award ceremony will take place on April 28 at 7 pm in the Curios-Haus in Hamburg. The project “Falciani´s SwissLeaks – The Great Bank […]
SUPERNERDS travels with “What’s the Buzz” to Australia
Our transmedia project SUPERNERDS will be presented on Monday, February 29th as “What’s the Buzz of the Year” (WTB) during the Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC). “What’s the Buzz of the Year” showcases the most important and innovative productions of the year from the non-fiction sector. In 2015, SUPERNERDS was also part of the WTB […]
WHO IS ODA JAUNE? @Berlinale 2016
Our coproduction “Who is Oda Jaune?”(75min) by KHM-student Kamilla Pfeffer will have its world premiere at Berlinale 2016 in the category Perspektive Deutsches Kino. The premiere will take place on February 14th at 7:30pm (CinemaxX 3) in the presence of director and protagonists Oda Jaune and Lars Eidinger. Two further screenings will take place on […]
GreenMe LIFE AWARD for the Yes Men
We are very happy that our coproduction “The Yes Men Are Revolting” has been awarded with the LIFE AWARD at GreenMe Festival! The jury members Renate Künast (Alliance ’90/ The Greens), director Valentin Thurn and activist Christiane Beckmann all agreed that this entertaining but serious film makes you want to change something. We thank the […]
SUPERNERDS nominated for SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards
Our transmedia project „SUPERNERDS“ is one of five finalists in the category “Privacy & Security”. The award ceremony wil be held on March 14 in Austin, Texas, USA. The awards celebrate the most inspiring, creative innovations in the connected world. The 2016 SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards showcases the most exciting tech developments, including achievements in […]
Sundance Special Jury Award for THE LAND OF THE ENLIGHTENED
Our coproduction THE LAND OF THE ENLIGHTENED has just been awarded with the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Best Cinematography from renowned Sundance Film Festival! The film is a hybrid feature documentary by Pieter-Jan De Pue, a first-time director with a huge passion for the Afghan people and for the extraordinary beauty of […]
SUPERNERDS nominated for Crossmedia Award
The transmedia project is nominated in the category TV as one of three productions. The Crossmedia Prize is awarded by Radio Bremen and Bremische Landesmedienanstalt for the fourth time. It honours “new formats and editorial pieces, which use the possibilities of crossmedia in an outstanding way to comprehensively reach target groups and tie them to […]
“The Land of the Enlightened” is nominated for HIVOS TIGER AWARD @IFF Rotterdam
After its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival our co-production “The Land of the Enlightened” will be in competition for the prestigious HIVOS TIGER AWARD. Besides it, seven international productions are nominated as well. The winners will be announced on the 5th of February. The International Film Festival Rotterdam is one of the most […]
Trailer “The Land of the Enlightened” as Apple Premiere
For the next 24 hours, you can exclusively watch the new trailer of “The Land of the Enlightened” on iTunes: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/thelandoftheenlightened/ “The Land of the Enlightened” tells the story of a gang of Afghan kids from the Kuchi tribe who dig out old Soviet mines and sell the explosives to children working in a lapis […]
Scroll doc “Falciani’s SwissLeaks” nominated for Smart FIPA
Our multimedia webdoc about the whistleblower Hervé Falciani is selected for competition in the Smart Fipa section of the 29th Fipa, which will be held in Biarritz from January 19th to 24th 2016. The aim of Smart Fipa is to anticipate the future of the audio- visual sector by identifying the writing, technologies and talents […]
World premiere of „The Land of the Enlightened“ at Sundance Film Festival
Our coproduction “The Land of the Enlightened” will celebrate its world premiere at the renowned Sundance Film Festival and competes in the World Cinema Documentary Competition together with 11 other documentaries. The festival takes place from 21st-31st of January 2016 in Park City, Utah. Since 1985, it brings the most original storytellers together with the […]