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“Midsummer Night’s Tango” wins Special Award of the Jury at Millenium Documentary Film Festival
Our documentary “Midsummer Night’s Tango” has been awarded with the Special Award of the Jury at the Millenium Documentary Film Festival 2014. Director Viviane Blumenschein accompanies three Argentinian musicians to Finland to find out if it is true that the Tango was born there. The Millenium Documentary Film Festival is an annual event which takes […]
“Nelson Mandela: the myth & me” at Stockholm International Film Festival
We proudly announce that our production “Nelson Mandela: the myth and me” will have it’s Sweden premiere at the Stockholm International Film Festival on April 7th. Two further screenings will take place on 10th and 11th of April. In it’s awarded documentary director Khalo Matabane talks to Mandela’s entourage, Apartheid-victims, global thinkers and politicians about […]
MIZ Formatfestival: Christian Beetz als Juror
The gebrueder beetz filmproduktion attaches great importance to crossmedia and so does the Medieninnovationszentrum Babelsberg. They have called for MIZ format Festival and producer Christian Beetz is part of the jury. Since February young talents in journalism, crossmedia, screenwriting, development and production media were invited to submit innovative cross- and transmedia projects. More than 80 […]
“The Colours of China” Pitch at Asian Side of the Doc
Producer Christian Beetz is pitching our co-production “The Colours of China” at the Asian Side of the Docs on Thursday, 20th March 2014. Location: Yi Bin Ballroom Level 2, Plenary Room, Chengdu / China Time: 11am “The Colours of China” is an extraordinary trip through China – structured by the century-old mythology of the colours. […]
World Premiere “Before the Last Curtain Falls” at HOT DOCS!
We are proud to announce that our feature length documentary “Before the last Curtain falls” will have its world premiere on April 28th 2014, 8.30 p.m. at the HOT DOCS film festival in Toronto, Canada! The film is a German-Belgian co-production by Gebrueder Beetz filmproduction with Savage Film, Belgium, ZDF and Canvas in collaboration with […]
Successful launch of “Midsummer Night’s Tango” – Already more than 10,000 cinema-goers!
Since March 13th, the movie is shown in cinemas all over Germany and after the premiere tour was already nearly sold out, we are even more happy that “Midsummer Night Tango” has reached the 10,000 spectators-mark after the first weekend. The positive response, applause after the screenings and enthusiastic press, promise further “numerous exciting encounters, […]
“An Apartment in Berlin” at the 29th International DOK.fest in Munich
Good news from Munich: our documentary “An Apartment in Berlin” was selected to be shown in May at the 29th International Film Festival in Munich. Director Alice Agneskirchner confronted herself and three young Israelis with their German-Jewish past and created a film with a very surprising and unexpected ending. Founded in 1985, the International Documentary […]
“The Lithium Revolution” at 22nd Environmental Film Festival in Washington, DC
Our production “The Lithium Revolution” (Screenwriters & Directors : Andreas Richter and Julio Weiss) can be watched at the 22nd Environmental Film Festival in Washington, DC. The awarded documentary is a high-stakes power play with global repercussions. In it’s centre: Lithium as “the” natural resource of the 21st century. The Environmental Film Festival takes place […]
“Midsummer Night’s Tango” wins at 40th Filmwochenende in Würzburg
We are very proud that our German-Finnish-Argentine production “Midsummer Night’s Tango” won the award for best documentary at 40th International Filmwochenende in Würzburg this weekend. Especially director Viviane Blumenschein is happy about that. From 10th March she will visit the cinemas across Germany. At the premiers she will be available for questions and answers. From […]
“Nelson Mandela: the myth & me” at Human Rights Watch
We gladly pronounce that our documentary “Nelson Mandela: the myth & me” will be screened at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in London on Friday, 21st of March at 6.30pm at Ritzy and on Saturday, 22nd of March at 4pm at Curzon Soho. Director Khalo Matabane creates a multi-facetted image of the living myth Nelson Mandela […]
MAKE LOVE nominated for IMPACT Award
The trimedial production MAKE LOVE (TV, Radio, Web) is nominated for the renowned IMPACT Award in the category Best Digital Production. With the documentary format, that we produced in 2013 in co-production with MDR and SWR and that has been watched by more than 1.5 Million TV viewers, we try to find a language for […]
“An Apartment in Berlin” at Stranger Than Fiction 2014
During the documentary film festival STRANGER THAN FICTION our production “An Apartment in Berlin” will be screened on 16th of February at 5 pm in the Cinema Münster. Director Alice Agneskirchner and three young Israelis confront themselves with their German-Jewish past in Berlin. STRANGER THAN FICTION will take place for the 16th time in 2014 and offers a […]
Christian Beetz at ifs Transmedia Business Workshop
Producer Christian Beetz is attending the Transmedia Business Workshop @ ifs Wintercamp 2014 as lecturer. He will give insights and case studies about transmediality, business models and the production workflow, as well as panels about rights and licence models, community-building and connected tv. Other lecturers like Frank Fischer (Wilde Beuger Somecke Rechtsanwälte), Helmut Pesch (Bastei […]
Christian Beetz at Avant Première 2014
Our producer Christian Beetz will present some of our current projects at the Avant Première 2014 MUSIC + MEDIA MARKET BERLIN. He will talk about our cross media format “The culture files” (The Wagner Files, The Beethoven Files, The Zarah Leander Files). Another production “Gardenia – Before The Last Curtain Falls” gives an insight of […]