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“The Wagner Files” (App) nominated for Prix Europa
After “Farewell, Comrades!” and “Empire Me” we proudly announce that our interactive Graphic Novel (App) “The Wagner Files” is nominated for the Prix Europa 2013. The app, the documentary “The Wagner Files” by Ralf Pleger and the Graphic Novel (print) “Wagner” are part of our cross media format “The Culture Files”. Next parts of the […]
“The Lithium Revolution” at International Science Film Festival in St. Petersburg
We are pleased to announce that our documentary “The Lithium Revolution” was selected for competition at the International Science Film Festival “World of Knowledge” 2013. The documentary by Andreas Pichler uses a variety of perspectives to negotiate whether lithium could be the answer to global energy and environmental crisis. The festival takes place from October […]
“Midsummer Night’s Tango” at Nordic Film Days Lübeck
Our German-Finnish-Argentine Coproduction “Midsummer Night’s Tango” (Director: Viviane Blumenschein) will compete in the official selection of Nordic Film Days Lübeck. Additionally, “Piramida” of our TV-series “Modern Ruins” will take part in the retrospective category (Director: Markus Reher). The Nordic Film Days take place from 30 October to 3 Noveber 2013; it is the only festival […]
“The Beethoven Files” at the Opening of Beethovenfest Bonn
After the success of “The Wagner Files” we are currently preparing the TV-broadcasting of our 3×52 min series “The Culture Files” on arte for this October. In advance, we show “The Beethoven Files” by Hedwig Schmutte and Ralf Pleger today at the Beethovenfest in Bonn in cooperation with the Beethoven House. The documentary will be […]
“Midsummer Night’s Tango” at Raindance Film Festival in London
We proudly announce that our production “Midsummer Night’s Tango” was accepted at the Raindance Film Festival. The documentary by Viviane Blumenschein stirs up the question of where tango truly originated. Filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki controversially stated that it began in Finland, and indeed, it is seen as the national folk music there. Of course, Argentina has […]
“The Wagner Files” awarded “Best Documentary” at Montreal World Film Festival
“The Wagner Files” which is part of our format “The Culture Files” (Heinrich Kleist, Ludwig van Beethoven, Zarah Leander, Paolo Pasolini) has received the audience award for the best documentary at the 37th World Film Festival in Montreal, Canada. “The Wagner Files” by Ralf Pleger is an innovative and dynamic fusion of music documentary, fictional […]
“The Lithium Revolution” in Official Selection of Life Sciences Film Festival 2013
We proudly announce that our production “The Lithium Revolution” has been selected for the international competition at Life Science Film Festival 2013. The documentary by Andreas Pichler and Julio Weiss deals with the high-stakes power play with global repercussions. The Film Festival takes place from 14 to 18 October in Prague and honors annually extraordinary […]
GBF on the Road
The list goes on: At these festivals, panels and summits you can get to know us and our projects more closely: 23. 8 Montreal World Film Festival (The Wagner Files) 4. – 8. 9 Baltic Sea Forum for Documentaries, Riga (The Viking Women) 5. – 7. 9 Fantouche Int. Animation Film Festival, Switzerland (The Wagner […]
“The Wagner Files” goes international!
Save the date: On September 19th the international version of our interactive Graphic Novel “The Wagner Files” (App) will be available! From this date on you can explore the story in four languages: German, English, French and Japanese! A little foretaste: ワーグナー狂い インタラクティヴ・ブック The Graphic Novel “Wagner”. The high-quality hardback published by Knesebeck is out […]
Send Wagner to Texas!
Our cross media format “The Wagner Files” (film/app/Graphic Novel) is eager to make it overseas: to the “South by Southwest”-festival (SXSW) in Austin, Texas – one of the most important festivals in the USA! The audience is asked to vote for its preferred events via the so-called “Panel Picker”. Until 6 September 2013 you can […]
GBF at International Media Convention Berlin
Gebrueder beetz filmproduction will be represented at two events: On September 10 Christian Beetz will attent the Producers Summit and discuss the topic “The New Economics of Content Production and Distribution” with other leading experts. In the afternoon he and producer Georg Tschurtschenthaler will present the cross media project “The Wagner Files” (film/app/Graphic Novel) at […]
“Midsummer Night’s Tango” celebrates Finish Festival Premiere
Tango is coming home: Our cinema documentary “Midsummer Night’s Tango”, exploring Finnish Tango, celebrates its Finnish festival premiere. The film will be screened on August 20, 2013 as part of the Espoo Ciné 2013. The screening will be attended by director Viviane Blumenschein. We’re also glad to announce that the film will be shown at […]
“Open Heart” in official selection at International DocsDF Filmfestival in Mexico City
We are very pleased to announce that our feature documentary “Open Heart” by Kief Davidson is going to be screened in the official selection of the 8th International DocsDF Filmfestival in Mexico City. Under 1480 films from 101 countries our coproduction film was chosen for the official competition. The festival will take place from the […]
“Autumn Gold” on ARD
Our award-winning feature documentary “Autumn Gold” will be broadcasted on 14 August 2013 at 10:45 pm on ARD! The film by Jan Tenhaven tells the life-affirming story of five athletes in their preparation for the Track and Field World Championships. Their toughest challenge is their age: these potential world champions are between the ages of […]