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Successful shooting start of the documentary “Gardenia – Before the Last Curtain Falls”
Just in time before the grand finale of the successful travesty show “Gardenia”, the first shooting block of our cinema documentary “Gardenia – Before the Last Curtain Falls” has started. Equipped with steadicam, crane and dolly director Thomas Wallner and director of photography Axel Schneppat managed to captured many emotional moments of the aging cast […]
“Empire Me! Interactive” – English web format launched
Due to the international success of our cinema documentary “Empire Me” (Prix du Film Rebelle & Remi Winner World-Fest Houston), we launched an english version of the web documentary. From now on fans of alternate life design can start the naturalization test and see, which micronation corresponds to them.
“Munchausen”: recreation shoot starring Ben Becker (‘Comedian Harmonists’) completed
From 10th to 16th May we turned back the hands of time to the 18th century in Lower Saxony for our extensive re-enactment shoot. Schloss Marienburg and Schloss Hämelschenburg, both south of Hannover, formed the historical setting for the scenic part of our docudrama ‘Munchausen – The Truth Behind the Lies’. The leading actors: Ben […]
gbf honored among TOP TEN of the TV-Year Book 2012
We are delighted to be honored as “one of most successful companies in the difficult field of non-fictional production” in the German year book of Television (JAHRBUCH FERNSEHEN 2012). Christian and Reinhardt Beetz were highlighted in the category “Top Ten: Ten favorite producers – who talks about TV should know this name” by the publishers. […]
Christian and Reinhardt Beetz at SUNNY SIDE OF THE DOC
This year Christian, Reinhardt and Ira Beetz will be attending ‚Sunny Side of the Doc’ Festival from 26th to 29th of June in La Rochelle. On Thursday, June 28th at 4:30 pm Christian will be also participating at the „German & European Coproduction-Panel“ and talk about our international co-productions.
Shooting “Teenage” with Jason Schwartzman started!
On Wednesday, 6h June the shooting of “Teenage” started in New York. We are looking forward to soon see recreations featuring Jason Schwartzman (Marie Antoinette, Darjeeling Limited), Ben Whishaw (Perfume), Jena Malone (Donnie Darko, Into the Wild) and Alden Ehrenreich (Tetro).
“The Wagner File” app at Power to the Pixel 2012
As one of 18 selected participants at the international workshop by Power to the Pixel the gebrueder beetz filmproduktion is represented for the third time in a row. With the interactive Graphic Novel app ‘The Wagner File’, our producer Georg Tschurtschenthaler will take part from the 01th – 07th July in Potsdam at the Pixellab, […]
gbf at the Sheffield Doc/Fest
At this years documentary Festival Doc/Fest in Sheffield/UK from the 13th – 17th June the gebrueder beetz filmproduktion is presenting the session: ‘Best Practice: How to Finance, Produce and Distribute Cross-Media Projects Internationally’. Among others, our producer Georg Tschurtschenthaler will lead the panel about the financial potentials and risks of documentary projects across multiple platforms […]
“Farewell Comrades!” within competition at BANFF MEDIA FESTIVAL
The BANFF MEDIA FESTIVAL is starting soon. From 10th to 13th of June we keep our fingers crossed for our TV-series “Farewell Comrades!”. The first episode will be presented within the competition of the renowned TV-Festival in Banff, Canada and hopes for one of the famous Rockie Awards.
Book launch of “Der Kreml-Flieger”
We’re pleased to announce the book launch of “Der Kreml-Flieger – Mathias Rust und die Folgen eines Abenteuers”. The book as part of the documentation was published by Ch. Links. The author Ed Stuhler and Mathias Rust will attend the book launch on Tuesday 29th of May 2012 at 08.00 pm at Kaffee Burger (Torstrasse […]
“100 Years of Hollywood” at Frankfurt Film Museum
As part of a film season on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Universal Studios the German Film Museum will show our documentary “100 Years of Hollywood” about the German immigrant who founded the Universal Film Manufacturing Company back in 1912. The screening takes place on saturday, 2nd of June at 6 pm […]
“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: […]