[/caption]European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück (D) || 25.04.2021 EMAF Award: NIGHT FOR DAY, Emily Wardill, UK Dialog-Preis zur Förderung des interkulturellen Austausches: 13 WAYS OF LOOKING AT A BLACKBIRD (13… Read More
Auszeichnungen April 2021
The Art of Coding – Demos sind jetzt UNESCO Kulturerbe
[/caption]Schließlich noch ein aktuelles Echtzeit-Demo aus Deutschland: Die TikTok-Parodie “Achtung!” vom Kunst Kollektiv Wuppertal (2020, 1:32 min) Auf Demozoo Im Archiv von pouet Als Video auf YouTube … Read More
Auszeichnungen März 2021
[/caption]Women’s Voices Now Online Festival, Los Angeles (USA) || 31.03.2021 Best Documentary Short: RITU GOES ONLINE, Vrinda Samartha, India Best Social-Change Documentary Short: LUPITA, Monica Wise Robles, Mex / USA… Read More
Online Aggregators Boom During Pandemic Crisis at Festivals
Long before the pandemic, film festivals already began to outsource tasks they had dealt with internally prior to this and contract work out to external IT service providers. As digitalisation… Read More
Awards February 2021
Preis der deutschen Filmkritik (German Film Critics’ Award) (D) || 22.02.2021 Best Short Film: FOR REASONS UNKNOWN, Tom Otte, D Best Experimental Film: UNTITLED SEQUENCE OF GAPS, Vika Kirchenbauer,… Read More
Victor Orozco Ramirez: Documentarist in Animation Skin
Victor Orozco Ramirez is a filmmaker with all his heart and soul. Living in Germany since 2002, the Mexican by birth has been a long-established name in the German… Read More
Film Festival Corona Strategies (part two) – Online Streaming versus Theatre Screenings
Film festivals generally serve two main functions. They showcase new films in a festive setting and facilitate encounters between the industry and the audience. Under pandemic conditions, neither is possible… Read More
Awards January 2021
Premiers Plans, Festival d’Angers (F) || 31.01.2021 Grand Prix Européen: STAYING (Aros Mae), Zillah Bowes, UK Grand Prix français: TRONA PINNACLES, Mathilde Parquet, F Grand Prix films d’ecoles: I WANT… Read More
Awards December 2020
FilmFestival Cottbus – Festival of East European Cinema (D) || 31.12.2020 Main Prize: GREETINGS FROM NIGERIA, Peter Hoferica, Slovakia Special Prize: EGGSHELLS, Slava Doytcheva, BG DOCUMENTA MADRID (ES)… Read More
Awards November 2020
Foyle Film Festival (Northern Ireland) || 29.11.2020 Best Irish Short Film: HERE’S LOOKING AT YOU KID, Michael Lennox, Northern Ireland Best Animated Short Film: KAPAEMAHU, Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer &… Read More
Moths, Flickers and Fragments
– Sylvia Schedelbauer
Fragmentary memories act like a common thread, taking us through the works of Sylvia Schedelbauer as they oscillate between experimental and essay-film genres, and which could also be called “filmic… Read More
Film festivals: spatiotemporal expansion leads to distortions in the cinema and festival landscape
At the beginning of the pandemic, when cinemas everywhere were completely closed, film festivals only had the choice between canceling or going online. Since the relaxations for cinemas, i.e. in… Read More
Film Festival Corona Strategies – A Critical Look at Techniques and Formats (Part One)
Since the start of the pandemic, film festivals have admirably sought out and found alternatives in terms of what they offer their audiences, even in the face of losing… Read More
Five questions to Borbála Nagy
On November 25, Borbála Nagy was awarded the German Short Film Award 2020 in the category short fiction film with a length of 10 to 30 minutes for her short film LAND OF GLORY. We talked to the director in advance. Read More
Free video subtitling for online videos
The creation of subtitles in online videos are a requirement for accessibility and the first step for translations into other languages. As festivals currently cannot be held in cinemas… Read More
