INCONTRI #3 BLS Co-production Meeting
2
INCONTRI #3 BLS C0-Production Meeting April 17 – 19, 2013 Schloss Hotel Korb, South Tyrol
Business Location Südtirol - Alto Adige AG Dompassage 15 39100 Bozen - Italien T +39 0471 066 600 F +39 0471 062 852 service@bls.info 3
Content Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Greetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Agenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Participants Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Participants Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Participants Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Participants Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Pitching Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Country Information Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Country Information Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Country Information Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Country Information Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Companies in Alphabetical Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Participants in Alphabetical Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Location / Imprint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
5
6
Welcome „4 countries. 2 languages. 1 summit.” This motto summarizes the idea behind INCONTRI and also indicates its aim. Being a bilingual region located at the point where northern and southern Europe meet, South Tyrol is particularly well suited to initiate collaboration across borders. It is thus the central and long-term goal of BLS to promote and encourage cooperation between the German-language and Italian-language film sectors. To round out our squad of connected film countries, we also have – at long last –participants from Switzerland on board this year. We are extremely pleased about this, and expect interesting proposals regarding working relationships that transcend language and culture. Unlike other co-production meetings, INCONTRI is not a classic co-production market and does not strive to be. INCONTRI wants to be small: to this end, it deliberately brings together a limited number of selected industry representatives who are not only interested in co-productions but also have the means to bring them to fruition. This makes them attractive partners for the other side. In addition to a concentrated, topical and practically oriented exchange of ideas, we should give ample attention to interpersonal encounters, which are often critical to the quality of a collaboration. Two other things that are important for INCONTRI: Firstly, our focus will not be limited to theatrical release productions, but will also explicitly encompass television. At the moment, in fact, there is a good deal of creative momentum in the television series sector. Secondly, it is not only financial perspectives that will be addressed at the meeting, but also content. The catchphrase here is global storytelling. At the producer level, we build upon what has already been completed on the screenwriting level through BLS’s RACCONTI initiative: We would love to encourage the development of stories / projects that can be realized as a co- production and could be exploited in the Italian speaking as well as in the German speaking territories – and maybe even beyond. There has been some frustration in the last few months, especially in terms of German-Italian relations. In the field of co-productions, too, we would like to announce more successes in the future. We hope that it is not only on a large scale but also on a smaller scale – perhaps a chat over a glass of wine – that getting to know each other will eventually lead to rapprochement and enhanced cooperation. We thus encourage you to participate in active interchange outside of the official program, discussing financial models, audience tastes, viewing habits, and distribution opportunities in your respective countries, in order to return home afterwards enriched by many different perspectives. In this spirit, we wish you a successful yet relaxing stay in South Tyrol!
Christiana Wertz, Head of BLS Film Fund & Commission Gabriele Brunnenmeyer, Project Manager INCONTRI Alessia Ratzenberger, Project Manager INCONTRI
7
8
Greetings Dear INCONTRI #3 participants, The “three” in the title of this event says it all: This is the third time we invite you to our INCONTRI co-production meetings in South Tyrol, and are absolutely delighted to welcome you as producers, broadcast representatives and film funding organizations. The number of participating countries has now increased from three to four: this year, Switzerland has joined Italy, Germany and Austria. This is only logical since INCONTRI is an exclusive meeting point for participants from the film sectors in all of the German-speaking countries and Italy. INCONTRI is always a time for us to take stock of South Tyrol’s development as a film location. In 2011, when the first meeting took place, we were standing in the wings. Now we can already look back on two years of operations for South Tyrol’s film funding program. The past year has seen a lot of forward momentum; in fact, the province government’s expectations in terms of film promotion and our development as a film location have been far exceeded. The figures underline this in a striking way: There were 23 productions funded in 2012. The average territorial effect for South Tyrol was 180 per cent, and the total number of shooting days here was 500. The productions filmed were very diverse, ranging from the Italian TV series Un passo dal cielo, in its second season and starring Terence Hill, to the Austrian feature film The Silent Mountain, a tragedy set in the Dolomites during WWI featuring Claudia Cardinale and William Moseley, to the German/Swiss feature The Black Brothers based on the famous children’s book of the same name and starring Moritz Bleibtreu. Among the other projects realized in South Tyrol, there were two that emerged as real blockbusters: Il principe abusivo, with well over 2 million filmgoers in Italy, and master auteur Giuseppe Tornatore’s latest work, The Best Offer, which delighted an audience of more than 1.5 million Italian viewers. All of these projects have had a positive effect on South Tyrol’s economy and on the province as a film location – something that is very important to us. Of course, a film location cannot be developed from one day to the other. Yet we can be proud of the fact that we are already considered, within the Italian industry, as the “third pole” alongside Rome and Turin. Above and beyond the film funding program, we have also seen the success of the MOV(I)E IT! training initiative, which has been tailored to the needs of the location, and BLS’s active efforts to establish a film-specific infrastructure in South Tyrol. We are delighted that South Tyrol now has two established equipment distributors present, which offer storage, equipment and personnel: REC and Maier Bros. Thanks to the commitment of the BLS Film Fund and Commission, we are extremely optimistic about South Tyrol’s future as a film location. We are, in fact, already excited about what new effects we’ll be able to present at our next assessment, INCONTRI #4. Not to get ahead of ourselves, though, we hope that you’ll find inspiration at INCONTRI #3. Take this opportunity to do some networking and to visit the Bolzano Film Festival, which is now in its 27th year and will celebrate those working in the Italian, German, Austrian and Swiss film industries.
Thomas Widmann, South Tyrol Minister for Economic Affairs
Ulrich Stofner, BLS Director 9
Agenda Wednesday, 17 April 2013 18:00 – 22:00
Arrival and Check In
19:00 - 20:00
Guided Hotel Tour and Wine tasting
20:00 – 22:00
Welcome Dinner
22:00 – 23:00
Night Cap
Thursday, 18 April 2013 07:45 – 09:00
Breakfast
09:00 – 09:15
Welcome and Opening by Ulrich Stofner (BLS, Director) and Christiana Wertz (BLS, Head of Film Fund & Commission)
09:15 – 10:45 Safe money or new risk Co-production and Co-financing faced by the Euro Crisis Guests: Lionello Cerri (Lumiere & Co.), Danny Krausz (Dor film), Roberto Olla (Eurimages), Andres Pfaeffli (Ventura Film), Peter Nadermann (Nadcon), Cecilia Valmarana (Rai Cinema) Moderator: Martin Blaney (Screen International) 10:45 - 11:15 11:15 - 12: 15
Coffee Break
Co-financing with Italy The Tax Credit put to the test The Austrian-German Co-production “Das finstere Tal” (Dir: Andreas Prochaska) Guests: Katharina Bogensberger (Allegro Film), Marco Chimenz (Cattleya), Thomas Menghin (Abolina Film) Moderator: Cornelia Hammelmann (DFFF)
10
12:15 – 13: 15
Co-producing with Switzerland A case of linguistic diversity The Italian- Swiss-German Co-production „L´Intervallo“ (Dir: Leonardo Di Costanzo) Guests: Carlo Cresto-Dina (Tempesta Film), Tiziana Soudani (Amka Film), Gabriella de Gara (RSI) Moderator: Piera Detassis (CIAK ) 13:15 – 14:30
Lunch
14:30 – 16:00
Pitching – Session Moderator: Gabriele Brunnenmeyer (INCONTRI)
16:30 – 18:30
Outdoor Activity Sunset - Walking Tour
20:00 – 22:00
Gala Dinner
22:00
Night Cap
11
Friday, 19. April 2013 07:45 – 09:00
Breakfast
09:00 – 10:30
Meet your partner country: Who is Who and Country Tables Financing and funding in Italy, Austria, Switzerland and Germany
09:00 – 09:10
INSiGht into itALiAn fiLM ProduCtion 2012 – 1213 Keynote by Angelo Barbagallo (Bibi Film TV / ANICA)
09:10 – 10:00
Guests Italy: Christiana Wertz (BLS), Luca Ferrario (Trentino Film Commission), Ludovica Baldan (Anica) Guests Austria: Iris Zappe-Heller (ÖFI), Sabine Weber (ORF) Guests Switzerland: Anne Walser (C-Films), Gabriella de Gara (RSI) Guests Germany: Eva Hubert (Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein), Cornelia Hammelmann (DFFF), Klaus Schaefer (FFF Bayern), Manfred Schmidt (MDM)
10:00 -10:30
12
Country Tables: Time for individual talks Moderator: Christiana Wertz (BLS) and Gabriele Brunnenmeyer (INCONTRI)
10:30– 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:15 Global Storytelling: Series between TV Drama and Cinema Guests: Marcus Ammon (Sky Germany), Ferdinand Dohna (Dog’s Life – Beta Film), Nils Hartmann (SKY Italia), Mario Mauri (PayperMoon Italia), Sabine Weber (ORF) Moderator: Martin Blaney (Screen International) 12:15 – 13:30
Knowing your audience: How co-production can help Guests: Helge Sasse (Senator Entertainment), Sophokles Tasioulis (Red Bull Media House / Terra Mater Factual Studios), Alexander Thies (NFP), Cecilia Valmarana (RAI Cinema), Marco Chimenz (Cattleya) Moderator: Martin Blaney (Screen International) 13:30 – 15:00
Farewell Lunch
13
14
Participants Italy
15
ALBOLINA FILM SRL / GmbH Dr. Thomas Menghin
Company information Via Grappoli n 23
info@albolina.org
Address
39100 Bolzano
www.albolina.org
City
Website
Participants Information Dr. Thomas Menghin
studio@menghin.com
Name
vice president of the board Position
Company profile Albolina Film GmbH, based in Bolzano, was constituted as a film production and service company. It is a subsidiary company of Edition Raetia GmbH, which has published successful books for over twenty years. In South Tyrol, there has been a rapidly growing industry of all different types of film productions since early 2011; from it, a new and specialised area of business with new exigencies and rules has come into being. Theatrical releases, shorts, documentary features, and docufiction television series are being produced: as a result, there is a demand for film production and management specialists. The introduction of regional and state funding for films shooting in South Tyrol has captured the attention of numerous film producers from outside the province. Albolina Film GmbH is active in this area and has a local and international orientation. The company assumes the role of executive producer – especially for external film producers who shoot films in Italy. Short CV TH. Menghin, born in 1953 in Bolzano, degree in economics at the Law and Economics Faculty of the University of Innsbruck in Austria and at the Law Faculty of the University of Bologna (Italy); main areas: monetary policy, company and tax law. State examination at the University of Venice in 1980. 1980 entry in the national register of auditors in Rome and registration in the association of accountants and tax advisers of the province of Bolzano, auditor. Member of several boards of directors and supervisory boards of industrial firms. Founder of Albolina Film srl
16
ANICA Ludovica Baldan
Associazione Nazionale Industrie Cinematografiche Audiovisive e Multimediali
Company information 286, Viale Regina Margherita
anica@taxcreditcinema.it
Address
00198 Rome
www.anica.it
City
Website
Participant Information Ludovica Baldan
anica@taxcreditcinema.it
Name
Tax Credit Office Position
Company profile Founded in 1944, ANICA is the association that represents the Italian film and audiovisual industries in dealings with political and union institutions while establishing relations with all the key players in the promotion of films and communications products in Italy and abroad. The association is divided into three sections: producers, distributors and technical enterprises. As Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’s representative in Italy, ANICA selects Italy’s Oscar candidate for best foreign film. It belongs to the World Federation of Cinema Distributors Associations (FIAD) and the Association for the International Collective Management of Audiovisual Works (AGICOA). Anica is a permanent member of FAPAV, the Italian Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Federation. Since 2008, ANICA holds an info-point supporting national and international professionals in order to benefit from Tax Credit measures. Short CV Ludovica Baldan works in Anica Tax Credit and Funding Office since tax incentives aimed at film industry were introduced in Italy by the Law n° 244/2007. Funding schemes and tax measures have been her main interest during her studies and work experiences in last seven years. She is a Performing Arts graduated and has attended to a post-graduated course in Film Art Management at Economics Faculty. Argentine Tango is her passion.
17
BIBI FILM Tv srl Angelo Barbagallo
Company information Via di San Saba, 22
-
Address
00153 Roma
-
City
Website
Participants Information Angelo Barbagallo
bibifilm@gmail.com
Name
CEO Position
Company profile BiBi Film TV is a production company, directed by independent producer Angelo Barbagallo, focused on the production of feature films, documentaries and TV series. In 2003, BiBi Film TV produced “The Best of Youth”, directed by Marco Tullio Giordana, winner of “Un certain regard” at the 56th Cannes Festival. BiBi Film TV has also successfully engaged in international co-productions. In 2009 it produced “Certified Copy”, directed by Abbas Kiarostami and starring Juliette Binoche. A French-Italian-Belgian co-production with the French MK2 and the Belgian ARTEMIS. It was also the first Italian company to engage in a coproduction with India, with “Gangor”, by director Italo Spinelli. Filmography 2012 Viva La Libertà, director: Roberto Andò 2012 Cha Cha Cha. director: Marco Risi 2012 La città ideale, director: Luigi Lo Cascio
2011 L’industriale, director: Giuliano Montaldo 2010 Gianni e le donne (The Salt of Life), director: Gianni Di Gregorio
Short CV In 1979 Angelo Barbagallo started working in film production. In 1986 he established the SACHER FILM production company with Nanni Moretti, with which he produced among the others: THE CAIMAN director: Nanni Moretti, THE SON’S ROOM director: Nanni Moretti, APRIL director: Nanni Moretti, DEAR DIARY director: Nanni Moretti. Since 1997, he has worked independently with BìBì Film Tv srl in producing feature films and documentaries. Among the others he produced: VIVA LA LIBERTA’ dir: Roberto Andò, CERTIFIED COPY dir: Abbas Kiarostami , THE BEST OF YOUTH dir: Marco Tullio Giordana, He is the President of the Producers Section of ANICA 18
BLS Südtirol Alto Adige Christiana Wertz
Company information Dompassage - Via Passaggio Duomo, 15
info@bls.info
Address
39100 Bolzano/Bozen
www.bls.info
City
Website
Participant Information Christiana Wertz
wertz@bls.info
Name
Head of Film Fund & Commission
The danish TV-Series Borgen
Position
The favourite movie 2012
Company profile The BLS considers itself a mediator between the Italian- and German-language film and television industries. Not only its geographical location, but also the bilingualism of the residents of South Tyrol helps to build intercultural bridges. To ensure that these bridges are not ends in themselves, but rather bring people, projects and productions together, BLS follows clearly defined goals in 4 mayor areas of competence: • Placing and reinforcing the idea of South Tyrol as a film and television location. • Allocation of grants from the Fund for Audiovisuals of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano, which has 5 million euros for 2013, based on the proven effect on the area generated by financed projects. • Development and reinforcement of the audiovisual industry present in the area. • Assistance to those productions that decide to film audiovisual material in South Tyrol. Short CV Christiana Wertz, born in Cologne in 1978, studied German philology, history and business administration in Cologne and Oxford. After working for the Goethe Institute in San Francisco, the German Films Service + Marketing in Munich and FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, she was tasked with building up BLS’s Film Fund & Commission in October 2009 and has headed the department since that time. She is thus responsible for film funding, location development, promoting South Tyrol as a shooting location, and the film commission itself.
19
Box Office - Editoriale Duesse Emanuela Genovese
Company information Via Donatello 5/B
editorialeduesse@e-duesse.it
Address
20131 Milan
www.e-duesse.it
City
Website
Participants Information Emanuela Genovese
emanuelagenovese@gmail.com
Name
Journalist
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Position
The favourite movie 2012
Company profile Fortnightly for professionals, published by Editorial Duesse SpA since 1997 Short CV From 2002 to date she works for the magazines Box Office and Best Movie (a monthly consumer magazine), published by Editoriale Duesse. In 2003, after working as a script reader for Rai Cinema, she returned to work for Box Office and Italian Cinema, a new English-language magazine. Since 2007 she has been working as a freelancer for the newspaper Avvenire. In 2012 she worked as press officer of a production company, Vivo film, for two documentaries selected for Festival Internazionale di Roma 2012:’Pezzi’ by Luca Ferrari, awarded as best documentary, and ‘Pinuccio Lovero Yes I can’ by Pippo Mezzapesa.
20
Cattleya srl Marco Chimenz
Company information Piazzale Valerio Massimo 7/8
info@cattleya.it
Address
00162 Rome
www.cattleya.it
City
Website
Participant Information Marco Chimenz
valentina@cattleya.it
Name
President
Intouchables
Position
The favourite movie 2012
Company profile Established in 1998 by Riccardo Tozzi, Giovanni Stabilini and Marco Chimenz, Cattleya has produced about 60 feature films, television series and miniseries and won numerous awards and has been home to three official entries for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and received an Academy Award nomination. Cattleya’s goal is to achieve and maintain an annual level of production of 6 to 8 film and television projects featuring the company’s unique blend of attention to quality and broad public appeal and favoring an industrial approach over an artisanal one. In January 2009 Universal Pictures International, the US major studio arm of NBC Universal became a minority shareholder, along with De Agostini and IMI Investimenti, who had joined the company in 2000. Filmography • Welcome to the North • Il Principe Abusivo by Alessendro Siani • Siberian Education by Gabriele Salvatoris • A.C.A.B von Stefano Sollima • Piazza Fontana – The Italian Conspiracy by Marco Tullio Giordana Short CV Partner of Cattleya since 1999, Marco Chimenz brings with him an intense background dealing with many of the international film and television markets’ most significant players. For four years as Executive Vice President of Medusa Film and as head of the Medusa/Mediaset U.S. Representative Office based in Los Angeles, he brokered a considerable number of output deals and acquired scores of American and European independently-produced films in all-rights deals for distribution in Italy. For Cattleya Marco manages the department concerned with all contracts, from those with its creative partners to those governing co-productions.
21
CIAK Magazine, Mensile di cinema Piera Detassis
Company information C/o Palazzo Mondadori, via privata Mondadori 1
detassis@mondadori.it
Address
20090 Segrate (MI)
www.mondadori.com
City
Website
Participant Information Piera Detassis
detassis@mondadori.it
Name
Director Position
Company profile Ciak is the monthly film magazine published by Mondadori, one of foremost publishing houses in Italy, thought for both normal audience and authentic lovers. A lot of reviews, previews on cinema to come, photos and exclusive interviews, reports from the most important sets: Ciak plays an important role for those who want to be informed about the upcoming movies and home-video news and, at the same time, provides those who want to learn more with valuable insights. Popular but influential, the magazine is also a reference point for the most important Italian film festivals. It is the most sold and distributed film magazine in Italy. Short CV Piera Detassis received a degree in History and Critic of Cinema. She continued her studies in Paris where she also worked for three years. As a journalist, she made her debut in the early 80s writing in the cultural section of Italian newspapers such as L’Arena,L’Unità ,Il Manifesto. Since 1997 she is the Director of the monthly film magazine Ciak. She is also responsible for the Cinema column of the weekly magazine Panorama and of the Huffington Post Italia. She is the Artistic Director of the film festival Una notte in Italia, a yearly happening in Sardinia and 2008-11 she was the Artistic Director of the Rome Int. Film Festival.
22
Dog´s Life Srl / Beta film Ferdinand Dohna
Company information Via G. Avezzana, 51
info@dogs-life.tv
Address
00195 Rome
www.dogs-life.tv
City
Website
Participant Information Ferdinand Dohna
info@dogs-life.tv
Name
Producer
Drive
Position
The favourite movie 2012
Company profile Dog’s Life is a Tv Production Company founded in 2010 by Ferdinand Dohna and Carlo Macchitella. Even if the Company is young, both the producers have a long and lucky experience, Ferdinand Dohna with BETA FILM GmbH, one of the greatest German production and distribution companies, and Carlo Macchitella with RAI, the major italian Tv broadcaster. Filmography • • • • •
Borgia Commissario REX Sisi War and Peace Kronprinz Rudolf
Short CV I studied classical archeology in Bonn and Heidelberg. Between 2000 and 2002 I worked as a producer for KichMedia. Since 2002 for Jan Mojtos EOS Entertainment and Betafilm. In 2010 I founded with Carlo Macchitella the production company Dog’s Life SrL.
23
Echo Film GmbH Bozen Andreas Pichler / Karl Baumgartner
Company information Bahnhofsalle 3
info@echo-film.it
Address
39100 Bolzano/Bozen
www.echo-film.it
City
Website
Participants Information Andreas Pichler / Karl Baumgartner
pichler@echo-film.it
Name
Producer Position
Company profile We are four South Tyroleans with a lot of work experience between us as producers, production managers and directors. In January 2012 we established ECHO FILM GmbH, based in Bozen/Bolzano, to make local or international films with young established directors and to offer our local knowledge as a service provider for the coproduction of international projects. Short CV Andreas Pichler studied, worked and lived for a long time in Berlin adn Bologna, is now based in Bozen. Winner of the german Grimme-prize, has developed since the late 1990s as a director and producer numerous films in the field of cinema and television documentary, many of them award-winning and shown in many countries in television and cinema. Likes hiking and climbing. Karl Baumgartner was born 1949 in Brunico/ Southern Tyrol, Italy. In the late sixties, he worked in Rome as an assistant director and occasionally as a film critic. In 1971 he joined the collective of the „Harmonie“ (Frankfurt), one of the best Arthouse theatres in Germany. Ten years later, Karl Baumgartner and Reinhard Brundig founded Pandora Film. In the nineties, both have been decorated with the “Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres” for their achievement of the European Cinema. In 2003 Karl Baumgartner set up together with Thanassis Karathanos PALLAS Film based in Halle/Saale, Germany. The same year, Karl Baumgartner received the Award by „Kunst‑ und Kulturstiftung der Sparkasse Bremen“. In 2011 he received the Filmkulturpreis of International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg. Recently, Karl Baumgartner has started alongside with Andreas Pichler, Georg Tschurtschenthaler and Philipp Moravetz the ECHO Film, which is based in Bozen/ Southern Tyrol. 24
EURIMAGES / COUNCIL OF EUROPE Roberto Olla
Company information Bâtiment Agora, Allée des Droits de l’Homme
roberto.olla@coe.int
Address
67075, Strasbourg Cedex
www.coe.int/eurimages
City
Website
Participant Information Roberto Olla
roberto.olla@coe.int
Name
Executive Director Position
Company profile Active since 1989, Eurimages was established as a cultural support fund of the Council of Europe. It currently numbers 36 of the 47 member states of the Strasbourg-based Organisation. Eurimages promotes the European audiovisual industry by providing financial support to feature films, animations and documentaries produced in Europe. In doing so, it encourages co-operation between professionals established in different European countries. Eurimages has four support schemes: cinema co-production, theatrical distribution, exhibition and digital equipment for cinema theatres. Short CV An Italian national, Roberto Olla has a law degree in public law and a Ph.D. in European law (thesis in audiovisual and media law). He joined Eurimages in January 2002 as a project manager dealing mainly with support for feature films. In 2008, he became the Head of Eurimages. Before this, Roberto was a researcher in media law at the European University Institute of Florence, worked in the distribution department of the MEDIA Programme of the European Union and was a legal adviser on audiovisual matters to the European Commission in Brussels. Roberto participates as a legal expert in several European training initiatives in the film sector.
25
Filmberg filmproduction Mauro Podini / Patrick Kofler
Company information Via Dante 20a
patrick@filmberg.net
Address
39100 Bolzano/Bozen
www.filmberg.net
City
Website
Participants Information Mauro Podini / Patrick Kofler
mauro@filmberg.net / patrick@filmberg.net
Name
Producers
Many favorites
Position
The favourite movie 2012
Company profile Filmberg ltd. is a Bolzano based feature film production company founded in 2012. Filmberg is a daughter of helios.bz, a local company specialized in documentary production and marketing on an international level. Filmberg focuses on strong and entertaining stories and a high profile communication of the films. Filmbergs partners and producers are in the board of FAS Film Asociation Southtyrol. Filmberg is looking for projects to coproduce. Short CV Mauro Podini is 42 years old, he is a father of two children. He is founder of helios, founder and producer in filmberg and has been member of the board of FAS Film Asociation Southtyrol.He studied film at the DAMS Bologna and at Zelig filmschool in Bolzano. He has directed and edited many documentaries and commercials. He is very passionate about films and loves the mountains. Patrick Kofler is 40 years old, he is a father of three children. He is founder and CEO of helios, founder and producer in filmberg and president of FAS Film Asociation Southtyrol. In his past he heas been documentary film producer and director. Right now he is enjoying being an entrepreneur for sustainability and producer. Patrick is an absolute mountain maniac.
26
Lumiere&Co Lionello Cerri
Company information Via Revere 16
info@lumierefilm.it
Address
20123 Milano
www.lumierefilm.it
City
Website
Participants Information Lionello Cerri
cerri@lumierefilm.it
Name
CEO Position
Company profile LUMIÈRE & CO. was founded in 1994 by Lionello Cerri as a production and entertainment services company. In 2000 Lumiere&Co. co-produced THE CIRCLE by Jafar Panahi, which won the Golden Lion at the 57th Venice Film Festival. Among others, Lumière&Co. produced AGATA AND THE STORM (2003) directed by Silvio Soldini, THE LIFE I WANT (2004) by Giuseppe Piccioni, DAYS AND CLOUDS (2007), and COME UNDONE (2010), Gala Screening at Berlinale, both directed by Silvio Soldini.The company is also the Italian co-producer and executive Italian producer of Susanne Bier’s comedy, LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED which premiered in Venice 2012. The new film by Giorgio Diritti, THERE WILL COME A DAY has premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2013 in competition and will be released by BIM in March 2013. Filmography • Love is All You Need, by Susanne Bier • What More Do I Want, by Silvio Soldini • Days And Clouds, by Silvio Soldini
• The Circle, by Jafar Panahi • Not Of This World, by Giuseppe Piccioni
Short CV Born in Milan, Lionello Cerri’s first experiences are in organizing cultural events. His eclectic film education started in 1979 when he began working as exhibitor and along with other partners he opened Anteo theater. It has developed and grown to be today among the leading cinema theaters in Italy. In 1994 he founded Lumière & Co. with the intent to be a leading Italian film production company. He is since December 2011 the President of the National Association of Cinema Exhibitors. In 2006 he received the Civic Award by the City of Milan. 27
Mediaart Production Coop Traudi Messini
Company information Via Dante 28
info@mediaart.tv
Address
39100 Bolzano/Bozen
www.mediaart.tv
City
Website
Participants Information Traudi Messini
messini@mediaart.tv
Name
Producer
Amore / Haneke
Position
The favourite movie 2012
Company profile Media work is primarily intellectual work. This simple statement is still not a given in the financially focused field of audiovisual media. Mediaart Production Coop was founded in 1999, initially as an alliance of three freelance journalists who recognized the advantages of an agile cooperative as a modern instrument of corporate governance. As a coop, Mediaart can address the technical and substantive challenges of a wide array of local and international clientele in the most advantageous way. Mediaart Production Coop’s lean corporate structure allows it to customize its work to each individual project using the personnel best suited for each specific task. The best conditions for achieving high quality standards, in fact, do not come about through the ownership of production equipment – but rather through its expert handling. Filmography • Culture Magazine KULTURZEIT • Womens Magazine dF • Matteo Thum - Mentale Biothope
• Berty Suber, Die Akribie des Alltags • Mean 1945 - 65, Zerronnene Vision?
Short CV Born 1954 in Mannheim (Germany) / 1973 – 1981 Study of History of Art at the Maximilian University of Munich, Germany / Since 1988 -1999 Collaborations as free lance at productions for RAI Sender Bozen / 1999 Founding member of the cooperative “mediaart production coop“ and from this moment active as producer for radio and TV / 2001 – 2011 Producer of the Women’s Magazine „Frauenmagazin dF“ RAI Sender Bozen / Series of artists portraits (15min.): „ profil“ (production and editorial work). Documentary film: (production and editorial work) / Artist portraits (30 min. production and editorial work) 28
MOOD FILM srl Tommaso Arrighi
Company information Via Pietro Borsieri, 25
info@moodfilm.com
Address
00195 Roma
www.moodfilm.com
City
Website
Participant Information Tommaso Arrighi
tommaso.arrighi@moodfilm.com
Name
Owner
The Hunt – Il Sospetto (T. Vintenberg)
Position
The favourite movie 2012
Company profile Mood Film is a production company founded in Italy in 2004 by Tommaso Arrighi. It focuses on the production of short and feature length documentaries and film as well as the management of executive productions in both film and commercial. Between 2005-2013 he has produced 6 short films winning 80 awards all over the world: UERRA and AMMORE by P.Sassanelli, UNDER THE LEAVES and ESTER’S HOUSE by S.Chiodini, THE PREY by F.Apice and JENNFER’S LAW by A.Capitani. In 2011 he produced the documentary HIT THE ROAD, GRANNY by D.Chiarini, premiered at Venice-Days and winner of 6 awards. In 2013 it produced its first feature film AQUADRO by S.Lodovichi, produced with Rai Cinema and the support of Business Location Südtirol. Filmography • • • •
Hit The Road, Granny, documentary, by D.Chiarini in 2011 Football Gladiators, documentary, by Fabio Segatori in 2011 Aquadro, first feature film, by S.Lodovichi in 2013 Pastrone and Chomon, short documentary, by Ramon Alos Sanchez in 2013 (preproduction)
Short CV Tommaso Arrighi (1975, Florence) in 2004 graduated in Film Production at the Italian National Film School. In 2004 he founded his own production company MOOD FILM. 2005-2013 he produced 6 short film winning 80 awards worldwide, e.g. UERRA and AMMORE by P.Sassanelli. 2011 he produced the doc. HIT THE ROAD, GRANNY by D.Chiarini, premiered at Venice-Days with 6 awards. In 2013 he produced his first feature film AQUADRO by S.Lodovichi, produced with Rai Cinema and the support of BLS. He likes contemporary architecture, tennis, skiing.
29
Paypermoon Italia Mario Mauri
Company information Via dell’Ambrosiana 22
infoppm@paypermoon.com
Address
20123 Milano
www.paypermoon.com
City
Website
Participants Information Mario Mauri
a.sgarbi@paypermoon.com
Name
CEO of Paypermoon Italia Position
Company profile PayperMoon Italia operates in the audio-visual industry since 2001 and focuses its mission on developing television series. Paypermoon Italia established itself in the TV market as an independent producer creating, producing and marketing high-quality formats and developing initiatives which want to meet the communication requirements of its counterparties, namely broadcasters and the international markets. In 2003 PayperMoon Italia produced for RaiUno “Mammamia!”, a 30-episodes sit-com starring Maurizio Nichetti and Angela Finocchiaro, and in 2007 was developed the big TV project “Raccontami” (based on the Spanish format “Cuentame còmò pasò”), a long television series set in the ‘60s and made up by 13 episodes played by Massimo Ghini and Lunetta Savino. The second season of “Raccontami – Chapter II” was produced in 2008 with the same cast. Recently PayperMoon produced “Questo nostro amore”, a series of 6 episodes starring Neri Marcorè and Anna Valle successfully aired on Rai Uno. Filmography • • • •
MammaMia! by Maurizio Nichetti, Nello Correale Raccontami, by Tiziana Aristarco, Riccardo Donna Raccontami Capitolo II, by Tiziana Aristarco, Riccardo Donna Questo nostro amore, by Luca Ribuoli
Short CV Mario Mauri, is CEO of PayperMoon Italia and of Aislin Group Ltd (UK). He is also Vice President of CEPI (European Coordination of Independent Producers). 30
Rai Cinema Cecilia Valmarana
Company information Piazza Adriana, 12
c.valmarana@raicinema.it
Address
00193 Rome
www.raicinema.rai.it
City
Website
Participant Information Cecilia Valmarana
c.valmarana@raicinema.it
Name
Head of Production and Coproduction Position
Company profile Rai Cinema is a subsidiary company of Rai, born with the specific aim of strengthening the Italian film industry. The duty of investing in the Italian cinema production, required by law, has been transformed during the time into an opportunity for the cultural industry development. Rai Cinema offers its ideational, productive, financially contribution to independent producers who wish to complete film projects. To ensure visibility for its titles, Rai Cinema has been active in film distribution and home video through its subsidiary 01 Distribution, which has gained an important role in the world of film distribution in Italy, ensuring a previously unknown support to the new Italian cinema. The commitment of Rai Cinema on the side of the audiovisual products acquisition in Italy and abroad is very important to ensure coverage to Rai channels with movies, tv movies, series and animation. Filmography • Bella addormentata by Marco Bellocchio 2012 • Educazione siberiana by Gabriele Salvatores 2012 • Reality by Matteo Garrone 2012
• Viva la libertà by Roberto Andò 2013 • Benvenuto Presidente! By Riccardo Milani 2013
Short CV Cecilia Valmarana after having worked in production with directors such as Bellocchio, Losey, Monicelli, worked at Gaumont Italy. In 1985 he entered into Rai, first as assistente alla regia, then as a programmista regista at Rai Uno, and later she is co-opted in macrostructures which deals with film and fiction. After a brief period in rights purchasing she is back to deal with production in 1998. She has been part of Rai Cinema since the birth of the company and actually she is the head of production and coproduction. 31
Sky Italia srL Nils Hartmann
Company information Via Monte Penice, 7
nils.hartmann@skytv.it
Address
20138 Milano
www.sky.it
City
Website
Participant Information Nils Hartmann
nils.hartmann@skytv.it
Name
Director of Original Productions
Argo & Django
Position
The favourite movie 2012
Company profile Sky Italia is the Italian pay TV platform wholly owned by News Corporation. Born in 2003, its customer base has grown very quickly and in December 2012 the subscribed families have reached 4 million 830 thousands. Sky currently offers more than 190 thematic and pay per view channels, with a rich offering of movies, sports, news, entertainment and kids programming. Sky was the first Italian television to broadcast in HD and live in 3D, and offers a pack of 57 HD channels and one channel entirely dedicated to 3D programs. Moreover, My Sky HD, the decoder with a built-in hard drive, makes it possible to easily record one’s favorite programs and to access the Sky On Demand service, whereas with Sky Go subscribers can watch on the move a wide selection of Sky’s channels and on demand contents. Filmography • Romanzo Criminale • Faccia d’Angelo • Moana
• Un Natale Per 2 • Nel Nome del Male • Qua Vadis Baby
Short CV Nils Hartmann was born in Hannover in 1967. He grew up in Italy and he fluently speaks German, Italian and English. He has been working for 20 years in the satellite TV field. He started working at Orbit Network Roma, where he dealt with TV promotion and Broadcast Design. In 1998 he launched the movie channel Studio Universal on the Stream platform as Creative Manager. In 2003 he launched SKY ITALIA movie channels, first as Creative Manager, then as Director of Sky Cinema. At present he is Director of Original Productions, he manages Sky fiction productions and he deals with entertainment channels. 32
Tempesta srl Carlo Cresto – Dina
Company information Via Giosuè Carducci 4
info@tempestafilm.it
Address
Roma
www.tempestafilm.it
City
Website
Participants Information Carlo Cresto – Dina
amministrazione@tempestafilm.eu
Name
Legal Rapresentative of the Company Position
Company profile tempesta was created by Carlo Cresto-Dina in 2009 to produce films by young European talents for international distribution. Alice Rohrwacher’s Corpo Celeste, the first film produced by tempesta, was selected at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and in many international festivals such as the Sundance Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, the London Film Festival, the Dubai Film Festival. It won the Ingmar Bergman Award for Best European Debut 2012 and the Silver Ribbon 2011 in Taormina for best for Best Newcomer Director. L’intervallo by Leonardo Di Costanzo premiered at Venice Film Festival Office Selection 2012 and won the Fipresci Prize, the Pasinetti Awards and Fice Award. It was then selected at Toronto, London, Mumbai, Rio, Reykjavik and Estoril film festivals. Filmography • 2011 - Corpo Celeste, by Alice Rohrwacher • 2012 - L’Intervallo, by Leonardo Di Costanzo Short CV Carlo Cresto-Dina graduated in Classical Literature at Turin University, specializating in Oriental Studies. From 1998 to 2003, he created and directed the documentary and short films sector of Fandango production company in Rome. Based in London, he has produced films by Emir Kusturica and Fernando Trueba, besides many feature-lenght documentary by young directors, which have been screened and won prizes at the most important European festivals. He conceived and produced Tickets, directed by Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach and Ermanno Olmi. He has also devised and directed the “Real Cinema” and “Le Nuvole” collection, published by Feltrinelli. 33
TRENTINO FILM COMMISSION Luca Ferrario
Company information Via Zanella 10/2
filmcommission@provincia.tn.it
Address
38122 Trento
www.trentinofilmcommission.it
City
Website
Participants Information Luca Ferrario
luca.ferrario@provincia.tn.it
Name
Film Commissioner Position
Company profile Trentino Film Commission offers free-of-charge assistance to national and international cinema and TV productions, features as well as documentaries, capable of spreading awareness and appreciation of the cultural, scenic and historic heritage and assets of the Trentino. Its landscape lends itself to a vast range of scenarios, from the Dolomite mountains to Lake Garda, with its castles, villages and towns, farms and mansions in a vast panorama of nature and architecture, history and modernity and many other possibilities. Thanks to firmly established networks in its territory, the Film Commission can provide the following services: location scouting, contacts with local professionals, institutions, , facilitation of permit processes and special hotel rates. In 2013, the funds for supporting productions are set at a level of EUR 1.2 millions Filmography • • • • •
There will come a day - Giorgio Diritti . Cast: Jasmine Trinca, Anne Alvaro Der stille berg - Ernst Gossner. Cast: William Moseley, Fritz Carl, Claudia Cardinale La prima neve - Andrea Segre. Cast: Anita Caprioli, Giuseppe Battiston Ice forest - Claudio Noce. Cast: Ksenia Rappoport, Emir Kusturica, Adriano Giannini The night shift belongs to the stars - Edoardo Ponti. Cast: Nastassja Kinski, Julian Sands, Erri De Luca
Short CV Luca Ferrario has a Degreee in Communication at Bologna University and a postgraduate in Fiction Production. After a work experience in the US, he has worked for a few years as a production manager or producer for some of the most important TV production companies such as Magnolia and MTV following out fiction and entertainment projects. He’s been working for Trentino Film Fund from its launch in 2010. 34
35
36
Participants Germany
37
Bavaria Film GmbH Dr. Matthias Esche
Company information Bavariafilmplatz 7
info@bavaria-film.de
Address
82031 München
www.bavaria-film.de
City
Website
Participant Information Dr. Matthias Esche
nicole.gruenbacher@bavaria-film.de
Name
CEO
Ludwig II.
Position
The favourite movie 2012
Company profile Bavaria Film GmbH is one of the most venerable media companies in Europe. A traditional film studio founded in 1919 in Geiselgasteig on the outskirts of Munich, Bavaria Film and its subsidiaries and partner companies have developed into an international service provider for film and television productions, with branches in the important media locations in German-speaking countries and providing services for all segments of the audio-visual industry. Filmography Ludwig II., Buddenbrooks, Hotel Lux, Death of a Superhero, Run & Jump (in Cinema 2013), Reasonable Doubt (coming soon), Mr. Morgan´s last year (in cinema 2013), Der Geschmack von Apfelkernen (in cinema 2013/2014), Die Wilden Hühner, Innocent Saturday - An einem Samstag, Mullewapp, etc. Short CV Matthias Esche received his PhD in History and started his career at the public broadcaster NDR before he joined Studio Hamburg Atelier as producer, dramaturge and screenwriter. In 1988 he became MD of Studio Hamburg Production. In 1989 he returned to NDR as head of the TV-drama department. After positions as producer and general manager at the Neue Deutsche Filmgesellschaft and MD of the Polyphon-Group he was appointed CEO of Bavaria Film and Fernsehproduktion in 2005. He has produced numerous high-calibre productions like Buddenbrooks and international co-productions such as Innocent Saturday (RU/DE/UA). He is board member of the general mangement of the German Producers Alliance. 38
cine plus Filmproduktion GMBH Andreas Eicher
Company information Lützowufer 12
info@cine-plus.de
Address
10785 Berlin
www.cine-plus.de
City
Website
Participant Information Andreas Eicher
andreas.eicher@cine-plus.de
Name
Producer
Drive
Position
The favourite movie 2012
Company profile cine plus Filmproduktion GmbH is a Berlin-based film production company, which develops, produces and co-produces feature films and documentaries on a national and international basis. The main focus is to discover new talents, to develop unique stories and establish creative partnerships. As a subsidiary of cine plus Media Service, a nationwide Full Service Company operating in the area of digital television and film post-production, cine plus Filmproduktion participates since 1998 as producer and co-producer in film productions for the national and international market. Filmography • • • •
The Silence Implosion (Co-produced) Lost in Siberia (Co-produced) Fly Away (Co-produced)
Short CV Andreas Eicher (born 1965) has been working as a Producer since 1996. With his former company box! Film he produced several feature films for cinema and television as CEO and shareholder, among them „Female 2 seeks happy end” (2002), „Adam & Eva” (2003), „Piazza Delle Cinque Lune“ (2003), „Nothing But Ghosts“ (2007) and „Muzika” (2008). Since January 2010 he has been working as a producer at cine plus Filmproduktion. In his free times he likes to play tennis.
39
Detailfilm GmbH Fabian Gasmia
Company information Eppendorfer Weg 57a
info@detailfilm.de
Address
20259 Hamburg
www.detailfilm.de
City
Website
Participant Information Fabian Gasmia
gasmia@detailfilm.de
Name
Producer
Amour / Liebe
Position
The favourite movie 2012
Company profile Original, moving stories are what it‘s about at DETAiLFILM. Stories that reach people, win over audiences and convince juries. They have been told at 250+ festivals (Berlinale, Sundance, Karlovy Vary, IDFA,...) and were awarded 80+ awards like the Crystal Globe in Karlovy Vary, The Black Pearl Award at MEIFF Abu Dhabi and the German female Oscar, the LOLA. DETAiLFILM has produced 2 feature films so far that have been successful at festivals all around the world. At the moment we are finishing Karim Ainouz new feature film PRAIA DO FUTURO and Kutlug Atamans new movie THE LAMB. Filmography • • • • •
The Special Need, directed by Carlo Zoratti Praia Do Futuro, directed by Karim Ainouz South Facing Wall, directed by Kutlug Ataman Sharqiya, directed by Ami Livne Sommer auf dem Land, directed by Radek Wegrzyn
Short CV Before studying production at the filmschool in Potsdam, Fabian worked in commercials. With his first company Leofilm he produced several award winning shorts. The participation in the Masterclass Ludwigsburg/ Paris laid the basis for international filmmaking. In his free time he jumps on his race bycicle or walks an unknown city without a map.
40
Dreamtool Entertainment GmbH Felix Zackor
Company information Morassistr. 26
info@dreamtool.de
Address
80469 München
www.dreamtool.de
City
Website
Participant Information Felix Zackor
zackor@dreamtool.de
Name
CEO, Producer Position
Company profile „It’s our teamwork that makes the dream work!” is the motto of the heads of the production company Stefan Raiser und Felix Zackor. Since the foundation in 1999 the Munich based company with a registered office in Ludwigsburg produced more then 1400 minutes entertainment for cinema and television including arthouse and mainstream productions as well as international co productions and debuts. Dreamtool Entertainment is standing for high profile entertainment and high audience ratings. Filmography • • • • •
Nina Undercover – Agentin mit Kids, by Simon X. Rost Bermuda-Dreieck Nordsee, by Nick Lyon Die Jagd nach dem Bernsteinzimmer, Florian Baxmeyer Schwestern, by Anne Wild Helden, by Hansjörg Thurn
Short CV Felix Zackor studied film- and media management, economics and musicology at the “Ruhr-Universität Bochum, In 1997 he was studying at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. In 1999 he founded Dreamtool Entertainment together with his partner Stefan Raiser.
41
FilmFernsehFonds Bayern Prof. Dr. Klaus Schaefer
Company information SonnenstraĂ&#x;e 21
filmfoerderung@fff-bayern.de
Address
80331 MĂźnchen
www.fff-bayern.de
City
Website
Participant Information Prof. Dr. Klaus Schaefer
klaus.schaefer@fff-bayern.de
Name
CEO Position
Company profile FilmFernsehFonds Bayern has the task providing quantitative and qualitative film funding in Bavaria and offering additional services to the film industry. With an annual funding volume of some 27 million Euros, support is offered for the production of cinema and television films, screenplay and project development, as well as sales and distribution. Additional to that, the Bavarian government recently approved a special program for the financing of international co-productions with an annual volume of three million euros. Short CV After his degrees in law and business studies, Prof. Dr. Schaefer completed a Ph.D. in law in 1981. He started his professional career in a Munich based law firm. His further professional stations include the Bavarian Representation in Bonn (1984-1987: Regional Representative for Matters of Education and Arts & Sciences) and the Bavarian State Chancellery (1987-89: Head of Department for Principal Matters of Arts & Science; 1989-95 Head of Department for Media Policy & Media Law). In 1996, Dr. Schaefer co-founded the Bavarian Film and Television Fund (FilmFernsehFonds Bayern) as managing director and took over its presidency in 2000.
42
Filmförderungsanstalt FFA Cornelia Hammelmann
Company information Große Präsidentenstr. 9
dfff@ffa.de
Address
10178 Berlin
www.dfff-ffa.de
City
Website
Participant Information Cornelia Hammelmann
hammelmann@ffa.de
Name
Project Manager DFFF
The Artist ( + documentary ‘Soundbreaker’)
Position
The favourite movie 2012
Company profile The DFFF is a film fund established in 2007 on the initiative of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) with an annual budget of 60 million Euros. It aims at improving the conditions for the film industry, at preserving and enhancing the international competitiveness of film industry related companies, and at providing sustainable impulses for the film location Germany. All film producers with a business location in Germany can apply for funding if they provide an equity ratio of at least 5 % of the total production costs. Funding will be granted if the German production costs are at least 25 % of the total production costs. Up to 20 % of the approved production costs spent in Germany can be funded. For international co-productions, the applicant must provide at least 20 % of the production costs.The fund’s duration is limited to three-year periods and has been prolonged for a second time, for 2013 with an increased budget of 70 million Euros. Short CV Since February 1st, 2012, Project Director of the German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) . From July 2000 to January 2012, she has been the Managing Director of MEDIA Desk Germany, the main German information office to the MEDIA Programme of the EU. After her professional education as a trilingual European Secretary and Foreign language correspondent, she started her career in 1987 as a film and tv production assistant, worked free-lance for several tv and cinema productions in Germany and abroad, and for five years for a German-American film rights acquisition and sales company in Hamburg. Her hobbies are travelling, languages and boats
43
Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein Eva Hubert
Company information Friedensallee 14-16
peetzen@ffhsh.de
Address
22765 Hamburg
www.ffhsh.de
City
Website
Participant Information Eva Hubert
hubert@ffhsh.de
Name
Executive Director
Amour/Liebe, Oh boy, Beasts of the southern wild
Position
The favourite movie 2012
Company profile Film funding institution of the two most Northern German federal states. Supports feature and tv films of high quality and internat. coproductions. All lengths and genres and all stages of production from script to sales (budget 2013: about 11 Mio. Euro). Film Commission offices in Hamburg and Kiel. Member of Cine-Regio-Network. Filmography • • • • •
The Venice Principle by Andreas Pichler Nighttrain to Lisbon by Bille August The Edge of Heaven by Fatih Akin The Ghostwriter by Roman Polanski; I, Anna by Barnaby Southcombe
Short CV Eva Hubert entered film funding in Hamburg in 1991 and became executive director of Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein GmbH in 1997. Having studied politics, history and pedagogy in Hamburg, Eva Hubert worked as a teacher and as commissioning editor at Hans-Bredow-Institute doing media research for several years. She was a member of the Green Party in the early 1990s and elected into the Hamburg state assembly. Eva Hubert is a member of the European Film Academy and holds several honorary posts.
44
FR ENTERTAINMENT GmbH Florian Reimann
Company information Schmellerstr. 18 Rgb.
info@fr-entertainment.de
Address
80337 Munich
www.fr-entertainment.de
City
Website
Participant Information Florian Reimann
fr@fr-entertainment.de
Name
Managing Director / Producer
Django
Position
The favourite movie 2012
Company profile FR ENTERTAINMENT GmbH is a film company that is able to cover all genres from development to final production. We focus on the quality of a story and the will to entertain an audience at the highest possible level. Proprietor and managing director is Florian Reimann. Filmography • • • • • • •
2013 The tale of a princess who wanted to be part of a fairy tale (Feature) 2012 Since then we are (Short) 2012 Dinner for gone (Short) 2011 Bergblut / Mountain Blood (Feature) 2011 Tropic of sheep (Documentary) 2010 Mary (Short) any many more...
Short CV Florian Reimann studied „Filmproduction & Mediamanagement” at the HFF Munich. At that time he was realising numerous short films, documentary and advertising films as well as the feature film „Bergblut“ which had 2011 a cinema release in Germany, Austria and Italy. Since 2007 he is owner and managing director of the FR ENTERTAINMENT GmbH. In 2010 he funded together with Kurt Schalk the distribution company SUMMITEER FILMS GmbH.
45
MFG Baden-Württemberg Gabriele Röthemeyer
Company information Breitscheidstr. 4
filmfoerderung@mfg.de
Address
70174 Stuttgart
www.mfg-filmfoerderung.de
City
Website
Participant Information Gabriele Röthemeyer
filmfoerderung@mfg.de
Name
CEO
The Hunt
Position
The favourite movie 2012
Company profile Regional film fund with an annual budget of 17 millions €, financing script development, preproduction, production, distribution and cinemas. Interested in first films and co-productions. Filmography • • • • •
Sisters Rush The Nun Four Minutes Knight Rusty
Short CV Commisioning Editor in NDR and ZDF, producer in independent TV-production companies, writing and directing of TV documentaries (about 30), member of different national and international boards, head of MFG-Filmfund since 1995
46
Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung GmbH Manfred Schmidt
Company information Hainstrasse 17-19
info@mdm-online.de
Address
04109 Leipzig
www.mdm-online.de
City
Website
Participant Information Manfred Schmidt
info@mdm-online.de
Name
CEO Position
Company profile The MITTELDEUTSCHE MEDIENFÖRDERUNG (MDM) supports the development, promotion and strengthening of film culture, television culture and media culture industries in the federal states of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. All phases of the project may be supported, starting with preparation through production to distribution and presentation of all film, television, video and other audiovisual media productions which are economically promising. Possibilities for funding co-productions MDM can support international co-productions that have the potential to attract audiences in the coproducing countries and beyond. A producer from the Mitteldeutschland region, in exceptional cases from other German regions, attached to the project as well as a Mitteldeutschland spend in the realisation of the project are required. Short CV Since 1998 Manfred Schmidt has been the executive director of the Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung GmbH (MDM). From 1969 to 1981 he was a member of the Berlin “Maxim Gorki” theatre. This followed a seven-year period of free-lance work as author and dramatic adviser. Within this time Manfred Schmidt took correspondent courses at the Leipzig Institute for Literature. In 1988, he started working as script analyst and author at DEFA studios for documentary films; from 1990 to 1992 he was the deputy chief script doctor at this studio. Before being appointed to CEO of MDM he worked as deputy programme director of the culture and science department at the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR) broadcasting station from 1992 to 1998. Manfred Schmidt is a member of the European Film Academy, FFA Verwaltungsrat (dep.), Board of Cine-Regio, Kuratorium Förderverein Deutscher Kinderfilm e.V., Kuratorium junger deutscher Film and Stiftung Goldener Spatz. 47
NADCON Film Peter Nadermann
Company information Bismarck Straße 50
info@nadcon-film.de
Address
50672 - Cologne
www.nadcon-film.de (in progress)
City
Website
Participant Information Peter Nadermann
loriana.valente@nadcon-film.de (Assistant)
Name
Managing Director
Easy Money II
Position
The favourite movie 2012
Company profile Film- and TV-production company International Co-Productions Filmography • • • • •
Millenium The Killing The Bridge Easy Money The Wallander Series - Henning Mankell
Short CV 1985-1994 producer of “Das Kleine Fernsehspiel” at ZDF/German Television 1993-1999 professor at the film and television department of the Art Academy for Media in Cologne 1997-1998 Managing Director of The Filmschule Northrine-Westphalia since 1999 freelance producer at ZDF’s production-house Network Movie in Cologne and since 2002 Executive Director of newly founded ZDF Enterprises Cologne Office for Coproduction Drama in Oct. 2012 Peter Nadermann founded together with Constantin Film the company NADCON Hobbies: Tennis, Soccer, Music, Travelling
48
NFP media rights GmbH & Co. KG Alexander Thies
Company information Kurfuerstendamm 62
info@nfp.de
Address
10707 Berlin
www.nfp.de
City
Website
Participant Information Alexander Thies
A.Thies@nfp.de
Name
CEO
Mann tut was Mann kann
Position
The favourite movie 2012
Company profile NFP is a family-owned, German company and has been for over 50 years. It is currently owned and operated by the second generation under the direction ofAlexander Thies and Stefan Thies. We are active in national and international markets in film, TV, audio, and print media. NFP is based in Berlin and has additional offices in both Wiesbaden and Halle (Saale). Filmography • • • •
2012 Besser als Nix, Director: Ute Wieland 2011 Mann tut was Mann kann, Director: Marc Rothemund 2009 Albert Schweitzer – Ein Leben für Afrika, Director: Gavin Millar 2003 Luther, Director: Eric Till
Short CV Alexander Thies and his brother Stefan Thies have represented NFP since 1989. Alexander Thies, businessman and producer, is focused on international business with the development and production of noteworthy feature films, such as BONHOEFFER, LUTHER and ALBERT SCHWEITZER. During this time, Alexander Thies and Christoph Ott also established NFP as a film distributor. In addition to these two endeavors, co-productions for German theatrical release has been established with Warner Bros. Film Productions Germany, including the comedy MANN TUT WAS MANN KANN.
49
RACCONTI #1 Participant GAbi ARnold
RACCONTI #1 Company information Lützowufer 12 Address
10785 Berlin City
Participant Information Gabi Arnold
arnold60903@yahoo.de
Name
Scriptwriter
The Decoy Bride
Position
The favourite movie 2012
Filmography • The Problem With Liking The Person You Have Sex With • The Thin White Line
• Muffins & Cigarettes
Information about RACCONTI Gabi Arnold participated to the RACCONTI #1 BLS Script Lab, an annual programme aimed at developing film material. RACCONTI is targeted specifically at writers from the Italian and German language areas. Writers who participate in the programme develop their film material together with an experienced team of international experts. Over the course of a few short months, participants develop their material into market-ready treatments, which BLS then presents to producers in Italy, Germany and Austria. The focus is on projects that have a strong connection to South Tyrol and the content of which is suitable for a co-production between the three countries. If a producer should become attached to a given project, the producer may submit the project to BLS for development funding. Short CV Born: Munich. MA in American Lit/Psychology. BA (hons) in Scriptwriting for Film and TV at Bournemouth Media School, Centre for Excellence in Media Practice, UK. Co-Storyliner for a multi-media university project highly commended by Channel 4, Content Editor for a NaSTA Award winning student TV show, Writer/Director of the short “the problem with liking the person you have sex with”, shown at Purbeck Film Festival 2007. Outside the box is where she lives, stories are best when they empower. Current projects: a novel, “heartcore novel”, a TV drama series “his skin”, a short “suicide interrupted”. Lives in Stockholm. Passionate about Equality. 50
Roxy Film GmbH Annie Brunner
ROXYFILM
Company information Friedrichstr. 17
info@roxyfilm.de
Address
80801 München
www.roxyfilm.de
City
Website
Participant Information Annie Brunner
annie.brunner@roxyfilm.de
Name
Managing Director Position
Company profile Roxy Film was founded in the 1950s by Luggi Waldleitner in Munich. In 2001 today’s producers Dr. Andreas Richter, Annie Brunner and Ursula Woerner revived the company and gave new life to Roxy Film. Until now Roxy Film has produced several successful and award-winning motion pictures for cinema as well as TV-movies. Filmography • • • • •
Wer Früher Stirbt ist Länger Tot (“Grave Decisions”) Almanya – Willkommen in Deutschland (“Almanya”) Sommer in Orange (“Summer in Orange”) Die Hebamme – Auf Leben und Tod (TV) (“Delivering Hope”) Sau Nummer Vier – Ein Niederbayernkrimi (TV)
Short CV Annie Brunner was born in 1969 in Bruneck, Italy and studied German literature and language as well as theatre studies. She worked as a set designer and dramatic advisor for different theatres, from 1994 to 1997 she was a freelance set designer for film and television. Between 1997 and 2001 she was head lector and dramatic advisor for German productions at KirchMedia and responsible for German co-productions (e. g. THE TUNNEL). Since 2001 she is managing director of Roxy Film, since 2003 managing partner. Her first two films for cinema (WER FRÜHER STIRBT IST LÄNGER TOT and ALMANYA – WILLKOMMEN IN DEUTSCHLAND) each won the Silver Lola. 51
Screen International Martin Blaney
Company information Krumme Str. 31
customerservices@screendaily.com
Address
10627 Berlin
www.screendaily.com
City
Website
Participant Information Martin Blaney
screen.berlin@googlemail.com
Name
Correspondent
Argo
Position
The favourite movie 2012
Company profile International film trade publication with online service www.screendaily.com and a global network of correspondents Short CV After completing a doctorate in the UK, Martin Blaney moved to Germany in 1988. Since then, he has worked for several film festivals and various initiatives of the MEDIA Programme. In 1990, he became the correspondent for Germany, Austria and Switzerland at the British trade magazine Screen International and has also been a regular contributor to German Films Quarterly. In addition to his journalistic activities, Martin has been a jury member at numerous international film festivals and served as a moderator at events throughout Europe, including Connecting Cottbus, Sofia Meetings, Moscow Business Square, and When East Meets West.
52
Senator Entertainment AG Helge SASSE
Company information Schönhauser Allee 53
info@senator.de
Address
10437 Berlin
www.senator.de
City
Website
Participant Information Helge Sasse
s.osswald@senator.de
Name
CEO
The Intouchables (Ziemlich Beste Freunde)
Position
The favourite movie 2012
Company profile Senator Entertainment, founded 1987, is a media conglomerate that produces and co-produces feature films, as well as acquiring and exploiting rights of all stages of the distribution chain, i.e. theatrical, DVD, TV and the multiple internet platforms in a global and all-encompassing fashion. Senator Film Verleih ranks among the Top 5 of independent German theatrical distributors, looking back on a wealth of successful theatrical films over its 30-year history. International acquisitions include titles like CHOCOLAT, and the Oscar winners PAN’S LABYRINTH, THE READER, THE KING’S SPEECH, SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK and the French hit THE INTOUCHABLES, the most successful film of Germany’s 2012 BoxOffice. Senator Film Produktion has been producing and co-producing a regular stream of top movies since 1987 such as AIMÉE & JAGUAR, MIRACLE OF BERN, GOETHE!, CLOUD 9 and the international co-productions MR. MORGAN’S LAST LOVE and A MOST WANTED MAN. Filmography • 2010 - Goethe! • 2011/2012 - Mr. Morgan’s Last Love
• 2012 - A Most Wanted Man • 2013 - The Cook
Short CV 1956 Born in Cologne / 1975 Studies in law and politics at the university in Munich, Geneva and Paris / 1979 Freelance journalist, radio moderator and TV producer, co-founder of the later tv production conglomerate Me, Myself & Eye AG (1991) and of VIVA TV AG (1993), various mandates as board member of companies in the media industry / 1991 Law office established in Munich and Cologne, specialized in entertainment & copyright law, later becoming the law firm Sasse & Partner with offices in Hamburg and Berlin / 2006 CEO of Senator Entertainment AG since April.
53
Sky Deutschland AG Marcus Ammon / Michael Huebner
Company information Medienallee 26
info@sky.de
Address
85774 Unterfรถhring
www.sky.de
City
Website
Participant Information Marcus Ammon
Marcus.Ammon@sky.de
Name
Deputy Senior Vice President Programming Position
Participant Information Michael Huebner
Michael.Huebner@sky.de
Name
Senior Manager External Relations Position
Company profile Sky Deutschland AG is the leading pay TV company in Germany and Austria with more than three million subscribers. Sky offers more than 70 channels with live sports, current films, award-winning TV series, kids programs, and documentaries. Sky subscribers have access to 64 channels in unique HD quality and an exclusive 3D channel. The innovations Sky Go and Sky Anytime enable the customers to receive their program on the road as well as on demand. Short CV Marcus Ammon is the Deputy Senior Vice President Programming at Sky Deutschland. He is responsible for the set-up and expansion of the Sky film- and TV series channels and has significant influence on the negotiations with Hollywood studios. Among other projects, he lead the launch of the channels Sky 3D and Sky Atlantic HD as well as the engagement of Harald Schmidt at Sky. With more than 15 years of experience, Ammon has already had an extensive career in the German film and TV businesses. Between 2003 and 2009 he was the Managing Director of MGM Networks Deutschland GmbH; before that, he was the Program Director at Universal Studios Networks Germany GmbH (now: NBC Universal). 54
Twenty Four 9 Films Philipp Steffens
Company information Volksgartenstr. 44a
info@249f.com
Address
50677 Köln
www.249f.com
City
Website
Participant Information Philipp Steffens
ps@249f.com
Name
Producer / Executive Producer
Moonrise Kingdom, Bernie, Searching for Sugarman
Position
The favourite movie 2012
Company profile Twenty Four 9 Films was founded in 2012 by award-winning producer Philipp Steffens and focuses on national and international TV and Film productions. Filmography • The Last Cop (TV-Show Sat 1) • Flying Home (Feature Film, Dominique Deruddere) • The Prison Doc (TV-Show RTL) Short CV Philipp Steffens started his first production company in 2006 right out of film school. In 2007, he coproduced his first feature film, “8” which won the Cinema for Peace Award. In 2008, Steffens co-created and produced the hit TV series “The Last Cop,” which won the 2011 Bavarian TV Award and 2012 German TV Award for Best TV Show. The series is in its 4th season and airs on Sat 1, which he produces along with ITV Studios. Steffens recently launched a new company, Twenty Four 9 Films. He’s currently developing another TV series with ITV for RTL and, producing an international feature with Academy Award nominated director Dominique Deruddere.
55
Weydemann Bros. Jonas Weydemann / Jakob D. Weydemann
Company information Körnerstr. 45
info@weydemannbros.com
Address
50823 Köln
www.weydemannbros.com
City
Website
Participant Information Jonas Weydemann
jonas@weydemannbros.com
Name
CEO
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Position
The favourite movie 2012
Participant Information Jakob D. Weydemann
jakob@weydemannbros.com
Name
CEO
Cloud Atlas
Position
The favourite movie 2012
Company profile Weydemann Bros. produces films for the national and the international market. We have a vision of a narrative cinema that is both entertaining and political. For us film is always a critical look at the world and the times we live in. With our films we do not only hope to get people laughing and crying, but to inform them and inspire them to contemplate. Weydemann Bros. GbR was founded by the brother Jonas Weydemann and Jakob D. Weydemann on November 1st 2008 in Berlin, Germany. Weydemann Bros. GmbH was founded on January 1st 2012 in Cologne, Germany. Weydemann Bros. is grantholder of the AV Gründerzentrum Cologne 2011. Films of Weydemann Bros. are winners of the Robert Bosch Co-Production Prize 2010 and 2011 and the Gerd Ruge Grant 2010 and 2011. Weydemann Bros. is member of EDN - European Documentary Network and alumni of ESoDoc 2010, Documentary Campus Masterschool 2012, ep2c 2012 and EAVE Producers Workshop 2012.
56
Weydemann Bros. Jonas Weydemann / Jakob D. Weydemann
Filmography • • • • •
“Sex & Crime”, fiction, 90 min., director Paul Florian Müller - development “Los Ángeles”, fiction, 100 min., director Damian John Harper - preproduction “Europe’s Borderlands”, documentary, 90 min., director Jakob Preuss - production “Silence in Dreamland”, fiction, 94 min., director Tito Molina - postproduction “Panihida”, fiction, 61 min., director Ana-Felicia Scutelnicu - *premiere Rome IFF 2012 (CinemaXXI award)
Short CV Jonas was born in Hamburg/Germany. After his civil service in Florence/Italy he goes to San Francisco, and later gains experience in several film production companies in Munich, Berlin and Hamburg, as well as by working at the Berlinale filmfestival and on various filmsets. He studied filmproduction at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin. Since 2007 he is programming director at the shortfilmfestival Wendland Shorts and participates in the IDFAcademy, the Berlinale Talent Campus and the Rotterdam Lab. He wins the renowned Robert Bosch Co-Production Prize and is alumni of the Media programms ep2c and EAVE producers workshop. Short CV Jakob D. Weydemann was born in Hamburg/Germany. After his civil service in Milan/Italy he works his way up at filmsets from runner at a TV-Series to assistant director at a feature film. He studies political sciences in Germany and film directing at the CECC in Barcelona/Spain. He is invited to the Reykjavík International Film Festival TalentLab and to the Young Producers Programme at the Sarajevo Film Festival. He wins the Gerd-Ruge-Grant and participates at the MEDIA programms ESoDoc and Documentary Campus Masterschool. He is alumni of the „International Producing class“ of the ifs Cologne. He is a passionate high seas sailor.
57
ZDF Wolfgang Feindt
Company information ZDF-Str.1
feindt.w@zdf.de
Address
55100 Mainz
zdf.de
City
Website
Participant Information Wolfgang Feindt
feindt.w@zdf.de
Name
Koordinator internationaler Koproduktionen Position
Filmography • • • • •
Borgia Kommissarin Lund Stieg Larsson Millennium Trilogie Die Brücke Henning Mankell - Wallanders letzter Fall
Short CV Wolfgang Feindt has a Master in Theatre Studies from the University of Giessen and a Master in Cultural Management from the High School for Music and Theatre in Hamburg. Following his studies he worked in the theatre, and then he went on to edit scripts covering all genres for many production companies, in particular for the Department for International Co-Productions, Ufa Film, Hamburg. Since 1996 he has worked as Executive Editor for ZDF. He is responsible for German series, TV dramas, special events and mainly international co-productions.
58
Zum Goldenen Lamm Filmproduktion Rüdiger Heinze / Stefan Sporbert
Company information Alleenstr.2
info@zum-goldenen-lamm.com
Address
71638-Ludwigsburg
www.zum-goldenen-lamm.com
City
Website
Participant Information Rüdiger Heinze / Stefan Sporbert
heinze@zum-goldenen-lamm.com
Name
Producers
Draussen ist Sommer
Position
The favourite movie 2012
Company profile Zum Goldenen Lamm Filmproduction GmbH & Co KG is a Ludwigsburg-based company founded in august 2008. It is chaired by the two managing directors Rüdiger Heinze and Stefan Sporbert. Rüdiger Heinze graduated from the Baden – Württemberg Film Academy in production and creative producing. Stefan Sporbert studied business administration and communication sciences and possesses the Bachelor of Arts in film and television. The two of them are characterized by longtime production experience. In addition, Rüdiger Heinze works as a screenwriter for television and cinema. Zum Goldenen Lamm develops and produces successful films out of Baden-Württemberg for cinema and television on a national as well as on an international level. Awards: German screenplay award (Golden Lola) 2013 for “Freistatt”, Bavarian Television Award 2012 for “Screams of the Forgotten”, Scholarship VFF 2010, MFG Star 2009 for “Parkour”, Eastman Kodak Promotional Prize 2009 for “Parkour” Filmography • • • • •
Parkour, 2009, Germany The two lives of Daniel Shore / Die zwei Leben des Daniel Shore, 2009 Germany, Morocco The Mandate / Der Auftrag 2012 Germany Screams of the Forgotten / Schreie der Vergessenen, 2011, Germany Summer Outside / Draussen ist Sommer, 2012, Germany, Switzerland
59
60
Participants Austria
61
Allegro FilmproduktionsgesmbH Katharina Bogensberger
Company information Krummgasse 1A/9
office@allegrofilm.at
Address
1030 Wien
www.allegrofilm.at
City
Website
Participant Information Katharina Bogensberger
bogensberger@allegrofilm.at
Name
managing director / production manager Position
Company profile Since the foundation in 1989, Allegro Film has produced more than 50 feature films and TV-Movies. Main focus of the Allegro Film is the production of fiction and documentary movies for Cinema and TV. “Films should and must give people food for thought, touch them, make them laugh, entertain them. Producing films for cinema and TV is a privilege – a creative process which should only be undertaken as teamwork and with an enduring sense of responsibility for the viewer. Sticking to our motto of the ‘highest quality for the widest possible audience’ we have produced feature films and documentaries.” Filmography • • • • •
62
The Station Creature Festure Horror, 2013 Dir.: Marvin Kren Styrian Blood TV Crime, 2013 Dir.: Wolfgang Murnberger Energized Documentary, 2013 Dir.: Hubert Canaval More than Honey Documentary, 2012 Dir.: Markus Imhoof Summer 1972 Documentary, 2012 Dir.: Wilma Calisir
AMOUR FOU Vienna GmbH Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu
Company information Lindengasse 32
vienna@amourfoufilm.com
Address
1070 Vienna
www.amourfoufilm.com
City
Website
Participant Information Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu
ivanceanu@amourfoufilm.com
Name
Producer, Associate, CEO in Vienna
Amour - Michael Haneke
Position
The favourite movie 2012
Company profile Founded in Luxemburg in 1995 , AMOUR FOU Luxembourg realises feature and documentary films that are artistically exceptional. It does so with international, especially European partners and for the international market. AMOUR FOU Luxembourg stands for aesthetic vision and border transgression in regard to artistic as well as production and distribution strategies. Filmography • • • •
Naked Opera Hannah Arendt Schindler´s Houses Taxidermia
Short CV Born 1971 in Vienna. He studies philosophy and film theory in Vienna. In 1995, Dumreicher-Ivanceanu and Bady Minck create the production company Minotaurus Film in Luxembourg. Minotaurus Film produces and co-produces feature and documentary films in an European context. In 2001, he becomes co-managing director and producer of the Vienna based production company Amour Fou Filmproduktion which was founded in order to produce films that transgress borders in their aesthetics, contents and technologies. Since 2007 Bady Minck and Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu are partners in AMOUR FOU.
63
Austrian film institute Iris Zappe-Heller
Company information Spittelberggasse 3
office@filminstitut.at
Address
1070 Vienna
www.filminstitut.at
City
Website
Participant Information Iris Zappe-Heller
iris.zappe-heller@filminstitut.at
Name
Deputy Director, Consultancy on funding Position
Company profile The Austrian Film Institute is a federal institution established to provide funding for Austrian films with regard to cultural and economic aspects. The provided funding aims particularly at strengthening the Austrian film industry and the creative-artistic quality of Austrian film which is a prerequisite for its success in Austria and abroad. Short CV After obtaining her degree at the Vienna University, philosophical faculty, in French and Spanish and the Master Class in Advertisement and Sales at the Vienna University of Economics she went on to have her first working experience within the print medias before joining the Austrian Film Institute in 1993. Beginning as Coordinator of the MEDIA Desk Austria, Iris Zappe-Heller took over the Austrian representation at the Board of Eurimages and at the MEDIA Committee in 1997. She left the Institute in 2000 and in 2002 for maternity leave. On the national level she is consulting producers during applications and assisting the selection committees. In July 2011 she became deputy to the director of the film institute.
64
Dor Film Production GmbH Danny Krausz
Company information Bergsteiggasse 36
office@dor-film.at
Address
1170 Vienna
www.dor-film.com
City
Website
Participant Information Danny Krausz
office@dor-fil.at
Name
Producer
Argo (International), 360 (European)
Position
The favourite movie 2012
Company profile Danny Krausz and Milan Dor founded DOR FILM in 1988. Since 1995 Danny Krausz and Kurt Stocker are running the company jointly. Productions include feature films and documentaries as well as TVmovies and series. With a constant team of about 20 Dor Film has pursued one common goal over the years: providing full support for creative partners not only during the production, but also during the development and distribution process. The audience proves that we are on the right track, seven out of the ten most popular Austrian films since 1982 are DOR FILM productions. Furthermore, DOR FILM is known as “developer for new talent”; with a quarter of the feature films directed by first time directors. Filmography • • • •
3 Wolf Haas adaptations: Der Knochenmann, Silentium, Komm, Süßer Tod The Inheritors by Oscar® winner Stefan Ruzowitzky Blind Spot – Hitler’s Secretary by André Heller/Othmar Schmiderer Desert Flower by Sherry Hormann • North Face by Philipp Stölzl
Short CV Danny Krausz is founder/managing director of DOR FILM and DOR FILM-WEST (Munich). Further subsidiaries are DOR FILM KÖLN and ZAP (postproduction studio/Vienna). He has produced far more than hundred films (features, documentaries, TV-films and series). For many years he is sharing his professional experience as group leader within EAVE and since 2011 as professor for production at the Vienna Film School (University of Music and Performing Arts). He is Member of the European Film Academy, Chairman of the Audiovisual and Film Industry (Chamber of Commerce) President of VAM. Danny Krausz lives with his wife and seven children in Vienna.
65
epo – Film Dieter pochlatko
Company information Edelsinnstraße 58
office@epo-film.com
Address
1120 Vienna
www.epo-film.com
City
Website
Participant Information Dieter Pochlatko
office@epo-film.com
Name
Geschäftsführung
Amour
Position
The favourite movie 2012
Company profile epo-film produktionsges.m.b.h. produces high-level programs internationally for cinema and television in the following categories: Feature films for cinema, TV movies. Television plays. Nature films and documentaries. Economic (politico-economic) films / image films. Cinema advertising films and TV spots – from case to case. Continuity of the course of business is ensured by this diversification. Projects are developed by epo-film and realized accordingly. Financing is configured production-side, whereupon international co-productions predominate. Corporate history: 1954 epo-film was founded as a film production company in Austria by Dr. Erich Pochlatko 1969 Dieter Pochlatko becomes an epo-film partner 1978 Dieter Pochlatko is the sole approved signatory shareholder of epo-film produktionsges.m.b.h., based in Graz and having a professional production enterprise in Vienna since 1990 All production is carried out via the Vienna enterprise” Filmography • • • • •
66
Atmen Vielleicht in einem anderen Leben Flores Negras Clarissas Geheimnis Das Geheimnis Mona Lisa
KGP Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production GmbH Gabriele Kranzelbinder
Company information Seidengasse 15/3/19
welcome@kgp.co.at
Address
1070 Vienna
www.kgp.co.at
City
Website
Participant Information Gabriele Kranzelbinder
kranzelbinder@kgp.co.at
Name
Producer, managing director
Django Unchained by Quentin Tarantino
Position
The favourite movie 2012
Company profile We are an independent film production company located in Vienna, going since 2001. We first made films under the name of Amour Fou, until 2007, when Gabriele Kranzelbinder established the KGP under her sole ownership, known for internationally successful and both in content and format transgressive productions with international filmmakers of all genres. Our films have been exhibited at all major festivals (Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, Locarno, Venedig etc.) and have won numerous awards. Our name is synonymous with the classic European auteur film as well as experimental cinema and the avant-garde. We tell stories and invite the spectator to come on a journey with us to experience exciting narratives, exotic locations, unknown realities and all aspects of the human world of emotions. Filmography • Shirley-Visions of Reality by Gustav Deutsch (fiction) • Museum Hours by Jem Cohen (fiction) • Universalove by Thomas Woschitz (fiction) • What is Love by Ruth Mader (documentary) • Tender Son - The Frankenstein Proejct by Kornèl Mundruczò Short CV Born 1968 in Austria. Graduated in Law from the University of Vienna. Studied in France and Italy. Postgraduate study in the Vienna Film Academy for production. Participation in EAVE, STEP BY STEP... Until 2002 production of various short films. Several Austrian and Italian feature and documentary films as assistant director, location manager and line producer. Production manager for art exhibitions and theatre productions. Experience in Distribution and Festival management. 2002: Foundation Amour Film Filmproduktion. 2007 Set up the KGP. Since 2006 President of the AAFP (Association of film producers). Her hobbies are hiking, cooking and travelling.
67
Prisma Film- und Fernsehproduktion GmbH Viktoria Salcher
Company information Rathausstrasse 3
office@prismafilm.at
Address
1010 Wien
www.prismafilm.at
City
Website
Participant Information Viktoria Salcher
v.salcher@prismafilm.at
Name
General Manager / Producer
Silver Linings Playbook
Position
The favourite movie 2012
Company profile Prisma Film produces fiction as well as documentary movies, both, national and international financed. In 2008 for example REVANCHE by Götz Spielmann, nominated for the Academy Award for best foreign language movie. Filmography • • • •
Herrn Kukas Empfehlungen, by Dariusz Gajewski Revanche, by Götz Spielmann Am Ende des Tages, by Peter Payer Grenzgänger, by Florian Flicker
Short CV Born 1967 in Vienna.1989-1993 “Caligari Film” in Munich and “Synergy Film” in Berlin. 1994 back to Vienna: “hundertjahrekino” with curator Hans Hurch: 1997-2003 vice general manager and production manager of “Diagonale – Festival of Austrian Films”. 2005-1008 general manager “Schauspielhaus Wien”. Loves to cook - and to eat of course!
68
Red Bull Media House Sophokles Tasioulis
Company information Oberst-Lepperdinger-Straße 11-15
info@at.redbullmediahouse.com
Address
5071 Wals near Salzburg
www.redbullmediahouse.com
City
Website
Participant Information Sophokles Tasioulis
sophokles.tasioulis@at.redbullmediahouse.com
Name
Head of Cinema
Senna
Position
The favourite movie 2012
Company profile Red Bull Media House is a multi-platform media company with a focus on sports, culture, and lifestyle topics. It offers a wide range of premium media products and compelling content across media channels as diverse as TV, mobile, digital, audio, and print, with core media offerings that appeal to a global audience. Next to creating content and operating media platforms with direct consumer impact, Red Bull Media House also offers a vast range of targeted business opportunities for partnerships with other companies, media partners and affiliates. These include content distribution and licensing, brand partnerships, and advertising in our media. Filmography • The Art of Flight (2011) • Storm Surfers 3D (2012) • Roraima (2013) Short CV As Head of Cinema and International Theatrical Sales, Sophokles is responsible for all theatrical productions and heads the international theatrical sales team. Sophokles’ previous productions such as “Earth” and “Deep Blue” have been released by leading distributors around the world, amongst them Disney, Gaumont, BAC Films, GAGA, Miramax, Lionsgate, Kinowelt, Universum, Lucky Red, Wanda and many others grossing over $ 200 million at the box-office. Sophokles Tasioulis studied aerospace engineering and Media Design and Media Art in Berlin. 69
servus tv – red bull media house gmbh Klaus Bassiner / Erol Nowak
Company information Ludwig-Bieringer-Platz 1
kontakt@servustv.at
Address
5073 Wals-Himmelreich
www.servustv.biz
City
Website
Participant Information Klaus Bassiner
klaus.bassiner@servustv.com
Name
Programmdirektor Servus TV
Les Choses de la Vie
Position
The favourite movie 2012
Participant Information Erol Nowak
erol.nowak@servustv.com
Name
Projektmanager Servus TV
Anna Karenina
Position
The favourite movie 2012
Company profile Servus TV is a privately owned Austrian television station based, owned by the Red Bull Media House GmbH. Servus has been available on satellite, cable and DVB-T since October 1st 2009. Its footprint is the Alpine/Danube/Adriatic region. Since January 1, 2011, it has had its own signal for Germany. It has a wide range of programming of all types. Its goal is to offer ‘better entertainment’ free-to-air. It emphasizes quality programming of news, history and about people for higher-income group viewers with strong local roots, but who are nevertheless interested in what is happening in the wider world around them, mainly the ‘young-at-heart’ in the 25-59 year old age group.
70
servus tv – red bull media house gmbh Klaus Bassiner / Erol Nowak
Short CV Klaus Bassiner was born in 1955 in Wittstock-Dosse, Germany. Before starting his carreer in TV and film business as production assistant, unit manager and production manager he studied German, English, Sociology and Forestry at the University of Freiburg. Besides his studies he co-published several books on films and established a local movie theater. In 1986 he started working for German broadcaster ZDF as head of several fiction departments. In 25 years he realized a few hundred TV movies and series, as well as international co-productions such as The Borgias, Stieg Larssons Millenium Trilogy, Henning Mankells Wallander series, Kommissarin Lund , KDD, to name just a few. Also he was very active in acquiring international high quality programs for his network. In 2012 Klaus Bassiner started as programming director of the private Austrian TV broadcaster Servus TV. Although, there are great movies nowadays, his favorite one is still “Les choses de la vie” from Claude Sautet. Short CV Erol Nowak was born 1975 in Austria. He studied Acting at the ATHANOR Academy for drama and art Burghausen. In 1998 he stared working as an actor for theatre and movies, he also directed several performances, in Austria as well as Germany, Poland, and Canada. In 2011 he started to study coaching and systemic therapy for families, pairs and children. Also he is Chairman of Karner – “Association For Development And Exchange Of Performing And Visual Arts In The European Area” (Vienna) since 2008, which cooperates with the multimedia performances www.misma.is “The Eel House / THE-MERZ-WORLD-NEW-CONSTRUCTION Part II Black Sea Washing Machine (metamorphosis). It is an innovative project between theatre, film and experimental media technology, at the Donaufestival in Krems 2013. His favourite film in 2012 was Anna Karenina from Joe Wright. Since 2012 Erol Nowak is working as project manager at the privat Austrian TV broadcaster Servus TV .
71
WEGA-Filmproduktionsges.m.b.H. Dr. Veit Heiduschka
Company information Hägelingasse 13
office@wega-film.at
Address
1140 Vienna
www.wega-film.at
City
Website
Participant Information Dr. Veit Heiduschka
office@wega-film.at
Name
Managing Director
Amour
Position
The favourite movie 2012
Company profile The Viennese film production company WEGA-Film was founded in 1980 by Dr. phil. Veit Heiduschka. Between the company’s breakthrough in terms of success in 1985 with the comic thriller MÜLLER’S BÜRO, directed by Niki List, and the reception of the Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film (“Oscar”) for LOVE (Michael Haneke, 2012) WEGA-FILM has produced over 50 feature films, over 20 TV movies and over 20 documentary films in the past thirty years. With its broad spectrum of promotional/commercial, documentary and feature films, today WEGA-Film is one of Austria’s most outstanding film production companies Filmography • Liebe (Michael Haneke 2012) • Kume (Umut Dag 2012) • Das Weiße Band (Michael Haneke 2009)
• Ein Augenblick Freiheit (Arash T. Riahi 2008) • Müllers Büro (Niki List 1986)
Short CV Born May 20th, 1938 in Germany / 1952-1960 Education and work in industrial trading / 1961-1964 External graduation / 1965 Studies at University of Vienna: Dramatics, German Philology, Psychology, Philosophy,1970 Promotion “Dr.phil” / 1970-1980 Executive producer and manager in different film production companies / since 1980 Manager of WEGA-Filmproduktion / Script writer and director on different projects / General Manager of the V.A.M. Collecting Society of Audio Visuals Media / President of the AUSTRIAN FILM COMMISSION / Chairman of FILM AUSTRIA - Association of Creative Filmproducers Committee-Chairman “Feature Film 72
73
74
Participants Switzerland
75
Amka Films Productions SA Tiziana Soudani
FILMS PRODUCTIONS SA
Company information Via Sole 2
amka@amka.ch
Address
6942 Savosa (TI)
www.amka.ch
City
Website
Participant Information Tiziana Soudani
tiziana@amka.ch
Name
CEO, producer Position
Company profile Amka Films Productions SA was founded in 1988 by Tiziana Soudani. The company is active in theatrical and TV production of long feature fiction and documentary films. Filmography • • • • •
2013 Oro verde by Mohammed Soudani, 90’ (in preproduction) 2012 L’intervallo by Leonardo Di Costanzo, 90’ (a Italy/Swiss production) 2011 Corpo Celeste by Alice Rohrwacher, 90’ (Italy/France/Switzerland) 2010 Lionel, by Mohammed Soudani, 94’ (a Swiss/Ivory Coast production) 2010 La scuola è finita, by Valerio Jalongo, 82’ (a Italy/Swiss production)
Short CV Born in 1955, CH and IT nationality, graduated in languages and management. In 1988 she founded Amka Films Productions SA (www.amka.ch).Member of European Film Academy; Swiss Cinema Academy; Ateliers du Cinéma Européen; Groupe Auteurs Réalisateurs Producteurs CH and Associazione Film Audiovisivi Ticino. Expert for the Federal Office of Culture since 2012 and for BLS since 2011. Jury Member of the following festivals: Pardi di Domani, Locarno Int. Film Festival 2000; Swiss Cinema Award 2001; Int. Film Festival Namur 2003; Mannheim Int. Film Festival 2004; Festival Int. du Noir Courmayeur 2005; Festival Cinéma Tout Ecran, Shortfilm Geneva 2007
76
Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG Karin Koch
Company information Molkenstrasse 21
office@dschointventschr.ch
Address
8004 Zürich
www.dschointventschr.ch
City
Website
Participant Information Thomas Thümena
karin@dschointventschr.ch
Name
Producer, Director Position
Company profile develops, produces and markets films on cultural, political and social issues. Dschoint Ventschr films take a critical, dynamic and often humorous look at the contemporary world and its history. Since 1994 Dschoint Ventschr has produced more than 60 documentaries and feature films, mostly in international co-production with renowned television companies such as Arte, 3Sat, WDR, ZDF, SWR, RTBF, SF, TSR and TSI (among others). Besides producing new films by Samir and Schweizer and other established directors, Dschoint Ventschr has demonstrated a commitment to producing works by young filmmakers, which has earned the company the reputation of being a «talent factory» within the independent filmmaking scene in Switzerland. Filmography • 2013 Enemies in Love, Werner Schweizer • 2012 Opération Libertad, Nicolas Wadimoff • 2011 Colours in the dark, Sophie Heldman
• 2010 David wants to fly, David Sieveking • 2009 Dirty Paradise, Daniel Schweizer
Short CV Karin Koch was born in Zurich in 1961. She studied history and ethnology at the University of Zurich in the early 80s. After organizing numerous events and concerts in Zurich she helped building up an international music label called RecRec Music. In 1991 she took over as manager of Videoladen Zurich, a newly founded filmproduction company. In 1994 she joined Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion as an executive producer. Since then she has produced numerous films and taken part in script development programmes organised by STEP BY STEP and the producers course EAVE, which she attended in 1999. 77
Hugofilm Productions GmbH Thomas Thümena
Company information Zypressenstrasse 76
productions@hugofilm.ch
Address
8004 Zürich
www.hugofilm.ch
City
Website
Participant Information Thomas Thümena
tthuemena@hugofilm.ch
Name
Producer, Director
More than Honey
Position
The favourite movie 2012
Company profile Managed by the three producers Christian Davi, Christof Neracher and Thomas Thümena, the Zurich based Hugofilm Productions has developed into one of the most important, independent film production companies with a pronounced international orientation in Switzerland. Hugofilm develops and produces feature and documentary films with arthouse potential for cinema and television. Many of our productions have been successfully exploited internationally and have won several international awards. Having established a strong foot in the national market and a growing network in Europe, Hugofilm has in recent years been at the outset of several majority and minority coproductions in Germany, Austria and France. Filmography • • • • •
Lovely Louise - fiction by Bettina Oberli, 2013 Harry Dean Stanton: partly fiction - feature documentary by Sophie Huber, 2012 Hanglage mit Aussicht (Tatort) - feature fiction by Sabine Boss, 2012 Tinguely - feature documentary by Thomas Thümena, 2011 Pepperminta - feature fiction by Pipilotti Rist, 2009
Short CV Born 1967, Zürich. 1988 Diplom, Center for the Media Arts, New York 1997 Diplom, Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL/DAVI) Since 1999 co-proprietor Hugofilm, works as director and producer Since 2007 member of “Zürcher Filmkommission” 78
RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera Gabriella de Gara
Company information Via Canevascini
info@rsi.ch
Address
6903 Lugano
www.rsi.ch
City
Website
Participant Information Gabriella de Gara
gabriella.degara@rsi.ch
Name
Head of Drama Position
Company profile RSI Radiotelevisione Svizzera is based in Lugano and is thought for the Swiss Italian-speaking audience contributing to the construction of Swiss identity and strengthening the national cohesion. Thanks to two TV channels (LA 1 and LA 2), three radio networks (Rete Uno, Rete Due, Rete Tre) and a strong presence on the web (RSI.ch), RSI promotes the Italian language and Italian culture through the production and broadcasting of high quality programmes, close to the audience and its needs. RSI is mainly addressed to the audience of Italian Switzerland people, in addition to approximately 600.000 Italian speakers in the north of the Alps and a significant part of the Italian audience residing near by the borders, which has always shown an interest in Swiss Radio and TV programmes. Filmography • • • • •
L’intervallo, Leonardo di Costanzo, 2012 Die schwarzen Brüder, Xavier Koller, 2013 Fuori mira, Erik Bernasconi, 2013 Il venditore di medicine, Antonio Morabito, 2013 Via Castellana Bandiera, Emma Dante, 2013
Short CV Gabriella de Gara (1974) studied at the University of Zurich in English language and literature, Cinema, and English and American History. Afterwards she worked in film distribution in Zurich. She joined RSI in 2004 and since 2008 the Drama production department. Since 2012 she is in charge of the TV and Radio Drama department. She is married and has two children. She likes cooking, reading, sports and of course Cinema.
79
Ventura Film Andres Pfaeffli
CH-6866 Meride
Company information al Castello 3
ventura@venturafilm.ch
Address
6866 Meride
www.venturafilm.ch
City
Website
Participant Information Andres Pfaeffli
pfaeffli@venturafilm.ch
Name
Producer Position
Company profile ventura film produces both feature films and documentaries primarily in collaboration with European partners. Since its inception in 1991, the main aim of the company has been to focus on films that explore and cross new boundaries in form and content. Filmography • • • •
Il Comandante e la Cicogna (The Commander and the Stork), by Silvio Soldini, 2012 Tutto parla di Te (All about You) feature film, by Alina Marazzi, 2011 The Substance - Albert Hofmann’s LSD documentary film by Martin Witz Glauser, documentary film by Christoph Kühn
Short CV Born 1954 in Zurich. Graduated in History and Romanistic Studies at the University of Zürich. In 1979 is at Filmcooperative in Zürich, where he works as a distributor. As Al Castello, since the beginning of the 1980’s, he produces films by Heinz Bütler, Beat Kuert, Villi Herman and Peter Lehner. In 1988 he realises the documentary Mario Botta - senza luce nessuno spazio. In 1991 with Elda Guidinetti he founded ventura film sa with the aim to produce documentaries and feature films which, in form and content, explore and cross new boundaries
80
81
82
Pitching Projects Company – Name
Projects
Amour Fou – Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu 1313 – Dem Dante saï Keeser . . . . 82 Echo Film – Andreas Pichler Romeo and Julian . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 KGP – Gabriele Kranzelbinder Spiral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Lumiere&Co – Lionello Cerri Maikäfer Flieg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 RACCONTI #1 – Gabi Arnold Non Dimenticar . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Weydemann Bros. – J. & J. Weydemann Clash! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
83
AMOUR FOU Vienna GmbH 1313 - Dem Dante saï Keeser
1313 - Dante´s Emperor / Dokufiction / 90 min Bady Minck
Bady Minck / Guig Jost
Director
Screenwriter
Company information Lindengasse 32
vienna@amourfoufilm.com
Address
1070 Vienna
www.amourfoufilm.com
City
Website
Participant Information Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu
ivanceanu@amourfoufilm.com
Name
Producer, Associate, CEO in Vienna
Amour - Michael Haneke
Position
The favourite movie 2012
Logline History is not a fixed past but changeable and subject to continuous transformation. Historical figures live in the present, in the deep layers of the planet’s unconscious, and influence world affairs. Synopsis After 700 years, Henry VII of Luxembourg, Holy Roman Emperor, returns to the present day to find out what has happened to his family, his empire and his dream of an ideal society. In order to accomplish the journeys between the numerous territories belonging to the former House of Luxembourg he uses underground canals and connections. In this parallel underground world, consisting of corridors, caves and rivers, he meets an old acquaintance, Dante Alighieri, whom Henry glorified and immortalized in the Divine Comedy many centuries ago. In the meantime Dante has continued to explore the Inferno, the Purgatorio and the Paradiso, which is now quantum-computer controlled. While Henry VII fails to find many traces of his family in Luxembourg, he runs across correspondingly more in Prague, Nuremberg and especially in the Toscana. He discovers here not only impressive statues and tombs, but also a lively memorial culture: all over the place there are busy preparations going on for celebrating the 700th anniversary of his death. 84
Producers Note „1313 – Dante’s Emperor“ is a docu-science-fiction story with a very dense and inventive creative concept. It explores the life of Henry VII of Luxembourg, who was the Emperor of the Roman Empire in the 14th century. The film will be focus on his relationship with the poet Dante Alighieri and his „Divine Comedy“. We want to develope a political film, poetic an humorous, a film that plays with the boundaries of fiction and documentary. Just like Bady Minck’s previous works, the film will be based on a highly developed research in science, iconography and history. Bady’s films like“ The Man with modern nerves“, „In the beginning was the eye“, „Mécanomagie“ or „Schein Sein“ have premiered at international film festivals such as Cannes, Berlin and Rotterdam. Bady Minck and Guig Jost, who is a renowned theatre „metteur en scène“ in Luxembourg, have worked several months on the attached concept. The film is in development, and we will have a week of research shooting between June and August 2013, in Italy and in september in Luxembourg. In 2013 Tuscany will celebrate the 700th death-day of Emperor Henry VII. We would like to take this opportunity to film some of the celebrations in Italy. At the same time we would like to shoot several scenes with Vicky Krieps („Anonymous “, „Vermessung der Welt“, „Elle ne pleure pas,elle chante“) – Vicky would be an ideal Henry VII, and we will work with her her in the role of the King, dressed up and on the back of a horse. „1313“ is produced by AMOUR FOU Luxembourg, and we are looking for possible coproduction and financing partners in Italy and Germany (where party of the film will also be shot). Therefore, the participation at the „Incontri“ would be a very interesting occasion for us to present the project to an international audience. Project Information Dokufiction, 90 min
3,5 Mio €
Genre, Length
Estimated Production Cos
Film is in Development
-
Financing already in place
Partners already attached
Digital
italian, luxembourgish & others
Shooting Format
Shooting Language
Luxembourg / Italy / France / Czechia
2015
Shooting Locations
Shooting Start and Duration
Vicky Krieps (confirmed) Main Cast
85
Echo Film GmbH Bozen Spiral
Spiral / Coming of age-drama / 90 min Hana Geissendorfer
Hana Geissendorfer
Director
Screenwriter
Company information Bahnhofsalle 3
info@echo-film.it
Address
39100 Bolzano/Bozen
www.echo-film.it
City
Website
Participants Information Andreas Pichler / Karl Baumgartner
pichler@echo-film.it
Name
Producer Position
Logline A story about a friendship that turns nasty when rivalry takes over. Synopsis All Pia wants is to win the Figure Skating Championships. Pia is on autopilot: ice-skating, schoolwork, ice-skating, church and ice-skating competitions. Her parents are proud of Pia and Pia likes to make them happy. Then Alexandra comes to Pia’ training squad. Despite Alexandra being her rival on the ice, Pia is fascinated by her and does all she can to befriend her, even if Alexandra’s behavior is sometimes dangerously volatile. Under Alexandra’s wing Pia finally lives a little und begins to break free from her engrained routine and strict parents. But Pia’ friendship with Alexandra is put under extreme pressure when Pia unexpectedly beats her in an important competition. Alexandra now sees Pia as a serious threat, and starts pushing her away. Filled with guilt,confusion and pain, Pia gets dangerously lost in her friendship to Alexandra and ends up neglecting her own desires. It is only then she realizes the need to take decisions for herself rather than for those around her.
86
Producers Note In terms of financing, production and distribution, we believe this project has above average potential. We are confident that the story of two young female figure skaters on the road to adulthood will reach a large audience. We find not only the story fascinating, but also the setting and the sport itself: the harsh training, the character of the trainer, the sublime elegance of figure skating, and the visual atmosphere of the ice rink and the snowy mountain lake. We consider Hana Geissendorfer a talented writer and director who, after making several award-winning shorts, is now ready to direct her first feature film. SPIRAL holds a special place in her heart. As a former gymnast, Hana is very familiar with the athletic milieu: the tough trainers, rivalries among friends, and great athletic dreams and disappointments which are intrinsically linked to this phase of life. Project Information Coming of age-drama, 90 min
2,2 Mio â‚Ź
Genre, Length
Estimated Production Cos
-
-
Financing already in place
Partners already attached
4K
German/Italian
Shooting Format
Shooting Language
Southtyrol
Winter 2014
Shooting Locations
Shooting Start and Duration
- Main Cast
87
KGP Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production GmbH MAIKĂ„FER FLIEG
Maikäfer Flieg / Drama Mirjam Unger
Sandra Bohle, Mirjam Unger
Director
Screenwriter
Company information Seidengasse 15/3/19
welcome@kgp.co.at
Address
1070 Vienna
www.kgp.co.at
City
Website
Participant Information Gabriele Kranzelbinder
kranzelbinder@kgp.co.at
Name
Producer, managing director
Django Unchained by Quentin Tarantino
Position
The favourite movie 2012
Synopsis Wien 1945: The powder keg of war and the Russian occupation as seen through the innocent eyes of nine-year old Christine. Little does she know about peace, much as children today know little about war. Bombed out and penniless, she and her family are put up in a fancy villa in Neuwaldegg. They now have a roof over their heads, nothing more. After the German soldiers capitulate, the Russians take over the house. Everybody is scared of the Russians, who are believed to be a capricious lot. Everybody, except Christine.
88
Project Information Drama
-
Genre, Length
Estimated Production Cos
-
-
Financing already in place
Partners already attached
-
German
Shooting Format
Shooting Language
Vienna, tbc
-
Shooting Locations
Shooting Start and Duration
- Main Cast
89
Lumiere&Co NON DIMENTICAR
Don’t Forget / Comedy / 90/100 min Cristina Comencini
Giulia Calenda, Cristina Comencini
Director
Screenwriter
Company information Via Revere 16
info@lumierefilm.it
Address
20123 Milano
www.lumierefilm.it
City
Website
Participants Information Lionello Cerri
cerri@lumierefilm.it
Name
CEO Position
Logline Five daughters and two widows gather in memory of a famous man. A comedy about women, their dependence on male attention, their still unexplored strength, humour, and creativity. Synopsis A small, provincial town in the Italian countryside is celebrating the tenth anniversary of the death of Saverio Crispo, one of the greatest Italian actors of all time. Susanna is Saverio’s eldest daughter, the only legitimate. She is the daughter of his Italian wife Rita, who was an actress in her youth. But Saverio, who was a great charmer, had four other daughters by four women of different nationalities. Susanna has decided to gather all her sisters for the first time: Stéphanie is the French daughter (her mother was the Saverio’s costume designer…), she is an actress; Segunda, whose mother is a Catalan actress; she doesn’t work, she’s married, and mother of two boys; Solveig, the youngest, is an actress from Sweden; and Shelley, the mysterious American daughter who nobody has ever seen. Susanna welcomes them all: Segunda who arrives with her mother Ramona, her husband and children; Stéphanie with her child and Solveig who comes alone and during the festival the house becomes a battleground. A puzzling stranger appears, Pedro, a Spanish man who resembles Saverio. Rita and Ramona seem to know him, but his 90
Synopsis presence must be kept secret, since a journalist is eager to write a scoop on the famous Saverio. Finally, everybody’s hidden secrets break loose, but all of the women will emerge transformed by the celebration of “their” man: perhaps finally free from his power. Producers Note At the centre of the film there’s a man—the father—his five daughters scattered around the world, and his two widows. The father is a great actor of the Italian cinema, the daughters and mothers have different careers, but all still feel the necessity to deal with him. As one of the daughters says: “We still do anything to catch his eye, even in death. We’re ready to steal each other’s man, the role, the name, the work. We cannot sleep peacefully in our bodies.” The film wants to tell, with the light tone of the comedy, one of the greatest challenges of our times: how can we create a woman’s view of the world, which is independent and different? In the days that they spend together, the five daughters and the two widows celebrate Saverio’s memory and at the end turn their situation upside down after having understood it, after having fought together, and after having perhaps found the secret of a new look, a new force. Cristina Comencini Project Information Comedy, 90/100 min
4 Mio €
Genre, Length
Estimated Production Cos
-
Rai Cinema
Financing already in place
Partners already attached
Theatrical
-
Shooting Format
Shooting Language
TBD
Spring 2014
Shooting Locations
Shooting Start and Duration
TBD Main Cast
91
RACCONTI #1 – Gabi Arnold Romeo and Julian
Romeo and Julian / punk romance, drama, music film / 110 min Gabi Arnold
Gabi Arnold
Director
Screenwriter
Participant Information Gabi Arnold
arnold60903@yahoo.de
Name
Scriptwriter
The Decoy Bride
Position
The favourite movie 2012
Filmography • The Problem With Liking The Person You Have Sex With • The Thin White Line
• Muffins & Cigarettes
Logline UK punk guitarist Julian crash falls in love with South Tyrol folk musician Romeo. Fighting his inner demons and a prejudiced, abusive world, Julian has to find his true love, true talent, true Self. Will their fight for freedom kill the two lovers, or are they star-caressed and destined to survive? Synopsis UK punk band The Capulets are in Bolzano. For guitarist Julian, the band is all he has, even though he is singer Tybalt´s toy during their trademark stage violence. What is love? A question Julian can´t answer but Freedom is tattooed on his skin. Romeo is a cheerful South Tyrol folk musician, looking for his place in life. At the Capulets´ gig, Romeo and Julian fall in love. The world is against them: Fairy Queen Mab tells Julian his deepest fear: he isn´t worth the life/love he wants. She offers a sword. Julian has to cut himself to survive the inner crisis. Romeo´s folk friend Mercutio struggles to accept punk Julian. It threatens their friendship. Tybalt´s life is the Capulets´ violence and he tries to keep Julian his victim for their big MTV EMAs show. But tired of the abuse, Julian finds Romeo in his valley: you can change your fate! Romeo and Julian mix punk/folk, brand new music, it´s bliss. In his band, Julian acts up against Tybalt. With more self-value, Julian asks Romeo to marry him: they do. Romeo finds his place is with Julian. MTV EMAs: Tybalt´s stage violence on big screens. Finally respecting himself, Julian quits the Capulets live on stage, is off! Friendship accepts change: Romeo and Julian perform their punk/folk 92
Synopsis song at Mercutio´s wedding. The world dances! Queen Mab brings the sword. Julian doesn´t need to cut himself. Freedom. Julian and Romeo love, live. Writer’s Note Love is the core. Self-respect the spine. Survival the ultimate surprise in this 21st century version of a legendary tragedy. Adapted for times that strive on personal freedom, the characters´ fight for control over their fate is rewarded with life. A punk hero and his folk musician love, Twitter/YouTube culture, women roles replacing some 16th century males are all beating the pulse of tomorrow. The contrasts of folk/punk looks, whip-cracking/soaring guitar, Bolzano city vibes/mountain nature are distinctive, vibrant and fresh. Crazy unique and cutting edge relevant to 2013´s societal changes, it is a film that will shine in festivals. Covering multiple markets, it will rock the Shakespeare globe, empower not only gay and female audiences, it speaks the universal language of music. Equality/respect and life at maximum volume. MTV/fairy-from-hell. Rough-edged attitude/gentle romance. Making audiences laugh and kiss. You be the stars of fortune who help make it happen. Project Information punk romance, drama, music film, 110 min
-
Genre, Length
Estimated Production Cos
-
-
Financing already in place
Partners already attached
-
English, Italian or German
Shooting Format
Shooting Language
Bolzano, Sarntal, South Tyrolean valleys, Verona, (Roma)
- Shooting Start and Duration
Shooting Locations
- Main Cast
93
weydemann bros. CLASH!
CLASH! / Animation / 80 min Jakob D. Weydemann
Domenico Distilo, Guido Iuculano
Director
Screenwriter
Company information Körnerstr. 45
info@weydemannbros.com
Address
50823 Köln
www.weydemannbros.com
City
Website
Participant Information Jonas Weydemann
jonas@weydemannbros.com
Name
CEO
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Position
The favourite movie 2012
Participant Information Jakob D. Weydemann
jakob@weydemannbros.com
Name
CEO
Cloud Atlas
Position
The favourite movie 2012
Logline Rosarno, Calabria, January 2010. Two African immigrants are shot at by local Italians followed by violent clashes. The film lays out the complex picture of this humanitarian catastrophe through an ensemble of characters. “CLASH!” is based on true events. The project has been developed at EAVE 2012. Synopsis AISHA just arrived from Sudan to the small southern Italian town of Rosarno. She crossed the mediterranean sea following her husband, whom she hasn’t heard from in two years. Aisha is pregnant. CARLO is 16 years old. Born in Rosano, all he wants is to get away. Constantly bored, Carlo hangs out with his friend MARIANO all the time. Mariano is 18 and owns an air gun. Carlo’s mother MARTA is the cheif 94
Synopsis of the local police in Rosano, and she knows many of the African immigrants around town. She tries to help the immigrants whenever she can, which is why her colleagues refuse to befriend her. KING is a proffesional boxer who represented Sudan at the Olympics in Beijing, but the political unrest has caused him and his brother SULEIMAN to flee.They now work on the orange plantations in Rosarno and live together withthousands of other immigrants in an abandoned factory. MONIR is Aishas husband and he is ashamed of the life he now has to lead on the orange plantations. He had promised Aisha he would make a lot of money in Europe. When Carlo and Mariano come home drunk from a long night at the discotheque in the city, they shoot at Monir and Suleiman from their car with the air gun as the men attempt to cycle to their jobs on the plantation. The attack will result in the most violent race riots southern Italy has ever seen. These riots will change the lives of everyone! Producers Note „CLASH!” is a film about how we want to live together in Europe with immigrants and which choice any of us can make. Furthermore it gives us an insight look on the life of illegal immigrants in southern Europe and the origin of our daily food in the supermarket. The film is able to engage with its extensive viewing angle on an important society issue particularly an arthouse audience, keeping in mind it is a film which will appeal to a younger audience due to its visual style. Following successful films such as “Waltz with Bashir” and “Gomorra”, which performed well both in festival and theatre, we identify clear chances for “CLASH!” to fit this existing market. The key asset is our creative team of debut director Jakob D. Weydemann and Italian scriptwriters Guido Iuculano and Domenico Distillo, who have been nominated for the David di Donatello Award and the Silver Ribbon Award and won the Premio Solinas. The project has been developed at the EAVE Producers Workshop 2012. Project Information Animation, 80 min
1.8 Million €
Genre, Length
Estimated Production Cos
50.000 €
Filmstiftung NRW
Financing already in place
Partners already attached
Animation
Italian, English
Shooting Format
Shooting Language
-
-
Shooting Locations
Shooting Start and Duration
- Main Cast
95
Team
Gabriele Brunnenmeyer
Alessia Ratzenberger
Since 2005 Gabriele Brunnenmeyer is working as a free-lanced project and script consultant for the Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film, a funding body for first and second films by German young talents.
Alessia D. Ratzenberger completed her studies of Political Sciences at the Rome University “La Sapienza” with a doctoral thesis on international private law . She specialised in the film business area working in diverse roles as marketing and P.R. executive for the main Italian International Distribution Companies. For eight years she has been the co-owner of Angeli Movie, a servicing and brokering company specialised in European co-productions and international licensing. Since 1999 she is cooperating in Italy with GermanFilms Marketing & Services GmbH, developing and implementing Marketing and Promotion strategies, organizing events and working with the media and individual and corporate film industry events. Since 2007 she is the CEO of A-Pictures, TV, H/V and New Media, distribution company specialised in distribution of European contents in Italy and German speaking countries. She collaborates with BLS Südtirol/Alto Adige since their start up in 2010, acting as project manager for several projects as well for INCONTRI.
Formerly the artistic director of the coproduction market Connecting Cottbus, she is working as consultant and trainer for script development, packaging and project presentation for independent projects as well as for Talent Campus Berlin and Sarajevo, Meeting on the Bridge, the Robert Bosch Coproduction Prize and others. Currently she is also acting as project manager for the BLS Südtirol- Alto Adige co- production meeting INCONTRI. Project Manager INCONTRI #3 E-Mail: g-brunnenmeyer@t-online.de T: +49 171 2038687
A - Pictures Project Manager INCONTRI #3 E-Mail: alessia.ratzenberger@a-pictures.it T: +39 335 6510709
96
Kai Rasmus Becker Project Assistance BLS Südtirol Alto Adige E-mail: film@bls.info T: +39 338 7837866
Carmen Cian Project Coordination BLS Südtirol Alto Adige E-mail: cian@bls.info T: +39 338 7204387
Francesco Schiraldi Project Assistance A-Pictures – Project Assistance E-mail: francesco.schiraldi@a-pictures.it T: +39 339 8086433
97
Italy Facts 2012 Population 61.261.254 (July 2011) Italian Feature films produced in 2012 166 Public film funding available 45 € million Tax incentives available Yes - 60€ million Number of cinemas/screens 1.062 / 3.237 Average price of a cinema ticket 6,67 € Average number of cinema visits per capita 1,66 Number of cinema admissions in 2012 91.387.577 Market share of national films 18.1% Most successful national film/box office Benvenuti al Nord, Medusa Film, 27,2 € mln Most successful international film/ box office Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted Universal, 21,9 € mln Market share of national films 25,25% Gbo, 26,60% Admission Source: MiBAC; ANICA; Cine-Regio, Cinetel, SIAIE, BLS
98
At national level, film funding is provided by the Italian State Ministry of Cultural Affairs & Activities (MiBAC) through its Fondo Unico dello Spettacolo (FUS). “Reference funding” is granted based on the economic success of a previous project, while “project funding” is provided for the production of feature films, debuts or second features, short films and the support of screenplays. In order to receive support, the production company must fulfil a set of formal requirements: the company must be represented in Italy by – at least – a branch office and must be registered in a MiBAC directory; and the project must be recognized as an Italian production. Moreover, a combined tax credit and tax shelter system has existed for production companies and investors in Italy since 2008. Tax shelter system has been repealed in 2012. The tax credit is interesting for producers who do not have a registered office in Italy, who are not producing a film with an Italian certificate of origin, and who are not intending to participate in a co-production with an Italian partner. Of course, an Italian production or co-production may also apply for the tax credit.
In its 2012 Yearbook, the European Audiovisual Observatory noted that „by prolonging its system of tax incentives up until 2013 and financing it by a tax on automobile fuel, Italy’s government freed the industry from its dependence on annual budget negotiations, thus making its support system more predictable. The incentives include tax breaks for local producers (20%), foreign productions (25%) and financial investors (40%)“ Since the system is quite complex, it is recommended that foreign producers work with an Italian executive producer who is familiar with the rules and regulations. Regional funding programmes can also be found in such regions as South Tyrol, Puglia, Piedmont, Friuli Venezia Giulia and Lazio. Business Location Südtirol (BLS) supports film and television movies of all genres in the production and pre-production phases. In individual cases, funding of screenplays is possible. Film production companies are eligible regardless of the location of their headquarters. Project applications may be submitted online in German, Italian or English. Selection criteria for funding include the artistic quality of the production and the envisaged regional effect. In 2013, the funding budget totals € 5m, with the funding cap for a single project set at € 1.5m. Funding takes the form of non-repayable grants
99
Italy
100
The Apulia Film Fund was established in 2007 to improve the audiovisual field in the Puglia region, and was followed in May 2012 by the creation of the Apulia International Film Fund dedicated to international film companies interested in shooting in the region. In 2012, the International & Hospitality funds will have a budget of approximately € 2m for film production (feature films and TV series), with the maximum support for each project set at € 300,000. The International Film Fund requires a theatrical contract in the land of the participating company and either an Italian minority co-producer or an Italian executive production able to apply for the national tax credit programme. FIP (Film Investimenti Piemonte) is a revolving film fund with a single company partner Film Commission Torino Piemonte and was established in 2009 to invest in projects with potential for economic returns in the Piedmont region. Support is given to feature films set in Piedmont which decide to spend at least the total amount of the financial contribution on the territory. FIP can grant funds for up to six productions per year, with up to € 200,000 each (up to € 100,000 for first/second feature films).
The Friuli Venezia Guilia Audiovisual Fund (FVG) operates in three main sectors: • Training, to encourage the participation of local audiovisual professionals in national and international courses for directors, scriptwriters, producers, editors, camera operators, and sound engineers; • Development, to cover all the activities between the idea and the production phase, from the script-writing and the research, to the casting, the fund raising and the presentation of a teaser; • Production, along with the promotion of the projects, this last action includes a financial support to cover production expenses with the goal of creating more competitive products. Lazio’s Regional Law for Cinema and Audiovisual Media aims to support one of the strategic sectors for the region’s economy and competitiveness as well as being a unique opportunity to promote and celebrate the image and identity of Rome and Lazio to the world. The fund, which has a budget of € 45m for the three years from 2011-2013, requires productions to spend at least 40% of their budgets in the Lazio region. Thanks to the fund, around € 260m were generated for investment in the region’s film and audiovisual sector, with such credits as Woody Allen’s To Rome With Love, Bernardo Bertolucci’s Me And You and the Taviani brothers’ Golden Bear-winning Caesar Must Die.
101
Germany Facts 2012 Population 81.9 million Domestic films released in 2012 220 including co-productions 82 Public film funding available 343,54 m € Tax incentives available None Number of cinemas/screens 1.652/4.617 Average price of a cinema ticket 7,65 € Average number of cinema visits per capita 1,65 Number of cinema admissions in 2012 135.1 million Market share of national films 18.1% Most successful national film/box office takings Türkisch für Anfänger/16.4m € Most successful international film/box office takings Skyfall/64.4m € Source: FFA, own research
For further information FFA (German Federal Film Board) Grosse Präsidentenstrasse 9 10178 Berlin Germany Phone +49-30-27 57 70 Fax +49-30-27 57 71 11 info@ffa.de www.ffa.de
102
Reflecting Germany’s political system, the German film funding system is organised on a federal level and on a regional/state level. The federal system is divided into the FFA (Filmförderungsanstalt – German Federal Film Board) and the BKM (Federal Ministry of Culture). The FFA is geared towards strengthening the film industry according to economic principles, while the BKM focuses on the cultural aspects of films. In 2007, a new fund for the film industry was launched by the Federal Government: the DFFF (German Federal Film Fund). Originally established for three years, the DFFF was then extended for another three years until the end of 2012. Last year, the German government agreed to a second extension of three years - until the end of 2015 - with an increased budget of € 70 million for 2013. The German Federal Film Board (FFA) in Berlin is responsible for the execution of the DFFF. Up to 20 % of the approved production costs spent in Germany can be funded. Not only major productions benefit from the DFFF, but funding has also gone to small and medium-sized projects. The DFFF aims at improving the conditions for the film industry, preserving as well as enhancing the international competitiveness of film-related
companies, and at providing sustainable impulses for Germany as a film production hub as well as achieving other economic effects. On the regional/state level, almost every federal state has its own film fund. These regional funds include Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Medienboard BerlinBrandenburg, FilmFörderung Hamburg SchleswigHolstein, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM), and Medien- und Filmgesellschaft BadenWürttemberg (MFG) and Nordmedia, to name the largest. In order to access the regional funds, producers are required to generate a specific „economic effect“ in the respective region. All German film funds support the development, production and distribution of films. Another partner for German producers is television. The two public channels, ARD and ZDF, as well as the private broadcasters are involved in the co-financing of German feature films. They also contribute to the financing of the FFA’s project funding programme. International producers are recommended to find a German partner in order to access the subsidy programmes. To be officially registered as a German film, a film must have a certain percentage of German financing. In those cases where the co-production is between countries with an existing treaty, German financial participation must amount to at least 20%.
103
Austria Facts 2012 Population 8.4 million Domestic films released in 2011 41 Public film funding available 67 million € Tax incentives available None Number of cinemas/screens 152/565* Average price of a cinema ticket 7,59 € Average number of cinema visits per capita 2 Number of cinema admissions in 2011 15.8 million Market share of national films 3.6% Most successful national film/admissions Hexe Lilli 2/115,670 Most successful international film/admissions The Hangover 2/624,121 Source: Filmwirtschaftsbericht – Facts & Figures 2011, * 2012
For further information Österreichisches Filminstitut Spittelberggasse 3 1070 Vienna Austria Phone +43-1-526 97 30 Fax +43-1-526 97 30 440 office@filminstitut.at www.filminstitut.at
104
As with the case of Germany and Switzerland, the Austrian film funding system is organised on a federal level and on a regional/state level. Five funding bodies operate on a national level: the Film Department of the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture (bmukk) allocates funding for feature films according to cultural and artistic criteria, while the Austrian Film Institute (Österreichisches Filminstitut/ÖFI) awards support on the basis of cultural and economic criteria. Funds are also provided on an annual basis for the production of feature films, including newcomer and innovative projects, as part of an agreement between the ÖFI and public broadcaster ORF in the Film/Television Agreement. In addition, television productions have been supported since 2004 by the FERNSEHFONDS AUSTRIA. In September 2010, Austria’s Federal Ministry for Economics, Family and Youth followed Germany’s successful DFFF model and created its own film production incentive scheme „Filmstandort Austria“ (Film Location Austria – FISA). Since its launch, FISA has supported 55 fiction films and documentaries, including such international co-productions as Fernando Meirelles’ Arthur Schnitzler adaptation 360, Peter Sehr and Marie Noelle’s costume drama Ludwig II, Detlev Buck’s 3D comedy Measuring The World and János Szász’s drama The Notebook. In addition, local productions – ranging from Karl Markovics’ Breathing and Markus Schleinzer’s Michael through Antonin Svoboda’s The Strange Case Of Wilhelm Reich and Florian Flicker’s Grenzgänger to Ruth Mader’s documentary What Is Love - have benefitted from the scheme.
To date, FISA has allocated € 15.2 million support to 55 projects with total production costs of € 132.5 million and generated an „Austrian spend“ of € 63.5 million. At the beginning of this year the FISA incentive was extended by another two years for the period of 2013-2014 with an annual budget of € 7.5 million. On announcing the extension, Economics Minister Reinhold Mitterlehner pointed out that the incentive „strengthens the competitiveness of the domestic film industry and makes Austria as a film location even more attractive for foreign productions with local partners. In this way, knowhow, jobs and added value stay in the country.“ On a regional level, there are 14 funding institutions in Austria: film funding is administered in each of the federal states („Länder“) by the arts departments, and support is also forthcoming from the economic departments in Upper Austria and Salzburg. The states of Styria, Tyrol and Vienna have institutions specialised in supporting their respective regions’ film industry and infrastructure: CineStyria Filmcommission & Fonds, Cine Tirol Film Commission (which celebrates its 15th anniversary this year), and the largest regional funder, the Vienna Film Fund. Austria’s public broadcaster ORF is an important partner for the domestic film industry, both through the formal framework of the Film/Television Agreement as well as the commissioned TV productions and film/TV co-productions. In 2011, ORF conducted € 99.4 million worth of business with Austrian film and TV producers.
105
Switzerland Facts 2012 Population 7.9 million Domestic films released in 2011 83 Public film funding available 66,48 m â‚Ź Tax incentives available None Number of cinemas/screens 291/550 Average price of a cinema ticket 12,73 â‚Ź Average number of cinema visits per capita 1,94 Number of cinema admissions in 2011 15.2 million Market share of national films 5,21 % Source: Swiss Films, Film Location Switzerland, own research
For further information Swiss Films Neugasse 6 8031 Zurich Switzerland Phone +41-43-211 40 50 Fax +41-43-211 40 60 info@swissfilms.ch www.swissfilms.ch
106
Switzerland has been a federal state since 1848 and has a federal structure with three different political levels: the Confederation, the cantons and the communes. This is also reflected in the nation’s public film funding which is organised on a national and regional level. The Federal Department of the Interior (EDI) is home to the Federal Office of Culture (Bundesamt für Kultur/BAK) whose Film Department has an annual budget of CHF 26.8 million to support diverse measures including project development, production, distribution and cinema digitisation as well as CHF 14 million for contributing to the promotion of film culture (Swiss Films, film festivals, film publications, etc.). In 2004, Switzerland’s first regional fund, the Zurich Film Foundation (Zürcher Filmstiftung), was launched after a convincing «Yes for the cinema» by a referendum of Zurich’s population. With an annual budget of CHF 9 million, the Film Foundation focuses on assisting script development, production and distribution of cinema films – fiction, documentaries, shorts, animation and experimental films – as well as on supporting projects in co-production with foreign partners, and, only in special cases, TV movies In addition, the cantons – such as Berne and Aargau - have established film funding programmes to strengthen regional identity and guarantee cultural diversity. The Fond Regio Films supports independent production in the cantons of Geneva, Vaud and Fribourg and the cities of Geneva and Lausanne. To be eligible for Swiss public funding, a film coproduced between Switzerland and another country must be officially recognised as a Swiss film The following rules therefore apply: • An independent Swiss film producer must be chosen as a partner who will then apply for public funds. • Bilateral co-production agreements exist with Germany, Austria, and Italy, among others,
for films produced for theatrical release. In most cases, the minimum Swiss participation required varies between 10% and 30%. If no co-production agreement is present – as for the USA -, the minimum Swiss participation is 50%. • The artistic and technical participation (which includes the hiring of Swiss technicians and actors) must be proportional to the Swiss financial participation, • Once these conditions have been met, the Swiss co-producer can obtain the official agreement from the Swiss Federal Office of Culture (BAK). Films officially co-produced with Switzerland have access to the film funding administered by BAK. The maximum selective production subsidy per film is CHF 1 million and cannot exceed 50% of the production costs (Swiss share). Succès cinéma is a funding programme based on a film’s success in the cinema: for each ticket bought in a Swiss cinema, the Swiss screenwriter, director, producer, distributor and cinema-owner receive a bonus which must be reinvested in a future film project. Public broadcaster SRG SSR undertakes its obligations to the Swiss film industry through the Audiovisual Pact which was first signed in 1996 and now has an annual budget of CHF 22.3 million for the period from 2012 to 2015 . One of its key aims is to support diverse, independent audiovisual production on the basis of solid, professional structures. Apart from providing selective and automatic funding for film and TV production, the Pact has expanded its remit this year to also include the support of multimedia projects and the introduction of the performance-related funding category “Succès Artistique” in order to recognise films of particular artistic value. Swiss films which are invited to participate in major national and international festivals and which also win awards at these events will benefit additionally from this new way of promoting the arts. 107
Companies Company
Italy
Albolina Film srl / GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Anica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 BIBI FILM Tv srl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 BLS Südtirol Alto Adige . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Box Office - Editoriale Duesse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Cattleya srl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 CIAK Magazine, Mensile di cinema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Dog´s Life Srl / Beta film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Echo Film GmbH Bozen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Euroimages / Council of Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Filmberg filmproduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Lumiere&Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Mediaart Production Coop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Mood Film srl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Paypermoon Italia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Rai Cinema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Sky Italia srl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Tempesta srl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Trentino Film Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Company
Germany
Bavaria Film GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Cine plus Filmproduktion GMBH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Detailfilm GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Dreamtool Entertainment GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 FilmFernsehFonds Bayern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Filmförderungsanstalt FFA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 FR ENTERTAINMENT GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 MFG Baden-Württemberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 NADCON Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 NFP media rights GmbH & Co. KG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 RACCONTI #1 Participant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Roxy Film GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
108
Screen International . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Senator Entertainment AG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Sky Deutschland AG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Twenty Four 9 Films . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Weydemann Bros. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 ZDF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Zum Goldenen Lamm Filmproduktion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Company
Austria
Allegro FilmproduktionsgesmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 AMOUR FOU Vienna GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Austrian Film Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Dor Film Production GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 epo – Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 KGP Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Prisma Film- und Fernsehproduktion GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Red Bull Media House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Servus TV – Red Bull Media House GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 WEGA-Filmproduktionsges.m.b.H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Company
Switzerland
Amka Films Productions SA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Hugofilm Productions GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Ventura Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
109
Participants Name Company Andreas Pichler Angelo Barbagallo Carlo Cresto – Dina Cecilia Valmarana Christiana Wertz Emanuela Genovese Ferdinand Dohna Karl Baumgartner Lionello Cerri Luca Ferrario Ludovica Baldan Marco Chimenz Mario Mauri Mauro Podini Nils Hartmann Patrick Kofler Piera Detassis Roberto Olla Dr. Thomas Menghin Tommaso Arrighi Traudi Messini
Echo Film GmbH Bozen . . . . . . . . . . . . . BIBI FILM Tv srl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tempesta srl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rai Cinema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BLS Südtirol Alto Adige . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Box Office - Editoriale Duesse . . . . . . . . . . Dog´s Life Srl / Beta film . . . . . . . . . . . . . Echo Film GmbH Bozen . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lumiere&Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Trentino Film Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . Anica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cattleya srl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Paypermoon Italia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Filmberg filmproduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sky Italia srl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Filmberg filmproduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . CIAK Magazine, Mensile di cinema . . . . . . . Euroimages / Council of Europe . . . . . . . . . Albolina Film srl / GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mood Film srl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mediaart Production Coop . . . . . . . . . . . .
Name Company Alexander Thies Andreas Eicher Annie Brunner Cornelia Hammelmann Eva Hubert Fabian Gasmia Felix Zackor Florian Reimann Gabi Arnold Gabriele Röthemeyer Helge Sasse Prof. Dr. Klaus Schaefer
110
Italy 24 18 33 31 19 20 23 24 27 34 17 21 30 26 32 26 22 25 16 29 28
Germany
NFP media rights GmbH & Co. KG . . . . . . . Cine plus Filmproduktion GMBH . . . . . . . . Roxy Film GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Filmförderungsanstalt FFA . . . . . . . . . . . . Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein . Detailfilm GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dreamtool Entertainment GmbH . . . . . . . . FR ENTERTAINMENT GmbH . . . . . . . . . . RACCONTI #1 Participant . . . . . . . . . . . . MFG Baden-Württemberg . . . . . . . . . . . . Senator Entertainment AG . . . . . . . . . . . . FilmFernsehFonds Bayern . . . . . . . . . . . .
49 39 51 43 44 40 41 48 50 46 53 42
Jakob D. Weydemann Jonas Weydemann Manfred Schmidt Marcus Ammon Martin Blaney Dr. Matthias Esche Michael Huebner Peter Nadermann Philipp Steffens Rüdiger Heinze Stefan Sporbert Wolfgang Feindt
Weydemann Bros. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weydemann Bros. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung GmbH . . Sky Deutschland AG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Screen International . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bavaria Film GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sky Deutschland AG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NADCON Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Twenty Four 9 Films . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zum Goldenen Lamm Filmproduktion . . . . . Zum Goldenen Lamm Filmproduktion . . . . . ZDF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
56 56 47 54 52 38 54 48 55 59 59 58
Austria
Name Company
Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu AMOUR FOU Vienna GmbH . . . . . . . . . . 63 Danny Krausz Dor Film Production GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Dieter Pochlatko epo – Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Erol Nowak Servus TV – Red Bull Media House GmbH . . 70 Gabriele Kranzelbinder KGP Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production GmbH 67 Iris Zappe-Heller Austrian Film Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Katharina Bogensberger Allegro FilmproduktionsgesmbH . . . . . . . . 62 Klaus Bassiner Servus TV – Red Bull Media House GmbH . . 70 Sophokles Tasioulis Red Bull Media House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Dr. Veit Heiduschka WEGA-Filmproduktionsges.m.b.H. . . . . . . . 72 Viktoria Salcher Prisma Film- und Fernsehproduktion GmbH . 68
Name Company Andres Pfaeffli Gabriella de Gara Karin Koch Thomas Thümena Tiziana Soudani
Switzerland
Ventura Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera . . . . . . . . . . Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG . . . . . Hugofilm Productions GmbH . . . . . . . . . . Amka Films Productions SA . . . . . . . . . . .
80 79 77 78 76
Ulrich Stofner BLS – Film Fund & Commission Carmen Cian BLS – Film Fund & Commission Kai Rasmus Becker BLS – Film Fund & Commission Gabriele Brunnenmeyer Project Management INCONTRI #3 Alessia Ratzenberger Project Management INCONTRI #3 Francesco Schiraldi Project Management INCONTRI #3
111
INCONTRI #3 Meeting – Location Schloss Hotel Korb Hocheppanerweg 5 – Via Castel d’Appiano, 5 39050 Missian/Eppan – 39050 Missiano/Appiano South Tyrol, Italy T +39 0471 636000 F: +39 0471 636033 info@schloss-hotel-korb.com www.schloss-hotel-korb.com
Imprint BLS Südtirol • Alto Adige Dompassage 15 / Passaggio Duomo 15 I – 39100 Bozen / Bolzano T +39 0471 066 600 F +39 0471 062 852 service@bls.info www.bls.info
112
Art Direction Philipp Aukenthaler / www.hypemylimbus.com Print Medus des Andreas Gögele & Co. KG Georgenstrasse 7/a / Via S. Giorgio 7 I - 39012 Meran / Merano info@medus.it www.medus.it