[spectre] BERLINALE TALENT CAMPUS - press release #4

[Andreas Broeckmann]

=46irst BERLINALE TALENT CAMPUS unites 500 filmmakers from all around the wo=
rld

Industry and public invited to screenings and discussions with 
international filmmakers

500 filmmakers from 61 countries will join the BERLINALE TALENT 
CAMPUS, a winter academy of filmmaking,
from February 10 to 14, 2003. 150 of them are from Germany, others 
come from the UK (76), Spain (21), the US
(32) and France (16) as well as Argentina (6), Israel (5), Poland 
(7), India (2), Australia (5) and many other
countries. Most of the up-and-coming filmmakers are directors but 
producers, writers, cinematographers as well as
actors are also participating.
The BERLINALE TALENT CAMPUS, initiated by the Berlin International 
=46ilm Festival, with co-founding partners
=46ilmboard Berlin-Brandenburg and U.K. Film Council, has set up an 
exciting and challenging programme of
workshops, screenings, discussions, and case studies led by industry 
professionals. The working language of all
events is English and whilst the morning events are open only to the 
participating talent campus filmmakers, the
afternoon sessions are open to industry delegates attending the film 
festival as well as the public. Some of the
highlights of the 28 public events are:
* Wim Wenders, one of the most important directors on the 
international scene ("Paris, Texas", "Buena
Vista Social Club") and the renowned actor and director Dennis Hopper 
("Easy Rider", "Blue Velvet") will
be talking about the ups and downs in their lives in Wenders and 
Hopper: Until the End of the World.
Before the interview, there will be a screening of the feature 
documentary "Dennis Hopper: Create (or
Die)" by Henning Lohner and Ariane Riecker.
* The market directors from Rotterdam, Toronto, Berlin, IFP New York, 
and Pusan will help young
filmmakers with the sales aspect of the commercial film business. In 
Markets & Sales: Now Comes the
Hard Part, they will discuss which markets are appropriate for what 
kind of film and how to plan market
strategies and world-wide distribution.
* International award winning production designer Ken Adam (Bond 
films, "The Madness of King George")
will be the guest of an audience discussion following the screening 
of "War Rooms and Volcanoes. Ken
Adam - Film Sets Are Forever", a documentary by Plenio Filmproduktion.
* Thomas Hailer, director of the Kinderfilmfest, will present a 
screening of "Elina - As If I Wasn't There"
by Klaus H=E4r=F6. Afterwards, the discussion with director, producer and 
screenwriter will try to identify just
what constitutes a successful co-operation with children in front of 
the camera.
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* Rainer K=F6lmel, Cedomir Kolar and Nik Powell will hold a lesson in 
damage control: Bancruptcy and
Resurrection. They all have something in common: a passion for 
cinema, for success - and the
experience of failing. The K=F6lmel brothers' leading arthouse 
distribution company (Kinowelt) had to declare
insolvency in 2001. Cedomir Kolar and Nik Powell both produced Oscar 
winning films - and ironically went
bankrupt with them. What can future producers learn from these guys, 
besides their well-known humour
and their energy for resurrection?
* Mathilde Bonnefoy (Editor "Run Lola Run", "Heaven") will use 
samples of her work to demonstrate how
each editing decision is fundamental for the entire plot. Her 
workshop, The Power of Editing, focuses on
the effect editing has on a film's dramaturgy.
* The Berlinale Short Night is a special treat: Some of this year's 
Campus participants are also
represented in the official programme of the Berlin International 
=46ilm Festival. This special screening
features all of their short films and includes an open discussion 
with the filmmakers.
* VARIETY and Screen Digest present The A-Z of E-Cinema, an overview 
of digital filmmaking, a
technology which could re-write the rules for how films get made and shown.
* Another film programme is dedicated to this year's Shooting Stars 
of the European Film Promotion.
"Santa Maradona" by Marco Ponti with Italian Shooting Star Libero De 
Rienzo, proves that becoming an
adult does not have to mean losing your innocence and love of life. 
Liz Gil's "Goldfish Memory" with Irish
Shooting Star Flora Montgomery is a light-hearted look at the dangers 
and delights of dating in
contemporary Dublin. And "Falling Sky" by Gunnar Vikene tells the 
story of Reider (Kristoffer Joner,
Norwegian Shooting Star), who expects to get hit in the head by a 
meteor. He wants to save the planets -
well, at least the Earth before. And finally, in "Nudos" (Llu=EDs Maria 
G=FCell) with Spanish Shooting Star Goya
Toleda, the investigation of a =93mysterious" death leads to a 
relationship which will change the investigating
lawyer's world...
* The evening film programme New Russian Cinema shows various films 
from Russia. The opening film
=93Shik" by Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov (=93Luna Papa") tells the 
heart-warming story of three young friends,
who wish to own a suit. The Short Film programme presents a video 
documentary following Chechen
children on their trip through Moscow ("Home Video"), amongst others. 
Another evening features television
productions, e.g. "Brigade", one of the most successful Russian 
series: Four best buddies turn into
criminals after returning home from the military. One evening is 
dedicated to the actor and director Sergei
Bodrov Jr. who died last year. In "Prisoner of the Mountains", a 
Tolstoy adaptation, he plays a young
soldier, imprisoned in the Caucasus.
The BERLINALE TALENT CAMPUS is a project of the Berlin International 
=46ilm Festival, in co-operation with
=46ilmboard Berlin-Brandenburg, U.K. Film Council, MEDIA Promotion and 
House of World Cultures. Organised by
Master School Drehbuch Berlin.
The BERLINALE TALENT CAMPUS is supported by:
APPLE, ARRI, Australian Embassy, AVID, British Council, Bureau du 
cin=E9ma, Canadian Embassy, Deutsche Bahn,
Embassy of Spain, Embassy of the United States of America, Federal 
=46oreign Office, Film Commission Torino
Piemonte, French Embassy in Berlin, Gahrens+Battermann, German 
Academic Exchange Service, German
=46ederal Film Board, Goethe Institute Inter Nationes, 
Heinrich-B=F6ll-Foundation, Hellenic Foundation for Culture,
Israeli Embassy, Italian Embassy, KODAK, Lufthansa, Ministry of 
Culture and Education of Iceland, Mitte's
backpacker hostel, Planet TV, PricewaterhouseCoopers, q~est 
Systemhaus, Senate Department for Economics,
Labour and Women's Issues, SONY, Trigger Happy Film Production, 
V=F6slauer and Volkswagen AG.
The Berlin International Film Festival is a division of the 
Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin GmbH and is
funded by the Federal Commissioner for Culture and Media.
More information at: www.berlinale-talentcampus.de
Press contact: pr@berlinale-talentcampus.de
Tuesday, January 21, 2003
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BERLINALE TALENT CAMPUS
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