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Call for entries - Berlin Today Award 2010
The short film competition of the Berlinale Talent Campus
– supported since 2003 by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg – invites
directors from all over the world to submit short film ideas inspired
by the theme "Straight to Cinema". In a digital age where film culture
is undergoing fundamental changes, the cinema remains a unique public
space, a centre for collective experiences and sensations. The Berlin
Today Award theme for 2010 encourages young filmmakers to seek inspiration
in the cinema and all its possibilities, and develop a short film
for the big screen. The top five film ideas will be realised by
five production companies from Berlin and Brandenburg – with support
from Medienboard and the film industry.
Berlinale Talent Campus current applicants and former participants,
as well as producers from the Berlin-Brandenburg region, can apply
until November 25, 2008, to realise a short film project. Talents
and producers can go to www.berlintoday.de
to access the online application and participation conditions.
15 pre-selected Talents will have an opportunity to present their
film ideas and convince producers attending the "Producers’ Meeting"
held during the Berlinale Talent Campus 2009 (February 7-12,
2009). Five projects will be selected and have until the end of
2009 to make the final leap toward realisation. The short films
will celebrate their world premiere during the opening of the
Berlinale Talent Campus 2010. The winner, selected by a jury,
will receive the Berlin Today Award 2010.
Review & world premiere of the Berlin Today Award 2009
Campus Talents realised five short films focusing on the
theme "My Wall" as part of this year’s competition: Gina Abatemarco
(USA) realised My Super Sea Wall, a documentary about the
Alaskan island Kivalina and the giant sandbank created to stave
off complete inundation (production: Anna Wendt Filmproduktion).
Teleportation by Markus Dietrich (Germany) reveals who was
really behind the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 (production: Schiwago
Film). In the short film Promenade, Sabine El Chamaa (Lebanon)
tells the story of an elderly woman who rebuilds the walls of her
destroyed house inside her new home (production: NEOS Film). Supriyo
Sen (India) documents a bizarre ritual on the border between India
and Pakistan in Wagah (production: DETAilFILM). Finally,
Paul Cotter (UK) tells the story of a 75 year-old man who rebuilds
the Berlin Wall in The Berlin Wall (production: Kaminski.Stiehm.Film).
The short films will have their world premiere during the opening
of the Berlinale Talent Campus on February 7, 2009. An award
ceremony will follow during the "Dine & Shine" Talent dinner on
February 8. The Berlin Today Award 2009 is supported by Medienboard
Berlin-Brandenburg and the Federal Foreign Office, under the patronage
of Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
The Berlinale Talent Campus is an initiative of the Berlin
International Film Festival, a business division of the Kulturveranstaltungen
des Bundes in Berlin GmbH, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner
for Culture and the Media, in co-operation with MEDIA - Training
programme of the European Union, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg,
Skillset and UK Film Council as well as Volkswagen.
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