film campus innsbruck 2015
01 - 06 june 2015
From June 01 – 06, 2015, twenty selected talents immersed themselves in the Film Campus Innsbruck. Through workshops, seminars and networking events, the participants were able to gain valuable insights into several aspects of the film industry, deepen their knowledge and skills and obtain feedback for their own projects.
experts
Cinematographer, director, producer and author of numerous documentary,
TV and cinema films. He is emeritus professor at the Vienna film academy and teaches masterclasses at several international film schools. He is founding mem-ber of the Bartenbach Light Academy (Innsbruck) and member of the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences. For his camera work in „The White Ribbon“ he was nominated for the Oscar in 2010. The opening film of the Innsbruck film Campus 2015 is a documentary about his work.
Light philosophy is the basis of Christian Berger‘s cinematography. Based on what we have seen in the documentary film about him, in his master class he will discuss his approach to lighting, how he has developed his Cine Reflect Lighting System CRLS and and he will illustrate his use of lighting with the help of several examples.
Hubert Sauper was born in Kitzbühel, a village of Tyrol, in the Austrian Alps. He has lived in Great Britain, Italy, the USA and the last twenty years in France. He studied film directing in Vienna (Univ. of Performing Arts) and in Paris (Univ. de Paris VIII.) and graduated B.A. (Mag. art.). In 2004, his documentary „Darwin‘s Nightmare“ was nominated for the Oscar. He teaches film classes in Europe and USA. The last two documentaries he wrote and directed were awarded twelve International Film Prizes. His latest film „We Come As Friends“ is the opening film of this year‘s International Film Festival Innsbruck.
What are the biggest questions of each author of nonfiction films? After the question of the subject and the research of the facts immediately comes the question of form, the „creation“: what is it supposed to look like in texture, mood, rhythm, the narrative mode of the film? What is the obvious statement and what is the subtext, which is not shown, the tangible of a movie? As an author you have to mentally „see“ the film long before making it. A film must probably be dreamt of.
In the practical sense, there is the challenge: How do I get inside the world, physically and mentally, of the people who are featured in the film? Is it „a game“, a science, a special form of seduction a filmmaker or a wandering poet must master? Art or „non-art“?
Teboho Edkins was born in the USA in 1980 but grew up mainly in Lesotho, South Africa and Germany. He studied Fine Art at the University of Cape Town, followed by a 2-year postgraduate residency at Le Fresnoy (Studio National Des Arts Contemporains) in France and attended a postgraduate film directing programme at the DFFB Film Academy in Berlin.
His films have been shown and awarded at film festivals as well as exhibited in art galleries and museums.
Akkordeon Inhalt“I would like to talk about ‘the process’ in my filmmaking. When I make films I often find the process more interesting then the subject. Being aware of the process involves being flexible, looking for solutions at how one makes the work, rather than what one is making it of.
For me this is quite nerve-racking at times. I will be discussing this in regards to my three most recent films which are shown at the International Film Festival Innsbruck.“
As director and founder of the Namibian branch of AfricAvenir, Hans-Christian Mahnke has been showing quality African films at various places in Namibia and Germany since 2004 on a regular and systematic basis, tackling challenges like distribution, screening culture and accessibility of African cinema to African audiences. Mahnke has co-created the Namibian Movie Collection to store, showcase, promote and distribute Namibian film products in- and outside Namibia. He is the founder of Namibia’s sole distribution company Independence Avenue Films.
He is a member of the African Federation of Film Critics and Namibian represen-tative of the short film fund ETISAL. From 2010-11 he served as Filmmakers Association of Namibia (FAN) Vice-Chairperson and organized the 1st Namibia Theatre and Film Awards in 2010. He currently is a board member of FAN
(Filmmakers‘ Association of Namibia).
In his lecture, Hans-Christian Mahnke will be discussing his work as a cinema programmer in Namibia: how difficult it is to find money to pay for distributors, to select films without being able to travel to festivals, without belonging to a big company, without an infrastructure to promote and without something like a film culture in the country.
Maren Niemeyer has worked as a journalist, editor and documentary filmmaker for national and international radio and TV channels, mainly for ARD, ZDF, Deutsche Welle -TV and the German-French culture channel ARTE. In 2006, she was a workshop-leader and jury member of Afghanistan’s first short film festival in Kabul. In 2007, Niemeyer produced the ARTE/ ARD documentary series about the magic hippie trail to Kathmandu in the late sixties and in 2008, she produced a worldwide broadcasted series about the myth of German Design for Deutsche Welle TV. In 2009, Maren Niemeyer was Commis-sioning Editor for NDR / ARTE. Since 2010, she has been working as Programme Advisor for the Film Department of the Goethe-Institut Headquarter in Munich.
A seminar to guide you through the jungle of the European documentary-market: Whether on TV or in the movie-theaters, documentary movies are booming. Worldwide, there is a growing longing for true stories about real people. Yet, at the same time, it has never been so complicated to successfully launch a story and guide it through the labyrinth of pitching, of documentary-markets, channels and sponsors to find the right partners in order to obtain sufficient financial support.
This workshop will shed some light on the documentary jungle. Practical exercises and case studies will help the participants to learn how to target European broadcasting companies and co-producers for their documentary projects and
short-film ideas for television and cinema.
Goran Paskaljević is probably the best known film director from Serbia. He graduated from the well-known Film Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He has made 30 documentaries and 16 feature films, presented at the most prestigious interna-tional film festivals (Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Toronto…). The rise of nationalism in Yugoslavia forced him to leave his country in 1992. In 1998, he went back to make „Bure Baruta“, which won international critics‘ prizes (FIPRESCI) at the Venice Film Festival and at the European Film Awards. The Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) presented a full retrospective of his work in 2008. He is guest of honor at this year‘s IFFI where eight of his films are shown in a retrospective.
In his masterclass, Goran Paskaljević will be talking about his filmmaking, based on the stages of his artistic work and his experiences relating to a whole life dedica-ted to telling stories with film as instrument. The Masterclass will be interpreted into English by Mascha Dabic.
Born 1962 in Moscow, Eduardo del Llano is a Cuban director, screenwriter, university professor and novelist.
Del Llano graduated with an Art History degree from the University of Havana in 1985. During the 1980s he joined the theatre and literary group NOS-Y-OTROS, which he also founded. He collaborated in screenplays with Jorge Goldenberg, Tom Abrams and Walter Bernstein while teaching the history of Latin American art and photography in the Faculty of Arts and Letters at the University of Havana. After years of writing screenplays, he started in 2004 a very successful series of short films – the Nicanor series – and soon made his first feature length films. His latest feature OMEGA 3 is in the competition of this year‘s International Film Festival Innsbruck.
Eduardo del Llano‘s film OMEGA III is the first Science Fiction film ever made in Cuba. The director will talk about what it is like to cross the line of making a „third world film“ coming from Cuba and making a Sci-Fi movie instead of using a universal topic. His background of being a writer of – sometimes – fantastic literature may also play a role in his filmmaking.
talents
Valerie Wolfgang
Tjaša Frumen
Stefanie Falkeis
Selina Becker
Riccardo Tamburini
Ricardo Angelini
Philip Kandler
Patrick Neubäck
Patrick Catuz Kwasniewski
Nadia Morghen
Miha Šubic
Miha Sagadin
Michal Shanny
Marc Bertel
Lukas Ladner
Louis-Jeremy Spiess
Jasmin Mairhofer
Janick Entremont
Fabian Widmann
Barbara Nickl
gallery
thanks
All applicants & participants of the 3rd Innsbruck film Campus I Helmut Groschup, Alissa Imsirovic, Felicitas Kilga & IFFI I Kulturlandesrätin Beate Palfrader, Melanie Wiener & the cultural department of the province of Tyrol I Marie-Luise Mayr, Birgit Neu, Bürgermeisterin Christine Oppitz-Plörer & City of Innsbruck Innsbruck I Michael Niedertscheider, Desiree Stofner & Wirtschaftskammer Tirol I Jutta Seethaler, Michael Carli & Grünen Bildungswerkstatt I Karl Gostner & Innsbruck Tourismus I kulturimpuls Tirol I Matthias Fink, Birgit Oberkofler & Europaregion Tirol-Südtirol-Trentino I Johannes Köck, Angelika Pagitz & Cine Tirol I Maria Furtner & Arbeitskreis für Wissenschaft und Verantwortlichkeit I Barbara Weithaler & Business Location Südtirol I Andrei Siclodi, Andrea Perfler & dem Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen I Christian Berger I Eduardo del Llano I Goran Paskaljevic I Hans-Christian Mahnke I Hubert Sauper I Maren Niemeyer I Teboho Edkins I Ernst Mitterndorfer & Halotech Lichtfabrik I Renate Gröber-Binder & Swarovski I MPreis I Brigitte Singer & Café Gleim I Oscar Germes-Castro & Oscar kocht I Otto Preminger-Institut I Andreas Pichler I Dietmar Zingl I Maria Markt & marille Bild+Text I Florian Lamp & Senfservice – Büro für Gestaltung I Philipp Umek I Dominik Steiger & Steiger Electronics I Oliver Schönitzer & Tourismusschulen Villa Blanka Innsbruck I Mascha Dabic I Marika Green I Robert Gander I Barbara Laner I Christina Schmölz I Bernhard Holzhammer, Lucas Riccabona, Victor Kössl & WILDRUF Film
