The Venice International Film Festival has just announced that two Filmstiftung-backed co-productions - "Spencer", produced by Komplizen Film ("Toni Erdmann"), and "The Peacock’s Paradise", produced by Cologne-based Match Factory Productions - have been invited to screen at the Venice Film Festival.
The 74th Festival de Cannes has just wrapped its Palme d'Or award ceremony. The Palme d'Or for Best Film went to the fantasy drama "Titane" by Julia Ducournau. Leos Carax, the director of the Filmstiftung-backed musical "Annette", was awarded the prize for Best Director.
The Locarno Film Festival has just announced that the Filmstiftung-backed productions „Monte Verità“ by Stefan Jäger, co-produced by Cologne's Coin Film, and „No One's With The Calves“, a production of Weydemann Bros., Köln, by Sabrina Sarabi have been invited to the festival's 74th edition.
The Festival de Cannes has just announced that another three Filmstiftung-backed productions have been selected to screen in the festival's Competition, Out of Competition and Un Certain Regard sections. It had already been announced in April that the drama "Annette" by the exceptional director Leos Carax would be opening the festival.
The shareholders of the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, WDR, ZDF and RTL, decided at their recent general meeting to continue the collaboration with CEO Petra Müller and extend her contract until the end of 2023.
The Filmstiftung-backed international co-production "Annette" by Leos Carax with Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard will celebrate its world premiere as the opening film on 6 July, 2021 and also be in competition at the 74th Festival de Cannes. The Film- und Medienstiftung NRW supported the musical with a total of Euros 500,000.
On February 27, 1991, North Rhine-Westphalia joined forces with WDR to become the first German state to establish the Filmstiftung NRW. The Filmstiftung has supported 9,555 projects with more than 930 million Euros, including 2,600 feature films and TV movies and series with around 775 million Euros.
The jury made its decision from among 43 international submissions during a digital session in January 2021: Afghan filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat is to receive the sixth Baumi Script Development Award, endowed with 20,000 Euros, for her feature film project “Kabul Jan”.
The 71st Berlin International Film Festival has announced its films for the Industry Event from March 1-5, 2021. It has just been revealed that the Filmstiftung-backed feature film "Je suis Karl" by Christian Schwochow has been invited to screen in the Berlinale Special Gala programme.
Jennifer Mival was appointed professor at the beginning of the application period for the new master's programme in "Entertainment Producing" at the ifs internationale filmschule köln. Mival has come from Netflix.