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.
The digital edition of Berlinale Series Market & Conference - from Tuesday, March 2 to Friday, March 5 - will also be focusing on the latest series and the future of the series market.
Thursday will see the start of the 37th Sundance Film Festival which will be running until 3 February mainly in an online format and partially as a physical event.
European Film Promotion (EFP) today announced the ten up-and-coming acting talents who will be presented online as the Shooting Stars for 2021 ahead of the 71st Berlinale. Albrecht Schuch has been selected to represent Germany.
The finale of the 33rd European Film Awards (EFA) came to a close on Saturday evening (12 December) in a live virtual awards ceremony from Berlin. Paula Beer received the 'European Actress 2020' statuette for her acting performance in Christian Petzold's Filmstiftung-backed romantic drama "Undine".
As the European Film Academy (EFA) has just announced, the two Filmstiftung-backed productions „Berlin Alexanderplatz“ by Burhan Qurbani and „Undine by Christian Petzold will now be in the running in the European Film 2020 category at the 33rd European Film Awards.
Five of the 10 films, which were announced by German Films as being under consideration for the German entry to the „Best International Feature Film“ category at the 2021 Oscars, have been supported by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW.