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German Films Reveals Talent for Face to Face Campaign

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German Films Reveals Talent for Face to Face Campaign

German Movies, an company that promotes German cinema worldwide, has introduced the expertise who will characteristic in its seventh annual Face to Face With German Movies marketing campaign. The high-profile platform units out to deliver worldwide visibility to the wealth of ground-breaking expertise working in movie and TV in Germany, and shaping the way forward for the trade.

This 12 months’s chosen expertise are documentary writer-director Sarah Noa Bozenhardt (“Amongst Us Girls”), actor-producer-writer Sara Fazilat (“Nico”), actor-director Jerry Hoffmann (“Shahada”), movie editor Julia Kovalenko (“System Crasher”), writer-director Matthias Luthardt (“Pingpong”), cinematographer and director Zamarin Wahdat (“Studying to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Lady)”) and actor Anne Zander (“For Jojo”).

After spotlighting well-known actors, writers and administrators comparable to Saskia Rosendahl (“Lore”), Alexander Fehling (“Inglourious Basterds,” “Homeland”), Burhan Qurbani (“Berlin Alexanderplatz”) and Jonas Nay (“Deutschland 83, 86 & 89”) in its first 5 years, final 12 months’s Face to Face With German Movies – The Filmmakers marketing campaign broadened its scope to incorporate numerous disciplines in an effort to showcase the range of expertise throughout this collaborative craft.

This 12 months, Face to Face With German Movies – The Filmmakers continues with this goal, representing a cross-section of the numerous artistic faces of German filmmaking and specializing in personalities with very completely different biographies, creative approaches, influences and views.

German Movies managing director Simone Baumann commented: “We’re delighted to honor these seven proficient filmmakers as ambassadors of our 2022 Face to Face marketing campaign. Their work addresses points as various as their skilled backgrounds and private tales. They symbolize the drive to innovate, be inclusive and push boundaries that’s showing in movie and TV in Germany.”

Documentary filmmaker and aspiring author Sarah Noa Bozenhardt has examined socio-political problems with womanhood in her work and located a supply of inspiration within the relationships and experiences she had throughout her upbringing in her second homeland of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Her credit embrace “Medanit” and “Heimfahrt,” and her characteristic documentary debut “Amongst Us Girls” had its world premiere at DOK Leipzig in October 2021, the place it obtained a particular point out within the worldwide competitors.

Actor, producer and screenwriter Sara Fazilat has been on the rise since she was chosen for the Berlinale Skills program in 2017. Her credit embrace “The Fox,” “Verify Verify,” “The Heist” and “Louise,” Cannes choice “Revolvo” and “Jiyan.” “Nico,” a movie about how a racist assault adjustments a younger girl’s life which Fazilat produced, starred in and helped write, screened at Shanghai Worldwide Movie Competition and Frameline Movie Competition San Francisco, amongst others, and gained her a number of awards, together with the Max Ophüls Prize (Greatest Younger Actress). She will subsequent be seen in Cannes Un Sure Regard winner Ali Abbasi’s newest, “Holy Spider.”

Actor and director Jerry Hoffmann acquired his break-out function in Burhan Qurbani’s “Shahada.” Along with his work in movie and TV, he has carried out extensively onstage, together with as an ensemble member of the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin. His credit characteristic lead roles in “Heil,” “Abikalypse” and “Needle Park Child.” As a director, his brief movies “Mall” and “90%” have screened at festivals and gained awards internationally, and “I Am,” an arthouse sci-fi thriller, certified for the 2022 Academy Awards and screened on the Max Ophüls Prize Movie Competition, Karlovy Fluctuate Worldwide Movie Competition and Martha’s Winery African American Movie Competition. He can subsequent be seen within the Netflix collection “A Submarine Story.”

Movie editor Julia Kovalenko was born in Russia and moved to Germany as a baby. Along with a number of award-winning brief movies comparable to Clemens Roth’s “The Unbelievable Love of Beeboy & Flowergirl” and Jerry Hoffmann’s “I Am,” she has labored on many TV productions and have movies. She collaborated with editor Stephan Bechinger on “System Crasher,” Germany’s entry for the 92nd Academy Awards and winner of the German Movie Award for Greatest Modifying. Her subsequent undertaking is “Darkish Satellites,” a collaboration with editor Kaya Inan and director Thomas Stuber slated for theatrical launch in Germany in 2022.

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Author and director Matthias Luthardt got here to worldwide consideration along with his debut “Pingpong,” a coming-of-age drama, which had its world premiere at Cannes’ Critics’ Week. A number of characteristic movies and documentaries have adopted, together with “Reminiscence,” “Cinékino” and “Autumn 1929 – Shadows Above Babylon.” His newest directorial effort is World Warfare I-set German-French co-production “The Fox,” starring Luise Aschenbrenner, Christa Théret and Leonard Kunz.

Cinematographer and director Zamarin Wahdat was born in Kabul and grew up in Hamburg. As a scholar, she was noticed by director Carol Dysinger and requested to work as a visible designer and translator on “Studying to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Lady),” which gained the Oscar for Greatest Documentary Brief in 2020. Shortly after, Wahdat made her directorial debut, “Bambirak,” a brief movie in regards to the on a regular basis racism skilled by individuals with an immigrant background in Germany, which gained Greatest Worldwide Brief Movie at Sundance Movie Competition in 2021. She is at present engaged on a feature-length adaptation of “Bambirak” along with different brief movie initiatives and a documentary about activist Sarah Mardini.

Actor and performer Anne Zander’s credit embrace the collection “Tatort – Borowski Und Der Fluch Der Weißen Möwe,” characteristic movie “Fenster Blau” and brief movie “Workplace.” As a deaf individual, Zander nonetheless experiences intersectionality in her on a regular basis life and, consequently, is dedicated to enhancing range and inclusion within the German movie and media industries. This 12 months, Zander might be seen in two main productions: She stars in her first main function in ZDF TV drama “Du Sollst Hören,” reverse Claudia Michelsen and Kai Wiesinger, and within the Netflix Unique movie “For Jojo,” directed by Barbara Ott.

The chosen expertise and Baumann shall be assembly with members of the worldwide media at subsequent month’s Berlin Movie Competition.

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