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Colour Awards deadline approaches
Entries for the 2026 colourist awards close 31 July, with documentaries folded into Spotlight and clear ProRes upload specs.
Filmtext-o-Mat Tames Timecodes
Filmtext-o-Mat 2.7 turns sequence lengths into automatic timecodes, keeps video beside the manuscript and exports practical handover files.
Architectural visualisation in a war zone
Let's do a 3D reconstruction of the Museum of Western and Eastern Art with Rhino and Blender in Odessa (Ukraine)!
Our Universe of… Houdini?
Who would have thought that one of our favourite documentaries seen this year would come from Bristol?
Discover the people behind Blender!
A Dutch filmmaker accompanies the Blender Foundation as it prepares for the Blender Conference 2022 - and beyond. Interviews with chief developer Ton Roosendaal and team.
Inside Pixar Explores the Studio’s Creative Process
The Disney+ documentary series Inside Pixar presents stories from the artists and production teams behind the animation studio’s work.
FMX Revisits VR for Social Impact
Gayatri Parameswaran discussed Kusunda, Home After War and the role of immersive journalism in social-impact VR.
FFF Supports 41 Projects with €6.3 Million
More projects were submitted than ever before: the FFF awards committee received 90 applications. Yesterday it decided to support 41 projects. The total, including €350,000 in co-financing for three projects from the Bavarian Bank Fund, amounts to €6.324 million.
Klaus Wildenhahn Visits HFF “Konrad Wolf”
Documentary filmmaker Klaus Wildenhahn is coming to the Konrad Wolf University of Film and Television for an intensive course in the directing programme.
Oscar Nomination for ‘Man on Wire’
James Marsh’s documentary has been nominated in the Best Documentary Feature category.
Man on Wire Named Best Documentary of 2008
MAN ON WIRE opens in cinemas across Germany on January 22, 2009, distributed by Arsenal Filmverleih.
4th International Video Journalism Awards
The 4th International Video Journalism Awards is an international competition for documentary short films and contributions. Independent authors, civil journalists as well as video journalists working in print and television submit their films. This year, the awards are being organised together with ZDF in Mainz - films can be submitted online until 15 October.
BAF Presents Stories from Life
Documentary film evening with award-winning filmmaker and author Ludwig Ott on 4 December 2008 at 6 p.m. at BAF.
DP Gives Away Three “Earth” DVDs
Universum Film releases the breathtaking nature documentary EARTH on DVD and Blu-ray today. DP is giving away three DVDs to participants in its reader survey, which is now online.
Picture Gallery for the Documentary “Earth”
With EARTH, Universum Film presents the breathtaking nature documentary on DVD and Blu-ray. From issue 6 (starting 31.10.08), DP will raffle three DVDs among participants in the reader survey.
Available Today: Nature Documentary “Earth”
Universum Film releases the breathtaking nature documentary EARTH on DVD and Blu-ray today. From issue 6, launching online on 31 October 2008, DP will give away three DVDs to participants in its reader survey.
Michael Moore Releases Film as a Free Download
“Slacker Uprising” is intended to encourage young Americans to vote.
Four FFF-Funded Productions in Toronto
Four productions supported by FilmFernsehFonds Bayern will be presented in various sections of the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival, held September 4–13, 2008.
Munich Film Festival
FILMFEST MÜNCHEN was organised for the first time in 1983. After the Berlin Film Festival, it is the largest film festival in Germany. To date, over 1,300,000 visitors have attended.
DOKVILLE 2008
The Internet is fundamentally changing production, research and distribution in documentary film. “Documentary Film 2.0 – Trapped in the Net or Entirely New Possibilities?” is the theme of the DOKVILLE 2008 industry gathering, organised every year by HAUS DES DOKUMENTARFILMS. It has developed into an important meeting place that provides insight into a current topic each time. Alongside filmmakers, speakers include Internet experts, representatives of established and new TV broadcasters, and academics. The participation fee is €50 (reduced €25).
Doc Alliance: Five Festivals – One Winner
Five European documentary film festivals have joined forces to select an overall winner
Sensational Audience Success for Documentary “Earth”
The German-British production passes the three-million-viewer mark.
Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, October 27 to November 2
As a German-Czech collaboration, the “Breathless” call for projects offers filmmakers the opportunity to realise their film ideas and premiere them at the international festivals in Leipzig and Jihlava.
UNSERE ERDE reaches two million viewers on its fifth weekend
The German-British production UNSERE ERDE by Alastair Fothergill (DEEP BLUE) is celebrating more records: with the best opening weekend for a nature documentary, it reached one million enthusiastic viewers faster than any predecessor.
DELFINE UND WALE 3D – Nomaden der Meere: Martina Gedeck narrates the film
Filmmaker brothers Jean-Jacques and Francois Mantello and film ambassador Jean-Michel Cousteau have announced that actress Martina Gedeck will provide the voice-over for their new 3D documentary DELFINE UND WALE 3D.
Die Gustloff opens on ZDF with 8.45 million television viewers
"Die Gustloff" opens on ZDF with 8.45 million television viewers
Documentary on the subject interests 5.31 million late on Sunday evening
‘Earth’ fights its way to the top
Polar bears, elephants and humpback whales — they are all fighting for the survival of their offspring. Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield travelled around the world for five years and made a documentary film about it. The effort paid off: ‘Earth — The Film’, which entered at number five last week, makes the leap to number one in the media control cinema charts.
Cinema charts: ‘Earth’ unexpectedly in first place
After placing fifth on its opening weekend and increasing from 147 to 286 prints, the nature documentary from Universum Film attracted an impressive 350,000 visitors to German cinemas.
11th eDIT Filmmaker’s Festival: young-talent competition
Who will demonstrate talent and creativity with a 30-second film on the subject of Planet Earth and — win eDward 2008? The best films will be shown at the opening gala of the 11th Filmmaker’s Festival in Frankfurt am Main in September. Cash and non-cash prizes worth around 5,000 euros also await
Green Oscar for ‘Earth’
As part of the ‘Cinema for Peace’ benefit gala, the ‘CleanEnergy Award’ was presented for the first time in Berlin yesterday evening. The unique and breathtaking nature documentary ‘EARTH’ was honoured. The ‘Green Oscar’ distinguishes projects that engage with the subject of the environment in a special way.
ZDF buys TV production company
ZDF Enterprises wants to acquire Hamburg production company doc.station in full.
Wolfgang Petersen and Senator Entertainment form joint venture
World-renowned director Wolfgang Petersen and Senator Entertainment in Berlin today announced the formation of a joint venture to produce English-language television miniseries.
2008 Sundance Film Festival Showcases a Wide Range of Work by Avid Customers
Independent filmmakers rely on Avid.
NEOS Film Prepares Theatrical Documentary Project About Jane Goodall
Munich-based production company NEOS Film is currently preparing the international co-production “Jane’s Journey”, a documentary by Lorenz Knauer about primatologist and UN Messenger of Peace Jane Goodall.
Review of the 29th Max Ophüls Preis Film Festival 2008
Festival organiser Mayor Charlotte Britz reported an absolute attendance record, 2,041 above the previous year.
Winners of the 29th Max Ophüls Preis Film Festival
The Max Ophüls Preis Film Festival is pleased to announce the winners of the festival’s 29th edition: the 2008 Max Ophüls Preis goes to director André Erkau for his film “Self-Talk.”
Of wizards, agents and pirates
Whether as a book, in cinemas or on DVD, Harry Potter enchants the masses with his magic. Part five, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” was released on DVD only in mid-November 2007. Just six weeks were enough for the film adaptation of Joanne K. Rowling’s novel to become the most successful DVD of 2007.
RTL II in 2007: Successful in all programme genres
In 2007, RTL II achieved an average market share of 6.3 % in the commercially relevant target group of 14- to 49-year-olds (previous year: 6.0 %).
PHOENIX Again Achieves a Record Result
PHOENIX again achieves a record result in the 2007 broadcasting year: In the eleventh year of its existence, the ARD and ZDF events and documentary channel achieves a market share of 0.9 percent. This corresponds to an increase of 0.2 percentage points compared with 2006.
bonnavista.tv with a New Internet Presence
The television of the future in view – that is what bonnavista.tv, the first web-TV channel from the federal city of Bonn, has. For more than a year, bonnavista.tv has entertained its steadily growing audience with in-house productions. Following a complete overhaul of its Internet presence, the channel has now become even more varied, colourful and even more surprising.
International Documentary Film Conference in Germany for the First Time
"Visible Evidence XIV" events throughout Bochum / Artists, curators, researchers and filmmakers as guests
Hobnox Launches Interactive Hendrix Show
Hobnox's Hypershow lets viewers leave the main Hendrix documentary to explore linked audio, video, photographs and text.
“World Class” on the ZDF info channel
New series on the ZDF info channel presents successful ideas and their protagonists
BLINDSIGHT runs in a special screening at the Hof International Film Festival
On Thursday, October 25, 2007 at 12:00 in the Club, Lucy Walker’s film BLINDSIGHT will run in a special screening in Hof.
Programme of the 18th Lünen Film Festival
From November 15 to 18, 2007, the Lünen Film Festival celebrates its 18th birthday with a total of 53 short and long German productions. 29 of them will be shown in the competitions, 24 in the special programmes. For the first time this year, the Lünen Film Festival is awarding the prize for best film music, endowed with 2,500 euros; two further one-time prizes will be presented in the FUTURE extra and the SPORT extra. The Lünen Film Festival 2007 is thus awarding ten prizes endowed with a total of 25,000 euros and various support services.
NomadsLand Shares Revenue with Filmmakers
NomadsLand extends its advertising and download revenue-sharing model from independent filmmakers to written citizen journalism.
Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival – Submission deadline for the short-film competitions ends soon
For the 29th edition of the Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival in Saarbrücken, taking place from January 14 to 20, 2008, submissions will be accepted until November 01, 2007 for the short- and feature-film competitions and the medium-length film competition set up for the first time.
“Films by Photographers” from 10.10. every Wednesday at 21:00 hrs at the Munich Film Museum
filming photographers and photographic films will be presented at the Film Museum every Wednesday at 21:00 hrs from October 10
2007 to January 30, 2008. The "Films by Photographers" series will begin on October 10 with Man Ray, László Moholy-Nagy and Ferenc Berko.
10 years of eDIT Filmmaker’s Festival
Hesse’s Minister-President Roland Koch presented the Filmmaker's Festival honorary award to Tippi Hedren, with which Alfred Hitchcock was posthumously honored for his life’s work. Prof. Wolfgang Thaenert, director of LPR Hessen: “The next ten years will be even more beautiful.”
DOK Leipzig Celebrates Its 50th Edition
The International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film celebrates from from October 29 to November 4, 2007
Biting Film Website for SICKO Goes Online
As of today, the official German website at www.sicko.senator.de is online.
During research for NDR documentary: Stammheim tapes discovered
For more than thirty years they were considered destroyed: the audio tape recordings of the Stammheim trial against RAF founders Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe.
“Die Paten” Realize “Ithemba Africa” with eQ
Postproduction of the HD documentary on a Quantel system / film output and cinema premiere
International Short Film Festival Leuven (ISFFL)
Since its foundation in 1995, the short film festival has presented a wide range of short film genres - from animated films to documentaries and experimental films to music videos.
DOK Leipzig – the 49th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film
The International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film is the largest German and one of the most important and traditional international documentary film festivals. The festival was founded in 1955 by the Film Club of the GDR as the All-German Leipzig Week for Cultural and Documentary Film and was thus the first independent film festival in the GDR. Under the direction of Wolfgang Kernicke, it was established as an annual international film festival from 1960 onwards. The festival programme consists of competitions, information and special programmes and retrospectives. Artistic animated film has been an integral part of the festival for decades and has been represented by an independent competition since 1995.
“3rd International Video Journalism Award” is presented in Berlin
Award on Saturday / 420 reports from 42 countries and 5 continents
eDIT Draws Positive Final Assessment
Frankfurt festival concludes; organisers satisfied despite a shortened programme.
eDIT 2006: Animation and Documentary as Focuses
eDIT 9th Filmmaker's Festival in Frankfurt am Main expands programme with the subject "Production, Visual Effects, Development"
Ottonia Media Launches More WMV HD DVDs
Videos in 1,920 x 1,080 pixels expand the "Colourful Planet" series
NAB: Dust to Glory Takes More Than 50 Cameras to HD
Extensive postproduction and upconversion create consistent HD images for the documentary