12.05.2017 | Funding decisions Committee 2
Two exceptional artists are at the centre of the new funding round: Committee 2 of Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein has awarded around 600,000 euros to a total of 24 projects.
In 2018, the filmmaker Ingmar Bergman would have been 100 years old. Directors Margarethe von Trotta and Felix Moeller pay homage to Bergman in their filmIngmar Bergman - Legacy of a genius of the century (100,000 euros, C-Films, Hamburg) follow in the footsteps of the master of psychological drama. Speakers talk to young filmmakers and former companions, show old and unknown film clips and take us on a journey through Bergman's universe.
Also in the documentationA Symphony of Noise - Matthew Herbert's Revolution by Enrique Sánchez Lansch (60,000 euros, Kloos & Co. Nord, Hamburg) is all about a multi-talented artist. The film delves into the worlds of sound and thought of celebrated British electronic musician, conceptual artist and sound activist Matthew Herbert - and accompanies the artist on a project that he will be carrying out at the Millerntor Stadium during the Reeperbahn Festival.
Here as seasonal homeless people, there as emigrants on home leave: in the documentary Am Rande (80,000 euros, Wüste Film, Hamburg), Andrei Schwartz looks at the double life of a group of Roma: in Hamburg, they earn their modest living by begging. Except for five months in winter, they live on the streets. Four to five times a year, they return to their homeland. There they look after their families and school-age children - until their empty pockets force them to leave again.
A total of five documentary film projects, one feature film, one music film and one experimental short film received production funding, while Hamburg-based klinkerfilm productions with Script Writer Brix Vincent Koethe also received a positive funding approval. The script development of their coming of age dramaHydrais being supported with 20,000 euros.
Five Hamburg film theatres will receive around 30,000 euros in cinema funding: the B-Movie will receive a financial boost for its30th anniversary (1,500 euros) and its film seriesIn animation (3,500 euros). The Zeise Hallen will receive further funding for theirZeise Open Air 2017 (8,000 euros), the Metropolis cinema for its film series100 years of the October Revolution (7,000 euros), the Lichtmeß cinema for advertising campaigns and its website (4,500 euros) and the 3001 cinema for the film seriesCine Cubano 2017(3,500 euros) and the relaunch of its website (3,000 euros). Project development funding totalling 66,000 euros is available for five films, while three further projects are being funded in post production (25,000 euros) and Distribution and Sales (26,000 euros).
A detailedYou can find an overview of all funded film projects here.
The funding decisions were made by: Barbara Denz, Birgit Glombitza, Katrin Klamroth, Joachim Kühn, Maria Köpf and Arne Sommer. Committee 2 of Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein (FFHSH) is responsible for projects with production costs of up to 800,000 euros.
