After his international success withInto the fate is what Director Fatih Akin is aiming for with his new filmThe Golden Glove (bombero international, Hamburg) to the Hamburger Berg. The FFHSH is supporting the film during project development. The film is based on Heinz Strunk's novel about the woman-killer Fritz Honka, who met his victims in the neighbourhood pub "Zum Goldenen Handschuh" in the mid-1970s.
A total of ten projects received production funding. Six of them were directed by women and the same number of scripts were written by women:
Do your thing (750,000 euros, Letterbox Filmproduktion, Hamburg) tells the journey of the young Udo Lindenberg, who dreams of becoming a great musician. Between the early fifties in Gronau, Westphalia, and 1973 with an all-decisive performance in Hamburg, there are crashes, resurrections and great transformations. Directors is the Hamburg film great Hermine Huntgeburth. The script was written by Christian Lyra and Sebastian Wehlings.
With Directors Katja Benrath and Executive Producer Tobias Rosen, part of the Oscar-nominatedWatu Wote-team on his first feature film. In the modern Pippi Longstocking taleRocca - Change the world! (550,000 euros, Relevant Film, Hamburg) is all about eleven-year-old Rocca: a clever, creative and courageous girl who lives all alone in a house in Hamburg - which suits neither her teachers nor the authorities. Responsible for the script isHoney in the head-Script Writer Hilly Martinek.
Another successful duo is behind the dramaPelican blood (550,000 euros, Junafilm, Hamburg): Already withTore dancesDirectors Katrin Gebbe and Executive Producer Verena Gräfe-Höft have brought a controversial and stirring film to the screen. In Pelican Blood, they once again tackle a sensitive subject: a mother, played by Nina Hoss, has to make an extreme decision in the fight for her emotionally wounded adopted daughter.
What do you do when your oldest friend unexpectedly wants to get married far too soon? In the comedyHello again by Maggie Peren (550,000 euros, Sommerhaus Filmproduktion, Oberhaching), Zazie is trapped in a time loop and tries to prevent her best friend's wedding every day anew. Most of the film will be shot in Hamburg.
Til Schweiger's hit film gets an English-language remakeHoney in the headIn Honey in the Head (450,000 euros, Barefoot Films, Berlin), Schweiger is once again the Director. The leading role - originally played by Didi Hallervorden - is played by Hollywood actor Nick Nolte. Matt Dillon and Emily Mortimer are also prominent members of the cast. The script was written by bestselling author Jojo Moyes, known for her novel "A Whole Six Months". The team will be filming for a fortnight in Schleswig-Holstein.
Further production funding goes toIn Love and War by Kasper Torsting (247,500 euros, Tamtam Film). The romantic drama from the First World War is the first film to be made as part of the Danish-German co-production development initiative by the Danish Film Institute and the FFHSH. Positive funding commitments have also been made for the family filmThe Chaos Sisters - Mission Penguin by Franziska Buch (250,000 euros, Karibufilm, Cologne) and for the film adaptation of Daniel Glattauer's successful novel Well against the north wind (150,000 euros, Vanessa Jopp, Komplizen Film, Berlin). Hollywood is also making a stop in Hamburg: the productionThe Girl in a Spider's Web by genre pro Fede Alvarez (100,000 euros, Fortieth Babelsberg Film, Potsdam) with Claire Foy as hacker Lisbeth Salander was shot in Hamburg harbour back in February. The poetic documentarySilence of the Tides (Bildersturm Filmproduktion, Cologne) about the Wadden Sea by Pieter-Rim de Kroon receives 45,000 euros in funding.
Screenplay funding of 30,000 euros each goes to the comedyUnder one roof.Family is not for cowards by André Erkau and Birgit Maiwald (Riva Film) and the dramaHome by Jan Braren, Kilian Riedhof and Marc Blöbaum. In addition to Fatih Akin's "The Golden Glove" (50,448 euros), Piotr Lewandowski's dramaKing of the FIiegen (30,000 euros, Riva Film, Hamburg) in project development. In addition, seven projects received Fundings for Distribution and Sales.
The funding decisions were made on Tuesday, 27 March 2018: Steen Bille, Maria Köpf, Sophie Molitoris, Christian Granderath, Peter Preisser and Caroline von Senden. Committee 1 of Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein (FFHSH) is responsible for projects with production costs of over 800,000 euros.
Photo: Marc-Oliver Schulz
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