Schleswig-Holstein Film Festival and Screenplay Award

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The programme is set: On 5 December, the Filmfest Schleswig-Holstein will take place in an online edition due to the current Corona restrictions and will show a total of 9 short films in a free stream. In addition, the Schleswig-Holstein Screenplay Award will be presented on 29 November as a podcast on Spotify and on the radio at Kiel FM.

Everything is different this year: theSchleswig-Holstein Film Festival will focus on its short film competition on 5 December from 8 pm and make a total of nine films available online and completely free of charge. Viewers can look forward to the 2018 Screenplay Award winner "Boje" by Robert Köhler and Andreas Cordes and "Schweigen der Fische" by Hilke Rönnfeldt, among others. In the competition, the Audience Award (donated by PSD Bank) and the Gesa Rautenberg Prize will be awarded by jury decision. Both prizes are endowed with 2,000 euros each. The winners will be determined and announced live following the streaming of the films. The complete programme and further information can be found here:www.filmfest-sh.de

TheSchleswig-Holstein Screenplay Award will take place in an online edition this year: On 29 November from 8pm as a podcast on Spotify and on the radio at Kiel FM. As usual, all final scripts will be brought to life in a staged reading by a team of speakers. The Script Writers of the scripts will have their say via telephone interview and will tell more about the story of their creation and realisation plans. This year, the nomination of the scripts for the final was already endowed. This means that every script that is presented in the live reading will receive financial support for the further development or realisation of the material. The winning script chosen by the expert jury receives an additional prize as well as a package of support measures to help realise the project.More information can be found here.

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