11.01.2022 | Around 130,000 euros to 6 projects
Shortly before the turn of the year, the Kurz + Innovativ Committee of the MOIN Film Fund met. The result is six projects with around 130,000 euros in Fundings. These include a rural coming-of-age story by Friedrich Tiedtke from Schleswig-Holstein and an animal-political VR experience by Hamburg-based animation studio Fabian&Fred.
With the short filmKalb (50,000 euros), Schleswig-Holstein filmmaker Friedrich Tiedtke delivers a rural coming-of-age drama: in order to finally stand on her own two feet, a young woman breaks off contact with her parents and fights alone for her self-sufficient farm. As winter sets in and the calving of her pregnant cow draws ever closer, her longing for security and family grows. The film will have a total of nine shooting days in Schleswig-Holstein in January 2022. Tiedtke wrote the script together with Ida Åkerstrøm Knudsen from Denmark. The Hamburg-based company Tamtam Film is co-producer.
The film debut is about clownsClownesse (30,000 euros, Pinkmovies, Hamburg) by Jana Rothe and Elena Friedrich from Hamburg. The docu-fiction film shows the lives of contemporary female clowns who turn the world upside down beyond learned structures. An underestimated theatre art becomes a niche of feminism.
In her documentary short film, Directors and Script Writer Julia Küllmer from Lüneburg followsI can be invisible (12,500 euros) to the Hamburg trans man Maurice. The film focuses on the question of what the body means for being. HFBK graduate David Gómez spends three days shooting his experimental short film Proveniente (8,000 euros) in the Hanseatic city, which focuses on the life of ethnologist Konrad Theodor Preuss. Fundings totalling 6,500 euros will go to the projectThe headin which filmmaker Julius Dommer returns to his home town of Mölln and accompanies the young politician Jan Frederik Schlie during his election as mayor.
In the area of innovative projects, the Committee approved concept funding for the projectSWARM (20,000 euros, Fabian&Fred, Hamburg). The VR experience by Polish Director and Script Writer Ula Sowa is about the power of being able to change society as a group. Viewers slip into the body of a bee in the middle of a swarm and move through the city alongside a demonstration of women.
The "Kurz + Innovativ" Committee promotes both short films and innovative audiovisual formats, from XR experiences and 360-degree films to immersive story worlds.
A detailed overview of all funded projects can be found here.
The funding decisions were made on 10 December 2021 by Birgit Glombitza, Ingo Mertins, Britta Schewe, Insa Wiese, Ralph Heinsohn and Arne Sommer.
