realsoccer: Ultras #1

Confession to make: One of the company’s co-owner’s is a soccer nut. That’s me. Die hard fan (and member) of soccer’s finest Eintracht Braunschweig, supporting soccer dad of nine-year-old daughter playing the Philipp-Lahm-position at Berlin club Türkiyemspor’s E-girl-team.

Confession #2: I like to mingle with the ultras in the stadium. Ultras - for those few readers unaware - are committed fans rejecting soccer’s general move into commercialism and transforming fans into customers. Ultras can be easily spotted in each stadium forming a tightly knitted mass of chanting, jumping, flag-waving bodies, mostly male&young. And that’s 90 min. plus half-time-break plus before and after the game (especially ‘after’ as we’re often the last ones being allowed to leave the cage designated for us and monitored by uniformed authority). (more…)

Kassel’s DocFest Extends Deadline to July 23rd

Due to numerous requests, the 27^th DokFest in Kassel has pushed it’s deadline for film submissions this year to July 23, 2010. It’s been much too hot to work, finish films or even to get the post office anyway. But don’t push it, the July 23^rd extensio  is it! So be sure to get your package postmarked by then. For more information about the festival and submission information go here.

Women in the Media Business - Where Are You?

At a meeting Santiago de Compostela, a group of European women filmmakers published a resolution demanding that more women be employed in the audiovisual sector. On realeyz.tv, approximately 40% of the movies were made by women.  A comparatively good average.   See here for some examples. And here is the: (more…)

SOURCES 2 Script Development Workshops – Application Deadline

SOURCES 2 Script Development Workshops

Seven-day session, coached development period, follow-up session.

Workshops for professional scriptwriters and teams of writers, producers or directors with a feature-length film project in development. In general feature films and creative documentaries for cinema and television (treatment or script, documentary presentation). (more…)

Rencontres Internationales Berlin 2010

From June 29 to July 4, 2010 the event series “Rencontres Internationales: New Cinema and Contemporary Art” will be showing at the “Haus der Kulturen der Welt” in Berlin.

In the presence of 100 artists and filmmakers from all over the world, this rare event will present an international programme of film, video, and multimedia. It includes 24 screenings with film premieres and a video program, a multimedia concert, a cycle of debates and panel discussions. A video library will offer a space where the whole programming can be viewed and reviewed on request.

This year’s programme has been selected from 5500 submissions as well as by invitations made to some artists and filmmakers. It is the result of an elaborate international search for works: 150 works from Germany, France, Spain and 50 other countries, gathering internationally-known artists and filmmakers with young artists and filmmakers presented for the first time. (more…)