Newsletter No. 9

[Iris Pfleging]

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NEWSLETTER No. 9

EDITORIAL

Dear Readers!

Electronic data processing has long made its way into all industries and 
fields of activity. The next wave of technological innovation for working 
with data is taking place on the Internet. Today, an ever greater share of 
information and goods are being exchanged online. Our Short Film Magazine 
is a good example of this phenomenon. Now, in the USA a few resourceful 
filmmakers have come up with a system that allows filmmakers and film 
festivals to exchange film data via the Internet, enabling festival 
registrations to be done online. Our lead article in this issue provides 
some insight into this procedure.

In the course of researching the article I contacted a few German festivals 
to ask for their opinion of online film registration.. Unfortunately, the 
replies were few. Apparently, the questions posed by this system are just 
too new and complex to be answered quickly. I would therefore be pleased if 
the article would prompt some reactions  from filmmakers as well, of 
course. Please feel free to send us an email or post your opinion in our 
online forum!



Till next time!


Reinhard W. Wolf
Editor


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TOPIC

Withoutabox: Electronic film and festival registration


Which filmmaker hasn’t groaned from time to time over the stacks of 
paperwork needed to submit his or her film to a festival, brooded over the 
meaning of obscure questions or been irritated by text fields too small to 
fit in all the required information? On the other side of the coin, it 
would be hard to find a festival employee who hasn’t sometimes cursed the 
ever-growing deluge of loose papers, searched for applications that have 
been buried without a trace, or taxed his eyes trying to reconstruct what’s 
written on unreadable faxes. Every year filmmakers all over the world fill 
out hundreds of thousands of application forms, and every year just as many 
forms are read by thousands of festivals, the data typed by hand into the 
computer and then imported into a database.

This gave two filmmakers from the U.S. a great idea. Joe Neulight and David 
Straus  known on the short film scene for their film ”god at heaven” (directed 
by Joe Neulight and produced by David Straus)  put their heads together 
with IT and Internet experts and came up with an online system that 
relieves filmmakers and festivals of this annoying chore, or, more 
specifically, reduces their workload substantially: a centralized online 
registration for use in applying to individual festivals. They gave the 
company they founded in 2000 the telling name ”Without A Box, Inc.” The 
”Withoutabox” product is currently used by 13,000 filmmakers and 120 
festivals  primarily in the USA.
The international outlook of the filmmakers, the system’s applicability to 
other countries due to its Web basis, and plans for localising the system 
for other countries, such as Germany, are reason enough to take a closer 
look at Withoutabox and discuss the options available for paperless film 
registration and administration. (...)

weiter lesen: http://www.shortfilm.de/ikf/pages/magazin/index.php?id=112


NEWS_No.9

Minister of Culture presents the German Short Film Award for 2002 || 06.11.2002

On Wednesday, 6 November in Berlin’s ”Kulturbrauerei” (”Brewery of 
Culture”), new Minister of Culture Dr. Christina Weiss presented the 2002 
German Short Film Award in Gold in four categories.
Each of the Gold Film Awards is accompanied by prize money of 30,000 euros. 
Out of the 147 films submitted to the competition, a total of nine were 
nominated in the categories of ”Feature Film”, ”Animated Film” and 
”Documentary”. In addition to the introduction of new prize categories and 
the lifting of restrictions on film format, the length for films allowed in 
the competition was extended this year from 15 minutes to a maximum of 30 
minutes.
The following films were awarded the Short Film Award in Gold:
Feature film under 7 minutes: ”Fetisch” (”Fetish”) by Richard Lehun.
Feature film between 7 and 30 minutes: ”Fremdkörper”(”Foreign Bodies”) by 
Katja Pratschke.
Animated film: ”Escape” by Kirsten Winter.
Documentary: ”Old Choi's Film” by Bin Chuen Choi.
(For a full listing, including nominees, see the ”Awards” heading of this 
website.)
Jury members for the German Short Film Award in the category of Feature 
Film were Werner Schneider-Quindeau, Frankfurt/Main (chair, minister and 
film commissioner for the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD), Robin 
Mallick, Dresden (Dresden Film Festival), Karl-Heinz Schmid, Bremen (cinema 
operator), Evelyn Schmidt, Berlin (film director) and Arnold Vaatz, Dresden 
(Member of Parliament). The jury for the German Short Film Award in the 
categories of Animated Film and Documentary consisted of Detelina 
Grigorova-Kreck, Wiesbaden (chair, producer), Iris Bernhard, Regensburg 
(Regensburg Short Film Festival), Dr. Lars Henrik Gass, Oberhausen 
(Artistic Director of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen), 
Ernst Hirsch, Dresden (cameraman) and Elfi Mikesch, Berlin (film director 
and camerawoman).
Beginning on 11 November 2002, the nine nominated short films will tour 
more than 100 cinemas throughout the Federal Republic of Germany.
Under the authority of the State Minister for Cultural and Media Affairs 
(BKM), the tour, entitled ”Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis Unterwegs 2002” (”The 
German Short Film Award On Tour 2002”), is being organised by the 
Kurzfilmagentur Hamburg (Hamburg Short Film Agency) and the Bundesverband 
Kommunale Filmarbeit (Federal Association for Municipal Film Work) in 
cooperation with AG Kino and the Gilde deutscher Filmkunsttheater (German 
Cinematic Arts Theatre Guild).
http://www.kurzfilmpreis.org


More News:
- Berlinale Talent Campus  A platform for rising international film talent
- Protestant Association for Media Communication sacrifices its Short Film List
- New: The Turin Film Festival Database
- Database: "f_films: female filmworkers in europe”
- Shared Spanish short film stand at the Clermont-Ferrand Film Market

Further information:
http://www.shortfilm.de/ikf/pages/magazin/index.php?id=389&lang_id=2


FAIT DIVERS

- 10 years of Erotic Tales
- Short film programme ”Prima Leben” on tour
- New film episodes featuring Wallace & Gromit online
- The ”Film Without a Camera” produced by the CHAOS Film Group is on tour
- RAM - Re-Approaching New Media Project for the Baltic countries
- Spain’s Canal+ presents short film prize winners
- Unknown short film is not the work of Leni Riefenstahl
- Short Films on Television

Further information:
http://www.shortfilm.de/ikf/pages/magazin/index.php?id=59&lang_id=2


AWARDS AND HONOURS

FIKE 2002 - Evora International Short Film Festival || 23.11.2002

Melhor Curta Metragem de Ficção (Best Short Fiction): “Cry for Bobo”, David 
Cairns, Scotland
Honourable Mention: ”Hombre sin Hombre”, Michel Gaztambide, Spain
Melhor Curta Metragem de Animação (Best Animation Short Film): ”L’Aiguille 
(The Needle)”, David Alapont, France
Honourable Mention: ”Svaki Je Dan Za Sebe Nikad Zabedno (Every day by 
itself, never together)”, Goran Trbuljac, Croatia
Melhor Curta Metragem Documental (Best Documentary Short Film): ”Iruya, La 
Magia del Títere (Iruya, the magic of puppetry) ”, Damián Ainstein, 
Spain/Argentina
Melhor Curta Metragem Experimental (Best Experimental Short Film): ”Over 
the Village -Chagall´s Dreams”, Diana Groó, Hungary
Honourable Mention: ”Ablution”, Eric Patrick, USA
Melhor Curtíssima Best Super Short: ”Como um Milagre (Like a Miracle)”, 
Ivana Guljasevi, Croatia
Honourable Mention: ”Austria 05 2000”, Frederik Baker, Austria
Melhor Curta Metragem Portuguesa (Best Portuguese Short Film): ”Almirante 
Reis”, Catarina Fortes & Fernando Vendrell, P
Honourable Mention: ”A costureira que engoliu um alfinete”, Rita Palma, P
Melhor Curta Metragem Europeia (Best European Short Film): ”O Gogos (The 
Hawker)”, Panayotis Fafoutis, Greece
Honourable Mention: ”Nada Que Perder (Nothing to loose)”, Rafa Russo, Spain
Prémio do Público Audience Award: ”Baldosas”, Marc Andrés Ricart, Spain
http://www.fikeonline.net


More Awards and Honours:
- The 7th Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF)
- Brief Encounters Bristol
- Festival Chileno Internacional de Cortometrajes
- 16th AFI Los Angeles Film Festival
- International Short Film Festival Winterthur 2002
-13th Kinofest Lünen
- 17ème édition du festival européen du Film Court de Brest
- Alcala de Henares Film Festival
- 51st International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg
- 20th Torino International Film Festival Cinema Giovane
- London Fest - TCM Classic Shorts Competition 2002
- Interfilm Berlin
- backup_festival neue medien im film, Weimar
- Winners of the \\internationale\medien\kunst\preis 2002
- European Film Academy Nominations
- Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis 2002
- 12th Film Festival Cottbus
- 47th Valladolid International Film Festival - Seminci 2002
- Commendations presented for Short Films by the Filmbewertungsstelle

Further information:
http://www.shortfilm.de/ikf/pages/magazin/index.php?id=60&lang_id=2


DATES

Festivals in Germany
International Festivals
Deadlines

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