Shortcutz presents Best Shorts, 2. Edition at the Offener Garten

Shortcutz Berlin presents a special screening at the OFFENER GARTEN, including one short from each city of the Shortcutz Network – Lisbon, Porto, Amsterdam, London, Berlin.

The Shortcutz Amsterdam team will be present, so as the director of the Best Shortcutz Berlin Short 2012. Come and join us! The addres is bellow.

OFFENER GARTEN
Kruppstraße 16
10557 Berlin

Program:

- The Great Monteleone by João Leitão, Portugal, 2011,15 min. [br] (Shortcutz Network Gewinner 2012) [br] Synopse: Einsam lebt der alte Monteleone in einem Haus, das übersät ist mit den Relikten seines alten Lebens im Zirkus. Seit Jahren hat er sein Clownskostüm nicht mehr getragen, aber nun gibt es einen guten Grund. Zum letzten Mal wird heute seine Maske auftragen.

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- Cool by  João Garcia, João Rodrigues und Francisco Manuel Sousa, Portugal, 2012, 10 min. [br](Shortcutz Porto März 2013 Gewinner) [br]Synopse: Zé Barata, Spezialagent der Nationalen Bierunion, legt Zeugnis ab vor seinem jüngeren Bruder, dem Agenten Chico Barata. Dabei erinnert er sich an seine Zeiten als Grünschnabel, und besonders an sein Duell mit Jorge dem Schrecklichen. Nach der gleichnamigen Erzählung von Luís Paulo Gonçalves aus dem Band “Eine göttliche Angelegenheit, und andere Geschichten über Nichts” (Uma Questão Divina e Outras Histórias de Coisa Nenhuma), erschienen 2010 im Verlag Chiado Editora.

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- Stardust by Mischa Rozema,  Holland, 2012, 4 min. [br](Shortcutz Amsterdam März 2013 Gewinner) [br]Synopse: Stardust, der neue Film des PostPanic-Regisseurs Mischa Rozema, erzählt die Geschichte von Voyager 1, dem 1977 gestarteten Raumschiff, mit dem das äußere Sonnensystem erforscht werden sollte. Die Sonde ist das am weitesten von der Sonne entfernte menschengemachte Objekt, und es wird Zeuge von unvorstellbarer Schönheit und Zerstörung. Der Film entstand nach dem Tod des niederländischen Grafikdesigners Arjan Groot, der am 16. Juli 2011 im Alter von 39 Jahren einem Krebsleiden erlag.

Das gesamte Team von PostPanic, einem Amsterdamer Kreativunternehmen, brachte seine vereinten Kenntnisse zusammen, um einen liebevoll gestalteten CG-animierten Film zu schaffen.

Der Film entwickelt sich aus der Idee, das nichts jemals sinnlos ist, und wie viel Trost darin liegt, dass wir alle im Grunde aus Sternenstaub bestehen. Voyager verkörpert die Erinnerungen an unsere Liebsten und an Leben, die niemals ganz verschwinden werden.

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- Unseen by  Upneet Kaur Nagpal, Großbritannien, 2012, 19 min. [br](Shortcutz London Gewinner September 2012) [br]Synopse: Dieser Dokumentarfilm dreht sich um fünf faszinierende Individuen, die einst obdachlos auf den Straßen von London lebten und nun als Führer der “Unseen city walking tours” bekannte Straßen aus einem neuen Blickwinkel zeigen. Dabei erkunden sie unbeachtete Seiten verschiedener Wahrzeichen Londons, erzählen bizarre historische Tatsachen und persönliche, “ungesehene” Geschichten von Obdachlosen in diesen Gegenden. Sie machen so kulturelle Räume auf verschiedenen Ebenen zugänglich, beispielswiese in Covent Garden, Shoreditch, Mayfair, Brick Lane und London Bridge

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- MPU – Medizinisch Psychologische Untersuchung by  Robert Bohrer, Deutschland, 2012, 5 min. [br](Shortcutz Berlin Gewinner des Jahres 2012) [br]Synopse: Nach einer durchtanzten Disco-Nacht hat es Schauspieler Frankie eilig: Er muss zur MPU. Seine Freundin weiß nicht genau, was das ist, begleitet ihn aber dennoch gerne. Und während Frankie hinter verschlossenen Türen Rede und Antwort steht, setzt sich seine Freundin zu den anderen Wartenden in den Büroflur. Aber worauf warten eigentlich alle? Eine originelle Idee als Ausgangspunkt, eine dichte und punktgenaue Inszenierung und ein gutes Spiel: Mehr braucht es hier nicht, um einen wirklich überzeugenden Kurzfilm zu kreieren. Robert Bohrer und Pascal Yorks ist es in dieser studentischen Koproduktion mit dem TV-Sender Arte ein fünfminütiger Filme gelungen, bei dem man sich am Ende fragt, welche Geschichte man eigentlich gerade erlebt hat. Diese offene Dramaturgie macht die Erzählung glaubwürdig und schafft so ein kurzweiliges filmisches Vergnügen.5_mpu

Shortcutz Berlin Awards 2012 – Winners and Prizes

 

The 2nd edition of the Shortcutz Berlin Awards took place on February 2nd, 2012, at tthe great Urban Spree. The aim of the Shortcutz Berlin Awards is to give further recognition to all the great filmmakers that made our year of 2012 so great! And, of course, to thank them for their work and support throughout the intere year. Plus, we took the opportunity to celebrate 2 years of Shortcutz Berlin with an anniversary party open to everyone.

The prizes for this edition were:

- A voucher for one DVD rental at the Filmkunst Bar Fitzcarraldo for ALL winners of the 11 technical categories, plus a Movibeta Prize and a DVD collection for the “Winner of the Year”.

Bellow you can see the winners of the Shortcutz Berlin Awards 2012 – thank you all for coming or sending your friends/family to represent you shorts!

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Clara Palau, representing the team of “Caffeine”, by Danae Diaz and Patricia Luna, winner of “Best Animation”.

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Ester Amrami, director of “Zwei Männer und ein Tisch”, winner of “Best comedy” and “Best Berlin Short”.

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From right to left, Josephine Links, the director, Lotta Kilian, the camera woman, and Anne Jünemann, the editor of “Wir Sterben” winner of “Best Documentary”.

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Aaike Stuart, director of “Bad Luck City”, the winner of “Best Experimental” short.

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Tobias von dem Borne getting his prize for “Best Photography” in the short film “1949″.

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Billie Dünschede, representing her brother, Tim Dünschede, winner of the category “Best Director”, “Best Screenplay” and “Best Actress” with “Haltlos”.

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David M.Lorenz receiving the prize for “Best Original Music” for the music of Florian Erlbeck in “Ein Augenblick in mir”, by David M.Lorenz and Darja Pilz.

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Rainer Sellien getting the prize for “Best Actor” for his performance in “1949″, by Paul Florian Müller.

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York-Fabian Raabe, the “Winner of the Year” from 2011 with “Zwischen Himmel und Erde”, announcing the nominees for the same category for 2012.

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Robert Bohrer, director of MPU – Medizinisch Psychologische Untersuchung, the “Best Short of the Year” 2012 winner! Congratulations!

Robert Bohrer got a Movibeta Festival Prize: credit for 50 film festival submissions to several festivals around the world. With Movibeta filmmakers have access to a long list of festivals where they can submit their short to, including Festival de Malaga, Rome Independent Film Festival or Maipú Festival in Argentina. Without having to send DVDs by regular post, with Movibeta you just have to register to start sending out your films to different festivals. Online distribution – the better way for filmmakers to save money! Plus, as a gentle give-away by some past special guests at Shortcutz Berlin, he also got a DVD collection which included:

- “Surprise”, by Veit Helmer, a DVD including short films done by writer-director-producer, known for his short films such as “Tour Eiffel”, “Surprise” or “The Window Cleaner”.

- “Das Schlechte Feld”, by Bernhard Salmann, filmmaker. This documentary about an inquiry into a patch of land in Austria, was in the selction of DOK Leipzig Festival 2011.

- “Junge komm bald wieder”, by director and producer Ben Mergelsberg, from Wrangelfilm, a production company made by young filmmakers, a small core team of members and a broad network of changing collaborators in Berlin.

Thank you all for coming, a big thank you to our great jury and thank you all who were involved in the organisation of this evening!

Sat. 2.02 Shortcutz Berlin Awards 2012 + Anniversary Party @ Urban Spree

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Another year of Shortcutz-Berlin is over. On the coming Saturday 2nd February we will have our 2. Shortcutz Berlin Awards at Urban Spree (corner Revalerstr./ Warschauerstr., Friedrichshain).

Here the Nominees for 2012, and our Jury members.

You will find all the informations on our blog, under the tab SB AWARDS 2012.

As always, this is a free entrance event.

If you wish to attend the Awards Ceremony itself, please be kind to rsvp us at shortcutz.berlin@shortcutznetwork.com Seats might come in short supply.

If you wish to party and celebrate us turning 2 years old, simply show up and dance.  Here the link to the Facebook Event.

Thank you and see you at Urban Spree on the 2nd February!

Flash offer: win 2×2 Tickets for tonight’s EFFTER concert

Our friends effter will be playing tonight at

K-17, Pettenkoferstr. 17a, 10247 Berlin-Friedrichshain

Be quick, and ensure yourself a free ticket for the concert!

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If you miss the opportunity tonight, you will still have the chance to get absorbed by their tunes on

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Shortcutz Berlin #71 – Winner Session: December 20th

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The Christmas’ break is coming closer, and it is time to announce the Winner of the Shortcutz Berlin December Competition, voted by our jury!

The competition shorts of December are:

Short #1: Wandernd Haus voll Vogelwasser, Veronika Samartseva

Short #2: Was fotografiert werden muss,  Irina Linke

Short #3: Grüne Oliven,  Gisèle Sabina Mbamu

Short #4: Dear Mr. Starr, Deniss Kacs

The Guest Short of this evening is “Long Distance Call” by Grzegorz Muskala.

2007, 20 min.

Synopsis: Henry is alone in a silent and darkened apartment, anxious and waiting by the phone, as his small child sleeps. Finally, a call. His wife Claire is on the other side of the world on a beach at a luxury resort, drunk, also in the dark, but apparently not alone. An adulterous affair or a life in danger? In the harrowing wait and frantic calls that follow, is it his marriage, his wife or his sanity that is most under threat? The telephone line is the single fragile thread that connects them, and all Henry can do is hang on.

The Special Guest of this evening is Mokoari Street Productions,  a film production company  founded in 2009 and based both in Lesotho and in Berlin.  Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese and Hannah Stockmann will present some works they made since its creation.

Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese  was born in 1980 in Hlotse, Lesotho.  He graduated in Human Resource Management , to refocus then on his first passion -  cinema. He became meanwhile an independent,  self-taught  filmmaker  who  has  been  writing,  directing,  editing  and producing music-videos, commercials, documentaries and feature-films since 2006. Co-founder, Creative Director and Senior Editor of a production company (VISION 12) based in Johannesburg. He took part in 2012 to the Berlinale Talent Campus. The same year, one of his scripts has won the Focus Features Africa First Award.

Hannah Stockmann was born in 1987 in Filderstadt, Germany.  As a teenager she continuously worked as an assistant director in a small theatre group in Stuttgart, where she also acted in several plays.  In 2007,  she moved to Berlin. She graduated in 2011 in Political Science, Philosophy and Gender Studies at the Freie Universität. In 2009 she visited Lesotho for an Internship and  met there Jeremiah Mosese. At the moment she is living in Berlin and works as a freelance filmmaker and Political Scientist.

My interests concerning my work circle around social justice and human relations and I see film as one of the most powerful tools to catalyse change in our day and age”. Jeremiah Mosese

My personal challenge was always to combine art and science since I think both “disciplines” can make each other holistic  – where science fails  to integrate human emotions and individual stories, film comes into place. Where film fails to be general, science can transcend it beyond the point of being just another random story. Besides that I feel that images speak to most humans much more intensely than words. They inspire and touch people subliminally which is why film is such a powerful tool that can create or at least influence ideas, attitudes, identities and change”. Hannah Stockmann

They will first show parts from their first two works together as Mokoari: The documentary “Good Night my White Pride” (trailer) and the feature film Likhapa tsa Mali (excerpt). Then more recent works, the short film “Mahlomola” (Sorrow) and the trailers for the two feature films (“For those whose God is dead” and “No Story is just Black or White”) they shot this year that are both in postproduction right now.

Find out more on their website: http://www.mokoaristreetproductions.com/