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!

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

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

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”.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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!

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Saturday 2. February /  Shortcutz Berlin Awards  After Show@ Urban Spree!

Shortcutz Berlin ‘s break

 

 

Shortcutz Berlin is currently on a break – no screenings will be held until further notice. We wish everybody excellent Christmas & NYE holidays and see you in 2013!

Shortcutz Berlin – “Winner of the Month” of December

We are very happy to announce the “Winner of the Month” of December: “Grünen Oliven” by Gisèle Mbamu!

Herzliche Glückwünsche and congratulations to Gisèle and her team! We also want to thank her two friends who came on her behalf at the “Winner Session” to receive the prize!

Shortcutz Berlin #71 – Winner Session: December 20th

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/

Shortcutz Berlin #70 Session – December 13th

Short #1: “Grüne Oliven” by Gisèle Sabina Mbamu

“Green Olives“ tells the story of a 14 year old boy living in a relationship of dependence with an older man. Fourteen year old Julian Kalmbach is a lonely boy, neglected by his parents. In 37 year old Thomas Balzer the boy finds the love and affection denied from him for so long. A dangerous love story takes its course. How far would you go simply to be loved?

16´25 min

Short #2: “Dear Mr. Starr” by Deniss Kacs

Post-Wall Thuringia in the early 90′s: Klaus dreams of inviting Ringo Starr to the opening of his hairdressing salon, while his son plots revenge.

14’14 min

This week’s Guest Short:”Ring Frei” by Tom Weller

A transman prepares for his first fight as a boxer, but must first fight discrimination in the gym’s warm-up area.

2010, 4’13 Min

The Special Guest of this evening is Ben Mergelsberg, director/producer of Wrangelfilm,a documentary film production company and film collective from Kreuzberg. He will be talking about two road movie music documentaries by Wrangelfilm. One was shot in eastern Europe along the Danube, a trailer can be seen here. This project is currently in development and looking for funding. The crowdfunding campaign can be found here. The other film is in preproduction and will be shot in Mozambique. The trailer can be watched here. He will be talking about production conditions and wrangelfilm’s ideas to fund and distribute those films.