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5.4 million € Medienboard funding: We're looking forward to films for the big screen and exciting high-end series made for home entertainment – hopefully without Corona!

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Berlin / Potsdam – Kirsten Stewart will portray Princess Diana and lots of other stars will also shoot on location in Berlin-Brandenburg, among them Hannah Herzsprung, Albrecht Schuch, Sandra Hüller, Daniel Brühl, Nadja Uhl, Jan Bülow, Chris Kraus, Carolina Hellsgård, Hans-Christian Schmid, Matti Geschonneck, Alice Schwarzer, Volker Schlöndorff. In its fourth round of funding, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg has granted more than 5.4 million € to 30 projects that will be produced, developed or distributed by film professionals in the German capital region. Click here to see the entire list with all funded projects.


PRODUCTION FUNDING FOR NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL FILMS


Spencer
Komplizen Film | Funding amount 900.000 Euro
Direction: Pablo Larraín | Script: Steven Knight
Cast: Kristen Stewart as Lady Di


15 Jahre
Four Minutes Filmproduktion | Funding amount 650.000 Euro
Direction & Script: Chris Kraus
Cast: Hannah Herzsprung, Albrecht Schuch, Christian Friedel, Adele Neuhauser


Das fliegende Klassenzimmer
UFA Fiction | Funding amount 600.000 Euro
Direction: Carolina Hellsgård | Script: Gerrit Hermans
Cast: Sandra Hüller, Daniel Brühl


Das Netz (Series)
Sommerhaus Serien | Funding amount 500.000 Euro
Direction: Rick Ostermann | Script: Martin Ambrosch, Anneke Janssen, Johannes Flachmeyer, Thomas Ritter


Die Wannseekonferenz
Constantin Television | Funding amount 500.000 Euro
Direction: Matti Geschonneck | Script: Magnus Vattrodt


Die Schule der magischen Tiere: Voller Löcher!
Kordes & Kordes Film | Funding amount 350.000 Euro
Direction: Gregor Schnitzler | Script: Viola Maria Schmidt, Alexander Dydyna
Cast: Nadja Uhl, Milan Peschel, Justus von Dohnányi, Heiko Pinkowski, Marleen Lohse, Emilia Maier, Leonard Artur Conrads, Loris Sichrovsky


Wir sind dann wohl die Angehörigen
23/5 Filmproduktion | Funding amount 200.000 Euro
Direction: Hans-Christian Schmid | Script: Michael Gutmann, Hans-Christian Schmid
Cast: Adina Vetter, Justus von Dohnányi, Hans Löw, Yorck Dippe, Philipp Hauß


Die Theorie von Allem
Ma.ja.de Fiction | Funding amount 200.000 Euro
Direction: Timm Kröger | Script: Timm Kröger, Roderick Warich
Cast: Jan Bülow, Hanns Zischler, Olivia Ross, Udo Samel


Mittagsstunde
Florida Film | Funding amount 200.000 Euro
Direction: Lars Jessen
Cast: Charly Hübner


Schockwellen
zero one film | Funding amount 120.000 Euro
Direction & Script: Volker Heise
Documentary feature about the SARS-CoV-2 virus.


Forest Maker
zero one film | Funding amount 80.000 Euro
Direction & Script: Volker Schlöndorff
Theatrical portrait about an Australian agronomist who is revolutionizing the agriculture and forestry in Africa.


Alice Schwarzer
Mizzi Stock Entertainment - Weerts Müller | Funding amount 60.000 Euro
Direction & Script: Sabine Derflinger
Theatrical portrait about one the most famous German feminists who is fighting for gender equality since the 1970s.

 

DEVELOPMENT
 

The Next Level (Series)
REAL FILM | Funding amount 80.000 Euro
Script: Alexander Osang

Age of Queens (Series)
Readymade Films | Funding amount 50.000 Euro
Script: Donna Sharpe nach einer Idee von Laura Bull

Pawns (Series)
maze pictures | Funding amount 50.000 Euro
Script: Michael Idov, Lily Idov

Totensonntag in Heilstätten
Schmerbeck Entertainment | Funding amount 30.000 Euro
Script: Till Schmerbeck

 

DISTRIBUTION

Schachnovelle (The Royal Game) (Philipp Stölzl), Studiocanal, 150.000 € || Drachenreiter (Tomer Eshed), Constantin Film Verleih, 100.000 € || Jim Button and the Wild 13 (Dennis Gansel), Warner Bros. Entertainment, 100.000 € || La Boda de Rosa (Iciár Bollaín), Piffl Medien, 45.000 € || Wer wir waren (Marc Bauder), X Verleih, 30.000 € || And Tomorrow the Entire World (Julia von Heinz), Alamode, 25.000 € || Zustand und Gelände (Ute Adamczewski), Grandfilm, 10.000 €