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Medienboard funds artistic and experimental films by Laura Poitras, Cyprien Gaillard, Ute Aurand and Bernhard Sallmann
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Berlin / Potsdam - Once a year the Medienboard funds artistic and experimental films in a special funding round. 12 new projects have been supported with a total of 250,000 euros.
Year 2020 (coda)
Praxis Films Berlin GmbH | funding amount 20.000 euros
Direction: Laura Poitras & Sean Vegezzi – Oscar, BAFTA, German Film Award for "Citizenfour" about Edward Snowden.
KOE
Michel Balagué, Berlin | funding amount 20.000 euros
Direction: Cyprien Gaillard – Prix Marcel Duchamp, Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst, exhibitions at Kunsthalle Basel, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Galerie Sprüth Magers Berlin.
TO BRASIL!
Ute Aurand Filmproduktion, Berlin | funding amount 20.000 euros
Direction: Ute Aurand – Film festivals e.g. Berlinale 2019, IFFR Rotterdam, Toronto International Film Festival.
Berlin-JWD
Bernhard Sallmann, Berlin | funding amount 20.000 euros
Direction: Bernhard Sallmann – Award of the DEFA foundation, "Fontane"-series and "Träume der Lausitz".
The Fourth Garden
Blood Orange East Studios UG, Berlin | funding amount 30.000 euros
Direction: Joe Ramirez – "The Gold Projections", Kulturforum Berlin, Pierre Boulez Saal.
Arancia Bruciata
KIRBERG MOTORS, Berlin | funding amount 20.000 euros
Direction: Clémentine Roy – Festivals and exhibitions at IFFR Rotterdam, Kinodot St. Petersburg, RIDM Montreal, SFFILM San Francisco, Berlinische Galerie, Intolab Space Neapel, Os recem-chegados Lissabon.
Snap Right Back
Desire Productions GmbH, Berlin | funding amount 20.000 euros
Direction: Yony Leyser – "Desire Will Set You Free", "Queercore - How to Punk a Revolution", festivals and exhibitions at Viennale, ZKM Karlsruhe, direction at Gorki Theater Berlin.
The Body, in Plural
Marta Popivoda, Berlin | funding amount 20.000 euros
Direction: Marta Popivoda – Exhibitions at Tate Modern London, MoMA New York, M HKA Antwerpen, 21er HAUS Wien, GARAGE Museum Moskau, Beirut Art Center.
A Flower in the Mouth
Flaneur Films, Berlin | funding amount 20.000 euros
Direction: Eric Baudelaire – Exhibitions at Centre Pompidou Paris, film festivals e.g. Locarno, Toronto, New York.
Swarm
OJOBOCA GbR, Berlin | funding amount 20.000 euros
Direction: Anja Dornieden & Juan David Gonzalez Monroy – Film festivals e.g. IFFR Rotterdam, Berlinale Forum Expanded 2020.
Watch Before Deletion
Amerikafilm GmbH, Berlin | funding amount 20.000 euros
Direction: Mohammad Shawky Hassan – Film festivals & exhibitions at Berlinale Forum Expanded, MoMA, scholarship from the Arsenal-Institute for Film and Video Art, Berlin.
Close Protection
Pilvi Takala, Berlin | funding amount 20.000 euros
Direction: Pilvi Takala – Accolades e.g. Prix de Rome, Emdash Award; exhibitions at Kristianstads Konsthall, 59. International Art Exhibition – Biennale Venedig.