I am very happy to announce that my latest collaboration with Belgian filmmakers Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth THE FIFTH SEASON will have its world premiere in the Official Competition of the 69th Venice International Film Festival. As soon as I know the screening dates you will read about it here so we can meet on the red carpet.
Watchlist: Web Series
There are lots of web series on the internet these days, and how you get them financed is still a mystery in most cases. But what was I going to tell you? Oh, yes! Flavorwire is presenting 10 web series to watch. Some videos don’t work here in Austria, but there is one I did not know before and I …
Video: Weekend At The Beach
I know you always wanted to see Jean-Luc Godard in swimming trunks, Wim Wenders fully clothed (including suspenders) and Heiner Müller reading a book at a beach in California. Here you go: Personally I think the video is rather mediocre until the film cuts away from the adults at 6:57 mins and shows the kids… :-) Oh, and whoever is …
Watchlist: DOBERMANN
Last night my screenwriter friend Susanne Freund told me that she had been member of the jury of Max Ophüls Festival in Saarbrücken many years ago. There she saw a short film called DOBERMANN. Many years later she saw the movie THE LIVES OF OTHERS, and the name of the director sounded familiar to her. It was Florian Henckel von …
Filmmaking Masterclass
There are so many things happening in my life right now, I hardly have time on my hands for writing blog posts and such. But now I caught a cold, it is Sunday and it is raining outside. So I can tell you a little bit about what happened in the last weeks. (This is gonna take a while, so …