Achievements and Alumni
- We are proud that several projects that participated in the previous editions of the Cutting Edge Talent Camp (CETC) went to the Berlinale and beyond and were recognized in features Variety and ScreenInternational.
- Alexander Koberidze´s second feature ›What Do We See When We Look at the Sky‹ was produced by CETC participant Mariam Shatberashvili. The German-Georgian co-production was selected for the main competition at the Berlinale 2021 and was picked up for sales by Cercamon.
- Henrika Kull´s movie ›Bliss‹ screened in the Panorama section at the Berlinale 2021 and was picked up for international sales by Reel Suspects.
- Eva Knopf´s hybrid project ›Kintsugi‹ was selected for Berlinale Talents 2021. Maximilian Haslberger, with his company Amerikafilm, is attached as a producer.
- Producer Roxana Richters who participated in CETC and director Florian Hoffmann were invited to the 12th Les Arcs´ co-production village with their project ›Time of the Monsters‹. The project was later selected for A4D at Locarno IFF, the co-production market for projects from Germany, Italy, France and Switzerland.
- Sara Summa won the “FLOW Post Production Award” for her project ›A Safe Place‹, at the Co-production Forum of When East Meets West in 2021. The film is also produced by Roxana Richters.
- Sophie Linnenbaum’s project ›The Ordinaries‹ (previously called “Subtext”) was selected for the Work in Progress section at the Les Arcs Film Festival in 2021.
- Producers Roxana Richters, Maxi Haslberger and Julia Cöllen have been selected for the EAVE prodcuers workshop in 2022.
- Dieu Hao Do, Daria Wichmann and Steffen Goldkamp participated in Berlinale Talents 2022.
- Monica Vanesa Tedja participated in the Southeast Asia Film Lab with her project ›Dear Family‹ and was selected for Full Circle Lab in the Philippines, which is headed by Matthieu Darras, the former artistic director of Torino Film Lab.
- Anna Roller’s ›Dead Girls Dancing‹ was picked up for international sales by Totem Films.
Alumni
Maximilian Becht
producer, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Julia Cöllen
producer, Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts
Dieu Hao Do
director, Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
Zi Gao
director, Berlin University of the Arts
Eva Hoffmann Villena
director, Academy of Media Arts Cologne
Tamer Jandali
director, Academy of Media Arts Cologne
Youdid Kahveci
director, German Film and Television Academy Berlin
Laura Klippel
producer, Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
Eva Knopf
director, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Henrika Kull
director, Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
Borbála Nagy
director, German Film and Television Academy Berlin
Roxana Richters
producer, German Film and Television Academy Berlin
Lisa Roling
producer, German Film and Television Academy Berlin
Anna Roller
director, University of Television and Film Munich
Alon Sahar
director, Berlin University of the Arts
Britta Strampe
producer, Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
Monica Vanesa Tedja
director, Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
Zora Rux
director, German Film and Television Academy Berlin
Mariam Shatberatshvili
producer, German Film and Television Academy Berlin
Sara Summa
director, German Film and Television Academy Berlin
Cecilia Trautvetter
producer, German Film and Television Academy Berlin
Daria Wichmann
producer, German Film and Television Academy Berlin
Mentors
Ido Abram
Director of SEE NL and Deputy Director of the Eye Filmmuseum – The Netherlands
Gabriele Brunnenmeyer
Script mentor, project consultant and pitching coach – Germany
Anna Ciennik
Script consultant – France
Titus Kreyenberg
Founder and head of unafilm – Germany
Experts
Marjorie Bendeck
Connecting Cottbus – Germany
Paolo Bertolin
programmer Venice IFF - Italy
Anne Delseth
Cannes, Quinzaine des Réalisateurs - France
Daniel Goroshko
A-One Films – Baltics, Russia
Alessandro Gropplero
When East Meets West – Italy
Teresa Hoefert de Turégano
Medienboard Berlin – Germany
Alexis Hofmann
Bac Films – France
Mani Haghighi
Director – Iran
Stephan Holl
Rapid Eye Movies – Germany
Sara Juričič
IFFR / Cinemart – The Netherlands
Nicolas Kaiser
Memento Film Production – France
Zuzsanna Király
Flaneur Films – Germany
Paz Lázaro
Berlinale – Germany, Spain
Tatiana Leite
Producer – Brazil, France
Marcin Luczaj
New Europe Film Sales – Poland
Wendy Mitchell
Screen International – UK
Aranka Matits
Featurette – The Netherlands
Daniela Persico
Locarno - Switzerland
Julien Razafindranaly
Films Boutique – Germany
Elad Samorzik
Jerusalem Film Festival – Israel
Klaudia Smieja
Producer – Poland
Holger Stern
ZDF/Arte – Germany