Participants & Projects
Masterschool 2012
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Name:Luigi BerardiCompany:Soul Rebel FilmsPlace:London, United KingdomNationality:ItalianProject:TraffickedGenre:Text:
Every day in India, young people are lured away from their homes by criminal trafficking networks. In the hands of traffickers, many children end up abused in brothels or destitute on the streets, living on the margins of society. “Trafficked” is inspired by the work of “Odanadi”, an NGO based in Mysore, India, who rescue victims of trafficking and reintegrate them into society. Over the past 20 years this organization has rescued more than 2,000 individuals, carried out more than 57 brothel raids and brought more than 137 traffickers to justice. “Trafficked” looks at how a set of individuals bring about justice in the seedy underworld of human trafficking and what happens to the victims who are rescued. This film will not be a promotional or campaign film about the NGO, but uses our existing relationship to secure access for an actuality and character driven film.
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Name:Michael BogárCompany:Perfect Shot Films GmbHPlace:Berlin, GermanyNationality:Project:Beauty in the BeastGenre:Text:
Imagine, if you could see the world through the eyes of animals, suddenly everything would look different... Take a close look at human build environments and you can find a variety of parallel societies. People build cities, design landscapes and create all sorts of space. They think that they are unique but sometimes they forget that they are only one in a Million of species living on earth. “Beauty in the Beast” is a six part family series, (a hybrid between natural history and traveldocu-fiction), about the coexistence between human and animal and the environment they share.
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Name:Giuseppe BucciarelliCompany:Bars MediaPlace:Fiesole, ItalyNationality:ItalianProject:Wild MovesGenre:Text:
Wild African beasts in their natural environment are an amazing view. Especially when you are sitting in the safety of your car. But they look much less friendly when you have to chase them on foot to catch them alive. They may have other plans.... Follow a team of rangers and conservationists in their attempt to relocate dangerous but endangered wildlife to protect them from deadly poachers and angry farmers. But be aware that your pray may suddenly turn into your worst nightmare...
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Name:Steven DhoedtCompany:VISUALANTICSPlace:Brussels, BelgiumNationality:Project:Trapped TeachersGenre:Text:
This story is about a national obsession related to the SUNEUNG exam, the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) in Korea. For 35 days before the entrance exam, about 400 high school teachers and professors are isolated in a secret mansion surrounded by police to prepare and review questions for this test. This is the only way to keep the national test objective and fair. As Steven and Wooyoung are also trapped with examiners, they observe exactly why the Korean Education Ministry use such secrecy, what the test means to the Korean people, and what kinds of problems arise in this education.
Team member:Sinae Ha & Wooyoung Choi -
Name:Philipp EndersCompany:Doberenz & Enders GbRPlace:Cologne, GermanyNationality:Project:MammonGenre:Text:
Timon is in trouble; he has lost almost all his savings. “During the financial crisis in 2008 the people have lost their belief in the system, consequently the system simply collapsed.” – at least, that is what Timon´s bank advisor says. Until then, Timon had not known that “the system” was depending on belief. He once heard that God only exists if you believe in him. Though Timon was baptised Roman Catholic and raised that way, this saying seemed less and less absurd as he became older. But what about the money – about mammon, the filthy lucre? Maybe it is just the same, maybe capitalism is “just” a religion, too?
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Name:Fabian GasmiaCompany:Detailfilm Gasmia & Kamm GbRPlace:Berlin, GermanyNationality:Project:Peak OilGenre:Text:
Oil determines our whole life - from food production to mobility, chemistry to pharmacy. What happens, when the costs of production succeed its benefits and our world has to run without it‘s most important element for growth?
Team member:Radek Wegrzyn -
Name:Eike GoreczkaCompany:42FilmPlace:Halle, GermanyNationality:Project:Eugenic MindsGenre:Text:
Eugenic Minds was once considered more groundbreaking than the invention of the wheel. It was supposed to save mankind from serious genetic loads. After World War II, the term of eugenics almost disappeared from the world’s dictionaries. The science had been misused by the ideology for the selective criteria of a perfect nation. The “wrong ones” were liquidated or deprived of their rights for existence in their own space. However, it was not the politicians but the scientist who determined the criteria. The unique archive material produced by the ideology of better tomorrows will be used to create a fantastic vision of the future which had turned into mass murder. The film aspires to become a timeless and popular reflection on the boundaries between science and pseudoscience in the present day, in the past and in the future.
Team member:Jiri Konecny -
Name:German KralCompany:German Kral FilmproduktionPlace:Munich, GermanyNationality:Project:TANGO/3D (working title)Genre:Text:
TANGO/3D is a film about old Tango-masters, still living in Buenos Aires. It is about the incredible passion they have for dancing Tango. My very personal interest in doing this film, is to show these old Tango-masters in their real dimension (3D!). These old masters, who still have so much to give and teach, not only about Tango and its dancing steps, but about Life itself.
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Name:Irja MartensCompany:fechnerMEDIAPlace:Immendingen, GermanyNationality:Project:Blue EconomyGenre:Text:
Plastic only produced from agricultural waste, fuel for vehicles from pine resin, mobile phones without batteries - those are only a few business models that are key in defining a new era of the economy - The Blue Economy. Following a truly revolutionary social entrepreneur around the globe the film leads us to faraway land that could prove a way of life consistent with Mother Nature. Where no waste is left behind, with no unemployment. It is about time to do better, to think outside off the box and maybe see the world through the eyes of a child…
Team member:Carl-A. Fechner -
Name:Stéphane NicolopoulosCompany:Place:Paris, FranceNationality:Project:Flooding the SaharaGenre:Text:
Could the inexorable extension of desertification and global warming in Africa be stopped with the flooding of the ancient sea that is the Sahara desert? With the help of modern science and the latest available technologies, this film will try to offer an answer while discussing the moral questions that arise from such an enterprise
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Name:Alba Mora RocaCompany:Place:Mexico City, MexicoNationality:SpanishProject:A Child’s gameGenre:Text:
How does a child deal with the extreme violence generated by the war on drugs in Mexico? "A Child’s game" (working title) explores the polarity of reality and games through the eyes of children who are exposed to this rocketing type of violence permeating all layers of Mexican society.
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Name:Maren RuhrstorferCompany:Rocket Studios Medienproduktion GmbHPlace:Munich, GermanyNationality:Project:Clear WaterGenre:Text:
The north eastern Ecuadorian Amazon possesses two precious treasures: One of the most biologically diverse places on earth - which influences the global climate. Underneath lies 850 million barrels of oil - an untouched black gold mine - around 5.63€ billion dollars worth. Two treasures and the questions: What is more important? Oil or ecosystem? Money or life?
Team member:Philipp Lenner -
Name:Žiga VircCompany:Studio Virc d.o.o.Place:Novo Mesto, SloveniaNationality:Project:Houston, we have a problem!Genre:Text:
It's a film about secret Yugoslavian space programme, based on unknown diaries of space pioneer Herman Potocnik from 1929. After USA was losing space race against the Soviet Union, Tito secretly sold programme to Kennedy in 1961. With American money Yugoslavia gained rapid economic progress and Tito gained unprecedented popularity worldwide. USA succesfully made it to the Moon in 1969.
Team member:Boštjan Virc -
Name:Gunnar WaltherCompany:Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion GmbHPlace:Essenheim, GermanyNationality:Project:The journey of the ZidsGenre:Text:
Eighty years ago, Family Zid from Vienna went on a journey around the world. We retrace their steps to the original locations in South America and meet the last living family member in Vienna. The film is a step-by-step account of the family`s historical journey and juxtaposes the enthralling events from the Zids's diary with modern-day reality.
Team member:Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion GmbH -
Name:Jakob D. WeydemannCompany:Weydemann Bros.Place:Berlin, GermanyNationality:Project:Europe’s BorderlandsGenre:Text:
The filmmaker, an enthusiastic European, sets out to explore the periphery of the European Union – the geographical borders as well as the borders of mobility and openness. His idealistic vision of Europe is put on trial: has Europe really overcome its borders or just built even higher fences at the frontier? Who is paying the price for our inner freedom and mobility?
Team member:Jakob Preuss -
Name:Benjamin WigleyCompany:ArtdocsPlace:Nottingham, EnglandNationality:Project:Paa Joe: Dead not BuriedGenre:Text:
Paa Joe: Dead not Buried is a story of ambition and legacy that sees a pioneer of the fantasy coffin trade seek success in the contemporary art world. Paa Joe, an acclaimed Ghanaian craftsman, has fallen on hard times. As he tries to make ends meet working from a road-side shack two hours from the country's capital he dreams of rebuilding his livelihood. To do this he must become an internationally successful artist.
