Participants & Projects

Masterschool 2006

  • Name:
    Petra Bertram 
    Company:
    Ottonia Media 
    Place:
    Leipzig, Germany 
    Nationality:
    German 
    Project:
    view trailer »Sosua - Zion in the Caribbean
    Genre:
    History 
    Text:

    Sosua in the Dominican Republic - the haven of hope for a group of Jews, who left Nazi Germany to find a new "Heimat".

    Team member:
    Dr. Dorothea Schrade 
  • Name:
    Lilach Dekel 
    Company:
    Transformation Films 
    Place:
    Berlin, Germany 
    Nationality:
    German 
    Project:
    view trailer »Unholy Alliance
    Genre:
    Social/Human Rights 
    Text:

    The organisation called "Women on Waves" has started to operate a mobile clinic on a ship to pick up women for whom abortion in international waters is the only way out of an unwanted pregnancy.

    Team member:
    Tami Berkovits 
  • Name:
    Regine Dura 
    Company:
    LICHTBLICK Film- und Fernsehproduktion GmbH 
    Place:
    Berlin, Germany 
    Nationality:
    German 
    Project:
    view trailer »White Blood
    Genre:
    Human Interest 
    Text:

    What happened to German war orphans of "Arian blood" carried off to white Afrikaner families in 1948? A film about the loss of identity and inner conflicts of survival.

  • Name:
    Karin C Falck 
    Company:
    Filmator i Norden AB 
    Place:
    Akersberga, Sweden 
    Nationality:
    Swedish 
    Project:
    view trailer »Mother, Midwife, Surgeon
    Genre:
    Human Interest 
    Text:

    A film about the political, medical and feminist power of educating midwives.

    Team member:
    Loui Bernal 
  • Name:
    Beadie Finzi 
    Company:
    Spectre Broadcast 
    Place:
    London, United Kingdom 
    Nationality:
    British 
    Project:
    view trailer »In the Beginning: The Story of Water
    Genre:
    Enviromental Documentary 
    Text:

    Water is the single most precious element for supporting life on earth. But within the next thirty years, demand will exceed supply for the first time in human existence. And then what are we going to do?

  • Name:
    Jakob Gottschau 
    Company:
    Express TV-Production 
    Place:
    Copenhagen, Denmark 
    Nationality:
    Danish 
    Project:
    view trailer »Bad Bugs, No Drugs
    Genre:
    Human Interest 
    Text:

    When pets outplay third world diseases - pharmaceutical companies spend billions of dollars on lifestyle drugs, but are unwilling to invest money in third world diseases to save the lives of millions.

  • Name:
    Author/Director Joerg Daniel Hissen 
    Company:
    Riverside Film Hamburg 
    Place:
    Hamburg, Germany 
    Nationality:
    German 
    Project:
    view trailer »Life from Zero
    Genre:
    Science 
    Text:

    The passionate ecologist Charlie Crisafulli explores the unique and fascinating ecological recovery after the historic eruption of Mount St. Helens.

  • Name:
    Bartek Konopka 
    Company:
    MS Films 
    Place:
    Warsaw, Poland 
    Nationality:
    Polish 
    Project:
    view trailer »Rabbit à la Berlin
    Genre:
    Creative Documentary 
    Text:

    The chronicle of thousands of rabbits that lived safely inside the Berlin Wall until it came down, shows the changes which have taken place in Eastern Europe over the last 45 years.

    Team member:
    Piotr Rosolowski, Producer: Andzka Wydra 
  • Name:
    Vassilis Kosmopoulos 
    Company:
     
    Place:
    Athens, Greece 
    Nationality:
    Greek 
    Project:
    view trailer »The Hide
    Genre:
    Creative Documentary 
    Text:

    The revelation of a Greek secret operation undertaken during World War II which aimed at hiding and thereby securing the national archaeological treasures.

    Team member:
    Ariane Ahl-Kampf 
  • Name:
    patrice nezan 
    Company:
    LESFILMSDUPRÉSENT 
    Place:
    arles, france 
    Nationality:
    french 
    Project:
    Zanzibar - From Rhythm to Soul
    Genre:
    Creative Documentary 
    Text:

    In a sensitive and colourful journey, a musical world of infectious tones will be discovered: Zanzibari music.

  • Name:
    Barbara Puskas 
    Company:
    INTERSPOT Film 
    Place:
    Mödling, Austria 
    Nationality:
    Austrian 
    Project:
    view trailer »Every Little Helps - The Eco Reality
    Genre:
    Human Interest 
    Text:

    A film about the global effects of daily consumption in the western world.

    Team member:
    Dr. Heinrich Mayer 
  • Name:
    Gabriele Rose 
    Company:
     
    Place:
    Munich, Germany 
    Nationality:
    German 
    Project:
    view trailer »Vineta - The Northern Atlantis?
    Genre:
    Science / History 
    Text:

    Like a treasure hunt, the film accompanies two scientists on the search for the legendary town Vineta in the Baltic Sea.

    Team member:
    Producer: Dr. Thomas Schuhbauer 
  • Name:
    Ilaria Sbarigia 
    Company:
    GA&A Productions 
    Place:
    Rome, Italy 
    Nationality:
    Italian 
    Project:
    view trailer »Mussolini's Dirty War
    Genre:
     
    Text:

    A taboo breaking confrontation with Italian war crimes since the time of colonisation contrasted with the collective conscience of Italians as good people incapable of doing harm.

    Team member:
    Giovanni Donfrancesco 
  • Name:
    Andrea Schramm 
    Company:
    taglicht media Film- & Fernsehproduktion 
    Place:
    Berlin, Germany 
    Nationality:
    German 
    Project:
    view trailer »China Lisa
    Genre:
    Human Interest / Creative Documentary 
    Text:

    A humorous relationship drama between Europe and China about art, different values and the meaning of individualism.

    Team member:
    Fang Yu 
  • Name:
    Mila Turajlic 
    Company:
    Nukleus 
    Place:
    Zagreb, Croatia 
    Nationality:
    (ex) Yugoslavian 
    Project:
    view trailer »Cinema Comunisto
    Genre:
    History / Politics 
    Text:

    Becoming the Hollywood of Eastern Europe by hook or by crook, this was the plan of Yugoslavia's Communist dictator Tito. However, what was it like working on films during Tito's time?

  • Name:
    Pfau Ulli 
    Company:
    EIKON Media GmbH 
    Place:
    Berlin, Germany 
    Nationality:
    German 
    Project:
    view trailer »The Final Battle - Christian Fundamentalists in the USA
    Genre:
     
    Text:

    An investigation into Christian fundamentalism, which has become a more and more powerful and influential movement in the US by linking religious and political objectives.

    Team member:
    Claudia Willke 
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