Oscar Nomination for Masterschool Film "Rabbit à la Berlin"
Thu, 4 Feb 2010
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences just announced the Oscar nominations. This year, a film of the Documentary Campus Masterschool Rabbit a la Berlin by Bartek Konopka is competing for the Golden Oscar Statuette. The ceremony announcing the winners will take place on Sunday, 7 March 2010, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center.
Documentary Campus is thrilled to announce that Rabbit à la Berlin, a film developed at the Masterschool 2006 by Bartek Konopka, Piotr Rosolowski and Anna Wydra, is among this year’s Oscar nominees! Rabbit à la Berlin will compete in the Documentary Short Subject category along with four other films. The documentary, a Polish-German coproduction of Anna Wydra MS Films, Telewizja Polska and ma.ja.de Filmproduktion, MDR, RBB in association with ARTE, YLE, Lichtpunt and VPRO, tells the story of the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall through the perspective of the rabbits trapped between the walls as they face entrapment, adjustment, and eventual freedom and all of the other trials of being an ordinary rabbit caught between two conflicting ideologies.
So fingers crossed in four weeks time, when we hear the famous line: “And the Oscar Goes To...”
For more information about the film, also see:
Masterschool Films 2006
For more details on the director Bartek Konopka, click here
An interview with Bartek Konopka is available at: YouTube
To see the complete list of Oscar nominations, go to: www.oscars.org
About Documentary Campus and the Masterschool Programme:
Documentary Campus is one of the most renowned professional training initiatives in Europe dedicated to international coproductions of high-quality documentaries for a large audience. The Documentary Campus Masterschool forms the central core of the training initiative. It offers professionals and talented up-and-coming filmmakers a unique opportunity to find their way into the international non-fiction market. For the 2010 edition of the Masterschool, all projects were already selected. The Call for the 2011 edition will be launched in June/July 2010.
The Documentary Campus Masterschool is supported by the MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Bayerische Staatskanzlei, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM), Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, MFG Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg and Sächsische Stiftung für Medienausbildung.
