Press releases http://campus.kyff.20sec.de/channel/108.html <b>Press contact</b><br /> Christiane Steiner<br /> Tel.: +49 (0)30 25920 518 <br /> Fax: +49 (0)30 25920 519<br /> press.campus@berlinale.de<br /><br /> <a href="/channel/285.html">Pressemitteilungen auf deutsch</a> 2011-02-04T11:02:14+01:00 2011-02-04T11:02:14+01:00 Press release No. 7<br />February 4, 2011 http://campus.kyff.20sec.de/story/66/3666.html

“New Horizons in 3D – Storytelling and Producing Redefined” with Wim Wenders, Alain Derobe, Gian-Piero Ringel and Erwin M. Schmidt
While the Berlinale Talent Campus brings together filmmakers who represent the future of cinema, this year's Campus programme will also address the future look and feel of cinema. Legendary filmmaker Wim Wenders, director of masterpieces such as Wings of Desire, the Cuban music documentary Buena Vista Social Club and Paris, Texas will give a masterclass on his latest documentary Pina, a 3D dance film on the late German contemporary dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch, premiering in the Competition section. The main topic will be how 3D expands possibilities for storytelling, with film excerpts to illustrate how these new possibilities also encompassed new challenges for stereographer Alain Derobe, producer Gian-Piero Ringel and 3D producer Erwin M. Schmidt. The panel is moderated by Patrick Palmer and joined by Julian Pinn (Dolby) who will discuss the most recent developments in 3D technology (Monday, Feb 14, 6 pm, Cubix8).

Just as sound changed the landscape of filmmaking, technology is changing audience behaviour and expectations – they want immersion and interaction. As audiences move from one platform to another, how does one develop stories and characters that can travel across screens and devices? The impact of new technologies coupled with an audience that has way more control over their media than ever before is affecting the art and craft of storytelling. In the “Indie Filmmakers Guide to Cross Media” series on cross-media storytelling, experts like Michel Reilhac, the executive director of ARTE France Cinema, and other trendsetting pioneers will discuss with moderator Liz Rosenthal (“Power to the Pixel”) how to build and produce story worlds that span multiple platforms and engage audiences in powerful new ways (Monday, Feb 14, 2 pm, HAU2; Tuesday, Feb 15, 2 pm, HAU3 top floor; Wednesday, Feb 16, 11 am, HAU3 top floor).

“Too Good to Be True: Directing Reality” with Andres Veiel and Heddy Honigmann
Incorporating fictionesque elements in documentary films has enriched the genre tremendously and resulted in compelling storytelling taken from reality. Yet critics question re-enactments, staging interviews or even adding music in documentary films. On the other side, fiction films that use a documentary approach have increased the intensity of storytelling. This panel features two outstanding filmmakers who use a unique filmic language in both their documentary and fictional work. Andres Veiel (Black Box BRD, Addicted to Acting) is a multiple award-winning director and is considered one of Germany’s leading documentary filmmakers. His feature film

If Not Us, Who? is in competition at this year’s Berlinale. Peruvian-born and Amster-dam-based Heddy Honigmann (O Amor Natural, Forever) is a true master of the documentary form and her films possess a singular style and remarkable sensitivity. With a career that has spanned more than 20 years, her body of work includes documentary and fiction features and has garnered awards from festivals and praise from critics around the world, as well as provided inspi-ration for emerging and veteran documentary filmmakers alike. Honigmann and Veiel will discuss the extent to which directors can create their own filmic reality when making documentaries or use documentary elements when making fiction films (Tuesday, Feb 15, 11 am, HAU1).


The Berlinale Talent Campus is an initiative of the Berlin International Film Festival, a business division of the Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin GmbH, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media upon a decision of the German Bundestag, in co-operation with MEDIA - Training programme of the European Union and Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.

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February 4, 2011

]]> 2011-02-04T11:02:14+01:00 2011-02-04T11:02:14+01:00 2011-02-04T11:02:14+01:00 Press release No. 6<br />Januar 26, 2011 http://campus.kyff.20sec.de/story/51/3651.html “The Rules of Engagement” - Opening Panel with Kerry Fox, Henning Mankell and José Padilha
Tackling contemporary issues and developing an original point of view towards them is the main challenge for any storytelling artist. The opening panel of the Berlinale Talent Campus 2011 on Sunday, Feb 13 (HAU1, 11:00 h), will feature award-winning New Zealand actress Kerry Fox, who won the 2001 Berlinale Silver Bear for Best Actress for her role in Intimacy, Swedish bestselling author, theatre director and activist Henning Mankell and Brazilian filmmaker and 2008 Golden Bear winner, José Padilha (The Elite Squad), who will present the sequel Elite Squad 2 - The Enemy Within in Berlinale Panorama. Moderated by Campus programme manager Matthijs Wouter Knol, these three esteemed experts will talk about the initial impetus that led them down their individual paths, how it impacted their lives, shaped subsequent projects, and how this engagement further developed and took on a life of its own. Kerry Fox will also work with up-and-coming acting and directing talents from all over the world at the Talent Actors Stage.

“In the Limelight” - Harry Belafonte, Isabella Rossellini, István Szabó and Ralph Fiennes
Legendary US-American singer, actor and human rights activist Harry Belafonte will be among the Campus' star guests for an "In the Limelight" session. Showbiz legend Belafonte will talk about his recording career and his cinematic work for directors like Preminger, Wise or Altman, and also about his unrelenting commitment to humanitarian issues and his active involvement in human rights advocacy. Susanne Rostock’s inspiring documentary about the life and times of Harry Belafonte, Sing Your Song, will be presented in Berlinale Special. Two other "In the Limelight" sessions include one with this year's Berlinale jury president Isabella Rossellini and another with Hungarian filmmaker István Szabó and British director and actor Ralph Fiennes, who presents his directing debut Coriolanus in Berlinale Competition. Both filmmakers will give insights into the mutual commitment between directors and actors during challenging projects.

“The Establishing Shot” - Cinematography master class with Edward Lachman
The Berlinale Talent Campus is proud to present a discussion on cinematography with Edward Lachman, one of the most significant DoPs of independent and Hollywood cinema. Lachman has worked with directors such as Werner Herzog (Stroszek), Wim Wenders (The American Friend), Todd Haynes (Far From Heaven, I’m Not There), Steven Soderbergh (Erin Brockovich) and Ulrich Seidl (Import/Export). In 2002, he co-directed the controversial Ken Park with Larry Clark. Lachman is reputed to switch successfully between documentary and fictional films. Moderated by Ben Gibson, Lachman will focus particularly on opening shots and how to start a motion picture with a particular look and atmosphere, one that penetrates with insight and accuracy and pervades until the end.

The Berlinale Talent Campus events mentioned here are open to the public.


The Berlinale Talent Campus is an initiative of the Berlin International Film Festival, a business division of the Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin GmbH, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media upon a decision of the German Bundestag, in co-operation with MEDIA - Training programme of the European Union and Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.

January 26, 2011

]]> 2011-01-26T17:41:05+01:00 2011-01-26T17:41:05+01:00 2011-01-26T17:41:05+01:00 Press release No. 5<br />Januar 13, 2011 http://campus.kyff.20sec.de/story/46/3646.html “Filming War” — Panel with filmmakers Danis Tanović, Janus Metz and Samuel Maoz
No other events have influenced the narrative structures and aesthetic of films so much as the wars of the 20th and 21st centuries. High pressure and life-risking situations are inherent to filmmaking processes that depict war and crisis situations, whether they are fiction or documentary.

During the ninth Berlinale Talent Campus, three outstanding filmmakers will reflect on how war is depicted in film: Danis Tanović, who received an Oscar® in 2002 for No Man's Land, Janus Metz, who won the 2010 Grand Prix at the International Critics' Week of the Cannes Film Festival for his documentary Armadillo, and Samuel Maoz, Israeli director and script writer, who bagged a Golden Lion in Venice 2009 and recently won two European Film Awards for Lebanon.

“Play as Process: Worldbuilding and New Ways to Imagine” — Panel with production designer Alex McDowell, director Shekhar Kapur, and others
Play is a process that acknowledges the creative chaos inherent to developing storytelling worlds. New digital immersive tools of our time are like a toy box for ideas. How can we use these digital tools to create narrative play-spaces in which both audience and creator can be immersed in collaborative experience?

Since the 90s, production designer Alex McDowell has indisputably set new standards with the imaginary worlds he created for films like Fight Club, Minority Report, and Watchmen. Shekhar Kapur, the award-winning director of Bandit Queen and Elizabeth: The Golden Age, has developed his creative expression across the broad range of narrative media, from comic books to architecture. Together, McDowell and Kapur will offer Campus audiences an insight into the playful process behind building narrative worlds in virtual film space. Both filmmakers, together with experience designer Tali Krakowsky, and artist Andrew Shoben, are members of the 5D Conference - an association of designers, scientists, artists, entertainment media practitioners and academics that come together to explore current trends in designing for film and new media.


The Berlinale Talent Campus is an initiative of the Berlin International Film Festival, a business division of the Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin GmbH, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media upon a decision of the German Bundestag, in co-operation with MEDIA - Training programme of the European Union and Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.

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January 13, 2011

]]> 2011-01-13T16:15:13+01:00 2011-01-13T16:15:13+01:00 2011-01-13T16:15:13+01:00 Press release No. 4<br />November 23, 2010 http://campus.kyff.20sec.de/story/36/3636.html
Composer Michael Nyman, mentor of the Score Competition 2011. © Sheila Rock

"Framespotting – Filmmakers Positioning Themselves" is the name of the game when the doors to the theatre “Hebbel am Ufer” open for young, international filmmakers on February 12, 2011, during the 61st Berlin International Film Festival. Enthusiasm for the Berlinale Talent Campus is going strong, even after 9 years of existence: 3967 up and coming filmmakers from 141 countries applied, with first-time applications from Belize, the Comoros, Brunei, Mali and Mauritania. During the six event days, the Talent Campus offers 350 selected participants an opportunity to learn from prominent Berlinale guests and notable experts, to strengthen their own skills, and to clearly define their creative and strategic filmmaking goals. On top of this, Talents can participate in numerous hands-on training programmes, like the Doc & Script Station, the Talent Project Market, the Editing Studio or the Post-Production Studio, to work with experienced mentors on new film projects and make contacts for the future in an informal networking environment.

Composer Michael Nyman to mentor the Score Competition
The multiple award-winning British composer Michael Nyman will mentor the Score Competition, the Berlinale Talent Campus' competition for composers and sound designers. Nyman became widely known as a film score composer mainly for his work in many of Peter Greenaway’s films (A Zed & Two Noughts, The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover, Prospero’s Books), as well as for his scores for Wonderland, Gattaca and The Piano, his greatest commercial success thus far. Nyman is considered one of the most innovative and versatile contemporary composers. In addition to scoring films, he has also composed and premiered numerous operas, had musical stints in the games and fashion industries, and made a name for himself as a conductor, critic and director, most recently with his video project NYman with a Movie Camera. "I feel honoured to support the Talent Campus as a mentor, even more so as I still consider myself to be a Talent" says Michael Nyman (*1944). The Score Competition offers three young composers and/or sound designers the chance to create new scores for selected film excerpts and record them with the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg, with final mixing at the Film and Television Academy (HFF) “Konrad Wolf”. The scores will have their world premiere during the Campus. The best score will be selected by a jury, and its composer wins a Dolby-sponsored tour of the most renowned sound studios in Los Angeles.


The Berlinale Talent Campus is an initiative of the Berlin International Film Festival, a business division of the Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin GmbH, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media upon a decision of the German Bundestag, in co-operation with MEDIA - Training programme of the European Union and Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.

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November 23, 2010

]]> 2010-11-23T13:23:33+01:00 2010-11-23T13:23:33+01:00 2010-11-23T13:23:33+01:00 Press release No. 3<br />August 16, 2010 http://campus.kyff.20sec.de/story/97/3597.html On Thursday, August 19, 2010, shooting begins in Berlin for Mother’s Little Helper; a short film about what happens when dieting goes wild. The film is one of five projects that have made it to the final of the Berlin Today Award 2011 – the Berlinale Talent Campus short film competition. 150 young filmmakers from 55 countries responded to the call for projects that address the competition’s motto “Leaving the familiar sector”, to be realised in collaboration with producers from the Berlin-Brandenburg region. Michael Lavelle from Ireland will produce his short film together with the production company Macchiato Pictures Filmproduktion: “Directing a film under the banner of the Berlinale has opened the doors for me to collaborate with an incredibly talented group of people, and it’s a wonderful privilege to be making this film as part of such a passionate team”, says Lavelle. The shoot take place until August 23 in Berlin at Villa Herz (Havel Studios) close to the Wannsee lake, amongst other locations.

The shoot for Hackney Lullabies, a documentary portrait of female immigrants to the London district Hackney, by Kyoko Miyake from Japan (production: Filmkantine), will continue until August 18. On August 23, shooting begins near Bucharest in Romania for Little Red, the initiation story of 10-year-old Ica (director: Eva Pervolovici, production: Beleza Film). First takes for Spoilt Broth by director Toby Roberts from England will be shot at the CCC Studios in Berlin on September 7. The short film about two bank robbers competing during a post office hold-up will be produced by Heimatmedien. The competition round will conclude in Ireland from September 13-18 with the shoot for the creative documentary The Day We Danced on the Moon, which chronicles the experiences of a group of musicians as they deal with psychotic illness (director: Tristan Daws, production: Kloos & Co Medien).

All five films are produced with support from Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and in-kind contributions from the film industry until the end of 2010. The finalist films will have their world premiere during the Opening Ceremony of the Berlinale Talent Campus 2011 (February 12-17, 2011). The winning film will be selected by a jury of prominent filmmakers and will receive the Berlin Today Award.

“Every step you take” – Applications open for the Berlin Today Award 2012
Parallel to cameras rolling for the current round, the call for entries has been launched for the Berlin Today Award 2012, with the theme “Every step you take”. Does the flap of butterfly wings in Thailand set off a tornado in Texas? Small decisions we take in everyday life intrinsically influence our near future. What is a harmless accessory in one part of the world might be a major statement in another that leads to a chain of reactions. Whether political or private, it is these moments of taking a step and being aware of it, that the Berlin Today Award looks for when inviting young filmmakers to send in their film ideas for the Berlin Today Award short film competition 2012.

Directors from all over the world and producers from the Berlin-Brandenburg region may apply until October 6, 2010. 15 Talents and 10 production companies will be pre-selected and invited to attend a producers’ meeting during the Berlinale Talent Campus 2011. The five finalist teams will be announced at the end of the 61rst Berlinale. More information and the online application can be found at: www.berlinale-talentcampus.de.

Should you be interested in accompanying the finalists during their film shoots, please contact us: Christiane Steiner, Tel.: 030 25920-518, E-Mail: press.campus@berlinale.de.


The Berlinale Talent Campus is an initiative of the Berlin International Film Festival, a business division of the Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin GmbH, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media upon a decision of the German Bundestag, in co-operation with MEDIA - Training programme of the European Union and Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.

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August 16, 2010

]]> 2010-08-16T13:42:59+02:00 2010-08-16T13:42:59+02:00 2010-08-16T13:42:59+02:00 Press release No. 2<br />July 21, 2010 http://campus.kyff.20sec.de/story/82/3582.html The ninth edition of the Berlinale Talent Campus will take place in Hebbel am Ufer Theatre (HAU 1-3) in Berlin Kreuzberg from February 12 – 17, 2011. "Framespotting – Filmmakers positioning themselves" is the thematic focus for the 2011 Talent Campus, which 350 young international filmmakers will attend during the 61st Berlin International Film Festival.

Today's demanding world asks for outspoken filmmakers who don’t just follow the rules, it needs a generation of filmmakers who are ready to assume responsibility, take risks and find new approaches. Filmmakers who are not only guided by artistic creativity, but who also define their own goals and develop an eye for the signposts that show the way. And yet for young filmmakers today, filmmaking is increasingly more complex. “The Berlinale Talent Campus 2011 therefore focuses on supporting Talents in their personal search to position themselves in today’s world of cinema. This includes guiding them through questions like: What are my strengths? What do I stand for? Together with established international experts, we will develop ways of creative and strategic decision-making. Choosing a direction is not necessarily restricting oneself," says Programme Manager Matthijs Wouter Knol.

Producers, directors, actors, cinematographers, screenwriters, editors, production designers, film score composers, sound designers and film critics from all over the world are invited to apply online at www.berlinale-talentcampus.de until October 6, 2010. During the application process, they may also fill out an additional application for the numerous hands-on training programmes: Talent Press, Doc Station, Script Station, Talent Project Market, Score Competition and for the Talent Campus short film competition, the Berlin Today Award. More information at www.berlinale-talentcampus.de/channel/487.html.

Campus International: Talent Campus Durban & Talent Campus Sarajevo

The 3rd Talent Campus Durban will take place from July 24 - 28, 2010, during the 31st Durban International Film Festival. Guided by the motto "Focusing on Africa: Unleashing Talent in 2010", about 40 young African filmmakers will meet with experienced film professionals for five days of examining the theoretical and practical aspects of filmmaking. One focus includes developing new partnerships within the African film industry. Project Manager Christine Tröstrum will present the Berlinale Talent Campus in Durban. Some of the experts expected to attend are Raoul Peck, Mtutuzeli Matshoba, Caroline Kamya, Rehad Desai and Pascal Capitolin. The Berlinale's World Cinema Fund will also be at the festival for a spotlight event. More information at www.cca.ukzn.ac.za/talentdiff2010.htm.

The Sarajevo Talent Campus will take place for the fourth time from July 25 - 31, 2010, during the 16th Sarajevo Film Festival. The event's theme will be "Storytelling – From Your Backyard to the World". About 60 young filmmakers from the region will have the opportunity to exchange and learn. Guests at this year's Campus Sarajevo include actor Morgan Freeman, director Semih Kaplanoglu (Golden Bear, Berlinale 2010 for Bal) and Berlinale Director Dieter Kosslick, who will receive the Heart of Sarajevo award this year for his work and dedication to the festival, including to the Sarajevo Talent Campus. More information at www.sff.ba/en/stc_2010?site=industry&set_culture=en.


The Berlinale Talent Campus is an initiative of the Berlin International Film Festival, a business division of the Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin GmbH, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media upon a decision of the German Bundestag, in co-operation with MEDIA - Training programme of the European Union and Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.

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July 21, 2010

]]> 2010-07-21T13:30:21+02:00 2010-07-21T13:30:21+02:00 2010-07-21T13:30:21+02:00 Press release No. 1<br />April 29, 2010 http://campus.kyff.20sec.de/story/81/3481.html Another round of the Berlin Today Award has begun. This ninth edition of the Berlinale Talent Campus' short film competition once again offers participants the chance to produce five short films in collaboration with producers from Berlin-Brandenburg and with the support of Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg. The theme for the Berlin Today Award 2011 is "You Are Leaving The Familiar Sector" and invites international directing talents to create a filmic vision of a world outside of the familiar. Campus Talents, as well as five producers from the region, were selected to create these films.

150 young filmmakers from 55 countries replied to the Campus' call for entries and submitted project ideas for participation in this year's short film competition round.

15 up-and-coming directors and 10 production companies were invited to a "Producers’ Meeting" during the Berlinale Talent Campus in February 2010. The meeting gave the directors the opportunity to pitch their film ideas to the producers in attendance, to meet and speak with them individually, and to team up with the right producer for their project. Representatives of the Berlinale Talent Campus, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, and KurzFilmAgentur Hamburg held a jury meeting to select the following five Berlin Today Award 2011 finalists:

In The Ambassador's Wife, Michael Lavelle from Ireland tells the story of Sandra, who is willing to go beyond all boundaries for the body of her dreams. The project will be produced by Macchiato Pictures Filmproduktion. Eva Pervolovici from Romania will direct Little Red in collaboration with Beleza Film, a fairy tale about female initiation from the point of view of 10-year-old Ica. Together with Kloos & Co. Media, British director Tristan Daws will film The Day We Danced on the Moon, a documentary that follows the members of the Reggae band "Channel One", a group of mental health patients who use their music to express the experience of psychosis. heimatmedien will produce Spoilt Broth with Toby Roberts, also of Great Britain, a black comedy about a post office robbery that takes a highly unusual turn. Finally, in Hackney Lullabies, Kyoko Miyake from Japan will portray three young migrant mothers in the London neighbourhood of Hackney and ask them about their dreams and hopes for themselves and their children in their new home. The documentary will be produced by Filmkantine.

The five short films will be produced with the support of Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg in Romania, Ireland, Great Britain and Germany until the end of 2010. The five finalist films will celebrate their world premiere during the Opening Ceremony of the Berlinale Talent Campus 2011 on February 12, 2011. The winning film will be selected by a jury of prominent filmmakers and will receive the Berlin Today Award. More information at www.berlinale-talentcampus.de/berlin-today-award



The Berlinale Talent Campus is an initiative of the Berlin International Film Festival, a business division of the Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin GmbH, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media upon a decision of the German Bundestag, in co-operation with MEDIA - Training programme of the European Union, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg as well as Skillset and UK Film Council.



April 29, 2010

]]> 2010-04-29T15:02:56+02:00 2010-04-29T15:02:56+02:00 2010-04-29T15:02:56+02:00 Press release No. 9<br />February 18, 2010 http://campus.kyff.20sec.de/story/47/3447.html Thursday evening, February 18, in the Theater Hebbel am Ufer (HAU 1-3), the eighth edition of the Berlinale Talent Campus successfully concluded with the Closing Ceremony and the Award Ceremony for this year's Score Competition. For six days, 350 young filmmakers from 95 countries had the unique opportunity to meet each other and the film industry's best, up close and personal. Over 100 events brought the Talents together with more than 150 invited international experts and Berlinale guests. During workshops, master classes and training sessions, they discussed the various facets of the trade under the banner "Cinema needs Talent – Looking for the Right People".

Filmmakers like Claire Denis (White Material), James Bond production designer Sir Ken Adam, cinematographer Christian Berger (The White Ribbon), as well as directors Stephen Frears (The Queen), Jasmila Žbanić (On the Path, Berlinale Competition) and Yoji Yamada (About her Brother, Berlinale closing film), plus many more, shared their wealth of experience with cinema's next generation. Young Filmmakers from Mexico, Africa and Eastern Europe presented their films in which they conveyed a confident, political and modern viewpoint, painting an impressive picture of their countries and societies. The Campus explored cross media, digital storytelling, financing, distribution and 3D, addressing these themes in daily events.

Collaborative filmmaking was the centre focus of the eighth Campus edition. "Filmmaking is something to do together. It's about being generous and accepting the dignity of other people," emphasised Shutter Island producer Mike Medavoy during the opening panel. Animation film director Merlin Crossingham (Chicken Run) stated: "Have passion, have drive, and don't forget to look at the people around you. They need you and you need them, essentially." Actor, director and producer Gael García Bernal (Revolución) added: "The support of professionals is essential to our own filmmaking. They will help you say what you want to say." In the hands-on trainings, Talents put collaborative filmmaking directly into action. In small, international teams, they received intimate training with experienced mentors as part of the Script & Doc Station, Talent Project Market, Talent Actors Stage, Talent Press and the Campus Studio for post-production and rough cut editing.

The Score Competition came to a glamorous finish at the Closing Ceremony, during which the competition's winner was announced and awarded. Finalists were asked to create a new score for a film excerpt from David OReilly's Please Say Something (Golden Bear, Berlinale Shorts 2009). The first prize went to Camilo Sanabria from Colombia, whose score was praised by jury members Klaus-Peter Beyer, Prof. Martin Steyer, Martin Todsharow, Connie Walther and this year’s Score Competition mentor Alexandre Desplat (Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Ghost Writer, Berlinale Competition) as an "imaginative well structured score which shows in a detailed way its own personality". Sanabria won an invitation from Dolby to travel to Los Angeles for a week-long visit to the city's sound studios. The second prize winner, Alexander Komlew (Germany), will be granted an additional session with the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg to record another score.

Photos, information and up-to-date coverage can be found at http://www.berlinale-talentcampus.de and http://www.talentpress.org

The Berlinale Talent Campus is an initiative of the Berlin International Film Festival, a business division of the Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin GmbH, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media upon a decision of the German Bundestag, in co-operation with MEDIA - Training programme of the European Union, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg as well as Skillset and UK Film Council.



February 18, 2010

]]> 2010-02-18T22:32:31+01:00 2010-02-18T22:32:31+01:00 2010-02-18T22:32:31+01:00 Press release No. 8<br />February 17, 2010 http://campus.kyff.20sec.de/story/49/3449.html The Berlinale Talent Campus is launching a new internet portal for emerging international film critics: www.talentpress.org. This new portal is open to young film critics who are current or former participants of the Berlinale Talent Campus' Talent Press programme. It offers them a year-round possibility to publish their film and festival reviews from anywhere in the world. "This new website will provide a forum where young, talented international film journalists can publish their independent views on their latest discoveries in international cinema," say Campus heads Christine Tröstrum and Matthijs Wouter Knol.

The Talent Press programme is one of the Berlinale Talent Campus' hands-on training opportunities to which participants apply separately and exists since 2004. The programme invites eight budding film journalists to the Berlin International Film Festival every year and offers them an intensive look into the inner workings of an international film festival. During the Campus week, they are guided by experienced film critics like Dana Linssen, Stephanie Zacharek, Chris Fujiwara and Derek Malcolm. Their articles and reviews are published during the Berlinale at www.talentpress.org, but also through the Goethe-Institut website (www.goethe.de) and FIPRESCI (www.fipresci.org). In addition, select articles from these young film critics will be published in the Berlinale edition of the trade magazine "The Hollywood Reporter", part of a cooperation that is now in its second year.

The Berlinale Talent Campus' successful Talent Press programme, which supports independent and high-quality film criticism, has now been picked up by the other international Talent Campus initiatives. For the first time, a Talent Press programme for young Central American film journalists will take place during the Talent Campus Guadalajara, which runs from March 11–15, 2010, during the Guadalajara International Film Festival in Mexico. The up-and-coming film critics of the Talent Campus Guadalajara will also be able to take advantage of and publish articles through the new Talent Press website.



The Berlinale Talent Campus is an initiative of the Berlin International Film Festival, a business division of the Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin GmbH, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media upon a decision of the German Bundestag, in co-operation with MEDIA - Training programme of the European Union, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg as well as Skillset and UK Film Council.



February 17, 2010

]]> 2010-02-19T11:34:56+01:00 2010-02-19T11:34:56+01:00 2010-02-19T11:34:56+01:00 Press release No. 7<br />February 14, 2010 http://campus.kyff.20sec.de/story/84/3384.html Jonah and the Vicarious Nature of Homesickness by Bryn Chainey wins the Berlin Today Award 2010

Festival Director Dieter Kosslick, together with the heads of the Campus, Matthijs Wouter Knol and Christine Tröstrum, director Isabel Coixet and film composer Alexandre Desplat, opened the Berlinale Talent Campus 2010 on Saturday evening (13.2) in the Theater Hebbel am Ufer. Until February 18, 350 Talents from 95 countries will meet with renowned international experts at the Hebbel am Ufer for countless workshops, master classes and panels, and to exchange views and experiences on a wide array of filmmaking topics related to this year's Campus motto "Cinema Needs Talent: Looking for the Right People". For these approx. 600 guests, the event's climax was the world premiere of the five Berlin Today Award nominated short films. The Talent Campus Short Film Competition which addresses this year the theme "Straight to Cinema" is supported by the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.

Berlin Today Award 2010: And the winner is…
The Berlin Today Award 2010 was awarded on Sunday evening (14.2) during the festive "Dine & Shine Talents Rendezvous". After a welcome by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media Bernd Neumann and Festival Director Dieter Kosslick, the award was presented to the short film competition winner by Medienboard's managing director Kirsten Niehuus together with the three jury members Heike Makatsch, Stephen Daldry and Peter Rommel. The seventh Berlin Today Award goes to Bryn Chainey from Australia for the film "Jonah and the Vicarious Nature of Homesickness". The romantic science fiction tells the story of Jonah, who left his family and blasted-off in a homemade spaceship. The Jury was impressed by the "the truly creative inventiveness of this film. We are […] curious about what this talented filmmaker will come up with next". The film was produced by Anna Wendt Filmproduktion. A public screening of the Berlin Today Award short films will take place during the Berlinale Kinotag (Sun. 21.2) in CinemaxX 6 at 4 pm.

Soon after the Berlinale 2010 comes to a close, the five finalists for the Berlin Today Award 2011 will be announced. Their short film ideas will be realised in collaboration with five production companies and address the theme "You are Leaving the Familiar Sector". More information and photos from the award ceremony at www.berlinale-talentcampus.de/berlin-today-award.

150 international experts at the 8th Berlinale Talent Campus
Until Thursday, February 18, about 150 internationally renowned filmmakers and Berlinale guests are anticipated to join the Campus during the six event days. Amongst them are director Stephen Frears (The Queen), production designer, architect and two-time Oscar® winner Sir Ken Adam, film composer Alexandre Desplat (The Ghost Writer, Berlinale Competition) and cinematographer Christian Berger (The White Ribbon), both nominated for an Oscar®, director Claire Denis (White Material), director Yoji Yamada (About Her Brother, Berlinale closing film), director Tom Tykwer (The International) and many more.

The complete Campus programme can be found at: www.berlinale-talentcampus.de.

Tickets for the general public or for accredited Berlinale guests are available at the corresponding Berlinale Ticket Counters, or online at www.berlinale.de.

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The Berlinale Talent Campus is an initiative of the Berlin International Film Festival, a business division of the Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin GmbH, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media upon a decision of the German Bundestag, in co-operation with MEDIA - Training programme of the European Union, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg as well as Skillset and UK Film Council.



February 14, 2010

]]> 2010-02-14T13:11:03+01:00 2010-02-14T13:11:03+01:00 2010-02-14T13:11:03+01:00 Press release No. 6<br />January 21, 2010 http://campus.kyff.20sec.de/story/27/3327.html "Cinema Unlimited – Intercontinental Connections"
One of the Berlinale Talent Campus' most fundamental goals is to support collaborative filmmaking that goes beyond national and cultural boundaries. When it comes to successful collaboration, however, the right contacts are necessary, especially when working in regions where there is no major support from the regional film industry to work internationally. The panel "Cinema Unlimited - Intercontinental Connections" brings together four filmmakers from four continents who successfully worked outside the borders of their respective countries and were able to become part of an international network: the Iranian director Rafi Pitts (The Hunter, Berlinale Competition 2010), the Cameroonian director based in France, Jean-Marie Téno (Clando, Le Malentendu colonial/i>), the Argentinian director Natalia Smirnoff (Rompecabezas, Berlinale Competition 2010) and the two-time National Film Award winner Madhusree Dutta, one of India's leading documentary filmmakers, whose installation Cinema City will be presented as part of the Forum Expanded programme. The panel participants will discuss, amongst others, what is important when creating a team and what shape a successful international collaboration may take (Monday, 15.02.3010, 11:00 - 12:30, HAU 1).

"The Indie Filmmakers Guide to Cross Media"
For one hundred years of cinema, film stories have been restricted by running times and distribution formats and platforms. However, new technologies are having a profound impact on film production and storytelling: how does the art of storytelling change when audiences can engage with the production process across multiple platforms and move from a passive viewing experience to active collaboration? How does one develop stories and characters that speak to audiences across different screens and devices? The Berlinale Talent Campus' series "The Indie Filmmakers Guide to Cross Media" will examine these questions. Pioneers of the cross media movement and experts from interactive and immersive storytelling will describe how to build story worlds that span multiple platforms and engage audiences in powerful new ways. Additionally, these experts will address issues like how to access new financing sources, marketing strategies and distribution possibilities that take into account cross media models. The series will be moderated by Liz Rosenthal, a pioneer in digital film production and marketing who works as the Digital Distribution Strategy Advisor of the UK Film Council and founded "Power to the Pixel" (from 14:00 - 15:30 on Monday, 15.02.2010, HAU 2, Tuesday, 16.02.2010. HAU 3, and Wednesday, 17.02.2010, HAU 3).

"In the Limelight": Claire Denis
On Monday, February 15, 2010 (17:00, HAU 1), the acclaimed French director and screenwriter Claire Denis will give Talents personal insight into her work as part of the Campus' "In the Limelight" series. Denis' first film, Chocolat, brought her straight to Cannes, screening in competition in 1988. In 1996, Denis won the Golden Leopard in Locarno for Nénette et Boni and in 2005 she presented Towards Mathilde in the Forum section of the Berlinale. Her latest films are 35 Shots of Rum and White Material, which was screened in competition at the Venice International Film Festival in 2009.

The Berlinale Talent Campus is an initiative of the Berlin International Film Festival, a business division of the Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin GmbH, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media upon a decision of the German Bundestag, in co-operation with MEDIA - Training programme of the European Union, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg as well as Skillset and UK Film Council.



January 21, 2010

]]> 2010-01-21T12:38:21+01:00 2010-01-21T12:38:21+01:00 2010-01-21T12:38:21+01:00 Press release No. 5<br />November 30, 2009 http://campus.kyff.20sec.de/story/13/3313.html The Berlinale Talent Campus (February 13-18, 2010) has secured its financing thanks to the project funding of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM). Minister of State for Culture and the Media Bernd Neumann has said: "Dieter Kosslick's idea to establish a platform for aspiring film talents during the Berlinale has proved very valuable. Not only the Festival - which has successfully presented a number of films by former Campus participants - but also all of Germany as a location for culture and film production profit from this initiative. The Campus successfully acts as a sustainable network for international talents in the local film business; this was most recently evident at the Campus Short Film Competition Berlin Today Award, whose youngest award-winner Wagah is a joint project by India and Germany, and received the German Short Film prize in Gold."

The Campus team, Project Manager Christine Tröstrum and Programme Manager Matthijs Wouter Knol are very happy to welcome the BKM as one of its funders, alongside the MEDIA - Training programme of the European Union and the founding partners Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and Skillset/UK Film Council.



Actress Kerry Fox to mentor the new Talent Actors Stage

The eighth Berlinale Talent Campus is broadening its hands-on programme and will, for the first time, offer training in acting with the new Talent Actors Stage.

The Talent Actors Stage provides a wide variety of training opportunities in acting technique, working with dialogue, casting and camera acting. This Hands-On Training is not only intended for actors: it also focuses on interdisciplinary collaboration with directors, producers, screenwriters and cinematographers in order to encourage exchange between different areas of filmmaking.

The mentor of Talent Actors Stage will be the New Zealand actress Kerry Fox, who made an international breakthrough in 1990 for the film An Angel at My Table directed by Jane Campion. In 2001, she was awarded the Silver Bear at the Berlinale for her role in Patrice Chérau's sensational film Intimacy. She has appeared in a number of compelling roles, including in Danny Boyle's dark comedy Shallow Grave and Hans-Christian Schmid's Storm, which brought her back to the Berlinale in February 2009. Currently, Kerry Fox is starring in the hit West End play “Speaking in Tongues” at the Duke of York’s Theatre (London) and appears on screen in Jane Campion's Bright Star.

The Berlinale Talent Campus is an initiative of the Berlin International Film Festival, a business division of the Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin GmbH, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media upon a decision of the German Bundestag, in co-operation with MEDIA - Training programme of the European Union, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg as well as Skillset and UK Film Council.

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November 30, 2009

]]> 2009-11-30T11:35:28+01:00 2009-11-30T11:35:28+01:00 2009-11-30T11:35:28+01:00 Press release No. 4<br />November 3, 2009 http://campus.kyff.20sec.de/story/04/3304.html "Cinema Needs Talent: Looking for the Right People" is the theme for the upcoming Berlinale Talent Campus. The Campus itself is far from lacking talent: In its eighth year of existence, the Campus has once again reached record numbers of applications from young international filmmakers. The interest has never been stronger: 4773 applications from 145 countries, nearly a thousand more than last year. Applications came in from 13 new countries as well, including Burundi, Guinea, Montenegro and Saint Lucia. 350 filmmakers will be selected and invited to attend the Campus from 13-18 February 2010, during the 60th Berlin International Film Festival. The six-day-long event at Theater Hebbel am Ufer offers them the opportunity to examine various aspects of their fields of work and to promote the idea of 'collaborative filmmaking'.

Stephen Daldry to chair the Berlin Today Award jury
Five short films on the theme "Straight to Cinema" were created with the support of Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg as part of the current Berlin Today Award cycle. They will celebrate their world premiere at the opening of the Berlinale Talent Campus on 13 February 2010. The winning film will be selected by a jury headed by British director Stephen Daldry, three-time Oscar®-nominee for the films The Reader, The Hours and Billy Elliot. The Berlin Today Award will be awarded during the "Dine & Shine Talent Rendezvous" on 14 February 2010.
Meanwhile, the Berlin Today Award 2009 winning film Wagah is celebrating recent distinctions: The film received the German Short Film Award in Gold for documentaries, awarded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media Bernd Neumann on 29 October 2009, including 30,000 Euro in prize money, as well as the 25,000 US Dollar-endowed Black Pearl Award for Best Documentary Short at the Middle East International Film Festival (MEIFF) in Abu Dhabi (directed by Supriyo Sen, produced by Detailfilm).

Alexandre Desplat will be the Mentor of the Score Competition
French composer and Golden Globe winner Alexandre Desplat has committed to mentor the Score Competition. Desplat, born 1961 in Paris, is one of the most versatile and sought-after composers of his generation. He made his international breakthrough in 2004 with the remarkable composition for The Girl With the Pearl Earring. Since then, Desplat has composed the award-winning scores for films such as Syriana, The Queen and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. He has received numerous awards, as well as two Oscar® nominations and in 2005 a Silver Bear for the film score to The Beat That My Heart Skipped (directed by Jacques Audiard).
The Score Competition offers three young composers or sound designers the opportunity to compose new scores for a pre-selected short film and record them with the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg, with final mixing at the Film and Television Academy (HFF) "Konrad Wolf". The scores will premiere during the Campus, and the best score will be chosen by a jury and awarded during the Closing Ceremony. The winner will receive a trip to the finest sound studios in Los Angeles, sponsored by Dolby.

The Berlinale Talent Campus is an initiative of the Berlin International Film Festival, a business division of the Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin GmbH, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media upon a decision of the German Bundestag, in co-operation with MEDIA - Training programme of the European Union, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg as well as Skillset and UK Film Council.

]]> 2009-11-03T17:42:47+01:00 2009-11-03T17:42:47+01:00 2009-11-03T17:42:47+01:00 Press release No. 3<br />July 21, 2009 http://campus.kyff.20sec.de/story/31/3131.html Berlinale Talent Campus #8, February 13 – 18, 2010

From February 13-18, 2010, the Berlinale Talent Campus will open its doors at the Theater Hebbel am Ufer and welcome 350 young filmmakers from all over the world during the Berlin International Film Festival.

The eighth Berlinale Talent Campus will address the theme "Cinema Needs Talent: Looking for the Right People". For many filmmakers, teaming up with the right people to inspire and support them and to create a collective vision is the essential element of successful filmmaking. The upcoming Berlinale Talent Campus will tap into these thoughts and ask how the development of personal craftsmanship and the experience of choosing the right people intertwine to build gainful long-term creative collaborations. "Teamwork is the key to success. It's about daring to ask the vital questions together in order to exceed your own limits and to keep that one essential goal in sight: to make a great film. This theme also reflects the Campus, which has, since the beginning, strived to connect young international filmmakers with their colleagues and established professionals, always in the spirit of encouraging collaborative filmmaking”, says Programme Manager Matthijs Wouter Knol.

The application deadline for the Berlinale Talent Campus #8 is October 7, 2009. Producers, directors, actors, cinematographers, screenwriters, editors, production designers, film composers, sound designers, film journalists and visual artists from all over the world are invited to apply online through the Campus website, www.berlinale-talentcampus.de.

The Campus application also includes applications for the numerous additional hands-on training programmes: Talent Press, Score Competition, Doc- and Script Station, Talent Project Market, Campus Studio and Berlin Today Award.

2nd Talent Campus Durban, South Africa

The second edition of Talent Campus Durban will take place from 24-28 July, 2009, during the 30th Durban International Film Festival. For five days, young African filmmakers will examine the theoretical and practical approaches to filmmaking under the motto "Roots and Shoots: Creating a New African Cinema". Particular focus will be given to developing new partnerships within the African filmmaking world. "We are very happy about the success of the Campus Abroad projects that we've organised in cooperation with film festivals in Durban, Sarajevo, Guadalajara and Buenos Aires. The Berlinale Talent Campus is one of the Berlinale's strongest exports," says Campus Project Manager Christine Tröstrum. More information is available at:

The Berlinale Talent Campus is an initiative of the Berlin International Film Festival, a business division of the Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin GmbH, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media upon a decision of the German Bundestag, in co-operation with MEDIA - Training programme of the European Union, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg as well as Skillset and UK Film Council.

Press Office

21 July 2009

]]> 2009-07-21T13:46:52+02:00 2009-07-21T13:46:52+02:00 2009-07-21T13:46:52+02:00 Press release No. 2<br />July 2, 2009 http://campus.kyff.20sec.de/story/41/3041.html On July 7, 2009, shooting begins in Berlin for The Astronaut on the Roof, a comedy about two young screenwriters torn by the trials and tribulations of developing a screenplay who end up shamelessly quoting the films of their director idols. The film is one of five short film project finalists for the Berlin Today Award 2010, the short film competition of the Berlinale Talent Campus. 250 young filmmakers from 65 countries submitted projects ideas inspired by the competition's motto "Straight to Cinema".

Sergi Portabella's short film will be realised with the production company Penrose Film: "The experience of shooting in Berlin with a German production company and meeting all these new people is so exciting. I’m learning a lot and having a great time. And I'm absolutely sure we're going to do a great film," says Sergi Portabella about his project. The shoot will take place until July 12 in Funkhaus Berlin in Berlin-Koepenick and other locations.

On July 16 the first clap will be heard in the CCC studios of Berlin-Spandau for Jonah and the Vicarious Nature of Homesickness by Bryn Chainey. This science-fiction romance about Jonah, who leaves his family to glide through space and time in a cardboard spaceship, will be produced by Anna Wendt Filmproduktion.

Shooting for the third project to be realised in Berlin, By Night by Juan Diaz B. from Columbia, will begin August 1. The romantic love story of Martin and Camille and their life in a wondrous parallel universe will be produced by Knudsen and Streuber Filmproduktion.

The shoot for Hum will begin in Ireland on July 18. The project, by director Rebecca Daly, will be realised near Dublin by Lichtblick Media. The final project for this year's competition will be the documentary film Reflection by Giorgi Mrevlishvili from Georgia, produced by the production company A-FILM until the end of August in the Caucasus (Georgia).

The five short films will be realised until the end of 2009 with support from Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and in-kind contributions from the film industry. The five finalist films will celebrate their world premiere during the opening of the Berlinale Talent Campus 2010 (February 13 – 18, 2010). A jury composed of prominent filmmakers will select the winning film and bestow it with the Berlin Today Award. More information at www.berlintoday.de.

If you would like to interview or follow the finalists during their film shoots, please don't hesitate to contact us: boxfish events, Christiane Steiner, Tel.: 030 25920-518, email: press.campus@berlinale.de.



The Berlinale Talent Campus is an initiative of the Berlin International Film Festival, a business division of the Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin GmbH, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media upon a decision of the German Bundestag, in co-operation with MEDIA - Training programme of the European Union, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg as well as Skillset and UK Film Council.

Press Office
July 2, 2009

]]> 2009-07-06T09:26:02+02:00 2009-07-06T09:26:02+02:00 2009-07-06T09:26:02+02:00 Press release No. 1<br />April 28, 2009 http://campus.kyff.20sec.de/story/30/3030.html While the five Berlin Today Award 2009 short films on the theme "My Wall" successfully travel to festivals around the world, the new round of the Berlinale Talent Campus' short film competition is underway. 250 young filmmakers from 65 countries responded to the call for project ideas on the motto "Straight to Cinema". The motto for the Berlin Today Award 2010, which is supported by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg for the eighth year in a row, encourages young filmmakers to take inspiration from the power and possibilities of cinema and develop a short film for the big screen. In addition to Campus Talents, producers from the Berlin-Brandenburg area interested in realising a short film project could also apply. 15 pre-selected Talents and 10 production companies were invited to present their projects at a "Producers’ Meeting" during the Berlinale Talent Campus. The Talents and producers then voted, providing a basis for the jury's deliberation, in which representatives from the Berlinale Talent Campus, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, KurzFilmAgentur Hamburg and the Berlin Today Award e.V. participated.

The following five Talent-producer teams were selected by the jury to continue to the Berlin Today Award 2010 finals: Sergi Portabella from Spain will realise The Astronaut on the Roof together with Penrose Film. The comedy follows two young screenwriters torn by the trials and tribulations of developing a screenplay who disrespectfully quote the films of their favourite directors. By Night, by Juan Diaz B. from Colombia, will be realised in collaboration with Knudsen und Streuber Filmproduktion. The film tells a love story about Martin and Camille, a couple living happily in a world where night never falls, until Martin discovers that Camille is living a second life in an alternate reality. The Georgian filmmaker Giorgi Mrevlishvili will realise his documentary film project Reflection with A-Film Productions. Giorgi will organise an outdoor film screening in the remote Georgian village Ushguli during which he'll make a portrait of the village's residents. In the film Hum, Rebecca Daly from Ireland tells the story of a woman who flees her daily life and searches for perfect silence in an abandoned house. The project will be produced by Lichtblick Media. Finally, Anna Wendt Filmproduktion will produce Jonah and the Vicarious Nature of Homesickness by Bryn Chainey from Australia. The film is a science-fiction romance about Jonah, who has left his family and glides through space and time in a cardboard spaceship.

The five short films will be realised until the end of 2009 with support from Medienboard and in-kind contributions from the film industry. The five finalist films will celebrate their world premiere during the opening of the Berlinale Talent Campus 2010 (February 13 – 18, 2010). A jury composed of prominent filmmakers will select the winning film and bestow it with the Berlin Today Award. More information at www.berlintoday.de.



The Berlinale Talent Campus is an initiative of the Berlin International Film Festival, a business division of the Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin GmbH, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media upon a decision of the German Bundestag, in co-operation with MEDIA - Training programme of the European Union, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg as well as Skillset and UK Film Council.

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