Titel.KINO 1/04.RV - german films
Titel.KINO 1/04.RV - german films
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EXPORT-UNION: A PROFILE<br />
The Export-Union of German Cinema is the national information and<br />
advisory center for the promotion of German <strong>films</strong> worldwide. It was<br />
established in 1954 as the ”umbrella“ association for the Association<br />
of German Feature Film Producers, the Association of New German<br />
Feature Film Producers and the Association of German Film<br />
Exporters, and operates today in the legal form of a limited company.<br />
Shareholders in the limited company are the Association of<br />
German Feature Film Producers, the Association of New German<br />
Feature Film Producers, the Association of German Film Exporters<br />
and the German Federal Film Board (FFA).<br />
The members of the advisory board of the Export-Union of<br />
German Cinema are: Rolf Baehr, Antonio Exacoustos, Alfred<br />
Huermer (chairman), and Michael Weber.<br />
The Export-Union itself has eleven permanent staff members:<br />
• Christian Dorsch, managing director<br />
• Andrea Rings, assistant to the managing director<br />
• Mariette Rissenbeek, public relations<br />
• Cornelia Klimkeit, PR assistant<br />
• Angela Hawkins, publications editor<br />
• Julia Basler, project coordinator<br />
• Nicole Kaufmann, project coordinator<br />
• Martin Scheuring, project coordinator<br />
• Konstanze Welz, project coordinator<br />
• Petra Bader, office manager<br />
• Ernst Schrottenloher, accounts<br />
In addition, the Export-Union shares foreign representatives<br />
in nine countries with the German Federal Film Board (FFA),<br />
(cf. page 59).<br />
The Export-Union’s budget of presently approx. €4.1 million<br />
(including projects, administration, foreign representatives) comes<br />
from film export levies, the office of the Federal Government<br />
Commissioner for Culture and the Media, and the FFA. In addition,<br />
the seven main economic film funds (Medienboard Berlin-<br />
Brandenburg, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, FilmFoerderung Hamburg,<br />
Filmstiftung NRW, Medien- and Filmgesellschaft Baden-<br />
Wuerttemberg, Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung, and Nordmedia)<br />
have made a financial contribution, currently amounting to €0.3 million,<br />
towards the work of the Export-Union. In 1997, the Export-<br />
Union and five large economic film funds founded an advisory<br />
committee whose goal is the ”concentration of efforts for the<br />
promotion of German film abroad“ (constitution).<br />
The Export-Union is a founding member of the European Film<br />
Promotion, an amalgamation of 23 national film-PR agencies<br />
(Unifrance, Swiss Films, Holland Film, among others) with similar responsibilities<br />
to those of the Export-Union. The organization, with its<br />
headquarters in Hamburg, aims to develop and realize joint projects<br />
for the presentation of European <strong>films</strong> on an international level.<br />
EXPORT-UNION’S RANGE OF ACTIVITIES:<br />
Close cooperation with the major international film festivals,<br />
e.g. Berlin, Cannes, Venice, Montreal, Toronto, San Sebastian,<br />
New York, Locarno, Karlovy Vary, Moscow;<br />
Organization of umbrella stands for German sales companies<br />
and producers at international TV and film markets;<br />
Staging of Festivals of German Cinema worldwide (Rome,<br />
Madrid, Paris, London, Los Angeles, New York, Sydney,<br />
Melbourne, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Cracow, Moscow and<br />
Scandinavia);<br />
Providing advice and information for representatives of the<br />
international press and buyers from the fields of cinema, video,<br />
and television;<br />
Providing advice and information for German filmmakers and<br />
press on international festivals, conditions of participation and<br />
German <strong>films</strong> being shown;<br />
Organization of the annual ”Next Generation“ short film program,<br />
which presents a selection of shorts by students of<br />
German film schools and is premiered every year at Cannes;<br />
Publication of informational literature on the current German<br />
cinema: <strong>KINO</strong> Magazine and <strong>KINO</strong> Yearbook;<br />
An Internet website (http://www.<strong>german</strong>-cinema.de) offering<br />
information about new German <strong>films</strong>, a film archive, as well<br />
as information and links to German and international film<br />
festivals;<br />
Organization of the selection procedure for the German entry<br />
for the OSCAR for Best Foreign Language Film.<br />
The focus of the work: feature <strong>films</strong>, documentaries with<br />
theatrical potential and shorts that have been invited to the main<br />
sections of major festivals.<br />
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