Camgaroo Award
The Camgaroo Award is one of the most important film prizes for young and independent filmmakers. It was launched in 2002 by Gabriele Lechner with the aim of promoting people's creativity. "Increasing digitization enables democratization in the film sector as well. Making films is no longer reserved for a few large studios. We recognized this very early on and therefore launched the Camgaroo Award," says Gabriele Lechner.
Originally, a specific topic was given each year, on which the filmmakers shot a video clip of a maximum of five minutes in length. In the first few years, the award ceremony took place as part of the Munich Media Days , whereby the award ceremony is similar to an Oscar award ceremony. The nominated videos will be shown in excerpts on a large screen in a cinema-like hall in front of around 800 invited people from film, television and the press.
In 2011, the Camgaroo Award was presented for the tenth time. 16 January 2011 moderated Thomas Gottschalk at Tele 5 the winning film in 2010 by Johannes Berner ( Game of Life ) to. Well-known jury members were Jost Vacano , Oscar-nominated cameraman for Das Boot . For years, the filmmaker and director Imo Moszkowicz, who died on January 11, 2011, was a member of the jury.
In 2016 the Camgaroo Award celebrated its 15th anniversary in the Carl Orff Hall of the Gasteig cultural center in Munich . It is now considered the largest independent film award in the German-speaking area. A total of around 70 films are nominated in 12 categories. The Camgaroo Award receives around 400 film applications annually. It supports filmmakers from a young age, for which there are special categories for young people up to 14 years and up to 18 years. In addition, ultra-short films (up to 5 minutes) in different genres can be submitted, as well as short films (up to 30 minutes) and documentaries. In the special feature film category , the best feature film projects by young filmmakers are awarded and funded.
The prominent actor Heinz Hoenig was on the jury from 2012 to 2018 . Other well-known jury members besides the initiator Gabriele Lechner are Wolfgang Oppenrieder (Project Manager, ProSiebenSat.1 ), Oliver Proebst ( PlanetTV ), Tina Kaiser (presenter), Markus Kleinhans (director), Eun-Kyung Park (ProSiebenSat.1), Anne Genenger (Vice-President Sixx ), actor Kristian Kiehling . The world-famous film composer Harold Faltermeyer and the successful film producer Max Wiedemann von Wiedemann & Berg have been on the jury since 2018 . In 2019, Gabriele Lechner appointed other prominent filmmakers to the jury, such as actress and singer Lina Larissa Strahl , actress Marianne Sägebrecht and actor and filmmaker Nick Wilder .
TV partner is always the transmitter Tele 5, which z. B. very successfully broadcast the special prize winning film at the turn of the year 2016/2017 on its channel: Star Trek Enterprise II: The Beginning of the End by Jürgen Kaiser, Stephan Mittelstraß and Sabrina Heuer.
Well-known partners of the Camgaroo Awards were / are ARRI , Adobe , Atomos, Blackmagic Design , Canon , Cyberlink , DJI , Magic Multi Media, Panasonic , Sachtler , Foto-Video Sauter, SIGMA , SONY , Walser and many more. The Camgaroo Award is an independent festival that does not require any public grants or funding.
Over the years, a total of around 4,000 short films have accumulated, which are gradually published for the audience in the filmrebell.tv media library .
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- ↑ News about LechnerMedia and Camgaroo LechnerMedia, accessed on July 6, 2018.