Chemnitz film workshop
The Chemnitzer Filmwerkstatt eV is a media educational institution in Chemnitz that promotes young film talent in the city. The association was founded in 1991 and has been a recognized “free provider of youth welfare” since 1994. The seat of the Chemnitz film workshop is the Clubkino Siegmar , which the association took over in 1996 as an independent organization.
Working method
With the film workshop, a regional contact point was created for the next generation interested in film and video and thus also the discovery and promotion of young talent. This model of the earliest possible continuous promotion and networking without artistic or commercial compulsion has meanwhile found numerous imitators nationwide, especially since numerous students of the film workshop have been found in film schools and large productions and their projects have been present at national and international festivals as well as on German television. It is typical of the culture of the “film workshops” that they also like to return to their hometown as professionals and realize projects there with former colleagues or interested young filmmakers. These projects are often funded by various public bodies, especially the city of Chemnitz.
The team of the film workshop consists of experienced filmmakers and media educators who give anyone interested the chance to implement their cinematic ideas or to gain further training and experience in the broad field of film and video production - for example through internships in clubs, media camps or workshops on various Topics like scriptwriting or animation films. Every young person has the opportunity to be integrated in an already existing video group or in an ongoing project and to take part in other offers from the Chemnitz film workshop. The association also enables adolescents and young adults to implement their own film ideas. For example, he supports them in applying for funding, helps them write the scripts and provides the technology.
The Chemnitzer Filmwerkstatt also offers video projects in schools and other socio-cultural and educational institutions. Here the participants get to know the individual steps of video production, from scriptwriting to digital editing. The participants create their own short film based on their ideas, which are often a reflection of their living environment, their thoughts, feelings and wishes.
Since the film workshop is located in the building of the Clubkino Siegmar, the filmmakers have the chance to present their productions to the audience after completing their projects as part of special events such as the “Videoline” and the short film night. The film workshop also organizes a monthly series with “Celluloid” at the Chemnitz Theater .
history
The Chemnitzer Filmwerkstatt eV association was founded in September 1991 on the initiative of the Chemnitzer amateur filmmakers Ralf Glaser and Lutz Zoglauer. Young people from Manchester, England (organization “Counter Image”) were looking for partners for a film production in Chemnitz, the “Saxon Manchester”. The youth welfare office of the city of Chemnitz then contacted Ralf Glaser, who had already made 16 mm films during the GDR era. In 1992 the first film workshop with an exchange project Chemnitz-Manchester took place and resulted in the first short film of the film workshop, "So what". In November 1992 the association moved into its own premises in the sociocultural center Kraftwerk eV In August 1994 the film workshop joined forces with the media educational project “Medienwerkstatt”, which was founded in November 1992, in the children's and youth center on Richard-Wagner-Straße. Since 1994 the association has been a recognized “free provider of youth welfare”. Beate Kunath and Ralf Glaser ran the association.
In August 1996, the Chemnitz Film Workshop took over the Clubkino Siegmar as an association sponsor and thus saved it from closure. Since then, the association has been working on the second floor of the listed club cinema building.
In autumn 2011 the film workshop celebrated its 20th anniversary with a week of festivities.
Festival participation and prizes (selection)
- “Short Film” (Director: Olaf Held): German Short Film Award 2013: Winner in the category feature film up to 7 minutes running time
- “Traumgestalten - Anna” (Director: Erik Wiesbaum): CLIPAWARD - 8th International Low & No Budget Short Film Festival 2013
- "20 Dream Makers" (Director: Vahid Monjezi): Filmfest Dresden 2012
- "Nachgehakt" (Director: David Hoffmann): International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2012
- “Salon Jakubeit” (Director: Lars Neuenfeld): Filmfest Dresden 2011
- “Voices” (Director: Klaus-Gregor Eichhorn): Unicato Award “Best Feature Film” from the MDR
- "Three patients" (Director: Klaus-Gregor Eichhorn): Neisse Film Festival 2011
- “Daheim” (Director: Olaf Held): Internationales Kurzfilm-Festival Hamburg 2011 - Jury Prize Dt. Competition, Filmfest Dresden 2012, Festival du Court-Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand 2012, 8th Prague Short Film Festival 2013 - main prize of the jury in the international competition
- "In summer the old people sit" (Director: Beate Kunath): Participation Queersicht Bern / Switzerland 2009, Lesbian Gay Film Festival Hamburg 2009, Lesbian- Gay Film Festival Bremen 2009, nomination for the IRIS PRIZE in Cardiff / Great Britain 2009, Women's Film Festival Elles Tournent Brussels / Belgium 2009, Circuit - International Short Film Festival Venice / Italy 2009, QFestival Jakarta / Indonesia 2009, MIX Milano / Italy 2009, lesbian-gay film festival Turin / Italy 2009, Filmfest Dresden 2009
- “Father's Day” (director: Olaf Held): Filmfest Dresden 2010: Goldener Reiter short film - national competition; Short-addicted Leipzig 2010: Special mention by the jury
- "Forbidden Fruit" (directors: Sue Maluwa-Bruce and Beate Kunath): Teddy Award 2001
Awards for media educational projects
- 2011: 3rd place in the media education prize of the Saxon State Authority for Private Broadcasting and New Media (SLM)
- 2008: 3rd place in the media education prize of the SLM
- 2008: 1. Place (invent) home by the Saxon State Youth Welfare Office / State Sociocultural Association
- 2007: 2nd place in the media education prize of the SLM
swell
- ^ Article "20 years of Chemnitzer Filmwerkstatt" at Chemnitz TV, September 25, 2011 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Cathleen Graubner: "We actually wanted to go to America ...". In: Stadtstreicher Chemnitz 07/2001, p. 5.
