German Generation Film Award
Since 1998, the German Generation Film Award has been a platform for young and old filmmakers. The annual nationwide competition offers a unique platform for the views of young and old. All topics, genres and forms of implementation are possible. The respective annual themes set additional accents.
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The German Generation Film Prize promotes the cinematic creativity of older people and presents their productions in a publicly effective manner. The competition offers young filmmakers a forum for contributions from the topics of age and aging and motivates them to multi-generation film projects.
The focus of the German Generation Film Award is on the life experience and attitude towards life of the different generations. Concerns, wishes, hopes, but also fears can be discussed here. The competition provides a framework for presenting and questioning what connects the generations - or what divides them. It brings young and older filmmakers together, sharpens the eye for prejudices and presents unusual intergenerational relationships. What is needed are honest stories, a critical view of social conditions - and all facets of how young and old live together.
The competition was developed in 1997 by the German Children and Youth Film Center (KJF) and the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth and started in 1998 as the national competition "Video of the Generations". It was carried out under this name until 2016. Filmmakers up to the age of 25 and 50 and over who are not professionally involved in the film sector can take part.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ German Generation Film Award . In: www.deutscher-generationenfilmpreis.de. German Children's and Youth Film Center, accessed on October 5, 2016 (German).