Edit Filmmaker's Festival
The eDIT Filmmaker's Festival was an international festival conference for digital film production in cinema, TV and advertising. It has taken place annually in Frankfurt am Main since 1998 and served for three days as a platform for filmmakers from various areas of film production: experts in visual effects, animators, directors, cameramen, commercials, screenwriters, film editors and producers.
The last eDIT took place in 2011. The B3 Biennale of Moving Images started in 2013 as a "successor festival" with a different focus .
Festival program
At the center of the festival is a program of around 40 presentations, panel discussions and working groups. International experts give lectures on current developments in the production and publication of moving images. The aim of the program is to impart new knowledge and techniques. The main topics are regularly production innovation, visual effects , animation , TV formats and developments in the media industry.
In addition to the program, the festival is composed of Festival Honors, eDIT acaDemy and eDward.
- Festival Honors
With Festival Honors, the festival honors filmmakers who have made outstanding contributions to the art of film through creative or technical achievements. During the opening gala, the winners will receive their award and will be interviewed about their careers in the Festival Honors Salon.
Previous winners are Michael Ballhaus (camera), Vilmos Zsigmond (camera), Stanley Kubrick (director), Peter Greenaway (director), Terry Gilliam (director), Tom Rolf (editor), Dennis Muren (visual effects), Dante Ferretti (art * Direction), Armin Mueller-Stahl (acting), Andy Serkis (acting), Ray Harryhausen (animation), Phil Tippett (animation), Alfred Hitchcock (editing), Anne V. Coates (editing), Albert R. Broccoli (producer ), Chris Lebenzon (editor), Christoph Waltz (actor), Illumination Entertainment / Pierre Coffin (director) and Pixar Animation Studios .
- eDIT acaDemy
The three-day, free seminar offer gives young professionals and lateral entrants an overview of training paths and career opportunities in the media.
- eDward
Every year a 30-second film is awarded with the eDward young talent film prize. International works by filmmakers under the age of 30 on an annually changing topic (2004: "Football!"; 2005: "Artificial People"; 2006: "Time Travel"; 2007: Love; 2008: Planet Earth; 2009: Dreams; 2010: Water; 2011: freedom). The prize is endowed with 2500 EUR.
history
The eDIT Filmmaker's Festival has been held annually in Frankfurt am Main since 1998. It was launched as an international specialist congress for post-production and visual effects and has since developed into a festival conference of its own, which deals extensively with the development of film production in the digital age. The festival is the only one in Europe that deals with the subject in detail without pursuing commercial intentions, such as trade fairs.
The festival is organized by the State of Hesse, the State Authority for Private Broadcasting and New Media in Hesse (LPR) and the City of Frankfurt am Main under the patronage of the Hessian Minister for Science and Art. The festival has been cooperating with the international associations ACE (American Cinema Editors - film editing) and IMAGO (European Camera Association) since 2007. The festival has also been cooperating with MPSE (Motion Picture Sound Editors) since 2010. The agency Luna Park 64 Media Concepts Projects GmbH looks after the festival as general contractor for program, event organization, communication, media and public relations.
Web links
- Frankfurter Rundschau on September 27, 2010 Opening gala on September 26, 2010