Golden Girls film production

Golden Girls Filmproduktion & Filmservices GmbH
legal form	Limited Liability Company (Austria)
founding	August 1, 1998 as GnbR
Seat	Vienna , Austria
management	Arash T. Riahi , Raphael Barth
Branch	Film production
Website	www.goldengirls.at

The Golden Girls Filmproduktion & Film Services GmbH is an Austrian film production company based in Vienna . The company sees itself as a “group of directors and producers active in the fields of experimental and feature film, documentary film, advertising and music video”. Golden Girls Filmproduktion is one of the new Austrian film production companies and is characterized in terms of content and production technology by the fact that it can produce particularly independently thanks to its own in-house post-production chain.

The company is a member of the Association of Austrian Film Producers .

The company owners are the Iranian-Austrian director Arash T. Riahi and the German-Austrian filmmaker and camera technician Raphael Barth.

history

The company was founded in 1998 as the Golden Girls Cooperation GnbR by Kristian Davidek, Geza Horvat and Arash T. Riahi. Raphael Barth joined the group in 2000. In 2007, Raphael Barth and Arash T. Riahi founded Golden Girls Filmproduktion & Filmservices Ges.mbH. In summer 2010 Sabine Gruber joined the company as co-managing director.

technology

In addition to several HD broadcast editing stations with 4K workflow, Golden Girls Filmproduktion und Filmservices GmbH also has a 35mm film recording, with which it is possible to make 35mm copies of digitally produced films and cinema advertisements. In addition, a digital cinema playout in MPEG-2 and JPEG 2000 as well as a Super8 digitization in HD is offered.

Filmography

Documentaries:

2019: Inland (Ulli Gladik)
2014: Global Shopping Village ( Ulli Gladik )
2013: Everyday Rebellion (Arman and Arash T. Riahi )
2013: Jakarta Disorder ( Ascan Breuer )
2012: The Venice Principle ( feature documentary, Andreas Pichler , co-production with Filmtank Hamburg)
2011: Schwarzkopf (feature documentary, Arman T. Riahi ) - film about the rapper Nazar
2011: Tomorrow you will leave (feature documentary, Martin Nguyen )
2011: Mama Illegal (feature documentary, Ed Moschitz )
2011: Everything Isn't Going Well (Feature Documentary, Arash T. Riahi)
2011: Aftermath (theatrical documentary version, 90 min, Raphael Barth )
2010: The King's Wrinkles (short documentary film, 30 min, Matthias van Baaren)
2009: Aftermath (TV documentary, 54 min, Raphael Barth)
2007: Once upon a time sweet home (feature documentary, 86 min, Gerald Igor Hauzenberger )
2007: Exile Family Movie (feature documentary, 94 min, Arash T. Riahi)
2001: Here we are! - The children from Kardinal-Nagl-Platz (documentary film, 90 min., Arash T. Riahi, Geza Horvath, Raphael Barth)
1999: Eclipsa - Should the world end after all ( feature documentary, 90 min, Arash T. Riahi, Raphael Barth, Gerald Igor Hauzenberger)

TV productions:

2011: Momentum - What drives you? Season 3 (portrait, with Mark Webber , Travis Pastrana , and many more) (in production)

2009/2010: Momentum - What drives you? Season 2 (portrait, 26 min):
- Momentum - Jon Olsson (Direction: Verena Soltiz)
- Momentum - Mario Gómez (Direction: Arman T. Riahi)
- Momentum - Natascha Badmann (Director: Arman T. Riahi)
- Momentum - David Lama (Directors: Raphael Barth, Mathias Smycka)
- Momentum - Ashley Fiolek (Direction: Verena Soltiz)
- Momentum - James Stewart (Director: Mathias Smycka)

2009: Momentum - What drives you? Season 1 (portrait, 26 min):
- Momentum - Adreu Lacondeguy (Directors: Raphael Barth, Arash T. Riahi, Arman T. Riahi)
- Momentum - Sebastian Vettel (Directors: Raphael Barth, Arash T. Riahi, Arman T. Riahi)
- Momentum - Sebastien Loeb (Directors: Raphael Barth, Arman T. Riahi)
- Momentum - Björn Dunkerbeck (Director: Arash T. Riahi)
- Momentum - Mick Fanning (Directors: Arash T. Riahi, Arman T. Riahi)
- Momentum - Daron Rahlves (Direction: Arash T. Riahi)

2009: "Impuls, Camera & Dance" (dancer portrait, 10x 26 min, Arash T. Riahi, Geza Horvat, Raphael Barth)
2008: Point (, documentary, 25 min, Verena Soltiz)
2001: Reformel (experimental film, Arash T. Riahi)
2001: 52 minutes of 48 days-Meg Stuart & damaged goods (TV documentary, 52 min, Arash T. Riahi)
1999: Ars Electronica 99 / Life Science (TV report, 45 min, Arash T. Riahi)
1998: Ars Electronica 98 / Info War (TV report, 45 min, Arash T. Riahi)
1996: Homeless young people in Vienna (TV documentary, 15 min, Arash T. Riahi, Geza Horvat)
1996: Compulsory deportation (15 min, Arash T. Riahi)

Short films:

2011: A Simple Event (5 min, Arash T. Riahi)
2010: Too tight! (15 min, Clemens Roth)
2006: Mississippi (15 min, Arash T. Riahi)
2004: The Cameraman (15 min, Arash T. Riahi, Geza Horvat, Raphael Barth)
2001: The impossibility (Arash T. Riahi)
1992: The boy & the strange reality / The boy & the strange reality (8 min, Arash T. Riahi, Geza Horvat)
1992: The mask (9 min, Arash T. Riahi, Geza Horvat)

further productions:

2010: Wiener Festwochen: The Rimini-Protokoll: 100% Vienna (DVD production, 90 min)
medien.welten (Audiovisual installation in Vienna´s Technical Museum, Technisches Museum Wien, 2001–2003)
2016: Die Einsiedler , feature film (director: Ronny Trocker, co-producers: Arash T. Riahi, Karin C. Berger)
2018: Cops , feature film (Director: Stefan A. Lukacs , Producer: Arash T. Riahi, Karin C. Berger)

Music videos:

The Bates: Bitter End / Virgin Records
Daloco: radio
5 House Posse: Eat me / BMG
Waldeck: Aquarius / BMG
Sabotage Records: Machine Rock / Sabotage Communications
Fake Friends: Everything is Pop / Universal

Awards (selection)

Austria's Foreign Academy Awards selection for the Oscars 2010: “For a moment, freedom”
Audience award Tromsö Filmfestival 2010 “For a Moment Freedom”
Thomas Pluch Award 2009 for best Screenplay “For a moment freedom”
FilmKunstFest in Schwerin 2009, Flying Ox Best Film & Best Direction “For a moment freedom”
Best Film & Audience Award, 5th Amazonas Film Festival Manaus / Brazil 2008 "A Moment of Freedom"
Best Screenplay, 2nd San Luis Cine Film Festival / Argentina 2008 "A Moment of Freedom"
Grand Prize & Audience Award & Student Award, Prix du Film D'histoire de Pessac 08 "A Moment of Freedom"
Audience Award & Student Award / Cinessonne Festival / Paris 2008 "A Moment of Freedom"
Vienna Film Prize for 2008 at the Viennale 2008 "A Moment of Freedom"
Best Director, Festival de jeunes realisateurs, Saint Jean de Luz / France 2008 "A Moment of Freedom"
Golden eye for the best debut film, Zurich Film Festival 2008 "A Moment of Freedom"
Golden Zenith-Best First Feature 2008 Montreal World Film Festival "A Moment of Freedom" (Produced by Wega Film Vienna & Les Films du Losange France), Directed by Arash T. Riahi
Max Ophüls Prize for the best documentary film, Saarbrücken 2007 "EXILE FAMILY MOVIE"
Interfilm Prize of the Max Ophüls Festival (2007) for "EXILE FAMILY MOVIE"
FIPRESCI Prize of the International Association of Film Critics, Transylvania International Film Festival "ONE SWEET HOME", 2007
Best Film, Saratov Film Festival Russia, 2007 "ONCE SWEET HOME"
Erasmus Euro Media Sponsorship Award 2007 for "EINST SÜSSE HOME"
Special Commendation, Astra Film Festival, Romania for "EINST SÜSSE HOME", 2007
Golden Dove for the best documentary, "EXILE FAMILY MOVIE" 49th * Leipzig Documentary and Animation Festival, 2006
FIPRESCI Prize of the International Film Critics Association "EXILE FAMILY MOVIE" 49th Leipzig Documentary and Animation Festival, 2006
Silver Hugo for Best Documentary, Chicago Film Festival "EXILE FAMILY MOVIE", 2006
Grand Diagonale Prize for the best documentary "EXILE FAMILY MOVIE", 2006
Best Experimental Short Film, Melbourne Film Festival, "MISSISSIPPI", 2006
Most Surprising Film, Odense Film Festival "MISSISSIPPI", 2006
Main prize, Experimental Film Festival Videoex / Switzerland, "MISSISSIPPI", 2006
Golden Dove for the best animation film, Film Festival Leipzig, "MISSISSIPPI", 2006
Prize for the best script / idea, Film Festival Fantoche / Switzerland, "MISSISSIPPI", 2005
Silver Plaque Award for best documentary, Chicago Film Festival, "THE SOUVENIRS DES HERRN X", 2004 (produced by Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion, post-produced by Golden Girls Filmproduktion, directed by Arash T. Riahi)
Silver Venus in the best Austrian category Cinema advertisement 2002 for the commercial "ALPHAVILLE VIDEOSTORE"
Prize for innovative cinema, Diagonale 2001 for the media work of the ECHO association and the documentary "THE YOUNG PEOPLE FROM CARDINAL NAGL PLATZ" by Arash T. Riahi & Géza Horvat, 2001
Golden Venus in the best Austrian category Cinema advertisement 2001 for the commercial "Uboot - Meaning of Life"
Diagonale Prize 2016 in the Innovative Production Performance category for One of Us

Individual evidence

↑ self-designation, see http://www.goldengirls.at/

Web links

[1] self-designation, see http://www.goldengirls.at/