Golden Sparrow 2011

The 19th German Children's Media Festival “ Goldener Spatz ” took place from May 22nd to 28th, 2011 in Gera and Erfurt .

Award winners

Cinema / TV film: Groupies don't stay for breakfast (Script: Kristina Magdalena Henn , Lea Schmidbauer ; Director: Marc Rothemund )
Short film, series: Half Portions (written and directed by Martin Busker )
Information / documentation: pur + : computer games (book: Achim Odziomek )
Minis: Hurdy Gurdy (book: Daniel Seideneder , directors: Daniel Seideneder and Daniel Pfeiffer)
Entertainment: The show with the elephant : Episode 172 (written and directed by Leona Frommelt and Renate Bleichenbach )
Animation: Conference of the Animals (book: Oliver Huzly and Reinhard Klooss ; directors: Reinhard Klooss and Holger Tappe )
Best Actor: Lorenz Harder (for his role as Luka in half portions )
Director for the best cinema / television film (special award from the Thuringian State Chancellery): Marc Rothemund

Best preschool program: JoNaLu: Prinz Dreckspatz
Prize of the MDR Broadcasting Council (for the best script): Michaela Hinnenthal and Thomas Schmid for winter daughter
Special Golden Sparrow award for innovation: to Studio Soi for The Image of the Princess and The Gruffalo

Category information / documentation: football pitch (Lucas Drobek with father Lutz Meissner, Hamburg)
Animation category: Watercolor City 3900 ("Moviebande" of the primary school in the middle of Nördlingen)
Feature film category: The secret of the half pond (video project KUHLisse 2010 from Reichenbach)