Innovation award from the commissioner for culture and media
The Innovation Prize of the Commissioner for Culture and Media is a media prize that has been awarded annually since 2002 by the Federal Government Commissioner for innovative developments in the field of culture and media. The winners of the 25,000 euro prize are determined by a jury of experts. In 2007 the jury consists of Nina Bohlmann (producer, Hamburg), Gerhard von Halem (producer, Berlin), Jan Henne de Dijn (HMS, Hamburg), Björn Koll (distributor, Berlin), Susan Vahabzadeh (journalist, Munich) and Michael Wiedemann (film theater operator, Freiburg).
Award winners
| year | Award winners | Project | Prize money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | International Media Research Agency GmbH, Leipzig | Market research tool "Satellite Aided Trend Analysis" (SATA) | € 15,000 |
| 2002 | Director's Friend GmbH, Cologne | Portable editing and recording system "df-cineHD" and the prototype of a digital "film cassette" "Hdreel" | € 15,000 |
| 2002 | Niels Beer and Stefan Ostertag GbR, Dresden, and the Institute for Cinema and Film Culture, Cologne,
each in equal parts |
School cinema - school film week | € 15,000 |
| 2003 | Salzgeber & Co Medien GmbH | European Docu Zone | € 15,000 |
| 2003 | Crew united , Lutz and Zenglein GbR | Internet project: www.crew-united.com | € 15,000 |
| 2004 | Deutsche Hörfilm GmbH, Berlin,
and Titelbild GmbH, Berlin, each in equal parts |
Audio description in the cinema / cinema day for the hearing impaired | € 15,000 |
| 2004 | Friends of the Deutsche Kinemathek | Arsenal Experimental | € 15,000 |
| 2004 | Kinomatik, Wurster, Killenberger & Ratsch GbR | MOVIEtube system | € 25,000 |
| 2005 | Short film agency Hamburg eV | Online rental database | € 25,000 |
| 2006 | Film Academy Baden-Württemberg , Institute for Animation, Visual Effects and Digital Post-Production | Artificial performers | € 25,000 |
| 2006 | Tina Thiele, Cologne | Internet project: www.casting-network.de | € 25,000 |
| 2006 | University of Leipzig , Institute for Communication and Media Studies | DVD series "Learning to watch films" | € 25,000 |
| 2007 | Michael Hentschel | cineloop - Marketing for the cinema | € 25,000 |
| 2007 | EYZ Media | Theme-based nationwide film festivals | € 25,000 |