Protestant Film Work Jury

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The Protestant Film Work Jury is a committee that has been awarding an outstanding feature or documentary film as Film of the Month every month since 1951 and recommending it to a wider audience.

history

In 1951 the Evangelical Film Guild was brought into being as part of a conference of the "Chamber for Journalism of the EKD " . She saw it as her task “to awaken an understanding of the good film in broad sections of the Evangelical Church, to develop a sound judgment and to help raise the audience's taste”. Since November 1951, gives judges the Protestant Film Guild - since 1973 Jury of the Protestant film work - monthly movie recommendations out and provides "for a substantial movie review and evaluation".

Working method

The jury consists of eight members who are appointed every two years by institutions and associations of the Protestant church. The management of the jury is in the hands of the Film Culture Center in the joint venture of Protestant journalism . According to the jury, “films that serve the coexistence of people, contribute to the examination of one's own positions, to the perception of human responsibility and to the orientation towards the biblical message. It takes into account the film's aesthetic design, the ethical content and the thematic significance of the film. None of these aspects can alone be decisive; rather, they should be evaluated in their mutual relationship. "

With the “Film of the Month”, the jury directs its recommendations to cinema operators, film program organizers, those responsible for educational work as well as to an audience inside and outside the church interested in film. The "film of the month" is selected from the current offers of the film distributors for German cinemas.

Since it was founded, the Evangelical Film Jury has named over 700 films as “Film of the Month” and published extensive accompanying materials for media education work . A film database on the website makes the decisions of the jury accessible; Information sheets on individual films are available for download. A thematically oriented canon of film history has emerged over the decades .

Publications

  • Handbook Jury of Evangelical Film Work '76. Editing by Rainer Bunz and Karola Gramann , joint work of Protestant journalism, Frankfurt am Main 1976.
  • Films on the subject , ed. by the joint venture of Protestant journalism and the jury of Protestant film work, Frankfurt am Main 1988 ff. ZDB -ID 24846545
  • 500 films 1951–1997. 500 films of the month from 1951 to 1997, selected by the Evangelical Film Work jury. Specialized lecture film and AV media in the joint venture of Protestant journalism, Frankfurt am Main 1997.

literature

  • Werner Schneider: Parables of Life. The “Jury of Protestant Film Work” in the context of theology, church, film and culture. In: Martin Ammon, Eckart Gottwald (ed.): Cinema and Church in Dialog. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1996, ISBN 3525603924 , pp. 54-69 ( preview ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Petra Bahr : Greetings 60 Years of Film of the Month of Protestant Film Work in the German Film Museum Frankfurt / Main , EKD Culture Office , December 5, 2011
  2. ^ Karl Werner Bühler: The churches and the mass media: intentions and institutions of denominational cultural policy in radio, television, film and press after 1945. Furche-Verlag, Hamburg 1968, p. 96.
  3. ↑ Nora Andrea Schulze (Ed.): The minutes of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany: 1951. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3525557582 , p. 390 f.
  4. ↑ Karla Fohrbeck , Andreas Johannes Wiesand (ed.): Handbook of cultural prizes and individual artist support in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1978. DuMont, Cologne 1978, p. 381.
  5. ↑ Björn Rohloff: Media in the Context of Religiously Oriented Educational Work: An investigation into the development of educational media since 1945 with special consideration of the audiovisual media. LIT Verlag, Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-8258-1782-4 , p. 88 ( online ).
  6. ^ Film work of the EKD , website of the EKD
  7. ^ Jury of Protestant Film Work , website of the jury
  8. ↑ Reinhard Middel: Anniversary of the jury of Protestant film work: The 500th film of the month. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Information from the joint work of Protestant journalism , September 1997. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gep.de
  9. ↑ Film of the month ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , kunstinfo.net @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunstinfo.net