Catholic cinematography

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The Catholic film GmbH ( KFW ), headquartered in Frankfurt am Main is a central distribution facility for audiovisual and educational media of the Catholic Church . The partner is the apg, the general non-profit program development company . The Tellux Film Group and the German Bishops' Conference are shareholders in equal parts for apg . Harald Hackenberg has been the managing director since 1991.

history

The Katholisches Filmwerk was founded as an association on April 29, 1953. The main tasks under the aegis of Eugen Semle were the registration of a large number of church venues and the exploration of existing narrow films with various distributors . In addition, the Catholic film work, maintenance of made since the establishment of the Organization of copy purchases together with associated rights copies and the development of ancillary products, so a suitable film selection for the Catholic education and community work on 16 mm film roles in religious media centers provide . Since the use of films with the spread of the VHS ( Video Home System ) cassette in the 1970s, partnerships with secular media centers and state image centers have also been consolidated . Digital media on DVD found their way into the education sector from the 1990s, before the media carriers changed again at the beginning of the 21st century. The online distribution of films and didactic media has now established itself in the Catholic Film Factory . Since then, the Katholisches Filmwerk has been offering area licenses to an increasing extent, which enable customers to determine the use of the media themselves or to integrate didactic media into online distribution structures.

Today the Katholisches Filmwerk is active in the licensing of short films in German-speaking Europe . The lesson-related viewing of films is still in the foreground in order to provide teachers , schools , parishes or religious education workplaces with non-commercial screening rights .

program

The range of media-pedagogical approaches and usage habits determines the program of the Catholic Film Works. The documentary film on religious and socially relevant topics has its place here as well as the entertaining short film . Framework agreements are concluded with German licensors for the non-commercial exploitation of feature films . These include Constantin Film AG, Senator Entertainment AG and Pandora Film GmbH & Co. Verleih KG.

In addition, the company creates didactic materials to promote the media skills of the audience . The working aids and worksheets as well as additional image and sound material are created in cooperation with teachers, lecturers and media educators of all school types or in cooperation with partners such as B. the Matthias-Film gGmbH and the Institute for Film and Image in Science and Education (short: FWU ).

Customers

In addition to Catholic and Protestant media centers and religious education offices / institutes, the Katholisches Filmwerk supplies district and city media centers, state media centers and state education servers in German-speaking Europe ( Germany , Switzerland , Austria , Luxembourg , Liechtenstein , South Tyrol ) with film and work material. In addition, teachers, schools, parishes, academies and educational institutions use the opportunity to buy media directly .

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