LOOKSfilm

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LOOKSfilm

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legal form GmbH
founding 1995
Seat Leipzig, Berlin, Halle, Hanover
management Gunnar Dedio
Branch Film and TV production
Website www.looksfilm.tv

LOOKSfilm is a German film production company . It develops, produces and sells documentaries, feature films and series for VoD , cinema and television.

The enterprise

Founded in 1995 by Gunnar Dedio in Rostock , LOOKSfilm produces and sells international series as well as documentaries and feature films for VoD , cinema and television with a team of 30 permanent employees at four locations in Leipzig , Berlin , Hanover and Halle . LOOKSfilm is known for its documentary productions in which history is viewed transnationally . For this purpose, LOOKSfilm has specialized in international co- productions. With the combination of archive material and drama , the historical events are often told about personal fates . The focus of the productions is therefore on international co-productions with historical themes, but nature documentaries are also part of LOOKSfilm's repertoire.

LOOKSfilm also operates its own archive department and a music publisher and is the initiator of event productions and international cooperation with museums , universities , theaters , publishers and broadcasters .

distribution

LOOKSfilm has been selling in- house productions as well as selected titles from international producers at its Hanover location since 2011 . The international rights trade specializes in the genres of history and children .

Archive management

In order to authentically illustrate historical events , LOOKSfilm works closely with international archives . In many of the productions, the experiences of contemporary witnesses are told through private documents such as letters and diaries , photo and film material . In 2008 LOOKSfilm founded its own archive department, which also took over the distribution of British Pathé from 2011 to 2016 .

Music publisher

The music publisher of Look movie published since 2007 soundtrack . LOOKSfilm has published music by Max Richter , Laurent Eyquem, Carl Carlton , Ernst Ströer , Eike Hosenfeld and Moritz Denis , among others .

Productions (selection)

LOOKSfilm made their first cinema production with the documentary Henker - Der Tod hat ein Face (2001) by Jens Becker and Gunnar Dedio . The film processed the personal testimonies of the last executioners from Germany , the GDR , France , Hungary , Yugoslavia and Romania .

On the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall , LOOKSfilm produced the first documentary series in 2004 in cooperation with ARD , MDR and WDR . Back then in the GDR tells personal stories from everyday life in the GDR. Due to the combination of individual fates and historical precision, the series received the Adolf Grimme Prize in 2005 .

Movie poster Michael Kohlhaas

LOOKSfilm has been producing feature films since 2010, such as the Kleist novella Michael Kohlhaas (coproduction with Les Films d'Ici) with Mads Mikkelsen and Bruno Ganz . Michael Kohlhaas received the Golden Iris at the Brussels Film Festival 2013 . The film screened in 2013 in the competition at the Cannes International Film Festival (category “Best Film”) and in 2014 won the French César film award for best sound and best music. Michael Kohlhaas received the rating of particularly valuable from the German Film and Media Assessment .

Further productions for the cinema were made in coproduction with Les Films d'ici in Paris: The Wild Farm by Dominique Garaing (2010) and Michel Petrucciani - Life Against Time (2011) by Michael Radford, which was part of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival's official program ran. In 2014, the documentary Von Caligari zu Hitler by Rüdiger Suchsland was made , which had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival and has since screened at more than 30 international film festivals.

14 - Diaries of the First World War (2014) was the first German series to which Netflix acquired US license rights . The series tells the story of the First World War from the perspective of fourteen people. For series production, film and photo material from 71 archives and 21 countries as well as private archive material was used and this was combined with drama scenes. The series was one of the most elaborate docu-drama formats ever co-produced in Germany and was sold in more than 25 countries around the world before it was broadcast. The stylistic narrative style of the documentary drama series was established in this production and has shaped the narrative style of LOOKSfilm ever since.

War of Dreams (2018) is the continuation of 14 - Diaries of the First World War and another series production about the path of Europe in the 20th century. War of Dreams tells the time between the world wars based on 13 fates. The series wasvoted one of the top ten most popular German series of all time in Rolling Stone magazine. With a total budget of over 10 million euros, it is the most complex LOOKSfilm production to date.

LOOKSfilm produced a documentary drama series for children in 2014 with Little Hands in the Great War (2014). The follow-up production Der Krieg und Ich (2018), which tells eight children's fates during World War II, was awarded the 2018 Golden Sparrow .

Filmography (selection)

Book publications

  • Gunnar Dedio, Jens Becker: The last executioners. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-360-00969-X .
  • Hans-Hermann Hertle , Stefan Wolle : Back then in the GDR. C. Bertelsmann, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-442-15383-2 .
  • Sven Reichardt, Malte Zierenberg: Back then after the war. DVA, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-442-15574-3 .
  • Daniel Schönpflug: Luise von Preussen. CH Beck, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-59813-5 .
  • Oliver Janz: 14 - The Great War. The scientific companion book to the television series. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt 2013, ISBN 978-3-593-39589-0 .
  • Gunnar and Florian Dedio: 14 - Diaries of the First World War: Color photographs and notes from a world in decline. Foreword by Peter Englund. Bucher Verlag / BBC Books, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-7658-2041-0 .
  • Gunnar Dedio, Birgit Rasch: Me. Erich Mielke. The book for the movie. Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2015, ISBN 978-3-95400-555-0 .
  • Daniel Schönpflug: Comet Years - 1918. The world on the move, S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt 2017, ISBN 978-3-10-002439-8 .

Exhibitions

Awards (selection)

  • 2019: The White Elephant (for The War and Me )
  • 2019: Civis - Europe's media award for integration in the category "entertainment" (for war of dreams )
  • 2019: nominated for Banff World Media Festival Rockie Awards (for The War and Me )
  • 2019: nominated for the Franco-German Journalism Award (for war of dreams )
  • 2019: nominated for the Grimme Prize (for war of dreams )
  • 2018: Goldener Spatz (for Der Krieg and I )
  • 2015: Prix Italia, Special Mention for International TV Coproduction (for 14 - Diaries of the First World War )
  • 2014: Robert Geisendörfer Prize (for 14 diaries of the First World War )
  • 2014: nominated for the German Television Award (for 14 diaries of the First World War )
  • 2014: nominated for Japan Prize (Contest for educational Media) in the category "Continuing Education" (for 14-Diaries of the Great War )
  • 2014: nominated for the Japan Prize (Contest for Educational Media) in the category "Youth" (for Small Hands in a Big War )
  • 2005: Grimme Prize (for then in the GDR )
  • 2004: Hans Klein Media Prize (for then in the GDR )
  • 2003: Romy TV Award (for Checkmate - The superpowers behind the Rumanian revolution )
  • 2000: Axel Springer Prize (for Fit for Jesus )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gunnar Dedio on IMDb. Retrieved March 11, 2019 .
  2. ↑ LOOKSfilm.tv: Production. Retrieved March 11, 2019 .
  3. ↑ LOOKSfilm.tv: Company. Retrieved March 11, 2019 .
  4. ↑ looksfilm.tv: Executioner - Death has a face. Retrieved March 11, 2019 .
  5. ↑ grimme-preis.de: 41st Grimme Prize 2005: Back then in the GDR. Retrieved March 11, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Andreas Kilb: The pain is deeper than the anger. September 15, 2013, accessed March 11, 2019 .
  7. ↑ fbw-filmbeval.com: FBW press release: Michael Kohlhaas. Retrieved March 11, 2019 .
  8. ↑ 14-tagebuecher.de: 14 - Diaries of the First World War: About the project. Retrieved March 11, 2019 .
  9. ↑ krieg-der-traeume.de: War of dreams: TV series. Retrieved March 11, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Rolling Stone: Reader's Favorite . December 2018, p. 72 .
  11. ↑ leipzig.ihk.de: With a history documentary to success. Retrieved March 11, 2019 .
  12. ↑ dokumentarfilm.info: "The War and Me" is deliberately aimed at children. Retrieved March 11, 2019 .
  13. ↑ goldenerspatz.de: The war and me: Anton. Retrieved March 11, 2019 .
  14. ↑ New Germany feature section "Molotow" on arte. Retrieved January 2, 2015 .
  15. ^ Spiegel online culture President Hindenburg: Hitler's knowing enforcer. Retrieved January 2, 2015 .
  16. ↑ Tagesspiegel media poets and handlebars. Retrieved January 2, 2015 .
  17. ^ Center Marc Bloch Actualités. Retrieved January 17, 2015 .
  18. ↑ Berliner Zeitung Medien A polyphonic choir for the impossible. Retrieved January 2, 2015 .
  19. ↑ Children's Media Prize 2019: These winners could look forward to a WHITE ELEPHANT. Retrieved July 7, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Civis Medienstiftung: CIVIS Prize Winners 2019. Accessed on May 24, 2019 .
  21. ^ Banff World Media Festival. Retrieved July 7, 2019 .
  22. ↑ DFJP nominations 2019. Accessed July 7, 2019 .
  23. ↑ War of Dreams (LOOKSfilm / IRIS Group / Les Films d'Ici / Fortis Imaginatio for SWR / NDR / WDR / RBB / ORF / CT / Toute l'histoire). Retrieved May 16, 2019 .
  24. ↑ KiKA: "Goldener Spatz" for SWR drama series "Der Krieg und Ich". Retrieved May 16, 2019 .
  25. ↑ Robert Geisendörfer Prize: Award ceremony 2014. Accessed on July 9, 2019 .
  26. ^ German Television Award Official Website. Retrieved May 16, 2019 .
  27. ^ Japan Prize Official Website. Retrieved May 16, 2019 .
  28. ^ Japan Prize Official Website. Retrieved May 16, 2019 .
  29. ↑ Back then in the GDR (ARD / MDR / WDR). Retrieved May 16, 2019 .