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The gmbh telefilm medienprojekte is a film and television production company . The company is based in Fürth in Bavaria . The company emerged in 1988 from a partnership that had been producing films for TV stations and industrial films since 1984. Before that, managing director Peter Ponnath worked for Bayerischer Rundfunk as a TV editor and director for seven years. The company initially dealt exclusively with the production of films for television, but soon also produced information films for industry, as well as image and advertising films. In addition, she started her own projects, including several feature films and documentaries that were sold exclusively on DVD and Blu-ray Disc.

Peter Ponnath, founder and managing director of telefilm medienprojekte

history

In 1984 Peter Ponnath founded a film and television company, which he converted in 1988 into a limited company called "telefilm Peter Ponnath Film- und Fernsehproduktions GmbH". The company initially resided in Nuremberg . In 1996 it was renamed "telefilm medienprojekte gmbh" after moving to larger rooms and moving to Fürth.

In its early days, telefilm dealt exclusively with the creation of films and contributions for public broadcasters, such as Bayerischer Rundfunk and ZDF . After SAT1, RTL and PRO 7 were founded, private broadcasters were also among their customers. The first private customers were BMW AG, Grundig, Tucher and others. Today, Telefilm Medienprojekte (new spelling) is a full-service film production for image films, advertising films, industrial films, commercials and documentation with a focus on the Nuremberg-Fürth-Erlangen metropolitan region and works from here for corporations, medium-sized companies, large TV broadcasters and authorities and advertising agencies in southern Germany. Public authorities and companies are among its customers.

The company temporarily employs up to twelve people in the production of image and advertising films and for the visualization of technical processes in 3D animation technology.

Image films and advertising films

Telefilm medienprojekte gmbh was the producer of the image films for the Federal Republic of Germany for its 50th anniversary. The production comprised a total of 12 films that shed light on Germany from different angles. The company's camera teams were on the move around the world for four months. A two-hour summary was broadcast in two parts in 1999 by the American public television broadcaster PBS and was later awarded the RIAS television prize.

Numerous large companies have also had their image and advertising films produced by telefilm, such as Datev eG, Nürnberger Versicherungen AG, Müller-Verlag, the “Was-Ist-Was” publishing house Tessloff, the Pöschl Tobacco Group, Quelle and Küchen-Quelle, the Federal Association of German CallCenter, Heitec AG, VIAG, Rosenthal AG, Siemens, Schäfer AG, Remech AG, the 1. FCN, the Federal Employment Agency, the automotive groups Schaeffler, Scherer & Trier and FTE and many others. For the latter, recordings were made in China and Brazil in 2012.

The company was also heavily involved in the Volks- und Raiffeisenbanken campaign “What drives us”, for which it had implemented a total of 64 individual projects by 2013. The Berlin advertising agency Heimat supplied the basic concept in 2008. The campaign set standards in the advertising film industry by portraying customers of the cooperative banks, who thus made themselves ambassadors for honest and sustainable action. This concept has now been imitated many times and adopted in a modified form by other advertising agencies and companies.

Filmography feature films and own productions

In 1984, Peter Ponnath and Hubert Pöllmann tackled a movie entitled “The Local Patriot”, which made it into the festival program of the Hof Film Days and in 1985 was awarded the City of Nuremberg's Culture Prize.

In 1986, the company produced a 90-minute theatrical documentary entitled "Farmhands", which dealt with problems in global agricultural production and was shot in Thailand, Senegal and Brazil. It ran in art house cinemas and in Catholic youth film work.

In 1992 Peter Ponnath started a film about the Nuremberg Christmas Market, which has become the standard for the most famous Christmas market in the world. It has been revised over the years, most recently in 2016 in cooperation with the Congress and Tourism Office of the City of Nuremberg.

The third cinema production followed in 2001: “6 auf See”, an idiosyncratic cinema comedy with the Fürth comedian duo Martin Rassau and Volker Heissmann , which was broadcast five times on Bavarian television. Peter Ponnath acted as producer and directed at the same time. The film was shot in Miami, USA, on the Virgin Islands, Madeira, in Italy and on the cruise ship "MS Melody".

In 2016, Telefilm Medienprojekte shot the musical film “Mademoiselle Marie”, based on the theater musical of the same name by Fritz Stiegler and Matthias Lange. The film is the first Franconian homeland film and also the first musical film that was produced in Bavaria. STARRING: Romina Satiro as Marie and Manuel Unterburger as Francois. Peter Ponnath directed. The music was played by the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra and the Thilo Wolf Big Band.

Prizes and awards

In 2001 and 2002 telefilm medienprojekte was awarded the German Business Film Prize of the Federal Ministry of Economics in Berlin several times. In the same years she received twice the RIAS television award for international documentary film productions. In 2008 she was awarded the German Directory Media Industry Prize.

Filmography television

  • “Water for DORI” 30 minutes (ZDF), water problems in the Sahel
  • “Burma - The Hermit of Asia”, 30 minutes (Bayerischer Rundfunk): Travel impressions from a closed country
  • "The Local Patriot", feature film, camera and direction (awarded the Culture Promotion Prize of the City of Nuremberg, rating "Valuable" by the Wiesbaden Film Evaluation Office)
  • “Mafia” (documentary film series) awarded the d. Finnish TV 1991 and 1992 as "best foreign production"
  • "The Forbidden Landscape", 45 minutes (Bayerischer Rundfunk)
  • "The golden road", 45 minutes (Bayerischer Rundfunk)
  • "Pension under palm trees", 30 minutes (Bayerischer Rundfunk)
  • "50 Years of the Federal Republic of Germany" for the Federal Press Office on the 50th anniversary of the Federal Republic and 4 × 30 minutes (Bayerischer Rundfunk) on the same topic
  • "Dollars, D-Marks and Businesses", 30 minutes (Bayerischer Rundfunk)
  • “The Techno Pact”, 30 minutes (Bayerischer Rundfunk) awarded the RIAS TV Prize 2000
  • In-house production of the cinema comedy “6 auf See” with Volker Heissmann and Martin Rassau , 90 minutes
  • "Fall and Rise of Germany", 120 minutes (PBS, USA), RIAS television award 2001
  • "TV Wonder World", 30 minutes (Bavarian TV)

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