FFA backs promising projects by Buck, Roehler, Huntgeburth, Rosenmüller
Chaired by AngelaLipp-Fläxl, the production funding allocation committee of the German Federal Film Board (FFA) has awarded €3.75m to ten diverse titles, including new projects by important figures in contemporary German cinema, and other exciting movies.
With €600,000, the most generously funded film is Detlev Buck’s latest, Measuring the World, a 3D adaptation of Daniel Kehlmann’s homonymous best-seller (see news). It is produced by the director’s Berlin-based company, Boje Buck Film.
Bavarian director Oskar Roehler (The Elementary Particles [+see also:
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The same amount has been awarded to Neue Schönhauser Filmproduktion for acclaimed director Hermine Huntgeburth’s forthcoming Huck Finn, the natural follow-up to her Tom Sawyer (see news), which will be launched by Majestic on November 17.
Munich-based companies Enigma Film and Wiedemann & Berg have obtained €400,000 and €350,000, respectively, for Urs Egger’s historical Austrian/German/Swiss co-production Die Schwarzen Brüder (“The Black Brothers”) and outstanding director Marcus H. Rosenmüller’s St. Daisy.
Film 1 and SamFilm GmbH have also received €350,000 each for Marco Petry’s Unheilbar Verliebt, starring Max Riemelt and Jessica Schwarz, and Mike Marzuk’s Enid Blytons Fünf Freunde, which looks back at The Famous Five book series.
Other Munich-based companies have received financial support: Claussen + Wöbke + Putz Filmproduktion (Krabat [+see also:
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Lastly, Christian Becker’s renowned Rat Pack Filmproduktion (The Wave [+see also:
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(Translated from French)
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