"Forest of Echoes": Austrian Film Award 2017: Best Shortfilm
Congratulations to Maria Luz and her team for receiving the “Austrian Film Award 2017” for their FOREST OF ECHOES in the category “Shortfilm”.
WANNABE by Jannis Lenz invited to Saarbrücken and Clermont-Ferrand
Fantastic news: Not only Forest of Echoes awarded short by Maria Luz Olivares Capelle has been invited to Saarbruecken. Also WANNABE the recent short by promising newcomer Jannis Lenz has been invited both into competition of Max Ophühls Festival in Saarbrücken (Medium Length Film) and into the international competition of the reknown short film festival in Clermont-Ferrand. Congratulations !!!
sixpackfilm @ Rotterdam Film Festival
Siegfried Fruhauf’s most recent highly abstract FUDDY DUDDY has been selected into Rotterdam´s Tiger Shorts Competition. TOUTES DIRECTIONS, youngest work by Billy Roisz and Dieter Kovacic will celebrate it´s world premiere, Georg Wasner´s multilayered found-footage essay Accelerando its internationale premiere. Michael Palm´s xaminations about the digital twist in cinema Cinema Futures can be seen as well as Jannis Lenz´ Zero-G and Friedl vom Gröller´s Ulrich Gregor & Heidi Kim at the W Hong Kong Hotel.
We are more than happy and proud !
Sebastian Brameshuber´s IN, OVER & OUT awarded in Belgrad
IN,OVER & OUT , Sebastian Brameshuber’s structural and media-historical study, has received a recognition as Important Cinematic Works at this year´s Belgrade Alternative Film & Video Festival. Congratulations Sebastian !
THOSE SHOCKING SHAKING DAYS wins Jury Award at THIS HUMAN WORLD
More good news for Selma Doborac: Those Shocking Shaking Days has been awarded as Winnig Film by the jury of the Austrian Competition at This Human World Film Festival in Vienna. Congrats!
Ruth Beckermann - Retrospektive im Filmmusem
Parallel zum Kinostart ihres jüngsten Filmes Die Geträumten widmet das Filmmuseum der verdienten Regisseurin Ruth Beckermann ab 12. Dezember 2016 eine umfassende Retrospektive, in der ihr gesamtes filmisches Oeuvre gezeigt wird. Eine rare Gelegenheit, selten gezeigtes zu sehen oder wieder zu entdecken. Bis Anfang Jänner im Filmmusem, das genaue Programm finden Sie hier
demnächst: THIS HUMAN WORLD - Menschenrechtsfilmfestival Wien
Nicht versäumen! Ab 1.12.2016 in verschiedenen Wiener Kinos und Veranstaltungsorten: This Human World 2016, unter anderem mit der Uraufführung des neuen Films von Tina Leisch Tanz und gib ihm!, am 8.12.2016, 20.00, Filmcasino
Weitere Filme von sixpackfilm im Programm sind Lampedusa von Peter Schreiner und Those Shocking Shaking Days von Selma Doborac, sowie die Kurzfilme Uncanny Valley (Paul Wenninger), Albert (Felix Weiss) und Empire of Evil (Harald Hund). Watch out for it!
numerous awards during october and november festivals !
congrats to all the award-winners of last weeks festivals:
Kurdwin Ayub: Paradise! Paradise! => Duisburg: Carte Blanche – Newcomer Award & => Sevilla: Best non fiction film
Luz Capelle: Forest of Echoes => Brno: Student Jury Award & => Cork: Shorts Award (Oscar® qualifying!)
Katharina Copony: Moghen paris – and the come along => Viennale: MehrWertPreis of Erste Bank
Selma Doborac: Those Shocking Shaking Days => Belgrad Free Zone: Special Mention
Simon Spitzer: Bringing in the Woods => Tallinn Black Nights: Sleepwalker Main Award
Paul Wenninger: Uncanny Valley => Limassol: Jury Main Award
Zagreb: FK – FRIEDL KUBELKA One Is Not Enough - Photografy and Film
Opening soon: FK – FRIEDL KUBELKA One Is Not Enough curated by Dietmar Schwärzler/sixpackfilm focusing on Austrian Photo and Film Artist Friedl Kubelka aka Friedl vom Gröller. From november 4th to 26th at Galerija SC in Zagreb/Croatia
Buenos Aires - BIM Bienal de la Imagem en Moviemiento with strong Austrian presence
Upcoming BIM Bienal de la Imagem en Moviemiento at Argentina´s capital (november 3-13) will give place for Masterclasses of Peter Tscherkassky and Eve Heller as well as two curated programs on Austrian Experimental Cinema presented by Gerald Weber/sixpackfilm.
