The Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival presents three award winning films from last year's festival edition at the eDIT Filmmaker's Festival in Frankfurt:

- Human von Thomas A. Østbye (Winner Goldener Schlüssel)
- Leavenworth, WA von Hannes Lang (Winner A38-Produktions-Stipendium)
- You Are My Hero von Tobias Bilgeri (Special mention Goldener Herkules)

When: Sunday, 26th September 2010, 17:00-18:30h

Where: E-Kinos (Elysee 1) Zeil 125, 60313, Frankfurt am Main

This year's university portrayal presents Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing, France. The program will show films recently produced at the university, presented by teachers and students of Le Fresnoy. Le Fresnoy is a post-graduate art and audiovisual research centre. Its aim is to enable young artists to produce works using professional standard equipment under the direction of established artists such as Michael Snow, Grégory Chatonsky, Jean-Luc Godard, Raoul Ruiz and others. The theoretical and practical work embraces all audiovisual languages, from electronic and traditional media (photography, cinema, video) to digital technology and other state of the art media developments. The work of production is complemented by an ambitious artistic programme. This includes various exhibitions and events which explore all aspects of creativity, in particular "Panorama", when all the works produced at Le Fresnoy are presented under the auspices of a guest curator every year in June.

Due to popular demand and the blistering heat wave which makes working / submitting a film nearly impossible, the submission deadline has been extended till July 23 (postmark)!

You can find the submission form here.

We're looking forward to receiving your submissions!

As part of the upcoming International Short Film Festival Hamburg (June 1 - June 7, 2010), a panel discussion takes place on Friday, June 4 discussing the topic "Short films in the Internet - Where is the parlour in virtual space?". Festival director Gerhard Wissner is invited as an expert and as a project partner of the digital archiving and presentation project mediaartbase.de to discuss this and other questions around the topic together with Maike Mia Höhne (Berlinale Shorts, Berlin International Film Festival), Mathieu Boucher (The Auteurs), Catherine Colas (arte), Christian Füllgraf (Media attorney and Onlinefilm AG).

Short films in the Internet: Where is the parlour in virtual space?
By now the Internet has - in its own virtual space - expanded the reality of traditional media such as TV, DVD and cinema along with their models of redemption. Without question, a short film has easier access to the Internet than to the cinema and in this way reaches a bigger audience. But what about the financial re-flux? How and where can a diligent and respectful placement and evaluation of premium shorts take place? What models exist that highlight the individual short film in order to make a unique impression amongst the mass of content?

When? Friday, June 4, 11am
Where? Filmschule Hamburg Berlin e.V., Filmhaus Friedensallee 7, 2nd Floor
The event is for free and will be held in German and English.

The 25th DOK.fest Munich takes place from May 5 to 12, 2010. This year, Gerhard Wissner is invited to join the five-member expert jury, which decides on the winner of both, the FFF-Documentary-Talent Award and the DOK.deutsch, a new section of the Festival. Other jury members are: Ingo Fliess, Producer, if... Productions, Munich; Amelie von Kienlin, Head of Program Acquisition, Telepool GmbH, Munich; Katrin Rothe, Director, Berlin; Martin Thau, Screenwriter and Education Director of Script Workshop, Munich.

DOK.deutsch
A new competition of German language films that thematically and geographically addresses regional themes. The films in this section are nominated for the BLM Film Award 2010 of the Bavarian Authority for Private Broadcasting (endowed with 5,000 EUR).
Prize Winner: Sergej in the Urne by Boris Hars-Tschachotin
Honorary Mention: Hoffenheim - Das Leben ist kein Heimspiel by Frank Marten Pfeiffer & Rouven Rech

FFF-Documentary-Talent Award
Nominated for the FFF-Documentary-Talent Award of the Bavarian Film and Television Fund (FilmFernsehFond Bayern) are films from directors who live in Bavaria (endowed with 5,000 EUR).
Prize Winners: Was wird bleiben by Knut Karger and On the Other Side of Life by Stefanie Brockhaus & Andy Wolff

From today and until April 27, the goEast Film Festival takes place in Wiesbaden! As part of the jury, Gerhard Wissner will decide together with Catherine Colas (commissioning editor for short films, ZDF/ARTE) and Maria Wismeth (managing director of film subsidy fund of the state Hesse) on the Promotional Prize of the BHF-Bank-Foundation, the prize for the best Eastern European Film in the Student's Competition.
Prize Winner: Duck Hunting (Lov na race), Director: Rok Biček
Honorary Mention: The One Who Was Different (Drugaya), Director: Anna Shepilova

The call for entries to the 27th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival (November 9 to 14, 2010) is now open! 

We now invite all filmmakers, artists, distributors, producers, gallery owners, universities or institutions to submit latest works and projects to the different sections of the festival.

Deadline for entries is July 19, 2010. We already look forward to receiving your submissions!

You can submit your work(s) online via the online submission form or download the entry form and fill it in.

Rules of participation

Awards