Some went mad, some ran away but here comes success: awards for film makers who once entered the competition program of the up-and-coming Int. Film Festival Hannover with their first works:
Volker Engel
OSCAR Academy Award Special Effects for ‚Independence Day’, 1997; Emmy Award for the SF series ‚The Triangle’, 2006
Thomas Stellmach
OSCAR Academy Award for his short animated film ‚Quest’, 1997
Marc-Andreas Bochert
OSCAR Student Academy Award and German Short Film Award, Film ribbon in Silver, for the short feature ‚Kleingeld’, 1999
Florian Gallenberger
OSCAR Student Academy Award for the short feature ‚Quiero Ser’, 2000; OSCAR Academy Award for ‚Quiero Ser’, 2001
Ayse Polat
Silver Leopard Award at Locarno International Film Festival for her film 'En garde', 2004
Fatih Akin
German Film Award 2008 / ‚Golden Lola’ for ‚Auf der anderen Seite’; Best Script in Cannes for ‚Auf der anderen Seite’, 2007; Golden Berlin Bear Award, Berlinale 2004, and European Film Award 2004 for ‚Gegen die Wand’
Caspar Stracke
13. Videokunst Förderpreis Bremen, 2003: 1st Prize;
German Film Critics Award at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, 1995;
Rockefeller Media Art Fellowship Program, 2000
Daniel Knocke, Stefan Krohmer
Adolf-Grimme-Award with Gold for 'Familienkreise', 2004, and for 'Ende der Saison', 2002
Janek Rieke
Interfilm Award and Audience Award for 'Härtetest' at the Max-Ophüls-Festival, 1998
Carsten Strauch
Murnau-Kurzfilmpreis for 'Das Taschenorgan', 2001
German Short Film Award (Film Award in Gold) for "Futter", 1997
Gordian Maugg
German Film Awards (Film Award in Silver) for "Der olympische Sommer",1993
Dennis Gansel
German Film Award 2008 / Bronze Lola for 'Die Welle';
Adolf Grimme Award (in Gold), 2001, for 'Das Phantom'; German Film Award (Film Award in Gold), 2003, for 'Napola'; Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau Award for 'The Wrong Trip', 1996
Ali Samadi
German Film Award 2006 for 'Lost Children'
Sven Taddicken
German Short Film Award / Film ribbon in Gold for 'Einfach so bleiben', 2003; nominated for OSCAR Student Academy Award with 'Schäfchen zählen', 2000
Yang Fu Dong (Shanghai)
documenta 11 artist (Kassel, Germany, 2002): the documenta exhibition has commissioned Yang's first 35mm feature film; in 2003, he took part in the 50. Biennale di Venezia
TOKUNAGA Tomihiko (Tokyo)
Special Award for '[cameRa]' and '[vIdEo]' at the FILM KONFIDEN Festival (Djakarta, 2002, 2003) and at the TAIPEI GOLDEN HORSE FILM FESTIVAL (Taipei, 2002, 2003)
Ole Bendtzen (Copenhagen)
Special Award at the Split Film Festival (2004) for 'Waiting for Joe'
Jean-Jacques Villard (Los Angeles)
'Son of Satan': Best Animation Film Award (L'ALTERNATIVA Festival, Barcelona 2003); selected for the CINEFONDATION program of the INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Cannes, 2004; Silver Dove Award at the Leipzig International Festival for Documentary and Animation Film, 2004
Zhou Hongxiang (Shanghai)
Image Award at the transmediale04 (Berlin) for 'The Red Flag Flies'
Anri Sala (Paris)
special award for young artists: 49. Biennale di Venezia, 2001
