SPRUNGBRETT – young film makers in collaboration with successful former up-and-coming participants
SPRUNGBRETT is a pilot project that took place to coincide with the 8. up-and-coming International Film Festival Hannover in December 2005.
Numerous former up-and-coming participants are meanwhile highly successful in the film, television and video art industry. Their career began with the help of the up-and-coming talent-spotting contest in Hannover.
We invited four of them to share their biography and cinematic development in a dialogue with the audience during the festival and to present themselves in the form of excerpts from their films.
At the same time, a talent_meeting took place where eight selected film makers presented their future film projects to the four film artists.
Each film artist had chosen two film makers who he advised and assisted during the talent_meetings with regard to planning their future film projects (developing the material, screenwriting, directing, filming, production, post-production).
The objectives of the project are: successful former up-and-coming participants share their experience with newcomers; young film makers benefit from this experience and are motivated to continue with their cinematic work. Moreover, it is a chance for everyone involved to build up relationships and contacts that will be useful for each individual’s future film work.
For young film makers, the up-and-coming Int. Festival Hannover is both a forum where they can present their work to a competent jury as well as a critical audience, and the chance to get that deciding kick to carry on. For many contestants, up-and-coming is also a stepping stone into international careers. Several Bundesfilmpreis (National German Film Award) winners, as well as OSCAR award winners have screened their debut work in Hannover.
SPRUNBRETT was financed with funds from the German National Cultural Foundation, Kulturstiftung des Bundes, and is an up-and-coming initiative.
Participating film artists:
TOKUNAGA Tomihiko (born 1975, Tokyo)
One of the few independent film-makers in Japan admitted to the Association of Japanese Directors.
Special award for ‘[cameRa]’ and ‘[vIdEo]’ at the FILM KONFIDEN festival (Jakarta 2002, 2003) and the TAIPEI GOLDEN HORSE FILM FESTIVAL (Taipei 2002, 2003); International FilmComet for ‘[cameRa]’ at the 6. up-and-coming Int. Film Festival Hannover (2001); ‘[vIdEo]’: special award (Die Fliegende Kamera) for the most innovative and experimental film, sponsored and awarded by kestnergesellschaft Hannover at the 7. up-and-coming Int. Film Festival Hannover (2003).
Caspar Stracke (born 1967, New York)
Video artist. Caspar Stracke first took part in the up-and-coming festival when he was 15 years old.
Awards: Bremer Videokunstpreis (2003), Rockefeller Media Art Fellowship Program (2000)‚ Golden Medal (Best Experimental Film): New York Film & Video Expo (1994), German Film Critics Award: International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (1995).
Federico Sosa (born 1976, Montevideo)
Film-maker. Studied Drama at the EMAD (National Drama Conservatory). Graduate of ORT University, Uruguay, in Audio-Visual Communication.
Worked as a cameraman for television, various short film projects and commercials (2002-2003). Assistant director for several short films, video clips and the films Alma Mater (Álvaro Buela, 2003), Proyecto Murga (Sebastián Bednarik, 2004) and El grito del Canilla (Leonardo Ricagni, 2005).
Federico Sosa has directed documentaries, TV commercials, video clips and short films. He runs the production company Diezcatorce.
Francis Théberge (born 1978, Montréal)
Video artist, VJ (visual jockey), graphic designer.
Co-founder of the Montréal Video Art Group TIND (thisisnotdesign), Montréal, and the Derapage Festivals at the University of Québec in Montréal (UQAM) dedicated to purely non-narrative, experimental video art.
Francis Théberge produces his experimental video art by using film scratching and manipulating video errors that occur when compressing analogue and digital video signals.
