Stuttgart Filmwinter embraces new developments and textures within the international filmmaking and artistic scene and offers an initial public platform. For the first time Media Space will be an independent section within the overall Filmwinter program.

Seven Competition Programs show the best films competing for the "Norman 2008" the "Team Work Award" and the Wand 5 Honorary Award. 75 films were selected out of the 1,400 submissions in the field of film and video. An international jury – Pia Maria Martin (Germany), Torsten Zenas Burns (USA), and Mário Micaelo (Portugal) – was selected the winners.

Norman 2008 (4,000 Euros)
"Part Time Heroes"
Austria 2007
Directed by: Mara Mattuschka, Chris Haring

Team-Work Award (2,000 Euros)
"Harrachov"
Netherlands 2006
Directed by: Matt Hulse, Joost van Veen

"Un dimanche à Pripiat" (A Sunday in Pripyat)
France 2006
Directed by: Frederic Cousseau, Blandine Huk

Wand 5 Ehrenpreis
"Curtea de Arges"
Austria 2007
Directed by: Ulrike Ostermann

In the competition category Media in Space international artists compete for a prize of 4,000 Euros. The spectrum ranges from classic video installations to interactive environments and media sculptures. The 10-day long exhibition, featuring artist such as Peter Bogers and Daniel Aschwanden among others, is held in co-operation with exhibition spaces Kunstbezirk – Galerie im Gustav-Siegle-Haus, fluctuating images e.V., and gez. – Raum für Urheber.

The winners are selected by renown artists Birgit Brenner (Germany), Markus Huemer, (Germany), Szabolcs KissPál, (Hungary).

Medien im Raum (Media in Space), (per 2,000 Euros)
"50.000.000 can´t be wrong"
Germany 2006
Directed by: Susanne Bürner, Animation: Julia Pfeiffer, Aleksander Cigale

"Deep Woods"
Great Britain 2005
Directed by: Alison O`Daniel

Wand 5 Ehrenpreis
"Chinese Whispers"
China, Austria 2006
Directed by: Daniel Aschwanden, Peter Stamer

The Filmwinter Stuttgart and Media Space are held and organized by Wand 5 e.V. founded in 1987 as an initiative of filmmakers, architects and art historians. The aim of the organization is to offer an international platform to independent film and media culture.