Stuttgart Filmwinter

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Stuttgart, Germany January 2009, TBA
Call for Entry Deadline: September 2008, TBA
Festival Data:
- Established: 1987
- Genre: Experimental - New Media (click to see)
- Attendance: 9000
- Media Attendance: 100
- Accredited Industry Attendance: 350
- Total Number of Films Submitted: 1700
- Total Number of Films Screened: 200
- Total Screenings: 50
- # of Shorts Screened: 190
- # of Features Screened: 10
- Accreditations: ECFF
- Competitive
- Has Panels
Festival Website:
www.filmwinter.de
Festival Description:

Wand 5, an association promoting film and media culture, organizes Stuttgart Filmwinter each year in which artists screen experimental art film and video and on and offline new media. An accompanying program includes media installations, music performances, workshops and film work for children.

Awards include:

TEAM-WORK-AWARD: The Marli-Hoppe-Ritter Art Foundation endows an award amounting 2000 Euro for a film and video production realized by a team.

NORMAN 2008: Award of the jury for film and video of 4000 Euro donated by the State Capital Stuttgart.

IBM AWARD FOR NEW MEDIA: These awards amounting 4000 Euro donated by IBM Deutschland GmbH go to an independently produced work in the field of software, net art or virtual communities.

WAND 5 AWARD: Our legendary Wand 5 team special price award!
Film Submissions:
- Call for Entry: http:/ / www.wand5.de/ wand5cms/ images/ stories/ Filmwinter09/ form09.pdf

Email:	karten(at)wand5.de
Phone:	(49) 711-99 33 98 17
Fax:	(49) 711-99 33 98-10
Mailing Address:	Wand 5.e.V. im Filmhaus Friedrichstr. 23 A Stuttgart 70174 Germany

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JUN 04 11:19PM FFW Festival Editor writes:

Stuttgart Filmwinter 2008 Awards

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.
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