7 Minutes Speed-Pitch
The Hof International Film Festival has always seen itself as a platform for new cinematic discoveries. The search for new talent is a major concern for us. At this year's festival, this also includes offering aspiring filmmakers the chance to network in the industry and find strong partners for the realization of their projects.
Five projects get the opportunity to present their material to selected decision makers of the industry. Each participant meets five industry representatives and has 7 minutes to convince them of his or her vision. In the best case, the ideas are so convincing that the filmmakers not only receive feedback, but also find accomplices who develop and realize these ideas with them. All participants are selected by a jury headed by the artistic director of the Hof International Film Festival, Thorsten Schaumann:
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Participants
In his works, Thomas Taube detaches the medium of film from its linear and stringent narrative structures. He studied at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Buchkunst Leipzig withClemens von Wedemeyer and Candice Breitz. His works have been shown in institutions such as the Museum der Bildenden Künste or the G2 Kunsthalle, in galleries and festivals such as the German Competition of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and at Les Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin.
Project
A prefabricated housing estate south of Munich, a sociotope in which "Almanstadt" (AT) follows six characters on their search for identity through the most diverse milieus. They all do not meet and yet have more to do with each other than they think.
Rabeah Rahimi fled with her family from Afghanistan to Germany in the 90s. She has appeared in international productions as an actress and graduated in 2023 with a degree in directing and producing. Her documentary "Together Against Parkinson's" won the award for best documentary short at the 2023 Berlin Short Film Festival. DITA is her feature film debut.
Project
Zahra, 13, fled Afghanistan, traumatized. Dieter, late 50s, right-wing fellow traveler, burdened by an unspeakable guilt. Two lost souls who find each other.
Ina Balon (screenplay, director for Großraumabteil), premieres FRANKAS MONSTER (screenplay and director) at the Hof International Film Festival. Derya Türkmen has been a freelance producer for three years, her last documentary "27 Stories" premiered at the Max Ophüls 2023.
Project
GROSSRAUMABTEIL (AT) Mini series: Open the doors and welcome to the open-plan compartment of the ICE, somewhere in Germany between A and B. Pure stress for the over-friendly train conductor JIMMY (38) and his grumpy colleague ANGELA (44). There's a problem for everything and a solution for nothing...
Both of us (Milan and Ferdinand Dölberg), who come from the fields of painting, sculpture, performance and spatial installation, will bring our stylistic experiences and interests to the areas of the film for music, costume, set design and create freely. In this way we link the inherently different parts of the script into a coherent and moving overall narrative.
Project
"Köstliche Leiche" is a film project that breaks boundaries and focuses on the unpredictable and random in film. The concept and basic approach of the script is the collaboration with four independent screenwriters, each coming from different artistic fields (writers, artists, dramaturgs, filmmakers, etc.).
Charlotte Weinreich and Rosa-Lena Lange are two young filmmakers from Berlin, who together present their project idea "YOU OWE ME".
Project
The documentary YOU OWE ME tells about the lives of three indebted women in Argentina, who are particularly affected by the ongoing economic crisis in the country.