The three cash awards honour the 21-year tenure of outgoing festival director Albert Wiederspiel.
Three new awards have been handed out in recognition of Albert Wiederspiel’s popular 21-year tenure as festival director of Filmfest Hamburg.
Online platform Palais F*luxx and the initiatives ProQuote Film and Let’s Change the Picture presented the ‘Diversity 67+ - Pitching Award for Contemporary Images of Women’ at the Industry Days.
Writer-director Imogen Kimmel was awarded €1,000 for her story idea entitled Loslassen; and two prizes each of €500 were won by screenwriter Christina Reuter for Final Round and writer-director Katinka Kulens Feistl for Irmas wildes Herz.
Three new awards have been handed out in recognition of Albert Wiederspiel’s popular 21-year tenure as festival director of Filmfest Hamburg.
Online platform Palais F*luxx and the initiatives ProQuote Film and Let’s Change the Picture presented the ‘Diversity 67+ - Pitching Award for Contemporary Images of Women’ at the Industry Days.
Writer-director Imogen Kimmel was awarded €1,000 for her story idea entitled Loslassen; and two prizes each of €500 were won by screenwriter Christina Reuter for Final Round and writer-director Katinka Kulens Feistl for Irmas wildes Herz.
- 10/6/2023
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Chryssos won the best director award for ‘A Pure Place’.
World premieres by Nikias Chryssos and Franziska Stünkel were among the winners of the German Cinema New Talent Awards at this year’s Filmfest München, which wrapped at the weekend.
Chryssos won the best director award for his second feature A Pure Place, an offbeat coming-of-age tale about two young siblings engulfed in a secret community obsessed with soap, located on a remote Greek island. He was selected by a jury comprised of actors Sophie von Kessel and Komi M. Togbonou, and Barbara Mundel, artistic director of the Münchner Kammerspiele.
World premieres by Nikias Chryssos and Franziska Stünkel were among the winners of the German Cinema New Talent Awards at this year’s Filmfest München, which wrapped at the weekend.
Chryssos won the best director award for his second feature A Pure Place, an offbeat coming-of-age tale about two young siblings engulfed in a secret community obsessed with soap, located on a remote Greek island. He was selected by a jury comprised of actors Sophie von Kessel and Komi M. Togbonou, and Barbara Mundel, artistic director of the Münchner Kammerspiele.
- 7/12/2021
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Secret Society
The burgeoning genre of comedies in which members of the British working class become empowered receives an offbeat spin in this latest example, chronicling the adventures of an overweight woman who finds personal fulfillment through sumo wrestling.
While the execution does not quite live up to the high-concept premise, the film has its heart in the right place and delivers some fun moments. Sumo wrestling not quite being the attraction here that it is in other places, however, "Secret Society" is unlikely to repeat the Stateside success of similarly themed efforts like "The Full Monty". The film opens today at the Quad Cinema in New York.
Charlotte Brittain, who previously impressed in the British film "Get Real", stars as Daisy, a young newlywed mocked by strangers because of her excess weight but whose husband, Ken (Lee Ross), has absolutely no problem with it. Unfortunately, Ken has just been laid off, and his best plan for keeping them afloat financially rests on the dubious notion of selling nude photographs of his new wife in the form of postcards. The normally shy Daisy tries to go along but ultimately is unable to go through with it, instead taking a menial job in a canning factory.
There she discovers that her new boss, Marlene, runs an after-work female sumo wrestling club, populated by large women bearing such monikers as Wooly Mammoth and Big White Orca. Daisy is invited to join and, much to her surprise, finds herself feeling newly liberated and self-confident by the experience, about which she says nothing to Ken. Made suspicious by her secretiveness, he follows her and discovers her surreptitiously training in the countryside. Fueled by alcohol and the ravings of a UFO-obsessed friend, he becomes convinced that Daisy, now known within her new circle as Mistress Great White Jellyfish, has been brainwashed by aliens.
Such outlandish plot elements don't well serve the film, which is already dealing in fairly exotic territory. The screenplay, co-written by director Imogen Kimmel, lacks the wit necessary to fully exploit the comic elements of the premise, making the proceedings more bizarre than actually amusing. But there's also a welcome tenderness on display, especially in its nonexploitative depiction of the loving relationship between the two physically mismatched central characters. Brittain is highly appealing as the frustrated Daisy, giving the film a real emotional center, and she also handles the very physical demands of her role well.
SECRET SOCIETY
First Run Features
Credits:
Director: Imogen Kimmel
Screenwriters: Catriona McGowan, Imogen Kimmel
Producers: Vesna Jovanoska, David Pupkewitz
Director of photography: Glynn Speeckaert
Editor: Klatharina Schmidt
Music: Paul Heard
Production designer: Eddy Andres
Cast:
Daisy: Charlotte Brittain
Ken: Lee Ross
Marlene: Annette Badland
Billy: James Hooton
Paul: Charles Dale
Running time -- 89 minutes
No MPAA rating...
While the execution does not quite live up to the high-concept premise, the film has its heart in the right place and delivers some fun moments. Sumo wrestling not quite being the attraction here that it is in other places, however, "Secret Society" is unlikely to repeat the Stateside success of similarly themed efforts like "The Full Monty". The film opens today at the Quad Cinema in New York.
Charlotte Brittain, who previously impressed in the British film "Get Real", stars as Daisy, a young newlywed mocked by strangers because of her excess weight but whose husband, Ken (Lee Ross), has absolutely no problem with it. Unfortunately, Ken has just been laid off, and his best plan for keeping them afloat financially rests on the dubious notion of selling nude photographs of his new wife in the form of postcards. The normally shy Daisy tries to go along but ultimately is unable to go through with it, instead taking a menial job in a canning factory.
There she discovers that her new boss, Marlene, runs an after-work female sumo wrestling club, populated by large women bearing such monikers as Wooly Mammoth and Big White Orca. Daisy is invited to join and, much to her surprise, finds herself feeling newly liberated and self-confident by the experience, about which she says nothing to Ken. Made suspicious by her secretiveness, he follows her and discovers her surreptitiously training in the countryside. Fueled by alcohol and the ravings of a UFO-obsessed friend, he becomes convinced that Daisy, now known within her new circle as Mistress Great White Jellyfish, has been brainwashed by aliens.
Such outlandish plot elements don't well serve the film, which is already dealing in fairly exotic territory. The screenplay, co-written by director Imogen Kimmel, lacks the wit necessary to fully exploit the comic elements of the premise, making the proceedings more bizarre than actually amusing. But there's also a welcome tenderness on display, especially in its nonexploitative depiction of the loving relationship between the two physically mismatched central characters. Brittain is highly appealing as the frustrated Daisy, giving the film a real emotional center, and she also handles the very physical demands of her role well.
SECRET SOCIETY
First Run Features
Credits:
Director: Imogen Kimmel
Screenwriters: Catriona McGowan, Imogen Kimmel
Producers: Vesna Jovanoska, David Pupkewitz
Director of photography: Glynn Speeckaert
Editor: Klatharina Schmidt
Music: Paul Heard
Production designer: Eddy Andres
Cast:
Daisy: Charlotte Brittain
Ken: Lee Ross
Marlene: Annette Badland
Billy: James Hooton
Paul: Charles Dale
Running time -- 89 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 6/7/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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