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Unifrance\u2019s executive director Daniela Elstner and Oscar-nominated director \u0130lker \u00c7atak (The Teachers\u2019 Lounge) are among 18 industry professionals recruited to the new film funding selection committee at Germany\u2019s Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (MBB).<\/strong><\/p>\n The executives have been recruited by Sarah Duve-Schmid, the new CEO of MBB, to help decide on which film and TV projects the \u20ac41m fund should support.<\/p>\n The creation of a selection committee marks a departure for MMB. Previouly all funding decisions on film and TV series projects were taken solely by the fund\u2019s CEO without any recourse to a committee.<\/p>\n This so-called \u201cIntendantenprinzip\u201d was the unique feature of MBB\u2019s funding structure when it was launched in 1994 as Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg. All other regional film funds in Germany work with selection committees to make their funding decisions<\/p>\n This major change to MBB\u2019s funding process was heralded last year as a move to greater transparency in the funding decisions when the fund started looking for a successor to Kirsten Niehuus, who stepped down this summer. <\/p>\n Elstner and \u00c7atak are in a pool of experts drawn from the four fields of creative\/drama, production\/financing, distribution and broadcasting, who will be selected on a rotating basis to serve on the funding committee for each funding session.<\/p>\n The creative\/drama group includes\u00a0\u00c7atak as well as Turbokultur\u2019s David Hadda, producer of series The Doubters, writer-director Mariko Minoguchi, who recently wrapped shooting on her second feature The Other Side, screenwriter Laila Stieler, regular collaborator with director Andreas Dresen on such films as From Hilde, With Love and Gundermann, and writer Martina Z\u00f6llner.<\/p>\n The production\/financing group includes producers such as Maze Pictures\u2019 Philipp Kreuzer, Ulysses Films\u2019 Emely Christians and Construction Film\u2019s Julia Rappold as well as Filmfest Hamburg\u2019s director Malika Rabahallah and Dr. Andreas Barei\u00df, artistic and managing director at the Filmakademie Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Elstner is joined in the distribution group of experts by Andreas Fink, director of screen content\/head of film buying for the Cineplex Deutschland cinema chain, Bj\u00f6rn Hoffmann, managing shareholder of distributor Pandora Film, and Johanna Pfeiffer, VP head of marketing for Germany, Switzerland and Austria at The Walt Disney Company.<\/p>\n In addition, broadcasters\u2019 perspectives on the submitted projects will be given by executives from local TV channel rbb (Kerstin Freels), ZDF (Solveig Cornelisen), RTL (Hauke Bartel) and ProSiebenSat1 (Dr. Stefan G\u00e4rtner).<\/p>\n At the same time, committee members for MBB\u2019s New Media funding strand includes Christian Asanger, VP entertainment at Sky Deutschland, multimedia\/VR designer Thi Minh Binh Herbst and actress Julia Kratz.<\/p>\n The first funding decisions by these two committees will be made next January.<\/p>\n MBB has an annual budget of around \u20ac 41m to support film, series and new media.<\/p>\n It has backed film projects such as the latest instalment of the Hunger Games franchise, Sunrise on the Reaping, Volker Schl\u00f6ndorff\u2019s Visitation and Pawel Pawlikowski\u2019s 1949 at its last funding session under the old regime before the handover from Niehuus to Duve-Schmid this June.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unifrance\u2019s executive director Daniela Elstner and Oscar-nominated director \u0130lker \u00c7atak (The Teachers\u2019 Lounge) are among 18 industry professionals…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-387437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115124353366099411","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}