Acknowledgments
Sabine Erlenwein, President
Dennis M. Sullivan, Secretary
Monika B. Levinson, Treasurer
Michael Ahrens
Stefanie Bastian
CASTRO THEATRE
Director
Don Nasser
Operations managers
Mark Ganter, Gary Olive
Event coordinator / Office manager
Brian Collette
Technical / Premise liason
Bill Longen
IDENTITY
Visual Identity: MetaDesign
Stan Zienka, Creative Director
Karen Sivak, Senior Project Manager
Jeff Allison, Production Manager
Katie Freathy, Designer
Neha Hattangdi, Designer
Trailer: Solid LA
Jason Ett, Creative Director
OFFICIAL SPONSORS
Presenting Sponsors
Lufthansa
Kuehne + Nagel
MetaDesign
Premiere Sponsors
Consulate General of Germany in San Francisco
Consulate General of Switzerland in San Francisco
San Francisco Grants for the Arts
Principal Venue Partner
The Castro Theatre
Major Sponsor
Solid LA
Consulate General of Switzerland
in Los Angeles
Camera Cinemas
Cooperation Partner
Goethe-Institut Los Angeles
Grand Sponsors
Consulate General of Austria in Los Angeles
Friends of the Vienna Film Academy
Montage Services, Inc.
Hotel Partner
Beresford Hotel, Lead
Hotel Adagio
Hotel Rex
Leadership Sponsors
Barak Shrama Photography
Excelsior German Center at the Altenheim
United Swiss Societies of Northern California
Room by Room
Media Partners
German World Magazine
German American Business Association
San Francisco Bay Guardian
Radio Goethe
Event Sponsors
Folio Fine Wine Partners
Bionade
Blue Angel Vodka
Pure Swiss Water
Schäfer-Reichart Selections
The Sausage Factory
Fond O’ Foods
Chrissa Imports
Hot Cookie
Judy’s Breadsticks / Lovesticks
Bi-Rite Market
Esther’s Bakery
SPECIAL THANKS
(In alphabetical order)
Anna Miessl
Bavaria Film International: Gisela Wiltschek
Beta Cinema: Delphine Eon, Martina Knabe, Andreas Rothbauer
Camera Cinemas: Jack Nyblom, Raphaela Nyblom, Byron Yue
Consulate General of Austria, L.A.: Consul Andreas Lins
Consulate General of Germany, S.F.: Consul General Peter Rothen, Consul Eberhard Brockmann, Consul Michael Ahrens
Consulate General of Poland, L.A.: Consul Małgorzata Cup
Consulate General of Switzerland, L.A.: Consul Christophe Vauthey
Consulate General of Switzerland, S.F.: Consul General Julius Anderegg, Cultural Officer Martin Schwartz
Daniela Zentner
Doha Film Institute, Qatar: Jaime Siordia
Emma Mascall
Excelsior German Center at the Altenheim: Marie Hoffmann, Michael Willis, Otti Kiraly
Friends of the Vienna Film Academy / Freunde der Filmakademie Wien
Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion: Cordula Stadter
German Embassy, Washington D.C.
Kristina Jonek
German Films: Nicole Kaufmann, Angela Hawkins
Goethe-Institut Los Angeles: Annette Rupp, Irmi Maunu Kocian, Margit Kleinman, Stefan Kloo, Sylvia Mogel
Goethe-Institut Zentrale, Munich:
Dr. Christian Lüffe,
Carola Ferber
Robert Distelrath,
Horst Weber,
Marina Ludemann
Honorary Consul of Austria, S.F.: Hon. Dr. Peter Fredericks
Honorary Consul of Poland, S.F.: Christopher A. Kerosky
Hotel Beresford: Tricia Lo
Kuehne + Nagel: Daniel Freidrich, Olaf Greifenhagen, Brent Krelle
Lufthansa: Peter Ulmer, Sydney Jones, Andrea Snell
MetaDesign, San Francisco: Dr. Alexander Haldemann Karen Sivak, Stan Zienka
Michaelanne Petrella
Michael Guillen
Montage Services, Inc.: Andrew Jones, Scott Wentz
Peter Luisi, Spotlight Media Productions
Rickey Lee Bauman
Room by Room: Perapol Damnernpholkul
Rudolf de Baey
San Francisco Grants for the Arts: Kary Schulman, Khan Wong, Brett Conner
Schlicht und Ergreifend Film GmbH: Producer Philipp Budweg, Dir. Johannes Schmid
Solid LA: Jason Ett
Stephanie Kranz
Tom Weber
Tony Moraga
Trevor Thành Nguyen
UC Berkeley, German Department
Deniz Göktürk
United Swiss Societies of Northern California: Cultural Committee, Severin Ott, Judit Van Caenegem
Zodiac Pictures: Lukas Hobi, Janine Kurmann
THANK YOU
Alex Fries
Alex Randolph
Anke Kokrhoun
Anne Laurent, Austrian Film Commission
Armel Reyes
Arndt Peltner
Birgit and Kurt Huffman
Brandon Peters, Strand Releasing
Castro Theatre Staff
Christian Schäfer
Claus Falkenberg, Rommel Films
David Bauduin, The Match Factory
Denise Gunter, Folio Fine Wine Partners
Dominic Testa
Dulcinea Gonzalez
Evelyn Austin
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Georg Gruber
Giovanni Galati,
Gladys Rocha, Cine+Mas SF
Hwa-Seon Choi, Doc & Film International
Janis Plotkin, Mill Valley Film Festival
Jens Hermann
Joe Mealey, Deck Hand, Inc.
John Poole Jr., Corinth Films
Joshua Moore, SFJFF
Kordes & Kordes Film
Masashi Niwano, CAAM
Michael Schaerer
Miel Alegre, CAAM
Moritz Hemminger, Telepool
Paul Marchant, First Run Features
Peter and Lionelle Erlenwein
Petra Barkhausen, Hamburg Media School
Petra Schuermann, German World
Rod Armstrong, San Francisco Film Society
Sabine Lamby, Naked Eye Film
Simone Haeberling
Sophat and Sovanna Sorn
Stein Petersen
Sultan Mirza, CBS / NATAS NorCal
Suzanne Fedak, Music Box Films
Thania Dimitrakopoulou, The Match Factory
Werner Biedermann
Xavier Bon
Community Co-presenters
Center for Asian American Media (CAAM)
Cine+Mas SF / San Francisco
Latino Film Festival
Consulate General of Austria, L.A.
Consulate General of Germany, S.F.
Constulate General of Poland, L.A.
Consulate General of Switzerland, S.F.
Consulate General of Switzerland, L.A.
German American Business Association
Mill Valley Film Festival
San Francisco Film Society
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
University of California, Berkeley,
Department of German
Volunteers of 2010 Festival
Grace Alcanter
Philip Arbeit
Raina Beck
Lorenz Behrmann
Roggerio Bittencourt
Gisela Boehnisch
Marit Brademann
Karen Butterfield
Andrew Castillo
Homer Chan
Loretta Chung
Claudia Citroen
Noah DeGuzman
Birgit Deubner
Antonio Echevarria
Carola Foehrenbacher
David Gallagher
Wendy Garfield
Michael Warren Grant
Natalia Guecheva
Philip Hansel
Verena Hehl
Nina Helgen
James Herd
Nina Hoenig
Neelie Hooker
Kayla Hoyles
Astrid Juengling
Jackie Kilian
Sarah
