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Sponsors and Supporters

2010 OFFICIAL PARTNERS AND SPONSORS

 

IN COOPERATION WITH

MAJOR SUPPORT

 

SPECIAL SUPPORT

Consulate General of Luxembourg in San Francisco

MAJOR SPONSORS

 

SUPPORTING SPONSORS

MEDIA PARTNERS

 

 

 

 

HOTEL PARTNERS

EVENT SPONSORS

COMMUNITY CO-PRESENTERS

    Acknowledgments

    Board of Directors
    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