Budding Filmmakers and Professional Training in Germany

Since September 2010, Jan Schütte has been the Director of the German Film and Television Academy Berlin. He enjoys his interesting and enjoyable work with the students.More ...

The new generation of German filmmakers is looking to reach a discerning audience with its critically acclaimed film dramas. In the process, however, these up-and-coming creators want to avoid making any compromises with the mainstream.More ...

Producing a film is only possible in a team. That begins with the financing, as a film is usually made possible through a combination of different sources of funding. We survey the funding opportunities.More ...

Since 2008 the German Film Academy has been operating a knowledge portal.More ...

Students at Germany’s renowned film schools enjoy excellent training in both the theory and practice of filmmaking.More ...

In Germany, the filmmaking business, cultural institutions and educational establishments are campaigning for film education to become a subject in its own right in school syllabi.More ...

For ten years now the First Steps Award has been bestowed on up-and-coming, young talent who make films in the German language.More ...

Since 2008 Matthijs Wouter Knol has been in charge of the Berlinale Talent Campus at the Berlin International Film Festival. In an interview with goethe.de he looks back at the Berlinale 2009 and takes stock.More ...

No other film school in Germany can pride itself in having so many Oscar winners and Oscar nominees among its alumni. What is the secret of its success?More ...

Of the total of 15,000 German actors, roughly 2,000 have an ally in the tough battle for lucrative roles – their agentMore ...

"Music in film offers the chance to tap into another creative level"More ...

The key qualifications for this profession include a fascination with film, music – and legal nicetiesMore ...

All cinema fans know their photographs. Even before a film flickers onto the screen, they are to be found in film magazines, feuilletons, display boxes at cinemas and on posters. The Goethe-Institut asked two experienced still photographers to stand in front of the camera for a change.More ...

They had already been working as film critics in their home country. Then they had been invited to join the Talent Press Campus at the Berlin International Film Festival, the workshop for young film critics, organised by Berlinale, Goethe-Institut and FIPRESCI. This first international festival experience has boosted the career of many of the participants. Three examples.More ...

No screenplay, no film. This applies to the silver-screen epic as well as to the never-ending series on television. Nevertheless, screenwriters in Germany usually lead a shadowy existence, in contrast to actors and directors. More ...

With their buildings and interiors, they compose the pictures that create the atmosphere of a film. Film setting - a profession, which in Germany is still taken up by people switching from other career paths or taking a course of studies.More ...