We are delighted to welcome Theresa Kramer as our new intern.
The communication design student from the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences will be actively supporting us for the next six months. This internship is sponsored by STEP Hessen Film&Medien.
Dascha will participate as a producer in this year’s East-West Talent Lab as part of the goEast – Festival of Central and Eastern European Film in mid-April.
15 talents from the countries of Central and Eastern Europe have been invited with their documentary film projects and will meet producers from Germany, France, Poland and Georgia.
Great news for Dascha Petuchow: her feature film project “Wohin wir gehen” (WT), which was already supported by the STEP author scholarship last year, has received funding for script development from Hessen Film & Medien.
Visitors from Chile and Uruguay! Director Juan Oleo, producer Francisco Hervé and sound designer Daniel Yafalian travelled to Frankfurt for the sound mixing of the coming-of-age western “Oro Amargo” ( former: “La Hija del Pacifico”). They spent two weeks in the sound studio of the Frankfurt company FunDeMental and were able to bring the cinema mix to a successful conclusion.
Julian Gerchow was able to present his debut film DER TRICKBETRÜGER (AT) at the Marktplatz Drehbuch as part of the Max Ophüls Film Preis 2024. Thanks to Hessen Film & Medien, MFG Filmförderung, Saarlandmedien and the Kuratorium junger deutscher Film for the organisation and hosting. The script is in its 2nd version and is funded by Hessen Film & Medien.
We are very happy to announce that HARDSUB by Novruz Hikmet has received funding from the European Solidarity Fund for Ukrainian Films! The debut film is an international co-production between Germany (plotlessfilm), Ukraine ( CUC ) and Poland ( Gogol Film ).
The screenplay is written by Novruz Hikmet and Olena Podolianko, who also worked together on the internationally acclaimed short film It is Quiet Here. Hessen Film & Medien supported the development of the script in 2023 as part of the Talent Paket.
Our short film KAUGUMMI is now in distribution. We will keep you informed about the world premiere and all other festivals here, and on our social media platforms! Furthermore, we have submitted Kaugummi to the German Film and Media Rating (FBW) and received the rating ” highly valuable”. There is already a press release there. As soon as the jury statement is uploaded, we will let you know.
Of course, we have also initiated a number of submissions in the fall. We’ll let you know exactly which ones after the jury meetings. But what we can already reveal, and what we are equally proud of, is this: Dascha has received the author scholarship of the STEP program of HessenFilm und Medien and will now write her debut film WOHIN WIR GEHEN (AT) in the coming months!
We are happy to announce that the docufiction, a German-Ukrainian co-production by Olena Podolianko & Novruz Hikmet, ITS QUIET HERE. had its world premiere on 17.08.22 at the Sarajevo Film Festival.
Congratulations also to our partners in Ukraine: Packgauz Production and CUC. We are very happy and would like to thank again HessenFilm und Medien for their support, which among others made this project possible. Furthermore, the docufiction was screened at the Odesa Film Festival and took home the award for “The Best Short film” at the Batumi International Art House Film Festival. In addition, the Molodist Kyiv Film Festival presented its national competition of Ukrainian short and feature-length films at Filmfest Hamburg, including IT IS QUIET HERE.
From Oct. 27-10, the docufiction will be screened at Filmski Fronk Festival, The Shortfilmfestival and on Nov. 11 at Baku Short Fest.
We would like to welcome Roya Ghanavati to our team, who will be working with us as a student trainee for at least the next six months.
At the end of June we were able to shoot the short feature film OMATE by Maximilian Hasenstab. With our film team we realized the exciting graduation film in a small village in the Spessart at the Bavarian-Hessian border for some shooting days. Currently the project is in post-production.
We did it! The first official funding from Hessenfilm und Medien with plotlessfilm.
The project “La Hija del Pacifico” is an international co-production with Chile and Uruguay. Together with Juntos Films (Chile) and Tarkiofilm (Uruguay) the film will be shot in Chile and the post-production will be completed in Hessen. The exciting western and coming of age mix is a great synergy of genre and arthouse, written by Augustin Toscan, Pancho Hervé and Moisés Sepúlveda and directed by Juan Francisco Olea and Chrisóbal Zapata.
Not only “La Hija del Pacifico” was supported by HessenFilm this submission, but also the feature film Schöne Seelen by our new colleague Tom Schreiber, who joined plotlessfilm on February 1st.
Schöne Seelen with August Diehl and Josef Hader is produced by Sutor Kolonko from Cologne and the Hessian part is accompanied by us on location.