Archive 2003
THE SHORT FILM COMPETITION: "THE LEO"
| Design by Ina Gereke |
The 17. Film Festival offers something new: the "Leo"! The "Leo" is small, fine and something quite special. It is a short-film prize which is awarded by a three-member jury. This in itself is nothing new, but the "Leo" is a prize that aims at the combination of film and music or film and sound. It is not the images alone that matter; it is not the sound alone either that matters. What matters for the "Leo" is the combination of these two essential elements into one convincing whole. The "Leo" does not aim at music clips although there are some in the running; rather it aims at films that are striking due to an original, individual and innovative mixture of animated pictures and music, or sound in general.
The 31 contributions for this first "Leo" come from 13 different countries, none is older than 18 months and they represent every conceivable genre from animated music clips to experimental films, from short stories to peaceful documentaries.
The three-member jury will award a first and a second prize for the most successful combination of image and music or sound in a short film. The first prize is 2000 Euro, the second 1000 Euro - and the money will be equally divided between the director and the composer.
THE JURY
Astrid Kühl
Astrid Kühl was born in Hamburg in 1958. From 1982 till 1992 she studied among other things psychology, German and Romance languages there. After her cooperation with the International Short Film Festival in Hamburg in 1993, she started working at the KurzFilmAgentur Hamburg e.V in September. In January 1998 she became manager there and festival co-manager at the Hamburg International Short Film Festival.
Gerd Gockell
Gerd Gockell was born in Darmstadt in 1960 and studied at the School of Graphic Art in Brunswick. Afterwards he spent a year in London, England where he began producing short films which have won him several prizes. Returning to Germany, he founded the film production company anigraf in 1990. Since 1992 he has taken on several lectureships in the field Animation. In 1999 he produced his first full-length film "Muratti & Sarotti". At the moment Gerd Gockell leads the Animation Department at the School of Art in Luzern, Switzerland.
Berthold Bell
Berthold Bell was born in 1948 in Bell in the Eifel. From 1967 till 1972 he studied at the Academy of Applied Art in Vienna, Austria and then at the Factory School in Cologne. After working several years as a graphic designer for the DuMont editing house he became independent and has been active since then in the fields of art, design, film and music. As connoisseur of music he wrote film music reviews for "epd Film". At the moment he is working on a musical collage called "Concert for Cat and Computer" and on the documentary "Requiem for a Punk Rocker".