Short film Music award "The Leo"

Design by Ina Gereke

The 20th Film Festival will present the short-film music award, the LEO, for the fourth time this year, granted by a four-member jury. The LEO is an award which merits the combination of film and music, or of film and sound. The main concern of the judges is not the images or sound individually, but the combination of these two elements into a convincing composition. The LEO does not target music videos, although some are in the running, but rather aims at films which are striking due to their original, individual and innovative mixture of picture and music or sound in general. This year’s 25 LEO entries come from 8 different countries, are no older than 18 months and represent every conceivable genre: from animation to experimental film; from short features to peaceful documentaries.

The award fund of 2,000 EUR is donated by the foundation Braunschweiger Land and is to be divided equally between the director and the composer.

We, November 8 5:45 pm CinemaxX 3 Fr, November 10 3:00 pm CinemaxX 3

Th, November 9 3:15 pm CinemaxX 2 Guest: Andrea Emonds Sa, November 11 3:00 pm CinemaxX 1 Guest: Raphael Gianelli

THE JURY


Julian Benedikt



Born in 1963 in Bavaria, Julian Benedikt has worked as actor, scriptwriter and producer, but is best-known as a director. His documentary "Blue Note" received numerous accolades and was nominated for a Grammy. He played the saxophone in rock band "Les Fleurs du Mal" with whom he released two records. Since 1994 he has produced several music videos, EPKs for American labels and documentaries for ARTE and ZDF.

He will bring his newest film "Play your own thing" to Braunschweig.


Juliane Fuchs



Juliane Fuchs is Festival Director at the Back_up Festival’s – Neue Medien im Film, a cooperation with the media faculty at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, which has taken place every year since 1999. The Digital Media Designer also collaborates with the French ultra-short film festival Trés Court, which occurs simultaneously in more than 40 cities worldwide. Her own short film Alien Explorer was shown in 2000 in the section bitfilmFestival at the 19th International Short Film Festival Hamburg.


Birgit Kahle-Hanusa



Born in 1959, she studied English, American and Indo-German Studies in Mainz, did her master’s in Berlin and a Master of Arts at the University of East Anglia, England. Since 1983 she has worked as a freelance writer, primarily for radio: initially RIAS Berlin; then by Deutschlandradio Berlin; and now for Deutschlandradio Kultur. Her current focus is on film music and the musical.


Jochen Schmidt-Hambrock



Born in Wuppertal in 1955, he studied at the Cologne School of Music until 1981. From 1984 onwards he worked as a studio musician and producer. He has made appearances with the WDR Big Band and the SWF Symphony Orchestra amongst others and has written several compositions for feature films. He is member of the board of the Composers Club, founding board member of the German Film Academy, member of the GEMA-Work Committee and delegate in the German Music Council.




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