Archive 2007
Short Film Music Award - The "Leo"
| Daniel Westlund, winner of the "Leo" in 2006 |
The 21st Braunschweig International Film Festival will be presenting the "Leo" this year for the fifth time. The "Leo", which is awarded by a jury of four, is a prize for short films where film and music are especially well combined in a particularly convincing and original way.
The 28 contributions for the "Leo" originate from 13 countries, are all less than 18 months old and come from all sorts of genres, from animation to experimental films, from short feature films to documentaries.
The prize money of 2.000 Euro is donated by the Stiftung Braunschweiger Land and is awarded equally to film director and music composer.
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THE JURY
Christian Halten
Qualified film musician, sound designer and producer. He studied musicology in Saarbruecken as well as film music and sound design at Baden-Württemberg Film Academy, where he now holds the position of a visiting lecturer. Member in the production team of Oscar winner Hans Zimmer in Hollywood. Owns his proper production company "SKyLIFE Film Music and Sound Design" including a musicpublishing house specializing in music in surround.
Nomination for the Horizon-Award at the Surround Music Awards in Los Angeles for his DVD "Off Space". In cooperation with Eric Mootz Halten conceived the audio software "SampleRobot", which won him the Innovation Special Prize at the Music Fair in 2006.
Thom Palmen
Born in the Netherlands, emigration to Sweden in the early eighties to study the history of art and philosophy, also sociology. Faced with the disappointing fact that many good films cannot find a distributor he and other cineastes started the Swedish Umea International Film Festival. Since 1996 he is this festival's art director. Palmen was a member in many juries of festivals in Sofia, Dresden, Aix-en-Provence, Poznan and Puchon (Korea). He started his own distribution firm "Botnia Film" for the promotion of young talents from the North of Sweden. From 1999 to 2002 he was general secretary and from 2002 to 2004 president of the European Coordination of Film Festivals (ECFF).
Michael P. Aust
Director of "Televisor Media Services Ltd." and "Troika Entertainment Ltd.". After formation as a bank clerk he studied business management, theatre, film, television in addition to art history and cultural management in Cologne and Vienna. Aust started out as a free-lance journalist for newspapers and TV and as PRconsultant. In 1993 he started his film- and media-PR-agency "Televisor" (Ltd. since ’96). 1999: Start of "Troika"-Filmproduction ("101 Reykjavik", "Der Traum vom Schweben", "Die Eiserne Maria").
Ilona Rieke
Born in 1979 she is mastering in cultural studies, English and American language and literature plus Philosophy at Bremen University. Since 2005 she works for the only German film music periodical Cinema Musica (www.cinemamusica.de). In addition she works as a free-lance journalist for several magazines and online portals, mainly for "Ray" – a film magazine, in which she specializes in music documentation and film music. Short films are her particular field of interest. Twice she organized Bremen’s short film festival "young collection" and was member of the jury.