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Defamation
TV - SENDETERMINE
Arte France/Germany:
Freitag,06.Mai 2011-22.30 Uhr
Wiederholungen: Donnerstag,19.Mai 2011-10:10 Uhr Donnerstag,26.Mai 2011-00:35 Uhr
ORF:
vorraussichtlich
Sonntag,09.Oktober 2011 23.00 Uhr
http://www.defamation-thefilm.com/
Artikel über Defamation in Variety
Hashmatsa
(Documentary -- Israel-Austria-U.S.-Denmark) A Cinephil (Israel)/Knut Ogris Films (Austria)/Reveal Prods. (U.S.)/SF Film Production (Denmark) production, with the support of the Austrian Film Institute, ORF FilmTV Convention, the Danish Film Institute, Danish Radio TV, YLE-Finnish TV, Nordisk Film TV Fond, Ministry of Integration Denmark, Hartley Film Foundation, Zukunftsfonds of the Austrian Republic, Nationalfonds of the Republic of Austria, the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture, the Rabinovich Foundation for Arts, the Second Authority for TV & Radio. (International sales: Cinephil, Tel Aviv.) Produced by Karoline Leth, Sandra Itkoff, Philippa Kowarsky, Knut Ogris. Directed, written by Yoav Shamir.
With: Abraham Foxman, Norman Finkelstein, Stephen M. Walt, John J. Mearsheimer.
(English, Hebrew, Polish, Russian dialogue)
Is anyone who expresses anti-Zionist opinions necessarily also anti-Semitic? Is anti-Semitism itself still an endemic and dangerous global problem? Has remembering the Holocaust become an unhealthy obsession, perhaps with a hidden agenda? Will readers regard a Jewish critic as a self-hating Jew just for considering Israeli helmer Yoav Shamir's personal, occasionally irreverent "Defamation" an ace slice of provocative, timely docu-making? No doubt the first three questions -- and many more -- will stir up red-hot debates wherever "Defamation" unspools, which is likely to be at numerous further fests (although some Jewish-themed ones may balk) and on upscale channels.
Shamir, whose previous docu features ("Checkpoint," "5 Days," and "Flipping Out") explored various aspects of current Israeli life, lays his cards on the table from the start by saying he's never directly experienced anti-Semitism himself. After a comical interview with his own 92-year-old grandmother (who claims Jews abroad really are lazy and make money off others so they don't have to work), Shamir sets out to assess whether anti-Semitism still lurks underneath the surface of supposedly civilized societies, or is just a scarecrow used to drum up political support for right-wing Zionism.
Judging by the evidence offered here, both opinions look plausible. Shamir engages thinkers from across the spectrum, from Abraham Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League, which collects evidence of anti-Semitism, to left-wing academic Norman Finkelstein, whose controversial book "The Holocaust Industry" argues that what the Nazis did is used today to justify Israel's maltreatment of Palestinians.
As journalism, pic is impressively evenhanded (as were "Checkpoint" and "5 Days"), even though the filmmaker never attempts to disguise his own left-leaning sympathies. He can't resist skewering the ADL a bit, making Foxman look somewhat sinister and Machiavellian behind his front of affability. Then again, persuasive but embittered Finkelstein, caught ranting about the "warmongers of Martha's Vineyard," doesn't come across too well either.
The most comic and disturbing sequences spring from footage of Israeli high school students visiting extermination camps in Poland. Struggling to come to grips with what the Holocaust means for their generation, they eat candy while watching archive footage of emaciated Auschwitz victims (a moment worthy of "Seinfeld"). Later, some kids confess they're scared to leave their hotel rooms because they've been warned by their teachers and the Secret Service agents accompanying them that the country is fit to burst with anti-Semites who mean them harm.
Use of hand-drawn graphics to identify onscreen figures amps up the comedy effectively, as does editor Morten Hojbjerg's deadpan use of abrupt cuts, which dampens subject matter's potential grimness. End result is at once intelligent, wry and -- there's no way around it -- quintessentially Jewish, in the best sense.
Camera (color), Shamir; editor, Morten Hojbjerg; music, Mischa Krausz; sound (Dolby Digital), Bruno Pisek; sound designer, Birgit Obkircher. Reviewed at Berlin Film Festival (Forum), Feb. 5, 2009. Running time: 91 MIN.
Grosse Erfolge bei Festivals
Asia Pacific Screen Award - Best Documentary Feature Film (26.11.2009)
Nominierung zum European Film Academy Documentary 2009 - Prix ARTE
MONTREAL, RIDM Rencontres internationales du documentaire / Camera at the Ready Award
KOPENHAGEN, CPH:DOX - international documentary film festival / Special Mention
FLORENZ, Festival die Popoli - International Documentary Film Festival / Best Documentary Award
PAJU, DMZ Korean International Documentary Festival / Grand Award
LONDON, Film Festival / Grierson Award for Best Documentary
WARSCHAU, Film Festival / Audience Award in the documentary category
ZÜRICH, Film Festival / Special Mention
PRIZREN, Dokufest - International Documentary and Short Film Festival / Special Mention
TRAVERSE CITY, Film Festival / Stanley Kubrick Award for Bold and Innovative Filmmaking
MADRID, "Documenta Madrid" International Documentary Festival / AudienceAward (3000 EUR)
NEW YORK, Tribeca Film Festival / Special Jury Mention
In den USA haben wir für DEFAMATION einen Kinoverleiher FIRST RUN FEATURES.
DEFAMATION startete am 20.November in Downtown New York und auch in LA
THIM FILM Verleih: In Wien und in den Bundesländern startet der Film, am 22.1. in Wien und anschließend in den Bundesländern!
Premiere in Österreich ist am 20.10. 2010 um 19.00 Uhr im Künstlerhauskino mit anschliessender Konfrontation und Diskussion mit Michel Friedman, ja DER Michel Friedman und DIE Ruth Beckermann!
Demos erwünscht! Rechtsradikale bitte protestieren!
Posted on 11 Jan 2010
Ich schaff es! - Wege in die Selbstständigkeit
Posted on 15 Apr 2009
FeuerNacht
Die Drehbuchentwicklung zu FeuerNacht ist abgeschlossen.
Bei FilmFonds Wien und Österreichisches Filminstitut Haben wir nun um die Finanzierung des Filmes angesucht – jeweils 700.000 Euro wollen wir haben, damit dieses wichtige Kapitel in Österreichs jüngerer Zeitgeschichte entsprechend ausgeleuchtet wird
Posted on 15 Apr 2009
The Teddy Bear Spring
ÖFI fördert Projektentwicklung "Frühling für Eisland"
Knut Ogris und Peter Payer treten in die heisse Phase dieses aussergeöhnlichen Weihnachts-, Fantasy- und Kinderfilmes ein.
Ursula Wolschlager unterstützt dramaturgisch. Koproduktion zwischen Österreich, Deutschland und Irland!
Frühling für Eisland (engl., deutsch) Wir sind glücklich, dass wir, nach dem Österreichischen Filminstitut für die Projektentwicklung des entzückenden Fantasy- Weihnachtsfilmes bekamen. Auch beim Filmfonds Wien hatten wir ein „Greenlight“ – das uns, leider bedingt durch den ganz normalen Regiewechsel entzogen wurde!
Auch hier werden die organisatorischen Weichen gestellt um im neuen Jahr 2010 die Finanzierung fertigzustellen und mit den CGI VorbereitungsArbeiten beginnen zu können.
Posted on 15 Apr 2009
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Arte France/Germany: Freitag,06.Mai 2011-22.30 Uhr Wiederholungen: Donnerstag,19.Mai 2011-10:10 Uhr Donnerstag,26.Mai 2011-00:35 Uhr | ORF: vorraussichtlich Sonntag,09.Oktober 2011 23.00 Uhr |
http://www.defamation-thefilm.com/
Artikel über Defamation in Variety
Hashmatsa
(Documentary -- Israel-Austria-U.S.-Denmark) A Cinephil (Israel)/Knut Ogris Films (Austria)/Reveal Prods. (U.S.)/SF Film Production (Denmark) production, with the support of the Austrian Film Institute, ORF FilmTV Convention, the Danish Film Institute, Danish Radio TV, YLE-Finnish TV, Nordisk Film TV Fond, Ministry of Integration Denmark, Hartley Film Foundation, Zukunftsfonds of the Austrian Republic, Nationalfonds of the Republic of Austria, the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture, the Rabinovich Foundation for Arts, the Second Authority for TV & Radio. (International sales: Cinephil, Tel Aviv.) Produced by Karoline Leth, Sandra Itkoff, Philippa Kowarsky, Knut Ogris. Directed, written by Yoav Shamir.
With: Abraham Foxman, Norman Finkelstein, Stephen M. Walt, John J. Mearsheimer.
(English, Hebrew, Polish, Russian dialogue)
Is anyone who expresses anti-Zionist opinions necessarily also anti-Semitic? Is anti-Semitism itself still an endemic and dangerous global problem? Has remembering the Holocaust become an unhealthy obsession, perhaps with a hidden agenda? Will readers regard a Jewish critic as a self-hating Jew just for considering Israeli helmer Yoav Shamir's personal, occasionally irreverent "Defamation" an ace slice of provocative, timely docu-making? No doubt the first three questions -- and many more -- will stir up red-hot debates wherever "Defamation" unspools, which is likely to be at numerous further fests (although some Jewish-themed ones may balk) and on upscale channels.
Shamir, whose previous docu features ("Checkpoint," "5 Days," and "Flipping Out") explored various aspects of current Israeli life, lays his cards on the table from the start by saying he's never directly experienced anti-Semitism himself. After a comical interview with his own 92-year-old grandmother (who claims Jews abroad really are lazy and make money off others so they don't have to work), Shamir sets out to assess whether anti-Semitism still lurks underneath the surface of supposedly civilized societies, or is just a scarecrow used to drum up political support for right-wing Zionism.
Judging by the evidence offered here, both opinions look plausible. Shamir engages thinkers from across the spectrum, from Abraham Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League, which collects evidence of anti-Semitism, to left-wing academic Norman Finkelstein, whose controversial book "The Holocaust Industry" argues that what the Nazis did is used today to justify Israel's maltreatment of Palestinians.
As journalism, pic is impressively evenhanded (as were "Checkpoint" and "5 Days"), even though the filmmaker never attempts to disguise his own left-leaning sympathies. He can't resist skewering the ADL a bit, making Foxman look somewhat sinister and Machiavellian behind his front of affability. Then again, persuasive but embittered Finkelstein, caught ranting about the "warmongers of Martha's Vineyard," doesn't come across too well either.
The most comic and disturbing sequences spring from footage of Israeli high school students visiting extermination camps in Poland. Struggling to come to grips with what the Holocaust means for their generation, they eat candy while watching archive footage of emaciated Auschwitz victims (a moment worthy of "Seinfeld"). Later, some kids confess they're scared to leave their hotel rooms because they've been warned by their teachers and the Secret Service agents accompanying them that the country is fit to burst with anti-Semites who mean them harm.
Use of hand-drawn graphics to identify onscreen figures amps up the comedy effectively, as does editor Morten Hojbjerg's deadpan use of abrupt cuts, which dampens subject matter's potential grimness. End result is at once intelligent, wry and -- there's no way around it -- quintessentially Jewish, in the best sense.
Camera (color), Shamir; editor, Morten Hojbjerg; music, Mischa Krausz; sound (Dolby Digital), Bruno Pisek; sound designer, Birgit Obkircher. Reviewed at Berlin Film Festival (Forum), Feb. 5, 2009. Running time: 91 MIN.
Grosse Erfolge bei Festivals
Asia Pacific Screen Award - Best Documentary Feature Film (26.11.2009)
Nominierung zum European Film Academy Documentary 2009 - Prix ARTE
MONTREAL, RIDM Rencontres internationales du documentaire / Camera at the Ready Award
KOPENHAGEN, CPH:DOX - international documentary film festival / Special Mention
FLORENZ, Festival die Popoli - International Documentary Film Festival / Best Documentary Award
PAJU, DMZ Korean International Documentary Festival / Grand Award
LONDON, Film Festival / Grierson Award for Best Documentary
WARSCHAU, Film Festival / Audience Award in the documentary category
ZÜRICH, Film Festival / Special Mention
PRIZREN, Dokufest - International Documentary and Short Film Festival / Special Mention
TRAVERSE CITY, Film Festival / Stanley Kubrick Award for Bold and Innovative Filmmaking
MADRID, "Documenta Madrid" International Documentary Festival / AudienceAward (3000 EUR)
NEW YORK, Tribeca Film Festival / Special Jury Mention
In den USA haben wir für DEFAMATION einen Kinoverleiher FIRST RUN FEATURES.
DEFAMATION startete am 20.November in Downtown New York und auch in LA
THIM FILM Verleih: In Wien und in den Bundesländern startet der Film, am 22.1. in Wien und anschließend in den Bundesländern!
Premiere in Österreich ist am 20.10. 2010 um 19.00 Uhr im Künstlerhauskino mit anschliessender Konfrontation und Diskussion mit Michel Friedman, ja DER Michel Friedman und DIE Ruth Beckermann!
Demos erwünscht! Rechtsradikale bitte protestieren!
Die Drehbuchentwicklung zu FeuerNacht ist abgeschlossen.
Bei FilmFonds Wien und Österreichisches Filminstitut Haben wir nun um die Finanzierung des Filmes angesucht – jeweils 700.000 Euro wollen wir haben, damit dieses wichtige Kapitel in Österreichs jüngerer Zeitgeschichte entsprechend ausgeleuchtet wird
ÖFI fördert Projektentwicklung "Frühling für Eisland"
Knut Ogris und Peter Payer treten in die heisse Phase dieses aussergeöhnlichen Weihnachts-, Fantasy- und Kinderfilmes ein.
Ursula Wolschlager unterstützt dramaturgisch. Koproduktion zwischen Österreich, Deutschland und Irland!
Frühling für Eisland (engl., deutsch) Wir sind glücklich, dass wir, nach dem Österreichischen Filminstitut für die Projektentwicklung des entzückenden Fantasy- Weihnachtsfilmes bekamen. Auch beim Filmfonds Wien hatten wir ein „Greenlight“ – das uns, leider bedingt durch den ganz normalen Regiewechsel entzogen wurde!
Auch hier werden die organisatorischen Weichen gestellt um im neuen Jahr 2010 die Finanzierung fertigzustellen und mit den CGI VorbereitungsArbeiten beginnen zu können.