World’s second longest-serving film festival director died last week while attending Graz film festival.
Filmmakers in Germany and beyond are mourning the passing of Heinz Badewitz, the founder of the Hof Film Days, who died unexpectedly last week at the age of 74 whilst attending last week’s Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Film in Graz.
Badewitz was the world’s second longest-serving film festival director after Chicago’s Michael Kutza (who launched his festival in 1964) and was planning Hof’s 50th anniversary in October.
Hailing from Hof in Northern Franconia, Badewitz had moved to Munich in the early 1960s to train as a cameraman and soon became part of the Munich film scene, later working as location manager on such films as Wim Wenders’ Kings Of The Road and The American Friend, and assistant director for Bob Fosse’s Cabaret and Norman Jewison’s Rollerball.
In addition, he was involved in the selection of German films for...
Filmmakers in Germany and beyond are mourning the passing of Heinz Badewitz, the founder of the Hof Film Days, who died unexpectedly last week at the age of 74 whilst attending last week’s Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Film in Graz.
Badewitz was the world’s second longest-serving film festival director after Chicago’s Michael Kutza (who launched his festival in 1964) and was planning Hof’s 50th anniversary in October.
Hailing from Hof in Northern Franconia, Badewitz had moved to Munich in the early 1960s to train as a cameraman and soon became part of the Munich film scene, later working as location manager on such films as Wim Wenders’ Kings Of The Road and The American Friend, and assistant director for Bob Fosse’s Cabaret and Norman Jewison’s Rollerball.
In addition, he was involved in the selection of German films for...
- 3/14/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
The European Film Market (EFM), held simultaneously with the 61st Berlinale (February 10-20), will introduce a new program, German Cinema - Lola@Berlinale, of titles nominated for the annual German Film Awards (‘Lolas’). The new program, which replaces the existing German Cinema series, is a joint project between the Berlinale, the German Film Academy and German Films, the national agency promoting local cinema. Films selected for the Lolas in the categories of Best Feature Film, Children’s Film and Documentary will be presented by their directors. German Cinema head Heinz Badewitz will host the program. Another new element of this Efm is…...
- 1/4/2011
- Sydney's Buzz
Cologne, Germany -- The Berlin Film Festival is giving its German Cinema sidebar a gold polish. Starting next year, the sidebar will be made up off all titles on the long list for the Lolas, Germany's equivalent of the Oscars.
The commission of the German Film Academy nominates its long list of Lola candidates between November and January. The Academy picks the final nominees and Lola winners.
The new sidebar will be titled German Cinema -- Lola@Berlinale and include titles in the same feature film, documentary and children's film categories used by the Lola awards.
The films will also screen at Berlin's European Film Market. Heinz Badewitz will continue to run the German Cinema sidebar, as he has for several years.
The commission of the German Film Academy nominates its long list of Lola candidates between November and January. The Academy picks the final nominees and Lola winners.
The new sidebar will be titled German Cinema -- Lola@Berlinale and include titles in the same feature film, documentary and children's film categories used by the Lola awards.
The films will also screen at Berlin's European Film Market. Heinz Badewitz will continue to run the German Cinema sidebar, as he has for several years.
- 9/14/2010
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The 43rd Hof Film Festival is in a tiny town in Franken, Bavaria. It's the hometown of festival founder Heinz Badewitz who entered the film world in the 60s side by side with Fassbinder, Herzog, Wenders and other new wave German filmmakers. The traditional soccer game between the filmmakers and the townies in the beautiful fall setting is one of the high points of the festival. Other notable reasons for coming to this festival is that every German film industryite including bankers and other festival progammers, distributors, sales agents and the press is here schmoozing, drinking beer, eating the best sausages in the world and watching films up the youngest up-and-comingest German filmmakers in a totally relaxed atmosphere.
Opening night film was Parkour, the debut drama by Marc Rensing about a young man and his group of friends in an unnamed industrial town in Germany. Sundance's Sin Nombre produce by...
Opening night film was Parkour, the debut drama by Marc Rensing about a young man and his group of friends in an unnamed industrial town in Germany. Sundance's Sin Nombre produce by...
- 10/28/2009
- by Sydney@SydneysBuzz.com (Sydney)
- Sydney's Buzz
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