AWARDS & JURY 2018

Every day via technology, humankind seems to be reducing the physical dimensions of the world of objects and even our need to interact with them to the absolute minimum. This has provoked me as a designer to ask myself is the endgame actually to minimize everything down to energy and nothing more? Is the Modernist expression ‘Less is more’ to be worshiped – or criticized?

With this in mind, the ‘e’ trophy has become a reduced raw expression of digital visual communication and has been produced using state of the art 3D printing technology. Video-‘Film’ as digitally projected signals is simply stated, the ‘signals’ describe an ‘e’ which finally manifests itself as colours on a ‘flat’ surface. Perhaps in the future this design will simply be transparent…?

The exception to the design for the main 6 categories is the design for the new category: ‘The PRICKLE’. This object has by nature of the theme ‘Sustainability’ to have a more serious persona. Produced from both PLA and recycled plastic, it is designed to convey the seriousness of ‘Sustainability’ which is an issue that grows bigger and more critical every day.
Driven by the Filmfest Eberswalde ‘PROVINZIALE’ concept, a number of positives have emerged during the design phase: The ‘e’ is manufactured from the ‘stuff’ of the Provinces, that is ‘PLA’ (Poly Lactic Acid) derived from plant based starch which is bio-generated and biodegradable. Furthermore, the 3D printable data generation and the production of the trophies was handled by YOUin3D, a young company based in Berlin Mitte, thereby supporting smaller ‘seed’ idea generators, the likes of whom could emerge anywhere at any time – essential for the perpetuation of provincial life.

Richard Hurding, Designer,
Joachimsthal/UNESCO Biosphere Schorfheide-Chorin
Zelfo Technology / BIORAMA-Projekt

The international competition will be held in the categories of Documentary Film and Short Feature Film. There are no restrictions as to the filmmakers and their origins.
From the films sent in, the programme advisory boards select those that will take part in the competition. The ‘e’ prize will be awarded by a jury at the end of the festival for overall artistic performance in each category.

In the Documentary Film category, the jury decides on the winner of the PROVINZIALE, which will be the best film on the subject of province.

The award is meant as an encouragement to the prize winners for their achievement.

• Award for the best documentary film in the PROVINZIALE competition: 4,000 EUR, donated by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy of the State of Brandenburg
• Award for the best short feature film: 2,000 EUR

Festival visitors can decide on four audience awards, one in each of the Documentary Film, Short Documentary, Short Feature Film and Animated Film categories. Ballots will be issued before each screening. The counting of votes is closed to the public.

• Audience award for the best documentary film: 1,000 EUR
  donated by the mayor of Eberswalde
• Audience award for the best short documentary film 1,000 EUR
• Audience award for the best short feature film 1,000 EUR donated by Sparkasse Barnim
• Audience award for the best animated film 1,000 EUR

Bernd Buder

Born 1964 in West Berlin, Bernd studied politics at Freie Universität Berlin. From 1996-2005, he was programme coordinator at the Filmkunsthaus Babylon repertory cinema. Since 1996, he has filled various positions, such as researcher, press officer and curator, at FilmFestival Cottbus, whose programme director he has been since 2015. From 2011-2014, he was also responsible for the festival’s co-production market, called ‘connecting cottbus’. He is in charge of the competition programmes of the Cinedays European Film Festival in Skopje and works as a cinematic advisor to the states of former Yugoslavia and coordinator for the Forum section of the Berlinale festival. Apart from that, Bernd is also a film journalist and member of the European Film Academy.

Miro Zahra

Artist and curator Miro Zahra grew up in Prague and studied at Berlin Weißensee Art College from 1980 to 1985. She has been living and working in Plüschow, Mecklenburg, since 1985. Besides her artistic profession, she has also made a name for herself as manager of the Schloss Plüschow Artist House in Mecklenburg and as a curator for art projects and exhibitions. In her pictures, Miro Zahra deals with the basic problems of painting in a very elementary and individual way. Her artwork has been awarded numerous scholarships and art prizes.

Holger Lauinger

Holger works as a journalist and filmmaker on aspects of socio-ecological culture change.
www.hl-redaktion.de

Heike Scharpff

Heike studied psychology, was a co-founder of the Waggonhalle Magdeburg theatre and worked as Assistant Director at Staatstheater Darmstadt. Since 2003, she has been a freelancing theatre producer for community venues (Theater Oberhausen, Schauspiel Leipzig, Theater Münster) and for the independent scene (Mousonturm Frankfurt/ Main, German Stage Service Marburg, LOFFT Leipzig, Ballhaus Ost Berlin). In 2014, she teamed up with colleagues to launch the KANALTHEATER community theatre in Eberswalde. Her focus is on documentary theatre and various forms of participation. She has been committed to cultural politics for years (La Prof Hessen, LAFT Berlin, German Federal Association of Performing Arts, Pro Quote Bühne). Heike is a jury member at the ‘Tanz und Theater machen stark’ and ‘MADE in Hessen’ festivals. Besides that, she works as a coach for artists, e.g. for the TANZ-Transition Zentrum Deutschland foundation and the LAFT Berlin.
www.heikescharpff.de

Katrin Küchler

Born 1982, Katrin studied media and communication at Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena and media en cultuur at Amsterdam University. Her focus is on historical, theoretical and analytical aspects of motion pictures. When she first worked for the FILMFEST DRESDEN International Short Film Festival in 2007, she became a short film enthusiast. Her Master thesis (‘kurz.film.zeit. – temporal modes of acting in short films’) also picked up on the genre. In 2008, Katrin took on an assistant position at the Berlinale Shorts and worked as a teacher in Jena. From 2010 to 2017, she was a co-director and member of the film selection committee at FILMFEST DRESDEN. Katrin engages with international prize juries and cinematic panels on a regular basis. Since September 2017, she has been working for the MEDIEN360G radio editorial department of Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk at the Thuringia State Broadcasting Studios and as an editor to the ‘unicato – young film art at MDR’ short film magazine.

Imma Harms

Born in 1949, Imma studied IT and philosophy and worked as a jounalist (e.g. for taz), filmmaker (with Thomas Winkelkotte and on her own), as a blog and book author (‘land weg’, ‘Dünne Haut und dickes Fell’) and as a teacher of film analytics. Her writing and filmmaking is centred on political and normative concepts such as autonomy, conflict culture, value and property, power and provocation, utopias and the history and self-perception of left-wing movements. She grew up in Eastern Westphalia, lived in West Berlin for 20 years and in unified Berlin for another 10 years, then in the Reichenow Manor House in Märkisch-Oderland for 20 years. Imma is politically committed on a local and regional level.

How can we live without jeopardising ourselves? The question is a long-standing one. The answers attempted so far have included not only plain scientific balances but also our endeavours to lead a life worth living, in view of the variety and unrestfulness of our desires. Whether our ever-more-radical appropriations of nature will save us or kill us has been a cause for argument whenever new technologies arose.

The present discourse on sustainability has turned this argument into a promise: It seems to be only a matter of time and good will to build a society that has made its peace with nature. Do we have good reason for such optimism? Or is what we call a sustainable way of living an issue to be tackled afresh every day? Do we maybe need some kind of thorn to prick us every now and then, reminding us that we need to rethink our own practice?

Every year, we admit films with prickles to our competitions: documentaries, animated and feature films which contribute to the sustainability debate in a productive way.

What we are looking for is a film that tells neither tidings of joy nor messages of doom; a film that deliberately upsets our well-studied stances, allows for uncertainty and traces contradictions.

From 2017 on, PROVINZIALE and Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development will award the PRICKLE special prize for the best cinematic contribution to this ongoing issue of our time, sustainability.

A total of nine entries have been nominated for the PRICKLE by this year’s programme advisory boards. Among these are three long and three short documentaries and three short feature films. The candidates are marked in the programmes.

• “THE PRICKLE” special award: 1,000 EUR donated by Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development

Kerstin Kräusche

Kerstin Kräusche, a graduate chemist, has been working in corporate environmental management since 1997 and started working as environmental manager at Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development (HNEE) in 2007. Her duties at HNEE include building and assessing an EMAS-certified environmental management system. Since 2014 she has held the position of sustainability manager at the university, which involves coordinating internal management workflows with regard to sustainability. One of her main concerns at her job is to offer opportunities for participation to the university’s students and associates.

Philip Gleibs

Philip has spent the last two out of 23.5 years of his life in Eberswalde. He is studying regional management at Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development and is chairman of the students’ union. His interests are philosophy and aesthetics.

Dr. Wilhelm Benfer

Wilhelm Benfer was born in the Siegerland region in Southern Westphalia in 1961, where he spent his school years. He moved on to Dortmund to take up studies, then to Coventry. After returning to Germany for a short period, he completed a PhD programme at University of Delaware on the American East Coast.
Looking for a job, he finally came to Eberswalde to work there as a regional planner for five years. Since 1999, he has been head of the Structural Development and Planning Department of the Barnim district administration. He is also a regular guest lecturer at Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development.

Björn Wiese

Björn Wiese, born 1972 in Eberswalde, grew up in a family of bakers. Today he is a master baker and has been running a business for 20 years. His motto is ‘living bakery culture’, which means to look at baking and the things it depends on as a whole, from the crop to the plate, and to make the baking process transparent and understandable. The final product Björn aims at is a great loaf of bread made solely from the simplest of ingredients: flour, water, salt and time.