First Steps Awards: “Los Ángeles” wins junior film award – Daily Mirror

15:21 clock Christiane Peitz

Update On Monday evening were awarded in Berlin the First Steps Awards, for the 15th time. Five of the seven winners are graduates of the Film Academy Ludwigsburg. However, the main prize which bears the Munich Film student Damian John Harper with “Los Ángeles”.

It is always good for surprises, the annual First-Steps-Gala in the musical palace at Potsdamer Platz. The 22-year-old actor Edin Hasanovic hosted the 15th ceremony of the junior-film prizes with a brisk step dance and bubble-Kanönchen while Michael Ballhaus (79) a spirited “Not only do: carry on,” the young people in the hall calling out. Ironically, the camera Veteran Ballhaus and Associate Laureates Heinz bathing joke, with 48 years Hof International Film Festival, the senior Festival boss in the world, celebrated by the young with ovations, and the yet-mayor reaping enthusiastic applause.

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Less surprising:. 12 of the 31 nominated films were from graduates of the Film Academy Ludwigsburg, five of the seven awards go because even to the university in Baden-Württemberg. The awards are in anyway as thick (see Student Oscar); also teaches First-Steps-co-inventor Nico Hofmann there since the mid-nineties. The two most important prizes still go to Munich and Vienna. The 25,000 euro first prize in the feature films, gets the HFF student Damian John Harper for “Los Ángeles”: The 17-year-old Mateo wants to go out of his Mexican village to LA to support the family. He is convinced, however, that it must be gang member to survive there. And at the mid-length films wins Stefan Bohuns Vienna Film Academy production of “music” about a corrupt apartment officials

The feature film “Los Ángeles” and the documentary “philanthropy”. Both are with lay staged

The Ludwigsburg: Andreas Bruns wins with the witty horror soap advertising “Save your Skin”, Pascal Flörks with the short film “Bear”, a photographic installation about the Nazi grandpa in the form of a bear. Producer Sebastian Cordes receives in memory of Bernd Eichinger, donated by his wife and daughter “No Fear” award for the Jakarta-film “Backpack”. And Julia Hörnemann the Michael Ballhaus camera price for the hustlers drama “Porn Punk Poetry”

Romania, Jakarta, Bangladesh, Mexico, Ukraine, Burkina Faso. Striking again the many international venues and the preference for hybrid plants . Similar to Harper in “Los Ángeles” Maximilian Haslberger has his documentary “philanthropy” “inzseniert” together with the protagonists, with two disabled men looking for sex. A film on the fence, says judge David Sieveking. “And there he is something of good.” One more excellent definition of what is appropriate for a young film, can hardly give

-. The winner short film “Bear” and the nominated film “High Performance – mandarins do not lie “are at Do, the 18.9., at 20.15 clock in the middle of Babylon to see.