Published by Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture 2011 Vienna — Austria Imprint Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture – Film Division Barbara Fränzen – Director Concordiaplatz 2 1014 Vienna/Austria +43 1 531 20–68 80
[email protected] www.bmukk.gv.at Publisher and Concept Carlo Hufnagl — Film Division Editor Brigitte Mayr Translation Christine Wagner Eve Heller Photographs Directors © Joerg Burger Graphic Design up designers berlin-wien Walter Lendl Print REMAprint Contents INTRODUCTION 7 Foreword by Federal Minister Claudia Schmied FACTS + FIGURES 8 Budget 9 Most Frequent Festival Screenings 2008–2011 10 Most Frequent Rentals 1995–2011 11 Most International Awards Received 1995–2011 12 Outstanding Artist Awards 12 Austrian Art Award 13 Thomas Pluch Screenplay Award RECENT SUCCESSES 15 Most Wanted FILMS 37 Fiction 43 Documentary 61 Documentary Short 67 Avant-garde Short FILMS COMING SOON 83 Fiction Coming Soon 91 Documentary Coming Soon 133 Avant-garde Coming Soon 137 Fiction Short Coming Soon 143 Documentary Short Coming Soon 151 Avant-garde Short Coming Soon SCHOLARSHIPS FOR YOUNG TALENTS 2010 163 Start-Up Grants for Young Film Artists CONTACT ADDRESSES 169 Production Companies & Sales 171 Directors INDEX 174 Films 176 Directors The Austrians are enjoying perhaps the greatest flowering of cinematic talent in seventy years… Steven Gaydos – VARIETY All quotes concern films that have been supported by the Film Division of the Department for the Arts. 6>7 Introduction Points of View Adrian Martin, Head of Film and Television Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, has entitled his preface to the volume Film Unframed. A History of Austrian Avant-garde Cinema1 “Dream of Austria”.