Berlin-Brandenburg offers a variety of financing and funding opportunities, as well as consulting services: k Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH k Berlin Partner for Business and Technology GmbH k ZAB Brandenburg Economic Development Board GmbH FUNDING, k Berlin Brandenburg Film Commission Berlin-Brandenburg... k Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB) FINANCING, AND k Investitionsbank des Landes Brandenburg (ILB) Netflix CEO Reed Hastings at MEDIA CONVENTION Berlin A meeting point for international media-industry thought leaders ...offers well-known industry events such as: CONSULTING k IFA k Drama Series Days | EFM Berlinale k MEDIA CONVENTION Berlin INDUSTRY EVENTS k Bambi Funding for development and production of TV k Prix Europa and web content Exhibitions, marketplaces, and conventions such as IFA, Drama Series k VideoDays Days at the Berlinale’s European Film Market, and MEDIA CONVENTION k animago AWARD & CONFERENCE Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH Berlin offer insight into current themes and trends, while also drawing k www.medienboard.de representatives of the international media, thus contributing to the Dr. Anna Sarah Vielhaber | Head of Business Development and Funding worldwide networking of the capital region’s media sector. Regular ... benefits from high-quality media-sector [email protected] | +49 (0)331 7438783 training and continuing education programmes: events such as Mediengipfel, VideoDays, Europe’s biggest meeting of YouTubers, and the Germany-wide unique Your Turn – The Video Crea- k Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF Consulting on business locations, funding, and enterprise development tor Competition continually drive the industry forward. In addition, k German Film and Television Academy Berlin the media.net berlinbrandenburg industry network, the Association of k Berlin University of the Arts Berlin Partner for Business and Technology GmbH Commercial Broadcasters and Audiovisual Services (VPRT), the German k www.berlin-partner.de k Media Innovation Center Babelsberg Producers Alliance – Film & Television, and other industry associations Birgit Reuter | Project Manager Media / Creative Industries k Erich Pommer Institute help create ties with the political, academic and cultural communities. [email protected] | + 49 (0)30 46302338 k Institut für Schauspiel, Film- und Fernsehberufe k Entertainment Master Class ZAB Brandenburg Economic Development Board GmbH k www.zab-brandenburg.de Fernanda Lange Boettcher | Project Manager Media / ICT TRAINING AND CONTINUING EDUCATION [email protected] | +49 (0)331 6603227 One of the capital region’s declared goals is to ensure the supply of highly qualified young people in the Locations, Film Permits, and Service Providers media industry. The success of this aim is shown by the diversity of training and continuing education offerings from universities, state and private colleges, media academies, and other educational institutions. Berlin Brandenburg Film Commission Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, German Film and Television Academy Berlin, DEKRA Media k www.bbfc.de Academy, Media Innovation Center Babelsberg (MIZ), Erich Pommer Institute, Entertainment Master Class, Christiane Raab | Head of BBFC and many other institutions offer study courses and training programmes in the areas of production, acting, [email protected] | +49 (0)331 7438731 screenplay writing, cinematography, and direction, as well as continuing education courses and workshops on media law, marketing, and management. TELEVISION Imprint Published by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH [email protected] IN BERLIN-BRANDENBURG k www.medienboard.de Design k www.simpelplus.de European Film Market – Berlinale’s business centre Credits With more than 8,600 participants, an inter- Cover: Homeland © “Homeland Season 5” Blu-ray, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment; inner section p. 1: The Voice of Germany © SAT.1/ProSieben / Richard Hübner; p. 2-3: national marketplace for film and audiovisual Aspekte © ZDF / Jürgen Detmers, Blochin © ZDF / Real Film, GZSZ © RTL / Bernd Jaworek, Homeland © “Homeland Season 1-4” Blu-ray, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, content, since 2015 featuring a new platform for The Voice of Germany © SAT.1/ProSieben / Richard Hübner, Circus HalliGalli © ProSieben, Got To Dance © ProSieben/SAT.1: Frank Zauritz / Willi Weber, Deutschland 83 © RTL, LeFloid high-quality drama series © svensonpictures.com, ellevant © Ellevant Media, Anne Will © NDR/ARD, Tatort © rbb / Thomas Ernst, Sense8 © Murray Close / Netflix; p. 4: Reed Hastings © MEDIA CONVENTION Berlin / MaxThrelfallPhoto, European Film Market © Oliver Möst INTERNATIONAL, CREATIVE, DIGITAL: Channel Production companies TV productions Digital platforms and producers YouTube channel TV AND WEB IN THE CAPITAL REGION VICE Media Freemantle Novafilm Kundschafter DEF Media Fernseh- MOOVIE Film- Media produktion produktion SundanceTV Berlin - The VICE Deutschland — Tag und Reports 83 AMC Networks Nacht MEDIA LOCATION Letzte Schuld nach Bauer Spur Ferdinand von Eichwald, sucht Frau BERLIN-BRANDENBURG Berlin Schirach MdB RTL RTL Group RTL 2 Berlin-Brandenburg is one of the world’s leading media regions, with nal storytelling era – bears clear testimony to this fact. At the same nearly 4,000 film and TV businesses that collectively generate an time, Berlin-Brandenburg offers space for the development of ideas, Ein starkes UFA annual turnover of about € 1.9 billion per year. The capital region’s experimentation, and creative results to an extent unmatched by Das Team ZDF Team Divimove Deutsche Welle infrastructure creates an excellent foundation for the production of any other region in Germany. In Berlin, the digital scene is booming: TV and web content. National and international media professionals innovators and start-ups operate alongside large media companies benefit from the expertise of renowned traditional companies such as like VICE Media and Axel Springer, blazing a new trail in the media gebrueder Kobalt berlin Gute Zeiten, beetz Studio Babelsberg, Studio Berlin Adlershof, and Berliner Union-Film. world. Video-on-demand platforms like Netflix, web TV providers like Kuttner Axel Konzept producers aspekte Blochin N24 Schlechte filmproduktion plus 2 In addition, the high density of production companies such as UFA and Magine TV, and multi-channel networks like Studio71, Divimove, and Springer Zeiten service providers such as ARRI Media, as well as of additional specia- the 301+ YouTube collective have all established a presence in Berlin. lists in areas such as set construction, special effects, post production, In addition, one of only six YouTube Studios worldwide is located in Real Film Tankstellen and casting, offers optimal conditions for complex productions. The Berlin, offering video artists the opportunity to develop their creative Worldwide Berlin Nackt unter des Metropolis strand- Berlin Netflix production of series such as Homeland, Sense8, and Deutschland 83 potential in the heart of Europe. Wölfen Glücks gutmedia – high-end, internationally successful productions of the new fictio- MAZ & More Studio Babelsberg Sky Arte Turnover in the Berlin-Brandenburg TV industry Deutschland Sat.1 € 709 million Frühstücks- fernsehen Applewar +42% 16bars.tv DOKfilm X-Filme Pictures ARD Degeto Fernsehpro- Creative € 1 billion duktion Pool 0 100 300 500 700 900 € million Space Frogs Talpa Homeland Germany Sat.1 Companies in the Berlin-Brandenburg audiovisual media industry Kelly Die Stadt Babylon MissesVlog und die Polizeiruf 110 Sense8 7.222 Berlin Showtime Macht +55% The Voice of ProSiebenSat.1 Germany | — YouTube 301+ 11.177 Group The Voice Kids CBS 0 6000 12.000 LeFloid 2004 2013 Rundfunk Thadeusz h “The Voice” at Studio Berlin Adlershof Nilam ARD EIKON Berlin- und die ProSieben Studio71 Robert Media The ideal studio infrastructure for successful entertainment productions Source: Medienindex Berlin-Brandenburg 2015 Darkviktory Farooq aka Brandenburg Beobachter Daaruum Hofmann Got to Dance | Circus Got to Dance HalliGalli Kids Menschen bei Heiter bis tödlich Kesslers STUDIOS & LOCATIONS IN BERLIN-BRANDENBURG BERLIN BRANDENBURG FILM COMMISSION Kontraste Collective Anne Will Maischberger – Tatort Expeditionen Hauptstadtrevier (BBFC) LOCATION SERVICE Studio71 From Berlin Adlershof to Babelsberg to fernsehwerft – the studios in the capital region are in high demand, and streets and squares in Berlin and Brandenburg serve as popular shooting locations for diverse film and TV productions. With its constantly updated database of more than 1,500 locations in the Berlin-Brandenburg region, as well as consulting services for Will Askania WIEDUWILT locations, equipment, and potential partners, the Berlin Branden- Vincent TV k Studio Babelsberg k CINE PLUS Media Media FILM & TV burg Film Commission is the natural first stop for production teams PRODUKTION k k Studio Berlin Adlershof HAVELSTUDIOS wanting to shoot in the capital region. BBFC provides pointers to the k fernsehwerft k CCC Filmstudios / Filmatelier Haselhorst right contacts for film permits, offers advice on co-productions, and Endemol Endemol k Berliner Union-Film k VCC Studiobetriebsgesellschaft provides a comprehensive electronic commercial directory of produc- Florida TV Shine Group Germany beyond k YouTube Studio Berlin k filmyard tion companies and service providers. Berlin-Brandenburg offers a variety of financing and funding opportunities, as well as consulting services: k Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH