Author: Todorovic

I will  be join­ing the AFRICA FILM DAYS at Film­fo­rum NRW Cologne again this year to mod­er­ate a Q & A  with actor Yas­sine Benkhad­da about his film Le Choix D’Ali (direct­ed by: Amor Hakkar).

Five years ago, Ali escaped his home town Besançon for being gay. But his mother’s stroke makes him come back again , hop­ing for a peace­ful reuni­fi­ca­tion and a fast jour­ney back to Paris.
In Coop­er­a­tion with DEMASK, LSVD e. V. and rubi­con e. V.

For those who have not seen it yet:

 

 

 

 

 

 

this thurs­day, July 9th 2020 at 15:30, and Sun­day morn­ing, July 19th at 9:30 (CET) arte tv will replay my film Schwest­er Weiß with the mira­coulous Lisa Mar­tinek. Thank you.

The film will also be avail­able for free  from thur­days her on arte online.

It’s a ger­man copy with­out eng­lish sub­ti­tles. Feel free to con­tact me if you’d like to see it with subs.

 

A dif­fer­ent kind of suc­cess note :

The web series Beau­ty Sum­mer School by the PR-Agency komm.passion for  Kli­er Hair Group, which I had the hon­our to direct last sum­mer in croa­t­ia won two awards at the  Inter­na­tion­al Ger­man PR-Awards in the cat­e­gories „employ­er brand­ing“ and „mov­ing image“. All that hard work under the hot croa­t­ian sun payed off after all!

So the Band Erd­mö­bel and Ihad this on-the-spot idea  to make a new music video dur­ing these strange days of iso­la­tion. We asked a few friends how they would be par­ty­ing at home. About 70 home­made videos were the basis for my con­tri­bu­tion the this new Coro­na-Splitscreen cul­ture of ours.  So here it is:  Par­ty Deines Lebens (Par­ty of Your Life)!

This month, Simone Stewens is leav­ing her posi­tion as chief and cre­ative exec­u­tive direc­tor of my Alma Mater, the inter­na­tion­al filmshool Cologne, which I attend­ed back in the days as one of her first stu­dents in film direct­ing — and which is turn­ing 20 this year.

I had the priv­i­lege to talk with Simone about ear­ly begin­nings of what is today con­sid­ered to be one of the lead­ing film­schools in Ger­many. We talked about goals and mile­stones and about what was always most impor­tant to her  both in train­ing film­mak­ers, as well as in film in gen­er­al.

Find the video here (in Ger­man only, unfor­tu­nate­ly)

 

Some nos­tal­gic news: My for­mer film­school ifs in Cologne, where I was lucky enough to study in their very first direc­tors’ pro­gramme, is turn­ing 20!

To cel­e­brate the occa­sion they stream a film a week from two decades of ifs films. First in line is my  grad­u­a­tion film AMOR FATI from 2005, which I co-wrote with pro­duc­er Melanie Ander­nach and shot under adven­tur­ous cicum­stances in Cologne and Mon­tene­gro. I’ll tell you all about it one day with a beer or a glas of slivovic 🙂

 

After three years of script devel­op­ment  the region­al film fund MFG Baden-Würt­tem­berg announced its sup­port for Nan­cy Mac Granaky-Quaye’s first fea­ture HOMESHOPPER’S PARADISE!

Our team — first of all Nan­cy, as well as Ste­fanie Groß (com­mis­sion­ing edi­tor SWR tele­vi­sion) Pas­cal Noth­durft (pro­duc­er, Ziegler Film Baden Baden) Toks Körn­er (script advi­sor) and myself (co-writer) are over the moon!

Shoot­ing is sched­uled for next year — as a green flag­ship-pro­duc­tion, con­serv­ing nat­ur­al resources! Nice!

After 5 years, ger­man Band MiA. will soon release their new Album and “Kopfüber” is its first sin­gle, which was released today. I had the plea­sure to direct the music video to this fab song. Great work in Black Box Music Halls Berlin with john man­age­ment, Sony/Four Music, Levin Hüb­n­er from Hübner/Wallenfels, Andreas Köh­ler, Marc Bitz, Jana Schnei­der, Silke Zeitz and many oth­er won­der­full peo­ple!

Some­times things just hap­pen quick­ly. From the day before yes­ter­day I am pro­fes­sor for film and tele­vi­sion with the focus on direct­ing at Macro­me­dia, uni­ver­si­ty of applied sci­ences  in Cologne. I will be teach­ing in both ger­man and eng­lish. Semes­ter starts Octo­ber 1st.
So much to do, let’s get it done.

Lisa Mar­tinek has died. I adored work­ing with her and would have loved to get anoth­er chance at it.  My deep­est con­do­lences to her fam­i­ly. Rest in peace, Lisa.

Ger­man broad­cast­er ARD will be stream­ing our fea­ture SCHWESTER WEISS until octo­ber 22nd (Ger­many only).

And here is a link to our music video TUTORIAL (eng­lish sub­ti­tles) and its inter­ac­tive ver­sion TUTORIAL INTERAKTIV (ger­man only) for which she stopped by one morn­ing in Berlin to endow us with her most grace­ful tears. Unflap­pable, pro­fes­sion­al and warm. Thank you.