On July 16, 2021, the 17th Young Talent Day CONTACT of the "Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung" took place at the Bilderberg Bellevue Hotel Dresden. Our author Anita Müller presented her short film project "Heimatfilm" (AT) in front of about 100 filmmakers, producers and editors and promptly won the pitching award of 3,000 euros. Until the end of the year we are developing the project together with Anita and a grant from the FFA.

Anita is a freelance audiovisual artist and film author. In her half-hour animadocumentary, she recounts seven decades of contemporary German history through the memories of her family. A visit to her relatives evolves into a time travel through the family history and reveals previously unspoken conflicts - be it with her violent father who returned home from the war, with the limited freedom in East Germany or with the changes of the post-reunification period.

The jury for the pitching award included Aude Benhaïm (director), Katrin Küchler (MDR Unicato - Das Kurzfilmmagazin), Thomas Beyer (MDR Redaktion Geschichte und Dokumentationen), Dr. Regina Bouchehri (LOOKSfilm) and Jörg Schneider (ZDF - Das kleine Fernsehspiel).

Congratulations dear Anita!

Photo: Ralf Kukula, Anita Müller, Sabine Kraft ((c) MDM)