Maximilian Haslberger ⢠Producer, Amerikafilm
âThere is no such thing as being apoliticalâ
German producer
Maximilian Haslberger, of Amerikafilm, discussed documentary production in the current situation after being selected for the 2021 Emerging Producers programme.
Why do you produce documentaries? Do you understand documentary film as an instrument of social and political change?
Maximilian Haslberger: As someone who is not much interested in such classification of films, or the question whether things are fictional or not, documentary filmmaking to me is an approach or a practice; maybe a tool. The question whether films influence the life outside of films has been answered in history:
The Girl and the Spider (2021)
All week long, Carlo Chatrian, the artistic director of the Berlin International Film Festival, has been rolling out the lineup of the seventy-first edition, one section after another, leading up to yesterday’s unveiling of the main competition. From March 1 through 5, dozens of features and shorts will stream to the juries, industry professionals, and accredited press, and then, hopefully, the general public will have the opportunity to see them from June 9 through 20.
Someone had the brilliant idea of inviting six past winners of the festival’s top prize, the Golden Bear, to serve on this year’s competition jury. Mohammad Rasoulof (
Doc maker Rosi named to Berlin jury
Golden Lion winner with Fire At Sea picked with fellow winners
02 Febbraio 2021
BERLIN, FEB 2 - Acclaimed Italian documentary maker
Gianfranco Rosi has been named to the jury of this year s Berlin
Film Festival, where he won the Golden Bear in 2016 with Fuocammare (Fire At Sea).
The organisers have chosen for the jury directors who have all
won Berlin s top prize.
They include Iran s Mohammad Rasoulof, Israel s Nadav Lapid,
Romanian Adina Pintilie, Hungarian Ildikó Enyedi, and Jasmila
Žbanić of Bosnia Herzegovina.
Rosi, 57, is an Italian-American documentary filmmaker.
His 2013 film Sacro GRA won the Golden Lion at the 70th Venice