Maryam Zaree, Annika Pinske and Fabian Stumm form the jury for the BASIS Berlin Postproduction Award. For the fourth time now, the Berlin World Cinema Festival AROUND THE WORLD IN 14 FILMS is awarding the "BASIS Berlin Postproduction Award", selected by a jury. This year's jurors are: the actress, author and filmmaker Maryam Zaree, the film director and screenwriter Annika Pinske and the actor, author and director Fabian Stumm. The award honors the best directing performance of a contribution from the "14 Films" section and will be presented at the end of the festival on Saturday, December 7, 2024.
The prize, worth 5,000 euros, is once again sponsored by BASIS BERLIN Postproduktion. "International cinema reflects the diversity of the world, breaks with stereotypes and invites people to develop empathy and understanding for other cultures through its stories. That is why the festival is so important, because it creates a stage for voices from all parts of the world and promotes intercultural dialogue. We are delighted to be involved again as the prize sponsor," says Frieda Oberlin, Managing Director of BASIS BERLIN Postproduktion. The 19th edition of the festival will take place from November 29 to December 7, 2024 in the cinema in the KulturBrauerei in Berlin as well as in the delphi LUX and Neues Off cinemas. The main partners in 2024 are Audi City Berlin, the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, ARTE and CineStar.
The actress, author and filmmaker Maryam Zaree was born in 1983 in the political prison Evin in Tehran. At the age of two, her mother fled with her to Frankfurt/Main, where she spent her childhood and youth. Maryam Zaree studied acting at the Film University Potsdam-Babelsberg. She has acted in many cinema and television films, including Christian Petzold's "Transit" and "Undine", in "Systemsprenger" by Nora Fingscheidt and in the series "Doppelhaushälfte" and "Legals Affairs". She won the Grimme Prize in 2018 for her acting performance in the award-winning series "4 Blocks". As an author, she works in the fields of theater, film and television. Her first feature film "Born in Evin" premiered at the Berlinale 2019. The documentary film has been invited to more than 40 countries. Together with Carolin Emcke and Lena Gorelik, Maryam Zaree developed the reading tour "Is this a human being," an evening against forgetting with texts by Shoah survivors. In 2024, she was a fellow at the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles.
The film director and screenwriter Annika Pinske grew up in Frankfurt/Oder. During her studies in philosophy and literature in Berlin and Potsdam, she worked as an intern under René Pollesch and Dimiter Gottschef and was also an assistant to the director Maren Ade ("Toni Erdmann") from 2013 to 2015. From 2011, she studied directing at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin. After her first, award-winning short films, her feature film debut "Everyone's Talking About the Weather" celebrated its world premiere at the 2022 Berlinale. "Everyone's Talking About the Weather" won the German Film Critics' Screenplay Award and the DEFA Foundation's Young Cinema Award. The feature film toured festivals worldwide, including in New York, Sydney and Seattle. In 2023, she won the first-ever screenwriting scholarship from the Nordic Film Days Lübeck.
Fabian Stumm is an actor, author and director. He studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute in New York and has since appeared on numerous international theatre stages. His cinema and TV productions include "Lore" by Cate Shortland, "Große Freiheit" by Sebastian Meise, "Ivie wie Ivie" by Sarah Blaßkiewitz and the series "Druck" and "Oh Hell". In 2020 he made his directorial debut with the short film "Bruxelles". In 2021 he made "Daniel", which was awarded best medium-length film at the Achtung Berlin Film Festival 2022. His feature film debut "Knochen und Namen" premiered at the Berlinale in 2023 and won the Heiner Carow Prize. In 2024 his tragicomedy "Sad Jokes" was awarded the New German Cinema Promotion Prize for best director and the FIPRESCI Critics' Prize at the Munich Film Festival.
BASIS BERLIN Postproduktion GmbH was founded in 2006 and is based in a historic industrial building on the border between Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg. As a leading service provider for sound editing, Basis expanded its portfolio in the field of image editing in summer 2021. Its team includes industry-renowned specialists from sound design, mixing, grading, conforming and mastering of feature films, series and commercials to their restoration and archiving. BASIS BERLIN offers complete technical and creative final editing in a family atmosphere and at the highest international level.
Photos: Maryam Zaree © LOTTERMANN and FUENTES, Annika Pinske © Alina Simmelbauer, Fabian Stumm © Michael Bennett
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