Time to celebrate with the VIS awards!

The Austrian Short Film Award went to Jyoti Mistry’s Cause of Death, which qualifies the South African-Austrian coproduction for the Academy Awards® – Documentary Short Subject. 
Letter from a Window  by Nigel Gavus und İlkin Beste Çırak has been rewarded with the ORF.at Audience Award.
Mo Harawe received the Youth Jury Award for his vibrating Life on the Horn.
A special mention of the Animation Avantgarde Jury goes to the exhilarating Frozen Jumper by Tina Frank with music by Peter Rehberg. Congratulations!

List of all awarded films @ VIS including jury statements

sixpackfilm @ the upcoming (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico in A Coruña (ES)

BODY GAMES
June 4th, Friday, at 18:30 @ the Galician Cinematheque (Filmoteca de Galicia).
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Ernst Schmidt jr.: Art & Revolution, 1968, 16mm, silent, 2 min
Otmar Bauer: Otmar Bauer shows, 1969, 16mm/file, silent, 7 min
Moucle Blackout: Birth of Venus, 1970-1972, 35mm, 5 min
Albert Sackl: STIFFNESS 1-3/7, 2018, 35mm, silent, 9 min 
Mara Mattuschka: Nabel Fabel, 1985, 16mm, 4 min
Kerstin Cmelka: Neurodermitis, 1998, 16mm, silent, 3 min
Maria Lassnig: Couples, 1972, 16mm, 10 min
Ursula Pürrer/ Ashley Hans Scheirl: Super-8 Girl Games, 1985, 16mm/file, 2 min
Hans Scheugl: Prince of Peace, 1993, 16mm, 6 min
Mara Mattuschka: S.O.S Extraterrestria, 1993, 16mm, 10 min
Jason Elvis Parker, Ashley Hans Scheirl: Summer of 95, 1995, 16mm, 13 min
Mara Mattuschka: I have been very pleased, 1987, 16mm, 2 min

sixpackfilm @ Oberhausen online 2021

Two films in the International Competition, contributions to the MuVi-section and the special program and a distributor's program: once again sixpackfilm is well presented at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, this year from 1.-5. May 2021 - again as an online edition. We are especially happy, that the new films by Paul Wenninger: O and Josef Dabernig: All the Stops will celebrate their international premieres as part of the International Competition. All informations about the upcoming festival and the programs including sixpackfilm's distributor's selection can be found here.

WIND by Martin Putz celebrates its premiere in Nyon

Martin Putz's 30 minutes essay WIND has been invited into the competition program of this year's Vision du Réel in Nyon. Additionally sixpackfilm will participate with selected new films in the market-screenings. You find more informations on the festival's site.

Several sixpack-films at Ann Arbor 2021

We are delighted to announce that prestigious Ann Arbor Film Festival has invited five of our films to this year’s competition programmes – including NO1’s stunning ROTOЯ | Sonic Body which will celebrate its world premiere there!
Due to COVID-19 the festival takes place online.

No Change Without Change - Petition für eine Geschlechterquote in der österreichischen Bundesfilmförderung

LINK ZUR PETITION   

AN WELCHE UNTERSTÜTZER*INNEN RICHTET SICH DIESE PETITION? 
Die Petition richtet sich an alle, die in und mit der österreichischen Filmbranche arbeiten, und an alle, die für eine institutionelle Implementierung von Gleichstellungsmaßnahmen sind. 

WAS IST DER INHALT DER PETITION? Die Petition bezieht sich auf einen Entwurf des Österreichischen Filminstituts für eine Richtlinienänderung, der bereits im Jänner 2020 vorlag und baut diesen auf Grundlage internationaler Best Practise Modelle und laufender Diskussionen in der heimischen Filmbranche aus.  Die Petition wird an alle politischen Entscheidungsträger*innen im "Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlicher Dienst und Sport", sowie an die Direktion des Österreichischen Filminstituts und die Leitungen aller regionalen öffentlichen Filmförderstellen in Österreich übergeben werden.

WER SIND WIR? Die Petition wird von einer Unterstützer*innenplattform aus allen Bereichen der österreichischen Filmlandschaft getragen. Unter den Erstunterzeichner*innen sind einige der großen Fachverbände, aber auch eine Vielzahl namhafter Filmschaffender aus den Bereichen Regie, Produktion, Drehbuch, Kamera, Montage, Filmton, Casting, Schauspiel, Szenenbild, Maske, Kostümbild, Komposition, Sounddesign, Soundmischung, Verleih, Festival, Kinobetrieb, Filmvermittlung u.a.
Wenn du dich unseren Forderungen anschließen möchtest, unterschreibe die Petition und teile sie mit allen, die sich solidarisch zeigen.

New on INDEX Edition: MARIA LASSNIG - Film Works (Book including DVD)

Maria Lassnig (1919–2014) is internationally recognized as one of the most important painters of the 20th and 21st centuries. This new book released by the Austrian Film Museum, Synema and Maria Lassnig Foundation on the world famous artists (available in english or german) focuses on Lassig's film works. The accompanying DVD (published in cooperation with sixpackfilm/INDEX Edition) carries rediscovered and early works and new restaured versions of her famous films.
--> to be ordered directly at INDEX Edition

Wieder vier Sonntage "Besser Fernsehen" mit Oktoskop und sixpackfilm

Es ist wieder einmal Zeit auf Österreichs bestes Fernseh-Programm zum Kino hinzuweisen: OKTOSKOP, auf dem regionalen Sender OKTO-TV rund um Wien zu empfangen, widmet jeden Sonntag um 20h ein Programm einem oder einer Filmkünstler/in, um dessen Werk im ausführlichen Gespräch zu erörtern und so hinter die Kulissen der Entstehung zu blicken.

Empfehlungen aus dem Programm der kommenden Wochen:
28.2.2021 RUDERN // die junge Linzer Filmemacherin Sophia Hochedlinger im Gespräch mit Lukas Maurer
14.3.2021 Maria Lassnig Filmworks // TV Premiere der neu restaurierten Filme und Neuentdeckungen aus dem Nachlass der berühmten Malerin - dazu spricht Hans Werner Poschauko von der Maria Lassnig Stiftung.
21.3.2021 Daniel Fill's ungewöhnliches filmisches Portrait des Lebenskünstlers JOCHEN
28.3.2021 viel Vergnügen mit IN TROUT WE DUST des Musikers, Tonkünstlers und Videomachers Dieter Kovacic, in der Szene auch als dieb13 bekannt.
Save the dates and prepare your sofas ! :-)

TIGER SHORTS – Rotterdam IFFR 2021: EATING SOIL by Laura Weissenberger

Laura Weissenberger's magic short Eating Soil celebrates it's premiere within the Tiger Shorts Award of this year's Rotterdam International Film Festival IFFR.
Eating soil is an essay film that deals with the stories of Colombian women originating from director Laura Weissenberger’s memories and projections on her home country. It is exploring Colombian narrative culture based on the stories of a fictional family, which metaphorically represent a society rather than individual fates. Structured like a memory itself, the viewer encounters topics involving migration, hopes, regrets and approaches to life.

A Farewell and a Restart

Dear colleagues, dear friends,

It is with great regret we must yield to Brigitta Burger-Utzer's wish to retire from her longtime position as managing director of sixpackfilm where she has been profoundly valued by her team, her colleagues and filmmakers alike. Although Brigitta's retirement is so richly deserved, it is fortunate for us that she will continue to contribute as a member of the board, while dedicating herself to special projects and free-lance work.

Brigitta Burger-Utzer co-founded sixpackfilm in 1990, together with its first board members. She proceeded to play an instrumental role in transforming the small operation into an internationally renowned film sales and distribution company that consistently contributes to the global reputation of innovative film produced in Austria. Brigitta led her engaged team with passion, guided by a deep conviction that proceeding democratically only enriches the making of important decisions and is well worth the time invested.

Brigitta has been highly respected for her curatorial and film brokering experience as well as her enterprising business savvy. Her fierce nature and unshakeable belief in the value of film art for aesthetic experience and socio-political insight gives her the necessary staying power to passionately fight the good fight for the cause of innovative film.

That said, we are very happy to have found an exceptionally qualified successor in Dietmar Schwärzler who is likewise deeply dedicated to promoting the art of film. Dietmar will take over management as of January 2021.

He too has been working for more than two decades for sixpackfilm. The know-how Dietmar brings to the job includes his profound knowledge of our catalogue of films, an education in cultural management, and social skills required by the highly team-based work structure at sixpackfilm. In addition to his longtime festival and distribution work, Dietmar has spearheaded a number of special programs in cinemas and exhibition spaces, recently including the In Person: Nazli Dinçel at mumok program and the current TALKING SCREEN at Künstlerhaus. Since its very beginnings, Dietmar has also worked as supervisor and co-editor of the INDEX Edition (DVD + VOD), a collection currently encompassing 50 releases.

Within the scope of his free-lance cultural work, Dietmar Schwärzler is responsible for the financing, conception and organization of numerous projects, whether in the public event arena or publishing. (Please find a comprehensive resume and list of Dietmar's projects here).

We know that with Dietmar Schwärzler our mission rests in good hands. He will help us meet ever-growing challenges, sustaining and further developing the international success of sixpackfilm as a world distributor as well as a vital advocate for filmmakers, artists and film culture worldwide.

With Warmest Best Wishes,
Peter Tscherkassky (Chairman) and Christine Dollhofer (Deputy Chairman)