From 194 entries, the best 51 short films have been preselected by a jury in order to be added to this year’s program of the CrankCookieKurzfilmtage. Now, the main jury is about to determine the winners of the national and international contests. The Cookie and the ScaryShort again, will be chosen by the audience and the winners will be presented and honored on the 12^th of June at Scharfrichter Kino.

The Jury: 

Peter Hertling has experienced the whole scope of motion pictures and television. He was active as a freelance television journalist of Bayrischer Rundfunk, and worked for another eleven years as an editor of ZDF (Heute-editors, domestic politics, children and youth and social and foreign politics). Since 1984 he has acted as a freelancer for several television stations such as ZDF, NDR, MDR, SWR, BBC, RAI, ORF and Studio Hamburg, where he accompanied several expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic Zone as well as to the Atacama Desert. His work deserved acknowledgement at national and international festivals. Currently he is working as a docent for advertisement, graphics and print in Hamburg, where he gives lectures about dramaturgy, film and editing theory as well as TV journalism.

PERDITA WINGERTER

In the middle of the sixties, Perdita Wingerter was born in Berlin. She possesses a special capability of being able to merge motion pictures with her wide range of social commitment within youth and European work. As a graduated political scientist, philosopher, sociologist and psychologist as well as manageress of an association called “Gemeinsam leben und lernen in Europa”, she organized several film festivals such as “Zukunft der Arbeit, “UEBER MORGEN”and “UEBER MACHT” and cross-cultural film series “Gemeinsam leben lernen”, “Freme Arbeitswelte-Fremde Lebenswelten” and “Jugendliche im Fokus” within the film festival in Passau.

MARC TIEDEMANN 

After Marc Tiefemann, an Interface Designer and Visual Artist, finished his A-levels, he worked behind the scenes of the film industry for four years. In 2008, he started his studies of Interface Design at Potsdam. His broad range of activities covers typographical work and information visualization as well as the conception of audio and video installations in the exhibition and event area and the creation of music videos. Moreover, Marc is acting as freelance photographer.

  TUNA KAPTAN

Tuna Kaptan was born in 1985 as son of Turkish parents in Munich and studied theater, media and romance studies at the University of Bayreuth. After having done an internship within the production of Fatih Akin called “Auf der anderen Seite” and several other film projects, Tuna addressed himself to fictional and documentary formats of directors. He has been in charge of the European video-electoral campaign of MdE Ismail Ertug. His documentary “Liebe, Respekt und mein Auto” (2009) was awarded with the people’s choice award of the youth symposium for Visual Anthropology.

ROBERT MÜLLER

Despite his young age, Robert Müller knows the film industry like the back of his hands. His scientific focus arises from his media and communications studies at the University of Passau. He developed his practical skills within film and television among others as an intern of “Welt der Wunder” as well as via his journalistic and editorial involvement at university. On his own initiative, Robert is the vice president of the university group “Projekt Filmpraxis” in Passau.