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From Germany, Switzerland, Italy to Brazil, China and to the United States of America

Long Island Film Festival

“Africa Light / Gray Zone” is on a world tour. It starts in September with the EcoVison Film Festival in Palermo, which will also be held in Brazil and China through the support of UNESCO.

Parallel, the first screening in New York will start at The Long Island Film Festival. First, right in the heart of Long Island City, then in the Hamptons.

In October, the film will be part of the documentary section of the Shnit Film Festival in Bern (Switzerland) and finally, on 24 October 2010, it will be the opening film of The German African Movie Night in The Babylon Cinema in Berlin, an event organized by The German Department of State and The German Namibian Association.

The director of the film Tino Schwanemann will be there together with the producer Stefanie Paul. Both are looking forward to get international feedback on the film. “Of course, we are pretty curious about the opinions from economy and politics. Basically, our film is dealing with the aspects of these two topics. And we are very pleased about the film being so popular, especially in Namibia”, says the director, “Finally, I am really convinced that there will be the one or other discussion. But this exactly is the aim of Africa Light / Gray Zone, too. A film without a debate is a bad movie. ”

The dates of the events and much more information on the film “Africa Light / Gray Zone” are available on the website www.africa-light.com.

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Democracy Is ...

“Tino’s film takes a hard look at what he sees as the negative sides of American democracy –do you think the positives of the freedoms that come with democracy outweigh the negatives? (We do!)”

(U.S. Department of State über den Film “Democracy Is…”)

Mit dieser Begründung wurde der Film des Berliner Regisseurs Tino Schwanemann nicht zu einem Filmwettbewerb über Demokratie in den USA zugelassen. War er zu kritisch? Nicht stereotyp genug?

Dann nahm sich das bitfilm Festival 09 des ganzen an. Aktuell wird unter http://www.bitfilm.com
für den “politicool Award” gevotet.

Spiegel Online berichtete darüber: http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,644714,00.html

Gerade letzte Woche gewann Tino Schwanemann’s Film im Online-Voting auf www.diegesellschafter.de den Filmwettbewerb “Tatort Erde”. Auch auf weiteren Filmfestivals wird er demnächst rund um den Globus zu sehen sein. Vielleicht auch noch in den USA? Die Debatte geht auf jeden Fall weiter.

“Democracy is…” auf youtube:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVVUdS_5694