Film off has been back in Holzkirchen since Thursday: The Oberland-Realschule is hosting the film days of Bavarian schools for the fourth time - for the second time, digitally streamed from a specially set up studio due to corona.
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- Film ab has been called back at the Oberland Realschule Holzkirchen since Thursday evening: It is the fourth time that it is hosting the film days of Bavarian schools - for the second time due to Corona in digital form from a specially set up studio on site. Unlike last year, when the step into digital still had to be improvised, this time the school film festival is not running on the back burner: “We have a full program,” says festival director Sebastian Wanninger, who has around 100 young people in the cross-grade film group at Oberland-Realschule and directs the two film classes in the 5th and 6th grade. "There are more workshops than ever before."
It was a big downer for the film students at the Holzkirchner Realschule when they were unable to submit their own entry to the competition at the Bavarian Schools' Film Festival in 2020, which was marked by corona.
This year it's different: the school has two strips in the race for the eight cash prizes and the audience award.
Oberland-Realschule is hoping for an award with two contributions
The multi-year film group, which had to skip the entire previous school year because students from different classes were not allowed to come together, are represented with the horror flick "Dice Game". Four students from the 8th and 9th grades had shot it with special permission. “The film is very coherent, the light is great,” says Wanninger. The film teacher was involved in the shooting himself: "It was shot between 10 p.m. and 1 a.m. so that it would be dark," he reveals. “A great result and a hot candidate for a prize,” says Wanninger.
This also applies to the second strip from Holzkirchen: In the lockdown, Wanninger gave the film class students the task of making an explanatory video. So that it doesn't get too dry in the already serious Corona times, he considered a completely irrelevant topic that stimulates the imagination: vampires. Samuel Steiner's result from film class 6d not only convinced Wanninger and the film classes that submitted the two best entries for the competition, but also won over the preselection.
The competition, however, was not idle: a total of 31 entries from students of all types of schools from all over Bavaria were accepted for the competition.
For data protection reasons, however, they are not streamed publicly, but only for the group of participants.
After the screening and subsequent film discussions, the award winners will be honored on Saturday, October 23, 2021 - also via livestream.
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The professional studio for the film days of Bavarian schools at the Holzkirchner Realschule was specially set up on Wednesday.
The picture shows festival director Sebastian Wanninger (2nd from right) with students.
© Thomas Plettenberg
This year, for the first time, groups that did not make it into the competition had the opportunity to take part in a total of 16 workshops that round off the film days - in this case, Corona made it possible: “We even have it on site at the school not the capacities, ”explains Wanninger.
The competition groups, who also spend the night in Holzkirchen during the festival, usually have space.
Because the program is streamed live from the studio set up especially at the Oberland-Realschule, this time the groups that did not make it into the competition were also able to join online.
Online also has advantages: workshops for all participants
"It is also exciting for them to see what was better about other contributions, and they can understand the decision," says Wanninger.
And above all: “The students who particularly benefit from the workshops can be there.” Real professionals reveal tips and tricks.
"One focus this year is on developing film ideas and the script," reports the festival director.
But there is also an actress who explains to the youngsters what their work really looks like.
Due to the advantages that an online program offers, there are already considerations to organize the next film days as a hybrid festival.
"In everything negative," says Wanninger, "there is also good stuff."
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