MUMBAI: Germany - Award-winning German director Hans-Christian Schmid ( of the Home for the Weekend fame), actress Nicolette Krebitz (who starred in Bandits) and producer Heino Deckert (In The Fog) have been selected to form the jury for the 2013 Made in Germany - Perspective Fellowship honour. The award includes $20,000 (€15,000) fellowship and is given to an up-and-coming German filmmaker to help them complete their next film.
The jury will pick next year‘s winner from the lineup of this year‘s Perspektive Deutsches Kino - the Berlin Film Festival‘s German cinema sidebar.
The award was inaugurated last year and was won by director and screenwriter Annekatrin Hendel for her documentary Vaterlandsverraeter. Hendel has just completed her script for Disko (Disco), a documentary about the 1986 terrorist bombing of a West Berlin disco frequented by U.S. soldiers. Hendel is developing the prohject in collaboration with public broadcaster RBB and is expected to go into production by late 2013.
The Made in Germany fellowship is backed by German watchmaker Glashutte Original.