Harald Olkus 6 articles available in total starting from 25/07/2007. Last article published on 09/04/2009. Admissions to local films rose threefold in 2008Austria has discovered its local films. In 2008, three times as many Austrians went to see a domestic film than the year before. The market share of local films rose from 1.9% to over 6%. In... 09/04/2009 | Industry | AustriaPandora Film’s Raimond Goebel on Tulpan and regional film funding institutes in GermanyTulpan by Kazakh director Sergej Dvortsevoy is one of the successful international art films produced by Pandora Film, a German-based independent film distribution and production company. In the... 29/08/2008Interview: Martin Hagemann • ProducerFilm funding and digitalisation22/04/2008National film funding reform underwayAfter only four years in effect, the German federal government is set to reform its national film funding directives (FFG). Germany's Minister of Culture Bernd Neumann considers the current law a... 11/03/2008 | Funding | GermanyGraduation films take first stepsEach year at the end of August, the best graduation films from German, Austrian and Swiss film schools are presented at the Berlinale Palace in Berlin and this year was no different. On August 28,... 03/09/2007 | Awards | GermanyStrong German presence in LocarnoFrédéric Maire, artistic director of Locarno Film Festival (August 1-11) for the second year, has placed a strong emphasis on German cinema this edition. The country’s cinema, which has become... 25/07/2007 | Festivals | Germany