Erzsebet Plajas

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Yet Unknown Specimen: Dracula with a Movie Camera.

Berlinale Talent Press, February 11, 2010

Yet Unknown Specimen: Dracula with a Movie Camera. Have you ever heard about Transylvanian filmmaking? You might have heard about the glorious Transylvanian mute film production between 1913 and 1920. But you must have heard about all the great films that were filmed in and about Transyl ...

Arrivals and Connections

Berlinale Talent Press, May 05, 2010

Arrivals and Connections 350 Talents arrive at the Campus: a story of random encounters and high hopes - with dogs. What is the connection between Guatemala, the Japanese language and snow? Or between Denmark, music and Russia? Or surrealism, carpet-making and Afghanistan? Or even a dog ...

Discomfort and Awareness

Berlinale Talent Press, February 16, 2010

Discomfort and Awareness Iraqi docu-drama SON OF BABYLON from Berlinale Panorama deals with the country's recent past to clear the path towards the future. “Making an independent film in Europe is difficult. Making an independent film in Iraq is a nightmare”, stated Mohamed Al ...

Film in Collars

Berlinale Talent Press, February 16, 2010

Film in Collars Not your average Indian director ─ versatile filmmaker Madhusree Dutta shares her experience on Indian cinema and the city and on alternate uses of film stocks. Youthful freshness and versatility rooted in first-hand experiences are embodied in the character of ...

Superfilm

Berlinale Talent Press, February 16, 2010

Superfilm A multi-layered construction from Berlinale Generation, SUPERBROTHER knows how to enthral its designated audience. Children's clatter and chatter, sounds of amazement and enthusiastic claps filled the movie theatre during and after the projection of Berlinale Genera ...

Blue Comedy

Berlinale Talent Press, February 17, 2010

Blue Comedy Stellan Skarsgård gives a wonderful physical performance in Hans Petter Moland's A SOMEWHAT GENTLE MAN, shown in Competition at the Berlinale. In 1995 Hans Petter Moland opened a new chapter in Norwegian film history with his internationally acclaimed ZERO KELVIN ( ...

Little Red Riding into the Unfamiliar

Berlinale Talent Press, September 16, 2010

Little Red Riding into the Unfamiliar Talent Press alumna Erzsébet Plájás about the shooting of Eva Pervolovici's LITTLE RED, one of the five finalists of the Berlin Today Award, the short film competition of the Berlinale Talent Campus The thrill of the unknown, the sensual magnet of th ...

Talent Press, a hands-on training of the Berlinale Talent Campus in collaboration with FIPRESCI and the Goethe-Institut, is a platform for young film critics and journalists from around the world to acquaint themselves with current trends in world cinema. Selected by an international jury, they are invited to Berlin to review films of the festival and report on events of the Berlinale Talent Campus. Under the tutelage of prominent film critics they share their impressions and insights through their daily articles for the Berlinale Talent Campus website and those of its partners – FIPRESCI and the Goethe-Institut.