Berlin is up! 9to5 hits the cinemas in Germany! Big party in the capital at WHITE TRASH!

29.06.2009
Category of this article: Allgemeines/ News

29.6.2009

First of all SORRY! for the longest time offline, since this blog exists. But the last 6 weeks were so intense. We had to solve the situation with the insolvency of our world distribution and all the consequences. But since today we are again official owners of our own movie.

So hopefully soon all the people who mail us, asking when the movie will be out in the USA and other European countries: This blog will be updated more frequebtly again and give you those informations soon.This also includes the festival situation.

Also we were busy moving out of our office in Munich.

But most important: The movie come to theatres in Germany starting 2nd of July in all major cities. Since we just have a very limited budget for copies. We hope that people cover all seats in the cinemas in Berlin, Munich Cologn and other nice cities in the next 2 weeks, so that we can afford and get booked by more cinemas all over the country.

Press is responding reallly well. A lot of major magazines (kultur-SPIEGEL, Rolling Stone, INTRO, PLAYBOY, etc.), radio shows and TV-stations (NDR, MDR, 3,SAT, BR, etc.) had or will have features in their cultural programs. If the audience is just reacting half as good as media, we should be very confident about the future of the movie.

In expectations to this we are celebrating a PREMIERE PARTY. After the screening in the CENTRAL Kino in BERLIN on the evening of the 2nd of JULY the official premiere party is happening in the WHITE TRASH and is presented by LoDown Magazine. Everybody is welcome and there is no red carpet crap or other completely unneccessary usual premiere-features. Just great DJs, including our friends from GOMMA and lots of beer! COME ON OVER and party with us.

We will also attend certain cinemas in Germany for screenings with a Q&A-session, where you can meet, talk and discuss with us starting at the MOVIEMENTO in Berlin Kreutzberg on this coming Friday the 3rd.

More about this by the end of the week.

We look very much forward meeting you!

J

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Nomination for German Camera Awards - Good News in times of the crisis

13.05.2009
Category of this article: Allgemeines/ News

13.5.2009

Yesterday we received a call which definitely enlightened our day: I am nominated for my camerawork on ‘9to5 - Days in Porn’ for the most prestigious camera award in Germany: The Deutscher Kamerapreis. Beiing nominated is such an honour and I can’t express how proud the selecting commitee in Cologne makes me, for being so brave and presenting our ‘edgy’ movie on the official big stage.

The award ceremony will take place on the 21st of June in Cologne.

The bad news surprised us last week, when we got notice that our world distribution  filed for insolvency. Besides the money they never payed us we are spending most of the time, trying to save what is left. Meaning dealing with attorneys, court etc.. It is bad! Probably after Cannes, which is starting this week, we will know more about our international sales situation.

This also brings some confusion to the festival schedule, since our world distribution was responsible for this, but for obvious reasons is enable to manage the situation. Just a kind of surprising news in Italy. Biografilmfestival in Bologna cancelled their invitation after they understood, that a week before the movie has a screening in Bellaria. Don’t ask what the one thing has to do with  the other, and we are not talking about an A-festival requesting a premiere. But this is festival politics. No more comment needed.

News for Latin America: It seems that LAPTV is planning a release on one of their channels. in August.

The preview tour in Germany is doing really well. I was in Augsburg for two packed screenings and great audience reaction. Discussions went on forever and I received some really motivating comments. We are very excited for the 2 screenings in Berlin on Friday (15th at 3 PM in the Central) and Munich next week on Tuesday (19th at 10:45 PM)

Our movie in Germany is officially a movie for grown ups. We are rated 18 - no surprise - but we are not x-rated. So by definition it is not porn. But the Trailer was rated 16, This means we can promote the movie for the theatrical release in July with the trailer after 8PM.

Watch out for press, we promise you to keep you posted on this blog!

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German Previews and Festivals in Italy

29.04.2009
Category of this article: Allgemeines/ News

29.4.2009

Prior to the theatrical release in German in July there are a few exclusive previews. Her an updated list:

AUGSBURG - the Augsburger Filmtage have to screenings on the 8th and on the 9th of May, both at 22:30 in Thalia.

 

The  ‘Stranger than Fiction’  Festival tours hosts the following 3 screenings:

COLOGNE on the 10th of May in the MUSEUM LUDWIG at 8PM

MÜNSTER on the 12th of May in the Cinema

BOCHUM on the 16th of May in the Endstation Kino

 

BERLIN - a special preview will be on Friday the 15th of May at 3Pm in the afternoon at the Central Kino.

 

MUNICH - another special preview on Tuesday at 10:45 in the Monopol.

 

MEMMINGEN has the  ‘Open Air Filmtage’ and play it the night of the 6th of June

 

In Italy two nice festivals put the movie in their line-up. The BELLARIAfilmfestival in Bellaria from the 2nd to the 6th of June and the Biografilm Festival in Bologna from the 10th to the 15th of June.

Exact dates will be announced as soon as we know them.

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Argentina, Germany and great links

22.04.2009
Category of this article: Allgemeines/ News

22.4.2009

I am in love with….Buenos AIres. Not just that BAFICI (Buenos AIres Festival de Cine Indepediente) is one of the best festivals ever. But the people, the atmosphere, just anything is just adorable. I guess this is also why ‘9to5′ found a great audience. The highlight was definitely the - of course - sold out night at the MALBA museum in Palermo. No words, just gooze bumps on my skin.

It was no question, that the stay in Argentina had to be extended for some days. 

But the beautiful spring back home in Munich made the switch a little easier. And not just the weather is heating up. It looks like Germany is finally open the doors for our movie:

ZORRO plans the theatrical release in bigger cities like Berlin, Munich, Cologne, etc. in the first week of July.

 

But we also have some special preview dates ahead a little earlier:

COLOGNE on the 10th of May in the MUSEUM LUDWIG at 8PM

MÜNSTER will play it during the ‘Stranger than Fiction’ days on the 12th of May in the Cinema

BOCHUM has a preview on the 16th of May in the Endstation Kino

MUNICH and BERLIN will be announced the next days, but will be around the same week (2nd week in May)!

MEMMINGEN has the  ‘Open Air Filmtage’ and play it the night of the 6th of June

 

I also wanted to post some links to some sites, which I want to support, which I like and which I definitely want to recommend.

Susannah Breslin writes a lot of good things and has some common friends in the valley:

http://reversecowgirlblog.blogspot.com/

 

Brant Bjork, who performs the first, the last and 3 other songs is just a great guy and has his own platform for great music we dig:

http://www.lowdesertpunk.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

 

Chusy won an award at Sundance with his movie ‘Anywhere USA’. Truely independent and sooo goooood!

http://anywhereusathemovie.com/

 

Denis Côté, filmmaker from my beloved Quebec who I met in Buenos AIres and truly hit my taste with his inspiring movie ‘Elle veut le chaos’

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=35411175

I will try blogging more and faster, promised!
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Back from the USA and Argentina ahead

26.03.2009
Category of this article: Allgemeines/ News

26th of March 2009

Miami was just awesome. Both screenings were sold out. I guess this was the only movie in the festival with such a request for tickets. Check out these links describing the second screening with rush lines ‘around the corner’:

http://www.theinsider.com/news/1837425__9_To_5_Days_In_Porn_Director_Jens_Ho

ffman_Talks_About_His_Controversial_New_Documentary_Premiering_At_The_Miami_

International_Film_Festival

 

http://www.miamidowntownlife.com/profiles/blogs/a-brazilian-producer-cleonice

 

So we actually felt like real winners of at least buzz and audeince reaction. I guess only the jury of 3 judges in our category didn’t agree. I hope they all (!) watched the movie. Anyway - we don’t want to be greedy at this point. How more happy can we be as right now, when we experience that the film draws always the biggest audience at festivals and nobody except that 1 person ever leaves the cinema. On top we experience great discussions and obviously the movie stays in peoples memory for quiet some time.

After Miami, I travelled to Boston, where we went Underground to the Boston Underground Film Festival. A big change after the spotlight in Florida. But again - even in the city of education the midnight premiere was full and kept the audience until 3AM until we ended the Q&A.

I watched 2 great movies at the festival. If you ever have the chance, go and watch Dead Girl (2009 - there is a movie with the same title from 2006). And a must is ‘Anywhere USA’ from my new friend Chusy.

On Sunday I will fly to Buenos Aires, continuing our little Rockstar-period, and join the BAFICI - one of the biggest and best festivals in Latin America.

9to5 - screening times at Buenos AIres Festival de Cine Indepediente are:

30/03 20.45hs. Alliance Française 

31/03 11.30hs. Abasto Hoyts

01/04 22hs. the MALBA museum

 

By the way - all German institutions like the Bavarian Filmfund FFF and the BKM refused any support for the distribution. Meaning the film stays truly independent. No public support at all. Thanks for this! The funny part, which we don’t get - how many of all the funded movies ever get to be seen on a big screen, ever go to as many big international festivals and get sold to as many big territories as ‘9to5′?

Is this the unconfortable feeling the subject matter creates in peoples stigmatized preconception?

But ZORRO - our German ditributor -  is still planning a theatrical release in Summer in Germany. We just have to play in a smaller arena. And we love ZORRO. We definitely keep you posted and write us for questions or advises!

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