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Berliners who opened our eyes to the East:
A series presented in association with the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles
The Freedom Film Festival, in partnership with the Goethe Institut-Los Angeles, presents a series of programs at the Freedom Film Festival in Los Angeles. We will have conversations and screenings with prominent Berliners who played a key role in opening our eyes to the East: Film curators Ulrich Gregor and Erika Gregor, for leading the Forum of Young Cinema; Ron Holloway and Dorothea Moritz, for thirty years of journalism and filmmaking; Volker Koepp, for his honest documentarian's eye; and Manfred Durniok, photographer, director, and Academy Award-winning producer. Come to the Goethe-Institut and join us in showing our guests the hospitality of America's film capital.
The Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes /German Cultural Center in Los Angeles
The Goethe-Institut was founded in 1951 to promote a wider knowledge of the German language abroad and to foster cultural cooperation with other countries, organizing and supporting a wide range of activities in the arts and humanities. It operates worldwide with 128 branches in 76 countries.
The Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes Los Angeles opened in 1984. In cooperation with most of the leading cultural organizations in Southern California, the Goethe-Institut has produced a variety of events and programs in the arts, sciences and cultures with a major emphasis on the performing arts, especially film. This includes the preservation of the rich German film history as much as the furthering of international interest in current German filmproduction. Film festivals and film foundations like the ACF have been instrumental in reaching this goal.
A Fan Letter to the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles
For many years, the Goethe Institut-Los Angeles has been a cultural resource and an artistic ambassador to both the city of Los Angeles and the community of American filmmakers. It is our strongest local voice for German artists, of course, but it also speaks for an emerging common European culture whose values are broadly shared with other EU members. Germans grow up learn-ing about America through sources as diverse as Karl May and Elvis Presley; if Americans, and Hollywood, are to learn more about European attitudes about life, art, and politics, it must start with places like the Goethe Institut. Now under the direction of Ms. Ute Kirchhelle, GILA has become Europe's indispensable cultural center in Los Angeles.
For fourteen years, Goethe Institut cultural officer Margit Kleinman has been the best friend of every American film curator who needs information and insight into the German film scene. She helps all of us-the Sundance Institute, the American Cinematheque, the American Film Institute, UCLA, the Director's Guild, and any number of film teachers, critics, and cineastes. Her gifts as film programmer have brought Los Angeles its firstlook at talents as diverse as Andreas Kleinert, Volker Koepp, Veit Helmer, Andreas Dresen, and Viola Stephan. Margit played a key role in creat- ing the first Freedom Film Festival in 1997, and she has been both advisor and steadfast friend to the festival ever since. -Gary McVey
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Portrait of a Producer:
 Manfred Durniok
Warmth and Distance: Volker Koepp
Ron Holloway and Dorothea Moritz
Ulrich and Erika Gregor
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