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Michael Ballhaus on working with Scorsese on “After Hours”

Türkiye Gençlik Filarmoni Orkestrası İstanbul Konseri

Talents Sarajevo Pack & Pitch/ The Best Pitch Award comes to me

This year I was selected for Talents Sarajevo and The Last Schnitzel (our project with Kaan Arici) was accepted for Pack & Pitch sessions as well. After 3 days of intense pitching training and project packing, I pitched The Last Schnitzel to jury and they chose me as the best pitcher which means I got awarded with An Invitation to CineLink’s Coproduction Market.

It was a wonderful experience to be part of Sarajevo Film Festival, Talents Sarajevo and Pack & Pitch sessions. Pack & Pitch consultants Gabriele Brunnenmeyer and Selina Ukwuoma created a perfect environment, I did not feel that I am competing with my pitcher friends and we all felt that they always cared about us and our projects... 

I am glad that I got a chance to meet with passionate filmmakers; I remembered again that I am not alone and we all are trying to make films; maybe with different tastes and approaches, but definitely for love of films. Today I’m leaving beautiful Sarajevo and definitely looking forward to come to back to CineLink.

Storyboarding THE LAST SCHNITZEL

In the first week of July, Kaan and I came together to design “The Last Schnitzel”. We only had 3 days together and 2 more days with storyboard artist Sif P. Savery. Our idea was to draw every single shot and board the entire film, even the cg scenes.

Thinking through every single moment is hard work and when time is limited it can be frustrating. Kaan and I checked a lot of movies; watched hundreds of scenes from the masters and young talents. We tried to get inspired by camera movements, choice of lens, actors’ actions, and editing decisions- anything that can be used to tell a story.

Filmmakers* like Scorsese, Coen Bros., and Joseph Kahn were on top of our list.

We have 38 scenes - 215 shots in total.

We’ll only have four shooting days in Copenhagen and one extra day in Istanbul. This means it will be very hard to fit in to schedule; but no one said it is going to be easy, isn’t it?

* Filmmakers

Emir Yargın_Oturmaya Mı Geldik?

Hyundai i30_7 ileri DCT Şanzıman Teknolojisi

preview of coming attraction!

Ben Vestel Değil Miyim?

2014 report

These images say, I've seen 60 films in cinemas last year, and one of them is my very first feature film:)

Theatrical trailer of my first feature film: