24th TEDDY AWARDS ARE past

See you at the 25. TEDDY AWARD Feb. 10 - Feb. 20, 2011.

The 24th TEDDY QUEER FILM AWARDS, Feb. 11- Feb. 21, 2010 has been awarded in the categories Best Feature Film, Best Documentary and Best Short film. Here we go:

Best Feature Film:
The Kids Are Alright by Lisa Cholodenko

Best Dokumentary:
La bocca del lupo (The Mouth of the Wolf) by Pietro Marcello

Best Short Film:
The Feast Of Stephen by James Franco

TEDDY Jury Award:
Open by Jake Yuzna

Siegessäule Readers Award:
Postcard to Daddy by Michael Stock

SPECIAL TEDDY Award:
Werner Schroeter

Please find the Jury Statements and the nominees here.

For those who wants to walk down memory lane: the whole site is full of clips of the TEDDY AWARD CEREMONY - enjoy:-)!


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Werner Schroeter dies

Werner Schoeter, 65, German theatre and film director died of cancer in a Kassel clinic on Monday April 12th 2010.
The film magician was awarded the honorary TEDDY Award this year.
Werner received the award as one of the great figures arising from the post war German gay culture and its young emancipation movement. From their post war cultural exile he re-imported parts of European culture, opera, and also the handling of the great emotions for our generation.
 
When talking about Werner Schroeter we pass representatives of an extremely creative generation like Elfi Mikesch, Rosa von Praunheim, Ingrid Caven, Daniel Schmid or Fassbinder. Looking back, we realize that cinema is still fed by the filmic inspiration of the 60s and 70s. That time was a cornucopia of initiation and fearlessness which yielded Werner Schroeter’s filmic firework.
 
Early on he bonded cultures. He worked with French and Italian actors like Bulle Ogier, Andréa Ferréol and Ida di Benedetto, then Isabelle Huppert but also with Andy Warhols superstar Candy Darling. His superstar was Magdalena Montezuma.
 
Certainly, Werner Schroeter was an opera thinker. He had the gift to give form to the longing and the fear of mankind. He gave us pictures to understand with our hearts. I remember showing Werner’s “Goldflocken” at the TALI cinema in Kreuzberg in the 70ies. It was an aesthetic revolution for me. I hadn’t seen anything like it before. This inspiration on an emotional level can’t be put into words.


Wieland Speck