Monthly Archives September 2018

Emmy Award winner, Visual Effects Supervisor Juri Stanossek to attend screening of JIM BUTTON AND LUKE THE ENGINE DRIVER

Emmy Award winner, Visual Effects Supervisor Juri Stanossek to attend screening of JIM BUTTON AND LUKE THE ENGINE DRIVER Juri Stanossek started his career in 1994. Since then he’s supervised more than 40 movies for TV and cinema. He acted as Visual Effects Supervisor at Elektrofilm from 2004 to 2008 and then moved forward to Pixomondo Stuttgart, where he supervised

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JIM BUTTON: MACKEVISION’S ADVENTURES IN MANDALA

JIM BUTTON: MACKEVISION’S ADVENTURES IN MANDALA

The legendary kingdom of Mandala from “Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver” is not as far away as you may think. You don’t have to take a plane and fly to China to get there. Instead, just take a look behind the scenes of Mackevision.

Not that we invented the city, of course. That was master storyteller Michael Ende in his first Jim Button story. Now, 58 years after the book was originally published, a team of film makers have dared to bring the story to life using real-life actors. And we were involved to bring the beautiful city of Mandala to life.


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The Invisibles (Die Unsichtbaren – Wir wollen leben) opens the German language film festivals in Portland and Seattle

The Invisibles (Die Unsichtbaren – Wir wollen leben) opens the German language film festivals in Portland and Seattle

This years Portland German Film Festival (Oct. 5-9, 2018 @ CINEMA 21) and KINOFEST Seattle (Oct. 19-21, 2018 @ The SIFF Film Center) will both open with director Claus Räfle’s film ” The Invisibles” (Die Unsichtbaren – Wir wollen leben). Unbelievable, but true: During the Second World War, some young Jews managed to become invisible in the anonymity of Berlin.

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