LICHTER Wettbewerbe 2014

The prize-giving ceremony on March 30, 2014 of the Lichter film awards marked the official end of the 7th <a href="http://www.lichter-filmfest.de/" target=blank>LICHTER Filmfest Frankfurt/Rhein-Main</a>. This year there were 35 productions in the race for the coveted trophies at the LICHTER competitions. 

The road-trip comedy <a href="http://www.lichter-filmfest.de/de/programm/timetable/programmansicht-2014.html?film_id=324" target=blank>»The Scrapbox«</a>, an independent semester project by <b>Daniel Herzog</b> und <b>Robin Wissel</b> is this year's winner of the LICHTER audience award. Herzog und Wissel are students at the Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) Offenbach. The project was supervised by HfG Professors Rotraut Pape and Heiner Blum.

Among other entries, the jury selected the film <a href="http://filmklassepape.de/filme/re50/" target=blank>»RE50 Richtung Wächtersbach«</a> by HfG student <b>Leslie Bauer</b> as the best short film. Supervised by Professor Rotraut Pape, the fictional film is the result of a University Intermediate Diplom project. The jury included film journalist Toby Ashraf, actress Oona Lea from Maydell and the Managing Director of Kontrastfilm in Mainz, Tidi von Tiedemann.

Reasoning of the jury for »RE 50 Richtung Wächetersbach«:

<i>"Leslie Bauer didn't rely on anything like a score, sound effects, gimmicks. She lets her experiment culminate  in a staccato of images and sounds that places us, the viewers, in the passenger seat."</i>

<i>April 1, 2014</i>