Empire Me - the movie
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„Empire Me“ wins Special Jury Award in Houston (Texas, USA)
Right after the PRIX DU FILM REBELL at the Aubagne Film Festival we are proud to receive a festival award from across the sea: At the WorldFest in Houston (Texas), the oldest independent Film Festival in the world, "Empire Me" won the SPECIAL JURY AWARD as BEST INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY FEATURE.
The heads of the festival Todd Hunter and Kathleen Haney honored director Paul Poet with the following speech: "Congrats to you and your team for your though provoking film. The Special Jury Award is the highest right under the GRAND REMI in the main category, it is a pretty big deal. We do believe that we have a special audience for your film here in Texas, we have been a maverick state of mind for a long, long time and can very well empathize with your way of thinking about this modern world."
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"Empire Me" nominated for "Doc Alliance Selection 2012"
The Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival (IDFF) nominated "Empire Me" for the prestigious "Doc Alliance Selection 2012". The Doc Alliance is a creative partnership of six key European documentary film festivals with the common goal to support extraordinary documentaries through new initiatives. Furthermore the festivals CPH:DOX Copenhagen, DOK Leipzig, Planete Doc Review Warsaw, VISIONS DU REEL Nyon and FID Marseilles selected one film for "DAS 2012" each.
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"Empire Me" rewarded with PRIX DU FILM REBELLE
A tribute to revolutionary cinema:
"Empire Me" wins the main prize 'Best Film' at the International Film Festival Aubagne in France together with the feature film "Toomelah" by Ivan Sen. Since the Award couldn't be splitted, the Film Festival created a special Award PRIX DU FILM REBELL for "Empire Me" with the argument, that the world needs in these times of crises more films with the courage to defy conventions with regard to content, politics and narration style.
The Film Festival highlights the connection between image and music. Therefore the Award honours as well the German Score-composer ALEXANDER HACKE, renowned for his band EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN and his work with the director FATIH AKIN.
Thanks to "Empire Me" the recently created Award PRIX DU FILM REBELL shall be maintained in the next year as an own category.
We like to congratulate all participants!
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"Empire Me" runs within the competition at Aubagne Film Festival
We are happy to announce that "Empire Me" was selected to compete in the Long Feature Film Competition of Aubagne International Film Festival in France. The Festival's objective is to highlight the connection between image and music. It takes place from 19th to 24th of March 2012. We keep our fingers crossed for "Empire Me" and its music composed by the Einstürzende Neubauten musician Alexander Hacke.
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"Empire Me" at the WorldFest in Houston
"Empire Me" is celebrating its north-america premiere at the 45. International Independent WorldFest in Houston. The WorldFest is the oldest Independent Festival of the world and is taking place from the 13th to 22nd of April 2012.
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"Empire me" shown at the TAZ-Congress
"Empire Me" will be presented at this years TAZ-Congress in Berlin. The forum will focus on "The Good Life - There are alternatives." The film will be shown on the 14th of April at 4.45 pm, followed by a discussion about the subject: "Revolution now" with Paul Poet, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Ines Pohl, Lisa Fithian, Nils Minkmar and Robert Misik.
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"Empire Me" premiere in German movie theaters
With great excitement we await the official german premiere of our documentary "Empire Me" by Paul Poet at movie theaters in two german cities. On the 18th of January 2012 the film will be presented to the audience in cologne at the filmforum museum Ludwig and on the 19th of January 2012 it will be shown at the Volksbuehne in Berlin.
Volksbühne Berlin
