Presenting the Berlinale Camera to Ann Hui at the Panorama party, festival director Moritz de Hadeln noted the enormous work Ann Hui had done in Hong Kong by pushing the Urban Council to recognise film as art, and therefore give quality film the financial support it deserves.
Fearful of occasional slips of the tongue in German, festival director Moritz de Hadeln approached the presentation of the Berlinale camera to Franz Seitz with some trepidation: Seitz is a renowned wit, and the presentation was made before the gathered masses of the German film establishment.
Tension was high yesterday as projectionists waited for the last-minute arrival of Chris. Marker's new picture Level 5, which only arrived in Berlin a couple of hours before its screening.
Wherefore art though, Romeo? Where are you, Romeo! It is with great regret that 20th Century Fox have announced that Romeo + Juliet star Leonardo DiCaprio has had to abandon plans to come to Berlin, because he's still busy abandoning ship on another Fox project, Titanic.
Yesterday, festival director Moritz de Hadeln received a delegation from Japan to the festival club, where among other things they discussed the current resurgence in Japanese independent production.
Jury president Jack Lang took a little time off from his duties on Tuesday to go on the razzle with German directors Volker Schlöndorff and (fellow jury member) Hark Bohm. They visited Prenzlauer Berg to see the 'other' Berlin.
Yesterday was party day - with Pro Sieben, Oberhausen, Focus Germany, Wine Country Film Festival, the Danes and the British in Berlin (courtesy of Moving Pictures, Soho House, Kodak and the British Council) all reaching for the Alka Seltzer this morning. À propos of parties, the festival director would like to emphasise that, as a result of the general financial situation in Berlin and Germany, there will be NO closing party this year.
Russian festival guests and friends have had to make do with speaking to the festival's East European expert, Hans-Joachim Schlegel, by phone. Schlegel, a close advisor to the festival director, has recently been ill, but all his friends from the festival wish him well.
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