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Dietl, Costner, Rosenmüller and Emmerich all shooting new projects with FFF support

Once again, a lot of films are being made in Bavaria. FFF Bayern is granting support to 29 projects with a total amount of 8 million Euros; for four of the projects, a further 880,000 Euros are being supplied by the Bavarian Bank Fund. Twelve feature film projects received 6.6 million Euros of the funding.
1.1 million Euros went to Helmut Dietl’s satire Berlin-Mitte, in which Dietl, together with co-author Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre, reworked the material from his cult series Kir Royal and applied it to today’s Berlin scene. Michael Bully Herbig plays a chauffeur who by chance becomes the editor in chief of a new online magazine and gets caught up in a political intrigue. The film is being produced by Diana Film and includes part of the Kir Royal cast, including Senta Berger as Mona and Dieter Hildebrandt as the photographer Herbie.
With another 1.1 million Euros, FFF Bayern and the Bavarian Bank Fund are also supporting the international co-production of the comedy Learning Italian (production: Diplomat Films), with most of the shooting taking place in Bavaria. The German co-producer is Bavaria Film Partners, director is Kevin Reynolds, with Kevin Costner in the lead role. Studio shooting will be done at the Bavaria Studios. The producers Kevin Reynolds, Kevin Costner and Howard Kaplan and their German co-producers are still looking for locations in Bavaria for the outdoor shooting.
850,000 Euros went to Marcus H. Rosenmüller’s new Bavarian Heimatfilm Orange – Mein Leben in Orange (production: Roxy Film) about a Bhagwan commune in the Bavarian backwater. The comedy is being shot entirely in Bavaria.
Roland Emmerich’s Anonymous (production: Anonymous Pictures with Vierzehnte Babelsberg Film) received 200,000 Euros in support. The historical drama is set in England during the Renaissance and airs the secrets of the authorship of the works of William Shakespeare.
Four TV movies received 630,000 Euros in funding from FFF Bayern, including the RTL movie Mutter 007 – Mit Kind und Kugel and the ProSieben event film Isenhart, as well as two documentaries: one about the economic power Islam and another about the life stories of Konstantin Wecker and Hannes Wader.
Seven newcomer projects received a total of 728,000 Euros: the two debut films Puppe and Davon willst du nichts wissen as well as four graduation films from the Munich University of Television & Film. In the area of “other newcomer films”, the project Laute Schatten also received funding.
40,000 Euros were granted to the development of the project Rasthof am Spessart. The Würzburg-based Cinenic Filmproduktion is planning a 12-part TV series based on an idea by Urban Priol and Frank-Marcus Barwasser.
60,000 Euros in screenplay support was given to two projects: Jörg Zimmermann’s and Silke Riemann’s literary adaptation of Momente der Geborgenheit, based on the novel by Erik Fosnes Hansen, and Katharina Schöde’s and Felix Fuchsteiner’s Rubinrot, a fantasy based on the bestseller of the same title by Kerstin Gier.
Five films are being released in German cinema’s with support from FFF and the Bavarian Bank Fund’s distribution funding: Jerry Cotton, Vincent will Meer, Habermann, Ceasefire and I Love You Phillip Morris.