Talent Press 2009

Berlinale Talent Campus, Goethe-Institut and FIPRESCI organized at this year's Berlinale (February 5-15, 2009) for the sixth time the "Talent Press", an initiative within the Berlinale Talent Campus. This workshop allowed young critics to attend the festival (with a press badge), and to win experience in writing, on a daily basis, on one of the biggest film festivals of the world. Supported by renowned film-journalists (Derek Malcolm, Dana Linssen, Stephanie Zachariak, Meenakshi Shedde, as well as the organizers Peter Cowie and Oliver Baumgarten), they wrote reviews on films presented in various sections of the festival, composed features and report about the atmosphere of the Campus and interviewed both talents and experts. Articles of the participants were published daily on the website of the Berlinale Talent Campus and on the homepages of the Goethe-Institut and FIPRESCI.

The Participants
Eight young critics introduce themselves
Sitou Ayité: The Manifestation of Talents
Matthew le Cordeur: Growing Pains: South African Film Enters its Adolescence
Aaron W. Graham: A Lifelong Dream
Jonas Holmberg: Criticism in Confusion
Marcos Kurtinaitis: Tropa de Critique
Siddarth Pillai: In Full Technicolor
Eugenia Saúl: Words Matter
Tommaso Tocci: Two Roads Diverged in a Yellow Wood

Day 1
Jonas Holmberg: Cotton Worker Cinemania at Berlinale Talent Campus Breakfast
Aaron W. Graham: Obfuscating in Close-up
Marcos Kurtinaitis: Blame Game
Matthew le Cordeur: Turn Off the Sex-ed, Pedro's Back to Turn You On
Siddarth Pillai: All Heist and Nowhere to Go
Sitou Ayité: Land of Barren Gold
Tommaso Tocci: Gearing up for a Richter Experience

Day 2
Eugenia Saúl: A Hollow Film
Matthew le Cordeur: Puccini in the Middle: An Alternative Understanding of Film
Sitou Ayité: Go Meet People
Siddharth Pillai: The Part and the Whole
Jonas Holmberg: The Look of Love
Eugenia Saúl: Personal Cards and Samples of Work

Day 3
Siddharth Pillai: What She Means When She Talks About It
Sitou Ayité: Bringing the Past Alive
Matthew le Cordeur: Reality Is a Struggle, Deal With It
Marcos Kurtinaitis: A Fashion Victim
Jonas Holmberg: Emanating Architecture
Aaron W. Graham: Reinstating and Defying the Casting Couch Myth
Tommaso Tocci: Digital Problem Solvers

Day 4
Tommaso Tocci: The Sergeant Never Rings Twice
Sitou Ayite: Tangled Love
Aaron W. Graham: Jovial and Deliberate
Eugenia Saúl: I Don't Believe in Frontiers
Eugenia Saúl: It's Frears ma Chéri
Jonas Holmberg: A Binding Hope
Marcos Kurtinaitis: First Impressions
Matthew le Cordeur: David OReilly, The Mystery Father-to-Be
Siddharth Pillai: Filmmakers Against Racism: We Shall Overcome
Tommaso Tocci: Waltzing Backwards Across Time

Day 5
Aaron W. Graham: Crocodile Tears and Insincerity
Marcos Kurtinaitis: Bringing Words to Life
Tommaso Tocci: The Mathematics of Love
Sitou Ayité: Crafting Talent
Siddharth Pillai: Jungle Boogie
Eugenia Saúl: Autumn in Winter
Jonas Holmberg: Go Back to Your Goat
Matthew le Cordeur: Beams of Life
Aaron W. Graham: Reha's Cosmos
Marcos Kurtinaitis: Power of Simplicity

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