Liebe Freunde der AIB und des Films,

die Akademie für Internationale Bildung (AIB) lädt Sie im Rahmen des
4. BONNER KURZFILMFESTS herzlich zur Abschlussveranstaltung ihrer Semesterprogramme

• Loyola Marymount University New Europe
• Loyola Marymount University Engineering
• Loyola Marymount University Film&TV
• Penn State University Landscape Architecture

ein. Wir verabschieden unsere StudentInnen und DozentInnen und beginnen den Abend mit der Premiere der Dokumentarfilme der amerikanischen Filmstudierenden aus Los Angeles.
Die Filmpremiere findet statt am:
Freitag, 13. Dezember 2013
um 19:30 Uhr
im Rheinischen Landesmuseum Bonn (Colmantstraße 14-16, 53115 Bonn)
Die von einer internationalen Fachjury ausgewählten Filme sind von jungen Talenten der School of Film & Television der Loyola Marymount University während ihres Auslandssemesters und Studiums an der AIB in Bonn produziert worden.
Jeder der Regisseure hat sich mit einem unterschiedlichen Themengebiet beschäftigt und es auf kunstfertige, individuelle Art und Weise verwirklicht. So wird es sportlich spannend in Dänemark, wo eine Gruppe von Kindern durch das Einüben von Fußballtricks zu Freunden wird oder auch in Irland, wo ein junges Segelteam bei der Titelverteidigung begleitet wird.
Weitere Dokumentationen beleuchten das seltsame Leben und Werken eines französischen Tätowierungskünstlers, den faszinierenden Entstehungsprozess von selbst-gemachten Pop-Up Papierobjekten oder gehen der spannenden Frage nach, worin noch heute der Reiz von Grimm's Märchen besteht.
Während einige Dokumentationen lokal im Raum Köln/Bonn gedreht wurden, führte die Arbeit an den Filmen einzelne Regisseure auch in andere europäische Länder wie etwa Dänemark, Belgien, Irland oder Italien.
Lernen Sie mit uns Deutschland und Europa aus der Perspektive unserer amerikanischen FilmstudentInnen kennen!
Programm:
19:30 Uhr
Begrüßung der Teilnehmer der Programme Film&TV, Engineering, New Europe und Landscape Architecture durch den Oberbürgermeister der Stadt Bonn, Jürgen Nimptsch
19:45 Uhr
Vorführung von sechs dokumentarischen Kurzfilmen (á 10 Minuten)
anschließend
After-Show-Empfang mit Verabschiedung der Semesterprogramme und Verleihung des Publikumspreises in der Akademie für Internationale Bildung (Wilhelmstr. 27, 53111 Bonn)
Anmeldung:
Wir würden uns sehr freuen, Sie am 13. Dezember 2013 zur Filmpremiere im LVR Rheinischen Landesmuseum begrüßen zu dürfen. Bitte wenden Sie sich zur Anmeldung unter Angabe der Anzahl zu reservierender Tickets bis zum 11. Dezember 2013 sowie bei Rückfragen per E-mail an: tickets@aib-studyabroad.org. Sie erreichen uns außerdem telefonisch unter 0228 / 33 88 39 20. Gerne dürfen Sie diese Einladung an Freunde und Bekannte weiterleiten.
Wir hoffen auf Ihr zahlreiches Erscheinen und auf einen gelungenen Abend!
Mit herzlichen Grüßen,
Olivia Schäfer & Olaf Brodersen, Programmkoordinatoren Film

Rhine Cruise

On Friday, September 13th, the AIB took us to a small village about an hour and a half away from Bonn where we boarded a ship on the Rhine River. We all rushed to the front of the line in order to secure the prime spots on the top level of the ship, only to get up there and see there's a built in slide and playground for us to enjoy!!! So, being the mature college students that we are, we instantly lined up to slide down over and over. The cruise took us about 2 hours up river and we were able to see all the beautiful landscapes that Germany has to offer. We passed by a famous rock, Lorelei, which is about 120 meters above water. Folklore states that a beautiful mermaid once sat upon that rock and sailors would get distracted by her beauty and crash their ships into the rock, when in reality it was simply the strong currents in that area that took the ships by surprise right into the rock. Once we left the ship, we walked through a small village full of beautiful medieval looking houses and buildings, and ate lunch at a delicious restaurant.

After lunch, we hiked up about 20 minutes to a castle named Marksburg. We were given a tour of the castle, which was extremely interesting. This particular castle was structured very similarly to other medieval castles, but was unique in that it lines the Rhine River and therefore had access to many more opportunities to attack intruders who were coming in ships. They would shoot huge cannon balls from the top level of the castle into the river which became a huge advantage for them. We ended the tour in the torture chamber where we were given some of the torture devices to try on for size…. it was unpleasant but awesome at the same time. After the tour we were brought to a winery where we were given a tour of the wine cellars and told the basics of how the wine is made. We learned that the wooden barrels that people believe that wine is left in to age have become outdated because they cannot hold enough wine to keep up with demand. Wine is now aged in huge stainless steel containers, which is not as romantic looking but equally tasty. The winery then gave us a traditional dinner of bread, cheese and meats to eat along with five different grape juices to taste. They taught us how to properly taste the grape juice to get the most out of the flavors. We then got back on the bus to Bonn where we performed a classic "Bohemian Rhapsody" karaoke sing along which I'm positive the bus driver enjoyed more than anyone else… Overall, it was an amazing day filled with beautiful German sites and delicious German food!
Written by Ryan Alkire

Narrative Shoot

Every filmmaker knows how much work it takes to turn a script into a film, at least to turn it into a good film. The process of creating our narrative films began over the summer. Every one of us had to write a 3-5 minute script that had the potential of being turned into a short film; those scripts were due upon arrival in Bonn. In Eifel, our first weekend, we each read the other 15 scripts, we voted for our favorites and we narrowed it down to 8. The 8 screenplays chosen then had a corresponding pitch by the writer, and after those pitches, we narrowed them down to 4, the final 4. One about a breakup, one to ask the question of where we go when we die, one to show that a love story can be told with a live action Pixar short and the last to show that friends can fight but always come back in the end. We got our crews together, four people for each film, and we started going into pre-production.

We rewrote our scripts, got props together, wrote up shot lists and storyboards, casted our actors, sent a ton of emails and had a lot of late nights, especially the days right before the shoot. Every director was freaking out the day before and the morning of the shoot, we were running around the classroom, calling our actors, getting equipment together and we finally left to start our shoots. My film was one being made and I was really nervous to see how our actors were going to do, and how the shots were going to end up looking, but in the end every crew came out with amazing shots, great acting, and every person I talked to had a lot of fun. We’re in post-production now, each of us editing another group’s film, and I’m excited to see how all of them turn out!
Written by Destiny Peńida

IBC AMsterdam

So last weekend my fellow film students and I went to Amsterdam to take part in the IBC (International Broadcasting Conference), which is a big film convention A.K.A. film heaven. It felt like I was a kid in the candy store and we got to check out all these film equipment that I didn’t quite know the names of or what it exactly did but it was super cool. There were different booths sets up that allowed anyone passing by to actually try out the equipment. As soon as we walked in the first thing we saw was a broadcast van. It had switch board, TV screens and everything you could possibly imagine to be inside of a broadcasting van. Meredith, who is interested in being a anchor one day went inside of the van and we all pretended that she was delivering a breaking news story. She performed nothing less than a pro but I’m sure the authentic setting had a lot to do with it.
We then got to play around with the different professional cameras and talk to experts of the brands being represented on the cool features. One thing that stands out in my mind was the ARRI Digital Camera presentation. Big named cinematographers and gaffers came to share their experience in using ARRI. We even got to see the behind the scenes and a sneak peak of films that are not even out yet. It was truly a “game changer”, which was the word used about a hundred times by the film professionals that used ARRI equipment.

We also had the opportunity to put our names in a drawing to win a brand new Go Pro. Unfortunately, even though we went back a second time to put our names in we had no luck. However, this was a priceless experience and it got all of us excited about our future film careers. I would love to attend this amazing event again next year and hopefully next time I can win a little something.
Written by Melissa Effa

Berlin

Our excursion to Berlin has been my favorite experience in Germany thus far. It is an amazing feeling to be immersed within a city filled with so much culture and history. The first night we hit the ground running with a tour of the city.
We visited several historical sights including the television tower, constructed by East Berlin as a monument to the DDR. We walked through the famous Brandenburg Gate, which used to be a symbolism of division between East and West Berlin. We have all grown up learning about the division between the East and West, but to stand before the Brandenburg Gate and the remains of the Berlin wall was a surreal experience. Our city tour ended upon the rooftop of the Reichstag. The Reichstag is the home of the Bundestag, Germany’s Federal Parliament. From the rooftop, we were able to see a 360ş view of the Berlin skyline.
On day two of our excursion, we split up into four groups to discover the city on our own. Each of us with a mission to explore a defining aspect of Berlin (street art, architecture, the World Wars, and the Cold War). My group chose to explore the plethora of street art within Berlin. It seems as though every inch of Berlin is covered with street art ranging from graffiti tagging to building-side murals. A monument for professional street art is the the East Side Gallery, a 1.3 kilometer wall constructed with the slabs from the original Berlin Wall.

Day three brought us to the Babelsberg Studio. The Babelsberg Studio is the site where features such as Flightplan, Inglorious Basterds, and Hansel & Gretel were filmed. It was fantastic to experience how different the German studio system is from studios in Los Angeles. Through the tour, we were able to see the Babelsberg sound stage, wood workshop, prop house, and backlot.
After lunch we visited the beautiful Sanssouci Palace. The Sanssouci Palace is the burial place of Friedrich Willhelm, the King of Prussia responsible for cultivating the potato in Germany. After experiencing the exquisite living of the 18th century, we strolled through the terraced vineyard and extensive gardens.
During our final morning in Berlin, we visited the holocaust memorial of Sachsenhausen. Sachsenhausen was one of the first work/concentration camps to be built in Germany in 1936. Reading a text book can never compare to walking on the same ground where the atrocities of the holocaust occurred. It seems impossible to imagine what life was like within those walls for the victims of the war. We were rendered speechless.
Written by Paul Giacomazzi