Talent Screen launches online video portal

The Talent Screen film competition for up-and-coming filmmakers enters the next round with the Talent Screen Online Award: By the end of September, all 92 submitted film entries will have a new chance to win the "Golden Deer". For the first time, visitors to www.talentscreen.tv can rate the films online and discuss them in the forum. The winner will receive a Panasonic camera worth almost 5000 Swiss francs. Almost 600 people in 107 teams from Switzerland, Germany and Austria took part in this year's Talent Screen. In the sold-out Zurich Gessnerallee on Friday evening, ten film entries and eight film ideas competed for the two main prizes in the final round. The winner was chosen by the audience - or by the loud throats that sent the decibel level soaring.
In the "Movie Marathon" discipline, the task was to produce a film on the theme "I'll show you!" in 48 hours. The winners in this category were Simon Jaquemet and Matthias Huser. Their short film "Die Rakete" (The Rocket) is about an unnerved father's act of revenge on his pubescent son.
In the "Pitch Battle", the screenwriter Eduardo Carreno from the French-speaking part of Switzerland was convincing. He was able to inspire the audience with his film idea between Röschtigraben and breakdance and won against Luc Walpoth, last year's winner.