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into the spotlight  #194

into the spotlight #194

NEWS – into the SPOTLIGHT #194

Hi everybody,

Life is a great gift to experience and to celebrate time together – out of comfort zones and habits…there, where the magic can happen.

That´s why every year we celebrate THE GLITTERRRRRR, a special shiny party, from artists for artists, at the Berlinale…

Here are few pictures (by Alina Albrecht (www.alina-albrecht.de)) of our crazy, shiny dressed crowd & a little trailer, filmed by Tasya Levana Martin & her friend, edited by Alina Albrecht. Thx.

Photos from the GLITERRRR party

  

 

To see the full gallery, please click on the link below!
https://goo.gl/photos/zBDJrs9EBn7pyaKg8
into the spotlight #191

into the spotlight #191

NEWS – into the SPOTLIGHT #191

67th BERLINALE NEWS SPECIAL

DAS IMPERIUM is proud to announce, that several of our talents are starring in films selected for various BERLINALE sections.

ARLY JOVER, MILTON WELSH and JAMES FLYNN star in the great Czech/Slovakian production MASARYK, directed by Julius Sevcík. The film just recieved a nomination for the CZECH LION AWARDS 2017 (ARLY for Best Supporting Actress) in Prague and will now be presented at the 67th BERLINALE within the section BERLINALE SPECIAL for its world premiere on February, 17th. info..

And more great news for our talents mentioned above:
The German feature film AXOLOTL OVERKILL, directed by Helene Hegemann, in which ARLY JOVER also played an important supporting role, received a fantastic review by the critics at this year’s SUNDANCE FESTIVAL, where the movie had its world premiere (info…).

MILTON WELSH leads in the new international TVC spot for the territory of usa for JÄGERMEISTER alongside DAS IMPERIUM talents LEANDRO TAUBSVANDIS DORA EINARSDOTTIR, ELIZABETH EHRLICH & G.G. FANTASIO SPELSBERG.

Pls check their profiles, pictures and the trailers below!

MASARYK (2016), directed by Julius Sevcík (HD teaser)
ARLY JOVER in AXOLOTL OVERKILL (2017), directed by Helene Hegemann (production picture)
MILTON WELSH

JAMES FLYNN 

MEHDI NEBBOU stars in the Swiss/Austrian/Polish co-production TIERE/ANIMALS (2017), directed by Greg Zglinski. The movie was selected for the BERLINALE FORUM section, in which avantgarde and more experimental film projects are presented, and will have its world premiere at the 67th BERLINALE on February, 13th. info…

Recently German ARTE MAGAZIN published an interesting portrait of MEHDI, which addresses questions about playing and overcoming stereotypical characters. The online version of this article will be availabe on Feb, 6th (link…).

Pls check Mehdi’s profile and the picture of the print article below!


MEHDI NEBBOU im ARTE Magazin (Ausgabe 2.2017)
LEONARDO NIGRO will be appear on screen at the 67th BERLINALE, starring in ZWISCHEN DEN JAHREN/END OF THE SEASON (2017), directed by Lars Henning. The German feature film will be presented in the section PERSPEKTIVE DEUTSCHES KINO and will have its world premiere on February, 14th. info…

Also LEONARDO NIGRO & SIMONETTA SOLDER star together in the next episode of SOKO KÖLN with the title ARRIVEDERCI BRUNO, which will be aired on February, 7th on ZDF network at 6:00pm CET. info…

 Pls check his profile and the trailer below!

LEONARDO NIGRO in ZWISCHEN DEN JAHREN/END OF THE SEASON (2017), directed by Lars Henning (trailer)


SIMONETTA SOLDER

OLEG TIKHOMIROV plays a supporting character (alongside MORITZ BLEIBTREU) in the German/Luxemburgish/Belgian co-production ES WAR EINMAL IN DEUTSCHLAND/BYE BYE GERMANY, directed by Sam Garbarski (2017).

The movie will premier at the 67th BERLINALE FILM FESTIVAL on February, 10th within the section BERLINALE SPECIALinfo…

Pls check Oleg’s profile, the trailer and production set picture below! 

ES WAR EINMAL IN DEUSCHLAND/BYE BYE GERMANY (2017), directed by Sam Garbarski (trailer) 

OLEG in ES WAR EINMAL IN DEUSCHLAND/BYE BYE GERMANY 
(production set picture of Oleg in an uncanny German uniform)


VICTOIRE LALY and OLIVIA KUNDISCH star together in the German production of THE MISANDRISTS (2017), directed by controversial great Canadian director Bruce LaBruce, which will be presented in the section BERLINALE PANORAMA at the 67th BERLINALE. Its world premiere will take place on February, 13th info….

Pls check their profiles (1st Victoire, 2nd Olivia Kundisch), the trailer and the production set picture below!

VICTOIRE LALY & OLIVIA KUNDISCH in THE MISANDRISTS, directed by Bruce LaBruce (2017) (trailer and prod. set picture)

BERLINALE SHOOTING STARS

ELINA VASKA & MARUSA MAJER will be presented with the EUROPEAN SHOOTING STARS Award at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival 2017.

Both actresses are newly represented dy DAS IMPERIUM TALENT AGENCY.
Pls check their profiles below!

ELINA VASKA was a spontaneous discovery with almost no acting experience, who then like a force of nature, made her marvelous breakthrough with playing lead in her debut MELLOW MUD, directed by Renars Vimba (2016).

Elina is native Latvian and speaks English fluently.

ELINA VASKA in MELLOW MUD,  directed by Renars Vimba (2015)

MARUSA MAJER is an actress from Slovenia, where she has worked for cinema and theatre. In 2013, she received the Best Actress Award at the International Festival of Children’s Theatres in Serbia’s Subotica for her performance in Mini Teater’s production of LITTLE SLEEPY STAR. Maruša played the female lead roles in AVTOŠOLA/DRIVING SCHOOL (2014) and IVAN (2017) both directed by Janez Burger. She also appeared in Darko Sinko’s short film SOŠOLKI/SCHOOLMATES (2015).

Maruša is native Slovenian and speaks English fluently.

MARUSA MAJER SHOWREEL, 2017

MARUSA MAJER in DRIVING SCHOOL, directed by Janez Burger 2014

BERLINALE TALENTS – DAS IMPERIUM PARTICIPANTS!!!

MEHDI MESKAR, ALEX POTOCEAN & AISTE DIRZIUTE will be participants of the Summit programme of the BERLINALE TALENTS 2017. info…

Pls check their profiles below!

AND MORE NEWS BECAUSE FILM BIZZ IS NOT ONLY BERLINALE…

ICELANDIC EDDA FILM AWARDS!!!

SVANDIS DORA EINARSDOTTIR received a nomination as Best Suporting Actress at the ISLANDIC EDDA AWARDS 2017 for her performance in the Islandic comedy FYRIR FRAMAN ANNAD FÓLK/IN FRONT OF OTHERS, directed by Óskar Jónasson (2016). info…  

Pls check her profile and the movie trailer! 

SVANDIS DORA EINARSDOTTIR in FYRIR FRAMAN ANNAD FÓLK/IN FRONT OF OTHERS, directed by Óskar Jónasson 2016 (trailer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJceaFUOUGM&feature=youtu.be&crmailing=11051998&crcustomer=31547&crlink=25826206

MARK KLEUSKENS is now represented by DAS IMPERIUM…

MARK KLEUSKENS, used to be a well-known DJ in the 80’s in Holland, Germany, Spain and Ibiza and in the 90’s he was the singer of the Dutch hardrock band ‘Sudden Death’. 

In 1994 Mark made his debut in a Dutch TV-series called COVERSTORY , in which he played the role of a crime scene investigator for two years. 

Ever since Mark appeared in more than 130 film- and TV-productions in Holland, Belgium, Germany, Austria and Spain, he shot for TV series such as MOORDVROUW (2016) (the series aired on January 17th, 2017 in Netherlands),  A´DAM – E.V.A. (2014),  FLIKKEN MAASTRICHT (2012) and at least in VECHTERSHART, directed by Lourens Blok and KLEM, two Dutch TV-series, which will have their release in 2017. 

He worked together with inspiring directors such as Theu Boermans, Jean van de Velde, Paul Verhoeven and Michael Apted.

Mark is native Dutch, speaks German, English and Spanish fluently.
MOORD VOOR JEUGDG, directed by Ron Toekook  and Elles van Velzen 2016
SHOWREEL 2016
LA LOST ANGEL FC 1, directed by Jeff Crowel. 2016
SHOWREEL (scenes in English, Spanish, German and Dutch)
into the spotlight #190

into the spotlight #190

NEWS – into the SPOTLIGHT #190

SO MUCH GREAT NEWS…
We decided to split our news into two Newsletters for this week because…

ESKINDIR TESFAY, actor who besides acting, works as a martial arts choreographer and a stunt men, stars in the Chinese action-comedy production KUNG-FU YOGA alongside Jackie Chan, directed by Stanley Tong. A new action-packed trailer with amazing footage of ESKINDIR has just been released. Enjoy!

Pls check his profile and the trailer below!

ESKINDIR TESFAY in KUNG-FU YOGA (2017), directed by Stanley Tong

CARLOS LEAL gives a fantastic performance playing in the German two-part exile-drama
D
AS LANDGERICHT (2017), directed by Matthias Glasner, where he played an important supporting role. The first part aired on January, 30th on the German network ZDF and can still
be watched on the ZDF Mediathek website link…. The second part is to be aired on February,
1st – also on ZDF – at 20:15h CET.
Pls check Carlos’ profile and the screenshot below!
CARLOS LEAL in DAS LANDGERICHT (2017), directed by Matthias Glasner (screenshot) 

AWARD: FILMFESTIVAL MAX-OPHÜLS-PREIS 2017

LEONARD KUNZ just won the award for Best Junior Actor at the MAX-OPHÜLS-
PREIS FILMFESTIVAL
2017 for his outstanding performance in the German movie
JENNY (2017), directed by Lea Becker.  info…


 Pls check the picture from the award show and the trailer below!
LEONARD KUNZ at FILMFESTIVAL MAX-OPHÜLS-PREIS (2017)
LEONARD KUNZ in JENNY, directed by Lea Becker (2017)

SILVIA BUSUIOC stars as an interesting supporting character in the new TV adaption
of 
LETHAL WEAPON (2016 – ), created by Matthew Miller. The episode called SURF’N’TURF
(original title)/FISH & CHIPS (official German title) featuring SILVIA will air on February, 13th
on the German TV channel Sat 1 at 20:15 (CET). 

Pls check her profile and the video below!

SILVIA BUSUIOC in LETHAL WEAPON (2016) 

RUDOLF MARTIN is now represented by DAS IMPERIUM…

Rudolf Martin is a German actor, born and raised in Berlin. After his theatrical education, he
established an acting carrer in New York City. He is know for his performances in international
feature film productions such as PASSWORD SWORDFISH, directed by Dominic Sena
(2001),  PIG/IDENTITY REPORT, directed by Henry Barrial (2011) and TV movie
production DARK PRINCE directed by Joe Chappelle (2000) and his reoccuring roles in popular American TV shows such as 24, NAVI NCIS and CHOOSERS & BEGGARS.

He also played various guest roles in a lot of famous TV series like MAD MEN, DEXTER, THE MENTALIST – to name only a few. Lately he was starring in the pilot for the TV adaptation of LETHAL WEAPON (just like DAS IMPERIUM talent SILVIA BUSUIOC). Rudolf recently moved back to Berlin and work between US & Germany.

Rudolf Martin is native German and speaks English fluently.

CROSSING, directed by Arthur Ian 2016 (trailer)

PIG, directed by  Henry Barrial 2011 (trailer)


HYENAS, directed by Eric Weston 2011 (trailer) 

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into the spotlight #189

CZECH LIONS (FILM) AWARDS 2017

ARLY JOVER is now nominated as Best Supporting Actress for CZECH LION AWARDS 2017 for her incredible performance in the Czech/Slovakian production A PROMINENT PATIENT/MASARYK,  directed by Julius Sevcík, in which also MILTON WELSH and JAMES FLYNN starred info….

MICHALINA OLSZANSKA is nominated as Best Actress for her outstanding performance leading in the Czech biopic I, OLGA HEPNAROVA, directed by Petr Kazda & Tomás Weinreb.

She also leads in CÓRKI DANCINGU/THE LURE, a provocative Polish cinema production directed by Agnieszka Smoczyńska (also starring our talent JOANNA KUHLIG),which spans the genres of drama, horror, comedy and musical. In 2016, the film won the Special Jury Prize at SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL and will be given a limited release in North America on February 1st, 2017.

Pls check the trailers & profiles below!


ARLY JOVER in A PROMINENT PATIENT/MASARYK (2016), directed by Julius Sevcík
(HD teaser)

MICHALINA OLSZANSKA in I, OLGA HEPNAROVA (2016), directed by Petr Kazda & 
Tomás Weinreb (trailer)
MICHALINA OLSZANSKA in CÓRKI DANCINGU/THE LURE (2015), directed by
Agnieszka Smoczyńska (trailer) 

AMERICAN ACADEMY AWARDS 2017

LEVIN HENNING starred in the Danish movie UNDER SANDET/LAND OF MINE, directed by Martin Zandvliet (2015), which now besides other nominations received an American Academy Award nomination in the category Best Non-English Language Film. info…

After THE WHITE RIBBON is this Levin´s second participation in a movie, which later on received a nominiation for the Oscars!!! Pls check his profile and the trailer below!


UNDER SANDET/LAND OF MINE (2015), directed by Martin Zandvliet (German trailer)

NADIA SETTEL stars as an interesting supporting character in the three times Golden Globe-winning TV show THE AFFAIR, created by Sarah Treem and Hagai Levi. The episode featuring Nadja will air January, 29th on SHOWTIME.

Pls check her profile and the production set pictures below!
THE AFFAIR, (production set pictures)
MALIK BLUMENTHAL haunts us in the new music video NEW ESTATE (directed by Sander Houtkruijer) of the German art-pop band GIANT ROOKS.
Pls check his profile and the music video below!

MALIK BLUMENTHAL in “NEW ESTATE” – GIANT ROOKS , directed by Sander Houtkruijer
2017 (music video)

ESKINDIR TESFAY appears in the Chinese action-comedy production KUNG-FU YOGA alongside Jackie Chan, directed by Stanley Tong, which will be released on January 27th in the USA and on 28th in China. Pls check his profile and the official trailer below!


KUNG-FU YOGA, directed by Stanley Tong 2017 (official trailer)
MEHDI NEBBOU has played one of the lead roles in the great Romanian/French co-production FIXEUR/FIXER, directed by Adrian Sitaru, which will have its Romanian premiere in Bucharest on January 27th, 2017. Pls check his profile and the movie trailer below!
MEHDI NEBBOU in FIXEUR/THE FIXER, (2016) directed by Adrian Sitaru (trailer)