Babelsberg Media Award for Swiss documentary film
The portrait film “Daniel Schmid – Le Chat qui pense” was honoured with the Babelsberg Media Award for Best Graduate Film, endowed with EUR 18,000, on September 24, 2010.
29.09.2010
The 83-minute documentary film "Daniel Schmid - Le Chat qui pense" provides insight into Daniel Schmid's life and work by means of film clips, footage and interviews with the late Swiss director, who passed away in 2006. Schmid's friends, peers and associates, in particular, offer their accounts in the film: for example, actresses Ingrid Caven and Bulle Ogier, cinematographer Renato Berta and film director Werner Schroeter. The young Swiss filmmakers celebrated the premiere of their film in the Panorama section at the 60th Berlinale in February 2010. Since then "Daniel Schmid - Le Chat qui pense" has been invited to film festivals in Amsterdam (Doku Arts), Istanbul, La Rochelle, Lisbon (Queer Lisboa), Munich (Dok Fest), Pesaro and Vancouver.
The Babelsberg Media Award has been presented by the Film and Television University (HFF) "Konrad Wolf" since 1996 and has already honoured three young talented Swiss directors in the past: in 2005 to Sören Senn for the feature film "KussKuss" (HFF Konrad Wolf); in 2007 to Reto Caffi for the short film "Auf der Strecke" (Academy of Media Arts, Cologne); and in 2009 to Thais Odermatt for her short documentary film "Nid hei cho" (Lucerne School of Art and Design).
Zurich, September 27, 2010