Festival Director Dieter Kosslick, together with the heads of the Campus, Matthijs Wouter Knol and Christine Tröstrum, director Isabel Coixet and film composer Alexandre Desplat, opened the Berlinale Talent Campus 2010 on Saturday evening (13.2.) in the Theater Hebbel am Ufer.
Until February 18, 350 Talents from 95 countries will meet with renowned international experts at the Hebbel am Ufer for countless workshops, master classes and panels, and to exchange views and experiences on a wide array of filmmaking topics related to this year's Campus motto "Cinema Needs Talent: Looking for the Right People". For these approx. 600 guests, the event's climax was the world premiere of the five Berlin Today Award nominated short films. The Talent Campus Short Film Competition which addresses this year the theme "Straight to Cinema" is supported by the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.
Soon after the Berlinale 2010 comes to a close, the five finalists for the Berlin Today Award 2011 will be announced. Their short film ideas will be realised in collaboration with five production companies and address the theme "You are Leaving the Familiar Sector".