Hessen Film and Media Academy (hFMA)
address: Hermann-Steinhäuser-Straße 43-47, 2.Fl
63065 Offenbach am Main
Germany
+49 69 830 460 41
please find driving directions here
Managing director
Lucie Peetz – peetz(at)hfmakademie.de
Project managers:
Csongor Dobrotka (Wednesday) – dobrotka(at)hfmakademie.de
Celina Schimmer (Monday to Wednesday) – schimmer(at)hfmakademie.de
You can reach us from Monday to Thursday 10am - 4:30pm
The Educational Day offers lectures and discussions, which are intended to bring together film and media scholars with creators. How do we define web series? How do we decide on the quality of a web series? And how can we look at web series from a film- and media-theoretical perspective?
10.15 - 10.45h Rose of Dolls: Where & How Webseries
A short guide through when and where web series started, when they became popular, where they are happening, and what the most important factors about different countries are. And last but not least: how do those series look like?
11.00 - 11.30h Joël Bassaget: Web Series Are the New Nouvelle Vague… Really?
Joël Bassaget explains why he compares web series to the Nouvelle Vague and talks about promises and challenges of this new format.
11.45 - 12.15h
Meredith Burkholder: Digital Series - Inspiring Creativity in Germany and around the World
Technology and the internet have provided a wealth of opportunity for creativity, to tell stories which might not have been told. This creativity has even changed how we work on set, how we write, and of course how we view and consume series.
12.30 - 13.00h
Otessa Ghadar: The Wild West of Film – What’s Next?
Ten Years ago, Otessa Ghadar predicted the end of TV series as we know it. Now, she gives us an insight on how independent filmmaking developed in the web series world and where it can go from here.
14.00 - 14.30h
Franziska Gruber: Case study: iam.serafina - The First Soap on Snapchat
Franziska Gruber, part of the team of Germany’s first snapchat series, lets us in the production process and new ways of storytelling.
14.45 - 15.45h
Panel Discussion 'Web series, a global New Wave - A closer look at a special format' with: Rose of Dolls, Prof. Dr. Malte Hagener, Marian Kaiser, Anne Santa Maria
What is so special about webserien? How do you work aesthetically with the new format, which narrative concepts are there? How can web series be classified into media history? A theoretical/practical/critical approach.
Moderation: Astrid Matron
