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
15 Hessian graduation and semester films will be presented this year at the Berlinale in the cross-university program HESSEN TALENTS that reflects the production diversity of the four film-making universities of the hFMA network in Darmstadt, Kassel, Offenbach and Wiesbaden.
THE HESSEN TALENTS 2024
can be seen on the following platforms:
Background information on all films can be found in the Hessen Talents brochure.
THE FILMS:
From Offenbach University of Art and Design
From Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences
RheinMain University of Applied Sciences
For press photos (film stills & portraits of the filmmakers) click here.
Hessen Talents was presented for the first time in 2010 at the European Film Market (EFM) of the Berlinale and has since then been not only a distinction and a key step in the direction of the international film industry for participating students, but also a presence of the hFMA network extending well beyond the borders of Hesse. The former Managing Director of the hFMA, Anja Henningsmeyer, was not only involved from the very start in establishing and developing this format but was also centrally active in its organisational realisation. We thank her sincerely for her years of dedication! The now 15th edition of the project continues along the proven path but also introduces an expansion of the content.
The year, the programme will for the first time be complemented by an intensively accompanied excursion to the Berlinale. Together with professors from the filmmaking universities in Hessen in Darmstadt, Kassel, Offenbach and Wiesbaden, the talents will also visit film screenings and events in all sections of the major German film festival in addition to the EFM. The participants will reflect on that seen and learned as well as on the various facets of the film sector, from the film industry to film culture, in daily exchanges of ideas.
More information about the programm and master classes in berlin – see below.
The kick-off will take place on 16.2. at 6 pm. Further mini-masterclasses from 17.2. to 24.2., probably from 10am to 12 noon.
Borjana Gaković, Project Manager of Hessen Talents 2024
Prof. Tilmann Kohlhaase, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences; Prof. Angelika Levi, University of Art and Design Offenbach am Main; Prof. Jan Peters, Kunsthochschule Kassel; Prof. Tom Schreiber, RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, Wiesbaden
The HESSEN TALENTS program is selected annually by the professional audience at the Hessian University Film Day and the professors of the film-making universities. The HESSEN TALENTS are financed and organized by the hFMA with the support of the Ministry of Science and Research, Arts and Culture.
