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Monokel
Monokel Filmproduktion
Statut : Société de droit privé
Adresse : Ubierring 43, D – 50678 Cologne
Pays concerné : Allemagne
Téléphone(s) : +49 176 329 06 700 | +49 221 79 00 56 97
Fax : +49 221 79 00 56 98
Site web : www.monokel.de

Français

Studio indépendant de développement pour films, jeux et histoires transmédias.

En janvier 2015, Monokel a été fondé avec une idée à la fois simple et nécessaire : réunir les différentes disciplines de la production en cinéma, jeu et transmédia dans l’ADN d’une seule société.

Au coeur de la société il y a quatre fondateurs : Christian Koschmieder, Timo Maier, Roman Roitman et Daniel Wagner sont les premiers auteurs à se mettre ensemble pour lancer la première société nationale transmédia. L’équipe

Christian Koschmieder
Directeur Technique, Partenaire fondateur
[email protected]

Roman Roitman
Producteur,, Partenaire fondateur
[email protected]

Timo Maier
Histoire & Stratégie,, Partenaire fondateur
[email protected]

Daniel Wagner
Directeur Créatif, Partenaire fondateur
[email protected]

Monokel est sur Facebook

English

An independent development studio for films, games and transmedia narratives

In January 2015, Monokel was founded with an idea both simple and necessary: Merging the different disciplines of film, game and transmedia production in one company’s DNA. Creating extraordinary story experiences for the cinema and the gaming market, for virtual reality and the web. Telling stories worth telling to a curious audience, with all available tools and techniques.
A native transmedia approach to storytelling and production

At the heart of the company are the four founders: Christian Koschmieder, Timo Maier, Roman Roitman and Daniel Wagner are first of all storytellers who got together to start Germany’s first native transmedia company. Combining our very diverse toolsets as producers, designers, writers and engineers allows us to develop our projects for an always evolving multi-screen and multi-platform media environment. We’re passionate collaborators with the skillset to develop complex ideas into works with purpose and relevance.
Iterative workflow design from
ideation to completion

We work with people from all fields of knowledge, with partner from all over the world. So, when it comes to our processes of production, nothing is set in stone. Every project and team setup is unique and has its own needs. This is why we design our own methods and evolve our workflows from project to project. Our guiding principles are curiosity and common sense, paired with an attitude of openness towards every member of the team. Not just because we’re so nice (although we are), but because we believe that if we listen to what everyone has to say, we’ll get better results.

The people.

Christian Koschmieder
Technical Director, Founding Partner
[email protected]

Roman Roitman
Producer, Founding Partner
[email protected]

Timo Maier
Story & Strategy, Founding Partner
[email protected]

Daniel Wagner
Creative Director, Founding Partner
[email protected]

Monokel is on Facebook
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Português

The thin red line between fiction and truth, reality and dream, east and west

The protagonists of Dream Away, who work in the tourist industry of Sharm El Sheikh, are faced with an existential dilemma. In the shadows of the gaudy hotel facades they are forced to live in the no man’s land between two worlds. For some of them, western values symbolize the independence they dreamt of since the revolution. For others, the sun-soaked coastal strip that is surrounded by nothing but sand and sea water is nothing but a purgatory full of sinners. Yet for all of them, life in Sharm El Sheikh represents a crawl on the thin line between the deeply rooted traditions of their ancestors and the possibilities of the western lifestyle with its promises of consumption, sex and self-determination.

Walking the streets of Sharm El Sheik is like getting lost inside a theatre play where the stage designer went mad: polished fictitious motto facades side by side with dinosaur dummies and larger-than-life statues of comic characters – it seems that reality itself is only fractured memory. The experimental documentary works like a broken mirror: it reflects the narrative identities of the protagonists, who play their own perceived presents and imagined futures in reenactments right in the middle of the surrealistic tourist stronghold Sharm El Sheikh.

Dream Away is a co-production of Monokel and Fig Leaf with WDR. The film received funding from the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Catapult Film Fund (USA), the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, the Doha Film Institute, the Hot Docs Blue Ice Group Documentary Fund as well as the Berlinale Talents Doc Station Development Grant.

Documentary / Germany, Egypt / 85min. / HD CAM / Colour

Credits
Languages: Arabic, Russian, German, French, English
Directors: Marouan Omara, Johanna Domke
Producer: Roman Roitman, Mark Lotfy
Co-Producer: Arne Birkenstock
DOP: Jakob Beurle
A dark comedy about origin, identity and social adaptability

Shortly after the declaration of the State of Israel in 1948, a Mizrahi Jewish family emigrates from Morocco. Mousa, the insecure head of the family, his wife Rachel and their seven years old daughter Golda try to settle into life in Haifa.


Recipient the Film Prize of the Robert Bosch Stiftung 2015

Short fiction/ Jordan / 18min. / HD CAM / Colour

Credits
Languages: Arabic, Hebrew, Yiddish
Directors: Darin Sallam & Amjad Al Rasheed
Producer: Roman Roitman, Deema Azar
Screnplay: Amjad Al Rasheed, Darin Sallam & Rifqi Assaf
Cast: Hend Sabry
Ashram Barhoum
Yasmine Ben Amara
The odyssey of a young woman searching for a buried part of her own story

Nadja Bobyleva doesn’t know who her father is. She was never allowed to meet him. Over the years, she developed a permanent feeling of being a stranger, which became a strong part of her identity.

After decades of doubts and reservations, Nadja decided to leave her shell and get to know the familiar stranger from her dreams. She’s excited – and scared. Will she find him? What if he doesn’t want to meet her or if he doesn’t accept her as his daughter? Is he even alive? With a troubled mind but an open heart Nadja embarks on a long journey, travelling from Cologne via St. Petersburg, Moscow and Rostow to Charkow in the Ukraine. Her only companion is a video camera to document her journey into the unknown.

Vater. Mutter. Ich. received post-production grant from the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW.