After 15 expenditure ends at the Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) the green currently. The Co-Director Nadja Schildknecht and Karl Spoerri provide, by 2020, the leadership. Both will continue to be available as a consultant for the ZFF. Schildknecht and Spoerri founded the Festival in 2005, and to pay it with an Event with high Star and best contacts for U.S. industry. In 2016, the NZZ media group took over the majority of the ZFF; 2018, it had a Budget of 7.3 million Swiss francs and more than 100 000 visitors.
The decision to hand over the leadership, had grown “over the years,” says Karl Spoerri. He wants to work as a film producer; Nadja Schildknecht want to stay as entrepreneurs. How exactly? “I let it come to me.” A successor for the Board of management is currently being sought. Thanks to numerous sponsors, contracts schildknecht has expanded the degree of self-financing of the ZFF to around 90 percent.
The type of financing should not change, so Schildknecht: “I gave the Team my Knowledge of this type of marketing.” Also, the Federal subsidies, as well as the city and Canton of Zurich, which recently triggered for discussions to be continued. With the recent Changes to the organisational structure, the conditions will be that the cooperation between the owner of the NZZ and the funding agencies could continue to run.
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the successor of Karl Spoerri, who as artistic Director is Christian boy who will give up his current position as Culture editor of the “NZZ on Sunday”. From may 2019, he will run as a “Senior Programmer” with the ZFF Team. The film journalist, he has published books about the festival world, the curator, and he never was. Young refers to his long experience as a critic and festival visitors, as well as on his network of contacts in the industry.
The strength of the FESTIVAL’s young looks in the gala series, more and more European premieres of such films as “the Green Book” were in the later big prizes won. The Festival will continue to “show artistically valuable autumn and winter, title”, also thanks to the Glamour of Stars. Greater emphasis will put boys in the competition, in the discoveries and in the case of young Directors. “We should also grow in terms of content and even more in-depth.” As a critic he had no fear of contact with the avant-garde, often he is referring to, “before going to bed in an Antonioni”.
it is Unclear what is happening with the film magazine “Frame”, published by “NZZ am Sonntag” and ZFF. According to the Christian young to do it and currently, the film reporting “more digital”. (Editorial Tamedia)
Created: 05.04.2019, 10:26 PM
