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• Independent Mystery Thriller, 88 minutes• German with English Subtitles• Color, 2.39 aspect ratio, 2K DCP• Secure Online Screener available on request
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» INGENIUM is a big budget thriller that is well crafted.. « Alexandra Nakelski, Manifesto Film Festival
» INGENIUM is an intense run with elements and twists of a thriller and surprises beyond that. « «
Matt Beurois, Paris Art and Movie Awards
» .. the upstart filmmakers make a professional looking feature with nice use of CGI, good performances from their cast and limitless possibilities of potential sequels. .. «
The Headless Critic, Buffalo, NY
» Inventive and surprised filled action tale that begins as an international thriller and takes a sharp detour into science fiction. «
Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival, Buffalo, NY
Felicitas and Natascha share an ill-fated mutual past for which Natascha carves out her existence in an asylum and Felicitas tries to deal with her bad memories with a more or less regular life that is turned upside down when she meets an unknown young Thai woman on her vacation in Bangkok and subsequently gets raided and drawn into a fight, leaving her the only survivor.
Being back in Berlin Feli has to ques-tion her sanity as the world around her seems to have changed and when she finds a hidden message from the Thai girl on her phone that apparently knew Feli from the very beginning.Her only chance of finding out the truth is Natascha - but what lies behind and ahead of both friends is much bigger than they ever thought.
S Y N O P S I S
M A I N C A S TFelicitas Esther MaaßNatascha Judith HoerschTitus Adrian TopolGai Jan YousagoonDr. Jung Ralph Hönicke“The Homeless” Tony de Maeyer“The Old” Augustin Kramann“The New Tenant” Heike FeistAlexandra Pierce Anne Alexander Sieder“The Father” Werner Georg BiermeierSister Nastassja Voigt Ronja Peters
T H E T E A MDirector Steffen HackerDirector of Photography Benjamin Nolde Till BeckertScreenplay Michael KnollCharacters created by Stefan M. FischerProducer Eric Sonnenburg Daniela CelantExecutive Producer Steffen HackerMotion Picture Soundtrack Oliver WolffSounddesign Hannes OberhauserScore Trailer Alex PfefferEdit Steffen HackerColor Grading Peter HackerColor Grading assistant Gavin HaugheyArt director Etienne SpenglerStuntchoreography Ulrik BruchholzMotion Graphics Credits Robert Hranitzky
Thailand Production Services by A Grand Elephant Co., Ltd
Digital Visual Effects by unexpected GmbH
Director Steffen HackerDirector of Photography Benjamin Nolde Till BeckertScreenplay Michael KnollCharacters created by Stefan M. FischerProducer Eric Sonnenburg Daniela CelantExecutive Producer Steffen HackerMotion Picture Soundtrack Oliver WolffSounddesign Hannes OberhauserScore Trailer Alex PfefferEdit Steffen HackerColor Grading Peter HackerColor Grading assistant Gavin HaugheyArt director Etienne SpenglerStuntchoreography Ulrik BruchholzMotion Graphics Credits Robert Hranitzky
Thailand Production Services by A Grand Elephant Co., Ltd
Digital Visual Effects by unexpected GmbH
THE DIRECTORSteffen Hacker, born 1979, has directed over hundred commercials as part of the German directing duo “Alex & Steffen”.
Originally coming from postproduction (he studied visual effects at the renowned Filmakademie Baden- Württemberg) he teamed up to direct post-heavy commercials with Alexander Kiesl after their short “Racing Beats” won the Young Director´s Award in Cannes in 2005.
Having had an own feature film as the ultimate goal for years, he started to develop this script in 2013 and began shooting in Bangkok the same year. After returning from Thailand, Steffen stopped shooting for almost a year, having realized that the story was not strong enough. As the whole project was and is self-financed there was no real time pressure - just this one chance to “do it right”. INGENIUM underwent two complete script changes, turning the story into the mystery thriller it is today.
The rest of the film was shot in the following three years at easter and took almost two years in post-production - on long nights and weekends. As part of the action and to “rescue” old footage that was shot according to earlier script versions, Steffen and his team from Unexpected Postproduction created 600+ visual effect shots for INGENIUM that “glued” the film together and made the story possible after all.
» “It´s your film. Just do what you would like to watch yourself..!” a good friend and producer told me when I was asking for advice on what audiences might want to see. I always liked dark films. When they feel “real”. When you can see the snow falling, the coldness in everyone´s movement, the dirt under the fingernails and the blood in the faces. And fantastical elements, the more unexpected, the better. I also like regular mainstream movies a lot, but happily embrace every popcorn movie that is less ‘formulaic’ and has a certain “Indie spirit” at heart.
That´s why we did not really care about a three-act-structure when plotting, we improvised big amounts of dialogue and action on the spot as we went, we filmed with minimal crew and a “small fingerprint” to be able to get big and diverse locations, not to bore the audience a single minute of our film´s runtime, visually and emotionally.
We are convinved we just scratched the surface of telling the story from the world of INGENIUM- continuing this plot would make for a fantastic mini-series, there is so much more we could imagine. ;-)
Maybe we can one day - for now we just want to entertain audiences all over the world and hope to give them a bit of brain food and adrenaline.
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E S T H E R M A A ß
J U D I T H H O E R S C H
Esther Maaß loves to portray strong women and -- genre movies!She recently starred in 2018´s Mystery series “The other side” from TLC Germany and is a household name for Genre-lovers:
She landed her first feature film leading role in 2009´s slasher “BREAK” which has a massive fanbase still today - with more than 33 million international views on youtbe.
Shooting for INGENIUM took several years for Esther as she appears in almost every scene of the film - and sometimes even more than once ...!
Judith Hoersch is an actress, writer and singer.
She has numerous German TV appearances since 2001 and her last international roles include “Cure for Wellness”, “Snowflake” and “Das letzte Mahl”. She can be constant-ly seen on German channel ZDF as the titular character of the famous series “Lena Lorenz”.
“ N a t a s c h a ”
“ F e l i c i t a s ”
A D R I A N T O P O L
E R I C S O N N E N B U R GP R O D U C E R
Adrian Topol´s vita includes numerous TV appearances since 2001. He won the “Deutscher Fernsehpreis” for best newcomer in 2003.
Internationally he has been seen in the hit series “Homeland”.
Besides acting he used to be a combat fighter, having won six German titles in several disciplines.
Eric is about to graduate as producer from Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, but has numerous big titles and festival awards under his belt already.
Since two years he can be seen on the international festival circuit as co-producer of the Indie-Hit “Snowflake” frequently and has brought his expertise for “proper big budget producing” as well as for “guerilla filmmaking” to the table while INGENIUM was filmed.
“ T i t u s ”
28th of September 2019: INDIE NUTS, Oberammergau, Germany4th of August 2019: FESTIVAL OF CINEMY NYC, New York City, USA27th of July 2019: AOF MEGAFEST. Las Vegas. USA 18th of June 2019: West Coast premiere at DANCES WITH FILMS, Los Angeles, USA25th and 30th of May 2019: Brazilian premiere at FANTASPOA in Porto Alegre, Brazil3rd of May 2019: GENRENALE in Berlin, Germany5th of April 2019: German premiere at INDEPENDENT DAYS, Karlsruhe, Germany. WINNER “BEST ACTRESS”23rd of March 2019: Florida premiere at MIAMI INTERNATIONAL SCIFIFILM FESTIVAL, USA. WINNER “BEST DIRECTOR” and “BEST ACTRESS”20th of March 2019: UK premiere at CRYSTAL PALACE FILM FESTIVAL, London, UK. WINNER “BEST SCI-FI FILM”15th of February 2019: New England premiere at Boston Sci-Fi Festival, Boston, USA.06th of November 2018: NY premiere at BUFFALO DREAMS FANTASTIC FILM FESTIVAL in Buffalo. WINNER “BEST SCI-FI FILM”1st of November 2018: Greek Premiere at ANATOMY FILM FEST in Athens. WINNER” BEST SCI-FI FILM”, “BEST ACTRESS” and “BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS”22th of October 2018: Austrian Premiere at FRIGHT NIGHTS Horror Film Festival in Linz/Pasching.3rd of September 2018: DEA Open Air Film Festival in Saranda, Albania. WINNER “BEST DIRECTOR”25th of June 2018: French Premiere at PARIS ARTS AND MOVIE AWARDS in Paris. WINNER “BEST FEATURE” & “BEST ACTRESS”14th of June 2018: US Premiere at CAPE FEAR INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVALin Wilmington, NC. WINNER “Director´s Choice Award”27th of May 2018: World premiere at MANIFESTO Film Festival in Amsterdam
F E S T I V A L S
C O N T A C T
Director / Executive Producer
Steffen HackerNißlestrasse 10b70190 Stuttgart [email protected]+49 176 2001528
Producer
Eric [email protected]
