PRESS KIT

Production Company:SÜDART Filmproduktion GmbHBoris JendreykoIckstattstrasse 2280469 Munich / GermanyPhone. +49-89-139 28 339-2Mobil. +49-178-713 39 89kontakt@suedart-fi lm.com

World Sales:Cinepool – A Division of TelepoolIrina IgnatiewSonnenstrasse 21 80331 Munich / GermanyPhone. +49-89-55-876-128Fax. +49-89-55-876-19128cinepool@telepool.dewww.telepool.de

German Distributor:STUDIOCANAL GmbHGerman Release date: End 2011 (planned)

Technical Information:Length: 95 min Format: 35mm / 1:2.35 / colorLocation: Alicante (Spain), Gran CanariaShooting date: June 7 – July 20, 2010

A fi lm by Maggie Peren

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CONTENTS

Cast & Crew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Synopsis & Press Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Directors Statement – Maggie Peren . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

About the cast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Alex Gonzalez as JOSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Sabine Timoteo as NATHALIE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Hubert Koundé as ZOLA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Friedrich Mücke as PAUL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Nathalie Poza as CARLA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Alba Alonso as MARIELLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

About the crew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Maggie Peren – DIRECTOR & SCREENPLAY . . . . . . . . . . 12 Südart Filmproduktion – PRODUCTION COMPANY . . . . 13 Boris Jendreyko – PRODUCER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Thomas Klimmer – PRODUCER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Armin Franzen – DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY . . . . . . 16 Julian R. Wagner – PRODUCTION DESIGN . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Simon Blasi – FILM EDITOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Contact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

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CAST

JOSE Alex Gonzalez NATHALIE Sabine Timoteo ZOLA Hubert Koundé PAUL Friedrich Mücke CARLA Nathalie Poza MAMADOU Dami Adeeri MARIELLE Alba Alonso MONAMA Esosa Omo VIDA Ndeye Maguatte MANU Primo Jose SAID Ansoumane Bangoura FELE Natalia Mateo JUAN Mikel Martin GEROME Miguel Such SOFIA Raquel Arigita RAUL David Polaina

CREW DIRECTOR Maggie Peren SCREENPLAY Maggie Peren PRODUCTION COMPANY SÜDART Filmproduktion GmbH IN CO-PRODUCTION WITH Starhaus Filmproduktion GmbH, El Olivo Producciones Audiovisuales S.L. noirfi lm Filmproduktion GmbH & Co.KG, BR, arte, SWR PRODUCERS Boris Jendreyko, Thomas Klimmer CO-PRODUCERS Rainer Kölmel, Wasiliki Bleser, Gregorio Sacristan, Peter Welter Soler, Alfonso Garcia, Boris Michalski GERMAN DISTRIBUTOR STUDIOCANAL GmbH WORLD SALES Cinepool – A Division of Telepool WITH BACKING FROM FilmFernsehFonds (FFF) Bayern, Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), Medien- und Filmgesellschaft (MfG) Baden-Württemberg, Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF) DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Armin Franzen PRODUCTION DESIGN Julian Wagner COSTUME DESIGN Manuel Bonillo, Ruth Sempere MAKE-UP ARTIST Mike Reinecke FILM EDITOR Simon Blasi CASTING An Dorthe Braker, Barbie Heusinger, Rafael Palomino MUSIC / COMPOSER Carolin Heiß, Marc-Sidney Müller

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SYNOPSIS

Canary Island cop José (Alex Gonzalez) has become callous and cynical. As border patrolman, he has to decide the fate of hundreds of African boat people that wash ashore on the Spanish island paradise. When German tourist Nathalie (Sabine Timoteo) witnesses the arrival of a boatload of refugees and starts helping out on the spot, the lives of José, Nathalie and Congolese Zola (Huber Koundé), one of the few survivors with his son Mamadou (Dami Adeeri), become fatefully intertwined. Over the objections of her husband Paul (Friedrich Mücke), Nathalie helps Zola try to escape from internment camp. But instead of freedom, he fi nds himself at the hands of criminal smugglers. When José blames himself for the death of his drug-addicted sister Marielle (Alba Alonso) on New Year’s Eve, and Nathalie gets ever more deeply involved in Zola’s fate, José is forced to rethink his attitude. It’s up to him to decide. But to free someone, you may have to free yourself fi rst.

COLOR OF THE OCEAN is a gripping and moving story about humanity and responsibility with the essential focus on the human dilemma of when to get involved or not.

PRESS NOTE

COLOR OF THE OCEAN (Die Farbe des Ozeans) highlights the politically charged humanitarian problem of African refugees arriving on the shores of Europe. Seen from different human and personal perspectives, the fi lm refrains from passing moral judgement. Directed and written by Maggie Peren (“Special Escorts – Stellungswechsel”), the main roles include Alex Gonzalez (“Luz de Domingo“), Sabine Timoteo (“The Free Will – Der Freie Wille“), Friedrich Mücke (“Mahler on the Couch – Mahler auf der Couch“, “Friendship!“) and Hubert Koundé (“The Constant Gardener“).The up & coming producers Boris Jendreyko and Thomas Klimmer from Munich chose an international and highly topical theme for their theatrical producing debut. The fi lm was shot on location in Spain and Gran Canaria with an international team and their Südart Filmproduktion.

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DIRECTORS STATEMENT

Maggie Peren DIRECTOR & SCREENPLAY

Being born German means knowing guilt.

Which makes it all the more disturbing that we have no problem speaking about our guilt in regard to the Holocaust and two World Wars, but seem all the more willing to don blinders and play deaf to current crises, claiming a neutrality one of the world’s largest economies can never have.

In 2006, I saw a report on subsidized fruits and vegetables from Europe being exported to Africa and destroying local markets. Senegalese farmers can’t compete with the artifi cially low prices. Many who lose their homesteads try to cross the sea to Europe in search of work and a better life. Often they wind up working on the very plantations that destroyed their livelihood at home.

I was surprised because I had always assumed that refugees came from war-torn countries and failed states. That people from a country like Senegal, which has been at peace for decades, would risk their lives on a nutshell at sea because they had no future at home, was a shock to me.

The more I looked into it, the more I realized how perverse the situation was: While Europe is to blame for the refugees’ poverty, we refuse them asylum for the very reason they are “merely” economic refugees, not political.

To hide their origins, the refugees are forced to board the boats without any papers that would identify them and where they are from. If the ships sink, they die without a name. I wanted to show the faces of these nameless refugees, quickly realizing it was not my place, as a German, to point fi ngers at other nations. While Germany is hardly affected by the infl ux, Spain and Italy have to bear the brunt of the onslaught. The story thus turned more and more into a parable. We see people clashing, not abstract arguments.

While trying to raise the fi nancing, I was always asked, What’s it got to do with us? I would talk about the tomatoes we export to Africa and the illegal immigrants who come here to pick them. About how we catch all the fi sh in the seas and the Africans then come here on the same fi shing trawlers. How the EU invests millions of Euros to protect our borders, but not a cent on addressing the causes. People would always say, “Well, that’s globalization, there’s nothing you can do about it.”But “globalization” isn’t a person, it’s an economic development that is personifi ed so that real people can hide behind it. Germany is the economic powerhouse of Europe, but we insist on closing our eyes to what’s happening on our doorstep.

Film is a medium that unites us. We all get together in a darkened room, while light is projected through an image smaller than a pack of cigarettes. On the screen, it becomes larger than life. Film is a magnifying glass. I wanted to highlight a topic we have shut our eyes to. But it’s there, and it’s not going away. People drown off the coasts of Europe every day. Just this summer, over 1500 Africans have lost their lives this way.

Maggie Peren, 2011

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ABOUT THE CAST

Alex Gonzalez JOSE

Alex Gonzalez, born August 13, 1980 in Madrid, started acting at the Juan Carlos Corazza school at the age of 19. His fi rst main cinema role was “Segundo asalto” (2005) for which he was nominated for the Goya and Newcomer Award and, in the end, received the Turia Award. More roles followed in “Rosa de Francia” (2006) and the fi lm “Luz de Domingo” by Jose Luis Garci.

Filmography (selection):

2011 X-MEN: FIRST CLASS Director: Matthew Vaughn

COLOR OF THE OCEAN (Die Farbe des Ozeans) Director: Maggie Peren

2008 EL LIBRO DE LAS AGUAS Director: Antonio Gimenez Rico

2007 LUZ DE DOMINGO Director: Jose Luis Garci

2006 ROSA DE FRANCIA Director: Manuel Gutierrez Aragon

2005 SEGUNDO ASALTO Director: Daniel Cebrian

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Sabine Timoteo NATHALIE

Sabine Timoteo, born 1975 in Bern, grew up in the USA and Lausanne. Trained as a dancer and cook, she speaks fi ve languages and is the mother of two children. The director Philip Gröning met her during an acting workshop in Munich and signed her for the main female part in his fi lm “L’amour” (2002). For her performance she was awarded the Bronze Leopard in Locarno and the Swiss Film Award. During the following years Sabine Timoteo appeared in different fi lm productions all over Europe. She received the Grimme Award for her part in the drama “Die Freunde der Freunde” (2002) by Dominik Graf.

Filmography (selection):

2011 FORMENTERA Director: Ann-Kristin Reyels

COLOR OF THE OCEAN (Die Farbe des Ozeans) Director: Maggie Peren

2009 180° (180 Grad – Wenn deine Welt Kopf steht) Director: Cihan Inan

LITTLE PARADISE (Sommervögel) Director: Paul Rienicker

2007 KILL DADDY GOOD NIGHT (Das Vaterspiel) Director: Michael Glawogger

2004 DIE VOGELPREDIGT Director: Clemence Klopfenstein

2004 GHOSTS (Gespenster) Director: Christian Petzold

THE FREE WILL (Der Freie Wille) Director: Matthias Glasner

A FRIEND OF MINE (Ein Freund von Mir) Director: Sebastian Schipper

2001 FREUNDE DER FREUNDE Director: Dominik Graf

2000 THE DAYS BETWEEN (In den Tag hinein) Director: Maria Speth

1996 LOVE MONEY LOVE (L’amour) Director: Philip Gröning

Awards (selection):

2007 German Film Award EIN FREUND VON MIR Nominated “Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role” (Film Award in Gold)

2003 Adolf Grimme Award (Germany) FREUNDE DER FREUNDE (TV)

2001 Swiss Film Prize L’AMOUR Won “Best Actress”

2000 Locarno International Film Festival L’AMOUR Won „Best Actress“ (Bronzen Leopard)

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Hubert Koundé ZOLA

As a leading actor, Hubert Koundé became known with two theatrical fi lms by Mathieu Kassovitz “Café au Lait” (1992, Métisse) and “Hate” (1995, La Haine). He also made a name for himself as a theatre actor working with director Peter Brook (Le Costume) and as a TV series actor in “Plus belle la vie” (2006). His international breakthrough came with the award-winning drama “The Constant Gardener” (2005), in which he played Dr. Arnold Blum next to Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz. In 1996, he was nominated for a César as Best Male Young Talent for “Hate”. A Black Movie Award nomination in the category Best Supporting Role for his part in “The Constant Gardener“ followed in 2006.

2011 COLOR OF THE OCEAN (Die Farbe des Ozeans) Director: Maggie Peren 2010 1788 1/2 Director: Olivier Guignard

2008 OPERATION CASABLANCA Director: Laurent Negre

2004 SOMETIMES IN APRIL Director: Raoul Peck THE CONSTANT GARDENER Director: Fernando Meirelles

1999 LE PRIX DU PARDON Director: Mansour Sora Wade COMMENT J‘AI TUE MON PERE Director: Anne Fontaine DE MIEUX EN MIEUX Director: Claude Mourieras

SIMON LE MAGE Director: Ildiko Enyedi

1997 LA DIVINE POURSUITE Director: Michel Deville RESTONS GROUPES Director: Jean-Paul Salome

1996 LES ENFANTS DE KAROO Director: Laurent Ferrier

1995 LA SICILIA Rehie: Luc Pien

SARAKA BÔ Director: Denis Amar

1994 LA HAINE Director: Mathieu Kassovitz

1992 METISSE Director: Mathieu Kassovitz

1991 DIEN BIEN PHU Director: Pierre Schoendoerffer

Awards:

2006 Black Movie Award THE CONSTANT GARDENER Nominated “Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role” 1996 César Award (France) LE HAINE Nominated “Most Promising Actor”

Filmography (selection):

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Friedrich Mücke PAUL

Friedrich Mücke completed his acting studies at Ernst Busch drama school in Berlin from 2003 to 2007. He then joined the Volkstheater ensemble in Munich. The movie “Friendship!” (2010) introduced him to a wider audience with his lead role alongside Matthias Schweighöfer, for which he received the Bavarian Film Award 2010 as the Best Performance by a Young Actor. In Percy Adlon’s “Mahler auf der Couch” (2010) Friedrich Mücke played the part of the young architect Walter Gropius, who has an affair with Alma Mahler, played by Barbara Romaner.

Filmography (selection):

2011 RUSSIAN DISCO (Russendisko) Director: Oliver Ziegenbalg COLOR OF THE OCEAN (Die Farbe des Ozeans) Director: Maggie Peren

WHAT A MAN Director: Matthias Schweighöfer 2010 MAHLER ON THE COUCH (Mahler auf der Couch) Director: Percy und Felix Adlon

FRIENDSHIP! Director: Markus Goller

TATORT – Heimatfront (TV) Director: Jochen Alexander Freydank 2009 WRITE ME – POSTCARDS TO COPACABANA (Postkarten nach Copacabana) Director: Thomas Kronthaler

2009 ALLE TAGE MEINES LEBENS, (Shortfi lm) Director: Lena Stahl

2007 DIE EISBOMBE (TV) Director: Oliver Jahn Awards (selection):

2010 Bambi Awards FRIENDSHIP! Nominated “Best Actor National”

Bavarian Film Award FRIENDSHIP! Winner „Best Performance by a Young Actor“ (Pierrot) „New Talent Actor“

Nathalie Poza CARLA

Nathalie Poza, born March 7, 1972 in Madrid, received early attention as a member of the well-known Spanish theatre group Animalario. By the mid ’90s, her brilliant work included a number of TV fi lms. Two Goya nominations for the fi lms “Dias de fútbol” (2003) and “Malas Temporadas” (2005) brought acclaim for her performance.

Filmography (selection):

2011 COLOR OF THE OCEAN (Die Farbe des Ozeans) Director: Maggie Peren

2010 TODAS LAS MUJERES Director: Mariano Barroso

LA PRINCESA DE EBOLI Director: Belén Macias

2009 A GOOD MAN Director: Juan Martinez Moreno

2008 Lex Director: various

2007 BLINKERS Director: Alvaro Fernandez Armero DIAS DE CINE Director: David Serrano

2005 MALAS TEMPORADAS Director: Manuel Martin Cuenca

2003 DIAS DE FÚTBOL (SOCCER DAYS) Director: David Serrano

Alba Alonso MARIELLE

Alba Alonso was born on July 2, 1980 in Madrid. Her mother, the Spanish actress Pilar Bayona, has achieved national fame with the Pili and Mili fi lm adaptations. After a number of TV roles, Alba Alonso made her cinematic breakthrough as part of the ensemble for the famed movie “13 Roses “ (Las 13 Rosas).

Filmography (selection):

2011 COLOR OF THE OCEAN (Die Farbe des Ozeans) Director: Maggie Peren

2009 CON PELOS EN LA LENGUA Director: Felipe Jiménez Luna

2007 LAS 13 ROSAS (13 ROSES) Director: Emilio Martinez Lazaro

NO DIGAS NADA Director: Felipe Jiménez Luna

2006 LA MALQUERIDA Director: Belen Molinero

LOS MANAGERS Director: Fernando Guillén Cuervo

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ABOUT THE CREW

Maggie Peren DIRECTOR & SCREENPLAY

Maggie Peren, born May 7, 1974 in Heidelberg, wrote her fi rst script “Forget America” (Vergiss America) in 1997 during her studies of literature at University of Munich. “Forget America” was fi lmed in 1999 with Vanessa Joop as director and received honors such as the First Steps Award in 2000 and the Bavarian Film Award in 2001. After “Forget America”, she worked on the script “Phantom” with director Dennis Gansel, which was produced for German TV in 1999 and won several Grimme Awards. One year later, in 2001, she developed the script to the theatrical hit “Girls on Top” (Mädchen, Mädchen), co-written with Christian Zübert and directed by Dennis Gansel. Four more scripts followed, among them the theatrical fi lm “Altogether” (Ganz und Gar) and the TV production “Kiss and Run”, for which Maggie Peren received the Screenplay Award of the MFG Film Fund Baden-Württemberg and a silver Grimme Award for screenplay and acting. The script for “Napola” (co-authored by Dennis Gansel) was awarded with a German Film Award as best yet-to-be fi lmed screenplay before shooting in autumn/winter 2003/2004. In 2003, Maggie Peren wrote the script for “My Parents” (Meine Eltern), which received more than 30 awards at short fi lm and student fi lm festivals, among them the ChannelFour Audience Award in London. “Hypochondriac” (Hypochonder) was Maggie Peren’s debut as a director. She was awarded the Blind Spot Director Award at the Hamburg Film Festival. She began writing “Special Escorts” (Stellungswechsel) with co-writer Christian Bayer in summer 2004. The fi lm was completed in 2007 and distributed by 20th Century Fox. Two years later, she wrote “Hands Off Mississippi” (Hände weg von Missisippi) with co-writer Stefan Schaller, which became a hit children’s fi lm, based on a novel by popular German author Cornelia Funke and directed by Detlev Buck. The movie received Bavarian and German Film Awards for Best Children’s Film. The short fi lm “To Each His Own” (Jedem das Seine), again co-written with Stefan Schaller, was screened as part of the German Perspective Cinema at the Berlin Film Festival in 2008. COLOR OF THE OCEAN (Die Farbe des Ozeans) is the second fi lm directed by Maggie Peren and won the Bernhard Wicki Award at the 2011 Munich Film Festival.

Filmography (selection):

2011 COLOR OF THE OCEAN (Die Farbe des Ozeans) Director & Screenplay: Maggie Peren (95 min / Feature)

2007 SPECIAL ESCORT (Stellungswechsel) Director: Maggie Peren (97 min / Feature)

2005 HYPOCHONDRIAC Director & Screenplay: Maggie Peren (20 min / Short)

Screenplay (selection):

2008 TO EACH HIS OWN (Jedem das Seine) Director: Stefan Schaller (45 min / Feature)

2006 HANDS OFF MISSISSIPPI (Hände weg von Mississippi) Director: Detlev Buck (98 min / Feature)

2004 BEFORE THE FALL (Napola – Elite für den Führer) Director: Dennis Gansel (117 min / Feature)

Awards (selection):

COLOR OF THE OCEAN- Bernhard Wicki New Talent Award

HYPOCHONDRIAC- Blind Spot, Hamburg Short Film Festival (Best Director)

HANDS OFF MISSISSIPPI- German Film Award 2008 (Best Young People’s Film)- Bavarian Film Award (Best Young People’s Film)

BEFORE THE FALL- German Film Award 2003 (Best Screenplay)- Viareggio European Filmfestival (Best Movie)

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SÜDART Filmproduktion Production

Südart Filmproduktion GmbH, located in Munich, was founded by Boris Jendreyko and Thomas Klimmer in May 2008. Their main focus is to develop and realise feature fi lms and TV movies for the national and international market. After six years of co-operation with their start-up company Klimmer, Jendreyko & Scherz Filmproduktion GbR during their studies at Munich Film School HFF, followed the foundation of Südart Filmproduktion GmbH. During their studies at HFF Munich and their work as producers and production managers on feature fi lms like “Fair Trade”, “Hypochondriac”, “Special Escorts” or “Krabat”, they built a close network of artists and craftspeople, so that they are well-positioned to develop and produce fi lms with newcomers and fresh talents.

COLOR OF OCEAN is their feature producing debut. The German-Spanish coproduction won the Bernhard Wicki New Talent Award at the Munich Film Fest 2011. German theatrical release is planned for autumn 2011.

Thomas Klimmer and Boris Jendreyko

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BORIS JENDREYKO Producer

Since 1998, Boris Jendreyko has been involved in more than 30 short and feature fi lms and gained a wealth of experience in many areas of fi lm-making. Recently he worked as a production manager for Kinowelt Filmproduktion and Claussen+Wöbke+Putz. In August 2004, he co-founded the production company Klimmer, Jendreyko & Scherz. Two years later, he completed his studies in Production and Media at Munich Film School HFF. In 2008, he founded Südart Filmproduktion together with Thomas Klimmer.

Filmography (selection):

2011 COLOR OF THE OCEAN (Die Farbe des Ozeans) Südart Filmproduktion Director: Maggie Peren 2008 Founding of Südart Filmproduktion GmbH

2007 KRABAT Claussen+Wöbke+Putz Filmproduktion Unit Production Manager (Summer block) Director: Marco Kreuzpaintner 2006 / 2007 SPECIAL ESCORT (Stellungswechsel) Claussen+Wöbke+Putz Filmproduktion Unit Production Manager Director: Maggie Peren 2002 – 2006 Degree in Production and Media at HFF Munich

FAIR TRADE (Short fi lm) Michael Dreher Filmproduktion, HFF Munich Producer Director: Michael Dreher HYPOCHONDRIAC (Short fi lm) Claussen+Wöbke Filmproduktion GmbH Executive Producer Director: Maggie Peren YASSIDS BROTHERS (Documentary) HFF Munich Unit Production Manager Director: David Vogel

2003 AFRICAN DREAMS Odeon Pictures in cooperation with Utopia Film Production Assistant Sudan Producers: Reinhard Klooss and Ray Müller Director: Ray Müller

Awards (selection):

COLOR OF THE OCEAN- Bernhard Wicki New Talent Award, Maggie Peren (Director)

HYPOCHONDRIAC - Hof International Film Festival 2005- Blind Spot, Hamburg Short Film Festival (Best Director)

YAZIDS BROTHERS- DOK.FEST 2006: FilmFernsehFonds Bayern Advancement Award

FAIR TRADE (Selection)- German Short Film Prize in Gold 2006- Babelsberger Media Award 2006: Best German New Talent Award- First Steps Award 2006: Best Short Film- Student Academy Awards 2007: Finalist- AFI Fest 2006: Audience Award Best Short Film- Max-Ophüls-Award Saarbrücken 2007: Best Short Film- Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Award 2007- International Film School Festival 2006: Best Screenplay and Best German Film- International Milano Film Festival 2007: Best Short Film- Aspen Shortsfest 2007: Best Drama and Youth Jury Prize- European Short Film Biennale Ludwigsburg 2007: 1. German Advancement Short Film Award- Melbourne International Film Festival 2007: Best Fiction Short Film- Hamptons International Film Festival 2007: Audience Award, Best Short Film- NYC Short Film Festival 2007: Best Foreign Film

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THOMAS KLIMMER Producer

After high school, Thomas Klimmer trained as an insurance salesman. Since 2001, he has held different jobs on short fi lms, TV productions and feature fi lms. Recently, he worked for Kinowelt Filmproduktion and Claussen+Wöbke+Putz. In August 2004, he co-founded the production company Klimmer, Jendreyko & Scherz. He received a scholarship from Film Producers’ Rights Society VFF in 2005. In December 2006, he graduated in Production and Media at HFF Munich. In 2008, he founded Südart Filmproduktion together with Boris Jendreyko.

Filmography (selection):

2011 COLOR OF THE OCEAN (Die Farbe des Ozeans) Südart Filmproduktion Director: Maggie Peren 2008 Founding of Südart Filmproduktion GmbH

2007 KRABAT Claussen+Wöbke+Putz Filmproduktion Unit Production Manager (Summer block) Director: Marco Kreuzpaintner 2006 / 2007 SPECIAL ESCORT (Stellungswechsel) Claussen+Wöbke+Putz Filmproduktion Unit Production Manager Director: Maggie Peren 2002 – 2006 Degree in Production and Media at HFF Munich

FAIR TRADE (Short fi lm) Michael Dreher Filmproduktion, HFF Munich Producer Director: Michael Dreher HYPOCHONDRIAC (Short fi lm) Claussen+Wöbke Filmproduktion GmbH Executive Producer Director: Maggie Peren YASSIDS BROTHERS (Documentary) HFF Munich Unit Production Manager Director: David Vogel

Awards (selection):

COLOR OF THE OCEAN- Bernhard Wicki New Talent Award, Maggie Peren (Director)

HYPOCHONDRIAC - Hof International Film Festival 2005- Blind Spot, Hamburg Short Film Festival (Best Director)

YAZIDS BROTHERS- DOK.FEST 2006: FilmFernsehFonds Bayern Advancement Award

FAIR TRADE (Selection)- German Short Film Prize in Gold 2006- Babelsberger Media Award 2006: Best German New Talent Award- First Steps Award 2006: Best Short Film- Student Academy Awards 2007: Finalist- AFI Fest 2006: Audience Award Best Short Film- Max-Ophüls-Award Saarbrücken 2007: Best Short Film- Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Award 2007- International Film School Festival 2006: Best Screenplay and Best German Film- International Milano Film Festival 2007: Best Short Film- Aspen Shortsfest 2007: Best Drama and Youth Jury Prize- European Short Film Biennale Ludwigsburg 2007: 1. German Advancement Short Film Award- Melbourne International Film Festival 2007: Best Fiction Short Film- Hamptons International Film Festival 2007: Audience Award, Best Short Film- NYC Short Film Festival 2007: Best Foreign Film

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ARMIN FRANZEN Director of Photography

Armin Franzen was born September 1, 1976 in Treves, Germany. After fi nishing his training as a digital media designer for video and sound in Cologne, he worked for various commercial, cinema and TV productions as a lighting technician and camera assistant. In 2001, he began his studies in cinematography at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg and received the scholarship of the state of Baden-Württemberg in 2003. In 2004, he spent one year at the Polish National Film School in Lodz, and returned to the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg to complete his studies in December 2004. He was nominated for the German Camera Award for his work on the short fi lm “Built To Dream” in 2006. In 2007, another nomination for the German Camera Award and for the Sponsorship Award for Short Films followed for his work on “Amin”, which was also nominated for the European Film Award in 2007. In March 2008, he graduated from the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg. In May 2008, he received the Kodak Camera Award for “Kronos” and “extraordinary work in image and picture design during his studies”. Armin Franzen also received the German Camera Award in 2009 for “Kronos” in the category theatrical fi lm.

Filmography (selection):

2011 COLOR OF THE OCEAN (Die Farbe des Ozeans) Director: Maggie Peren

2009 FLOWERS OF EVIL Director: David Dusa

2007 KRONOS Director: Olav F. Wehling

2006 ARMEE DER STILLE - „LA ISLA BONITA“ Director: Roland Lang AMIN Director: David Dusa

2005 BUILT TO DREAM Director + Camera

FUTSCHICATO Director: Olav F. Wehling

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JULIAN R. WAGNER Production Design

Julian Wagner was born in 1980 in Darmstadt. After completing a German-French high school degree in Saarbrücken, he worked as a freelance photography assistant in Munich and completed a number of fi lm and photography internships. From 2001 until 2005, he studied design at the Libera Universitá di Bolzano, Italy. Since then he has been working as a freelance designer and assistant director. He studied production design at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg from October 2007 until January 2010. In the summer of 2009 he was awarded a scholarship from the Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg and completed the Masterclass Workshop at UCLA in Los Angeles. Julian Wagner lives and works as a production designer in Berlin and Munich.

SIMON BLASI Film Editor

Simon Blasi was born in 1977 in Erlangen. After successfully graduating in Film Editing at Cologne Film School IFS, Simon Blasi enrolled for “Editing/Montage” at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in 2003, graduating in 2008. He went on to edit several award-winning fi lms, such as Stefan Schaller’s “Böse Bilder”, which won the Max Ophüls Award.

The fi lm “Nevermore” (Nimmermeer) received the Academy Award for Student Fims from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2006. In 2010 the fi lm “Shahada” premiered as offi cial competition entry at the Berlin Film Festival.

Filmography (selection):

2011 COLOR OF THE OCEAN (Die Farbe des Ozeans) Director: Maggie Peren

2009 MARSGESICHTER (TV) Director: Christian Mielmann WOLF UNTER SCHAFEN (Short fi lm) Director: Alex Eslam

2008 DIE WAISENMÄDCHEN (Short fi lm) Director: Sven Fox

MY GRANDFATHER (Short fi lm) Director: Nikias Chryssos

2006 BORYS (Short fi lm) Director: Stevo Arendt

Filmography (selection):

2011 COLOR OF THE OCEAN (Die Farbe des Ozeans) Director: Maggie Peren

VON KINDERN Director: Niko Apel SHAHADA Director: Burhan Qurbani

2009 FRÜHLINGS ERWACHEN Director: Nuran David Calis

2008 TO EACH HIS OWN (Jedem das Seine) Director: Stefan Schaller

2007 AUS DEM TRITT (Short fi lm) Director: Pia Strietmann

BÖSE BILDER (Short fi lm) Director: Stefan Schaller

2006 NEVERMORE (Nimmermeer) Director: Toke Constantin Hebbeln

CONTACT

Production Company:

SÜDART Filmproduktion GmbHBoris JendreykoIckstattstrasse 2280469 Munich / Germanyphone. +49-89 139 28 339-2Mobil. +49-178-713 39 89email. kontakt@suedart-fi lm.com

World Sales:

Cinepool – A Division of TelepoolIrina IgnatiewSonnenstrasse 21 80331 Munich / GermanyPhone. +49-89-55-876-128Fax. +49-89-55-876-19128cinepool@telepool.de

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