"Sound of Heimat" receives annual German Record Critics' Award

Our Cinema Documentary "Sound of Heimat", written and directed by Arne Birkenstock and Jan Tengeler, received the German Record Critics' Award.

The German Record Critics' Award was established in 1980 to set the "most rigorous standards for supreme achievement and quality" in the field of music recording. The „Annual Awards“ are presented to as many as 15 outstanding productions, and „Certificates of Special Merit“are awarded to three artists and producers for lifetime achievement in recording.

Arne Birkenstock‘s Documentary “Beltracchi – The Art of Forgery” wins German Film Award Lola as best Documentary.

BELTRACCHI - THE ART OF FORGERY by Arne Birkenstock (Prod. Arne Birkenstock, Helmut G. Weber, Thomas Springer – Fruitmarket Kultur und Medien GmbH, Tradewind Pictures GmbH) is the winner of the German Film Award for Best Documentary. The prize, which comes with a €200,000 in funding for a new project, was presented during the gala ceremony at the Tempodrom in Berlin last night. The film tells the story of Wolfgang Beltracchi, who tricked the international art world for nearly forty years with his forgeries of early 20th century masters in the largest art forgery scandal of the postwar era.

 
 

With nearly € 3 million total in prize money, the German Film Prize ‘Lola’ is the highest endowed film prize in Germany. It is presented annually by the German Film Academy.