Online-Special 8 – Filmförderung in der Oberpfalz

Unbelievable, but true: Upper Palatinate can do a lot – even film! But where can filmmakers from this region find funding opportunities? Matthias Wagner from the Upper Palatinate region talks to Cindy Michel (Oberpfalz Marketing e.V.) about various funding opportunities. Surely there is also the one or other secret tip.

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Matthias (Säm) Wagner
loves music and film. Besides his passion for pop music from the Upper Palatinate and the whole world, he is a permanent guest in cinemas – and has been since he could walk. At the same time, he has developed a penchant for the weird and sometimes even the offbeat. As a cameraman, Säm Wagner has already shot several music clips and short films that, for some inexplicable reason, never made it into film history. As a popular music representative of the district of Upper Palatinate, he takes care of funding opportunities for filmmakers and festival organizers.

Cindy Michl
As a child of the 80s, the then Army Brat consumed pretty much everything that was on the screen between the good ol’ Oberpfalz and New York. TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES, BACK TO THE FUTURE, THE THREE LORDS and THE GOONIES set the course for her professional life: After a Volo, the scholarship holder went to Berlin to study Film & Theater Studies. Everything was great, but somehow she preferred to spend time in editorial offices and on film locations rather than in the library. Before 1e9, LEAD and W&V, the writer and media consultant wrote for WIRED Germany, among others. Cinema, pop and nerd culture are her favorite topics. Currently, the project manager at Oberpfalz Marketing shows via film and text how crazy great life in the Upper Palatinate can actually be. Quote: “The future is a state of mind.