The film Elite by Piet Baumgartner (music by Pierre Funck) has been awarded the prize “best short fiction film”  by the jury of the 16th Landshut short film festival.

For the 18th edition of “Pink Apple”, director Piet Baumgartner made a cheeky trailer about the festival’s coming of age.

Camera and color correction: Stefan Dux
Production design: Annina Geeser, Andrea Schmidli
Music: Pierre Funck
Saxophone: Jonas Labhart
Mixing: Jacques Kieffer

Two films with music by Pierre Funck will be screened at the Solothurn Film Festival (22–29 January 2015):

• Freefalling – A Love Story by Mirjam von Arx (music by Adrian Frutiger and Pierre Funck) – screening times: Sunday 25 January, 11:30 a.m., Konzertsaal, and Wednesday 28 January, 9:30 a.m., cinema Palace
• Half of the World by Jérôme Furrer – screening times: Friday 23 January, 2:30 p.m., cinema Capitol, and Sunday 25 January, 12:00 noon, cinema Capitol

Details here, tickets here

The film Alfonso by Jan-Eric Mack (music by Pierre Funck) is on the first place in the category short film for the award “Succès Zürich” by Zürcher Filmstiftung. The prize was awarded during the ceremony “Cadrage 2014” in Zurich on 25 November 2014 – details here.

The film will be broadcast on Sunday 7 December at 0:20 a.m. on Swiss television SRF2.

Love, Loss and Other Lessons Learned, a promotional film for the University of St. Gallen (produced by instantview and Zense, with music by Pierre Funck) has been awarded a “Golden Dolphin” in the category “corporate image filmes” at the 5th Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards. The award was presented in Cannes on 2 October.  The Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards is one of the most important corporate film festivals in Europe.

A making-of film can be found here.

The 83-minute documentary Freefalling – A Love Story by Mirjam von Arx (music by Adrian Frutiger and Pierre Funck) will be screened twice at Zurich Film Festival:

• Friday 26 September, 6:00 p.m., Arthouse Le Paris (world premiere)
• Wednesday 1 October, 4:30 p.m., Corso 2

Details and tickets

The film Elite by Piet Baumgartner (music by Pierre Funck) has been screened or will be screened at the following festivals:

• Ariano International Film Festival, Ariano, Italy (31 July – 3 August)
• Kolkata Shorts International Film Festival, Calcutta (9 August)
• Portobello Film Festival, London (28 August – 14 September)
• Kinofest, Bucharest (26–28 September)
• AeroeShortFilm, Ærøskøbing, Denmark  (15 October)
• Hof International Film Festival, Hof, Germany  (21–26 October)

The film From Earth and Ink by Jonathan Laskar (music by Pierre Funck) will be screened at the following festivals:

• Animatou, Geneva (3–11 October)
• Sedicicorto International Film Festival, Forlì, Italy (3–11 October)
• anim’est, Bucharest (3–12 October)
• Tofuzi Festival of Animated Films, Batumi, Georgia (6–11 October)

• Be There! Corfu Animation Festival, Corfu, Greece (16–19 October)