“System Crasher,” Nora Fingscheidt’s social drama about a troubled young girl, swept the 70th German Film Awards on Friday, winning a total of eight Lolas, including best film, director, actress and actor.
Forced to revamp this year’s ceremony due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the German Film Academy did away with its traditional gala event and instead produced a stripped-down show tailor-made for television that proved uniquely spontaneous, innovative and entertaining.
Hosted by actor Edin Hasanovic (“Skylines”), the show, broadcast live from Berlin and airing on Ard’s Das Erste, featured guest entertainers, actors and presenters in the studio as well as filmmakers, award winners and musicians taking part via video feed from their homes, including a musical performance by Gregory Porter from Los Angeles.
In addition to best film and director awards, “System Crasher” won Fingscheidt the screenplay Lola, best actress for Helena Zengel, supporting actress for...
Forced to revamp this year’s ceremony due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the German Film Academy did away with its traditional gala event and instead produced a stripped-down show tailor-made for television that proved uniquely spontaneous, innovative and entertaining.
Hosted by actor Edin Hasanovic (“Skylines”), the show, broadcast live from Berlin and airing on Ard’s Das Erste, featured guest entertainers, actors and presenters in the studio as well as filmmakers, award winners and musicians taking part via video feed from their homes, including a musical performance by Gregory Porter from Los Angeles.
In addition to best film and director awards, “System Crasher” won Fingscheidt the screenplay Lola, best actress for Helena Zengel, supporting actress for...
- 4/25/2020
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Horn has died aged 66.
Tributes have been paid to award-winning New York-born, Berlin-based filmmaker and journalist Andrew Horn, who died from complications relating to chemotherapy treatment for cancer last month aged 66.
Horn won the 2004 Teddy Award at the Berlinale for The Nomi Song, his feature documentary about avant garde New Wave singer and performance artist, Klaus Nomi. He was also the writer and producer of Dana Ranga’s East Side Story, a 1997 documentary about musicals made in the Soviet bloc.
More recently, Horn premiered his Twisted Sister documentary, We Are Twisted Fucking Sister (2014) at International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (Idfa). The...
Tributes have been paid to award-winning New York-born, Berlin-based filmmaker and journalist Andrew Horn, who died from complications relating to chemotherapy treatment for cancer last month aged 66.
Horn won the 2004 Teddy Award at the Berlinale for The Nomi Song, his feature documentary about avant garde New Wave singer and performance artist, Klaus Nomi. He was also the writer and producer of Dana Ranga’s East Side Story, a 1997 documentary about musicals made in the Soviet bloc.
More recently, Horn premiered his Twisted Sister documentary, We Are Twisted Fucking Sister (2014) at International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (Idfa). The...
- 9/12/2019
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Andrew Horn, the music documentary filmmaker for We Are Twisted F**king Sister, the story of the world’s greatest bar band and its struggle to reach the big time, has died. He was 66 years old and passed from cancer in Berlin, according to friend Rebecca Lieb.
Horn wrote, directed and produced the 2014 documentary about Twisted Sister, a band that dominated the New York/New Jersey metropolitan clubs, but couldn’t get signed by a major record label. Its unique combination of hard rock and visual spectacle finally broke through in the heavy metal era of the 1980s, the band releasing the multi-platinum Stay Hungry on Atlantic Records. The album was fueled by its MTV video for the anthemic song, We’re Not Gonna Take It..
Horn was born in New York in Sept.1952 and graduated from the New York University School of the Arts. He made the 2004 film The Nomi Song,...
Horn wrote, directed and produced the 2014 documentary about Twisted Sister, a band that dominated the New York/New Jersey metropolitan clubs, but couldn’t get signed by a major record label. Its unique combination of hard rock and visual spectacle finally broke through in the heavy metal era of the 1980s, the band releasing the multi-platinum Stay Hungry on Atlantic Records. The album was fueled by its MTV video for the anthemic song, We’re Not Gonna Take It..
Horn was born in New York in Sept.1952 and graduated from the New York University School of the Arts. He made the 2004 film The Nomi Song,...
- 8/31/2019
- by Bruce Haring and Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Andrew Horn, a filmmaker and writer for publications including Variety, died of cancer Aug. 24 in Berlin. He was 66.
Horn directed the 2004 documentary “The Nomi Song,” about the avant-garde German musician Klaus Nomi, who died from AIDS in 1983. In 2014, he released the documentary “We Are Twisted F–king Sister!” about the popular heavy metal band of the 1970s and ’80s. At the time of his death, he was working on a film about Robert Wilson and his experimental performance company Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds.
Horn wrote for publications including Variety, Moving Pictures and Screen International. He also wrote for German television and was an Emmy-winning film researcher for projects for BBC, Zdf, Arte, Channel 4, PBS, HBO, the Paul Robeson Foundation, Michael Moore and Spike Lee.
Born in New York, Horn graduated NYU and moved to Berlin in 1989 for the Daad Berlin Artist Exchange fellowship program. His other films include...
Horn directed the 2004 documentary “The Nomi Song,” about the avant-garde German musician Klaus Nomi, who died from AIDS in 1983. In 2014, he released the documentary “We Are Twisted F–king Sister!” about the popular heavy metal band of the 1970s and ’80s. At the time of his death, he was working on a film about Robert Wilson and his experimental performance company Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds.
Horn wrote for publications including Variety, Moving Pictures and Screen International. He also wrote for German television and was an Emmy-winning film researcher for projects for BBC, Zdf, Arte, Channel 4, PBS, HBO, the Paul Robeson Foundation, Michael Moore and Spike Lee.
Born in New York, Horn graduated NYU and moved to Berlin in 1989 for the Daad Berlin Artist Exchange fellowship program. His other films include...
- 8/30/2019
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
Andrew Horn, an independent filmmaker who wrote, directed and produced a 2014 documentary about Long Island club legends Twisted Sister, died Saturday of cancer in Berlin, his friend Rebecca Lieb announced. He was 66.
Horn also was behind the features Doomed Love (1984) and The Big Blue (1988) and the documentaries East Side Story (1997) and The Nomi Song (2004) — a profile of the androgynously operatic underground performer Klaus Nomi — all of which premiered or screened at the Berlin Film Festival.
We Are Twisted Fucking Sister! tells the tale of the fun-loving heavy metal band that, led ...
Horn also was behind the features Doomed Love (1984) and The Big Blue (1988) and the documentaries East Side Story (1997) and The Nomi Song (2004) — a profile of the androgynously operatic underground performer Klaus Nomi — all of which premiered or screened at the Berlin Film Festival.
We Are Twisted Fucking Sister! tells the tale of the fun-loving heavy metal band that, led ...
- 8/30/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Andrew Horn, an independent filmmaker who wrote, directed and produced a 2014 documentary about Long Island club legends Twisted Sister, died Saturday of cancer in Berlin, his friend Rebecca Lieb announced. He was 66.
Horn also was behind the features Doomed Love (1984) and The Big Blue (1988) and the documentaries East Side Story (1997) and The Nomi Song (2004) — a profile of the androgynously operatic underground performer Klaus Nomi — all of which premiered or screened at the Berlin Film Festival.
We Are Twisted Fucking Sister! tells the tale of the fun-loving heavy metal band that, led ...
Horn also was behind the features Doomed Love (1984) and The Big Blue (1988) and the documentaries East Side Story (1997) and The Nomi Song (2004) — a profile of the androgynously operatic underground performer Klaus Nomi — all of which premiered or screened at the Berlin Film Festival.
We Are Twisted Fucking Sister! tells the tale of the fun-loving heavy metal band that, led ...
- 8/30/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Festival’s world premieres include Roxette Diaries, Taikon, Odödliga and Drottninglandet.Scroll down for full line-up
Sweden’s Way Out West Festival (Aug 13-15) will include the world premiere of Jonas Akerlund’s Roxette Diaries, about one of Sweden’s most popular bands.
“They are one of the biggest bands to come out of Sweden, and this film shows them in a new light. It was filmed during their tours from 1988 to 1995, and of course with Jonas Akerlund directing, it has a real art feel to it, he’s very brave with this material,” Svante Tidholm, Way Out West’s Head of Film Programming told Screen.
Another world premiere at the Gothenburg-based film and music festival will be Taikon, a documentary about civil rights activist and author Katarina Taikon. “She was one of the pioneers of human rights for the Romany community. It’s an amazing story and she’s an amazing character,” Tidholm added.
There...
Sweden’s Way Out West Festival (Aug 13-15) will include the world premiere of Jonas Akerlund’s Roxette Diaries, about one of Sweden’s most popular bands.
“They are one of the biggest bands to come out of Sweden, and this film shows them in a new light. It was filmed during their tours from 1988 to 1995, and of course with Jonas Akerlund directing, it has a real art feel to it, he’s very brave with this material,” Svante Tidholm, Way Out West’s Head of Film Programming told Screen.
Another world premiere at the Gothenburg-based film and music festival will be Taikon, a documentary about civil rights activist and author Katarina Taikon. “She was one of the pioneers of human rights for the Romany community. It’s an amazing story and she’s an amazing character,” Tidholm added.
There...
- 7/23/2015
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Read More: Exclusive: Clip From Fantastic Fest Winner 'The History of Future Folk' Music Box Films has acquired North American distribution rights to Andrew Horn's "Twisted F*cking Sister." The rock documentary premiered at the 2014 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (Idfa) and screened at the Goteborg Film Festival earlier this year. 'We Are Twisted F*cking Sister' gives an insider's perspective on the iconic 1980's heavy metal band and recounts the tumultuous ten years before they reached global superstardom. Twisted Sister's manager, their biggest fans and the group itself reveal how "the band that killed disco" came from nothing in never-before-seen interviews. "Andrew Horn has delivered a quintessential rock documentary," said Ed Arentz, Music Box Films' managing partner. "It's a film that obviously speaks to Twisted's legion of fans, but will allow a whole new audience to experience the seventies NYC...
- 6/3/2015
- by Elle Leonsis
- Indiewire
Music Box Films announced Tuesday the acquisition of “We Are Twisted F—ing Sister,” the rock documentary by filmmaker Andrew Horn that recounts the band’s earliest days, before they would become one of the biggest heavy metal bands of the 1980s. When Twisted Sister got their big break in 1983, its aggressive sound helped sell millions of records. Meanwhile, the band’s over-the-top live shows drew sellout crowds and its music videos defined early MTV. But “the band that killed disco” was no overnight success. The documentary is the never-before-told story of the 10 grueling years leading up to the band’s breakout success,...
- 6/2/2015
- by Joe Otterson
- The Wrap
The Chicago-based distributor has acquired rights to Andrew Horn’s documentary We Are Twisted Fucking Sister, while in a separate deal monterey media has picked up North American rights to Forever.
Music Box Film plans an August theatrical release for We Are Twisted Fucking Sister, which recounts the early years of one of the great ‘hair metal’ bands of the 1980s before they rode a wave of worldwide acclaim for their outrageous live acts, musicianship and tongue-in-cheek MTV videos.
The band recently announced they will embark on a 40th anniversary and farewell tour in 2016 called Forty And Fuck It following the death in March of drummer A J Pero.
The documentary premiered at Idfa in Amsterdam and screened at Goteborg Film Festival earlier this year. Music Box negotiated the deal with Horn.
monterey media plans an early autumn theatrical launch on Forever, Tatia Pilieva’s feature debut starring Deborah Ann Woll, Luke Grimes, [link...
Music Box Film plans an August theatrical release for We Are Twisted Fucking Sister, which recounts the early years of one of the great ‘hair metal’ bands of the 1980s before they rode a wave of worldwide acclaim for their outrageous live acts, musicianship and tongue-in-cheek MTV videos.
The band recently announced they will embark on a 40th anniversary and farewell tour in 2016 called Forty And Fuck It following the death in March of drummer A J Pero.
The documentary premiered at Idfa in Amsterdam and screened at Goteborg Film Festival earlier this year. Music Box negotiated the deal with Horn.
monterey media plans an early autumn theatrical launch on Forever, Tatia Pilieva’s feature debut starring Deborah Ann Woll, Luke Grimes, [link...
- 6/2/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Documentary festival to include a Q&A with CitizenFour director Laura Poitras and a strand dedicated to women in docs.
The 27th edition of International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (Idfa) (Nov 19-30) opened last night with the world premiere of Heddy Honigmann’s Around the World in 50 Concerts - made to celebrate the 125th anniversary of Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
With guests ranging from Naomi Klein and British director Nick Broomfield to Star Trek’s George Takei, Jay Jay French from Twisted Sister and documentary legend D.A. Pennebaker, this year’s edition is shaping up to be a typically lively affair.
Idfa is also a key industry event. Over 300 distributors, sales agents and festival programmers are registered for the annual “Docs For Sales” bazaar.
Meanwhile, the Forum, Idfa’s co-financing and coproduction market, will kickstart a number of new projects, among them Heddy Honigmann’s latest doc 100Up, a film about people from around the world who are...
The 27th edition of International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (Idfa) (Nov 19-30) opened last night with the world premiere of Heddy Honigmann’s Around the World in 50 Concerts - made to celebrate the 125th anniversary of Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
With guests ranging from Naomi Klein and British director Nick Broomfield to Star Trek’s George Takei, Jay Jay French from Twisted Sister and documentary legend D.A. Pennebaker, this year’s edition is shaping up to be a typically lively affair.
Idfa is also a key industry event. Over 300 distributors, sales agents and festival programmers are registered for the annual “Docs For Sales” bazaar.
Meanwhile, the Forum, Idfa’s co-financing and coproduction market, will kickstart a number of new projects, among them Heddy Honigmann’s latest doc 100Up, a film about people from around the world who are...
- 11/20/2014
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Filed under: Documentaries
Musician Klaus Nomi never became a household name, but as Snagfilms' 'The Nomi Song' shows, his otherworldly live performances and rock-disco-opera hybrid inspired a legion of classic musicians, including David Bowie whom Nomi backed up during Bowie's appearance on 'Saturday Night Live.'
Andrew Horn's award-winning documentary is part concert footage, part interview and part bizarre sci-fi film in line with Nomi's cosmic fixations. As Nomi's music and live performances -- replete with heavy make-up, bizarre hairstyles and multiple costumes -- began to earn him critical acclaim, the singer became the first prominent musician to be killed by AIDS in 1983. 'The Nomi Song' celebrates a truly unique musical figure.
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Musician Klaus Nomi never became a household name, but as Snagfilms' 'The Nomi Song' shows, his otherworldly live performances and rock-disco-opera hybrid inspired a legion of classic musicians, including David Bowie whom Nomi backed up during Bowie's appearance on 'Saturday Night Live.'
Andrew Horn's award-winning documentary is part concert footage, part interview and part bizarre sci-fi film in line with Nomi's cosmic fixations. As Nomi's music and live performances -- replete with heavy make-up, bizarre hairstyles and multiple costumes -- began to earn him critical acclaim, the singer became the first prominent musician to be killed by AIDS in 1983. 'The Nomi Song' celebrates a truly unique musical figure.
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- 9/27/2010
- by Jason Newman
- Moviefone
MUNICH -- Independent film sales house Media Luna said Monday that it has sold the German documentary The Nomi Song, winner of the Berlin Film Festival's Teddy Award for best documentary, to New York-based entertainment indie Palm Pictures for release in the United States and the United Kingdom. Details of the deal, which was made in Cannes, were not revealed by a Media Luna spokeswoman. The Nomi Song, directed by Andrew Horn, documents the life of German countertenor Klaus Nomi, a pop icon based in New York during the New Wave era of the 1980s. Poised to become one of the first major video stars as MTV took off, Nomi's rise to superstardom ended when he became one of the first prominent victims of AIDS.
- 5/25/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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