Editor

The Berlinale Talent Campus (February 13-18, 2010) has secured its financing thanks to the project funding of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media(BKM).

Minister of State for Culture and the Media Bernd Neumann has said: "Dieter Kosslick's idea to establish a platform for aspiring film talents during the Berlinale has proved very valuable. Not only the Festival - which has successfully presented a number of films by former Campus participants - but also all of Germany as a location for culture and film production profit from this initiative. The Campus successfully acts as a sustainable network for international talents in the local film business; this was most recently evident at the CampusShort Film Competition BerlinToday Award, whose youngest award-winner Wagahis a joint project by India and Germany, and received the German Short Film prize in Gold."

The Campus team, Project Manager Christine Tröstrum and Programme Manager Matthijs Wouter Knol are very happy to welcome the BKM as one of its funders, alongside the MEDIA - Training programme of the European Union and the founding partners Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburgand Skillset/UK Film Council.

ActressKerry Fox to mentor the new Talent Actors Stage

The eighth Berlinale Talent Campus is broadening its hands-on programme and will, for the first time, offer training in acting with the new Talent Actors Stage.

The Talent Actors Stage provides a wide variety of training opportunities in actingtechnique, working with dialogue, casting and camera acting. This Hands-OnTraining is not only intended for actors: it also focuses on interdisciplinarycollaboration with directors, producers, screenwriters and cinematographers inorder to encourage exchange between different areas offilmmaking.

The mentor of Talent Actors Stage will be the New Zealand actress Kerry Fox, who made an international breakthrough in 1990 for the film An Angel at My Table directed by Jane Campion. In 2001, she was awarded the Silver Bear at the Berlinale for her role in Patrice Chérau's sensational film Intimacy. Shehas appeared in a number of compelling roles, including in Danny Boyle's dark comedyShallow Graveand Hans-Christian Schmid's Storm, whichbrought her back to the Berlinale in February 2009. Currently, Kerry Fox is starring in the hit West End play "Speaking in Tongues" at theDuke of York's Theatre (London) and appears on screen in Jane Campion'sBright Star.