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MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE
2022 | 25min | Genre: Solarpunk | German & English
Starring Nancy Mensah-Offei | Trang Vo | Dela Dabulamanzi
Written & Directed by Viktor Schimpf
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Logline: A progammer develops a revolutionary Artificial Intelligence.
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Nancy Mensah-Offei as „Frances“ | Trang Vo as „Ai“
Dela Dabulamanzi as „Dela“ | Kumar Muniandy as „Dion“
Bounou Wanissou as „Young Man“
Mats Reinhardt as „Dr. Lehmann“ | Agnes Decker as „Alessandra“ | Musa Gülhan as „San“ | Amina Hassan as „Guerilla Guardener“ | Kiana Rezvani as „Woman in the forest“ | Daniela Gancheva, David Burnell & Nils Engelmann as „Police Officers“ | Anqi Zhu, Daood Alabdulaa, Kyrill „Kiri“ Amon, Mduduzi Khumalo, Soluna Delta Kokol, Tobi Göppel, Janina Rüb, Paula Vogt as „Activists“ | Emily Marissa Jillian Kennedy, Samuel Schwarz, Franz Wachter, Lotte Müller, Tim Petermann as „Kids playing“ | Narges Kalhor, Ivy Lißack, Joel Olano, Michael Boros, Kerstin Boros, Julia von Wegen, Janet Kyeyune, Paul Heinrich, Jiyar Jahan Fard, Mohammad Ashhad Qasmi, Abdalla Mohamed, Jan-Bernd Meyer as „Commercial Actors“
Writer, Director & Producer: Viktor Schimpf
Co-Producer: Marina Hufnagel, Annelie Boros, HFF München
Dramaturgy: Christoph Gnädig
Assistant Director: Annelie Boros | Tizian Stromp | Christoph Gnädig
Editing Consultants: Karina Ressler | Nicolas Humbert
Production Design: Lisa Kohler | Maike Brunner | Sarah Hömske
Production Design Assist.: Marie Fürst | Joannis Murböck | Valerie Theis | Paula Vogt | Alex Brueggeboes | Janis Schmidt | Georg Zinsser | Dominique Klein | Luke Nienborg
Special Effects Consultant: Wolfrik Fischer
Artworks: Guida Miranda | Filipe Guilherme Pirl
Photography of Nancy Mensah-Offei: Volker Schmidt
Costume Design: Fabia Röhrig | Annika Mechelhoff
Makeup Art: Jule Wolf | Nadia Agriiants
Costume Design Assistant: Laura Kenyon | Sophia Kamp
Cinematography: Dino Osmanovic
Camera Assistant: Mark Zheng | Valerie Theis | Felix Riedelsheimer | Lilli Pongratz | Dominik Boros | Leander Kupferer | Alexander Mitzler | Jonas Egert
Gaffer: Johannes Brugger | Andreas Blind
Best Boy/Girl: Moritz Spender | Laura Kansy | Luis Penn
B-Kamera & Grip: Lilli Pongratz | DIT | Luis Penn
Music: Ludovico Failla
Sound Recording: Cornelia Böhm | Neary Wach
Sound Design: Andrew Mottl
Sound Mix: Gerhard Auer
Boom Operator: Annika Sehn | Daood Alabdulaa | Sabrina Diekow
Foley Artists: Rafael Millán | Sebastian Sonzogni | Valentina Pasetti
Visual Effects: Lukas Väth
Color Grading: Claudia Fuchs
Title Design: Anton Erdle
Set Manager: Nils Engelmann | Annelie Boros
Production Assistant: Riccarda Richter | Lara Stump
Production Intern: Johanna Ederer | Tina Rudolf | Magdalena Zett
Covid19 Compliance Officer: Lena Köhler | Rebecca Fischer
Film Driver: Daniel Schimpf
Setrunner: Lena Köhler | Rebecca Fischer | Luis Penn
Line Producer: Christine Haupt
Assistant to Line Producer: Stefanie Tölk, Daniel Zitzer
Accounting: Margit Werb
Rental: Rainer Christoph | Boris Levine
Studio Management: Peter Gottschall | Andreas Beckert
Postproduction Supervisor: Christoffer Kempel
Editing & Technical Support: Christine Schorr | Yuval Tzafrir | Benedikt Geß
Scheduling: Beate Bialas | Sabina Kannewischer
Conforming: Martin Foerster
Project Consultant: Nora Moschüring | Anna Brass | David Spaeth
Project Supervisor: Karin Jurschick
Festival Coordinator: Tina Janker | Natascha Zink
Funded by FilmFörderFonds Bayern
Produced by Viktor Schimpf Filmproduktion
in collaboration with University for Television and Film Munich
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Best Acting – First Steps Award 2022
Best Short Film – Les Intergalactiques Sci-Fi Festival (France)
Best Film (Nomination) – First Steps Award 2022
Best Innovative Short Film (Nomination) – Filmfest Bremen (Germany)
Filmfest Bremen (Germany): 15. & 16. Apr 2023
Les Intergalactiques Sci-Fi Festival (France): 15. Apr 2023
Equis Feminist Film Festival (Ecuador): 11. & 13. Nov 2022
Filmschoolfest Munich (Germany): 13. Nov 2022
Lund Fantastic Film Fest (Sweden): 27.10. – 5.11.2022
Biberacher Filmfestspiele (Germany): 4. Nov 2022
Hof International Film Festival (Germany): 26.-30. Oct 2022
Encounters Film Festival (Bristol, UK): 29. Sept 2022
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