Zia nabs Talent Campus award
Film beat out 'Berlin Hair,' 'Last Wash'
The Berlin Talent Campus' short film competish awards the prize to the best of three nominated shorts about the German capital. "Match Factor" beat out Ole Bendtzen's Danish pic "Berlin Hair Today" and Ville Jankeri's Finnish work "The Last Wash."
Berlinale topper Dieter Kosslick and Campus director Dorothee Wenner opened this year's Berlinale Talent Campus Saturday night at the Hebbel am Ufer theater in front of 600 guests, which was followed by the screening of the nominated shorts.
Marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, next year's theme for the short film competition will be "My Wall." Campus participants will have the opportunity to shoot five short films, which will be produced by a German production company and under Wenders' patronage. The shorts will have their world premiere at next year's Talent Campus.
