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Red Spot, The (Rote Punkt, Der)
Scene from “The Red Spot” (photo © Chris Hirschhaeuser)
The Japanese student Aki Onodera travels in her family's tracks from Tokyo to Germany. In idyllic East Allgaeu she meets the Webers, who take her in as their guest. But soon, the situation of the family becomes turbulent by her appearance...
Marie Miyayama was born in Tokyo in 1972 and studied Film Studies and Creative Writing at Waseda University. In 1995 she moved to Germany, where, after studying Dramatology at Ludiwg Maximilian University in Munich, she has been studying Film Directing at the Munich University of Television & Film. The Red Spot (Der Rote Punkt is her gradution project and her debut feature. She has also directed a number of shorts and documentaries, including: Maikas Wochenende (short, 2001) and between earth and sky (documentary, 2004).
Genre Drama
Category Feature Film Cinema
Year of Production 2008
Director Marie Miyayama
Screenplay Marie Miyayama, Christoph Tomkewitsch
Director of Photography Oliver Sachs
Editor Marie Miyayama
Music by Helmut Sinz
Production Design Gabriele Mai, Shinji Shimizu
Producers Martin Blankemeyer, Miyako Sonoki
Production Company Muenchner Filmwerkstatt/Munich, in co-production with Chase Film International Co/Tokyo, FGV Schmidle/Munich, Hochschule fuer Fernsehen und Film Muenchen (HFF/M)/Munich
Principal Cast Yuki Inomata, Hans Kremer, Orlando Klaus, Imke Buechel, Zora Thiessen, Shinya Owada, Mikiko Otonashi, Yuu Saito, Toru Minegishi, Toshihiro Yashiba, Nahoko Fort-Nishigami
Casting Hanna Hansen, Kinya Yagi
Length 82 min
Format Super 16
Blow-up 35 mm, Color, cs
Original Version German/Japanese
Subtitled Versions English, French, German, Japanese
Sound Technology Dolby Digital 5.1
Festival Screenings Montreal 2008 (First Films World Competition), Goa 2008, Hof 2008, Cairo 2008, Goteborg 2009, Chennai 2009, Shanghai 2009, Sao Paulo 2009, Cork 2009
Awards VGF Award 2009
With backing from FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Manfred Durniok Foundation
World Sales
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Antonio Exacoustos
Tuerkenstrasse 89
80799 Munich/Germany
phone +49-89-38 09 12 88
fax +49-89-38 09 16 19
email: aexacoustos@arri.de
http://www.arri-mediaworldsales.de/
Category Feature Film Cinema
Year of Production 2008
Director Marie Miyayama
Screenplay Marie Miyayama, Christoph Tomkewitsch
Director of Photography Oliver Sachs
Editor Marie Miyayama
Music by Helmut Sinz
Production Design Gabriele Mai, Shinji Shimizu
Producers Martin Blankemeyer, Miyako Sonoki
Production Company Muenchner Filmwerkstatt/Munich, in co-production with Chase Film International Co/Tokyo, FGV Schmidle/Munich, Hochschule fuer Fernsehen und Film Muenchen (HFF/M)/Munich
Principal Cast Yuki Inomata, Hans Kremer, Orlando Klaus, Imke Buechel, Zora Thiessen, Shinya Owada, Mikiko Otonashi, Yuu Saito, Toru Minegishi, Toshihiro Yashiba, Nahoko Fort-Nishigami
Casting Hanna Hansen, Kinya Yagi
Length 82 min
Format Super 16
Blow-up 35 mm, Color, cs
Original Version German/Japanese
Subtitled Versions English, French, German, Japanese
Sound Technology Dolby Digital 5.1
Festival Screenings Montreal 2008 (First Films World Competition), Goa 2008, Hof 2008, Cairo 2008, Goteborg 2009, Chennai 2009, Shanghai 2009, Sao Paulo 2009, Cork 2009
Awards VGF Award 2009
With backing from FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Manfred Durniok Foundation
World Sales
ARRI Media Worldsales
Antonio Exacoustos
Tuerkenstrasse 89
80799 Munich/Germany
phone +49-89-38 09 12 88
fax +49-89-38 09 16 19
email: aexacoustos@arri.de
http://www.arri-mediaworldsales.de/