"Αug & Οhr medien is a dynamic film festival agency located in Berlin, Germany, specialising in sending films to film festivals worldwide and representing award-winning short films and feature films.
Our goal is to support film students and up-and-coming directors by promoting their works in the international film festival industry.
Our portfolio includes around 1000 high quality films, which have been screened at festivals like Cannes, Berlinale, Venice, Locarno, Toronto, Sundance, Moscow, Shanghai, Palm Springs, Clermont-Ferrand, and many, many more!
We are one of the leading film festival agencies worldwide. Over the past six years, we have represented numerous winners of the German Short Film Award, Austrian & Swiss Film Award, and Student Oscars, as well as several BAFTA and European Film Award nominees. And in 2016, one film from our catalogue was nominated for the Oscar for Best Short Film!" (Website: http://augohr.de)
The Movies (82' 71'')
01. ALL THE WORLD IS A STAGE, 1’ 42’’
Germany/Singapore 2016
Directed by Hannes Rall
Screenplay: Daniel Keith Jernigan
Animation: Andre Quek
Technique: Cut-out animation
Music: Daniele Martella
Production/Producers: Hannes Rall, Daniel Keith Jernigan, Seah Hock Soon
Dialogues: (narration in english) Sam West
An animated adaptation of the famous Shakespeare poem "All The World's A Stage" narrated by the renowned Shakespeare actor and director Samuel West (Royal Shakespeare Company).
02. CAT NOIR, 6’ 23’’
Switzerland 2018
Directed by O'Neil Bürgi
Screenplay: O'Neil Bürgi
Animation: O'Neil Bürgi
Technique: Rotoscoping and hand drawing animation
Music: Daniel Laufer
Production/Producers: Daniel Hertli
Cast: Thomas Grampp, Julia Salome Nauer, Marco von Moos
Dialogues: None
A letter, a broken heart. The sound of the rain. A black cat, a plan.
03. DAHLIA, 4’ 21’’
USA 2017
Directed by Ana Mouyis
Screenplay: Ana Mouyis
Animation: Ana Mouyis
Technique: Mixed media
Music: (original song) Tom Juno & Johnny Ripper
Production/Producers: Ana Mouyis
Dialogues: None
Through a metaphorical narrative about love, Dahlia explores a relationship between two people, which are burdened by mental illness.
04. DON RUPERTO, 11' 04''
Germany 2017
Directed by Irma Orozco
Screenplay: Irma Orozco
Animation: Irma Orozco
Technique: 2D digital animation
Music: Valentino Aragón
Production/Producers: Irma Orozco
Cast/Voices: Chris Bieker, Damian Czajka, Irma Orozco, Konstantinos Batsaras, Tugce Yalcin
Dialogues: Yes (sub: english)
Don Ruperto is an old cynical man who does not care about other people's feelings. Ruthlessly he cares just on his own interests. When he gets himself into trouble nevertheless he is helped by those he hurt.
05. EDGE OF ALCHEMY, 19’
USA 2017
Directed by Stacey Steers
Screenplay: Stacey Steers
Animation: Stacey Steers
Technique: Hand-made collage animation
Music: Lech Jankowski
Production/Producers:
Cast: Mary Pickford (the scientist), Janet Gaynor (the creature)
Dialogues: None
In Edge of Alchemy the silent-era actors Mary Pickford and Janet Gaynor are seamlessly appropriated from their early films of the 1920's and cast into a surreal epic with an upending of the Frankenstein story and an undercurrent of hive collapse. Comprised of over 6000 handmade collages, Edge of Alchemy is the third in a trilogy looking at the psychological terrain of women’s inner worlds. Music and sound design by Lech Jankowski (Brothers Quay).
06. STRECH OF LAND / Landstrich, 29’ 17’’
Germany 2017
Directed by Juliane Ebner
Screenplay: Juliane Ebner
Animation: Juliane Ebner
Technique: Hand-drawing and paint on paper animation
Music: n/a
Production/Producers: Juliane Ebner
Dialogues: None
A story about silence, remembrance and the power of narratives. The half-hour-long short film Stretch of Land, based upon hundreds of drawings, tells of a German family's fate between the end of World War II and the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
07. THE BEACH BOY, 7’ 48’’
Germany/Singapore 2015
Dircted by Hannes Rall
Screenplay: Tran Ngoc Viet Ty, Hannes Rall, Darren Lim
Animation: Hannes Rall
Technique: 2D animation
Music: Eckart Gadow
Production/Producers: Hannes Rall, Seah HockSoon
Cast: (Narrators) Noella Menon, Bruce Quek, Amelia D’Souza, Joshua Lim
Dialogues: Narration (in english)
A story of two star-crossed lovers in ancient Vietnam. Based on a traditional folk tale and adapted for animation in a style inspired by local Asian art styles
08. THE STATION, 4’ 16’’
UK 2017
Directed by Jocelyn Wat
Screenplay: Jocelyn Wat
Animation: Jocelyn Watt
Technique: 2D animation
Music: Joshua Wat
Production/Producers: Jocelyn Watt
Dialogues: None
The Granny awaited her little girl at the train station but turned out she had got onto the wrong platform! To rescue her, she had to get through horrifying obstacles. Would this all prove to be too much for the old lady to save what she treasures the most?
The Directors
01. HANNES RALL
Hannes Rall (aka Hans-Martin Rall) is an Associate Professor (tenured) at the School of Art, Design and Media (ADM) at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Hannes is also an illustrator and independent animation director. Hannes Rall has shown his work in exhibitions and screenings and has been an invited speaker for workshops and conferences in more than 20 countries and over 250 film-festivals worldwide. His research and artistic work is focused on adapting classic literature for animation and the transformation of traditional Asian art forms for animation. He is currently working on the script for the animated feature film "Die Nibelungen" (funded by MFG Baden-Wuerttemberg) and two new animated short films: "As You Like It" (adapted from Shakespeare) and "The Story of the Ghost Ship" (co-directed with Kathrin Albers, adapted from Wilhelm Hauff).
Filmography
2016 ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE (Animation short, 1:30 Min)
2015 THE BEACH BOY (Animation short, 07:48 Min.)
2014 SI LUNCHAI (Animation short, 8 Min.)
2013 DAS KALTE HERZ /THE COLD HEART (Animation short, 30 Min.)
2008 TURNSTUNDE / THE GYM LESSON (Animation short, 8 Min.)
2003 DER ERLKÖNIG / THE ERL-KING (Animation short, 8 Min.)
1999 DER RABE / THE RAVEN (Animation short, 8 Min.)
1989 BIG CANOE (Animation short, 3 Min.)
02. O' NEIL BÜRGI
O' Neil Bürgi was born in 1981 in Arbon, Switzerland. 2002-04 Various internships in editing, image design, camera and video journalism. Since 2008 video editor for SRF (German Swiss Broadcasting Service). 2015-18 studies script writing & film directing at F+F School of Art and Design, Zurich.
Filmography
2018 CAT NOIR (6 min, Animated Short Film, Film School Graduation Project)
2012 WINDOW TO THE OTHERWORLD (95 min, Documentary Feature)
2009 DANCING WITH THE STORMS (75 min, Documentary Feature)
2007 HOLLYWOOD À DISCRETION (32 min, Documentary Short)
2003 One Memory (35 min, Narrative Short)
03. ANA MOUYIS
Ana Mouyis is an Illustrator and Animator working in New York, USA. She received a BFA in Illustration from Parsons the New School for Design, where she is currently working as an adjunct professor, and an MFA in Animation and Motion Arts from Pratt institute. Since 2009 she has worked as freelance commercial artist specializing in illustration and animation, some of her clients have included: The New York Times, The Boston Globe, EMI Records, Interscope Records, Novartis, Pepsico, and Rebecca Taylor. In 2014 she co-founded Circle Line Projects, an experimental production. In addition to client work, she directs and animates independent short films. The first of which, “Pussy!” was released in 2015 and has gone on to appear in a number of film festivals and received an ADC Awards Bronze Cube.
Filmography
2017 DAHLIA (Student Film, Pratt Institute, Graduation Film)
2015 PUSSY! (Student Film, Pratt institute, First Year Short)
04. IRMA OROZCO
Irma Orozco was born in 1983 in Guadalajara, Mexico. Since her childhood she was strongly attracted by arts, especially Film, Music and Painting. She learned painting as autodidact and had several painting exhibitions. She studied Graphic Design and Music at the University of Guadalajara, in Mexico. In 2009 she began her studies at the “Master of Film, TV, and Interactive Media” in Madrid, Spain. In 2011 she started her second Master in the “Media Production” at the Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe in Lemgo, Germany. Currently she is living in Germany, working as a freelance filmmaker, animator and visual artist.
Filmography
2017 DON RUPERTO (11.05 min., Screenplay and Director, Animation, Comedy)
2014 THE RED CARNATION (DIE ROTE NELKE, 9.13 min., Screenplay and Director, Animation, Drama, Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe, Germany)
2014 THE VIOLIN (DIE VIOLINE, 11.47 min., Director, Drama, Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe)
2013 UNDYING LOVE (UNSTERBLICHE LIEBE, 5.34 min., Director, Animation, Dramatic Comedy, Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe)
05. STACEY STEERS
Stacey Steers is known for her process-driven, labor-intensive animated films composed of thousands of handmade works on paper. Her recent work employs images appropriated from early cinematic sources, from which she constructs original, lyrical narratives. Steers’ films have screened widely at venues including the Sundance Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, New Directors New Films (New York), IFFR Rotterdam, Locarno IFF, MoMA and the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC). Recently she has expanded her work to include collaborative installations that join invented, three-dimensional production elements with film loops, creating a new context for experiencing her films. Stacey Steers is a recipient of major grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, Creative Capital and the American Film Institute. She lives and works in Boulder, CO.
Filmography
2017 EDGE OF ALCHEMY (19:00 color, stereo sound, 35mm to 4K)
2011 NIGHT HUNTER (16:00 color, stereo sound, 35mm to HD)
2006 PHANTOM CANYON (10:00 B&W, stereo sound, 35mm)
1999 TOTEM (11:00, stereo sound, 35mm)
1989 WATUNNA (24:00, stereo sound, 16mm)
*WINNER OF A STUDENT ACADEMY AWARD*
06. JULIANE EBNER
Juliane Ebner was born in Stralsund. She graduated as a church musician from the Hochschule für Kirchenmusik Dresden in 1993 and worked as an organist in Potsdam, Stralsund and Neumünster. Following that she studied theology at the Christian- Albrecht-Universität Kiel and graduated with a diploma in art from the Muthesius- Kunsthochschule Kiel in 2005. Since 2007 Juliane Ebner works as a freelance artist in Berlin and on Rügen, in the same year she began her work as a filmmaker. Juliane Ebner is a mother of three children, created countless movies and is working on projects and exhibitions in Germany as well as internationally.
Filmography
2017 LANDSTRICH I(30 min, Animation)
2017 VOM WALD HER (4:50 min, Animation)
2017 TAGE UND NÄCHTE (4:27, Animation)
2016 NICHTS (2:30, Animation)
2016 SCHWEBETEILCHEN (3:20. Animation)
2015 KÜNSTLERKACKE (6:15 min, Animation)
2014 WENIG FEHLTE (4:20 min, Animation)
2014 KLEINE DINGER (3 min, Animation)
2013 IN DER MITTE EIN LOCH (7 min, Animation)
2012 LUFTDRUCK (5:30, Animation)
2012 KNALLERBSENBUSCH (4:30, Animation)
2011 NOFRETETCHEN (1:02 min Animation)
2009 ALLES OFFEN (15:20 min, Animation)
2008 LAYERS NEWS OPERA (47 min, Animation)
2007 RAUSCHENDE FESTE (8:40 min, Animation)
07. HANNES RALL
(see at the No 01 biography)
08. JOCELYN WAT
Jocelyn Wat is an animator and illustrator based in Hong Kong. She studied aboard at the University of the West of England and attained the Animation (BA Hons) degree with First-class Honours. She is currently working as a graphic designer at a Branding agency, while pursuing her love for animation and illustration as a freelancer.
Filmography
2017 THE STATION (4min, Animation, Bristol School of Animation)
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