56th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, 29 April - 4 May 2010

Clicks for clips: MuVi Online from 1 April

Download this press release as a pdf file here.

This year for the 10th time viewers will have a chance to vote for their favourite video clip to win the MuVi Online Audience Award hosted by the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. All twelve nominees can be viewed online starting 1 April at www.muvipreis.de.

While an international jury will announce the official winner of the MuVi Award on 1 May in Oberhausen, viewers can already decide which German video should win the 500 euro MuVi Online Audience Award starting 1 April. Schorsch Kamerun’s Positionen for Die Goldenen Zitronen or Christopher Marquez’s HyBolt for Von Spar, Sönke Held’s Lightning Strikes for Felix Kubin or Benedikt Rugar’s Serenity for Vernon and Burns – all nominated clips were produced in Germany.

The nominees:

Andere Leute (Malakoff Kowalski), Klaus Lemke, 2009
Bit by Bit (Comfort Fit), Felix Hüffelmann/Philip Frowein, 2009
Camel (Flying Lotus), Özgür Ramazan, 2009
Die Seitenlehne (Lena Stoehrfaktor), Pappsatt, 2010
HyBoLT (Von Spar), Christopher Marquez, 2009
Lifeguide (Pappkameraden), Gitti & Kitti, 2009
Lightning Strikes (Felix Kubin), Sönke Held, 2009
Opaque (Hildur Gudnadóttir), Markus Wambsganss, 2009
Positionen (Die Goldenen Zitronen), Schorsch Kamerun, 2009
Rusty Nails (Moderat), Pfadfinderei, 2009
Serenity (Vernon and Burns), Benedikt Rugar, 2009
u_08-1 (future past perfect pt.3) (alva noto feat. Anne-James Chaton), Carsten Nicolai/Simon Mayer, 2009

The clips can be streamed from 1 April to 1 May on www.muvipreis.de. Access to the polls is also available on the websites of MuVi Online partners: www.intro.de, www.tape.tv, www.3sat.de and www.byte.fm. The music video that gets the most clicks will be presented with the coveted MuVi Online Audience Award in Oberhausen on 1 May.

Audience Award winners in 2009 were Daniel Franke and Martin W. Meier for their clip Zum König geboren (Marteria).

Partners of the 12th MuVi Award: INTRO, tape.tv, 3sat and byte.fm

Deadline for accreditation: 6 April 2010

Online accreditation here.

Oberhausen, 25 March 2010

Press contact:
Sabine Niewalda, tel 0208 825-3073, niewalda@kurzfilmtage.de