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Our character research trip to Cuba, part of our first feature doc project Tres Revoluciónes was completed in Jan’16. As a result we made 3 short character portraits, which Maria Stanisheva showed to potential co-producers at the Berlinale Talents in Feb. We are proud to announce that we now have a German Co-producer in the house!
Dirk Simon is an award winning director and producer of documentaries, image films, and theatrical multimedia productions. Over the past 15 years, Simon has worked under extremely various conditions on five continents and in 17 countries. He debuted on German television in 2004 with his first film “Between the Lines”, questioning the price of freedom and revealing the truth about a murder case at the Berlin Wall. For his documentary “When the Dragon Swallowed the Sun”, Simon collaborated with composer Philip Glass and singer/ songwriter Thom Yorke and Damien Rice. The film received honors for Best Original Soundtrack, Best Cinematography, Best Chronicle, Best Director, and Best Feature Documentary. After living and working in the US for ten years, Simon returned to Germany in 2012, where he currently develops and produces documentaries primarily for ARTE and ZDF under his new production company BoxeeMedia.
We are very excited to have Dirk and BoxeeMedia on board and look forward to making Tres Revoluciónes together!
