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German Film Law Does Away With Diversity Clause, but Local Producers Remain Optimistic: It’s ‘Part of Our Culture and We’re Not Going to Give It Up’
A new German film law has done away with a key clause setting diversity criteria for funding, but Germany's progressive producers remain upbeat.
The German parliament — before being dissolved in December — ushered in a watered-down version of the country’s planned new film law that will create a more centralized funding system for production, distribution and exhibition. But “the [diversity] rules were not there to actually impose anything,” says Philipp Kreuzer, chairman of the supervisory board of promotional body German Films and founder of Munich-based Penzing Studios. Case in point is the company’s new project “Identitti,” directed by Randa Chahoud (“The Interpreter of Silence,” “Deutschland 89”) and based on the eponymous novel by Mithu Sanyal.
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