Effective immediately, Henning Kamm has been appointed as new managing director of the film production company REAL FILM BERLIN GmbH. A native of Hamburg, he had previously functioned in a capacity as managing director and executive producer for DETAiLFILM GmbH, the company he founded in 2007 together with his partner, Fabian Gasmia.
||image|| “We are very glad that we have gained such a versatile and thematically adept producer as Henning Kamm for the position of managing director at REAL FILM,” according to Michael Lehmann, chairman of executive management for the Studio Hamburg Production Group.
“We look forward to setting efforts forth with him to position REAL FILM creatively in the market, not only in national TV business but in the field of international co-production as well.”
“I eagerly look forward to working together with my colleagues at REAL FILM. I want to use my experience on the ‘trading floor’ of international film and their expertise on the German market to tell stories that appeal on a worldwide scale,” explains Henning Kamm. “This new capacity is the logical step following an unforgettable, successful era of work together with my highly esteemed partner at DETAiLFILM. I thank Michael Lehmann and Günther Russ wholeheartedly for the faith and confidence being placed in me, particularly as a representative of the younger generation.”
Following his master in Applied Cultural Sciences at the University of Lüneburg, Henning Kamm completed the L’Atelier Masterclass in Ludwigsburg and Paris. In 2007 he co-founded DETAiLFILM. His films ran successfully at the Berlinale, Sundance, Karlovy Vary, Locarno, SXSW, and at such museums as MoMA in New York. They have been honoured with numerous jury and audience prizes, including the LOLA in Gold, the Crystal Globe, the SXGlobal Award and a nomination for a European Film Award. In 2014 Henning Kamm was Germany’s ‘Producer on the Move’. He is a member of the European Film Academy, the European Producers Club and an EAVE and Inside Pictures alumni. In January 2015 he founded Zentropa Hamburg together with Danish powerhouse Zentropa. Among other projects, Henning is presently working on Dustin Loose’s “BOSPORUS BROTHERS”, Erik Schmitt’s “THE TINY LADY”, Carlo Zoratti’s “LA VITA NUOVA” and Mara Eibl Eibesfeldt “DAYS OF KINDNESS“.
Press Contact: REAL FILM Berlin GmbH, Alexa Rothmund, Köthener Strasse 3, D-10963 Berlin, Tel. +49 40 6688 4801, Fax +49 40 6688 5428, eMail presse@realfilm-berlin.de
