Deutsche Film- und Medienbewertung

The German Film and Media Review (FBW ) (until 2009: Film Review Board Wiesbaden) was founded on August 20, 1951 Resolution of the Standing Conference. The object of the FBW is to examine movies on their special artistic, documentary or film- historical significance and reward outstanding achievements and valuable especially valuable with the predicates. It has its headquarters in Wiesbaden.

Tasks and activities

The FBW is a feature in all 16 states with the status of a superior state authority, which is under the legal supervision of the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art. It checks following an application from the filmmakers, whether a film with the two predicates "valuable" and can be "particularly valuable " award. It charges on 120-3000 euros. The predicates are recommendations for moviegoers and media users and can serve as guidelines to select from the corresponding activities ( cinema, DVD).

The first film, which was reviewed by the assessment body and got a predicate was Peter Lorre's directorial debut, The Lost.

The FBW finances its activities through the collection of fees, which are levied for the assessment by the jury. The juries of FBW are independent. Predicate movies enjoy tax reduction and can be particularly encouraged ( reference support).

The legal basis of the FBW is the management agreement dated 1 January 1994.

The FBW should not ( G ) be confused with the voluntary self-regulation of the film industry. This is, for example, responsible for the rating, but not for an artistic assessment.

Assessment

The predicates of the FBW be awarded by a jury; there are 85 appraisers. They come from all provinces and are appointed by the individual states for a period of three years. They are experienced film professionals and as volunteers for the FBW in use. They are independent. Their names are public. A jury composed of at least five members. The composition is different each time.

The appraiser judge the films according to their quality. The criteria are:

• Fabric: fable, originality, significance; Time critical content; Factual accuracy
• Form: Screenplay (structure, style); Director ( style, dramaturgy, implementation into the picture, Language, Sound, Choreography ); Instrumentation and representation; Camera (leadership, picture, quality of photography, focus and camera movement ); section; Buildings and Facilities ( Design, style, costumes, masks ); Special techniques ( image format, Trick, visors, mounting)
• Cinematic form: the relationship between matter and form; Adequacy of the design moments; Invention and originality; Artistic design in the context of the moral foundations of culture

And always within the respective genres. When assessing a film of the claim is to be noted that he rises to the fabric and genus. The apparent difficulty of the filmic realization should be considered.

The FBW judged resistant even short films. At film schools the short film predicates are highly traded, they have been pushed with some career.

No predicate

The Rules of Procedure of the FBW also sets out which films are excluded from the assessment or can get no predicate.

No predicate thus obtained films

Facts and Figures

Since 1951, the FBW has rated 26,000 movies. 2011 122 feature films and beyond 173 medium-length films and short films from the FBW were observed at around 500 theatrical releases.

For the rating of films, the Voluntary Self-Monitoring of the film industry (FSC ) is responsible, which also has its headquarters in Wiesbaden.

Criticism

Since the predication can sometimes have a significant share in the economic success of a film, accepted filmmakers in the 50s in four cases, cut or correction proposals of the Authority. A particularly well-known controversy in this respect was in 1959 that with Bernhard Grzimek to its documentary Serengeti shall not die. The FBW just wanted to give Grzimeks film the predicate "valuable" if this would make two substantive changes. The wildlife filmmaker took this as censorship and passed a contradiction in a FBW. In a newly assembled jury, under the direction of the FAZ co-founder Karl Korn, the film eventually became the predicate "valuable" awarded without corrections were made to the interface. Since the 60s, there was no longer a cut recommendations. Rambo 3 was in 1988 by the Film Review Board Wiesbaden (FBW ) with the predicate "valuable" excellent.