Film Programme
BIRDLAND
fiction
Germany, 2009, 7'
Director: Jimmy Grassiant
Producer: Anja Schmuck
Director of photography: David Rankenhohn
Writer: Georg Tiefenbach
Animation: no animation
Composer: Tadeusz Jakubowski, Felix Behrendt
Editor: Nicolas Houver
Synopsis: A girl and a man – a duel and a duet. The girl with the saxophone has a dream: She wants to become a star, she wants the big show and the big breakthrough. But there’s this special guy with the saxophone getting in Sophie’s way, again and again. Who will win, who will lose?
Director: Jimmy Grassiant
After his A-Level at the German-French school in Freiburg Jimmy Grassiant studied film science at the Université Lumière in Lyon. During his studies he took over the student association Yobo - Support for artistic creation, from which numerous projects (photography, short films, plays) have emerged. After completing his bachelor, he gained practical experience in a French TV serie (France 3), at the Pro7Sat.1 Media AG and at the film production Pandora Film. Moreover, he visited the Screenplay School Wolfgang Pfeiffer in Berlin and took part at the Kodak Film Experience course in Paris to adapt himself at 16 mm material.