"Choose your home with your heart. And your bank with your head". Such is the claim of the 'Kids' spot for SEB by DoP Marc STUBBS c/o DBC. The Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (SEB for short, which translates to Scandinavian Private Bank) is a Swedish financial service provider based in Stockholm and is part of the Wallenberg family 'Empire'. The main shareholder is the Investor AB. In Germany, SEB operates the SEB AG subsidiary.
DoP Maher MALEH c/o DBC was in charge of the painterly spot for TURK TELEKOM and its great project to support the visually impaired. Turk Telekom provides registered users, who are visually impaired, with hundreds of audio books through a free service-number on the phone.
On the 23rd of March 2012, the professional jury of Spotlight Festival awarded the Bronze Award to the ‘Card Security’ spot by director Class ORTMANN as well as the Silver audience award. The head of the 'Professional Jury – Main Competition TV & Cinema' was Paula Bergner, Final Touch ad film production, Hamburg and Helmut Hartl, Embassy of Dreams film production Munich, presided over the professional jury STUDENTS spotlight.
Last but not least, DoP Lutz HATTENHAUER and director Florian Sigl developed the look of the OPEL ASTRA spot featured right here on GoSee.
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BASE BERLIN BY ESTHER KURLE
Esther Kurle, born in 1973 and mother of one child is currently living in Berlin. Before she founded Trinity Agency in Germany, she worked as a producer for several years.
Since 2006 Esther is the owner of Esther Kurle Management.
BASE MUNICH BY BERNADETTE GRAF
Bernadette Graf was born in 1976 and is living in Munich with her family.
She has a diploma in American Studies and 6 years of experience as a sales rep and project manager @ gap films in Munich under her belt, before she founded Bernadette Graf Management in 2008.
BASE PRAGUE BY NICK AND PAVLINA SAWARD
Nick Saward was born in 1961. He worked in the UK as a production manager and then 15 years as a producer before moving to Prague in 2002 to produce for Stillking Films. 7 years later he founded Saward Management. Nick is living in Prague with his two children and his wife Pavlina Saward (born Prikrylova) who serves as the creative head of the DBC base in Prague.
Pavlina worked as a Production Manager on more than 130 commercials in the last 10 years for Stillking Films in Prague. Prior to that she worked on 19 movies in different production positions and production companies for 15 years. Pavlina joined Esther Kurle Management in January 2009 along with Nick to work as an agent for directors and DOP`s.
BASE HAMBURG BY KLEMENS KEMPKES
Klemens Kempkes is based in Hamburg. He looks back on more than 20 years of experience working in the film industry being a set manager, producer, production manager and agency producer. In 1999 he founded Good Fellows and joined the Driven By Creatives network in 2010.
BASE MILAN BY ANTONELLA PERILLO
Antonella Perillo is currently living in Milan. She has 30 years of experience in the Entertainment industry as Agent, Casting Director and PA. She got to travel all around the world as a PA for Simply Red. After she took a break to become the mother of two wonderful children, she founded ABC Casting in Milan and became part of the Gallagher Casting Network and Rolf Scheider Casting Company in Paris-Berlin-Hamburg. She has done casting for world-renowned filmmakers like Zack Snyder, Tony Kaye and many others. In 2003, she started ABC & Director's Agency, a film directors agency that works directly with production companies and advertising agencies.
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