Introduce Yourself : Greetings from Bombay and Berlin by Katharina Suckale

Katharina Suckale

Greetings from Bombay and Berlin

Dear Friends, Three months back at Cannes film festival I received the card from Stage 32, and I am enlightened, what a great site I discovered !! In a very short time I met excellent colleagues from @Melissa White to @Rinat Yulushev to @Richard Finney, who had wonderful ideas on our International feature film and Mini-TV-series, thank you! I even met @Kiana Kleem here in our office in Mumbai ! Fantastic experience - Thank you to everybody and the entire team of Stage 32 ! Myself, I started in film distribution in Paris 27 years ago, holy .... how time passes by fast. As Europe was limited at that time, I went to Canada starting to work in film production, what a great country. Finally the Wall came down in Germany, so my destiny brought me to the film sets. It was an amazing crazy time in Berlin. Apart from working on the film sets for 16 years, I started writing. Everything was possible and not possible. The 90's had its limits regarding what kind of stories were allowed to be told and which not ... Times have been changing. Nowadays all stories can be told. But the market has changed; this is what I observed the last years at Berlin and Cannes film market. Together with my Indian colleagues we founded the production company Bombay Berlin Film Production 5 years ago. Regarding co-productions we have been idealistic at least between India and Europe. But it is great fun and a wonderful, inspiring collaboration: www.bombayberlin.com Fortunately times are changing so film business is changing for its good. So I wish us a bright future with many new and old stories being on the screen. Hopefully the spectators and investors of movies change as fast as we do !! Good luck and all the best wishes to everybody :)

Stage 32 Staff - Julie

Katharina, what a wonderful Introduce Yourself Post! Glad that you found out about Stage 32 at Cannes - that's great. As we always say, Creativity is Universal, and the filmmaking world is definitely getting smaller by the day! Bombay Berlin is an interesting production company - you're taking the great resources available to filmmakers in different countries and making them work to your advantage. I looked at your slate of films - it's very impressive! Looking forward to watching you grow and flourish on Stage 32!

Andrew Bee

Hi Katharina, it's wonderful to meet you. What an amazing journey you've had. I wish you more and more success.

Katharina Suckale

Thank you Julie for your good words. And also thank you to Andrew. Yes, in nowadays times film business opened totally new perspectives at all levels, I had never imagined 20 years ago, not even 10 years. It is a great pleasure to meet you here !! Sunny greetings from Mumbai

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