KernFilm is a platform for film makers creating documentaries with social engagement. The writers and founding members Leslie Franke and Herdolor Lorenz established the film production company in 1985 (History).By now, the team of Kern Filmproduktion is producing projects of a diverse group of film-makers creating a wide variety of documentaries.
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Besides their own projects, Kern Filmproduktion produces numerous films in cooperation with other film-makers and authors. We organize the funding of pre-researched proposals or projects that we consider interesting and worthwhile. Our specialty is the financing as "film from below" by crowdfunding.
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Water makes Money - DVD english
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Water Makes Money
How private corporations make money with water
A coproduction of KERNFILM, Achille du Genestouxand La Mare aux canards , in collaboration with Aquattac and ZDF/Arte, sponsored by Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein Sponsorship Committee,
by Leslie Franke and Herdolor Lorenz
DVD 2011, 90 minutes
10 to 15 years ago a wave of privatisations of our water supply started, which has been propagating since all over the world. Meanwhile the enduring consequences - such as slums cut off from the access to clean water and dry faucets in London - are sufficiently known. for Nowadays no one talks about privatisation, but about business concepts such as private public partnership. The only thing that counts here is the capital which ‘creates' the infrastructure through loans. However, in these days of limited public finances, budgeting competence is at least as important as the technical mastering of water management. Many communities however are risking to be cheated by superior corporate groups. The movie „Water Makes Money" is a documentary about the biggest water companies and the resistance against them. It shows how ‘money printing machines' of the companies work, especially in France and in German cities like Berlin or Braunschweig. However, „Water Makes Money" also encourages and shows the lessons the affected municipalities have learned from the dominance of Veolia & Co.: Water in public hands is necessary and possible!
* For commercial screenings partition of the receipts 40:60 distributor/cinema
screening noncommercial (10)
screening commercial* (10)