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CUCKOO DoP Paul Faltz nominated for the German Film Critics’ Awards

CUCKOO DoP Paul Faltz nominated for the German Film Critics' Awards 2024

CUCKOO DoP Paul Faltz has been nominated for the German Film Critics’ Awards 2024 in the category Best Picture Composition!

Thanks to the selectors from the German Film Critics’ Awards who recognised Paul’s work as exceptional!

We agree and think this nomination is well deserved and all our fingers are crossed.

  • CUCKOO DoP Paul Faltz nominated for the German Film Critics' Awards 2024
  • CUCKOO DoP Paul Faltz nominated for the German Film Critics' Awards 2024
  • CUCKOO DoP Paul Faltz nominated for the German Film Critics' Awards 2024
  • CUCKOO DoP Paul Faltz nominated for the German Film Critics' Awards 2024
  • CUCKOO DoP Paul Faltz nominated for the German Film Critics' Awards 2024
  • CUCKOO DoP Paul Faltz nominated for the German Film Critics' Awards 2024
  • Greta Fernandez
  • CUCKOO DoP Paul Faltz nominated for the German Film Critics' Awards 2024
  • CUCKOO DoP Paul Faltz nominated for the German Film Critics' Awards 2024
  • Jan Bluthardt
  • CUCKOO DoP Paul Faltz nominated for the German Film Critics' Awards 2024
  • CUCKOO DoP Paul Faltz nominated for the German Film Critics' Awards 2024
  • Hunter Schafer
  • Dan Stevens, Mila Lieu, Hunter Schafer and Jan Bluthardt
  • CUCKOO DoP Paul Faltz nominated for the German Film Critics' Awards 2024

“It’s the idea that not everything is hiding in the shadows in a horror film, it can also be really scary if it’s really bright and this neon pops everywhere.” Paul Faltz said in this interesting interview he gave to nofilmschool.

And here is the great team which supported Paul during shooting CUCKOO, which are: First Assistant Camera ROLF ROSENDAHL – Second Assistant Camera ALTAN ÖZCAN – Second Assistant Camera Hesse MAXIMILIAN PRINZ – Steadicam Operator Camera JÖRG SÜSS – Operator Second Unit & B-Cam NICOLAY GUTSCHER – First Assistants B-Cam JÖRG GÜNTNER, THOMAS BADER, MATTHIAS FUCHS & LEO SIKSTEL – Second Assistant B-Cam LUKAS KLEINT – Additional Loader B-Cam MICHEL BESL – Vtr / Video Operator & Second Assistant Camera Second Unit FINN WEEGE – Vtr / Video Operator SVEN WECKER – Video Operator MORITZ VETTER – Camera Trainee Camera HANNA KORTUS – Assistant Tests LEO SIKSTEL.

First-Look Image from CUCKOO!

As production wraps in Germany we are excited to share a first-look image from Cuckoo.

08/07/2022

HUNTER SCHAFER - SOURCE: COURTESY OF NEON / PHOTOGRAPHY BY FELIX DICKINSON OF STUDIO AAA
HUNTER SCHAFER in CUCKOO: COURTESY OF NEON / PHOTOGRAPHY BY FELIX DICKINSON OF STUDIO AAA

It’s a wrap!

After 35 days of shooting, Tilman Singer, together with a great cast and crew, successfully completed his first feature film after his diploma film LUZ.

Alongside Hunter Schafer, Dan Steven, Jan Bluthardt, Jessica Henwick, Marton Csókás, Proschat Madani, Greta Fernández and Astrid Berges-Frsibey, among others, have performed in front of Paul Faltz’s camera.

NEON serves as a financier and additional funding comes from the Film und Medien Stiftung NRW, HessenFilm und Medien and the German Federal Film Fund (DFFF).

CUCKOO – shooting started!

Tilman Singer starts shooting his horror CUCKOO today in Wuppertal (North Rhine-Westphalia).

11/05/2022

In the debut after his diploma film LUZ, he continues the collaboration with his key crew. These are cinematographer Paul Faltz, production designer Dario Mendez Acosta, composer Simon Wascow and sound designer Henning Hein.

Supported by an incredible (and huge) crew consisting among others of costume designer Frauke Firl, makeup artists Astrid Weber & Hannah Fischleder, gaffer Grube Venn, sound engineer Michael Schloemer and key grip Maike Maier, the shooting will last for 35 days.

Shooting takes place in North-Rhine Westphalia and Hessia.

NEON serves as a financier and additional funding comes from the Film und Medien Stiftung NRWHessenFilm und Medien and the German Federal Film Fund (DFFF).