Houston
2013
A film by Bastian Günther
In co-production with SWR and HR
in collaboration with Cinepostproduction
Supported by FFA, DFFF, BKM, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW,
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg. Screenplay funded by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.
Distrubuted by Farbfilm Verleih Berlin, world sales: The Match Factory
http://www.houston-film.de
In German theatres from 28.11.2013
SYNOPSIS:
Clemens Trunschka is a corporate headhunter and an alcoholic. Drinking increasingly isolates him from his life and leads him away from reality. On the hunt for a top CEO in Houston, Texas, his addiction takes him on a haunting journey into his own darkness.
CAST:
Ulrich Tukur, Garret Dillahunt , Jenny Schily, Wolfram Koch, Jason Douglas, Jens Münchow
TEAM:
Writer / Director: Bastian Günther
Producers: Martin Heisler, Joachim Ortmanns
Commissioning Editors: Stefanie Groß, Jörg Himstedt
Service Producer USA: Anne Walker-McBay, Texas Avenue Films
Director of Photography: Michael Kotschi
Editor: Anne Fabini
Music: Michael Rother
WORLD PREMIERE 2013:
Sundance Film Festival - World Dramatic Competition
FESTIVALS 2013:
• Dallas International Film Festival, Texas USA
• RiverRun International Film Festival, North Carolina USA
• Independent Film Festival Boston, Massachusetts USA
★ awarded with the Special Jury Prize
• H-Town Multicultural Film Festival, Houston, Texas USA
• Shanghai International Film Festival, China
• Marfa Film Festival, Texas USA
• Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Czech Republic
• Motovun Film Festival Zagreb, Croatia
• Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, Brasil
• Zürich Film Festival, Switzerland
• Internationale Hofer Filmtage
★ awarded with the Förderpreis neues deutsches Kino
★ awarded with the Millbrook Autorenpreis
• Biberacher Filmfestspiele
• Panorama Alemão, Brasil
• 17th German Film Festival, Goethe Institut Singapur
• Kinofest Lünen
• German Films Festival Moskau & Novosibirsk, Russia
• 6. Bengaluru International Film Festival, India
✩ Nominiert fur den Texas Independent Film Award, USA
✩ nominated for the Preis der deutschen Filmkritik for BEST FILM
★ awarded with the Preis der deutschen Filmkritik for BEST EDITING
✩ nominated for the German Film Awards 2014 for BEST EDITING
✩ nominiert for the German Camera Awards 2014
• Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival, USA
• Fantasporto - 34. Porto Int. Film Festival, Portugal
★ awarded for BEST ACTOR: Garret Dillahunt
• 13. AUDI Festival des Deutschen Films, Australia
• Festival Filmplus, Forum für Filmschnitt und Montagekunst, Köln
✩ nominated for BEST EDITING
• Film- und Medienkongress Cologne "Made in NRW"