Munich in spring is a pleasure anyways. And then a cinema with old and new friends in the audience – herrlich.
Danke DokFest München für die schöne Vorführung!
Thank you Planete Doc Festival! Although I had a fever, I really enjoyed the great ambiance, created by you film passionate people! See you next time for longer…
wir lieben kleine volle kinosäle!
Two screenings at Sofia Middle East & North Africa Region Film Festival 16 – 31.01.2013
January 19th at 18.15h in Lumiere Cinema – Couchsurfers get a special ticket reduction!
January 28th at 18.00h in The Red House
GLOBAL HOME is screened in a fantastic location in Istanbul – Garaj Istanbul
Friday 07.12.2012 at 6.30 pm
Followed by a special concert of Marije Nie / Tapdance, Sarp Maden, Guitar, Serkan Polak / Darbuka, Hakan Polat / Ney
We’ll introduce our new project ‘One Million Steps’ to you and to have a great evening together!
Breaking news of gorgeous GLOBAL HOME protagonist Maria Clara Lagoeiro Süssekind! Her life also inspired Gloria Perez, one of the most important brasilian telenovela writers. Based on Clara’s story she developed a character for a famous TV series “Salve Jorge” that is actually broadcasted in Brasil.
See, what awesome people you can find on couchsurfing …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJXe3YM-XhI
And the ultimately BEST THING for the screening tonight: One of the fantastic protagonists is going to be in the audience and around for the Q & A! Casey Fenton, the initial programmer and co-founder of couchsurfing.org will be at “The Roxy”, plus a terrific bunch of CouchSurfers from the Basecamp, all presented by lovely Media Projects Wondergirl Heather O’Brien… aah! I wish I could be there!
Old cinemas keep on coming back in my life! Last time GLOBAL HOME was screened in “Lichtburg” a 60 years old beauty, tonight “The Roxie” will host the next screening. The Roxie is the oldest continuously running cinema in the United States and has been at its location in San Francisco’s Mission District since it opened in 1909!!! They have a kickstarter campaign going that should be checked out by cinema lovers …
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/52522596/the-roxie-theater-is-keeping-our-mission-reel“>
Filmbalaya.com – San Francisco’s Filmsite / nice review!
http://filmbalaya.com/2012/11/12/docfest-2012-day-2-global-home/
In the Couchsurfing News…
http://www.couchsurfing.org/news/community/two-documentaries-about-couchsurfing/
Listen to the CS advise – and get inspired!
The Daily Californian / announcment
http://www.dailycal.org/2012/11/07/doc-fest/
SF Gate today / announcement
http://www.sfgate.com/movies/industrybuzz/article/Ursula-Meier-s-Swiss-drama-Sister-4023612.php#ixzz2C1zAgWQn
GLOBAL HOME goes San Francisco!
Three times at SFDocfest 08-21.November. Save the date, friends in San Francisco, pass by and watch my movie! ps. you recognize the roof?
SUNDAY, 11 NOV / 9.30 PM
Shattuck Cinema
2230 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley
FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012 / 7.15 PM
Roxie Theater
3117 16th at Valencia, San Francisco
TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2012 / 7.30 PM
Roxie Theater
3117 16th at Valencia, San Francisco
Danube walk with Mamatal Belmondo, cake and cream in the pot, with Tobias Schrade in his Galery, and with all my cousins jumping in front of the Münster. And the day of departure it happened that Ulm had transformed into a magic winter wonderland over night…
http://www.swp.de/ulm/lokales/ulm_neu_ulm/Gaeste-zu-haben-ist-wie-Reisen;art4329,1694362
Another moment of great hospitality on the way of GLOBAL HOME!
Thank you so much Tobias Schrade and Martina Strilic for hosting this fantastic party in your Galerie Tobias Schrade
And it’s a fantastic Premiere with a red carpet, a surreal robot, champagne, more people than seats (250!) very old friends and brand new ones in the audience, the great score composer Jürgen Grözinger with us aaaaand the most amazing thing: MAMATAL AG DAHMANE in the house! My wonderful host and protagonist from Mali is coming from Paris. A very special gift for all of us!
Thank you Sebastian Schmidt, Rainer Zimmermann and Roland Sailer from Dietrich Kinos for this cooperation and the great cinema!
GLOBAL HOME goes Ulm!
I had to travel five countries on four continents to overenjoy the German Premiere in ULM! Ulm has been home for me for some years, and it feels fabolous and a bit weird that this is happening. Come on in, next friday!
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Als Auftakt von 60. Jahre Lichtburg läuft GLOBAL HOME am Freitag, den 26.Oktober 2012 um 20:00 in der Lichtburg, Frauenstr. 61, Ulm. Kommt vorbei!
Ankündigung auf REGIO TV
Ankündigung in Augsburger Allgemeine
Ankündigung in Ulm News
And the Premiere had everything you can ask for: Glamorous Girls, a packed cinema, great screening quality (DCP we love it) a lively Q & A, great responses of the audience, and a dinner with friends afterwards.
GLOBAL HOME was screened with 15 METROS, a brilliant short doc, shot in Haiti after the earthquake, by mexican filmmaker Alan Romero Zavala.
And then the party… As fate would have it there was the “Bar 25″ party this night. But when applying some of my Bar 25 habits I got kicked out of the club! How cool is that! Amanda argued half an hour and boxed me in again. Thank you, Super-Amanda!
I dived into promoting my film as never before. I spamed however London related friends, friends of friends, took over the press list of the festival, created events on Facebook and Couchsurfing, crafted all sorts of energetic posts, hired a press agent, spread GLOBAL HOME postcards all over the Apollo cinema and the Filmmakers Lounge, and all peeps I met I invited personally, thank you Pigalle for introducing me to your fabulous friends… !
Now I let it go, and will see if people show up, in a city where 1001 things are going on on a Friday at 20:15 pm. Great time, huh?
And YES: If you are a journalist and want to write about GLOBAL HOME, mails by journalists make me happy, please get in touch- mail@evastotz.com!
Click HERE to read a pretty profound interview with Andrew Wilson for Rythm Circus. Check it out!
Yesterday I strolled around in Soho. A beautiful painting in a gallery window caught my attention. There was a man sitting in front of it, his backpack next to him, I took him as a traveller. We started to chat and Brian introduced himself as a homeless person, “homeless out of my own choice.” I was truely surprised, he didn’t look at all like all these countless people you can see here lying in front of supermarkets. “You don’t need to be dirty when you are homeless. This is my city, I know how to live in the streets.”His bright presence and reflected perspective on the society made me do a spontanious street interview. A real Londoner, who wants to live “like we where ment to live”. After he found God he did a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, as he wanted to do one prayer there. It took three attempts, finally after 4 months on the road where he only spent 90 Pounds, he arrived and did his prayer in Jerusalem. After this he stayed only one more day, then jumped on the plane and flew back in 5 hours to London. So thankful for this encounter. Will edit the interview a bit and post it soon.
The real one!
Sunday Brunch, thank you Amanda!
Deep fried Tofu in Chinatown
love these little stencils. I asked Kelly who passed by with a box to give the size reference
Black taxis, black hats – no doubt, this must be London!
Main Venue: Apollo cinema, 19 Lower Regent Street, Pigadilly Circus, London SW1Y4LR
big as a London appartment, thank you Raindance!
Here we go! Opening Party at Café de Paris in London. Celebration of the 20th Birthday of the Festival! Congratulation Elliot Grove and Team! 
“I wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed your film and that we’d love to screen it at Raindance this year.”
SUZANNE BALLANTYNE, PROGRAM DIRECTOR
RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL Sept 26 – Oct 7, 2012
In my favorite cinema in Berlin, fsk am Oranienplatz, 100 people gather together.
This colourful mulit-national crowd is here to see what? Yep, GLOBAL HOME – here’s the first welcome in the friends world.
great screening, lot of laughter, and presentation of the lovely team afterwards.
Cling glasses with all Princes and Princesses in in Prinzessinnengarten, and tapdancing Marije and drumming Jürgen give the thing the peak!
Thanks to all of you, GLOBAL HOME is where we are.
somewhere in the mexicain jungle
lovely ladies met the undercover-unicorn
to share some secrets and some chocolate
that’s a good thing to do …
The place of the Worldpremiere!
You are looking for a good reason to go to Austin? Here it is:
GLOBAL HOME is shown for the first time at SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST FESTIVAL in Austin, Texas!
Check our SXSW page with Trailer and shit!
Wanna become a fan on Facebook? Yes, you can!
And soon, very soon, our homepage will be online – Here’s already something to see and a pretty booklet to download!
Howdy, let’s go Texas!
yesterday i was skyping with Mamatal, my host and protagonist in Mali.
I’m actually very worried about his family and the people I know there – some months ago a brutal fight between the tuareg and the government started and already 400.000 tuareg had to flee.
Mamatal is safe in France and involved with an organisation called ARVRA. Here an article from him with some bitter facts. Every support is needed!
Toumastpress good blog, mostly french
Amnesty International
BBC News
The UN refugee agency
… da wird gerechnet und gerendert, sounddesigned und farbkorrigiert, musiziert, simuliert, exportiert, importiert, computer abgeschmiert, und diskutiert diskutiert diskutiert … olàlà
nach 9 monaten bildschnitt
wird heute die nabelschnur durchtrennt
und morgen das filmkind den technikern übergeben
mama darf sich freuen und stolz sein
na, wie heißt es denn, das kleine?
ähch tja….
some title experts around?
mann, schwierig
voll unterschätzt
von meinem adlerhorst runter entwickel ich ein inniges verhältnis zu den orangenen Leutchen. ich seh sie, aber sie sehen mich nicht hirrhirrhirr
zuerest die bvg karre für den hausmüll
später die christbaum abfuhr,
dann der glascontainer –
ansonsten – einsame straßen.
stadt ist komisch
vincent ist wieder in paris, der film will noch etwas aufmerksamkeit.
jetzt lege ich selber hand an.
nächtlicher blick in den schneideraum bei mir zuhause, der letzte auf diesem weg …
die zweite und letzte schnittphase hat begonnen.
wir vergraben uns am kachelofen
vorweihnachtszeit im schneideraum ist gar nicht so schlecht …
auf dem bildschirm: jerusalem, junger mönch und tourist
… of our first 8 weeks of editing,
the OURS = bear, french for ROUGHCUT = is roaring
condensed two hours, and the skeletton stand upright.
for sure not the most filigree yet – but she’s gonna a beeautifuul one day …
thanks, dude, for this amazing artist & craftsman work!
… the stillness outside is frightening,
inside this little mud hut it’s getting intense.
we slowely turn into quotation slaves and our skin is changing strangely.
it’s very likely we turn crazy soon,
goodbye default world !!
and here she comes – meckpomm in all her breezy straight forward charme
… tricky separation of pears and apples
… something between a REAL intense clean house session
and being the super pionier
on your own playground
with Pilli, the Pillow, our new friend
who came in our editing suite, the black day when my bike was stolen,
probably to console this into parts girl
Daten, Karteikarten, Unmenge von Notizen -
Kreative Prozesse stellt man sich irgendwie wilder vor…
after 80 h of rushes, the necks hurt like hell
and then, ridiculously on the very same day, we both make an eye infection
a sign of sucessfull syncing…?
Editing part 01 with Vincent starts today
once to see them all together,
- the PROTAGONISTS!
CASEY from San Francisco,
ALICE from Bethlehem,
MAMATAL from Bamako,
CLARA from Göreme,
MICHIKO from Tokyo
awesome, eh?
… alice from bethlehem and ofir from jerusalem reach berlin and are couchsurfing my place. welcome, friends!
our flight from nevshehir delayed, and we missed the connection flight in istanbul –
oooooh frustration, no touchdown berlin today!
but turkish airlines sponsored a hotel, and we had the pleasure of one more night of single room, bathtub and tea at bosporus.
suddenly i discoverd, it ALL started in this city…
here I made my first couchsurfing experience, and thanks to OKAN, my marvellous host, i inflamed with passion for the project. it was here, where the idea for this film came to life, and of course here it comes to an end – ha, nice one!
THANKS to all angels on the way, the amazing protagonists, the loyal hardworking team, the good star above all! i’m off for now – and in the editing – but keep you updated about the ongoing steps of baby HOUSEGUESTS.
thanks to all of you, who followed the blog!
love
e*
letzter drehtag
nicht nur für die türkei episode –
sondern aller vier drehreisen.
usa, japan, mali, westbank
jetzt auf der türschwelle der türkei
103 drehtage
130 h material
uffuffhamdullulah
YEAH*
Tourism shooting – balloon flights over Kappadokia
massive amounts of balloons every morning in the sky
aaaaah – this is the most cinematographique place
whereever I place the camera – there’s a picture
am morgen
emro mit der coolsten radiobox ever
mucke steckt oben im memorystick,
das ding läuft auf nokia-handy akkus.
KOMPATIBEL!
– we love it!!
am abend
heute haben wir fest gestellt dass wir gar keine vier tage mehr da sind,
sondern nur noch drei.
irgendwie waren wir beide von abflug freitag ausgegangen.
das bergfest – die mitte des drehs – haben wir auch nicht wirklich gefeiert.
das wird gleich gemacht
am morgen
stolz wie oskar mit mietwagen
am nachmittag
enges und erweitertes team nach claras tanzunterricht in kayseri
kennt jemand dieses tier?
oder doch CIA geheimwaffe?
gefunden – am anfang noch quietschlebendig – in unserem trauten heim
ein fall für
iiiiiiaiiaiaiaiiaiaiaiaiiaiaiaiiaiaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!
after six days cut off from the internet we are online again
see some snapshots of our last days of filming …
it’s mystical, beautiful and horses everywhere!
for sure some aspects of my paradise
some of our wonderful food
pizza … too fast for here
thanks, garip, for the awesome cooking
health to your hands and afyet olsun
wir finden für das stativ keinen geeigneten handkarren
den einzigen rolator im ort will der besitzer nicht rausrücken
es ist der dreh bei dem viel zu fuß gegangen wird
wir nutzen die chance beim touristendreh mal wieder ein bisschen zu tanzen
hier, mit erich in der locomotion
our room, we couchsurf clara’s dancing room
we are papucalized – we arrived!
garip stabilisiert das lämpchen, was koki gebaut, und armin gekauft – thanks boys!
Again airport.
On the cusp of the last travel & film adventure for HOUSEGUESTS.
Turkey, with Garip at my side, friend and soundengineer.
Wireless internet at clara’s place – from now on – I feed the Blog daily.
Sometime’s it feels lonely doing a blog.
in other words – habibi, i love comments!*
beautiful karsten brings to the airport, and invites us as always for coffee and marzipancroissants*
favorite travel starter, thanks for that, love!
abends, acht
gelandet
kayseri
hamdullulah!
der ejatüttelüttel vereitelt den plan heute in die letzte drehetappe in die türkei aufzubrechen
what to do? acts of god…
könnt schlimmer kommen
it’s spring in berlin!
die trendfarbe dieses frühjahr ist übrigens – black!
zumindest in kreuzberg…
VINCENT SCHMITT, who lately edited the fish ballet OCEANS, is on board as the editor of HOUSEGUESTS! WELCOME, dude!
THANK GOODNESS we met on the BERLINALE TALENT CAMPUS 2008!
What is the Streik about?
Click Streikblog
Read Tagesspiegel
Finally we do two more days of couchsurfing in TelAviv.
Elat and Sarit are our hosts – and they are wonderful!
Thank you so much for the sincere and no nonsence discussions, the encounter with wild bitch tahina and your bikes!
This time at the Dead Sea
Thanks for the beautiful photos, Ali Masri!
Organised by Cinema Jenin people and the Bustaan Qaraqaa gang.
Donkey – bring the soundsystem, and let’s hop off the occupation!
Thank you so much for that, guys!
Israel and Palestine is the place for all kind of segregation studies.
barbwire, ditches, fences, checkpoints, walls of stone, metall, concrete, threats, written on signs and verbalised.
For the film it’s probably the important counterbalance to the utopia of a world without borders…
koki und ich, mal wieder beim versuch zu verstehen.
er beim lauschen an der klagemauer …
… ich auf recherche am tempelberg
… BY THE DEVIL COMPLICATED !
people
are
weird
… our friend assistant and papa angel in the yellow taxi!
Wanna book a trip with Khaled on the Westbank?
Highly recommended!
here’s his email: hiddentreasuretours@gmail.com
We are on Awad’s land. Alice and the volunteers help with tree planting and water catchment construction. As the law stand, the palestinians have better chances to claim their property if the soil is cultivated. Due to settlement construction nearby, Awad’s land gets more and more confiscated. In 2007, Israeli Occupation Forces destroyed an apricot and date orchard in his family garden.
Would you like to see video footage of the 20. may 2007? Click here!
Alice, our protagonist, is also in this vid – with a brilliant example of non-violent resistance …
*pics by Ali Masni
In Hebron befinden sich mehrere israelische Siedlungen. Anders als in anderen Städten des Westjordanlandes leben die jüdischen Siedler auch im Stadtzentrum. Es kommt immer wieder zu gewalttätigen Auseinandersetzungen zwischen jüdischen und arabischen Bewohnern der Stadt.
In den Teilen Hebrons, in dem die Altstadtgassen unter Siedlerwohnungen verlaufen,
schützt sich die palästinensische Bevölkerung mit Gittern über den Gassen vor den herab geworfenen Steinen und Müll.
Die meisten Läden sind geschlossen, die Stimmung unheimlich gedrückt.
Find the sniper in the picture
Freitag an der Abraham Moschee. Sie ist, wie so viel Orte hier, für Moslems und Juden wichtig. Die Gemeinsamkeiten sind Grund für Konflikte. Die palästinensischen Demonstanten werden geblockt, die Tränengas Schüsse hören wir als wir gerade raus durch das Drehkreuz sind. Ich stelle mir vor wie sich Panik an diesem Ort anfühlt. Panik im Drehkreuz. Es hat hier schon viel davon gegeben.
Mehr zum aktuellen Konflikt um die Ibrahimi-Moschee
BeitSahur, next to Bethlehem, Westbank.
Jericho, Jerusalem, Shepherd’s Field, Nativity Church, Dome of the Rocks, Wailing Wall – all these holy places around the corner.
Alice and the others run a Permaculture Project there.
What is Permaculture?
Tell me more about their project!
Read their blog
Ach du liebes Radieschen!
Alice, our protagonist, and Koki, the soundengineer, plant a tree together.
Interview with Producer Annedore von Donop and Director Eva Stotz
click to download
