Berlin. Made in East|West Germany [2009, premiere at Goethe-Institut Boston] A joint effort pairing West German films (Goethe-Institut Boston) and East German films (DEFA Film Library) to explore similarities and differences in treatments of a shared past. WENDE FLICKS: Last Films from East Germany [2009, premiere at Los Angeles County Museum of Art & Hammer Museum, Los Angeles] 9 feature and 4 documentary films made by the last generation of GDR filmmakers in the years surrounding the fall of the Wall and German unification. Organized in collaboration with The Wende Museum, L.A. REBELS WITH A CAUSE: The Cinema of East Germany [2005, premiere at the Museum of Modern Art, New York] The most comprehensive retrospective of East German cinema ever screened in the US, co-curated in collaboration with the MoMA and Goethe-Institut New York. 21 films reflect on the politic of filmmaking in the GDR. Shadows and Sojourners: Images of Jews and Antifascism in East German Film [2002, premiere University of Massachusetts Amherst] The first retrospective representing the intertwined themes of German/Jewish relations, antifascism, anti-Semitism, and the Holocaust in GDR cinema. Berlin, Divided Heaven: From the Ice Age to the Thaw [1999, premiere at the Northampton International Film Festival] The city of Berlin has had a history unlike any other that is told by 16 films produced in both parts of Germany. Faculty Research Fellows 2014–15 Andy Räder (University of Rostock, Germany) 2011–12 Seán Allan (University of Warwick, UK) 2010–11 Benita Blessing (University of Vienna, Austria) Recognition and awards 2013, Letter of recognition from Bernd Neumann, Minister of Culture and Media of the Federal Republic of Germany 2011, cinefest Hamburg: Reinhold-Schünzel-Preis to Barton Byg 2005, Recipient of the Programming Award of the DEFA Foundation, Berlin. Current DEFA team Barton Byg, Founder Skyler Arndt-Briggs, Executive Director Hiltrud Schulz, Production | Outreach | Contracts Joe Keady, Subtitling | Print Rentals | Conferences Katrin Bahr, Research Collection | DVD Rentals & Sales Angel Crockett, Bookkeeping | DVD Sales Konstanze Schiller | Print Archive Colby Makin |Film Archive See also List of East German films Lists of film archives External links DEFA Film Library Homepage Special collections at W.E.B. Du Bois at UMass Icestorm Entertainment GmbH Los Angeles Country Museum of Art Toronto International Film Festival Wexner Center for the Arts Real Art Ways Darkside Cinema PROGRESS Film-Verleih DEFA Foundation The Wende Museum The German Studies Association East German Cinema: DEFA and Film History