Dina Foxx – Deadly Contact and The Witness House receive awards at the BANFF World Media Festival

ZDF Enterprises - June 2015
 

 
TV movies from ZDF Enterprises’ distribution catalogue are in great international demand

The team of "Dina Foxx - Deadly Contact" (from left to right): Marcus Schinkel as Kilian Berger, Katharina Schlothauer as Dina Foxx, Natascha Hockwin as Dina's friend Maike and Tomas Sinclair Spencer as Dina's pal Jason. Copyright: ZDF and Florian Wolf.
Double success for ZDF and its global distributor, ZDF Enterprises: at the renowned BANFF World Media Festival in Canada, not one but two of the coveted Rockie Awards went to the ZDF group. The successful crossmedia TV and online format ‘Dina Foxx – Deadly Contact’, which had already won the International Digital Emmy, won the category ‘Interactive Fiction’. The moving historical TV movie ‘The Witness House’ won the category ‘Made for TV Movie’.

Fred Burcksen, Executive Vice President and COO at ZDF Enterprises, “Receiving not one but two awards at the world’s most important international television festival demonstrates the high standard and innovative quality of the programme catalogue at ZDFE drama. We are particularly proud of the fact that we have earned this honour in a highly competitive, international environment.

In the ground-breaking interactive TV and online thriller ‘Dina Foxx - Deadly Contact’, Dina attempts to halt an epidemic. In doing so, she enters into a ruthless battle between the food industry and political activists. Viewers were also able to immerse themselves in the thriller’s online world via the website dinafoxx.zdf.de alongside the TV experience. Three innovative online threads were combined there: series, game and 360° video investigation. The entire product was also available as an app.

The already multi-award-winning ZDF TV movie ‘The Witness House’ (Gold World Medal at the New York Festivals and others) tells the moving story, based on real events, of the ‘Zeugenhäuser’ (witness houses), in which victims and perpetrators lived under one roof during the Nuremberg Trials in 1945/1946. This ensemble drama with a top-class cast features the talents of Iris Berben and Matthias Brandt, among others.