and try to strengthen the multinational mix here, not only of students, but of teachers too. Here they are taught in three languages, which of course prepares them ideally for life in today’ s society.
Escola Global’ s new premises in ParcBIT opened up the opportunity to offer classes at weekends too. In addition to acting, music and dance, Stagepoint also teaches technical skills like operating a sound studio or a new 3-D programme. What does the curriculum look like? The proximity of the film studio meant that Escola Global was onto a winner. It is a real TV and film studio with props stores, wardrobe, make-up room and technical consoles. We can make use of all of these facilities for our workshops. Everything you might need later in your professional career can be experienced there on site. Every job, whether acting, voice-overs, musician, or soundman for stage, theatre or film, can be taught there in a real environment. Tom Tykwer used these premises in 2011 to film some of the scenes in Cloud Atlas with Halle Berry and Tom Hanks. It is still the most expensive German film ever made.
Your acting and directing work is mainly in Germany. Will you yourself be teaching at the Stagepoint Academy?
I would really love to film something here in the future. The studio is really great, and in no way inferior to the studio in Babelsberg. I will take some workshops on a Saturday morning and initially work with the beginners, teaching them how to act in front of the camera. Other courses will be advertised on the Stagepoint Facebook page.
In addition to weekend courses, a programme is being planned for the three-month Spanish summer holiday. Who can enrol on this? In the future Stagepoint wants to open as a venue for out-of-school programmes for children and teenagers who spend their long summer holidays in Mallorca. We are planning to set up our own film production company for fictional projects, or for documentaries and storytelling. There you will be able to learn everything about making films.
Your children are too still young to be thinking about their future careers, but if they wanted to pursue a career in acting or directing, what advice would you give them? My children accompanied me to all my film shoots until they reached school age, and they are very film oriented. They like to talk about the various jobs on set and they discuss which one appeals to them the most. If they actually decide in the future to go down that road, then
I would advise them to work their way through all the disciplines. I myself went to drama school where I was taught directing, props, wardrobe and the technical side of things alongside acting, and in this respect I always considered myself to be a creative artist, but I always enjoyed the transparency of the process because you can use the range of what you have learned and go in any direction. Our lives are now so governed by the media that I would always support my children if they wanted to become a performing artist or follow a related career. Being sentimental I would say that entertaining people is an honourable profession.
You are currently filming in Germany. Do you have any projects lined up for 2017 that you can tell us about? I will certainly be appearing in Germany, I am at present planning a reading tour from March onwards where with Hanns Zischler I will be reading an exchange of letters, accompanied by a pianist playing Tchaikovsky. And of course I want so spend as much time as possible in Mallorca with my children.
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Saturday SeSSionS at Stagepoint usually start with teamwork exercises and games led by the singing, drama and dance specialists. Then the groups are split up and trained in all 3 disciplines. The main goal is to develop all-round artists who are ready for any international stage. The use of cameras during sessions allows the children to get used to performing for the camera and it also teaches them how to handle the camera to film each other, mainly to experience performances from behind the camera.
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