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‘Raju’ Director on Going to Great Lengths to Film a Short Max Zaehle (left) directing Wotan Mohring and Julia Richter in ‘Raju.’ Barbara Chai, Wall Street Journal Although his short film, “Raju,” deals with the weighty subject of illegal child-trafficking, director Max Zaehle is ebullient when discussing his work. Perhaps […]
Angelus Winner Talks Oscar With WSJ
By Benjamin Sutton The 2012 Academy Award-Nominated Live-Action Shorts, Animated Shorts, and Documentary Shorts Opening February 10 at IFC Center Attempting to find a unifying theme to one year’s 15 Oscar-nominated short films is a necessarily (and happily) impossible task, but if nothing else the strongest contenders in the […]
Film Reviews Meet the Family and Fate in 2012’s Oscar-Nominated ...
Max Zahle is a student filmmaker who has a movie showing at Sundance this weekend. But that’s not all. He just found out the movie “Raju” is also nominated for an Oscar. Max came on Good Things Utah to talk about “Raju” and his accomplishments. He says “Raju” was shot […]
Angelus Winner discuss Oscar Nom on ABC
2012 Oscar nominee Max Zähle is interviewed on Good Day Utah with Angelus Student Film Festival director Monika Moreno about his acclaimed film RAJU. Zähle who is a Hamburg Media School grad and was awarded the the 2011 Patrick Peyton Excellence in Filmmaking Award at the Angelus Student Film Festival, received word […]
Angelus Winner & Fest Director Discuss Oscar Nom on Fox
By Ben Fulton The Salt Lake Tribune Park City • Max Zähle’s 24-minute film “Raju” didn’t make the cut among this year’s short films selected for competition by the Sundance Film Festival, but it proved good enough for an Oscar Nomination for Best Live Action Short Film. The 34-year-old […]
German filmmaker gets news of Oscar nom at Sundance
Max Zähle, a graduate of Hamburg Media School, has been nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short for his film, “Raju,” which will receive a free screening in Park City on Saturday sponsored by the Angelus Student Film Festival. In 2011, Zähle won the Angelus Festival’s Patrick Peyton […]
Student filmmaker wins Oscar nod for his short film
2011 Angelus Student Film Festival grand prize winner and Hamburg Media School grad Max Zähle, who was awarded the fest’s Patrick Peyton Excellence in Filmmaking Award for RAJU, has been nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short. The gripping, emotionally harrowing story of a German couple who adopt a young Indian boy in Kolkata has […]