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The documentary film project »Handmade in Bangladesh« by Prof. Liz Bachhuber, long-time professor of the Fine Art degree programme, and Florian Wehking, artistic associate of the Professorship of Urban Water Management at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, have been awarded the prize for the best feature-length documentary film in the category »No Planet B« at the film festival »Cinema e Ambiente Avezzano« in Avezzano (Italy) on 30 October 2021.

The graduates of the degree programme Media Art and Design and music producers and DJs Mario Weise and Matthias Tanzmann celebrate the 20th anniversary of the label "Moonharbour Recordings" with a compilation in the familiar sound typical of the label.

The master's thesis »Saravá« by Brazilian media artist Pedro Rodolpho Ramos will be shown in the programme of one of the most important documentary film festivals, the IDFA, in Amsterdam. Likewise, the film was selected as one of ten productions for the IDFA DocLab Spotlight, a special category for interactive and immersive highlights and fulldome films.

For his Bachelor's thesis »MateriaLab«, Florian Henschel not only received the Social Design Award of the »German Design Graduates« (GDG) platform, funded with 1,000 euros in prize money by the Hans Sauer Stiftung, but also one of the »Supports«, participation in the »Cradle to Cradle NGO« networking evening. Two further "Supports" went to Master's alumni of the Faculty of Art and Design: Elias Fahle convinced with his customisable orthosis »Parachno«", Maximilian Schatz with his material experiment »Faser.Faden.Filament.«.