filmtank
develops and produces documentary films and TV documentaries, conceives theme evenings, documentary series and convergent formats. Emphasis in terms of subject-matter is placed on current social developments, cultural phenomena and history, whereby historical subjects are regarded primarily with a view to their relevance to the present day.
The company was founded in February, 2001, as a joint venture between Wüste Film and Thomas Tielsch. Producer and managing director of the company is Thomas Tielsch.

The Hamburg producers Ralph Schwingel and Stefan Schubert have produced a large number of feature films and documentaries with their company Wüste Film since 1990, including the films by Fatih Akin, whose Head-On won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2004 and the European Film Award for Best Film in 2004.
Thomas Tielsch has been producing and directing documentaries since 1983. In 1999, he set about establishing a more durable structure for the development and production of documentary subjects.

In its first six years, filmtank completed 22 full-length and one-hour films, many of them as international co-productions. Lots of the films were screened on international festivals, such as The Mosquito Problem & other stories by Andrey Paounov, which was a big success in Cannes 2007.

In February 2004, filmtank stuttgart was set up as a further branch of the company to strengthen the company’s presence in Baden-Württemberg.

In 2007 filmtank berlin was established as a fusion with former Programmreform GbR. The focus here will be science, technologie, society and format development.




filmtank
creative in documentaries