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GOOD MONSTERS; The Series; Episode 1-5 (English Subtitle)

Short Form Dramedy Series

Fritzi´s exciting 24 hours begin when she tries to rob her husband's dealer.

Fritzi wants to catch her husband's drug dealer. She needs money for a private rehab: for the in-patient detoxification of her addicted husband. The drug dealer,  a small fish who wants to get out of drug trafficking himself, needs money to support his sick father in a nursing home. Together they hatch a plan to screw the “big boss”and get to some money. For Fritzi, the most exciting 24 hours of her life begin, during which she witnesses a murder, falls in love, gains great insights and at the end has to decide, with a bag full of cash, whether she really wants to save her husband? And this after everyone has sung their way through the big question, whether love is enough to save someone?

  • Johannes Muhr
    Director
  • Julia Zimth
    Director
  • Julia Zimth
    Writer
  • Olivia Charamsa
    Producer
  • Julia Zimth
    Producer
  • Florian Maria Sumerauer
    Key Cast
    "HARKO"
  • Peter Geisberg
    Key Cast
    "ANTON"
  • Leif Evers
    Key Cast
    "BIG BOSS"
  • Florentine Schara
    Key Cast
    "BIG BOSSIN"
  • Julia Zimth
    Key Cast
    "FRITZI "
  • Project Type:
    Web / New Media
  • Runtime:
    36 minutes 52 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    December 13, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    9,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Germany
  • Country of Filming:
    Germany
  • Language:
    German
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Webfest Berlin / Best Pilot Award 2020
    Berlin
  • Los Angeles Film Awards (LAFA)
    Los Angeles
    United States
    January 2021: Best Dark Comedy
  • New York Film Awards
    New York
    United States
    January 2021: Best Web Series and Best Original Story
  • Oniros Film Awards
    New York
    January 2021: Grand Jury Award for Best Dark Comedy
  • Actors Awards
    Los Angeles
    January 2021: Best Actor in a TV/Web Series presented to Florian Maria Sumerauer, Best Performance of Fest/ Best Actress in a TV/Web Series presented to Julia Zimth
  • Filmcon Awards

    January 2021: Best Picture, Best Web Series
  • New York In. Film Awards
    New York
    January 2021: Winner Best Soundtrack presented to Therese Strasser, Best Webseries, Best Ensemble
  • Festigious
    Los Angeles
    February 2021: Winner Best Web Series
  • London Web Fest
    London
    United Kingdom
    February 2021: Best Production
  • Indie Short Fest
    Los Angeles
    March 2021: Winner Best Web Series/TV Pilot, nominated for Best Actress, nominated for Best Acting Ensemble, nominated for Best Dark Comedy Short
  • Top Shorts
    Los Angeles
    United States
    February 2021: Best Web Series
  • Independent Shorts Awards
    Los Angeles
    United States
    January 2021: Bronze Award for Best Webseries/Tv Pilot
  • Santa Monica Webfest
    Los Angeles
    United States
    Nominated for Best Actress/Best Drama
  • T.O Webfest
    Toronto
    Canada
    Official Selection
  • Seoul Webfest
    Seoul
    Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
    Nominated für Best Dramedy and Best Music
  • Sicily Webfest
    Ustica
    Italy
    Best Series, Best Orignial Music Score
  • Apulia Webfest
    Puglia
    Italy
  • Minnesota Webfest

    United States
    nominated für Best Dramedy
  • MontréalDigitalWebFest

    nominated for Best Fiction webseries, Best Original Script, Best Directing, Best Actress, Best Actor / winning Grand Prix du Jury
  • Asia Web Awards

    Best Dircector in a Dramedy
  • Digital Media Webfest

    Best Screenplay
Distribution Information
  • http://www.videoplugger.com
    Sales Agent
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Johannes Muhr, Julia Zimth

Johannes Muhr
Studied acting at the Mozarteum, works as a freelance director, actor and editor.
Julia Zimth
2012 - 2016 Studied film with a focus on screenwriting at the ifs internationale filmschule köln. Works as a freelance screenwriter and actress.

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Director Statement

GOOD MONSTERS is a dramedy that combines ease and severity. An homage to French cinema as well as to German film. A link that transforms in the transmedia age - transforms into the worldwide web and thus reaches almost everyone: the topic of ADDICTION, regardless of which form it takes, is more relevant than ever. We are not only interested in what happens to those who are “addicted”, but also to their relatives. The subject is so dark and difficult that hardly anyone wants or can shed light on the matter. It is not only about not looking away, but about paying attention. And since the topic is characterized by significant destructiveness, this can only be achieved if the topic is transformed. A hybrid of ease and severity emerges: dramedy, that is. GOOD MONSTERS is meant to encourage - all the relatives of addicts, all the addicts, all those who could become addicts; it is meant to enlighten AND, through music, go straight to the heart. Breaking the fourth wall by singing in a serial format is an attractive thought. Not only because Brecht already loved to use the “alienation effect” as a literary stylistic element and main component of epic theater, which irritates and at the same time connects.