about us	play loud! is a Berlin-based film production company and film and music label, founded in 1997 in New York by filmmakers Dietmar Post and Lucía Palacios. Since 2002 the office is based in former East-Berlin (Germany). Similar to many writers and musicians, such as, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Can, ESP, Ton Steine Scherben, Dead Kennedys, EA 80, and Einstürzende Neubauten play loud! productions releases their films on their own film and music label. play loud! also functions as a service production company. collaborations SWR (Germany), ZDF/3sat (Germany), Odyssee Film -Thomas Schadt- (Berlin), Reiner Holzemer Produktion (München), Doro (Berlin), Absolut Medien (Berlin), Sugar Film Produktion (Hamburg), Peter Stockhaus Filmproduktion (Hamburg), Klangbad/Faust, Cameo/CVFilm (Cologne/Berlin), Icestorm Entertainment (Berlin), Deutsche Telekom, SPV (Hannover), Ernst Klett Verlag (Stuttgart), Cruz-Dann Productions (Madrid), Canal+ (Spain), TVE (Spain), Elías Querejeta P.C. (Spain), Munster Records (Madrid), Grey Advertising Agency (New York), The Jim Henson Company (New York), Mark Ledzian Productions (New York), DOC TV-Robert Duncan (Vancouver), Cine Impuls (Berlin), New Video Group (New York), Sundance Channel (USA), Anthology Film Archives (New York)... Wall Street, documentary by Thomas Schadt for ARD/SWR; TD-1/Telekom, commercial for Sugar; ISION, commercial for Sugar; DJ-Sandy, music video for Doro; Lou Bega Special for Doro; Toro en New York, video piece for La Fura dels Baus; Lorca: Poeta en Nueva York, TV documentary for Canal+ Spain, La Espalda del Mundo, documentary by Javier Corcuera for Elías Querejeta P.C.; The Nomi Song by Andrew Horn for CVFilm/Cameo, Walker Evans, documentary by Reiner Holzemer for BR/arte; The Net, documentary by Lutz Dammbeck for SWR/arte...
Dietmar (left) & G. Burger at Riff-Raff Kino, Zurich	Dietmar Post (director, producer, writer) was born in Espelkamp (Germany) in 1962. He studied Television, Theatre, and Cinema Studies and Spanish Language at the Free University of Berlin and at the Complutense University of Madrid. Between 1995 and 2002 Post worked and lived in New York. He attended film school at New York University (SCE) where he made his first short film, the award-winning Bowl of Oatmeal. His second short film Cloven Hoofed premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival in 1998. Post has assisted renowned documentary filmmakers Thomas Schadt (Wall Street), Reiner Holzemer (Walker Evans) and Lutz Dammbeck (The Net). He is member of the Association of German Documentary Filmmakers (AG Dok). He also works as a voice-over talent.
Lucía Palacios at Filmkunst, Berlin	Lucía Palacios (director, producer, writer) was born in Moral de Calatrava (Spain) in 1972. She studied Cinema & Media Studies at the Complutense University of Madrid. In 1996 she obtained a scholarship at New York University (SCE). She has collaborated as service producer and production manager on films, such as, "The Nomi Song" (Andrew Horn, 54. Berlinale). She has also worked as news reporter and producer for Canal+, TVE and SAT 1. "Reverend Billy & The Church of Stop Shopping" was her first documentary as producer, "monks - the transatlantic feedback" her first feature documentary as co-director. Lucía is currently developing several documentary film projects. She also works as voice-over talent.

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