Local Berlin-Brandenburg funding Medienboard is supporting the new movie HEILSTÄTTEN with 150.000.- Euro. It is the first funded horror movie for years.

Schmerbeck is celebrating the Hessen film prize with Pantaleon producer Marco Beckmann and 20th Century Fox marketing chief Germar Tetzlaff in Frankfurt.

Schmerbeck is event manager of TAGE DER REGIE, a German festival for the directing department. The program 2016 is now online.

Schmerbeck attends the Award Night of Zurich Film Festival.