Dom Rotheroe's My Brother Tom, Dan Ying's Home Sour Home and Christine Lahti's My First Mister are among the twelve films using digital technology in this year's Filmfest Hamburg programme, which will be competing for the newly created $47,000 (DM 100,000) Digi@ward

The full competition line-up is:

Electric Dragon (Sogo Ishii, Japan)
Fausto 5.0 (Isidro Ortiz, Alex Olle, Carlos Padrissa/Spain)
Flickering Lights (Anders Thomas Jensen, Denmark)
Freez'er (Brian Avenet-Bradley, U.S.A.)
Ge Ge/Brother (Yan Yan Mak, Hong Kong)
Home Sour Home (Dan Ying, Sweden)
KAT (Martin Schmidt, Denmark)
Les Jolies Choses (Gilles Paquet-Brenner, France)
My Brother Tom (Dom Rotheroe, UK)
My First Mister (Christine Lahti, U.S.A.)
This Filthy Earth (Andrew Koetting, UK)
Nuages (Marion Hansel, Belgium).

A jury of experts will judge the films in the categories of editing, visual effects/print, and sound design/sound effects, and award the prize money of $31,000 (DM 65,000) and $16,500 (DM 35,000) to two different productions. The money will be presented to the producers of the winning films specifically for the use of digital technology in a film project and can be called up when they place an order of this nature with companies based in Hamburg.

The prize-money will in effect be doubled since local industry partners Atlantik Film Kopierwerk, AVM moving pictures, Das Werk Hamburg and VCC perfect pictures have also agreed to offer services and facilities equivalent to the $47,000 (DM 100,000) to the winning films.