georgetown media works with gay men's health promotion organisations creating a variety of entertaining and informative videos from concept and script through to filming and post-production. Nicholas also currently facilitates the video group for Hein & Fiete – Hamburg's gay men's health promotion project.
HIV prevention in German Sign Language
Client: Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe
Format: 22 x 5 mins (approx.), MPEG-2, 1080/25p, single-cam
Language: German Sign Language (no audio)
Location: Berlin
Date: June 2013 (series 1), June 2014 (series 2)
Credits:
Written, filmed, directed and produced by Nicholas Feustel
Award: The German AIDS Foundation’s Media Award
Website:
www.gehoerlosen-aids-info.de
This series of videos produced for Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe provides comprehensive, up-to-date, accessible and non-judgemental information on HIV prevention and health promotion for gay and bisexual deaf men in their mother tongue. It won the German AIDS Foundation’s Media Award 2013 / 2014.
The Safety Crew
Hamburg's gay men's health promotion team
Client: Hein & Fiete
Format: 5 mins, MiniDV, PAL 16:9, single-cam
Language: German with English subtitles
Date: October 2010
Credits:
Starring Hein & Fiete's Safety Crew
Written by Jonas Ockelmann and Nicholas Feustel
Filmed, directed and produced by Nicholas Feustel
An explicit and entertaining video promoting the 'Safety Crew' - who are 'out and about' in Hamburg on behalf of Hein and Fiete, the gay switchboard.
"Then I'll Know!"
A film promoting HIV testing at Hein & Fiete's (Hamburg's gay men's health promotion project)
Client: Hein & Fiete
Format: 9 mins, MiniDV, PAL 16:9, multi-cam
Language: German with English subtitles
Date: August 2011
Credits:
Written, directed and produced by Nicholas Feustel
This 'scripted reality' documentary demistifies the process of going for an HIV antibody test.
Play Safe Please 2012
The making of the photo shoot
Client: Play Safe Please
Format: 5 mins, MiniDV, PAL 16:9, single-cam
Language: German with English subtitles
Date: May 2011
Website: www.playsafeplease.de
Credits:
Starring Kim, André, Patrice and Kimberly
Photographer: Tino Broyer
Filmed and edited by Nicholas Feustel
Play Safe Please is a national, privately initiated, voluntary campaign for HIV prevention in Germany launched in 2011 by a team of friends who wanted to produce a fresh approach to safer sex.
A video greeting message
From Susan G. Komen Deutschland e.V. to the L-Beach Festival
Client: Kathrin Spielvogel
Format: 2 mins, MiniDV, PAL 16:9, single-cam
Language: German
Date: April 2011
Credits:
With Kathrin Spielvogel
Filmed and produced by Nicholas Feustel
A personal message from Kathrin Spielvogel on behalf of the Susan G. Komen Foundation prior to the screening of 'I want to live, don't I' at the L Beach Festival, which ultimately reveals the – visually obvious – reason why she was unable to attend.