ABOUT
Helpingstones Pictures is a film production company from Germany with a strong passion for entertainment-art and creative understanding of international markets.
The minds behind are young yet experienced, spirited talents using a wide-range of a networks and combining them with flexible business models to fullfill their dreams of producing quality entertaining feature films with strong messages that will resonate with audiences around the world.
Helpingstones Pictures and partners have the direction and focus to drive them to success and meaning.
Kai Borchardt
'Once upon a time a bankaccount manager asked Kai Borchardt to be involved in his comedyfilmproject "Pfeffer und Salz". Open for all kinds of creative minds, Kai joined the ambitious filmteam and felt in love with immediately. For about 20 years in row Kai worked out filmstories for Comedy- and satirical episodes and Parody which received many festivalnominations nationalwide. The VHS and DVD compilation " Star-Tresh" became a cult-hit in independent filmfanscene and a must have for friends of Sc-Fi and Comedy-genre in Germany. In german filmfan-scene he is known as a great actor and storyidea-developer. During the filmproduction of "Robin Hood -Ghosts of Sherwood", where he got engaged for acting the character of "Friar Tuck", he became friends with Anika Neubauer, who immediately discovered his various talents in filmmaking besides acting. Together with her, he decided to step into the world of international feature film productions.
Anika Neubauer
Before studying Marketing- Communications and Psychology in Germany, Anika Neubauer started her career in an international Off Broadway Musical worldtour ROADS from UP WITH PEOPLE which american way of showentertainmentbusinessskills made a deep impact to her and upcoming career. Skilled with US Marketing- and Showentertainmentknowledge she came back to Germany for study and work in PR and Corporate Communications. trained by some leading Businessmanager from Germany she grow up in the field of Marketing and Management by working for FASPO eV., Showcenter Productions, Stiftung Future Hope eV., EAM Energy AG, libra communications before she came back to the business of entertainment and art by organizing and managing musictalents, musicfestivals, cultural events and touristic concepts for Germanys Brother Grimms region. Besides she enjoyed journalistic writings for several national and some international print- and online magazines before stepping into the world of films by becoming a Production Manager for the 3D Real lowbudget feature film project ROBIN HOOD - GHOSTS OF SHERWOOD, which later opened the international 3D filmfestival in Los Angeles. 2010 She received the national business Award from PROMOTION NORDHESSEN for the innovative businessconcept of 3D Real Independentfilmwork in Germany. Combining her businessskills of films and musicentertainment she produced a successfull musicvideo of an international Metalband next which entered the Top 10 charts of TV Music channel stations immediately. 2013 Ulli Lommel, former filmproducer of Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Andy Warhol, discovered her unique talent and engaged her as Line Producer for his latest feature film project MONDO AMERICANA.