Belvedere Film: A Short History 

Belvedere Film is the 1999 re-establishment of the film studio created in Vienna, Austria in 1946 by producer August Diglas, silent-film pioneer Emmerich Hanus, and one of the youngest of the few women in history to co-found a film studio, singer and pianist Elfi von Dassanowsky. This first new postwar studio in Central Europe created important feature comedies, dramas, musicals as well as future star careers between 1946 and 1951. John Walker, the editor of Halliwell's Who's Who in Movies credits Belvedere Film for having helped "kick-start the revival of the German-language film industry."

The new Belvedere Film production company of Los Angeles and Vienna was headed by one of the original studio founders, Elfi von Dassanowsky, until her passing in 2007. It serves to distribute the historical Belvedere productions on video internationally and has produced, co-produced or executive produced such noted short films as the award-winning Semmelweis directed by Jim Berry and starring Eden Riegel of All My Children (with Young Allies Films, USA/A 2001), the animated short, The Nightmare Stumbles Past (USA 2002), and the dramatic short The Retreat (USA 2010) directed by Chelsea Marino, as well as the docufeature Felix Austria! aka The Archduke and Herbert Hinkel directed by Christine Beebe (USA 2011), and the forthcoming South African documentary The Black Countess from Bain Street directed by Maggie Follett.The company is member of Film Independent, the Austrian American Film Association, the Austrian Association of Film Producers (AAFP), and the American Federation of Film Producers (AFFP).      
 
Belvedere Film LLC specializes in partnering with Central European companies and U.S. film and cable production venues to co-produce unique and high quality independent features, dramatic shorts and documentaries.

Robert von Dassanowsky, CEO/Producer, Belvedere Film LLC
An acclaimed film and cultural historian, and the Director of Film Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Robert von Dassanowsky has also written for stage and television (Disney Channel, Stone-Stanley Productions). He is the co-founder of the Austrian American Film Association, and serves on several international film festival, grant making and editorial boards. He is a member of the Austrian Academy of Film and the author of Austrian Cinema: A History (McFarland, 2005), co-editor of New Austrian Film (Berghahn, 2011), and editor of Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds: A Manipulation of Metacinema (Continuum, 2012) and World Film Locations: Vienna (Intellect, 2012).