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On sunday 20 June at 10:00, 12:00 and 16:00 the documentary Keeping it real by Sunny Bergman, will be broadcast on RTV NH. Keeping it real is a philisophical examination of modern man's desire to get the originality and authenticity back into his life.
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UITZENDING Kiev-Paris, the Next Top Model, donderdag 17 juni 20:50 uur, AVRO Up Close,Ned.3
Wie televisie kijkt weet het: de ultieme meisjesdroom is topmodel worden. De vermeende glamour van de modewereld staat echter in schril conttrast met de werkelijkheid. Dat weet regisseur Nadine Kuipers uit ervaring: zij was zelf een succesvol model. Ze kreeg genoeg van de belachelijke offers die ze moest brengen en stopte. Zij kon die keuze maken. Hoe is het als je die keuze niet hebt en je droom koste wat kost moet volhouden?
Higgs, into the heart of imagination is selected for the Brooklyn International Film Festival, which takes place in New York, between 4-13 June 2010.
The film will be screened on Saterday June 5 and Monday June 7. For more details look at: brooklynfilmfestival.org
On sunday 9 May at 18:15 the documentary Art in the eye of the beholder, will be broadcast on Ned. 2. A film about the influence of the beholder on the meaning of art.
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A.s vrijdag 2 april om 22:50 uur wordt De wereld van Charlotte Mutsaers, een film van Suzanne Raes, uitgezonden bij de NPS Het uur van de wolf.
On Thursday, Februari 4 at 10:50 p.m., the documentary HIGGS, into the heart of imagination, will be broadcast on Nederland 2. UITZENDING Kiev-Paris, the Next Top Model, zaterdag 19 december, 21:05 uur, AVRO Up Close,Ned.3
Wie televisie kijkt weet het: de ultieme meisjesdroom is topmodel worden. De vermeende glamour van de modewereld staat echter in schril conttrast met de werkelijkheid. Dat weet regisseur Nadine Kuipers uit ervaring: zij was zelf een succesvol model. Ze kreeg genoeg van de belachelijke offers die ze moest brengen en stopte. Zij kon die keuze maken. Hoe is het als je die keuze niet hebt en je droom koste wat kost moet volhouden?
Dutch artist Nathalie Bruys made 'Brand new world'; a floating soundsculpture in the sea. This sculpture is part of 'Een Dijk van een Kust'-project; a route of artworks along a former seawall at the Markerlake in Northern-Holland.
Under the name 'Windlessness' one can meander through the exceptional landscape inbetween Durgerdam and Etersheim. The artworks try to reflect the history of the landscape and the role of this seawall in it. The works can been seen and/or heard until the 16th of August.
On Friday, June 19 at 7:30 p.m., the sixth and last episode of the award-winning series Passion for the Hermitage will be broadcast on Nederland 2. Episode 6 is all about metamorphosis: the conversion of the Amstelhof Nursing Home into the Hermitage Museum Amsterdam. Director Aliona van der Horst takes us along for a tour of the demolition, the reconstruction, and the preparations for the first exhibition.
The earlier episodes of the series, which were broadcast in 2003, will be aired each week starting on Sunday, May 17 at 7:15 p.m. on Nederland 2. Watch a clip
Sunday 14th of june 2009, the last part of the series A Passion for the Hermitage found it's premiere in the DokuArts Festival at the Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. The film Metamorphosis was introduced by a spectacular performance of composer Harry de Wit and his technician Jannes Noorman. The director Aliona van der Horst and her husband also fullfilled a role in this little show. After the film, De Wit dedicated his performance to the composer and pianist Oleg Karavaychuk, a character of the documentary, as he felt a lot of compassion for this person.
Read Me! now has new promotional material available for schools, libraries, and other interested parties. Read Me! posters, postcards and bookmarks invite kids to come take a look at www.leesmij.nu . The promotional packet is available free of charge, all you pay is 6.20 euro for postage. To order a packet or for more information, please write to info@leesmij.nu
Starting this month, you can order DVDs of all Viewpoint films on our website. Go to the Shop (the pink button at the
top left) and take your pick! Payment can be made with iDeal or Paypal, and Viewpoint will send your orders out as quickly as possible.
Bambara Blues, a documentary by Jacqueline van Vugt is on tour this week through Holland
1 december 2008
20:00 - Apeldoorn, Filmhuis Gigant
2 december 2008
19:15 - Hilversum, Filmhuis Hilversum
3 december 2008
19:15 - Hilversum, Filmhuis Hilversum
19:30 - Den Haag, Filmhuis Den Haag (met Q&A)
The short film Its Love That We Dont Understand, directed by Bouwine Pool and part of the Read Me! project, has been selected for the Holland Animation Film Festival in Utrecht. The festival will be held from November 5-9. Pool's animated short is based on the book of the same name by Bart Moeyaert.
The short film can be seen at www.leesmij.nu/leeseenmeisje . For more information on the Holland Animation Film Festival, surf to www.haff.nl .
During the Netherlands Film Festival in Utrecht, Read Me! can be seen in the display window of the Selexyz Broese Bookstore. Throughout the festival, which takes place from September 24 to October 3, all the films on the Read Me! site will be shown on a widescreen TV in the display window, so that passersby can watch them.
The store is located at Stadhuisbrug 5, across from the Winkel van Sinkel in the heart of Utrecht. For more information on the festival, please visit www.filmfestival.nl .
Bambara Blues (directed by Jacqueline van Vugt) has been selected for the main program of the Netherlands Film Festival in Utrecht. The festival will take place from September 24 to October 3. Bambara Blues will screen at the following locations and times:
Thursday, September 25 at 4:00 p.m. in Hoogt 2
Monday, September 29 at 6:00 p.m. in Hoogt 3
For more information about the venue and the festival, please visit www.filmfestival.nl .
On September 14, the Netherlands Institute for Media Art (NIMK) celebrated the inauguration of the website www.soundmuseum.fm . This virtual museum is now officially open to the public.
In addition to Soundmuseum.fm, you can also visit the specially designed installation at the NIMK until November 2. For more information, surf to www.nimk.nl .
Currently, the last touches are being put on Soundmuseum.fm, an online museum for sound art. Starting with its launch on September 14th, Soundmuseum.fm will offer new exhibits each month compiled by guest curators. The exhibited sounds come from the world of art, underground, and from all over the planet. They can consist of field recordings or compositions, can last seconds or hours, and can range in character from cinematic sound to silence.
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For the sixth and final episode of the award-winning documentary series Passion for the Hermitage, Aliona van der Horst went back to St. Petersburg in May to film in the famous museum. She followed various employees who are preparing the first exhibit on Russian balls, which will open in the spring of 2009 in the Hermitage's satellite museum in Amsterdam. One of the highlights of this exhibit is the grand piano that the last Russian tsar Nicholas II gave to his wife Alexandra. This piano was dismissed as unplayable until the day a strange-looking man asked if he could give it a try. He was the genius composer and concert pianist Karavaychuk. His music is indescribable, not seeming to originate from him, but from unknown forces.
Bambara Blues has been shown to the communities in and around Kayes, the small city in Mali where the documentary was shot.
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Over the Hill has won the Audience Award at Documenta Madrid 08, International Documentary Film Festival in Madrid. The film also received an honorable mention at the Docville International Documentary Film Festival in Leuven. The jury report reads as follows: "By means of a personal quest, the filmmaker cleverly exposes the fundamental suppressive aspects of a fast-growing trend in society: plastic surgery."
Over the Hill has been selected for various film festivals. It was screened at the European Documentary Film Festival in Neubrandenburg, the Prix Europa in Berlin, the Netherlands Film Festival in Utrecht, and Docville in Gent. In April 2008, Over the Hill was part of the program "Female Bodies: Biopolitics and Body Politics" at the 10th International Womens Filmfestival in Seoul. The documentary was selected for INPUT, the international conference for public broadcasters, where recent state-of-the-art programs are shown and debated. This summer, the film will screen at the Black Lily Film and Music Festival in Philadelphia, in the competition program of Documenta Madrid '08, at Encounters (South African International Documentary Film Festival), and at Ecofilms (Rodos International Film and Visual Arts Festival).
Sunny Bergman has won the 2007 Sound and Image Award in the Information category. The other nominees in this category were The Great Donor Show (BNN) and Other Times, Celebes Parts 1 & 2 (NPS). In their report, the expert jury wrote: "Over the Hill is a penetrating portrait of an era. It shows how the physical reality around us is undergoing rigorous changes, so much so that real and natural no longer exist. But strangely enough, the unreal serves as an ideal of how we want to look, or think we want to look. The viewer gets the facts in painstaking detail, and sometimes the director leads us through this new reality, with mild irony and in a unique manner, in part by offering herself as the object. This form of participatory journalism provides an extra and special dimension to this extremely entertaining documentary."
The Sound and Image Awards are presented to the very best Dutch TV shows and multimedia concepts, and to the TV Personality of 2007.
Over the Hill has received two awards at the European film festival Document ART 2007: the Mecklenburg Insurance Group Award and the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Film Communication Award.
Over the Hill has been nominated for the 2007 Prix Europa. For this award, European broadcasters can submit their best TV, radio and internet programs. Together with Jimmy Rosenberg: The Father, the Son and the Talent, Over the Hill was selected as the best Dutch documentary. The winners of the Prix Europa will be announced between October 13 and 20.
On September 6, 2007, Over the Hill will be rerun and followed up by a mini-sequel about the impact the documentary has had. Originally aired in March of this year, Sunny Bergman's documentary got a lot of people talking about the female ideal of beauty. More than 800 people reacted to the documentary's appeal to take legal action against the cosmetics industry.
Broadcast: Thursday, September 6 at 8:25 p.m. on Channel 3. The sequel starts at 9:25.
Passion for the Hermitage, Higgs, Cemetry State, Soundmuseum
More than 10,000 people to date on Read Me!. Since its launch in January 2007, Read Me! has attracted more than 10,000
individuals and over 900 members. Each week, the site presents a new title from the reading list as Book of the Week, and the short film messages aren't only interesting for young people, either. Language teachers can also link their lesson plans up with the Book of the Week and other literary activities. This October, Read Me! will present The Happy Class by Theo Thijssen, the book that occupies center stage in the Holland Reads campaign. For this occasion, Cristina Garcia Martin is making a special animated film in response to the book. For the coming school year, new titles will be added to the book list.
Passion for the Hermitage
This summer, the sixth episode of Passion for the Hermitage went into production. The very last residents have left Amstelhof Nursing Home. This building will become home to Hermitage Amsterdam, the satellite museum of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg. In this last episode of the series, Aliona van der Horst follows the preparations for the first exhibit, which is on balls and parties in the Russian court. Together with the Russian curators and their Dutch colleagues, we visit the depots, watch them plan the presentation of the artwork, and meet other devoted employees. The opening of the exhibition will be in the spring of 2009. Around this time, the entire Passion for the Hermitage series will be rebroadcast on AVRO Television.
We're happy to announce that Sunny Bergman has received the honorable mention from the Nipkow Jury for her personal engagement in the documentary Over the Hill. These annual awards for the best radio and TV productions will be presented on May 31 in Amsterdam. The expert jury of radio and TV critics chose Over the Hill because they found it to be an outstanding documentary, but also because "the film serves as an example of old-fashioned, committed journalism and performs an act that is cultural and political as well."
A film by Hannie van den Bergh & Jan van den Berg
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