The Nose - Searching for Blamage

production, script, direction

AVRO / IDTV Docs, 53 minutes

www.thenosefilm.com

 

Alessandro Gualtieri is a wayward perfumer, who calls himself ‘The Nose’. He wants to design his new perfume Blamage by abandoning all the common rules for designing perfumes. For inspiration he travels around the world, but the farther he goes, the more he seems to disrupt not only his environment but also himself.

Will Blamage become a real blamage?

 

 

 

Play for the past

 

production, script, direction

NCRV / PLUGGIN' Creative Lab, 55 minutes

www.spelenvoorhetverleden.nl

 

Lavinia Meijer (28) is one of the top harp players in the world. She is adopted from South-Korea and has grown up in the Netherlands. Now she is invited to perform in her country of birth during the big New Year's Concert. Doubts about her Korean past and family causes Lavinia to re-evaluate the cause of her presence in Seoul.

The film has been selected for several film festivals and was sold to NHK in Japan.

Amtrak New York - San Francisco

 

concept, production, direction

national newspaper De Volkskrant, 4x 5 minutes

 

For national newspaper De Volkskrant we created a mini documentary series about the Amtrak train. We boarded in New York and travelled non stop to San Francisco. Along the way we portrayed individual travelers and thus created a portrait of The United States.

 

documentary series What Others Will Say

 

production, direction

public broadcaster NTR, 3x 25 minutes

 

For national broadcaster NTR we made a 3 part series about taboos within a specific population in the Netherlands. The Hindostan community struggles with subjects like gay people, transssexuals, divorce and widows.

 

The series has been broadcasted several times in the Netherlands on national television at NPO2.

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documentary series Broken Language

 

creative producer

public broadcaster NTR, 3x 25 minutes

 

We were asked by national broadcaster NTR to develop and guide a 3 part series about a specific population in the Netherlands. The Hindostan community faces extinction of their mother language Sarnami. It is seen as a poor man's dialect of Hindi. Is it worth fighting for?

The series has been broadcasted several times in the Netherlands on national television at NPO2.

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