Yesterday we finished the second Binger session in the Doclab. It has been absolutely extraordinary! As a director finding your own visual language is not easy, but I truly believe that I have just found mine. I would like to thank Arne ond Lotte for their amazing sessions and lectures and look forward to seeing the group again at IDFA this november.
August 13th the Binger DocLab kicked off again for our documentary group. It’s great to see everybody and catch up on our projects. We have really bonded as a group and kept in contact while everyone was at home. We are currently in mid flight and there is a lot going on in my head!
Recently the Binger Filmlab based in Amsterdam started a new Doclab. A 18 month period where filmmakers from around the world are invited to develop their projects in the Lab. The 18 month period is aimed at development, production an post production for feature length documentary film.
Directed By Carl Franklin, David Nutter, Jeremy Podeswa, Tony To, Tim Van Patten And Graham Yost; Written By Laurence Andries, Michelle Ashford, Bruce C. McKenna, George Pelecanos, Robert Schenkkan And Graham Yost.
This is a video clip I directed just before departing for Africa, it has recently been released so I can share it with you. It was shot in club Prime in Amsterdam on the HPX300 and PS Technik MiniC combo. Operated by Gregg Telussa, he did a great job as usual! Language is Dutch but please tell me how you like the image!
Check out the gallery for some workshots!
After two months in Africa I am back home! Obviously it’s weird and I have to find my way again, the last weeks of our production I have been very tired and didn’t get around to posting anything. So I owe you guys some nice aerial shots I think! Shot in Kigali, Rwanda and Lilongwe, Malawi both in a helicopter and a plane.
One of the first children helped by the halfway home in Entesekera is currently making a living by weaving clothes. A nice setting with some beautiful natural lighting.
After a seven day communication blackout in Maasai country, a chartered flight to Nairobi, a 9 our drive to Maua, Kenya and back I am online! It was actually very nice not to communicate for a while, if we needed something from from a Maasai settlement we would send someone an receive word four ours later, a very impressive culture. One that still lives as they did thousands of years ago as gatherers herding cows an goats. No electricity, telephones or internet. You can imagine I have built quite a backlog of videos waiting to be posted… The project we were visiting was funded by the Liliane Foundation. Traditionally the Maasai have a very bad image of the physically and mentally disabled, it is seen as a course, a punishment from the gods and people are often hidden and starved to death. The Liliane Foundation is funding a halfway home for the disabled in Entekerera. The main objectives are to provide a home, education and create awareness in the Maasai community, and so bettering the situation of the disabled in the Maasai comunity. Part of the halfway home is a school were I shot the video above. Below is a sunset shot in this beautiful part of Kenya.
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