#Amsterdam-based film festivals

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Amsterdam - Toffe Bioscoop - Kriterion

Amsterdam – Toffe Bioscoop – Kriterion

Amsterdam ontwaakt – een tram rijd staalknarsend over de Middenweg- meeuwen maken ruzie bij een zak patat-  buiten is de lucht vuil grijs – een perfecte dag om naar de film te gaan – Kriterion in de Roetersstraat is een warme haven in een verders winderige koude straat en is een fijne mix van cafe en filmtheater – om half een ‘s middags zitten we samen met nog een handvol filmliefhebbers en…

[erasabledinosaur]

What's in my Game: cc edition

dew of the sea

nature set | Tulips from Amsterdam

EA-edit Set | paranormal art items

Special | Love Not War Valentine Set

EA-edit Set | Bonehilda Themed Items

Art Set | Old Family Pictures

Winter Gifts | a tub full of plants

Winter Gifts | thank you cards

Winter Gifts | winter wishes cards

Winter Gifts | wall ribbons for cards

[DEW at home] accordion wall rack + clothes

[Magic Month] | gothic witch paintings

EA-edit Set | more hallway stuff

bioniczombie

4t3: Strangerville Random posters

4t3: Bread n’ Butter Toaster Clock, and Radio (High School Years EP).

4t3: More Stains (Basement Treasures Kit)

4t3: Collection of Floor Destruction 1: Scratches (Werewolves GP)

4t3: Collection of Wall Destruction (Werewolves GP)

4t3: Collection of Floor Destruction 2: Cracks (Werewolf GP)

Bonehilda Coffin Default.

4t3: Werewolf Noir Film Poster (Werewolves GP)

4t3: Fury-Fueled Nonconformity Poster (Werewolves GP)

4t3: LIS2 Grocery Bags.

4t3: TC Deco 01.

4t3: sforzinda’s High School Years Clutter Separated.

4t3: Perfectly  Plush Couch (High School Years EP).

4t3: Cow Plant Duo

4t3: Simmify Instant Camera (Deco)

4t3: Saved by the Chair (High School Years EP)

4t3: Laundry Deco (High School Years EP)

4t3: BG Decor (Base Game)

4t3: GP07 Barback Clutter (Strangerville GP)

4t3: Heavy Metal Decor (Strangerville GP)

4t3: School Festival Objects (High School Years EP)

4t3: Good Old Times Tables (High School Years EP)

2t3: Bathroom Rugs (Sims 2 conversion)

4t3: RE3 Clutter (Deco)

4t3: House Clutter (Parenthood GP, & Eco Lifestyle EP)

4t3: The Front Desk Clutter (Get Together EP)

4t3: High Definition Blowdryer (Deco)

4t3: Bathroom Clutter Kit Rugs (Bathroom Clutter Kit)

4t3: Bric-A-Bac Wall Art (Strangerville Separated).

4t3: Laundry Maid Essentials (Laundry Day SP)

4t3: Bathroom Clutter (Bathroom Clutter Kit)

4t3: When Life Gives You Linens Clutter (Laundry Day Separated).

4t3: Get Together Decor

4t3: Random 02 (Cottage Living EP)

4t3: Random Rugs

4t3: Kid’s Decor (Growing Together EP)

4t3: Random Decor (Growing Together EP)

4t3: Infant Update (Decor)

4t3: Bathroom Clutter 02 (Bathroom Clutter Kit)

4t3: Basement Treasures Decor (Basement Treasures Kit)

4t3: Grandma’s Couch (Basement Treasures Kit)

4t3: Basement Treasures Decor #02 (Basement Treasures Kit)

4t3: Book Nook Decor (Book Nook Kit)

4t3: Kids Decor 02 (Growing Together EP)

4t3: Greenhouse Haven Decor (Greenhouse Haven Kit)

4t3: Pile of the Sims Daily (Cats & Dogs EP)

4t3: Living Set (Book Nook Kit)

4t3: SquareTube TV (Basement Treasures Kit)

4t3: Shortwave Shindig Radio (Horse Ranch EP)

4t3: More Book Nook (Book Nook Kit)

4t3: Discover University Decor (Discover University EP)

4t3: Paint Decor (City Living EP)

4t3: Art Attack

4t3: Sick Tunes

4t3: Pretty in Punk

4t3: TVs

4t3: Nonna's Cookbook (Home Chef Hustle SP)

4t3: Everyday Clutter Decor (Everyday Clutter Kit)

4t3: Bread Box of Holding (Parenthood GP)

4t3: Pillow for Deep Thoughts (Spa Day GP)

4t3: Party Poppers (Toddler SP)

4t3: Tastefully Empty Bookshelf Decor

4t3: Non-Functional Water Heater (For Rent EP)

4t3: Tibert Decor (For Rent EP)

4t3: The For Rent Sign (For Rent EP)

[soon-palestine]

Filmmakers are taking action against the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) following the festival’s mischaracterization and attack on the slogan “From the River to the Sea Palestine Will be Free�� and unwillingness to stand in solidarity with Palestinians facing Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza.

The IDFA, the world’s biggest international documentary film festival, has a history of highlighting Palestinian filmmakers. But recent statements and events by the festival have been viewed as a painful betrayal.

As Gaza-based filmmaker Mohammed Almughanni explained during one of his speeches at IDFA, “If you endorse me as a filmmaker showing the pain of Palestinians but you don’t endorse Palestinians having a life with dignity, your attention for my films means nothing to me. Films mean nothing to me if you don’t care for a free Palestine for the people in my films.” In another speech, Almughanni reacted to IDFA’s attack on the slogan “From the River to the Sea Palestine Will be Free,” saying, “If you don’t want us to chant for freedom from the river to the sea, then from where to where? From this iron wall to the other? From this barbwire to the next?”

So far, 21 filmmakers have withdrawn their films from the festival, and actions in solidarity with Palestine continue to dominate the festival. 

[stefankarlfanblog]

Low quality screenshots of Angel no. 5503288

I was recently able to find an interview with the director of the movie which had screenshots of Angel no. 5503288. The interview mostly discusses a different film that he was working on at the time so I'll be focusing on the mentions of Angel no. 5503288.

Learn more about Angel no. 5503288 right here!

Interview was written for Morgunblaðið by Árni Þórarinsson on the 26th of January 2003: https://timarit.is/page/3462512

Getting scared regularly

"This will be a drama with pitch-black humor," says filmmaker Ólafur Jóhannesson, who is currently preparing his first full-length movie, Stóra planið, based on Þorvaldar Þorsteinsson's novel, Við fótskör maisteranns. In a conversation with Árni Þórarinsson, Ólafur talks about this first big plan in his career.

Ólafur Jóhannesson: Human beings are constantly hiding from themselves… (Note: The picture behind him has what seems to be a cover of Angel no. 5503288)

ÓLAFUR Jóhannesson attracted attention a few years ago with Angel no. 5503288, which won second prize at the Short Film Days in Reykjavík in 2000 and was shown on TV, being an original and beautiful work. He is 27 years old and self-educated in the film industry after graduating from the physics course at the Gymnasium school in Breiðholt. Ólafur worked at the company Megafilm and was its manager for a while, but then "went out on a more personal path in film creation," as he puts it himself. He has directed, produced, edited and composed dozens of projects for television in Iceland and abroad, produced e.g. series for Tjónvarpið on modern Icelandic art, directed in collaboration with Þorvald Þorsteinsson the documentary Jesus Is Closer to Home about human life in the Rauða Hverðin in Amsterdam and it has been shown all over the world. Ólafur has now founded the company Poppoli together with Þorvald Þorsteinsson, Ragnar Santos, Pavel E. Smidt, Kristján Ottó Hreiðarsson and Ágústi Borgthór Sverrissson, and it prepares the production of Stóra planið.

A film made out of loss

Ólafur decided to try directing feature material first at the end of 1999, the short film Angel no. 5503288. “It was a very difficult time for me, because my father, who had been suffering from depression for many years, decided to leave this life. We just don't win every fight in life and that's okay. The idea and the desire to make the angel image came from loss. In that film I worked with great colleagues and actors and also got confirmation of my capabilities. But that took its toll. After I finished The Angel, I was done with it, I had worked almost every day for five years, trained myself well in filmmaking but did not take care of myself. So I decided to change my environment, went to Berlin and stayed there with my brother for over a year. I worked there, among other things while editing Ólaf Sveinsson's documentary about Hlemm. It turned out to be a tremendously good time for me; I got a lot of rest, played soccer with an amateur team, and started working on the script for Stóra planið."

In addition to preparing the movie, Ólafur has been dealing with various other projects recently. "I've made some entries for Mósaík this winter, and Ragnar and I have more films in the works for Poppoli, including documentary about Bubbi Morthens and we have to work on it for the rest of the year. Next month I will go to the Berlin Film Festival and participate in the Film Talent Campus that I was selected for; many aspiring filmmakers will be gathered there for some kind of conference. Then, when I get home, preparatory work and rehearsals for the movie and the search for funding take over."

In other respects, Ólafur Jóhannesson says the future is a blank slate. "I wouldn't still be in this job if it didn't help me personally." You have to scare yourself regularly, find your limits and study them. Human beings are constantly hiding from themselves, want things to be comfortable and safe, preferably sleep through life. We often do not dare to discover ourselves and how far we can go. Yet our works in life are worthless in the end, for we have to leave this place after all."

Finally, I tried to enhance this photo of the film with Stefán Karl using gigapixel to see it better.

I have also answered an ask regarding information of finding the movie which you can find here!

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Get Ready To Be Wowed by New K-Pop Boy Group XODIAC in Debut Music Video "Throw A Dice"

April 25, 2023 - Hong Kong-based entertainment agency, One Cool Jacso announced nine members from OCJ NEWBIES, their 17 member trainee group, as the new K-pop boy band, XODIAC. Members LEX, HYUNSIK, ZAYYAN, BEOMSOO, WAIN, GYUMIN, SING, DAVIN and LEO stand out in XODIAC’s official debut single “Throw A Dice”, now available on all streaming platforms. The first K-Pop band to land four major magazine shoots including Cosmopolitan, ELLE MEN, Harper’s Bazaar, and Men’s Uno - from Hong Kong - before their official debut and winning at the global Weibo Account Festival held in Japan on December 20 is unprecedented. The group as a collective received an award for “Potential New Boy Group”, and XODIAC leader LEX is one of the first solo pre-debut artists to receive the “Fashion Rookie” award.

“Throw A Dice” is a musical journey from an Ocean's 13 film vibe with high stakes and winner at the end, featuring XODIAC’s gentlemen in sharply dressed visuals. The music is a perfect blend of pop and rap elements that delivers high energy and powerful rhythm to get listeners moving. XODIAC's singing style is a fun and light pop sound, contrasted with a lower and more mature rap beat, adding depth and variation to the song. Each member performs their best moves smoothly and effortlessly, making a strong impression of their highly-skilled choreography. Overall, "Throw A Dice '' music video is a feast for the eyes, and a perfect complement to the catchy and upbeat song. Throw A Dice is a fusion of dance and hip-hop that creates a catchy and electric beat that flows the upbeat tempo perfectly.

The outfits are shown with all members in high-fashion attire such as Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Fendi. Fashion plays a huge role for XODIAC as a group, so it is only fitting for them to have a youthful, modern, yet mature look. Although, now stepping into the K-pop scene, they show a lot of promise with their crisp and precise performance skills. The sextet checks all the boxes in Korean culture with their upbeat and classy sound, precise dancing, fashion sense, and overall visuals.

Dazzled in gold and luxury, XODIAC introduces fans to a world of glitz and glamorous roulette. Opening the video with LEX, who exudes an aura of mystery and allure, he presents himself as the Gamemaster who will lead us through the journey that is beginning to unfold. Adorned in designer suits and slicked back hair, the suave members are preparing to enter a high stakes game that's more than meets the eye. Seemingly meeting for the first time, in an ocean’s 8-esque reveal, the members size up one another as they partake in a match of deception. Though as the video progresses, we witness shots of the members meeting with one another in secret and it makes the audience ask, are they really strangers and who can we trust? Approaching the midpoint of the video, the intentions of the players are slowly revealed and the once elusive end-game is in sight, there can only be one winner in this elite game of cat-and-mouse. Closing out the video with an intense dance break that echoes the climax of the story, the audience is left on the edge of their seats. With each throw of the dice, fans are drawn deeper into the world of XODIAC.

Talent is served in abundance with these boys. Group and dance leader LEX has been learning modern dance since he was a child and has won several national dancing awards in Korea. XODIAC is one of the most highly-anticipated boy groups set to takeover as rookies in 2023 as they prepare to visit fans overseas in Amsterdam and London on 30th May and 1st June respectively.

PRESS PHOTOS (Credit: One Cool Jacso)

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Connect with XODIAC: Instagram | YouTube | Twitter

For XODIAC U.S. PR Inquiries:

Miller PR

(323) 761-7220

xodiac@miller-pr.com

[lesterplatt]

Negative Space from Tiny Inventions on Vimeo.

Based on a 150-word poem by Ron Koertge, “Negative Space" is a short animated film that depicts a father-and-son relationship through the art of packing a suitcase.

For distribution, festivals and screening requests: Miyu Distribution festival@miyu.fr

Making of video: vimeo.com/238590794

-Avec la participation du Centre National du Cinéma et de l'Image Animée - Contribution Financière -Avec la participation d'Arte France - Unité de Programmes Cinéma -Avec le soutien de Ciclic-Région Centre Val de Loire, en partenariat avec le CNC -Avec le soutien de la SACEM en association avec Ciclic -Avec le soutien de la Mairie de Paris en partenariat avec le CNC -Avec le soutien du CNC (Nouvelles Technologies en Production) -Avec le soutien de la Procirep et de l'Angoa -Funding has been made possible by Puffin Foundation Ltd. -Marcella Brenner Grants for Faculty Research Development from Maryland Institute College of Art -La maison des scénaristes

Full Credits and Presskit: docs.google.com/document/d/10KnGajI8MeARqRuBloXoXed0RyehnD2SBUjKvbvVRv4/edit?usp=sharing

To date, “Negative Space” has won 127 prizes (including 63 Grand Prix/Best Animated Short awards) and played in over 314 festivals.

Nomination for Best Animated Short Film: 90th Academy Awards, US (‘18) Pre selection: Académie des arts et techniques du cinéma - César, France(‘18) Nomination for Best Animated Short Subject: Annie Awards, US (‘18) Prix Fipresci : Annecy Animation Festival, France (’17) André-Martin Special Distinction for a French Short Film: Annecy Animation Festival, France (’17) Grand Prix: International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao ZINEBI, Spain (’17) Grand Prix: Anima Mundi, Brazil (’17) Prix Emile-Reynaud : Association française du cinéma d’animation (‘17) Grand Prix: Krok Animation Festival, Ukraine (’17) Grand Prix: Taichung Int Animation Festival, Taiwan (’17) Grand Prix: Monstra, Portugal (‘18) Grand Prix: Indie Júnior Allianz Festival, Portugal (‘18) Grand Prix: Tokyo Anime Award Festival, Japan (‘18) Grand Prix: Cyprus Animation Festival, Cyprus (‘18) Grand Prix (Short): Chilemonos, Chile (‘18) Grand Prix: AnimaSyros, Greece (‘18) Best international short film: 3D Wire, Spain (’17) Best International Short Film: Kuandu International Animation Festival, Taiwan (’17) Best Animated Short: KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival, the Netherlands (’17) Best Animation: Tampere Film Festival, Finland (‘18) Best Animation: New Hampshire Film Festival, US (’17) Best Animation: Sapporo Int Short Film Festival, Japan (‘18) Audience Award: Fantoche, Switzerland (’17) Audience Award: Turku Animated Film Festival, Finland (’17) Audience Award: New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival, Japan (’17) Audience Award: Austin Film Festival, USA (‘17) Audience Award: Monstra, Portugal (‘18) Audience Award: Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film, Germany (‘18) Audience Award: Tabor Film Festival, Croatia (‘18) Audience Award: New Orleans Film Festival, US (‘18)

[intothewideworld]

The Apollo Kids Foundation has been making picture books with music since 2003

Apollo Kids was created by collaborating with Lucienne Tomesen (illustrator and writer) and composer and musician Guy Renardeau.

We publish DVDs, TV films, video clips and musical theater.

Our work has been reviewed in: NRC Next, VPRO 3 voor 12, Groter Groeien, J/M, Boek en Jeugd Gids, PeuterPlace, IOS Olijfmagazine, NBD Biblion, Peuteren, Pluizer, Days Magazine, Kleuternetwerk, Entoenentoen, Shownu.nl, Kindermuziek .com, Ook!, Kind Haarlem, Haarlems Dagblad, Haarlems Weekblad, De Haarlemmer, Haarlem dit Weekend, Wakou, De Sterrenparade RTV Oost, Kinderopvang Totaal, Kinderliedjes.info, Kindermuziek.tv, Wij kinderinfo.nl, Nederlandse Kinderjury KB, Jantje , Viva Mama, What are you reading?, Parents online, Boekenpret/Fantasia, Boekenkaravaan/Leesweb, Leeskraam, Literatuurlinks.net, Literartuurplein.nl, (Voor)leesplein, Voorleesgids, Attent, Probiblio, HRLM, De Echo Amsterdam-zuid, Uitgast Newsletter 2011, Uitmarkt, News Lelystad, Kinderzwerfboek.nl, De Volkskrant, NRC, Het Parool.

The musical theater performances we have produced are Brrr-live!, Meh-live!, The 4 Seasons, Dutch Landscape, Into the Wide World, parts 1 and 2 (Netherlands, Belgium), In die weite Welt hinein (Germany), Parcourir le monde (France). Our performances could be seen at: War Child Open Air Theater Caprera Bloemendaal, Kinderparkpop The Hague, Bevrijdingspop Haarlem, Haarlemmerhout Festival, Children's Festival Utrecht, Children's Festival Amsterdam, SonsbeekTheaterAvenue Festival Arnhem, Bloemencorso Haarlem-Bollenstreek, Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ Amsterdam, Toneelschuur Haarlem, Open Air Theater Caprera Bloemendaal, Vondelpark Open Air Theater Amsterdam, Zuiderpark Open Air Theater Amsterdam, OBA Theater Amsterdam, Uitgast Festival Lelystad, Uitmarkt Amsterdam Nemo Theater Amsterdam, Theater VanBeresteyn Veendam, Brestheater Zeeland, Kindvakbeurs Den Bosch Brabanthallen, Toddler Festival Amsterdam, Theater aan de Werf Utrecht, Ostade Theater Amsterdam, Vondelpark Open Air Theater Festival Amsterdam, Odeon Arnhem.

We have produced music albums, and a dance hit single, 'I Dream of Sinterklaas', which won the radio music prize. We have published books and TV films in the Netherlands, Australia, Germany, Belgium, Scandinavia.

We gave successful concert tours from 2004 – 2011, and in 2011 we collaborated with the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ in Amsterdam. We gave a classical concert there with music by Guy Renardeau and a music and singing workshop with a song from the performance for children.

Employes:

Sverre Fredriksen. Studio 2.13 • www.svrr.tv https://www.linkedin.com/in/sverrefredriksen/ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm286

Sverre Fredriksen explores new territories in analog animation and has satisfied a wide range of international clients with his commissioned work. In the short Cloacinae, Sverre developed a new animation technique involving ice and puppets with artist Serge Onnen. Cloacinae premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in 2017 and has been exhibited in art galleries in the Netherlands and China. Human Nature (2019) is Sverre's most recent short film. Filmmaker & animation artist Sverre Fredriksen runs Studio. 2.13 with graphic designer Quirin Jacques.

Guy Renardeau. Film Music, Songwriting, Electronic Music. Music for Children. Instruments: Piano, Guitar and Bas. Bio. Guy Renardeau is a multi-award-winning composer and producer for film and television based in The Netherlands and in Maryland (US). After obtaining his master's degree in composition, orchestral arrangement, sound design, piano and guitar from the Hochschule für Music in Kõln, Germany, and the Conservatory in Amsterdam, and film research at the University of Chichester, England, he traveled to several countries in Europe, touring with well-known musicians. He recorded for EMI, Sony and film producers. For a couple of years, he has developed a successful and unique approach to his scores and film music productions, songwriting, games and trailers.

Apollo Kids: From 2004 to 2011, he was the composer and musician in the productions: Brrr; About the Sea, Meh, The 4 Seasons, and Dutch Landscape. Guy was hired as the bandleader. They performed over more 500 concerts at children's festivals, concert halls and schools. Press: What makes his musical creations so unique? When composing for a movie, I think about the character and the story meticulously, doing research and analysis. Then, I work on the proper musical sound palette to perfectly support and underscore the story and marry the music to the picture. Joe Kraemer – Compose (Jack Reacher, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation) Guy Renardeau has proven himself as an outstanding musician and composer and as one of the most promising young artists to arise in the genre of film music. In his film music, Guy can use the music of a grand narrative, classical music and modern fusion, regardless of whether they are a magnificent present or his exquisite expression in music.

Articles with Guy Renardeau. Magazine Heart of Hollywood interview https://pdf.ac/1bKKTH. Clouzine Magazine interview https://pdf.ac/JSpVM. Hollywood IWAA interview https://pdf.ac/1odpj. Feature Film 202 See me once more, My Dear Kid. Grammy: Voting member. Hollywood Music In Media Awards: Juruy. European Film Academy: Jury. Bafta: Voting member.

Lucienne Tomesen. Already published by Lucienne Tomesen at Apollo Kids Publishers 'Brrr', picture book about the sea, with music CD, poetry, illustrations and lyrics Luciënne Tomesen, music, compositions and lyrics Guy Renardeau, series 'The four seasons', Pereboom publishers and Apollo Recording Studio, Bussum-Badhoevedorp, 2004. 'Mèh', picture book about spring, with music CD, poetry, illustrations and lyrics Luciënne Tomesen, music, compositions and lyrics Guy Renardeau, series 'The four seasons', publisher APOLLO kids and Apollo Recording Studio, Haarlem-Badhoevedorp, 2008. 'Tikketakkeregen', picture book about autumn and winter, with DVD film 'Into the wide world', poetry, illustrations and song lyrics Luciënne Tomesen, music, compositions, song lyrics and film Guy Renardeau, series 'The four seasons', publisher APOLLO kids and Apollo Recording/Film Studio, Haarlem-Badhoevedorp, 2012 'Dutch Landscape', DVD film, music, compositions and film Guy Renardeau, illustrations Luciënne Tomesen, publisher APOLLO kids, Apollo Recording/Film Studio, Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, MuzyQ, Amsterdamse Waterleiding Duinen, 2010. 'I dream of Sinterklaas', dance - single with TV clip, lyrics and illustrations Luciënne Tomesen, music, composition, lyrics and film Guy Renardeau, publisher, APOLLO kids, Apollo Recording/Film Studio, Pink Records, 2010. Also available on the Olon CD. Tomesen's work is available in the Netherlands, Belgium, the Caribbean Netherlands, Australia, French museums, Finland, Germany, Switzerland, and Morocco.

Tomesen received financial support for her projects from the KNAW (Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences), NWO (Dutch Scientific Research), Maastricht University, Erasmus University, Municipality of Tilburg, Municipality of Maastricht, Municipality of Haarlem, Province of North Brabant, Province of South Holland, Ministry of WVC, Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, European Commission, Shell International, European Cultural Foundation Amsterdam, Dutch Language Union.

Lucienne Tomesen twice won the 'Dutch Radio Public Award' with the composer, musician and music educator Guy Renardeau for the musical picture book series 'The Four Seasons'. "Contemporary quality music for children." - VPRO "Also nice to listen to for parents." – ChildrenVarious music companies have performed around 500 musical theatre performances of picture books with poems, music CDs and DVD films in concert halls, theatres, festivals and schools in the Netherlands. Tomesen wrote the lyrics and poems, made the illustrations and props, and built the sets for the performances. The picture books with music have also been made into six short TV films, 2 of which have been released on DVDMovies: https//vimeo.com/user13258945.

Tomesen and Renardeau put 'contemporary quality music for young children, written by living composers' and 'contemporary music performances for young children, performed by the composer/musician himself' in the spotlight at multimedia publisher

APOLLO Kids in 2004-2012. 'Children and music' are now on the map within Dutch education, with Queen Maximà as the figurehead.The composer, musician and music educator Guy Renardeau wrote the music for her picture book series 'The Four Seasons'. Renardeau lives and works in the US, the Netherlands and France. He has many film music awards to his name. IMDb Pro http://www.imdb.me/GuyRenardeau

Dr. Luciënne Tomesen (Haarlem) is a writer, scientist (law and philosophy), university lecturer, nature guide and pedagogue. She writes novels, poems, song lyrics, translations and scientific work. She also illustrates picture books. The scientific collection 'Thinking about Culture in Europe' received an excellent qualification within university education under its editorship.

New titles from Lucienne Tomesen in 2023-2024 from Apollo Kids publishers. Extra-curricular Lucky Ones. With pictures, photos and film. Lucienne is inspired in her work by nature in her living environment. She is one of the pioneers in greening childcare in the South Kennemerland region. Tomesen is a green bricklayer at the national Groen Cement Foundation, a nature guide at the children's working group of the Institute for Nature Education and Sustainability (South Kennemerland department) and a school counsellor in the oldest native garden in Europe: Jac. P. Thijsse's Hof in Bloemendaal. Tomesen completed a field biology course at the Royal Dutch Natural History Society. For over 12 years, Tomesen allowed children within childcare, education, cultural organizations and nature organizations to benefit from her artistic and green knowledge for a few half-days a week. She works according to the 'arti et naturae' principle. For her, art and nature are inextricably linked. Movies. The composer, musician and music educator Guy Renardeau wrote the music for the short films 'Butterfly' and 'Play with Me' for the book 'Out-of-school Bofkonten'. The drawings, photos and texts in the films are by Lucienne Tomesen. https://vimeo.com/user13258945 (APOLLO kids publisher) https://natuurluciennetomesen.tumblr.com.

Dr. Jac. P. Thijsse's Hofhouding. Nature education in Bloemendaal. With pictures, photos and film. Lucienne worked as a school counsellor at Thijsse's Hof in Bloemendaal from 2007-2010. She provided nature education to schoolchildren in the oldest native garden in Europe. In this collection, she describes Jac's court with great humour. P. Thijsse. Thijsse is the founder of numerous nature organizations in the Netherlands. He was a teacher, writer of nature books, pioneer, naturalist and conservationist, and was of great significance for nature in the Netherlands.

Window TV. You don't know what you see. With pictures, photos and film. Lucienne lived for a few years (2015-2016) in a farming village in 'the Bathtub of Europe'. The Zeevang polder is on the Markermeer, 30 km north of Amsterdam. A typical Dutch landscape with low skies, windmills and expansive views. The peat meadow area in Laag Holland has been declared a Natura 2000 area. With photos, drawings and stories about villagers, farmers, green city dwellers and 'the things no one knows'. Luciënne's grandfather and aunt had a farm in a village in the southernmost tip of South Limburg, in the Geuldal. She spent much of her childhood there. The landscape where Aunt lived was declared an Iconic Landscape a few years ago. Eli Heimans, Jac's friend. P. Thijsse conducted research there and wrote the book 'Uit our chalk land', 1901. Documentary Lucienne Tomesen in the peat meadow landscape in Low Holland by Guy Renardeau with music by Guy Renadeau. The drawings, photos and texts in the films and the documentary are by Lucienne Tomesen. https://vimeo.com/user13258945 (APOLLO kids publisher) https://natuurluciennetomesen.tumblr.com.

Documentary Do farming villages and farmers in the low peat meadow landscape (Natura 2000 area) in Low Holland still have a future? Guy Renardeau (LA) made a documentary about nature and farmers in the Zeevang Polder (2015-2016), with music by Guy Renardeau. The theme of the documentary is 'enlargement of scale'. How can facilities such as a school and a bus connection, an association for rural women and cultural activities in the reformed church be maintained? He asked this question to a farmer, his wife, and a young man who attended primary school in Ribbon Village, which consists of 500 inhabitants. The young man was in a class with his younger sister. His class consisted of 2 people. https://youtu.be/RCLtLrL3MdA?si=oCi0JyaCA1XDgqZi.

Movie Nostalghia. Andrey Tarkovsky's masterpiece 'Nostalghia' is a film about 'loss'. Guy Renardeau wrote music for this magical black-and-white film (his last) in 2020 during the 'pandemic'. Tarkovsky grew up in the Russian countryside. Stalin and communism destroyed that countryside with its farmers and its wooden houses. This film tells the story of Tarkovsky and his time and tells something about us and our time ('Great Reset'). 'Nostalgia' means longing for that which is definitively gone.

https://youtu.be/57PisdbnBoU?si=XpzHsQQCRQU6WPIr

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Lesser-Known Masterpieces: The Amazing Movies Americans Missed!

Add 'Shazam! Fury of the Gods, to the growing list of disappointments at the box office. Warner Bros.' latest DC blockbuster only managed to earn $30 million in its opening weekend, a drop from the $53 million that the original 'Shazam!' made back in 2019. This is quite a blow considering that 'Fury of the Gods' had a production cost exceeding $110 million with a $100 million spent on marketing. The film now joins high profile movies like Paramounts 'Babylon,' Universals 'Bros' and Disney/Foxs 'Amsterdam' on the list of major Hollywood studio flops. However it's important to note that not all these films deserved such a fate at the box office. Throughout film history there have been great movies that unfortunately suffered from poor box office performance.

It's no surprise that Martin Scorsese gained attention this year for criticizing the industry's obsession with box office numbers and how films are judged based on their opening weekend grosses. Since the 1980s there has been a focus on numbers' ' Scorsese remarked during his appearance at the 2022 New York Film Festival.

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Johnny Jewel: The Witch

From Johnny Jewel's 10th solo album, Holly (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is out Friday, October 13th via Italians Do It Better.

Holly is the first solo work Johnny Jewel shares with the public since 2018's "Themes For Television", featuring music he wrote for David Lynch's Twin Peaks. In a recent interview, Johnny & Fien discuss working on the film together. Mixed in Amsterdam in April 2023, Holly premiered last week in official competition at the Venice Film Festival. The film received five star reviews from the global press as well as a standing ovation from the audience.

"Throughout the film, vague hues overlap seamlessly like clouds constantly morphing. As the audience, we project meanings to the shapes that emerge from the chaos in what appear to be patterns. It's abstract enough to be unrecognizable, yet it's somehow familiar. Inspired by the masters of mood like Goblin's blood curdling chimes for Dario Argento, Tangerine Dream's spiraling synthesis for William Friedkin, & John Carpenter's hyper-minimalist approach to scoring his own films with Alan Howarth, I explored a genre-based language to trigger the audience's subconscious. Metallic synthesizers, celeste bells, mellotron flutes & detuned music boxes haunt the recurring musical motif. Like an inevitable storm rolling in, the soundtrack is eerily elusive & at times, almost formless. At other times, the music is so crystal clear & so sharply in focus you could reach out & touch it." JOHNNY JEWEL

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Jonathan Glazer rocks Cannes with a chilling Holocaust drama from a different perspective

CANNES, France

Jonathan Glazer's “The Zone of Interest,” a chilling Auschwitz-set drama shot through “a 21st century lens,” has delivered the Cannes Film Festival's first critical sensation by approaching the Holocaust from an unlikely perspective.

“The Zone of Interest,” which premiered to rave reviews Friday night, dramatizes the life of a fictional German family whose handsome home and tasteful gardens abut the outer wall of Auschwitz. There, they live a mostly peaceful, mundane life, while incinerators rumble in the background, smoke rises from the gas chambers, and muffled screams can be heard.

The father is Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel), a Nazi commandant who designed Auschwitz, who lives with his wife, Hedwig (Sandra Hüller) and children. “The Zone of Interest,” loosely based on a Martin Amis novel, rigorously follows the family's daily lives while atrocity thrums next door.

“What it’s trying to do is talk to the capacity within each of us for violence, wherever you’re from, and to try to show these people as people and not as monsters was a very important thing to do,” Glazer told reporters Tuesday. “The great crime and tragedy is that human beings did this to other human beings.”

“It’s very convenient to distance ourselves from them as much as we can because we think we don’t behave that way," added Glazer. "But we should be less certain than that.”

Following its premiere, “The Zone of Interest" quickly rose to the top of forecasts for the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize to be handed out May 27. Critics lauded the film's formal rigor in capturing the capacity of people to compartmentalize horror.

“The Zone of Interest,” Glazer's first film since 2013's grimly elegant science fiction “Under the Skin," proceeds largely without story in almost documentary fashion. It's set almost entirely in the orderly hallways and flower beds of the Höss home. Glazer said he and his filmmaking team, using up to 10 cameras at once, tried “to make ourselves as absent as possible, almost as authorless as possible.”

"It had so little to do with acting what we were doing," said Hüller. The process, she said, was more about being present.

Glazer sought to avoid movie tropes to bring viewers into a life they might recognize as their own, composed mostly of chores, work and child-rearing. For Glazer, it was about creating something “in present tense, not as a museum piece or something in aspic.”

“It needed to be presented with a degree of urgency and alarm,” said the 58-year-old British filmmaker.

Höss is based on Karl Bischoff, the concentration camp’s builder. A trip to Auschwitz, in which Glazer visited Bischoff's home, inspired him to make “The Zone of Interest,” which A24 will release in theaters at a not-yet-announced date. He returned to shoot it at the camp in Poland.

“It was never an option for it to be shot anywhere else," he said. "We tried to look for a place to shoot in other parts of Poland, but I kept gravitating back to Auschwitz.”

As in “Under the Skin,” Glazer uses a wide spectrum of techniques to create a densely layered visual and auditory experience. The score is by Mica Levi. Key in the process, Glazer said, was to avoid all the usual trapping of period films. Props were authentic but new. Glazer wanted a “present day” precision to make “The Zone of Interest” cut through history to reach today.

Glazer isn't the only British filmmaker in Cannes with a formally daring film that seeks to bridge Holocaust past with the present. Steve McQueen debuted his lengthy documentary “Occupied City,” which combines narrated accounts of Nazi atrocities in Amsterdam with present-day footage from those locations.

To Glazer, finding new ways to make the Holocaust real and immediate drove him to make “The Zone of Interest.”

“It's important to try to find a new paradigm for it so that a new generation can understand it," Glazer said.

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#Cannes2023: Par ici le programme !

Un film de Steve McQueen A documentary based on the illustrated history book “Atlas of an Occupied City. Amsterdam 1940-1945”.

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Ell Peck is playing Madame X in THE STRONGER by August Strindberg. Ell is a Brooklyn based actress and writer. She made history in 2019 as the first trans actor in the U.S. to play Blanche DuBois in Precariat Productions’ critically acclaimed A Streetcar Named Desire directed by Kevin Hourigan. Credits include Ryan Guiterman’s animated horror feature film Canvas which premiered at the Annecy Film Festival and was distributed by Gravitas Ventures, she co-wrote and starred in Ugly/Handsome Films’ web series Tonight, We Fuck The Trailer Park Out Of Each Other based on the book of poetry by C. Russell Price, and can be seen in Isabel Ellison’s upcoming directorial feature film debut Loud and Longing. She graduated with a BFA in Drama from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, where she studied at the Experimental Theatre Wing and the International Theatre Wing in Amsterdam. She is represented by CESD.

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research notes on: Enthusiastic amateurs: Australia's film societies and the birth of audience-driven film festivals in post-war Melbourne by Kirsten Stevens

film festivals were a purely European phenomenon during this period’ (de Valck 2007, 49) (PAGE 23)

De Valck, Marjike. 2007. Film Festivals: From European Geopolitics to Global Cinephilia. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 

Film festivals emerged in the post-war decades for different reasons and as a result of diverse local and international pressures. 

“The early European festival tapped into the particular interactions of pre and post-second world war geopolitics that utilised the exhibition of national culture at international forums as a means of establishing the strength of nations and they national identities. (Harboured 2002, 64; de Vlack 2007) (PAGE 23) 

Harbord, Janet. 2002. Film Cultures. London. Sage. 

These events were sprung about by the desire to replicate the template set by the early geopolitically motivated European events but rather they rather they responded to the needs and conditions of their local environments. (PAGE 23)

TRANSLATION: The Melbourne film festival launching in a small town in 1952 was their way of showing films that weren’t likely to be seen at local cinemas, but also as an example of the type of stuff their country needed, comparing their environment and Europe’s. 

In this article they are basing their belief off of the idea of the “inherent Euro-centrality of early film festivals”.(PAGE 24) Using de Valck (2007), and her three historical phases off international film development.

“It reveals the inherently local conditions that instigated MFF’s development and conditioned its operation.” (PAGE 24)

Chapter called “The Road to Olinda”

The society movement in Australia was fuelled by a demand for films of a different nature; explicitly these films produced outside of the hollywood studio system. (PAGE 25)

The societies responded to a growing interest in Australia of viewing film as an art form and sought to reposition the movies away from their categorisation as leisure activitiy, conspiring instead to activate an engaged film culture that existed outside the parameters of mass entertainment (PAGE 25)

In the words of Gerry Harant, early society member and later technical adviser to MFF, the societies marked ‘a protest movement against the domination of Australian screens by the Hollywood product and against the misuse of what we perceived as a valuable medium’ (2001, 93)

Harant, Gerry. 2001. ‘Melbourne Film Festival, 1952–2001’ Overland 164: 92–96.

“The perceived “misuse” of the filmic medium by commercial cinema lies at the heart of the Australian film society movement” (PAGE 25)

“The societies viewed cinema as an important social and historical artefact, considering it both an art form as well as a means of facilitating international understanding and social change” (PAGE 25)

“The society movement sough to engender the reception of cinema through a critically engaged and culturally legitimised framework of film appreciation” (PAGE 26)

“The society thus also took on the role of custodians for a new and engaged film culture” (PAGE 26)

Through the screening of films of social and formal consequence, broadly identified as documentaries, scientific and educational film, as well as left-wing cinema and European narrative cinema (Hodsdon 2001, 62–63), the societies sought to provide epistemological access to cinema as an artistic endeavour of social and moral significance

“Not only would the anti-hollywoods focus be maintained by the Melbourne even, but Olinda’s emphasis on short films, documentaries and quality international (primarily European0 features, as well as its overt promotion of a society-based film culture, would characterise MFF for decades to come” (PAGE 28)

“Australia was geographically, culturally and cinematically remote from what was occurring in the rest of the world during the 1950’s (Webber 2005)” 

Webber, Pauline. 2005. History of Sydney film festival 1954-1983. Sydney, MA:University of Technology, 2005. 

“Demonstrate the importance of considering global film festival development as the combined expression go local as well as international pressured, rather than a single movement characterised by the quality of its most visible parts.” (PAGE 30)

The European festivals were charcterised by their political allegiances and their top-down organisational structures. With their activities heavily dedicated to government agendas the became more focused on the pursuit of national rather than cinematic concerns. (PAGE 31)

“The focus of festivals became the self-presentation of nationhood” (page 31)

Hodsdon, J. Barrett. 2001. Straight Roads and Crossed Lines: The Quest for Film Culture in Australia from the 1960s? Shenton Park, WA: Bernt Porridge Group.

While the lack of external funding meant that the festival lacked the glamour and polish of contemporaneous international events, it also meant that the festival was freed from the demands of industry and national politics, allowing it to focus proceedings squarely on the appreciation of cinema as it existed outside of the commercial Hollywood sphere- their own funding meant that they were free to do as they wished without any added pressure from government systems. 

Included within the offerings were documentaries produced by the Australian Army, examples of the European Avant Garde,

The festival’s opposition to notions of industry, as the binary other of culture, and its focus on screening those films ignored by commercial exhibitors provided the unifying thread to the event’s programme (Hope and Dickerson 2006).

Hope, Cathy, and Adam, Dickerson. 2006. ‘“Films for the Intelligent Layman”: The Origins of the Sydney and Melbourne Film Festivals (1952–1958)’. Screening the Past, 19.

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Film Friday: 5 Movies of the Week!

WhatsOn editorial Tama has selected this week's top movies for you. Who doesn't enjoy movies? Watching movies is the finest way to kill time, especially when the weekend is just around the corner. Holidays require some downtime, so if there's a movie on the side, why not watch it? Without further ado, let's look at the films on the list. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever A 2022 American superhero movie called Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is based on the Marvel Comics superhero Black Panther. The final movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Phase Four, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, had its world premiere on October 26, 2022, at Hollywood's El Capitan Theatre and Dolby Theatre. It was then made available for general public viewing on November 11, 2022. The heart of "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever," the sequel to the wildly successful "Black Panther," is genuine, even though the whole thing has a contrived feel to it. The proceedings start with King T'Challa's recent death and funeral. Following the black casket with the crossed arms of the Wakanda salute and the silver insignia of the Black Panther mask, Shuri (Letitia Wright) and Queen Ramonda (Angela Bassett) are clad in white. https://youtu.be/_Z3QKkl1WyM Amsterdam The 2022 period comedy-thriller movie Amsterdam was written, produced, and directed by David O. Russell. The plot centers on three friends—a doctor, a nurse, and a lawyer—who are implicated in the enigmatic death of a retired US general and is based on the Business Plot, an American political conspiracy from 1933. And install a fascist veterans' organization led by U.S. Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler, served as the inspiration for this movie. On October 7, 2022, it was made available in the US by 20th Century Studios. https://youtu.be/GLs2xxM0e78 Holy Spider There hasn't been much buzz about the movies playing at the Cannes Film Festival. The Iranian film Holy Spider, however, stood out and caused the audience to sit up and take notes. An enthusiastic standing ovation lasting seven minutes was given to this grim movie about a real-life serial killer. One of the most talked-about movies at Cannes this year, for sure. Iranian movies are subject to strict censorship from the government and are not permitted to depict any form of nudity, yet Holy Spider defies all of these restrictions. Modern Iranian filmmakers are making an impression at international film festivals despite a number of constraints. Here are some inspiring Iranian movies that you must see. https://youtu.be/27wZZ6O1IBc Mili The movie is a remake of the 2019 Malayalam film Helen. Mathukutty Xavier's 2022 Indian survival thriller Mili will be released in Hindi. It centers on the titular Mili Naudiyal, who struggles to survive after becoming trapped in a freezer. Mili is the tale of Janhvi Kapoor's character, Mili Naudiyal, who resides in Dehradun with her father, Manoj Pahwa, who is a widower. Mili, a nurse, intends to immigrate to Canada in order to find employment there and help her family escape their difficult financial situation at the moment. On November 4, 2022, Zee Studios launched it in theaters for general consumption. Critics gave the movie a mixed bag of reviews, complimenting Kapoor's performance. https://youtu.be/1mdkn8TFSMQ Damal Damal is a 2022 Bangladeshi historical drama film that was produced by Impress Telefilm and directed by Raihan Rafi. The film stars Sariful Razz, Bidya Sinha Saha Mim, Siam Ahmed, and Shahnaz Sumi in key roles and is based on the Bangladesh Liberation War. The Shadhin Bangla Football Team from the Liberation War era is the subject of the movie "Damal." "Damal," which is being distributed by Bioscope Films, will be shown in New York's Jamaica Multiplex, North Hollywood, San Francisco, Dallas, Houston, Baltimore, Chicago, Orlando, Miami, and 15 other US cities. The film will first be released in Bangladesh on October 28. After that, on December 2, it will be shown in 50 theaters owned by Regal Cinema Hall, Harkins Theatre, and Cinemark Theatre. Advance tickets are now available. https://youtu.be/uDXcDGLelXk Read the full article

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January 2022 WLW in Entertainment Rundown

Updated with all the latest

Movies

The first ever lesbian character(s) comes to the Scream franchise with Scream 5!

The last thing Mary Saw, on Shudder, January 20

Heatwave 2022, available on pvod (amazon, itunes etc.)

AM I OK? premieres at Sundance Film Festival 20-30 January

Lucy and Jane are the best of friends. They finish each other’s sentences, predict every detail of each other’s food order, and pretty much know everything about each other. But when Jane is promoted at work and agrees to move to London for her new position, Lucy confesses her deepest, long-held secret: She likes women, she has for a long time, and she’s terrified by this later-in-life realization. Suddenly, their friendship is thrown into chaos as the two choose different routes by which to navigate the unexpected changes in their lives.

Girl Picture premieres at Sundance Film Festival 20-30 January

GIRL PICTURE

Best friends Mimmi and Rönkkö work after school at a food court smoothie kiosk, frankly swapping stories of their frustrations and expectations regarding love and sex. Volatile misfit Mimmi, unexpectedly swept up in the thrill of a new romance with Emma (a driven skater training for the European championships), struggles to adjust to the trust and compromise required by a lasting relationship. Meanwhile, the offbeat, indefatigable Rönkkö hits the teen party scene, stumbling through a series of awkward encounters with members of the opposite sex while hoping to find her own version of satisfaction.

Marte Um, Brazilian film at Sundance Film Festival 20-30 January

TV

Many of our favorites are back including Batwoman, Legends of Tomorrow, New Amsterdam, Nancy Drew and more.

Chosen season 1 drops on Netflix January 27, has a gay girl as its lead and is easily the most interesting TV offering this month.

5 January 2022 Rebelde Netflix version will have some wlw.

In How I met your Father the father's adopted sister is a lesbian who "just moved to New York from a small farming town after separating from her wife. Ellen's more comfortable on an organic lettuce field than in a Brooklyn dive bar."

In Single Drunk Female the main character is bi and the series also has Rebecca Henderson. Henderson will portray Olivia, a brilliant melancholic lesbian who works as one of The Greeters at AA. Smart as a whip with an acerbic wit, Olivia is a highly regarded, Peabody award-winning PBS journalist known for her program “Off the Docs.”

In Hbomax's Peacemaker (yeah...I know 😩) one of the women of the team will have a supportive but tired wife, reluctantly dealing with her new wife’s government job and the secrecy it requires.

Gigi the daughter of the Monarch family is married to a woman. January 30.

In Pivoting one of the 3 leading ladies is a bi woman who is getting back into the dating game after a failed marriage.

One of the supporting characters in the CW's new superhero show Naomi is gay and interested in Naomi. It's unclear whether she's interested back but we are made to understand she's queer and could be interested and the show is cool overall. Will keep an eye on it.

Video Games, Comics and More

Curious Expedition 2 - Highlands of Avalon DLC adds to our favorite turn-based narrative roguelike. Explore while romance of all kinds flourishes.

Harley Quinn: The Animated Series - The Eat, Bang, Kill Tour #5

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