Documentary 35 min. Director: Thijs Schreuder Producer: Maarten van der Ven Co-Producer: Tobias Wilbrink When the war ends, the struggle begins.’ Every day Robert is confronted with his past: in 1974 he joins the IRA at the age of seventeen. Since then he fights for the separation of Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and a reunion with the Irish Republic. Robert sees friends getting killed but is also actively involved in committing bomb attacks… In the Long Kesh prison, […]

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Directors:  Gijs Besseling & Leonard Besseling Producer:  Tobias Wilbrink Company:  NU FIlm Editor:  Annelotte Medema Duration:  35″ min Broadcasted by:  NTR Podium Genre:  Documentary Series In the small town of Sitka, Alaska, former pupils of the great violinist Jascha Heifetz and cellist Gregor Piatigorsky were invited to play chamber music once a year. After a tradition of forty years the two good friends Christiaan Bor and Godfried Hoogeveen came to play at the “Sitka Summer Music Festival” for the last […]

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Documentary 30 min. Director: Carine Bijlsma Producer: Rosan Boersma Editors: Tim Wijbenga, Annelotte MedemaBroadcast: NTR Podium Conductor Reinbert de Leeuw (born in 1937) is about to live one of his most cherished dreams: conducting Arnold Schönberg’s Gurre-Lieder, a remarkably intense high point in post-romantic music. The camera follows him for the 10 days of rehearsal leading up to the sold-out concert, where he stands before an inexperienced orchestra of 356 musicians. De Leeuw has been living and breathing the work […]

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Documentary 50 min. Directors:  Carine Bijlsma Producer:  Rosan Boersma Company:  Rosan Productions​ Editor:  Annelotte Medema Broadcasted by:  NTR Podium Portret van aanstormend viooltalent Rosanne Philippens. Kort na haar glansrijk afstuderen aan het conservatorium soleert ze in de tournee van het Nederlands Studenten Orkest. Ze spelen het Saint Saëns vioolconcert op tien opeenvolgende avonden in tien plaatsen, met de slotavond in de grote zaal van het Amsterdamse Concertgebouw. De film werd gemaakt in het kader van het Wildcard-programma van het Nederlands […]

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Documentary 23 min. Director:  Thijs Schreuder Producer:  Maarten Van Der Ven Company:  Nederlandse Film en Televisie Academie Broadcasted by:  IKON​ Editor:  Annelotte Medema Awards: Wildcard, Netherlands Film Festival 2009 Geschiedenisstudent Peter is voorzitter van een Vlaamse nationalistische studentenbeweging. Documentaire over nationaliteit, onafhankelijkheid en familie. The graduation film of Thijs Schreuder about a politically right wing focused student is the Winner of the Wildcard in 2009. Trailer    

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Documentary 24 min. Directors:  Carine Bijlsma Producer:  Rosan Boersma Company:  De Nederlandse Film en Televisie Academie Editor:  Annelotte Medema Broadcasted by:  NTR Podium, 2008/2012 The director’s father, acclaimed Dutch cellist Anner Bylsma, features as the main character of the film. Bylsma is said to be one of few people today who possess Boccherini’s secret. His dream has been for many years to travel to the abandoned Palacio del Infante don Luis de Borbón; where Boccherini lived and wrote what was […]

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