Krijn van Noordwijk's SP film wins Gouden Loekie

The Hazazah produced commercial Thuiszorg (Homecare) from the Socialist Party is the best tv-commercial of the year. The film, directed by Krijn van Noordwijk, won yesterday during the finale of the Gouden Loekie 2008. Thuiszorg - in which an elderly woman undresses in front of the camera as a symbol of the 'stripping' of homecare by the government - raised a lot of dust and controversies.

In the past year television viewers nominated 36 commercials, five of them got to the finale yesterday. The second prize was for a WNF commercial; the third place for 'Dongel' from telephone company KPN. A special oeuvre prize went to Harry, the supermarket manager in the Albert Heijn commercials.

Watch Thuiszorg

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Gouden Loekie nominations for Hazazah commercials

Three commercials from Hazazah directors are nominated for the Ster Gouden Loekie, the yearly prize awarded by the public for best tv commercial. Krijn van Noordwijk directed the much-discussed film for SP in which an elderly woman undresses herself in front of the camera, in protest against the cutting back of homecare. Furthermore Bram Schouw's film Handschoentje (Glove) for Unox and ANWB Ledenvoordeel (Membership benefit) directed by Billy Pols are nominated.

The presentation of the Ster Gouden Loekie will be broadcasted live on Thursday 18 December at 20.30 on Nederland 1.

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SP Thuiszorg
Unox Handschoentje
ANWB Ledenvoordeel

Gouden Loeki 2008

Marieke van der Velden wins Hollands Diep Photography Prize

Photographer Marieke van der Velden has won the first Hollands Diep Photography Prize. From now on, cultural magazine Hollands Diep will issue the prize for young professional photographers yearly. This first edition aims on the genre art painters have dreaded since the first daguerreotype in the 19th century: portrait photography.

The jury, consisting of Anton Corbijn, Diana Blok en Stephan Vanfleteren unanimously chose her work out of 300 submissions: '... Marieke van der Velden researches the beauty and the fate of women with her camera. When you look at her work, the desire to explore the space and depth behind her two-dimensional portraits grows. [...] Van der Velden: "My camera is the ultimate medium for satisfying my curiosity about the lives of others. It is my alibi for the question: and who are you?"'

Marieke receives a photography assignment from Hollands Diep and a money prize. Being the winner of the first prize she gets broad attention in the Christmas edition of Hollands Diep, in bookstores from today. In Selexyz bookstores in seven Dutch cities - including Scheltema at the Koningsplein in Amsterdam - will be a Hollands Diep Photography Prize exhibition till the end of February.

www.hollandsdiep.nl/fotografieprijs

Premiere STORIES ON HUMAN RIGHTS / IMPASSE

Today is the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Internationally recognised filmmakers, artists andwriters, have joined forces to mark this event by contributing to a unique film project composed by twenty-two 3 minutes short-movies inspired by the six themes of the Universal Declaration: culture, development, dignity and justice, environment, gender and participation. Hazazah director Bram Schouw directed IMPASSE, about an African girl and a white boy in a night train. STORIES ON HUMAN RIGHTS is an initiative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

STORIES ON HUMAN RIGHTS participants have been selected for their strong artistic qualities and their deep interest towards the promotion of Human Rights : Marina Abramovic (Serbia/The Netherlands), Hany Abu-Assad (Palestine), Armagan Ballantyne (New Zeland), Sergei Bodrov (Russia), Charles De Meaux (France), Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster&Ange Leccia (France), Runa Islam (UK/Bangladesh), Francesco Jodice (Italy), Etgar Keret & Shira Geffen (Israel), Zhan Gke Jia (China), Murali Nair (India), Idrissa Ouedraogo (Burkina Faso), Pipilotti Rist (Switzerland), Walter Salles e Daniela Thomas (Brazil), Saman Salour (Iran), Sarkis (France), Teresa Serrano (Mexico), Abderrahmane Sissako (Mauritania), Pablo Trapero (Argentina), Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand) and Jasmila Zbanic (Bosnia).

The movies have been shot in more than 15 countries around the world and in different languages. They will exist as single short movie and will also be presented altogether in a long feature film of 1h and 20 min, subtitled in the six official languages of the UN (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish). The film will be accompanied by a book, published by Electa, and will contain interviews to the film makers and the artists, still frames of the short movies and backstage pictures as well as contributions by twelve authors, including five Nobel prize winners, referring to the six themes of the Declaration: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Khaled Hosseini, Roberto Saviano, Naguib Mafuz, Elfriede Jelinek, Ruth Ozeki, José Saramago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Assia Djebar, Nuruddin Farah, Toni Morrison and Mo Yan.

The long feature film will be screened on the occasion of an exceptional event at the presence of Bernard Kouchner, Minister for Foreign and European Affairs and Rama Yade, Secretary of State in charge for Foreign Affairs and Human Rights. The screening will take
place on Wednesday, December 10th at Theatre National de Chaillot.

From 2009, the short movies and the long feature will be screened around the world, especially in film festivals, cinemas, schools, museums and cultural institutions. They will also be broadcasted on the most important international TV channels.

Premiere Jean van de Velde's WIT LICHT

Jean van de Velde's new feature film WIT LICHT (WHITE LIGHT) will premiere in the Tuschinki Theatre in Amsterdam on December 8th. Prince Willem Alexander and Princess Máxima will be attending the premiere.

WIT LICHT tells the exciting story of a father who goes to any length when a child disappears in the heart of Africa. Jean van de Velde wrote and directed WIT LICHT. He grew up in Congo and has personal experienced the problems Africa copes with. Making a film about "the most beautiful, dynamic, intense and sometimes heartbreaking gruesome continent" is a dream come true for him.

WIT LICHT screens in Dutch cinema's from December 11th.

Watch the WIT LICHT trailer

Tim Georgeson in Lürzer's ARCHIVE 200 Best Ad Photographers

Tim Georgeson's photographs for BEN telecommunication are selected for Lürzer's ARCHIVE 200 Best Ad Photographers Worldwide. 'The cutting-edge work [...] is a major source of inspiration but also helps to make Lürzer's ARCHIVE Specials an art buying tool boasting a quite unrivalled selection in qualitative terms, the editorial sections being open only to people with genuine creative abilities – rather than those with fat pocketbooks.' Lürzer's ARCHIVE 200 Best Ad Photographers Worldwide is being published in December.

Work Tim Georgeson in National Portrait Gallery

The Australian National Portrait Gallery has made an acquisition of work by Tim Georgeson for their permanent collection. The portrait is of the Australian writer Kate Grenville. The National Portrait Gallery's collection contains portraits depicted in a wide variety of media; paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings and photographs and aims to increase understanding of the Australian people – their identity, history, creativity and culture.

DJ - A COLLECTION OF DJ PORTRAITS by Krijn van Noordwijk

With over 140 full colour studio portraits of DJ's from all over the world, photographer Krijn van Noordwijk honours today's musical hero. Most of the time, your average person in an audience only catches a glimpse of the artist, standing behind a pair of decks on a vast distant stage. Now his book is showing some of the personalities close up, in more than one sense. It puts an icon to the idol.

All portraits are shot in a classical way, technically speaking. But the expressions and emotions of the subjects are rather contemporary. Van Noordwijk spent over two years of DJ hunting to create his unique collection of some of the world's best-known and most talented DJ's. Carl Cox, Armin van Buuren, Sven Väth, Derrick May, Tommie Sunshine and Juan Atkins are just some of the names that go with the faces in this book. Krijn's idiosyncratic style of portrait photography makes this collection a true tribute to the DJ.

The book is for sale at www.djthebook.com.

ON THE ROAD by Bert Teunissen in bookstores

Bert Teunissen's new book ON THE ROAD. A DOMESTIC LANDSCAPES TRAVELOG is distributed in a limited edition at a number of bookstores. At both Athenaeum Boekhandel (Spui, Amsterdam) and Nijhof & Lee (Staalstraat, Amsterdam) ON THE ROAD is on display in the window. The book is an offset printed tabloid (80 pages, 26.5 x 32.5 cm), rolled up and bound together with a black ribbon with white text and comes in a custom made cardboard box.

"During the 12 years of travelling for the project Domestic Landscapes, I have made many b/w snapshots of people, things and situations that captured my eye. From these images I created travelogs, small photo-diaries in which I express my personal feelings, thoughts and reactions to the numerous impressions I get when doing these travels. When I return home I edit the hundreds of images into little booklets that give a personal impression of that trip.

Sometimes the story is very illustrative, other times it is pure abstract. As an introduction to these travelogs I have produced one that focuses entirely on the travelling. All my travels are by car and so far I have driven over 50.000 km's for the project. Many times I made a snapshot from behind the steering wheel of the road ahead. This series became the first travelog and is called ON THE ROAD."

IMPASSE gets Special Mention Best International Short Film at IAFF

Last Sunday, Bram Schouw's short film IMPASSE got a Special Mention in the category Best International Short Film at the International Amsterdam Film Festival. IMPASSE was also nominated in the category Best Dutch Short Film.

The jury, consisting of Yaël Vinckx, Jonathan Rudnick en Nina Köll about IMPASSE: "To tell a simple story in a non-simplifying, subtle way is one of the most difficult things for a story-teller - IMPASSE is a beautiful example of exactly that. Intriguing and convincing characters, a clear, strong story line that still invites the viewer for interpretations, and the choice to avoid dialogue makes it a very strong film."

IMPASSE is part of STORIES ON HUMAN RIGHTS, a film produced by the World Cinema Foundation and the United Nations. This feature film, existing of 23 short films from directors as Hany Abu-Assad, Walter Salles and Sergei Bodrov, will have it's world premiere at the Berlinale 2009. For more info about the Stories On Human Rights project see www.art-for-the-world.com.

IMPASSE will also be shown at the 21st International Film Festival Tokyo (18-24th October).

OH, DEER!

Assigned by the Dutch Film Festival 2008 Arne Toonen directed the short film OH, DEER! with experienced filmmaker Jean van de Velde as mentor and Monic Hendrickx and Pierre Bokma playing the leading parts. OH, DEER! is about a woman that goes hunting with her husband. He's the expert. But who's hunting who?

The film was realized from idea to premiere in three weeks time as part of the project The Master and the Pupil, in which masters in every discipline coached young talents. Arne experienced the cooperation as 'creative ping pong'. It was meant to become a 'hilarious and light-hearted film'; the public roaring with laughter at the premier made clear this mission succeeded.

Watch a fragment of OH, DEER!

Rob Lücker wins Talent&Pro Award at Dutch Film Festival 2008

At the 28th edition of the Dutch Film Festival director Rob Lücker was presented the Talent&Pro Award for his short film SKODA.

The prize was awarded for the 6th time to the best graduation film of the Dutch audio visual academies, except for Amsterdam. Rob Lücker graduated from the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht with this film, that was produced by Hazazah.

In SKODA two neighbours both lead a boring life, in spite of being each others opposites. When one of them wants to help the other, he gets a punch in the face. Yet in the end they prove to get along.

The Talent&Pro Award jury on SKODA: 'In this film every shot was like a painting. Every scene is just right in timing, image and action.'

The winner receives 2.500 euro. The Talent&Pro Award aims to stimulate young talents in their further career in the film industry.

Watch talkshow NFF 26-09

Watch trailer SKODA

Watch showreel Rob Lücker

hazazaH at the Dutch Film Festival 2008 (1)

During the film festival hazazaH directors Arne Toonen and Jean van de Velde directed the short film OH, DEER. This film is part of the project The Master and the Pupil, in which in every film discipline an experienced master coaches a pupil at the start of his or her career. OH, DEER, featuring Monic Hendrickx and Pierre Bokma will have its premiere 2nd October.

Besides OH, DEER, Arne's television film HOU HOLLAND SCHOON and the video clip JUICED will be shown at the Dutch Film Festival.

TOKKELOSHE receives Honourable Mention Shocking Shorts

Billy Pols' short film TOKKELOSHE got an Honourable Mention at the Shocking Shorts Awards, presented at the Dutch Film Festival.

The jury consists of among others Rutger Hauer, Monique van de Ven and Jean van de Velde. From the jury-report:
'The quality of TOKKELOSHE was considered on all levels to be outstanding, however our programming team found it very difficult to categorize the film. Due to the almost documentary-style of the film they felt it did not fall within the realms of either the SCI FI or Crime & Thriller genres. Consequently TOKKELOSHE was not nominated, but we loved it so much that we would like to give it an Honourable Mention.'

Watch TOKKELOSHE

hazazaH at the Dutch Film Festival 2008 (2)

Last Sunday was the premiere of the documentary series DE GESCHIEDENIS VAN NEDERLAND IN 12 MOORDEN at the Dutch Film Festival. Columnist Jan Blokker and his sons show the dark side of the Dutch on the basis of twelve historical murders.

YANi, Paul Postma and Roland Mylanus are responsible for the leader of the series. Paul Postma designed the film poster.

Watch leader 12 MOORDEN

Jeroen Hofman wins 'Best in Book' Creative Review Photography Annual 2008

Jeroen Hofman's photograph Risc, commissioned by Falck Nutec and shot at a training ground for fire men in Rotterdam, is selected for the Creative Review Photography Annual 2008. Every year, a panel of art directors and art buyers choose and showcase the finest work produced in the past year in a special October double issue of Creative Review.

The photograph was, together with a couple of other winners also chosen as 'Best in Book', according to the Annual "a way of recognising 'the best of the best'". This work will be exhibited in theprintspace gallery in London in October.

Earlier this year Risc was rewarded with a Member's Choice Award at the PANL SONY Awards #17.

Nieuwe projecten Arne

Arne heeft de afgelopen maanden de film HOU HOLLAND SCHOON, de clip JUICED ter ere van het 50-jarig bestaan van de Filmacademie en SCHNITZELPARADIJS: DE SERIE geregisseerd.

HOU HOLLAND SCHOON
maakt deel uit van ONE NIGHT STAND 3, een gezamenlijk initiatief van de omroepen NPS, VARA en VPRO, het Stimuleringsfonds Nederlandse Culturele Omroepproducties, het Nederlands Fonds voor de Film en het CoBO-fonds. Voor de derde keer hebben negen veelbelovende jonge regisseurs en scenarioschrijvers de kans gekregen om een film van veertig minuten te maken.

In HOU HOLLAND SCHOON (regie Arne Toonen, scenario Robert Jan Overeem) heeft de betrokkenheid van Jesse bij een groep hardcore-jongeren fatale gevolgen voor zijn vriendschap met Harvey.

ONE NIGHT STAND 3 gaat in premiere op het Nederlands Film Festival van 24 september tot 3 oktober. Vanaf 31 oktober is de filmserie iedere vrijdagavond rond 22.45 uur op Nederland 2 te zien.

Bekijk fragment HOU HOLLAND SCHOON


JUICED
De videoclip JUICED op een Justice remix van Soulwax maakt deel uit van het filmproject FILMACADEMIE 50 JAAR: DE TOEKOMST! Veertien aan de NFTA afgestudeerde filmmakers werkten aan dit project mee: naast Arne Toonen zijn dit John Appel, Frans Bromet, Tom Fassaert, Clara van Gool, Ineke Houtman, Hans Hylkema, Mijke de Jong, Martin Koolhoven, Mischa Kamp, Bas Pinkse, Camiel Schouwenaar, Pieter Verhoeff en Frans Weisz.

Arne is zowel verantwoordelijk voor het scenario als voor de regie van JUICED, waarin het verhaal verteld wordt van twee geliefden die kapot gaan aan verboden vruchten.

Bekijk fragment JUICED


SCHNITZELPARADIJS: DE SERIE
Arne regisseerde vijf afleveringen van SCHNITZELPARADIJS: DE SERIE, gebaseerd op de gelijknamige bioscoopfilm en het boek van Khalid Boudou.

Het verhaal van de serie speelt zich af vóór de film. Hier is Sander nog een onschuldige jongen die uitdaging in zijn leven zoekt en daarom een reis naar Afrika plant. Om hier geld voor te sparen, solliciteert hij bij het restaurant De Blauwe Gier. Maar zijn nieuwe baantje blijkt één grote verschrikking. Op zijn allereerste werkdag krijgt hij de ene na de andere ontgroeninggrap voor zijn kiezen en hij zweert plechtig nooit meer terug te komen. Maar dan ontmoet Sander de beeldschone Femke. Hij wordt verliefd en besluit zijn functie als sopkop toch nog maar even aan te houden, alle vreselijke werkomstandigheden ten spijt. Dat betekent namelijk dat hij zich staande moet weten te houden tussen de overdonderende nietsnutten Mo en Winston, de Servische ex-soldaat en slager Goran, de verbijsterend domme Ali en de reactionaire Patrick. In de keuken van De Blauwe Gier gelden geheel eigen regels. Houdt Sander het vol of gaat hij kopje onder in zijn eigen afwaswater?

De cast bestaat uit onder meer Tygo Gernandt, Yahya Gaier, Gürkan Küçüksentürk, Micha Hulshof, Peer Mascini en Eva van de Wijdeven.

SCHNITZELPARADIJS wordt in 10 delen uitgezonden door BNN vanaf 7 september om 21.15 uur op Nederland 3.

Bekijk aflevering SCHNITZELPARADIJS: DE SERIE

Bram Schouw regisseert nieuwe Sensoor commercial

Bekijk commercial Sensoor 'Jubileum'

Films Bram Schouw and Hany Abu-Assad selected for United Nations film project

To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) initiated the project ART FOR THE WORLD. The project involves a feature film composed of various short films directed by 22 filmmakers and video artists. In collaboration with the Italian government and the World Cinema Foundation of Martin Scorcese, the world premiere of this film will take place at the international film festival in Rome in October 2008. Afterwards, the film will be distributed world wide, subtitled in the six official languages of the United Nations (English, French, Spanish, Arab, Russian and Chinese).

The Palestian-Dutch director Hany Abu-Assad directed A BOY, A WALL AND A DONKEY. This three-minute film tells about three boys that want to shoot a film in Ramallah. A BOY, A WALL AND A DONKEY was the first film that was finished and was therefore already showed at Cannes International Film Festival.

Bram Schouw directed IMPASSE: a short film about an encounter between a white boy and an African girl in a night train. While all other passengers are sleeping the two look at each other. He wants to but doesn't dare to. Can't. She lets him but stays elusive. When the train comes to a standstill at the next train station, she gets her stuff. Now he has to show his colors.

The other directors are: Sergei Bodrov, Souleymane Cissé, Etgar Keret/Shira Geffen, Rolf de Heer, Zhangke Jia, Murali Nair, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Kimberly Peirce, Walter Salles/Daniela Thomas, Saman Salour, Abderrahmane Sissako, Paolo Sorrentino, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Jasmila Zbanic and the video artists.

The film will also be presented in various cities on 10th December 2008, on the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In New York during a special meeting of the UN General Assembly and in the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, where the declaration was signed in 1948.

For more information about ART FOR THE WORLD: www.art-for-the-world.com / activities / film directors and artists for human rights – a collective film project / the film project.

hazazaH's 10th anniversary today!

Billy Pols directs anti-child porn commercial

Watch commercial Meldpunt Kinderporno 'Cyberlokker'

Billy Pols directs new Coach commercial

Watch commercial Coach 'Not just sneakers'

Tim Burton receives Hans Brinker Award

On April 10th Tim Burton received the first Hans Brinker Award in the Tuschinski theatre from Paul Ruven, Roland Mylanus and YANi.

The award, accompanied by a richly illustrated letter from Hans Brinker himself, was presented to Burton by way of thanking him for his inspiring work and to arouse his interest in the feature film project BRINKER.

Jeroen Hofman and Krijn van Noordwijk rewarded at PANL

Jeroen Hofman won a Member's Award and Krijn van Noordwijk was rewarded with a Merit Award at the PANL SONY Awards #17.

The distribution of prizes took place on 28th March 2008 in the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam. The winning photographs will be exhibited there until 20th April.

Photo's Krijn van Noordwijk
Photo's Jeroen Hofman

Bert shoots new Ben campaign

Watch pictures Ben

Billy Pols directs new Room 11 music video

Watch music video Room 11 "Hey, hey, hey"

Tim Georgeson shoots new WWF campaign

Tim Georgeson photographed the new campaign against global warming for the World Wildlife Fund. Watch the photo's.

Wim van der Aar directs new Dayzers commercial

Watch commercial Dayzers_McEnroe

Krijn van Noordwijk directs new SP commercial

Watch commercial SP_Thuiszorg

Rob Lücker directs new SP viral

Watch the commercial SP_Nu is de tijd

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