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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
The 2014 Amsterdam Food Film Festival takes place May 9th-11th this year, and it is going to be dee-lish! “Many exceptional films have been made about food and the value of food in society, and many more are made each year.
To offer these films a platform, the idea for the Food Film Festival was born at a kitchen table in Amsterdam in 2010[…]Not only do we focus on the culinary side of food, we also critically examine our food system”. Doubly appetizing, nice! The festival incorporates not only films, but workshops, presentations, an organic farmers market, and major festival production sustainability initiatives too. Check the festival out and all of its delicious offerings here. Bon appétit! [photo: foodfilmfestival.nl]
Student competition: THE ENTRIES ARE IN, LET THE GREEN FILM MAKING GAMES BEGIN!
We are very happy to announce that student production teams from IRELAND, THE NETHERLANDS, & ENGLAND will be competing for this year’s European wide title of “Green Film Makers of the Year”. In total 34 U.K. students of the Grand Independent are participating with 7 different film plans, while 7 Irish students of Filmbase Dublin are participating with 2 plans, and 19 students of the Netherlands Film Academy as well as the HKU University of Arts are participating with 3 plans. With this 2014 edition of The Green Film Making Competition, we are challenging young film makers across Europe to produce their films as sustainably as possible, while coming up with new and innovative sustainable solutions for onset. Let the games begin! [photo: thehollywoodreporter.com]
Official jury members and sustainable filmmaking experts, Michael Geidel(Germany), Juhi Shareef (UK), Daniel Aiss (NL) and our ambassador Thekla Reuten (NL) will evaluate the team efforts.
Winning teams will: become industry pioneers, present their project, findings, & solutions during the Netherlands Film Festival 2014, and will also receive a monetary prize.
Good luck to all!
The Amazing (sustainable) Spider-Man is Earth Hour’s first super hero ambassador
This year, Earth Hour has joined forces with “the most eco friendly blockbuster in the history of Sony Pictures” , ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2‘.We truly admire this effort of the eco-blockbuster, for using its popular appeal to help shed light on the protection of the environment. After all, “With great power, comes great responsibility”. Millions of people around the world joined forces with Spider-Man during Earth Hour 2014, in turning their lights off for one hour, to become super heroes for the planet.This partnership inspires people to join in Earth Hour’s environmental movement, while highlighting the film’s commitment to becoming a sustainably produced film. Win, win, win! Never underestimate your power, and check Sustainable-Spidey in action for Earth Hour here.
Recap: First Green Film Making Project Progress Meeting of 2014
On March 12th, producers of The Nederlands Film Festival‘s ‘NTR Kort!‘ film program got together with our team, to share what insights they have gained, & what challenges they face in the process of trying to make their films sustainably. The verdict? Dutch film makers express a great desire to collaborate on sustainability, in order to push this progress forward. They have plenty of leverage as the guiding hand on their sets, & can introduce a dialogue on sustainable alternatives with their crew, & service companies. Iris Otten of Pupkin Film, put it this way: “as film production professionals we’re doers, maybe we should aim to become thinkers”.
The results of this thinking & sustainability action, as well as the green-produced films themselves, can be seen at the Dutch Film Festival 2014’s ‘KORT!’ film program premier in September. We will be there to share the findings of our 2014 Green Film Making Project with the film industry as well. It will be an evening to showcase the greening of the film industry in The Netherlands, and we are very much looking forward to it!
Nicola Knoch (Germany)
In January, we were very proud to host Nicola Knoch as a seminar leader, in our first Green Film Making Workshop of 2014. Her work as an on-set ‘sustainability representative’, strives to provide a more human and holistic approach to traditional film production methods, within a medium that has always been about human reflection at its core. read more…
Our partners at THE NETHERLANDS FILM FUND RECEIVE AWARD in los angeles
A big CONGRATULATIONS to our partners at the Netherlands Film Fund who have won the 2014 ‘International Shorts Award’ in Los Angeles! We are very proud to have the Netherlands Film Fund as partners in the Green Film Making Project, and we will together (with the producers of the 2014 Nederlands Film Festival‘s short film program ‘KORT!’) work actively to promote sustainable innovation in film production processes, for the third year in a row.
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Every year the US based ‘Shorts Awards’ recognizes one international nation’s role in promoting short film making within its borders and through its film institutions, and this year the prize was collected by acclaimed Dutch actor Rutger Hauer on behalf of the Netherlands Film Fund.The Film Fund received the Award for: its expertise and long term financial support of the short-film industry within the Netherlands, as well as for the strong support it offers to Dutch film festivals.
Netherlands Film Fund CEO, Doreen Boonekamp has commented: “This award puts the Netherlands as a film country on the map. It is a recognition of the rich talent of Dutch film makers and producers that we have, and of the quality of our film schools and training organisations[…]For the Dutch film industry this year also marks the launch of a €20 million cash rebate and the Netherlands Film Commission to further promote the production industry and opportunities in our country.”
The award was also given to EYE International for creating significant opportunities for Dutch short movies at international festivals and for its international promotion of the Dutch short film industry. Cable operator UPC-Netherlands were also among the Dutch initiatives recognized, for its dedicated short film TV channel.
The Shorts Awards were presented at the Paley Center in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles on March 1st – the eve of the Oscar Awards Ceremony- to celebrate achievements solely within the realm of short film production.
Congratulations to all the Dutch recipients, and especially to our partners at The Netherlands Film Fund – we are so proud to be working with you!
Read the related and official Netherlands Film Fund press release here.