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CVArjanne Laan is a filmmaker, editor and researcher for documentaries. She graduated as a graphic designer, film animator and photographer at the Academy of Arts in Arnhem. She mastered directing and editing at the documentary film school VARAN in Paris. She is a member of the Board of Advisors STIFO - Dutch Cultural Mediaproduction Fund. She is Lector Film at the Willem de Kooning Academie Rotterdam FILMOGRAPHY Short Work in progress: 2009 In Search For a Hero. In pre production for SeriousFilm. A search for Laan's passion for the phenomenon of the sprint. Project started in 2008. 2009. La Lotta Continua. In pre production for Moving Image Production. Is art nowadays just a sugar tenon of recreation? Of show and entertainment? Project started in 2008. 2009. Abril en Managua. In pre production with Interakt. The first free concert in Managua. After the fall of the Somoza regime. Project started in 2008. FILMOGRAPY ARJANNE LAAN: 2009: Short documentary "The Beehive", (KaffeePowuzzie) together with Music Composer Patricio Wang. Producer: Moving Image. Online videotheque Festival International du Court Metrage Clermont Ferrand 2007. 'Mama Calle' (nr. 45) en 'Velo Negro' (nr. 90), are represented in the top 100 of all (1031) IDFA films that were shown at IDFA past 20 years. 2007-2008: "Sons of Mother Sea" (Hijos de la Mar) about a Spanish fishing village. In Galicia where the Bulk ship Prestige spilled it's oil. Producer: BosBros Film & Video productions for Spanish TV Gallego & TV Rijnmond HIJOS DE LA MAR Screening: International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam-In competition for the IDFA Audience Award. The Netherlands (IDFA 2007); Prix d'europe 2007; Os Canarios Spain(Galicia 2007); North Korea (GFF 2008) ; Nederlands Film Festival 2008 2007: Smart Raps. Three clips with Hip Hop songs about politics and freedom. 2007: For Interakt she started the research on a documentary "Abril en Managua" on the the Dutch Sandalistas who supported the Nicaraguan Revolution around the year 1980 2005: "26000 faces" 18 portraits of asylumseeking children. Laan did the commissioning editing for Interakt/26000 faces and NPS /VPRO. 2004: BE STRONG! For 26000 faces a project of several Dutch filmmakers Laan directed: BE STRONG! Is a two minute portrait of three young asylum seekers in Holland. They rap a strong song to say farewell to their friend, who will be expelled from Holland soon. Three boys, 13, 14 and 15 years of age, from three different countries Angola, Afghanistan and Rwanda- rapping their hearts and souls out in their political rap: "Be Strong!" 2004: She wrote the script for "Selim's Song". A documentary about the young Turkish boy Selim. Who searches the composer of a popular dutch song in the 60's. A song about his grandad. A song that depects the old man as a uncivilised person. Selim is angry about that. What on earth made the man compose this racist song? Can he find the composer and make him sing the song right in his face? Selim searches frantically. Producer: Ciska Van Beek 2004: For NCRV Dokument Junior (Dutch Children's TV z@ppelin) she made the children's documentary "Walla" about a small gang of kids playing on the Streets. 2002: "Grandpa's Secret Suitcase". A young girl Florence discovers a secret when her grandfather dies. She finds love letters and photographs in his secret Trunk. Production: Ikon - TV + BosBros Film & TV productions. In 2000 Grandpa's Secret Suitcase' received a special mention for the script-outline at the Cinekid festival. Festival: Cinekid 2002; IDFA Amsterdam 2002; Prix Danube 2003; DocPoint - Helsinki Documentary Film Festival 2004; Greece 6th Olympia International Film Festival 2004. Broadcasted: October 2002 Dutch TV 3 Z@ppelin 2002. A 50 minutes film Nostalgia (script: Arjanne Laan & Inge Klijn). A film about youngsters who are forced to move house. Produced by: IKON. Broadcasted: the Dutch childrens channel Z@ppelin Dutch TV 3 2002 A series of portraits of Youngsters and their approach to death "Searching for Mr. Death" Part one: "Machetes & Machine Guns". Part two: "Dead Birds". Produced by IKON & Arjanne Laan. Broadcasted: Dutch TV 3 Z@ppelin, BVN-TV (Dutch World Services) & VRT. 2001: "The Forgery" A 50 minutes documentary on false art and greed in the art world. Script & director: Arjanne Laan. Produced: NFI and NPS TV . Broadcasted: NPS-Dutch Television; Finish TV YLE; Pay TV -Italy In 1997-1999, she finished two series of short documentaries "Love Itches" and "Ana from Nicaragua". Produced by IKON TV. Broadcasted: Dutch TV 1 1994-1997. She directed the documentary "Velo Negro" a film about young Mexican immigrants searching for the 'Promised Land', the USA. Awards: 1994 Script Award for Creative Documentary ( European Media Project). 1996 'Prix Joris Ivens': at the festival Cinema du Reel in Paris. 1996: the Ambiente-Incontri International Jury Award in Italy. Festivals:: Dutch Film Festival; Cinema du Reel-Paris; International Documentary Festival Amsterdam; Ambiente-Incontri-Italy; La Moviola-Italy; Valladolid-Spain; Montreal-Canada; Document-Art-Berlin-Germany; Amascultura - Portugal; Beeld voor Beeld-Amsterdam; Freiburger Film Forum-Germany; Chicago Film Festival; Italian Filmfestival Triest, and the Immigrants Filmfestival Sweden, Bombay Int. Filmfestival. Broadcasted: Dutch TV 1, Finish TV and Mexican TV. Cinema release: The Netherlands and Denmark. Danish-Dutch co-production. 1992-1993. The documentary "Ward 4". This 40 minutes documentary, deals with mentally and physically handicapped kids and their parents. Broadcasted: Dutch TV 3. Video-Distribution: Holland & Belgium 1992. At the Italian Festival "Ambiente-Incontri 1992" Arjanne Laan won the City of Sacile Prize, for the best script. With the fiction filmscript "Nordic Pacific Transit". 1990-1991. She wrote and directed the documentary "Mama Calle", a film about streetkids. Awards: 'Prize of the City of Utrecht' on the Dutch Film Festival 1990, the 'Premio Costa Azul' in Portugal, and the 'Gold Hugo Award' for best documentary In the USA in1991 at the Chicago International Filmfestival. Festivals: Cannes «91 (Ecran Ouvert). Utrecht, IDFA Amsterdam, IFF Rotterdam, Creteil, Toulouse, Troia, Edinburgh, Cairo, Chicago, Yamagata, San Sebastian, Tel Aviv, Leipzig, Sao Paolo and Bombay. Broadcasted: The Netherlands, Finland and Mexico. Cinema Release: The Netherlands, Japan, and Mexico. |
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