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Hi! My name is Simone de Vries, I am a documentary filmmaker from Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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REGIE COACH? SCRIPT COACH? EINDREDACTEUR? Het is zo leuk om andere (beginnende) documentairemakers te helpen hun visie duidelijk te krijgen, oplossingen te bedenken voor moeilijke (script) situaties en vooral…in de edit meekijken met een frisse blik. En ook daar meedenken met structuur, soms met inventieve oplossingen, soms met een simpele ingreep. Ik kan leiding geven …
TOUCH ME SOMEPLACE I CAN FEEL (2007)
Robin’s Road Trip (2017)
Igone: En als beloning zweef je
What if a prima ballerina takes off her ‘corset’ after 24 years at the National Ballet and has to shape her own future? UITZENDING 9 JUNI 2021 BIJ AVROTROS CLOSE UP
Jasperina, op eenzame hoogte——— NRC: **** TROUW: **** VK: ***
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Robin’s Road Trip – International Emmy nominee
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DE SCHIJN TEGEN (THE ALIBI)
Reinier Smit zat reeds 8 jaar in de cel voor de moord op zijn vrouw Gonda. Hard bewijs werd nooit geleverd. Zijn “ongeloofwaardige alibi en schimmige reputatie” lijken een rol te hebben gespeeld in de veroordeling. Als iemand de schijn tegen heeft maar er is geen hard bewijs, wat doe je dan? Een reconstructie.
TOUCH ME SOMEPLACE I CAN FEEL (2007) winner GOUDEN KALF
** UPDATE: GUS VAN SANT IS SHOOTING A MOVIE ABOUT CALLAHAN’S LIFE TITLED “DON’T WORRY, HE WON’T GET FAR ON FOOT”/ STARRING JOAQUIN PHOENIX!!!** Award winning film on cartoonist John Callahan. At age 21 John is paralyzed from the waist down in a drunken car accident. His angry outlet becomes drawing, not the most obvious choice …
ROBIN DE PUY: Ik ben het allemaal zelf (NL)
Documentary about Dutch photographer Robin De Puy on her 10.000 miles motorcyle road trip through the US. She faces all her fears by stepping into the unknown all on her own, as she portrays mostly outsiders: the people she feels connected to. In this intimate portrait she finds out she is actually portraying herself.
Audience award “Robin’s Road Trip”
BEER IS CHEAPER THAN THERAPY (2011)
“I’m 22 years old, and I must have killed 30 people. The same thing that you were given badges for over in Iraq would have you considered a serial killer over here, and that’s a very weird thought to have running around in your head, late at night.”
BEER IS CHEAPER THAN THERAPY
GOLD, SWEAT AND PEARLS (2010)
Internationally known jewelry designer Ted Noten is not one to shy away from controversy. Provocateur deLuxe, his jewelry is not for the faint hearted. And often not wearable, for that matter. Here is the promo in Dutch, don’t worry there is much to see!
KESSELS’ EYE (DE KIJK VAN KESSELS) 2010
How advertising mogul Erik Kessels tries to educate the world- one image at a time
RUTGER HAUER: BLOND, BLUE EYES (2010)
Documentary on enigmatic Dutch actor Rutger Hauer, a total recluse. After a year of trying I was finally granted access to his life… it resulted in this portrait where we see all facets of his life: acting all over the world in very different films- from a Romanian low budget movie to Goal 2 at Bernabéu …
HIGH ON JESUS (2003)
Larry walks with a huge wooden cross through Texas. Larry is a crazy Jesusfreak. Or wait- is he?
PLANEET KAMAGURKA (2002)
Niet uit te leggen, het werk van de Belgische striptekenaar en schilder Luc Zeebroek, alias Kamagurka. ‘Kama’ blijkt een heel bedrijf te zijn: hij reist van museum naar radiostudio naar theater en overal waar hij komt slaat de absurditeit toe.
KINKY FRIEDMAN: PROUD TO BE AN ASSHOLE FROM EL PASO (2001)
Friedman’s fans range from Willie Nelson to Bill Clinton (who recalls Kinky offering him a Cuban cigar at a state dinner with the words, “Don’t think of it as helping their economy — think of it as burning their fields”), and his achievements range from such songs as “They Ain’t Making Jews like Jesus Anymore” …
PROUD TO BE AN ASSHOLE FROM EL PASO
