film works by Juliette Stevens
Stay tuned on December 2nd! The Prins Claus Fonds Awards Ceremony 2020
Moving Portraits is working hard on the video’s of the inspiring laureates (award winners) of the Prins Claus Fonds Awards 2020. This year due to COVID-19, the Laureates will be announced during a special online celebration. It’s exceptional, but it allows people over the entire world to join the online ceremony and be inspired due the work and story’s of the amazing Laureates.
It’s an honor that we as Moving Portraits, can work since 2017 on several projects for the Prince Claus Fund. This year is a bigger challenge, but we are already so excited to share the work of all the inspiring Laureates with you. For months we are glued to the screen because of their breathtaking story’s and have been selecting all the material they’ve shared with us to make six special and meaningful films for the ceremony.
Since 1997, the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Developments presented Prince Claus Awards to individuals, groups and organisations whose cultural actions have a positive impact on their societies, primarily in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe. Stay tuned! You can are very welcome to join this special online celebration on 2 December 2020, from 18.00 - 18.30 with us. The link will be available on the website of the Prins Claus Fonds the days before the ceremony. Hope to see you then!
Woolly mammoth remains, with fur and tissue still in tact, are regularly found entombed in Arctic permafrost. Their discovery has allowed scientists to sequence the mammoth genome and learn intriguing details about the lives of these extinct Ice Age giants.
(…)“We need to start rethinking how we get our food. My biggest hope for this project is … that a lot more people across the world begin to hear about cultured meat,” said James Ryall, Vow’s chief scientific officer.
Together with Wefilm and Campina we launched the video 'Ode to Epke': a tribute to Epke Zonderland, three-time world champion and winner of Olympic gold in 2012 in the horizontal bar section. Zonderland has been working closely with Campina for seven years. With these personal images, Campina wished the top athlete every success on his way to his fourth and final Olympic flight at the 2021 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. For full article click on photo.
“The Golden Loeki” is a Dutch television prize for the best, nicest or most original commercial of the year. The commercial I directed for Spieren voor Spieren was one of the ten finalists that got nominated for the Golden Loeki! Last wednesday the awardshow was broadcasted at NPO1. Unfortunately we didn’t win but there was very special attention for Guus who was invited to the studio! Watch the full show here (the interview with guus starts at 5:38)
After months of hard but meaningful work we finalised the film portraits of the 2020 ‘Prince Claus Awards’ laureates. Due to COVID-19, these seven inspiring cultural leaders were announced during a special online ceremony. It was exceptional, but it allowed people from every corner of the world to join!
HRH Prince Constantijn, Honorary Chair of the Board of the Prince Claus Fund, presided over the celebration.
CLICK HERE to watch the special Prins Claus Ceremony!
While filming for 'Spieren voor Spieren,' we initially expected the footage to air during their big charity event in April. However, due to COVID-19, the organization had to pivot. Wefilm proposed a national online giveaway featuring special items donated by top Dutch athletes like Ronald & Frank de Boer, Ron Vlaar, Frederique Matla, Dominique Jansen, Marit Bouwmeester, and Sven Kramer. Moving Portraits captured the personal stories behind these items. The campaign gained significant media attention, with Louis van Gaal urging donations on Radio 538, and athletes sharing the video widely. Juliette Stevens' short film about Guus, a boy with a severe muscle disease, is now airing on Dutch TV.
Because of Covid-19 Belgian Wefilm director Jan Boon couldn’t travel to The Netherlands to direct the new KPN commercial in cooperation with Wefilm and Achtung. So I was asked to (co)direct live on the set while he joined us virtually on zoom. While behind the scenes we had to get used to “the new normal” KPN’s new campaign communicated the same message; paying a tribute to anyone who stays connected clever ways.
You can watch the commercial HERE
Together with the directors from Wefilm filmproduction company we asked people in the Netherlands to draw a heart on a white shirt and place it in front of their window. Why? So all doctors and nurses can see we support them (>by staying home) while they’re passing by on the way to the hospital. I filmed my daughters at home as well while creating a heart. You can watch the full film here.
My documentary "The Next Rembrandt” is selected on LABOCINE for the issue "DATA POWERS" alongside 20 other films. It will be streaming from March 3- April 7 2020!
Labocine.com is the first dedicated science film online platform which takes the form of a monthly video magazine and complements their annual Imagine Science Film Festival. This March they launched Issue #44, devoted to data in all its significance to modern society and to science.
An interesting article on the School for Justice program in India, whose campaign I directed.
At the School for Justice survivors of child prostitution are able to become the best lawyers, para-legals, police officers, socials workers, sociologist and journalists in the country so they can bring those responsible to justice.
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