Cinekid Catalogue 2016

CATALOGUE

2016

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

Foreword 6 JURY Jury Members Best Children's Film 12 Jury Members Best Dutch Family Film 14 Jury Members Best European Short Animation Film 16 Jury Members Best Dutch Television Production 18 Jury Members Best New Media Production 20 Jury Members AppLab Award 22 Burny Bos Talent Award 24 FILM Introduction 28 Best Children's Film 32 Best Dutch Family Film 47 Best European Short Animation Film 55 Panorama 66 Dutch Shorts 71 Turkish Boys 74 Birthdays 75 Guest of the Year 77 Special Screening 80 WRAP! 80 VR 83 TV Introduction 86 Best Dutch Television Production 90 Premieres 94 Now or Never 101 Kids & Docs 103

CONTENT

Dokument Junior 111 Just Kids 116 Pitch & Plug 117 Specials 119 Side Programme 128 NEW MEDIA Introduction 132 Medialab 137 Installations 138 New Media Award 152 Workshops 164 AppCamp 174 CINEKID FOR PROFESSIONALS Introduction 180 Conference, Seminars & Masterclasses 182 Market Activities 188 Other CfP Events & Initiatives 190 Food, Drinks & Networking 191 Index 192 Credits 196

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

30 YEARS CINEKID FESTIVAL A NEW CHAPTER What is the big picture of a platform such as Cinekid, that over the past thirty years continually showcased what was created in the field of youth media?

SANNETTE NAEYÉ

It was all sparked by the wave of the emancipation of the child and the youth culture. After the workers and the women, the spotlight was turned to the family and child on the second feminist wave in Western Europe. The child was acknowledged as a separate entity. Sociologists looked at educational theory and designated the child image as a 'context-driven construction'.

Different cultures have different child images, and even within for example the Western culture this image is not consistent. A child can have a say, for instance, but does not have a right to vote. They have their own rights and treatment in legislation, child welfare and justice, but have hardly any or no authority in these realms.

– children were even placed in custody. This highly paternalistic child image came under great pressure in the 1970s; the child should be given autonomous authority over its life. This was ratified by the Convention of the Rights of the Child, passed by the United Nations in 1989.

Signed by 195 countries, this is the most widely endorsed human rights treaty in history. The United States are the only country that has not ratified it yet.

That this has not completed the child image and that societies strongly differ as to how they perceive the child or childhood is often apparent in the appraisal of youth films. Particularly regarding the question what a child is allowed to see and whether it should be protected in order to develop or should instead participate, views differ. Will showing the bad sides of the world lead to bad children, because they follow bad examples or are harmed by exposure to violence or war, loneliness, desolation or other evils? The latter had gained the upper hand; harmfulness became the formal touchstone for the evaluation of youth films by the authorities, putting the main emphasis on education or compliance with the rules of law. With respect to appropriateness, authorities in the West are less outspoken, but in other cultures they are very explicit. Over here, this is quickly considered

This sociological approach is supplementary to the revolutionary child image of the 18th century philosopher Rousseau, who in his book Émile ou de l’éducation made a paradoxical and urgent appeal not to raise children, but to let them be themselves. That is to say, the child with a natural understanding and an unblemished set of codes. Before this, the child was seen rather as an incomplete adult, just like women were not yet acknowledged as full persons. In the early 20th century, this developed into the romantic idea that childhood should be protected to give the child the opportunity to fully blossom. If need be, by re-educating them in a protected environment

8

FOREWORD

state control or a restriction of the freedom of speech. But Western Europe also lacks consensus on the question whether media should be literally exemplary. For example, can you show homosexual family relationships as a normal phenomenon, or only as a problem? And as the theme of a movie, or rather more implicitly?

The potentially homosexual identity of children, being different, is a particularly delicate topic.

People feel most comfortable with positive role models, the virtuous child that goes to school, has friends, is loyal to its family and friends, and is obliging. A children’s film, series or documentary can deviate from this, but the final message should represent the generally accepted values and standards. For an educator and a role model, it is obvious that you represent these standards yourselves and demonstrate life to your children. It is evident to also project these demands on youth media. But is this appropriate?

After all, in real life almost no adult will be able to embody the positive role model one on one.

This gives media the additional task to prepare the child for this real life and provide it with a positive self-image, despite the fact it will be just as imperfect as the adult. Rousseau´s book is definitely closed.

Cinekid Festival The first festival opened with Lasse Hallström's My Life as a Dog, still many people’s favourite film, a milestone. Astrid Lindgren had prepared the way with her numerous self-directed child characters, Pippi Longstocking in front. Some 40 productions were adapted from Lindgren’s children’s books and characters, which she started creating right after World War II. In the Netherlands, we had writer Annie M.G. Schmidt, who took the child as an individual strictly serious and coupled this with humour and refinement. A series of adaptations by people such as Burny Bos reached a wide audience and gave Dutch youth cinema a cinematographic quality impulse. In the process, filmmakers gratefully stood on the shoulders of the strong Scandinavian youth cinema of late last century.

The small story of a child at centre stage developed into a separate youth arthouse genre.

The start of the 21th century was characterised by the influence of new genres in youth cinema, often first-rate, adopted from genre films for adults. Psychological thrillers, fantasy, war movies; they all found their place in the Best Children’s Film competition, with which we did justice to our goal to present 'the best from all youth genres'. We also embrace innovation, by giving narrative virtual reality its own stage for the first time this year, apart from the MediaLab installations, with the Cinekid VR Bios.

The Dutch In view of the above, it is no coincidence that the first edition of Cinekid is in 1987. The idea prevails that children have the right to youth culture and youth productions. Led by Burny Bos, the founder of the later production company BosBros, the Dutch broadcaster VPRO is setting up a youth division. Youth TV became naughty, autonomous and headstrong, and great creative talents jumped on board, including scriptwriters.

But it was no coincidence that Burny and his friends Boudewijn Klap (the future managing director of public broadcaster AVRO) and Piet Geelhoed (the future chief editor of youth programme The Apple Core) all started out as teachers. They initially gave Dutch youth radio a fresh twist, slightly anarchistic yet prudent. The strange synergy between Calvinism and anarchy so typical of the Netherlands, combined with entrepreneurship and organisational skills.

With the compelling Dutch youth TV, the festival’s TV programming was a fixture for the Prix Jeunesse Awards and played a guiding role.

Here, filmmakers experimented, occasionally blundered, but explored and pushed boundaries.

A basic attitude that is inherent in youth programming. After all, children also have to explore, push and conquer boundaries on a daily basis while growing up. The festival for the first time broke with the tradition to open with a film in 2007, with the TV drama series De Daltons. In 2015, Cinekid launched the event with a series

9

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

of short TV films around cultural diversity. The TV programming, previously mainly a première section allowing makers and viewers to meet, gradually developed into a platform where the child as a creator, or as an opinion former, had its own place. This is also reflected in a pitch to children, highly appreciated by makers, of some projects from Cinekid’s International Co-production Market. This already led to adjustments before the première of the documentary Young Wrestlers in the Berlinale’s Generation Kplus, a film screened here in the Best Dutch Family Film competition.

As many as 20 years ago, Cinekid for the first time granted New Media a special programme section, while the PC had barely entered our lives. Telling stories for and about children is the mainspring of Cinekid, irrespective of any medium, interactive or linear. But media increasingly conquer their place in the world.

The Internet of Things transcends individual expression, and stories told. It links subjective experience to interaction, connects software to hardware and to people. With its MediaLab, which expanded to 1200 m2, Cinekid pioneered a platform for innovation and a place where children are involved actively and creatively in media. Interactive media require participation, but in the MediaLab children can set to work themselves, both with old and new media, and especially with their cross-pollination. New

technology also enables us to give children easy access to the production side of media, and create things themselves. Media literacy has become a key concept to equip children for their own lives and our common future. We are proud of the fact that the MediaLab has become a great crowd puller and a source of inspiration to many in the media industry.

Early this century, Cinekid developed into a youth productions platform for the media industry. The first significant conference in 2000 presented international formats for youth programming and networks in Europe to Dutch TV policymakers. Here, Dutch public broadcasters for the first time proposed thata youth channel might be a good idea. This turned out to be the first step towards a national youth TV platform, which eventually became Zappelin/Zapp. The conference became more international, we received European co-financing and Cinekid for Professionals grew into the strong platform it is today. We are the only ones that Creative Europe gives sound support in the Access to Markets for Young Audiences function, so we feel responsible for supporting the whole chain of youth media, from product development to distribution and propagation. To this end, we developed a range of tools, from knowledge exchange, a youth film script training programme, a co-production market and hundreds of pre-set meetings, to private screenings for TV commissioners, sales agents and distributors of annually around 350 new productions in the ScreeningClub, a competition and awards policy, masterclasses

10

FOREWORD

So, it is with great confidence that I will be leaving Cinekid, because all the knowledge, the entire history, was developed by and is firmly embedded in the staff members, and in Cinekid’s competence to keep developing the event every year with new young people and fresh insights.

and expert meetings. Of old, Cinekid for Professionals explores cross-media productions and innovation, because children and families with young children are large-scale users and frontrunners for every trend.

In early 2017, I will resign as the director of Cinekid. I want to be active for one more period of time exploring new and different roads, dedicating my knowledge and energy. I have travelled a long road in the media.At a young age, I had the opportunity to search for significant documentaries and informative programmes and put them on TV. Still quite young, I was appointed head of a large TV division in the Netherlands, which annually produced and broadcast some 110 art and culture programmes. I brought all this knowledge to Cinekid and it is with great satisfaction that I look back at what I have been able to realise over the past 20 years under this wonderful brand. The fact that my first year as a director started right away with a small media lab later turned out to be a lucky shot; we were and still are authoritative in this respect. It was great that we were big enough in time to start building an extensive programme to support the industry and distribution for youth media.

Today, we are the leading player in this field and receive several European funds to play this role with zest. But my greatest merit may well be that I identified highly talented and qualified people and bound them to Cinekid. Loyal, autonomous and original people with a good eye for quality, the zeitgeist and children. Not always the easiest people to get along with, but a human being is as good as the extra knowledge he manages to find around him and obtain, never by more of the same or by cloning. Things have to be a little abrasive, even if that is not always your dearest wish as a manager.

11

It is evident that nothing would have been possible without the numerous subsidisers, funds, partners and individuals. It was always a battle and often a pleasure. Occasionally, I was moved to tears by the decision people or authorities made to support our cause, often with substantial contributions.

In early 2017, I will pass the baton to my successor, but I announce my resignation on this occasion to give Cinekid every opportunity to find a suitable successor. This will be my final festival. In advance of the farewell moment, I want to thank everyone from the bottom of my heart who contributed to the success of Cinekid and who enabled me, heading the event for twenty years, to make a small-scale and congenial local youth festival expand into the largest of its kind in the world. I rest assured that Cinekid will always foster a healthy cultural climate and champion decent children’s rights.

Offering every child the opportunities to fully develop, irrespective of its economic position, gender, nationality, cultural status or cultural identity. Key factors in this respect are fine media productions, quality and creativity.

Sannette NaeyĂŠ Festival Director / Head of Film Programming

JURY

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

JURY MEMBERS BEST CHILDREN'S FILM Out of a pre-selection of more than 300 features from all over the world, fifteen films were selected for the Best Children’s Film Competition. A jury of five international professionals with a background in film or children’s media will decide who gets the Best Children’s Film Jury Award and reward the production company of the winning film with a Cinekid Lion statue and the sum of € 10,000. At every screening, children in the audience vote for their favourite film in competition. The winner receives the Cinekid Lion for the Best Children’s Film Audience Award.

Celebrating the 30th anniversary of Cinekid, the Cinekid Lion Award statue this year comes in a limited edition: a design by renowned Dutch artist Jeroen Henneman.

MARK DE CLOE (THE NETHERLANDS) Mark de Cloe started his career as a director with a series of successful shorts, including the dance film False Waltz, which was nominated for an Emmy Award. His first feature Life in One Day won the Movie Squad Award and was nominated for the Critic’s Prize at the Netherlands Film Festival. Shocking Blue was nominated for two Golden Calves. The Strongest Man of Holland was nominated for a Crystal Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and an Emmy Award and won the Prix Europa. The features Men in the City and Men in the City 2 were box-office hits. Rhubarb won the Cinekid Lion Audience Award and won an Emmy Kids Award.

14

JURY

RONALD OCKHUYSEN (THE NETHERLANDS) Ronald Ockhuysen started his career at de Volkskrant as a drama critic.

From 1998 to 2008, he worked as a film editor for this daily and for years reported on the film festivals of Cannes, Venice, Toronto and Berlin.

Between 2002 and 2008, he also worked as a programme maker for the VPRO. He was a host and co-compiler of the R.A.M. journal (daily reports on the Cannes, IFFR and IDFA film events) and the film programme Cinema.nl. In 2008, he switched to Het Parool, where he started heading the editorial staff Art and Media, before becoming the deputy editor first and subsequently chief editor.

CLAUDIA DROC (ROMANIA) Claudia Droc is currently MEDIA Coordinator at Europa Cinemas, managing activities within the framework of the European Commission’s Creative Europe/MEDIA sub-programme. She has been working in international cultural project management since 2011, in various institutions such as UNESCO and the Romanian Cultural Institute in Paris, where she coordinated communication and events. Claudia is the author of several papers on European politics in South-Eastern Europe, as well as of a volume of short stories. Wholeheartedly committed to culture, she is engaged in the work of several associations.

Claudia was born in Romania and is currently living in Paris.

MARKÉTA PÁŠMOVÁ (CZECH REPUBLIC) Markéta Pášmová began working as a programme organizer at the Zlín Film Festival in 1999. In 2004, she became head of the programme department and since January 2013 she has been the artistic director.

Markéta hails from an artistic family; her grandfather, director Josef Pinkava, was one of the founders of Zlín's filmmaking tradition for children and youngsters. She focuses on European cinema and is active in the field of educational programmes for children. She is a board member of the Film Talent Foundation ZLÍN, which supports talented young filmmakers. She is a board member of the European Children's Film Association.

ANTOINE SIMKINE (FRANCE) Antoine Simkine is the managing director of Les Films d’Antoine, which was founded in 2004. He has over thirty years of experience in the industry.

He co-founded DUBOI in 1989 and was the executive producer of VFX for about one hundred feature films. After working for 20th Century Fox, he produced or co-produced ten feature films with Les Films d’Antoine that were presented in Berlin, Sundance, Toronto and Karlovy Vary.

In 2013, he founded Digifilm Corporation, a start-up offering an innovative solution for the long-term archiving of film assets. Antoine is a member of the European Producer’s Club, the EFA and the Césars.

15

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

JURY MEMBERS BEST DUTCH FAMILY FILM The Netherlands is internationally recognised as a major producer of family films. Over the past years, the number, quality and diversity of Dutch children’s films have steadily increased, in part owing to the children’s film policy of the Media Fund and the Netherlands Film Fund. The 2016 line-up is reduced compared to previous years, due to cutbacks of the Dutch Film Fund and public broadcaster subsidies starting in 2013. For the Best Dutch Family Film Competition, Cinekid selects Dutch feature films made since the last festival, which are aimed at children under 14 or are suitable for the entire family. The winner of the Best Dutch Family Film Jury Award will receive the sum of € 7,500 and a Cinekid Lion statue. The children visiting the festival award their own Cinekid Lion Audience statue to the highest-rated film in competition. Celebrating the 30th anniversary of Cinekid, the Cinekid Lion Award statue this year comes in a limited edition: a design by renowned Dutch artist Jeroen Henneman.

MARTIN BERENDSE (THE NETHERLANDS) Martin Berendse is chief executive of the OBA (Amsterdam Public Library).

After a decade in marketing and performing arts management, another decade in cultural policy and civil service (Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, The Hague), Martin Berendse entered the world of information management, FOI, open data and international cooperation as a national archivist of the Netherlands and president of the International Council on Archives. All aspects of his previous jobs and activities are now combined in his position at the OBA, with almost four million visitors a year, 175,000 members and 26 branches one of the biggest social and cultural hubs of Amsterdam.

16

JURY

TIBOR DEKKER (THE NETHERLANDS) Tibor Dekker studied Journalism in Utrecht and in the summer of 2000 set to work on the online editorial staff of de Volkskrant. After a couple of sports projects, he got involved in the online film pages. When shortly after de Volkskrant and public broadcaster the VPRO decided to team up and build a large film website, Tibor was appointed one of the editors.

After de Volkskrant left this collective project called Cinema.nl in 2011, he took service with the VPRO as a chief editor. Dekker has loved cinema for as long as he can remember. He named his eldest son Ivan after the leading character from the lovely Scandinavian youth film Gummi-Tarzan.

LYDIA ROOD (THE NETHERLANDS) Lydia Rood studied Spanish and Journalism and worked for de Volkskrant.

She made her debut in 1982 with a children’s book and went on to practise almost all genres, from pre-schoolers’ books to erotic stories.

Several of her children’s books bagged awards. In 2007, she wrote the children’s book week gift: Kaloeha Dzong. She tries to draw children into the world of stories in all sorts of ways, for example with her ‘game stories’ and as a School Writer in Amsterdam. This way, she occasionally gets to know children who inspire her to write a story; Xinia’s wraak is one example.

ARNE TOONEN (THE NETHERLANDS) Arne Toonen first graduated as an artist from the Arnhem Art School, and years later as a feature director. His background as an artist is reflected in all of his movies. His first feature film Chubby Drums (487,000 visitors) received the Golden Calf at the Netherlands Film Festival for Best Art Direction. The movie went on to win many jury and audience awards across the world. The features Black Out and Little Gangster received positive reviews (Variety, Hollywood Reporter) – praising him for his distinctive visual style and humour. Little Gangster was also selected for the prestigious Sundance Film Festival in 2016.

LOES HAVERKORT (THE NETHERLANDS) Loes Haverkort is a successful Dutch actress and singer. In 2015, she played the female lead in the movie Rendez-vous, as well as several other roles in productions including Schneider vs. Bax, Little Gangster and Chubby Drums. She played the leading part of Charlotte in the musical Soldaat van Oranje, which clinched several Musical Awards. In addition, she performed various roles with Dutch theatre companies, including a lead in Fatal Attraction. Besides, Loes had her own troupe for some time. She acted in different TV series, such as the popular Vechtershart. Last year, Loes was nominated for a Golden Calf in the Best Actress in a TV Drama category, for De Jacht. This year, she will appear on the silver screen in Voor Elkaar Gemaakt.

17

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

JURY MEMBERS BEST EUROPEAN SHORT ANIMATION FILM The European Short Animation Film Competition is a unique programme limited to short European animation films that are suitable for young children, do not exceed thirty minutes and contain little to no dialogue. With this selection of films, Cinekid enables young children to experience themes and narrative styles from as many European countries as possible. Europe is teeming with animation talent that turns out beautiful artwork on a regular basis. However, projects that focus on children are still limited and therefore deserve support. This year, we made a selection of twenty-three short European films. From these, a jury consisting of three members will select a winner to receive a Cinekid Lion. Celebrating the 30th anniversary of Cinekid, the Cinekid Lion Award statue this year comes in a limited edition: a design by renowned Dutch artist Jeroen Henneman.

18

JURY

NATALIA CHERNYSHEVA (RUSSIA) Natalia graduated from the Ural State Academy of Architecture and Art, majoring in graphics and animation. She worked as an animator, character designer and artist on several animated films. Snowflake (2012) was her directing debut. From 2012 to 2014, she studied at La Poudrière (France), where she directed the films The Return (2013) and her graduation film Two Friends (2014), which was selected for last year's Best European Short Animation Film competition at Cinekid. Both films bagged numerous international awards. Her latest film, The Gossamer (2016), is the result of her participation in Animation Artist in Residence Tokyo 2015.

SARITA CHRISTENSEN (DENMARK) After working at Zentropa for nine years, as a head of the children's and youth division and in other capacities, Sarita Christensen set up the production outfit Copenhagen Bombay, teaming up with filmmaker Anders Morgenthaler.

Copenhagen Bombay is a diverse and talent-oriented company working with a broad range of projects. No matter the platform, the intention with all of Copenhagen Bombay’s stories is to capture the audience’s interest through relevance and originality. Copenhagen Bombay pays special attention to new talents, original stories and unique designs. Their vision is to encourage the inquisitive child to remain inquisitive, and to generate innovation and entrepreneurship.

JOLANDE JUNTE (THE NETHERLANDS) Jolande Junte is an animation producer and a manager of 3D, 2D, stop-motion and motion-capture productions for film, TV and commercials. She has been involved with animation productions for the past fourteen years, ranging from early concept development to final products. Her productions included the Pim & Pom TV series, which won the 2010, 2011 and 2013 Cinekid Kinderkast Awards, and the movie Pim & Pom: The Big Adventure, screened at this year's festival, for which she was the line producer. Jolande is currently general manager at BosBros, ranking among the best known and most experienced film and TV production companies in the Netherlands.

19

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

JURY MEMBERS BEST DUTCH TELEVISION PRODUCTION The Cinekid Kinderkast Awards are awarded to the best Dutchlanguage children’s TV programmes from the Netherlands and Flanders screened during the past year. This year, 72 programmes were submitted, by both public and commercial networks.

A professional jury selected three nominees from both the fiction and nonfiction categories. For the audience awards, they made a pre-selection. Cinekid considers it important that children really learn to see and make judgements on the basis of a range of different aspects. For this reason, the jurying takes place in schools from all 12 provinces of the Netherlands. The schools are given the shortlist, along with teaching materials specially developed by Cinekid. Professional workshop supervisors support the teachers in using the teaching materials and watching and assessing the productions. Cinekid Kinderkast Audience Awards are handed out in the categories 4-6 years old and 6-12 years old. The Jury Awards are subdivided into the categories Fiction and Non-fiction.

Each of the winners receives a statue conceived by Jan Wolkers.

The professional jury also awards the Golden Cinekid Kinderkast to the best Dutch TV production, fiction or non-fiction. The winner receives a € 7,500 cash prize.

AKWASI (THE NETHERLANDS) Akwasi is a successful Dutch artist, songwriter, actor and director (with Ghanaian roots) who is chiefly known as the frontman of the hiphop formation Zwart Licht. He played several roles in plays, short films and TV series, was a presenter in the Dutch documentary Slavernij Voorbij and has been a jury member and coach in several music competitions. He started the interdisciplinary project Daar Ergens, inspired by the songs of Bram Vermeulen, who formed the famous cabaret group Neerlands Hoop with Freek de Jonge.

This resulted in a highly successful music theatre show and Akwasi’s debut album Daar Ergens.

20

JURY

EVELIEN BOSCH (THE NETHERLANDS) Evelien Bosch is an all-round presenter, concept developer and programme maker. After her studies, teenager-and-young-adult broadcaster BNN offers Evelien a job as a radio reporter and producer. In 2005, Evelien switches to television, soon becoming one of the faces of MTV Netherlands. She hosts shows such as MTV News, Making the Movie and MTV Coolpolitics.

She is also active at Mambapoint, the platform for small-scale development aid initiatives, and presents youth programmes, including Willem Wever, Zapplive and Zapp Your Planet. Besides her work as a TV presenter, Evelien is a chairwoman of the day and host at various events across the Netherlands.

BENTHE FORRER (THE NETHERLANDS) Benthe Forrer graduated from the Netherlands Film Academy and has since worked on a broad range of dramas, documentaries and children’s television programmes. Since 2002, she has been the creative producer/ co-owner of Dahl TV. In this period, she developed, directed and produced several successful television series, including Keuringsdienst van Waarde, which has become one of the most popular programmes on Dutch television, with more than 250 episodes.

MEES PEIJNENBURG (THE NETHERLANDS) Mees Peijnenburg graduated from the Dutch Film Academy in 2013.

His graduation film Even Cowboys Get to Cry was critically acclaimed and awarded several prizes, premièring at the 2014 Berlinale. His short film Un Creux Dans Mon Coeur is the Dutch representative at the 2016 Oscars, in the Best Live-Action Short category, and premièred at the 2015 Berlinale. The most recent film he made, We Will Never Be Royals, won two Golden Calves at the 2015 Netherlands Film Festival. His creative style experiments with different narrative forms, his distinct visual style being a constant factor.

MARJOLEIN RIETVELD (THE NETHERLANDS) Marjolein Rietveld is the managing director of Kunstbende, an art competition and talent development programme for creative youngsters between 13 and 18 years old. Youngsters can participate in the competition and programme in eight categories: Dance, DJ, Expo, Fashion, Film, Music, Spoken Word and Theatre. Before working at Kunstbende, I was a producer for several festivals and events. Secretly, I always wanted to join Kunstbende on stage, but didn’t have the guts. During my Sports Management and Cultural Management studies, I discovered I actually wanted to work behind the scenes.

21

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

JURY MEMBERS BEST NEW MEDIA PRODUCTION The Cinekid Lion for Best New Media Production aims to put the spotlight on high-quality productions from the past year for young people in the Dutch language field. For the Jury Award, Cinekid this year received 65 entries from 15 different countries, ranging from apps to installations, digital tools, video games, independent productions and commercial titles. The jury, comprising five media professionals, selected twelve nominees based on three main criteria: firstly, quality, with special attention to art work, interaction design, usability, sound and storyline; secondly, innovation; and thirdly, authenticity. All twelve nominations are on display in the MediaLab and the jury will select one production as the winner, receiving the Cinekid Award statue and a prize of € 7,500. The second award, the Audience Award, will be granted by the children attending the festival and is not restricted to the entries, but encompasses all the games, apps, installations and workshops on display in the MediaLab. This prize consists of the eternal honour and of course the Cinekid Award Statue. Celebrating the 30th anniversary of Cinekid, the Cinekid Lion Award statue this year comes in a limited edition designed by renowned Dutch artist Jeroen Henneman.

ASTRID POOT (THE NETHERLANDS) Astrid Poot has been working in interactive media for over a decade as a creative, strategist, teacher and manager at various agencies.

She was awarded for her work numerous times. She currently works as the creative director of the children and families department of Fonk. She recently produced interactive projects for Het Klokhuis and NEMO Science Center. She also works for ThiemeMeulenhoff, Malmberg, KNVB, ING, Kröller Müller, Stichting Downsyndroom and several other premium clients.

She is a teacher, speaker and blogger about tech, creativity, the maker movement and families. In the past, Astrid worked as a programme director at TEDxYouthAmsterdam, YoungWorks, IJsfontein, FHV/BBDO and Mediamatic.

22

JURY

DOUWE-SJOERD BOSCHMAN (THE NETHERLANDS) Douwe-Sjoerd Boschman works as a part-time concept developer in the Creative Learning Lab of the Waag Society – institute for art, science and technology – a pioneer in the field of digital media. As an artist and writer with a background in serious game design, Douwe-Sjoerd loves to create interactive story experiences, either plugged or unplugged. He owns a huge cuddly rabbit called Naughty Rabbit that drops his way too big droppings at children’s festivals. Naughty Rabbit now even has its own Concept Store in De Hallen, Amsterdam and his adventures can be followed on Instagram and YouTube.

ANTON DAMEN (THE NETHERLANDS) Anton Damen is a film journalist and game reviewer. He worked for numerous magazines and publications and as a format developer at production company Eyeworks. He is currently the editor-in-chief at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and Netherlands Film Festival, where he is in charge of the fests’ daily newspapers, and he is the editor-in-chief of moviezone.nl, EYE’s youth platform. He also plays a lot of video games, but has a perfect alibi: he publishes weekly game reviews in AD. For the same newspaper, he writes about gadgets and technology.

He also gives lectures, workshops and introductions on film.

MATTHIJS DIERCKX (THE NETHERLANDS) Matthijs Dierckx is the former publisher and founder of Control, a magazine for game developers, and hosts its conference and annual award show. He has a degree in journalism and writes about games and popular culture since 1994. Dierckx is the co-creator of the critically acclaimed numbers game Sumico, which was nominated for last year's Best New Media Award. He is a music composer for several game projects, the most recent being the Ludomotion game Unexplored.

He is a game programmer for the Netherlands Film Festival.

KAREL MILLENAAR (THE NETHERLANDS) Karel Millenaar is a game designer, researcher and lecturer. With his design studio FourceLabs, he has been doing projects that help solve real-world problems in the public (education), cultural and commercial domains.

He has done projects for big corporations like Philips, but also for clients like Cinedans Festival and the University Museum Utrecht. For the research group Play and Civic Media at the University of Applied Science Amsterdam, he acts as a designer for research projects that explore how play and games can empower citizens to shape modern-day society.

He also lectures transmedia game design and gives related workshops at several institutes.

23

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

JURY MEMBERS APPLAB AWARD For the first time, Cinekid this year grants an award to the Best App in association with the Fiep Westendorp Foundation. Cinekid has nominated twelve apps for the Cinekid Lion, the award for the Best App at the 2016 Cinekid AppLab. The AppLab Award rewards the best and most unique apps for children from the past year. With this prize, Cinekid wants to further the quality of apps for young target groups.

The apps were selected from the Cinekid AppLab: a Dutch-language tool in the form of a free app to search for beautiful, creative, artistic, safe and high-quality apps for children. The expert jury will select a winner from the twelve nominees. They evaluate quality, innovation and authenticity, with artwork, user-friendliness, interactive design, sound and storyline as the key criteria. The nominated apps can be sampled at the MediaLab. The winner receives the 2016 Cinekid Lion AppLab Award and a â‚Ź 2,000 cash prize.

ABOUT APPLAB

ABOUT FIEP WESTENDORP

Every day, hundreds of apps in all shapes and sizes are added. Parents, teachers and other educators want the best for children, but how can you find it in this cornucopia? To this end, the Cinekid AppLab was developed.

On 17 December 2016, it is 100 years ago that Fiep Westendorp was born. The illustrator’s work is still alive and kicking. For many generations, her drawings have a special place in the hearts of both young and old. Fiep Westendorp left the rights to her work in the hands of the Fiep Westendorp Foundation. This foundation supports and initiates projects to stimulate children's creativity.

With this prize, the Fiep Westendorp Foundation wants to advance the quality of (new) media for children.

24

JURY

DAVID KLEEMAN (UNITED STATES) David Kleeman is a strategist, analyst, author and speaker. David helps the children’s media industry develop sustainable, kid-friendly practices.

He is SVP of Global Trends for Dubit, a strategy and research consultancy and digital creator. For 25 years, Kleeman ran the American Center for Children and Media, a creative professional development centre. He is the Prix Jeunesse advisory board chair, and sits on the boards of the National Association for Media Literacy Education and the Television Academy.

Seeking best practices worldwide, David has spoken on six continents.

GIOIA SMID (THE NETHERLANDS) Gioia Smid is the director of Fiep Amsterdam bv. In 2003, illustrator Fiep Westendorp requested Gioia Smid to be the custodian of her work. Gioia Smid has written several books on the life and works of Fiep Westendorp.

She also organised several exhibitions on this famous illustrator, in the Netherlands and abroad. Gioia Smid was the initiator and director of 52 episodes of The Adventures of Pim and Pom and the feature film Pim and Pom, the Great Adventure. Both the TV series and the film were awarded many prizes and received national and international acclaim. The development of books and merchandise and ensuring the quality of the works are Gioia’s main tasks.

JULIET TZABAR (UNITED KINGDOM) Juliet Tzabar is the Managing Director at Plug-in Media and has over the years produced award-winning interactive content for many of the world’s biggest children’s brands, including Sesame Street, Bob the Builder and Teletubbies. Juliet joined Plug-in Media as a partner in 2007, establishing it as one of the UK’s leading digital agencies and the first interactive company to be nominated for a Children’s BAFTA.

25

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

BURNY BOS TALENT AWARD The Burny Bos Talent Award will this year be conferred for the third time at Cinekid. The screenwriting contest, organised by film producer BosBros (of Minoes, Alfie, The Little Werewolf and The Amazing Wiplala fame), offers a unique opportunity for both beginning and advanced scriptwriters to submit their screenplay synopses and stand a chance of winning a cash prize and the adaptation of their concept. This year’s theme is sports. The Burny Bos Talent Award consists of a €5,000 cash prize. In addition, the winner can develop his/her idea together with BosBros into a full script with the aim to adapt it. From all entries, the jury will nominate the best three.

Second and third places bag a €500 cash prize. The inaugural Burny Bos Talent Award was awarded to 23-year-old Victoria Warmerdam at the 2014 Cinekid for her script idea SpaceKees. One year later, Jean Koolen won the award with his animation concept Over het water.

Both projects are currently being developed at BosBros. The pre-production of SpaceKees is scheduled for next year.

BURNY BOS (THE NETHERLANDS) Burny Bos started his career as a programme maker in the early 1980s, initially for radio. The next step was to set up a children’s department for TV broadcaster VPRO, which yielded many famous and applauded TV formats. In 1989, Burny started his own production company BosBros.

Over the past 25 years, Burny’s credo has been to produce beautiful programs and films with passionate people. Examples are The Flying Liftboy, Miss Minoes, Winky’s Horse, Alfie, The Little Werewolf and The Amazing Wiplala. Judging from the number of international awards and prizes BosBros has won, one can say that this philosophy has paid off.

Burny is also a children’s book author.

26

JURY

TAMARA BOS (THE NETHERLANDS) Tamara Bos has written more than twenty books for children and many scripts for feature films, drama series and single plays, mainly for children. Her work has received many awards for productions including Fidgety Bram and Winky's Horse. She also won the LIRA prize twice; in 1999 for Class Dismissed and in 2011 for the TV series Annie M.G. Apart from writing her own stories, she adapted some novels by the famous Dutch writer Annie M.G. Schmidt, which resulted in the family films Minoes and Pluk and his Tow Truck. Tamara is also a supervisor of other screenwriters. She is involved in the entire creative process of filmmaking.

JOLANDE JUNTE (THE NETHERLANDS) Jolande Junte is an animation producer and a manager of 3D, 2D, stop-motion and motion-capture productions for film, TV and commercials. She has been involved with animation productions for the past fourteen years, ranging from early concept development to final products. Her productions included the Pim & Pom TV series, which won the 2010, 2011 and 2013 Cinekid Kinderkast Awards, and the movie Pim & Pom: The Big Adventure, screened at this year's festival, for which she was the line producer. Jolande is currently general manager at BosBros, ranking among the best known and most experienced film and TV production companies in the Netherlands.

SANNETTE NAEYÉ (THE NETHERLANDS) Sannette Naeyé is the CEO and film programmer of the Cinekid Foundation and the Cinekid International Film, Television and New Media Festival for children and young people. Cinekid for Professionals hosts a variety of seminars, expert meetings, co-production markets and a programme market. Cinekid fosters a media literacy programme all over the year.

Previously, Sannette worked for two Dutch television companies: IKON (head of Film department) and VARA (Editor-in-chief Art and Cultural programming). The programming included social and political documentaries, drama and youth programming, arts and culture, documentary series, concerts, knowledge quizzes and specials. She was a member of numerous public and private foundations, boards and juries.

SIA HERMANIDES AND ALIEKE VAN SAARLOOS (THE NETHERLANDS) Sia Hermanides and Alieke van Saarloos both graduated with top honours in fiction screenwriting and direction from de HKU University of the Arts Utrecht in 2010 with a pilot for the youth series Heet Gras.

In 2008, together they had made the interactive series Raaf Mixer for VPRO’s Villa Achterwerk. Sia also made the coming-of-age shorts Summertime and Suikertrip and Alieke made the shorts Pake Lena, Stranger and Erwten en Pepernoten, as well as the feature-length TV film One Night Stand X – Wildflowers.

This year, their most recent TV series Soccer Girls, produced by BosBros, was nominated for the Cinekid Kinderkast Jury Award.

27

FILM

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

FILM PROGRAMME 2016 Welcome to the 30th edition of Cinekid. For the third time in the 30 years that Cinekid exists, a Simone van Dusseldorp movie kicks off the festival. After Secret Letter and Life According to Nino, now it is the turn of Owls and Mice. Her films and TV series prove that Simone has a unique way of adopting children’s perceptions of the world. We are delighted to have her as our guest of honour this year. We asked Simone to look back and programme five films that inspired her, productions that directly influenced her work.

Her selection partly reflects how the views on children and on cinema have developed.

In addition, we screen a series of anniversary films, productions that for various reasons are milestones in their own right.

SANNETTE NAEYÉ

A new feature in Cinekid’s Film Programme is the Cinekid VR Bios. Over the last years, Cinekid has exhibited several VR installations in the MediaLab. VR films are starting to reach a large children’s audience now, although the synergy between technology and storytelling is still under development. For the VR Bios, Cinekid has done extensive research and curated two special programmes of short films for young audiences.

This year’s film selection is rich and diverse, in thematic respect as well as in the approach and film genre. In competition, 46 films from 23 countries are screened.

A striking fact is that in Europe more and more animation films are produced, which is also reflected in the large number of entries in Cinekid’s Junior Co-Production Market.

Enchanting examples include the subtle My Life as a Courgette (France, Best Children’s Film) and the dialogue-less feature-length animation film The Red Turtle (France, Japan, Best Dutch Family Film). In the Best Short European Animation Film competition, however, we had to look hard.

Here, it seems as if new technologies currently curb development rather than stir filmmakers to great artistic efforts. We definitely found some gems that bear witness to mastery and that, within a few minutes, manage to create a completely unique world. It is also nice that a fair number is suitable for very young children (3+).

30

FILM

INTRODUCTION

‘Connection’ nowadays is the charm that politicians employ and that also offers something to hold on to both in real life and in screenplays for youth films. The films still make a stand for the child as a unique entity that deserves the room to develop his/her identity and personality.

But the rebelliousness of the 1980s, when society was still malleable and being naughty or different was presented as a virtue, has faded. Mr. Frog (Dutch Competition) lets children smoothly accept that their teacher turns into a frog, a real one, that they have to defend. So, in many of today’s youth films, being different is presented as obvious. You also see inclusion as an example in the casting and screenplay of the opening film of Cinekid, Owls and Mice. Europe leans more towards the US, where those attitudes are more or less a must in children’s films. Moralistic, political correctness or an adequate response to today’s society? We will not find a film like last year’s Winnetou’s Son (Germany) (now part of WRAP!), in which a child cheerfully plays an Indian with a headdress, totally inappropriate in the US, in this year’s competition anymore.

The candour seems to have vanished from youth cinema, also in Europe.

The comeback of adventure is complete, often combined with a sub theme, as in Swallows & Amazons (UK), a spy movie that explores the mutual relationships among a group of children.

We also see that fantasy, hyping around Harry Potter, or other genres such as the vampire film are converted less often into youth films than in recent years. But genre elements like ‘the creeps’ are used, for example in Dummie the Mummy and the Sphinx of Shakaba (Netherlands) or in the rawer action movie In Your Dreams (Czech Republic), in which inner fantasies prove uncontrollable. Youth cinema apparently follows the classic cycle of thesis, antithesis and synthesis, with 2016 being a typical synthesis year. We do not really perceive notable novelties; we do see deepening and the occasional daring approach.

Cultural identity These times, on edge due to complex and emotionally charged issues such as cultural identity, have not led to powerful statements or different perspectives in youth cinema.

Indeed, children’s films mainly follow politics, where positivism or impotence rules the situation, rather than examining the anger felt by those who do not feel heard. How do we see these problems reflected in the harvest of 2016? The current refugee problem seems to reverberate in films telling historical WWII stories about Jewish children fleeing or in hiding (ScreeningClub). For example in the French films Franny’s Journey, a group of Parisian children led by a young girl flee to Switzerland, and in Children of Chance a Jewish teenager is admitted to a children’s hospital for an extended period, under a false name and with a feigned condition.

The Serbian film Enclave (Panorama) stands out with a more explicit message: the harrowing sight of a Serbian child that is daily driven to school in an army tank in Kosovo, a film that sweeps along children in ethnic tensions and a frightening adventure – too frightening at one point, critics will claim. We considered Enclave, a rare film from Serbia, too important to leave it unscreened because of a single terrifying scene.

‘Being different’ as a universal theme in youth films, self-acceptance and the desire for empathy and inclusion, is a recurring element in almost all competition films. Dragonheart (Sweden) is a strong case in point. In this film, a boy is reluctant to go back to school after the holidays, ashamed of his outsider position as the child of a deceased mother and a father who has committed a strange act.

31

Turkey The Turkish film The Blue Bicycle bears a subtle yet unconcealed message against corruption and power abuse in a small village community.

What seems a personal and small family chronicle turns out to be one of the most political films in years in the youth segment. Three films, including the Dutch production Young Wrestlers, tell about the identity of boys particularly, in this special section on Turkey.

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

France, comedy with a punch In comedy, France is overtaking the UK, this country is currently our great example in splendid screenplays and directions of hilarious narratives that are abrasive and touching. After The New Kids (two 2015 Cinekid Awards, including Best International Film), we present, with admiration and sheer pleasure, Miss Impossible (International Competition) and We Are Family (Panorama).

Media in the lead The big role media play is apparent in several films. In the Philippine movie Blanka, a street girl takes the decision to buy a mother, inspired by an emo-TV programme in which she sees a famous actress who prides herself in adopting a street kid. In the German film Offline, the borderline between the gaming world and the real world gets blurred when a gamer has to regain his lost avatar by getting off the couch and making a physical trip. Losing phone contact and getting lost, trying to find each other and the home front, both literally and metaphorically, is the leitmotif of the Slovenian film Come Along.

Without Family The classic theme sans famille is told in sundry ways this year, often set in orphanages.

My Life as a Courgette (France) is a strong and moving animation about guilt and loneliness.

Zip & Zap and the Captain’s Island (Spain) looks like a zany adventure in an unconventional orphanage, but possesses unsuspected depth.

In the eponymous film, Blanka runs away from the orphanage to be less alone in this world.

A movie that deeply touched me, not in the least because of its masterfully classical cinematography and the audacity to have two young actors emotionally fill the entire film almost by themselves, is the Iranian production Helmsman. It contains the haunting image of a stubborn boy, alone on his disappeared father’s rust-eaten shipwreck in the endless desolation of a dry inland sea.

We wish you a very inspirational screening time with the films we programmed and hope that you, like us, will enjoy the profusion of imagery and narratives.

Here, I would like to thank my colleagues of the Film Department for the pleasurable moments we shared, the stimulating discussions we had and above all your unremitting dedication.

Sannette Naeyé Festival Director / Head of Film Programming Erik Tijman Film Department Coordinator Merel Gilsing Film Programme Advisor Berit van Lier Film Department Assistant / VR researcher Nadja Cohen Print Traffic Coordinator Kees Buning VR researcher Donna Schreuter VR researcher

32

FILM

INTRODUCTION

33

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

BLANKA Life is not easy for Blanka, a smart, self-confident girl living on the streets of Manila. She has to beg and steal to survive. Sometimes she teams up with other kids, but real friendship and trust are rare. Often she observes other kids who still have parents. After watching a television show about a famous actress who adopts a child, she gets the idea of buying a mother. If only she had enough money.

Blanka seizes the opportunity when she bumps into blind street-musician Peter. The old man teaches her to sing – they even get a gig in a local bar. But just as they think they can say goodbye to life on the streets, misfortune strikes. Blanka feels betrayed and runs off, not wanting to stay in the orphanage Peter has in mind for her. It seems she has to start all over again.

KOHKI HASEI ITALY, JAPAN, PHILIPPINES | 2015 | 75' | 9+ Producer Alberto Fanni, Flaminio Zadra Screenwriter Kohki Hasei Photography Takeyuki Onishi Editor Ben Tolentino Composer Aska Matsumiya, Alberto Bof, Francis De Veyra Leading actors Cydel Gabutero, Peter Millari, Jomar Bisuyo, Raymond Camacho Production company Dorje Film, Viale G. Rossini 18, 00198 Rome, Italy, +39 (0)68845359, dorjefilm@dorjefilm.it World sales M-appeal World Sales, Prinzessinnenstrasse 16, 10969 Berlin, Germany, +49 (0)3061507505, films@m-appeal.com SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY DIRECTOR 2015 BLANKA

The images of the streets of Manila and the handheld camera give the movie a real true-to-life look, while the focus on the kids emphasizes the sensitive, human side. Most actors are non-professionals, including Cydel Gabutero (Blanka), who plays the lead role with great confidence. While many films about street kids show us crime and violence, this one chooses a different angle. The optimistic ending and the focus on the friendship between Blanka, a young boy and the old musician gives this rather gritty story a moving, tender feel. An honest story that doesn't shy away from harsh realities, but also finds room for humour and poetic moments.

2007 GODOG (SHORT) 2001 W/O (DOCUMENTARY)

34

FILM

BEST CHILDREN'S FILM

COME ALONG POJDI Z MANO

Manc is in a bad mood. He only wanted to protect his younger brother and now he'll probably be expelled from school. He's not looking forward to confessing this to his father, who will beat him up anyway. So when a friend together with a boy and girl from his class suggest to come along on a photo trip, Manc agrees. He even suggests they go to the remote hills where his grandfather lives.

Little could he foresee the scary adventure awaiting them. Already shocked by the encounters with some rude locals, these teenagers from the city soon get lost in the wild woods and caves. Their mobiles are of no use here. To make things worse, strange events make them believe there could be some lunatic lurking, waiting to get them. This way, the pleasant afternoon trip turns into a suspenseful struggle for survival that will test them to the utmost. Will they be able to control their panic and overcome their quarrels and differences? And maybe even help Manc with his other problems at school?

their personal lives. In the end, it not only turns out the weird hillbillies they encountered weren't as menacing as it seemed, but they also learn a lot about growing up, friendship and life itself.

IGOR ŠTERK | SLOVENIA | 2016 | 83' | 9+ Dutch title Kom op, ga mee! Producer Petra Vidmar Screenwriter Igor Šterk, Dušan Čater Photography Miloš Srdić Editor Peter Marković Music Jura Ferina, Pavao Miholjević Leading actors Ivan Vastl, Mak Tepšić, Ronja Matijevec Jerman, Matija David Brodnik Production company Gustav film, Pot na Hrese 14, 1260 Ljubljana, Slovenia, +386 (0)41692171, gustavfilm@siol.net World sales Slovenian Film Centre, Miklošičeva 38, SI - 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia, +386 (0)12343200, info@film-center.si SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY DIRECTOR 2016 POJDI Z MANO / COME ALONG 2009 9:06 2008 EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE (SHORT)

There are two ways this adventure will connect with the young audience. First by borrowing themes from familiar horror movies; second by picturing four credible characters and the way they get along. Arguing, joking and fighting, but also finding moments where the unusual circumstances invite them to be more confidential about

2002 LJUBLJANA 1997 EKSPRES, EKSPRES / EXPRESS, EXPRESS

35

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

DRAGONHEART DRAKHJÄRTA

Nisse is angry and sad, because his mother has recently passed away. He lives with his worried father and little brother, but the only one who can really help him is the lizard Harry he got from his mother. Harry can talk, and actually he's not a lizard but a small, funny, fire-breathing dragon.

Harry likes loud noises and jam and lives in Nisse's drum kit. He takes it on himself to get Nisse a dragonheart, so he will be brave enough to go to school again and endure the Christmas days that remind Nisse so much of his mother. Those are strange days for Nisse. Especially when his clumsy dad does something rather stupid, so Nisse has to stay with his grandparents for a while. At school, Nisse fears being looked upon as the son of a dead mother and a crazy dad. Will his dragonheart be strong enough? Then he remembers Harry has learned him an important dragon rule: everything passes and changes into something new.

the young actor playing the rather silent Nisse fits very well in this emotionally rich story that shows the importance of finding each other.

The appearance of the little dragon infuses this sensitive story about loss with laconic humour and liberating imagination. Reality and magic remain on equal footing right until the laugh at the ending.

The magic is never spoilt by 'explaining away' the talking dragon as a fantasy. On the contrary, even Nisse's dad discovers the magic. Another striking image, contrasting with the usually dry tone, is the glowing heart in Nisse's window, radiating as if his mother’s love is still there. The serious look of

2014 DET BORDE FINNAS REGLER / THERE SHOULD BE RULES

LINDA-MARIA BIRBECK, KLAS KARTERUD SWEDEN | 2016 | 71' | 9+ Dutch title Drakenhart Producer Leif Mohlin, Helene Mohlin Screenwriter Anna Ehring Photography Tomaz Blanck Editor Ulrika Rang, Johan von Brömssen Composer Jens Lindgård, Petter Lindgård Leading actors Malte Legros-Selander, Magnus Schmitz, Magnus Mark, Chatarina Larsson, Liam Berghorn, Bill Hugg Production company + World sales Mint ab, Stora Varvsgatan 6A, 21119 Malmö, Sweden, +46 (0)709160519, info@mint-ab.se SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY DIRECTORS 2016 DRAKHJÄRTA / DRAGONHEART 2014 HITTA BORT / LOST & FOUND

2016 DRAKHJÄRTA / DRAGONHEART 2013 GROOVE HIGH (TV SERIES) 2003 BELINDER AUKTIONER (TV SERIES)

36

FILM

BEST CHILDREN'S FILM

GET SANTA Julius lives in an orphanage. It seems an idyllic world, especially now that it's almost Christmas – something Julius is very much looking forward too. But two older boys, who felt left out when Julius became the director's favourite, tell him Santa Claus doesn't exist. Julius is angry and sad. Has everybody lied to him? To prove to the bullies he is not a fool, he denies believing in Santa, and even tinkers with an evil looking doll called Crampus, the destroyer of Christmas. But when, in utter desperation, Julius opens his secret Christmas box, something unexpected happens.

He tumbles into a wintery wonderland; the country where Santa lives. The only problem is, Santa has disappeared and his jealous sidekick Crampus has taken over. From now on there are only lumps of coal as Christmas presents. But when Julius appears, the elves have high hopes he will be able to save Santa and restore the real Christmas celebration.

small sleigh is big enough for all those presents?”, Santa himself asks. Also notable is the fact that important figures from Julius' real life – for example the girl Sophia – appear in Winterland

JACOB LEY | DENMARK | 2016 | 75' | 6+ Dutch title Julius in winterland Producer Sarita Christensen Screenwriter Jacob Ley, Sanne Munk Jensen Editor Elin Pröjts Composer Morten Dalsgaard Leading actors Herman Knop, Lars Hjortshøj Production company + World sales Copenhagen Bombay Sales ApS, Refshalevej 1471st floor, 1432 Copenhagen, Denmark, +45 (0)25419911, info@copenhagenbombay.com Distribution in The Netherlands Twin Film SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY DIRECTOR 2016 DEN MAGISKE JULEÆSKE / GET SANTA 2012 ISBLOMSTENS HEMMELIGHED / THE SECRET OF THE ICE FLOWER (SHORT)

Jacob Ley wanted to make a film that helps us rediscover the joy of old traditions. With a combination of stop motion, cut-out animation and CGI, he has created a picturesque fairy tale reminiscent of classical Scandinavian Christmas illustrations, but with touches of darker humour.

The big question of whether Santa really exists is handled with a wink. “Do you really believe this

2009 FUP & SVINDEL / BOGUS & HUMBUG (TV SERIES) 2006 VIGGO - HAVETS SKRÆK

37

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

HELMSMAN KASHTIBAN

After his father disappears, Hassan lives alone on their old rusty boat in a dry lake in northern Iran.

Hassan stubbornly believes a miracle will happen on his father's birthday. That he will then return.

Though there's only seven days to go, this causes a big fight with Hassan’s older brother, who wants to sell the boat. He needs the money. His wife is pregnant and he wants to give the baby a better future. Things get a new impetus when another boy arrives: Najib, the son of an Iranian schoolteacher and an African woman. He is just as stubborn as Hassan. They fight about everything, yet they become best of friends. Although Najib doesn't believe in miracles, he and other kids help Hassan paint the boat. So the men who arrive to demolish it will have to wait. But as the birthday cake melts under the scorching sun, there's still no miracle.

for touching moments: for example, when the classroom is moved onto the boat, and also in the moving, liberating ending.Â

MAJID ESMAEILI-PARSA | IRAN | 2016 | 85' | 10+ Dutch title Scheepsjongens Producer Javad Gholizadeh Screenwriter Majid Esmaeili-Parsa, Amir Abdi Photography Mohammad Fakouri Editor Esmaeil Monsef Music Masoud Sekhavatdoust Leading actors Mehdi Mohajeri, Majid Deris, Yousef Khodaparast, Yousef Bakhtiyari, Hamideh Moghadaszadeh Production company IRIB Channel 1 World sales IRIB Media Trade, 45 Hedayat Street, Yakhchal Avenue, 19497 Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of, +98 (0)2122548032, ch_sales@iribmediatrade.ir SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY DIRECTOR

This is a powerful, humanist story that depends not so much on adventurous plot developments, but rather follows a strong emotional line, convincingly set out by the two young actors.

Impressive cinematography gives the film the feeling of a real classic. Stark images of the boat stranded in the salty desert combine realism with the feeling of a timeless fable. Helmsman is all about the collision between holding on to your dreams or succumbing to the demands of harsh reality. Unsentimental as it is, it finds room

2016 KASHTIBAN / HELMSMAN 2015 LITTLE BLACK FISH 2010 LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL (TV FILM)

38

FILM

BEST CHILDREN'S FILM

LITTLE GREY FERGIE: COUNTRY FUN! GRÅTASS – GØY PÅ LANDET!

For some, the countryside may seem like paradise but when Gavin has to spend a summer there he's disappointed. He misses his friends from the city, and can't even use his skateboard. There's no tarmac! But his eyes grow wide when Daisy comes along on her horse and shows him the farm of ‘old Gramps’, who is not as grumpy as he seems. There’s a lot to discover: the naughty, endearing young goat Houdini and the crazy chaos-inducing inventions of uncle George. But the biggest surprise is Fergie, the living tractor who can drive by itself and even has a talent for music. Gavin's summer gets even more exciting when the country fair arrives, with its contests. Of course, Gramps should win with his giant cucumber – but Houdini creates havoc and sneaky neighbour Hilda has some tricks up her sleeve…

Gavin, Daisy and Fergie step in to save the day.

PEDER HAMDAHL NÆSS | NORWAY | 2016 | 72' | 5+ Dutch title De kleine grijze tractor en de dansende geit Producer Silje Hopland Eik, Dyveke Graver, Jacqueline Kerrin, Dominic Wright Screenwriter Linda May Kallestein, Jason Tammemägi Photography Michael Lavelle Editor Leif Axel Kjeldsen Music Lars Kilevold Leading actors Elias Søvold-Simonsen, Stein Winge, Jeppe Beck Laursen, Dagny Backer Johnsen Production company Cinenord Kidstory AS, Akersbakken 33, N-0172 Oslo, Norway, +47 (0)22955580, spillefilm@cinenord.no World sales Attraction Distribution, 5455 De Gaspe Ave., Suite 803, H2T 3B3 Montreal, Quebec, Canada, +1 (0)5148461222, info@attractiondistribution.ca SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY DIRECTOR

This friendly comedy with funny characters, endearing animals, musical interludes and slapstick chases offers a lot of lively entertainment for younger audiences. All ending on the positive note that friendship is more important than winning a contest. Young actor Elias Søvold-Simonsen is known from the two Karsten og Petra films. Live action features for the very young, like these and Fergie, are scarce. Fergie is modelled on the legendary Ferguson TE20 tractor already popular with Norwegian kids from films, books and TV series.

First part of a trilogy in the making.

2016 GRÅTASS - GØY PÅ LANDET! / LITTLE GREY FERGIE: COUNTRY FUN! 2016 GRÅTASS REDDER GÅRDEN / LITTLE GREY FERGIE SAVES THE FARM 2016 GRÅTASS GIR GASS / LITTLE GREY FERGIE - FULL THROTTLE 2000 HOTEL CÆSAR (TV SERIES) 1998 VENNER OG FIENDER (TV SERIES)

39

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

MISS IMPOSSIBLE JAMAIS CONTENTE

Aurore is not the easiest kid to get along with.

A keen observer who always knows better, but is very insecure about herself. At odds with her teachers and provoking her parents and her two sisters. Boys, falling in love: It is very scary, so she hides behind sarcastic remarks. Even her best friend Lola sometimes does not understand her.

But unexpected things happen. A new French teacher gives Aurore her first good grade and despite herself, she cannot suppress a smile.

The world gets even more upside down when her sister’s wedding party turns out to be a disaster and three somewhat older boys who are aiming to become a band ask her to be their singer. Maybe life can be exciting after all. When Aurore doesn't approve of a song the boys have written, she makes up her own lyrics: “Standing on one foot, or anything else, off the ground, up in the air. That's your fate, to find an answer when you understand nothing at all.”

frontations and unexpected touching moments.

For example, when Aurore opens up with her grandma, one of the few persons she seems to be at ease with. Based on the novel Le journal d'Aurore

by Marie Desplechin.

This is a lively and very realistic portrayal of a girl struggling with her self-esteem and hiding her uncertainties behind indifference and mockery.

Together with Aurore's ironic observations in voice-over, this gives a lot of insight in the world of a creative but insecure thirteen-year-old, expressively acted by Léna Magnien. Pictured with a lot of humour and empathy, and equal measures of hilarious situations, painful con-

2016 JAMAIS CONTENTE / MISS IMPOSSIBLE

EMILIE DELEUZE | FRANCE | 2016 | 90' | 11+ Dutch title Niet te doen! Producer Patrick Sobelman Screenwriter Emilie Deleuze, Marie Desplechin, Laurent Guyot Photography Jeanne Lapoirie Editor Frédéric Baillehaiche Leading actors Léna Magnien, Patricia Mazuy, Philippe Duquesne, Catherine Hiegel, Alex Lutz Production company Agat films & Cie, 52, rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, 75011 Paris, France, +33 (0)153363232, courrier@agatfilms.com World sales Doc & Film International, 13, rue Portefoin, 75003 Paris, France, +33 (0)142775687, sales@docandfilm.com SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY DIRECTOR 2013 TOUT EST PERMIS (TV FILM) 2010 A DEUX CES'T PLUS FACILE / UNLIKELY ROOMMATES (TV FILM) 2003 MISTER V. 1999 PEAU NEUVE / NEW DAWN

40

FILM

BEST CHILDREN'S FILM

MY LIFE AS A COURGETTE MA VIE DE COURGETTE

When a kind policeman brings the rather timid boy Courgette to the orphanage, the other kids want to know what happened. “My father ran away a long time ago, and I think I killed my mother, although I didn't mean to”, is the reply. Courgette has reason enough to be very angry. Still, he imagines his father as a superhero and saves an empty beer can as a loving memory to his alcoholic mother, who didn't treat him well. At first, Courgette struggles to find his place in this new and occasionally hostile environment. But, as it turns out, even a bully like Simon, the self-declared leader of the kids, can become a friend. More good things happen. Carer Rosy is expecting a baby, there is a new girl Courgette likes very much and the helpful policeman is thinking about adopting him.

At this year's Annecy Film Festival, the film won both the Crystal and the Audience Award.

CLAUDE BARRAS SWITZERLAND, FRANCE | 2016 | 66' | 8+ Dutch title Mijn naam is Courgette Producer Max Karli, Pauline Gygax, Armelle Glorennec, Eric Jacquot, Marc Bonny Screenwriter Céline Sciamma Photography Kim Keukeleire Editor Denis Séchaud Music Sophie Hunger Leading actors Gaspard Schlatter, Sixtine Murat, Paulin Jaccoud, Production company Rita Productions, 4, rue des marbriers, 1204 Genève, Switzerland, +41 (0)22 775 15 50 / Blue Spirit Productions, 55, rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris, France, +33 (0)1 78 42 22 22, info@spirit-prod.com / Gebeka Films, 13, avenue Berthelot, 69007 Lyon, France, + 33 4 72716227, info@gebekafilms.com

This Swiss Oscar contender, an adaptation of the novel Autobiographie d'une courgette by Gilles Paris, was realised as a stop-motion animation. This gives this story the appearance of a playful and universal tale, while at the same time preserving a very realistic expression of character and emotion.

Though at first sight it might seem a rather gloomy story about some severely traumatised kids, the human touch and optimistic outlook soon take over. With its bright, storybook-like images and quiet pace, and without becoming sentimental, it shows that even in the most difficult circumstances friendship, trust and love are still possible.

/ KNM World sales Indie Sales, 32, rue Washington, 75008 Paris, France, +33 (0)144830227, info@indiesales.eu Distribution in The Netherlands Cinéart Nederland SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY DIRECTOR 2016 MA VIE DE COURGETTE / MY LIFE AS A COURGETTE 2012 CHAMBRE 69 (SHORT) 2008 AU PAYS DES TÊTES (SHORT) 2007 SAINTE BARBE (SHORT)

41

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

OFFLINE: ARE YOU READY FOR THE NEXT LEVEL? OFFLINE: DAS LEBEN IST KEIN BONUSLEVEL

There's nothing game addict Jan likes better then to spend his time in the online world of Battle of Utgard. Even if he has to disappoint his mother, bribe his sister and neglect school. But then, disaster happens! Preparing for the online tournament Ragnarök, he's suddenly kicked off the internet. Even his debit card is shut down, he'll soon find out. Jan has been hacked by another figure from the game, the dark sorcerer Loki. So now Jan has to apply al his game skills in the real world to find out who Loki really is and how to defeat him. Thereby reluctantly teaming up with Karo, a girl gamer with blue hair and rather wild manners, something the introvert Jan isn't really used to. It turns out to be a road trip full of scary surprises, unexpected emotional challenges and difficult choices. Can Jan for example handle real jealousy, and will he be able to recognize what's important in life?

exciting avatar action, shows that gaming can not only be a serious addiction, but also prepare youth for life itself. Interesting detail: girls can have tough male avatars, and vice versa.

FLORIAN SCHNELL | GERMANY | 2016 | 87' | 10+ Dutch title OFFLINE: het leven is (g)een bonuslevel Producer Christian Becker, Anne Büttner, Marc Junker, Benjamin Munz Screenwriter Jan Cronauer, Florian Schnell Photography Dominik Berg Editor Matthias Scharfi Composer Marius Kirsten, Renés Abe Leading actors Moritz Jahn, Mala Emde, Ugur Ekeroglu, Hannes Wegener, Marc Zwinz, David Schütter Production company Rat Pack Film Production, Beethovenplatz 2, 80336 München, Germany, +49 (0)89121148700, info@ratpack-film.de World sales Picture Tree International, Zur Börse 12, 10247 Berlin, Germany, +49 (0)3042082480, pti@picturetree-international.com

Switching the action from the realm of avatars to the real world is an unexpected move, brought about with a good sense of humour, positive messages and a lot of action, where fantasy and reality are sometimes hard to tell apart. The film neatly suggests how Jan uses his experiences from the game in this new real-life adventure. All thanks to the fruitful cooperation with real game designers. This way, this fast-paced and entertaining adventure, spiced with game graphics and

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY DIRECTOR: 2015 OFFLINE: DAS LEBEN IST KEIN BONUSLEVEL / OFFLINE: ARE YOU READY FOR THE NEXT LEVEL? 2012 MIA UND DER MINOTAURUS / MIA AND THE MINOTAUR (SHORT)

42

FILM

BEST CHILDREN'S FILM

OWLS AND MICE UILENBAL

After moving to another city, curious Meral wants to make friends at her new school. It turns out not to be easy. Fortunately, she already found a small new friend in her room: mouse Peepeep. When Meral brings Peepeep to school camp, it helps her get closer to popular Desi, smart Jason and shy Vito. But when they convince her a mouse should run free, Peepeep is caught by an owl. Meral is angry and sad and blames her new friends. But they join Meral on a quest through the woods in search of the owl pellet with Peepeep's bones.

Meral learns a lot about nature, but above all about friendship. “Even though we are very different, we are the best of friends”, they sing.

become very good friends. Opening film of Cinekid 2016. Director Simone van Dusseldorp is this year's Guest of the Year.

Renowned Dutch maker of children's movies Simone van Dusseldorp combines serious themes with a realistic depiction of the dynamics between children in a playful style with lots of humour and surprises. For example, the almost musical-like songs, gestures and dance moves are used to lighten up the story. Within this upbeat, adventurous framework there is room for a down-to-earth approach to nature, where eat or be eaten is the way things work. The story of the mouse serves as a small lesson, suitable for young children, that will leave them a little wiser about life and death, loss and remembering. But, most importantly, Owls and Mice shows, without getting too moralistic, how four very different kids can

info@lemmingfilm.com World sales Attraction Distribution,

SIMONE VAN DUSSELDORP THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 80' | 5+ Producer Eva Eisenloeffel, Leontine Petit, Joost de Vries Screenwriter Simone van Dusseldorp Photography Ton Peters, Stephan Polman Editor Peter Alderliesten Music Kees van der Vooren Leading actors Hiba Ghafry, Mimoun Oaïssa, Birgit Schuurman, Matheu Hinzen, Production company Lemming Film, Valschermkade 36F, 1059 CD Amsterdam, The Netherlands, +31 (0)206610424,

43

5455 De Gaspe Ave., Suite 803, H2T 3B3 Montreal, Quebec, Canada, +1 (0)5148461222, info@attractiondistribution.ca Distribution in The Netherlands Just Entertainment SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY DIRECTOR 2016 UILENBAL / OWLS AND MICE 2014 HET LEVEN VOLGENS NINO / LIFE ACCORDING TO NINO 2010 BRIEFGEHEIM / THE SECRET LETTER 2009 KIKKERDRIL / FROGS AND TOADS 2005 DIEP

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS It’s the summer of 1935 in the English Lake District. Four siblings who fantasize about pirates sail with their boat Swallow to a small island to camp. Bad luck that two local sisters already claimed the place under their own Amazons’ pirate flag. A playful battle ensues, until they discover something far more serious that is no longer a fantasy. The uncle of the Amazon girls turns out to be a spy, hiding on a houseboat in the lake.

Two mysterious men with guns are after him, and when the uncle is kidnapped the kids team up to try and save him. This results in an exciting action sequence with a hydroplane – almost like James Bond for kids.

Based on the 1930 book series by Arthur Ransome, which has often been adapted, not only for film (1974) but also television, radio and the stage.

PHILIPPA LOWTHORPE UNITED KINGDOM | 2016 | 97' | 8+ Producer Nick Barton, Nick O'Hagan, Joe Oppenheimer Screenwriter Andrea Gibb Photography Julian Court Editor Dave Thrasher Music Ilan Eshkeri Leading actors Kelly Macdonald, Rafe Spall, Andrew Scott, Dane Hughes, Bobby McCulloch, Orla Hill, Teddie-Rose Malleson-Allen Production company Harbour Pictures World sales The Festival Agency, 44, rue de Cléry, 75002 Paris, France,

Being a period piece set against the marvellous backdrop of the Lake District, this is an adventure with a classic look, cleverly mixing elements of fantasy and reality. A fantasy about kids and spies, a bit of real history (the uncle is a British spy in Russia), and children learning about real life dilemmas, such as when the oldest boy is falsely accused of theft while trying to do the right thing. There are a few moral lessons here, but these are not over-emphasised. The joy of the piracy game is maintained till the very end.

Though the spy story stretches the imagination, the children's characters and the way they deal with the situation and their mutual differences are believably portrayed, and not without humour.

+33 (0)140263420 SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY DIRECTOR 2016 SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS 2015 CIDER WITH ROSIE (TV MOVIE) 2012 CALL THE MIDWIFE (TV SERIES) 2010 FIVE DAUGHTERS (TV SERIES) 2003 THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL (TV MOVIE)

44

FILM

BEST CHILDREN'S FILM

TED SIEGER'S MOLLY MONSTER TED SIEGERS MOLLY MONSTER

Molly Monster lives happily with Pappa and Mamma and her best friend Edison, a living toy with a perky character. Now there will be big changes in her life. A baby monster will join the family. Molly is proud and excited to become a big sister, but Edison is sulking. He is jealous, for he is afraid Molly won't play with him anymore. This is the beginning of a great adventure. The way baby monsters get into the world is a bit different.

First Mamma lays a big green egg, which has to be brought to Egg Island, where it will hatch. Molly is disappointed she's not allowed to come along.

She's too small! Stubbornly, she decides to go by herself – together with Edison, of course. It's going to be a journey full of curious encounters in strange places. Sometimes it's difficult, but then there's always someone to help them out. Even Edison learns he's not left alone.

is the role of Pappa Monster. He's the one that has to keep the egg warm.

TED SIEGER, MICHAEL EKBLAD, MATTHIAS BRUHN GERMANY, SWITZERLAND, SWEDEN | 2015 | 72' | 4+ Producer Alexandra Schatz, Josef Burri Screenwriter Ted Sieger, John Chambers Photography Wolfram Spaeth Editor Melanie Hartmann Music Annette Focks Production company Little Monster GmbH World sales Global Screen GmbH, Sonnenstraße 21, D-80331 Munich, Germany, +49 (0)892441295500, info@globalscreen.de SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY DIRECTORS 2015 TED SIEGERS MOLLY MONSTER / MOLLY MONSTER 2013 THE SMORTLYBACKS (SHORT) 2015 TED SIEGERS MOLLY MONSTER / MOLLY MONSTER

Molly Monster from the 2009 TV series now appears in a playful feature offering lots of appeal for the younger kids. It's a creatively drawn 2D animation, a fantasy world with funny details and merry songs. And although this world of friendly monsters can sometimes be quite weird, it is at the same time very recognizable for young audiences. Especially when it comes to emotions.

Jealousy is an important theme and little squabbles and worries are always happily resolved.

Being together is what counts. The parents turn out feeling a little guilty and a characteristic note

2013 IMSY AND WIMSY (SHORT) 2010 THE MIGHTY HUNTER (SHORT) 2015 TED SIEGERS MOLLY MONSTER / MOLLY MONSTER 2010 ENTE, TOD UND TULPE (SHORT) 2008 POST! (SHORT)

45

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

TSATSIKI, DAD AND THE OLIVE WAR TSATSIKI, FARSAN OCH OLIVKRIGET

Tsatsiki is an inquisitive boy with a Swedish mother, a faraway Greek father and a lot of questions. For example: where does he belong, and what’s it like to fall in love? When summer arrives he can't wait to go to Greece, where, he remembers, his father is a rich man with a hotel and an olive grove. As proof of his fatherly love he once promised Tsatsiki that it all will stay in the family.

But things are different now. Crisis has struck and the hotel is empty. All the tourists are going to an all-inclusive resort where they have everything, except the real Greece. When Tsatsiki learns his dad might have to sell the hotel and orchard, he feels heartbroken and betrayed. Still, he can't believe there won't be a solution. Tsatsiki's mother has taught him never to give up, so with the fearless girl Alma and his best friend Hammar from Sweden, he resolves to come up with a plan.

is room for realistic emotional nuances in a lively, atmospheric summer adventure.

LISA JAMES LARSSON | SWEDEN | 2015 | 91' | 7+ Dutch title Tsatsiki, zijn vader en de olijvenstrijd Producer Susann Billberg, Lotta Westberg Screenwriter Moni Nilsson Photography Ola Magnestam Editor Hanna Lejonqvist Composer Joel Danell Leading actors Emrik Ekholm, Adam Gutniak, Sara Vilén, Liv Mjönes, Jonathan Rodriquez Production company Jarowskij Sverige AB, Magasin 1, Frihamnen Stockholm, Sweden, +46 (0)850307700, info@jarowskij.se World sales Swedish Film Institute, SFI, P.O. Box 271 26, SE-102 52 Stockholm, Sweden, +46 (0)86651100, registrator@sfi.se SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY DIRECTOR 2016 TSATSIKI, FARSAN OCH OLIVKRIGET /

Some time after the first two parts, there is finally a new Tsatsiki movie with a new, somewhat melancholic looking young actor in the title role.

The story is not only about outsmarting travel agents and businessmen, but also about first love, the complications of friendship, the relationship between parents and children, and daring. The fact that Tsatsiki is not always as brave as he would like to be, and Alma's longing for a 'normal' home instead of travelling the world, show there

TSATSIKI, DAD AND THE OLIVE WAR 2013 EGO 2012 LIV, LUST & LÄNGTAN / LIFE, LUST AND LONGING (SHORT)

46

FILM

BEST CHILDREN'S FILM

VILLADS FROM VALBY VILLADS FRA VALBY

Villads is a dreamy boy with a vivid imagination who plays a lot, either on his own or with the girl next door. He likes the trampoline, or imagines being able to fly like Speed Man – scaring his dad who grabs him just in time from a high window ledge. But now Villads has to go to school for the first time. He is very curious. Will it be boring or fun? Villads is often at odds with teacher Jesper and all his rules; he likes to do things his own way. For example, peeing in the open air when the school toilets are too dirty. He makes friends with his classmate Anna, but is a bit embarrassed about the love letters she sends because he is not yet able to read. Things get really exciting when Jesper organizes a role-playing game with knights, orcs and plastic swords. Villads invents a smart way to win, but it turns out his teacher is a bad loser. But Villads' loving parents come to his rescue, and have a big surprise for him.

sented: by a small band that appears in the scene itself, often giving Villads some sung advice.

FREDERIK MELDAL NØRGAARD DENMARK | 2015 | 76' | 6+ Dutch title Villads wil vliegen Producer Regner Grasten Screenwriter Frederik Meldal Nørgaard, Kristian Ibler Photography Morten Bruus, Claus Sisseck Editor Malte Greis, Søren Ottosen Composer Frederik Konradsen, Max Winding Leading actors Frederik Meldal Nørgaard, Kristian Ibler, Luca Reichardt Ben Coker, Iben Dorner, Mette Svane Pedersen, Anna Rittig, Patricia Schumann, Caspar Phillipson Production company Regner Grasten Filmproduktion A/S, Lykkevej 6, 2920 Charlottenlund, Denmark, +45 (0)39634424, regner@grasten.com World sales Danish Film Institute, Gothersgade 55, 1123 Copenhagen k, Denmark, +45 (0)33743400, dfi@dfi.dk

The very fact that live-action movies for very young children are quite rare makes this one to cherish. Although a few scenes could be a bit tough for youngsters, the overall tone is light, funny and very recognizable. This is a safe and happy world. Sometimes Villads' imagination really takes over and we see him fly or do deep-sea diving in the bathtub. In tune with this lively approach is the surprising way the songs are pre-

47

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY DIRECTOR 2015 VILLADS FRA VALBY / VILLADS FROM VALBY 2000 KUPPET / THE HEIST (SHORT)

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

ZIP & ZAP AND THE CAPTAIN'S ISLAND ZIPI Y ZAPE Y LA ISLA DEL CAPITÁN

This time, naughty brothers Zip and Zap are convinced their parents have gone too far with their punishments. Just because they accidentally caused a fire in a toy shop, they are not allowed to celebrate Christmas! Instead they are taken on a boring boat trip to a remote island. The family is forced to spend the night in a strange mansion, where they are welcomed by the eccentric Miss Pam and the orphans she is taking care of. At first it seems like a children's paradise, where kids don't have to follow rules. But things take a sinister turn when Zip and Zap discover their parents may be in great danger. At the heart of the mysterious events is a machine that can turn grown-ups into children. A sad secret is revealed in the form of a stylized, animated intermezzo. It all has to do with Miss Pam’s childhood trauma and her wish to become Peter Pan. Aided by brave new friends, a smart gorilla and a submarine, Zip and Zap set out to save their parents.

Also notable are the references to figures from famous novels and the power of imagination.

OSKAR SANTOS | SPAIN | 2016 | 100' | 9+ Dutch title Zip & Zap en het eiland van de kapitein Producer Fernando Bovaira, Francisco Ramos, Mikel Lejarza, Mercedes Gamero, Koldo Zuazua, Urko Errazquin Screenwriter Oskar Santos, Jorge A. Lara Photography Daniel Sosa Editor Carolina Martínez Urbina Music Fernando Velázquez Leading actors Elena Anaya, Teo Planell, Toni Gómez, Ana Blanco De Córdova, Iria Castellano, Máximo Pastor Production company Mod Producciones, Paseo de la Habana 12, 2D, 28036 Madrid, Spain, +34 (0)915903331, info@modmedia.es World sales Film Factory Entertainment, C/Lincoln 11, 3º 3ª, 08006 Barcelona, Spain, +34 (0)933684608, info@filmfactory.es SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY DIRECTOR 2016 ZIPI Y ZAPE Y LA ISLA DEL CAPITÁN /

Zip and Zap were first created in 1947 as characters in a Spanish comic book series. They appeared in a TV series and at least two other movies prior to this new adventure, which features high production values and spectacular action sequences. It also shows the sometimes complicated relationships between adults and children in an entertaining way. Zip and Zap realise they love their parents, even if they sometimes seem a pest.

ZIP & ZIP AND THE CAPTAIN'S ISLAND 2014 ZIPI Y ZAPE Y EL CLUB DE LA CANICA / ZIP & ZAP AND THE MARBLE GANG 2010 EL MAL AJENO / FOR THE GOOD OF OTHERS

48

FILM

BEST DUTCH FAMILY FILM

DUMMIE THE MUMMY AND THE SFINX OF SHAKABA DUMMIE DE MUMMIE EN DE SFINX VAN SHAKABA

Second film adventure with striking Dutch children’s book characters Dummie the Mummy and his friend Goos. The little mummy Dummie is well established in Polderdam now. He lives with Goos and his father and goes to school. Everything is going smoothly until Dummie discovers that he will always be a child. He will never grow up to be a Pharaoh like his father. He’s disappointed, but decides to take his fate into his own hands: he will become famous another way. He will become a well-known artist! Meanwhile Goos thinks up a very different plan to allow his best friend to grow.

He searches for a mysterious ancient figurine that contains special oil that can make little princes grow into adult pharaohs. But where is this Sphinx of Shakaba?

PIM VAN HOEVE THE NETHERLANDS | 2015 | 80' | 6+ Producer Chris Derks, Paul Voorthuysen Screenwriter Tijs van Marle Photography Dennis Wielaert Editor Michiel Boesveldt, Elsbeth Kasteel Composer Matthijs Kieboom, Martijn Schimmer Leading actors Roeland Fernhout, Jennifer Hoffman, Julian Ras, Marcel Hensema, Yahya Gaier Production company PV Pictures BV, Mediapark Mediacentrum, 5e Verdieping, Joop van den Endeplein 1, 1217 WJ Hilversum, The Netherlands, +31 (0)356774776, mail@pvpictures.nl World sales Dutch Features Global Entertainment, Hogeweg 56 D, 2042 GJ Zandvoort, The Netherlands, +31 (0)642406922, pim@dutchfeatures.com

Cheerful, exciting adventure about friendship, featuring different cultures, growing wiser and a tiny bit of magic. Just as in the first adaptation in 2014, this second feature has its own playful language, style and lots of slapstick elements. A magical adventure in a world that looks kind of like ours, but where much more is possible. The characters, developed in 2009 by writer Tosca Menten and designer Ellen Hees, have figured in seven books published in several countries. The film characters mostly stay faithful to the originals, although director Pim van Hoeve gives his own spaghetti western spin to the story. He also works with an original production aesthetic and symmetrical framing reminiscent of Wes Anderson's style.

Distribution in The Netherlands Dutch FilmWorks SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY DIRECTOR 2015 DUMMIE DE MUMMIE EN DE SFINX VAN SHAKABA / DUMMIE THE MUMMY AND THE SFINX OF SHAKABA 2014 DUMMIE DE MUMMIE / DUMMIE THE MUMMY 2012 BEATRIX, ORANJE ONDER VUUR / BEATRIX: A QUEEN BESIEGED (TV SERIES) 2004 SNOWFEVER 2003 LIEVER VERLIEFD / I LOVE TO LOVE

49

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

MEESTERSPION Tim is moving from the big city to a seaside village where his parents intend to run a hotel.

While for them it's a dream come true, Tim misses his skateboard friends and is bullied at his new school. But things take an unexpected turn when Tim discovers a secret cellar full of old spy gadgets. It's getting even more amazing when Simon, a real spy from the 1970s who was frozen for 40 years, is now waking up after Tim accidentally hits a red button. Simon still has an old case to solve and he can use a little help in these strange new times. He doesn't even know what the internet is. For Tim, this is the beginning of an exciting adventure. Who cares about bullies anymore, when there are secrets to discover and a villain to unmask? Simon and Tim even have to sneak into the buildings of the secret service where their opponent has managed to hide. Not to mention his stupid helpers Boris and Sergey, who even dare to point there nasty gun at a lovely flower shop.

red telephones and blue forget-me-nots. Yes, there are even some endearing moments between the action scenes.

The bright young boy and the old-fashioned spy in his white smoking form an engaging couple in this youth adventure full of funny James Bond references. A catchy fantasy with a lot of humour, conceived by prolific youth film screenwriter Tijs van Marle, who obviously enjoyed himself (and us) with a biplane camera, granny's car with rocket propulsion, false moustaches, real guns,

2007 FLIKKEN MAASTRICHT (TV SERIES)

PIETER VAN RIJN THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 77' | 6+ Producer Paul Voorthuysen Screenwriter Tijs van Marle Photography Joris Kerbosch Editor Michiel Boesveldt Music Matthijs Kieboom Leading actors Beau Schneider, Stijn van der Plas, Nienke de la Rive Box, Frits Lambrechts, Julian Ras Production company PV Pictures BV, Mediapark Mediacentrum, 5e Verdieping, Joop van den Endeplein 1, 1217 WJ Hilversum, The Netherlands, +31 (0)356774776, mail@pvpictures.nl Distribution in The Netherlands Entertainment One Benelux SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY DIRECTOR 2016 MEESTERSPION 2016 FAMILIEWEEKEND 2012 DE OVERLOPER (TV FILM) 2004 PLUK VAN DE PETTEFLET

50

FILM

BEST DUTCH FAMILY FILM

MR. FROG MEESTER KIKKER

Little Sita worked really hard on developing her class presentation on frogs. So she’s very surprised when her always friendly but chaotic teacher Frans dismisses it immediately – almost in a panic. Why? Sita decides to follow her teacher in search of answers. She can easily do this because her mom, a veterinarian, works all the time. Her best friend Wouter is eager to help her during this adventure. They soon discover that Frans sometimes transforms into a frog!

And he has no control over this. The rest of their classmates are soon in on the secret. They all have to take care of this very special frog, because in nature frogs are very vulnerable. The kids and their teacher-cum-amphibian all have to look out for a certain, hungry stork…

Playful, light-hearted adaptation of the children’s book by Dutch writer Paul van Loon, who is kind of the specialist in telling great, magical transformation stories for kids such as this one.

Mr. Frog isn’t as eerie as the adaptations Alfie the Little Werewolf and Gruesome School Trip, however.

Director Anna van der Heide (Fidgety Bram) decided not to focus on the psychological side or the digital transformations, but to stay close to the story that, while magical, is rooted in a very realistic world. So even the animals in this film are real. At most, parts of them are digitally rendered.

ANNA VAN DER HEIDE THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 90' | 6+ Producer Burny Bos, Tamara Bos, Eefje Smulders Screenwriter Mieke de Jong Photography Mark van Aller Editor Michiel Reichwein Composer Fons Merkies Leading actors Yenthe Bos, Bobby van Vleuten, Georgina Verbaan, Jeroen Spitzenberger Production company BosBros, Arie Biemondstraat 111, 1054 PD Amsterdam, The Netherlands, +31 (0)205244030, info@bosbros.nl World sales Attraction Distribution, 5455 De Gaspe Ave., Suite 803, H2T 3B3 Montreal, Quebec, Canada, +1 (0)5148461222, info@attractiondistribution.ca Distribution in The Netherlands Dutch FilmWorks SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY DIRECTOR: 2015 MEESTER KIKKER / MR. FROG 2012 MAN IN PAK / MAN IN SUIT (SHORT) 2011 BRAMMETJE BAAS / FIDGETY BRAM 2009 ZARA (TV MOVIE) 2007 MISSIEPOO16 (SHORT)

51

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

OWLS AND MICE UILENBAL

After moving to another city, curious Meral wants to make friends at her new school. It turns out not to be easy. Fortunately, she already found a small new friend in her room: mouse Peepeep. When Meral brings Peepeep to school camp, it helps her get closer to popular Desi, smart Jason and shy Vito. But when they convince her a mouse should run free, Peepeep is caught by an owl. Meral is angry and sad and blames her new friends. But they join Meral on a quest through the woods in search of the owl pellet with Peepeep's bones.

Meral learns a lot about nature, but above all about friendship. “Even though we are very different, we are the best of friends”, they sing.

become very good friends. Opening film of Cinekid 2016. Director Simone van Dusseldorp is this year's Guest of the Year.

Renowned Dutch maker of children's movies Simone van Dusseldorp combines serious themes with a realistic depiction of the dynamics between children in a playful style with lots of humour and surprises. For example, the almost musical-like songs, gestures and dance moves are used to lighten up the story. Within this upbeat, adventurous framework there is room for a down-to-earth approach to nature, where eat or be eaten is the way things work. The story of the mouse serves as a small lesson, suitable for young children, that will leave them a little wiser about life and death, loss and remembering. But, most importantly, Owls and Mice shows, without getting too moralistic, how four very different kids can

info@lemmingfilm.com World sales Attraction Distribution,

SIMONE VAN DUSSELDORP THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 80' | 5+ Producer Eva Eisenloeffel, Leontine Petit, Joost de Vries Screenwriter Simone van Dusseldorp Photography Ton Peters, Stephan Polman Editor Peter Alderliesten Music Kees van der Vooren Leading actors Hiba Ghafry, Mimoun Oaïssa, Birgit Schuurman, Matheu Hinzen, Production company Lemming Film, Valschermkade 36F, 1059 CD Amsterdam, The Netherlands, +31 (0)206610424, 5455 De Gaspe Ave., Suite 803, H2T 3B3 Montreal, Quebec, Canada, +1 (0)5148461222, info@attractiondistribution.ca Distribution in The Netherlands Just Entertainment SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY DIRECTOR 2016 UILENBAL / OWLS AND MICE 2014 HET LEVEN VOLGENS NINO / LIFE ACCORDING TO NINO 2010 BRIEFGEHEIM / THE SECRET LETTER 2009 KIKKERDRIL / FROGS AND TOADS 2005 DIEP

52

FILM

BEST DUTCH FAMILY FILM

THE RED TURTLE LA TORTUE ROUGE

After surviving a major storm, a man is washed ashore on a deserted island. As soon as he’s able, he starts looking out for other people. But there aren’t any. He decides to build a bamboo raft, and tries to sail away. But mysteriously, the raft gets destroyed at sea. The man swims back to shore and tries again.

But it’s all in vain. Suddenly, an intriguing red turtle turns up on his empty beach. This marks the beginning of new life for the man on the island.

MICHAEL DUDOK DE WIT FRANCE, JAPAN | 2016 | 80' | 11+ Producer Pascal Chaucheteux, Vincent Maraval, Grégoire Sorlat, Toshio Suzuki Screenwriter Michael Dudok de Wit, Pascale Ferran Editor Céline Kélépikis Composer Laurent Perez del Mar Production company Why Not Productions, 3, rue Paillet, 75005 Paris, France,

This first full-length animation by Dutch Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Dudok de Wit (Father and Daughter, 2001) is as fairy tale-like as it is philosophical; a wonderful, symbolic tale of the circle of life, the elements, the power of nature and humanity.

The themes are more complex and subtle than you might expect at a children’s festival, but those who are coming of age will surely recognize them. The Red Turtle is without dialogue, but full of powerful sound design and a beautifully composed soundtrack. It is produced by the famous Japanese Studio Ghibli.

Having been Cinekid’s opening film in 2008, Ponyo by Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki also screens at this year's festival. The production process for The Red Turtle consisted of two and a half years of drawing layers: from the charcoal sketches of the background to drawing characters by digital pen and the 3D development of the turtle and the bamboo raft, afterwards transformed into the powerful, minimalistic 2D style Dudok de Wit is known for.

53

+33 (0)148242450, whynot@wanadoo.fr World sales Wild Bunch, 65, rue de Dunkerque, 75009 Paris, France, +33 (0)153015020 Distribution in The Netherlands Lumière SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY DIRECTOR 2016 LA TORTUE ROUGE / THE RED TURTLE 2006 THE AROMA OF TEA (SHORT) 2000 FATHER AND DAUGHTER (SHORT) 1994 LE MOINE ET LE POISSON / THE MONK AND THE FISH (SHORT) 1992 TOM SWEEP (SHORT)

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

SIV SLEEPS ASTRAY SIV SOVER VILSE

It’s an exciting day for seven-year-old Siv: there’s a new girl in her class who looks cool and doesn’t care what other kids say about her. Siv is intrigued. She decides that this Cherisia will be her new best friend.

The feeling is mutual, and Cherisia asks Siv for a sleepover. Although Siv’s dad tells her there’s no shame in calling him if she feels homesick, Siv thinks she’ll be fine in Cherisia's house. But everything is so different: from the weird-looking apartment, the big scary dog, Cherisia's twirly grandmother to the unknown food and strangely behaving parents.

Also, Cherisia is bossy. Siv starts to think of calling her dad, but Cherisia has taken her note with the number. Then, in the middle of the night, when things seem even stranger, Cherisia and the note are nowhere to be found. Siv starts on a wandering adventure in the apartment, where even stranger creatures help her out.

CATTI EDFELDT, LENA HANNO CLYNE SWEDEN, THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 79' | 5+ Dutch title Siv gaat logeren Producer Lena Hanno Clyne, Petter Lindblad, Sara Sjöö, Marleen Slot Screenwriter Lena Hanno Clyne, Thobias Hoffmén Photography Gabriel Mkrttchian Editor Christer Furubrand Music Merlijn Snitker Leading actors Astrid Lövgren, Lilly Brown, Henrik Gustafsson, Sofia Ledarp, Barry Atsma Production company Snowcloud Films AB, Bellmansgatan 22-C, 118 47 Stockholm, Sweden, +46 (0)733321600, contact@snowcloud.se / Viking Film, Lindengracht 17, 1015 KB Amsterdam, The Netherlands, +31 (0)203254788, info@vikingfilm.nl World sales AB Svensk Filmindustri, Sveavägen 56, SE – 111 34 Stockholm, Sweden, +46 (0)840918800, international@sfstudios.se Distribution in The Netherlands Twin Film

In this imaginative adventure, based on the book by the Swedish writer Pija Lindenbaum, an exciting sleepover is transformed into an exploration of an exotic world that's the opposite of everything you would find in your own, familiar home. A brave little girl takes her first steps into independence and learns that everybody is different. She also learns that rules that apply at home, don’t necessarily work elsewhere. The theme of the explorer is elaborated on through classical tribal music and animations that bring strange elements in this dreamlike story to life.

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY DIRECTORS 2016 SIV SOVER VILSE / SIV SLEEPS ASTRAY 2006 FÖRORTSUNGAR / KIDZ IN DA HOOD 2016 SIV SOVER VILSE / SIV SLEEPS ASTRAY 2004 FALLA VACKERT / FALLING BEAUTY

54

FILM

BEST DUTCH FAMILY FILM

WOOZLE AND PIP: IN SEARCH OF THE SCALLYWAGGER! WOEZEL & PIP: OP ZOEK NAAR DE SLODDERVOS!

Puppies Woozle and Pip are hugely disappointed when the snow they so joyfully played in is melting away fast. Luckily enough, Aunty Pear Tree tells the two little friends there will be a party soon: Wise Fern’s birthday is about to arrive, and so is their playful little cousin Charlie! But first, Woozle and Pip have to clean up their toys. Wise Fern teaches the puppies about the mysterious Scallywagger, who’s always on the lookout for stuff lying around. But Woozle and Pip immediately forget all about the warning: they have to first hide Wise Fern’s secret present and play with Charlie. When they indeed discover the Scallywagger took their toys as well as Wise Fern’s present, Woozle, Pip and their friends start an adventure on new grounds, in hopes of finding this mysterious thief and all the stolen stuff, before Wise Fern finds out!

of the Woozle and Pip brand goes to the Guusje Nederhorst Foundation to support children in need. Dutch animation studio Il Luster (Triple Trouble, 2014) produced the film.

PATRICK RAATS THE NETHERLANDS | 2015 | 70' | 3+ Screenwriter Dinand Woesthoff, Michiel Snijders, Arnoud Rijken Composer Johan Hoogewijs, Dinand Woesthoff Producer Tom de Mol, Dinand Woesthoff, Debbie Schouten Production company Dreamchaser Europe, Stadhouderskade 141, 1074BA Amsterdam, The Netherlands, +31 (0)207523990, info@dromenjager.com / Tom de Mol Productions, Cornelis Krusemanstraat 25-hs, 1075 NC Amsterdam, The Netherlands, +31 (0)206727707, info@tdmp.nl World sales Dromenjager, +31 (0)207523990, info@dromenjager.com Distribution in The Netherlands

Joyful animation film for the little ones in which the characters learn all about taking responsibility for one’s actions, how to make new friends and how to keep the old ones close.

First feature-length film adventure, based on the characters Guusje Nederhorst developed, just before she passed away in 2004, only 34 years old. All these years later, Woozle & Pip became a household Dutch children’s brand with several published books, a TV series, stage productions and popular merchandise. Part of all revenues

Dutch FilmWorks SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY DIRECTOR 2016 WOEZEL & PIP: OP ZOEK NAAR DE SLODDERVOS! / WOOZLE AND PIP: IN SEARCH OF THE SCALLYWAGGER! 2014 DOG-E (SHORT) 2013 DE TUMBLIES / THE TUMBLIES (TV SERIES)

55

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

YOUNG WRESTLERS GENÇ PEHLIVANLAR

It’s the beginning of a new school year for twelveyear-old classmates Muhammed, Beytullah, Harun, Baran, Ahmet and Ümit. These young Turkish boys have a few things in common: they all come from a poor rural area and have a special talent for wrestling. That’s why they all live at the Wrestling Training Center in Amasy, somewhere in north-central Anatolia. These highly motivated youngsters train together daily, with their tough but fair trainers. They are friends, but also competitors, and are all aged between ten and eighteen years. These hopeful future champions are far from home and have to seek mental support from one another during the strict daily life at the boarding school, in the classrooms and, of course, during the intense training sessions and contests.

Only the strongest – both physically and mentally – survive in this all-male community.

male standards in Turkish society – which can be surprisingly tender.

METE GÜMÜRHAN TURKEY, THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 90' | 10+ Producer Aydin Dehzad, Aslı Akdağ Screenwriter Mete Gümürhan Photography Andre Jäger Editor Ali Aga, Inèz Poortinga Music Cenker Kökten, Huibert Boon Leading actors Muhammed Ceylan, Beytullah Onur, Baran Kendirlioğlu, Harun Kiliç, Ahmet Yücel, Ümit Yilmaz Production company Kaliber Film, 1e Keucheniusstraat 7hs, 1051 HN Amsterdam, The Netherlands, +31 (0) 643061202, info@kaliberfilm.nl World sales Wide House, 9, rue Bleue, 75009 Paris, France, +33 (0)153952441, infos@widehouse.org Distribution in The Netherlands Cinema Delicatessen

In the three weeks the boys were filmed, themes like friendship, homesickness and health issues bubble to the surface. The filmmakers choose not to interview the young protagonists and their trainers and teachers, but rather follow them with their cameras – often at the boys’ eye level.

This direct cinema documentary leaves out any commentary or background information on the kids. The repetitive, yet exciting lives these boys live expose their struggles and frustrations in the process of becoming a wrestler, but also the

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY DIRECTOR 2016 GENÇ PEHLIVANLAR / YOUNG WRESTLERS

56

FILM

BEST EUROPEAN SHORT ANIMATION FILM

BOX & BALL - THE FLAG

CATS & DOGS

A probe sent into space breaks down and a robot lands on a planetoid. Following the standard procedure, it carries out preliminary tests and tries to raise a flag to claim the newly discovered planet. It turns out the planet is inhabited by a one-eyed creature that looks and behaves like “quicksilver”. This extremely inquisitive being drives the terrestrial robot to madness.

A story of a man, a woman, a dog and a cat unfolds on the turning pages of a book. An argument between the animals escalates into an emergency. Thankfully, the animator intervenes.

It turns out one can’t force a friendship, but an emergency can build one.

It's almost War of the Worlds, this episode from a funny television series in 3D computer animation.

Each episode is about a symbol of our civilization: a flag, a phone, a TV set, a refrigerator. BALL mercilessly exposes the absurdities lurking in each of the objects currently used by BOX01.

Production company Badi Badi is known internationally through Agi Bagi, an animated series for preschoolers currently broadcast in 40 countries.

In Cats & Dogs, both cartoon and stop-motion were used. This original film was made by two very experienced directors. Jesús Pérez is an illustrator and animation artist from Bolivia who now lives in Switzerland. He has been producing and directing animated films since 1977. Since 2002, he has been lecturing in animation at the University of Lucerne. German director and producer Gerd Gockell was Head of the Animation Department at the University of Lucerne. He has been working in the animation industry since the 1980s.

JESÚS PÉREZ, GERD GOCKELL GERMANY, SWITZERLAND | 2015 | 6' | 5+ Dutch title Katten en honden Producer Gerd Gockell

TOMEK NIEDZWIEDZ | POLAND | 2015 | 4' | 8+ Dutch title Doos & bal - de vlag Producer Tomasz Paziewski,

Screenwriter Gerd Gockell, Elisabeth Hüttermann

Dominika Osak Screenwriter Tomek Niedzwiedz, Bartosz

Photography Gerd Gockell Composer David Hohl Production

Wierzbięta, Mikołaj Valencia Composer Robert Amirian

company Gerd Gockell Filmproduktion, Etterlinhalde1,

Production company + World sales Badi Badi, Al.Wilanowska

CH-6004 Luzern, Switzerland, +41 (0)774868616, gerd.

281, 02-730 Warsaw, Poland, +48 (0)223132222,

gockell@anigraf.org / anigraf Hannover, Flüggestr.14, 30161

d.osak@badibadi.com

Hannover, Germany, +49 (0)511660165, gerd.gockell@anigraf.org World sales MAGNETFILM GmbH, Oranienburger Str. 50, 10117 Berlin, Germany, +49 (0)1638010753, info@magnetfilm.de

57

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

CHARGE THE DRAGON

DUNDER

NA DRAKA

What to do when you are a small and slightly pompous knight and there’s a huge dragon in your way? In this absurdist film, a little iron knight tries all he can to get rid of the dragons he comes across. However, it is not as easy as it seems.

His misevaluation of the challenge ahead of him brings about a series of tragic and, eventually, fatal consequences.

Charge the Dragon was born as a remake of Jan Bubenicek’s 1997 movie, which was originally created as a simple animation and shot frame by frame on VHS. With the help of CG animation, Jan Bubenicek and Jan Jinda wanted to create a new world that would be both classical and old-fashioned, to help reinforce the idea of classic animation techniques – stop-motion and 2D cartoons – that were used before the widespread uptake of CGI.

Bulder, a wild and funny monster, is playing with his best friend Modika. Their snowball fight is interrupted when quiet Lex invites Modika to study snowflakes. Bulder tries to capture Modika’s attention with a well-placed snowball which hits Lex squarely on his head, but this just makes Modika angry. Alone, Bulder then discovers a cave with a spectacular secret; but his jealousy drives him to make a mischievous plan to win back Modika’s attention. A plan that he may well come to regret.

Dunder combines 3D animation and miniature sets by Endre Skandfer, a director, animator and illustrator with over 15 years’ experience at big production studios. Dunder is based on the Dunderly books by Endre Lund Eriksen and Endre Skandfer.

JAN BUBENICEK

ENDRE SKANDFER | NORWAY | 2016 | 10' | 5+

CZECH REPUBLIC, SLOVAKIA | 2016 | 6' | 8+

Dutch title Sneeuwpret Producer Merete Korsberg

Dutch title Hoe vang je een draak Producer Jan Bubeníček

Screenwriter Endre Lund Eriksen Editor Endre Skandfer

Screenwriter Jan Bubeníček Photography Radek Loukota

Composer Sindre Hotvedt Production company Fabelfjord AS,

Editor Jan Bubeníček, Zdenĕk Marek Production company +

Søndre Tollbodgate17, 9008 Tromsø, Norway,

World sales Total HelpArt T.H.A, Kříženeckého nám. 322,

+47 (0)90234724, merete@fabelfjord.no World sales New

152 00 Prague 5, Czech Republic, +420 (0)267 073 007,

Europe Film Sales, Czerniakowska 73, 00718 Warsaw, Poland,

total@tha.cz

+48 (0)882119890, zofia@neweuropefilmsales.com

58

FILM

BEST EUROPEAN SHORT ANIMATION FILM

FLIGHT

GRANDMA'S HERO

A bored penguin wants nothing more than to be able to fly like a bird. Before his friends’ uncomprehending eyes, he tries everything to take off. With the help of a slingshot, a trampoline and even a circus cannon he’s able to enjoy that blissful feeling for a short while. Luckily, through various trials and tribulations, he achieves something even more amazing than flight.

Georgi Zahariev of Eagle Animation Studio in Sofia, Bulgaria, has three years’ experience making animation for commercials. This 3D computer animation is his directorial debut. Now and then, he uses elements from cartoons.

When Lulu graduates from the Hero Academy, he finally gets the chance to prove that he’s a hero to the society that has always doubted him. He sets off on an epic journey to slay the legendary and terrifying dragon. But to his great despair, his sweet and over-protective grandma decides to join him. What should have been an epic journey full of freedom, blood and beautiful damsels becomes a family trip that will test Lulu’s nerves to their very limit.

GEORGI ZAHARIEV | BULGARIA | 2016 | 6' | 5+

CORENTIN MONNIER, BEN OZERI

Grandma’s Hero was made by a team of 3rd-year Character Animation & CG Art students at The Animation Workshop in Viborg, Denmark. The lesson Lulu learns in this funny and engaging movie is that a real hero shows kindness, instead of the killing and slaying he has been taught.

Dutch title Vliegen Producer Georgi Zahariev Screenwriter

DENMARK | 2015 | 7' | 8+

Georgi Zahariev Composer Stanimir Bikovsky Leading actors

Dutch title Oma's held Producer Anja Perl, Michelle Nardone

Kalin Stoyanov Production company + World sales

Editor Max Christiansen Composer Mathias Winum,

Eagle Animation Studio, Tsar Simeon Str. 261, b. 125, ent.A,

Johan Petersen Leading actors Morten Lund Thulstrup,

fl.8, app.22261, 1309 Sofia, Bulgaria, +359 (0)886192053,

Hanne Pedersen, Kasper Christensen Production company

info@eagleanimationstudio.com

The Animation Workshop, Kasernevej 5, 8800 Viborg, Denmark, +45 (0)87554900, taw.films@viauc.dk World sales The Animation Workshop, Kasernevej 5, 8800 Viborg, Denmark, +45 (0)87554900, taw.films@viauc.dk

59

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

HEY DEER!

IN A CAGE LA CAGE

A very neat deer cleans up his house. Afterwards, he sweeps the front yard. He needs to do this every morning, since every night there is a huge storm and everything gets out of place. But why is this happening? The reason turns out to be unexpected, to say the least. Örs Bárczy is a 3D artist from Hungary. Currently he is finishing his Master’s Degree at Bournemouth University (NCCA). In this surprising graduation film, 3D computer animation is combined with live action film. Hey Deer! was shown at numerous international festivals and has won several awards.

When the little bird climbs out of the egg, he discovers he lives in a cage in a park together with a bear who loves to sing, but is really bad at it.

They become friends, until winter arrives and the bird leaves. In spring, he comes back with his bird friends and together they help the bear find his singing voice.

Colourful 2D animation for the youngest kids. It’s amazing to see how the seasons, weather conditions and moods totally alter the surroundings of the cage. The unusual friendship between this caged bear who can’t sing and little bird who can’t fly but sings beautifully helps them overcome their imperfections together.

ÖRS BÁRCZY | HUNGARY | 2015 | 6' | 8+

LOIC BRUYÈRE | FRANCE | 2016 | 6' | 3+

Dutch title Haai hert! Producer Örs Bárczy Screenwriter

Dutch title In een kooitje Producer Corinne Destombes

Örs Bárczy World sales Örs Bárczy, +36 (0)202277634,

Screenwriter Loic Bruyère Photography Izu Troin Composer

barczyors@gmail.com

Romain Trouillet Production company + World sales Folimage, La Cartoucherie, 1, rue de Chony, 26500 Bourg-lès-Valence, France, +33 (0)475784868, contact@folimage.fr

60

FILM

BEST EUROPEAN SHORT ANIMATION FILM

THE KID AND THE HEDGEHOG

THE LITTLE SEED LA PETITE POUSSE

EL NEN I L'ERIÇÓ

The hedgehog sells tickets to swing above the sea. The little boy buys a ticket and enjoys a nice swing ride. When he goes too high, he jumps up into the sky. Miraculously, beautiful wings appear and he flies away.

Dreamy story with beautiful artwork in stop-motion clay animation. Anna Solanas and Marc Riba were both born and raised in Barcelona, Spain.

Their short films, for example Violeta (2006) and Grand Prix (2011), have been selected for over a thousand festivals around the world. Last year, Cinekid screened their wonderful short film Block and Piled (2014).

Every night, a group of ants moves a little girl’s house to another landscape. During the day, she sews pretty dresses from the new, colourful meadow of flowers. One day, she swallows a seed, which then grows a plant out of her belly button. This plant soon flourishes into a beautiful landscape full of flowers. Only then she realizes the damage she has done.

Poetic stop-motion animation made with sand and oil paint by Chaïtane Conversat. She has worked with several theatre companies and directed animation films (music videos, commissioned films).

In 2000, she entered La Poudrière filmmaking school in Bourg-lès-Valence. She has worked as a stop-motion and cut-out animator at Folimage Studio on a regular basis since 2002.

CHAÏTANE CONVERSAT FRANCE, SWITZERLAND | 2015 | 10' | 5+ MARC RIBA, ANNA SOLANAS | SPAIN | 2016 | 3' | 3+

Dutch title Het kleine zaadje Producer Corinne Destombes,

Dutch title Het kind en de egel Producer Marc Riba

Florence Adam, Claude Miss Screenwriter Chaïtane Conversat

Screenwriter Marc Riba, Anna Solanas Composer Xavi Lloses

Photography David Toutevoix Editor Hervé Guichard Composer

Production company + World sales I+G Stop Motion, Sant

Pierre Sauze Production company JMH Productions,

Cristòfol 13 baixos, 08012 Barcelona, Spain,

Cassarde 2, 200 Neuchâtel, Switzerland, +41 (0)327290020,

+34 (0)932389234, info@stopmotion.cat

florence@jmhsa.ch / 10200 Z'Images, 10, rue du Sommerard, 10200 Bar-sur-Aube, France, +33 (0)325277440, contact@10200zimages.fr / Folimage, La Cartoucherie, 1, rue de Chony, 26500 Bourg-lès-Valence, France, +33 (0)475784868, contact@folimage.fr World sales Folimage

61

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

MIRIAM'S STRAY DOG

THE MOLE AND THE EARTHWORM

MIRIAMI KODUTU KOER

DER MAULWURF UND DER REGENWURM

Miriam and her family are building a snowman.

A stray dog is watching them. He seems to like the snowman very much. So much so that the dog doesn’t want to leave, even though it’s very cold.

The children bring him inside and make a nice place for him out of paper boxes. Hen is the only one who doesn’t share the others’ joy.

Miriam’s Stray Dog is part of a puppet animation series about the character Miriam that started in 2003. Several directors were involved. Director Andres Tenusaar was an animator for Miriam’s Green Spots and directed, animated and edited Miriam’s Food Processor. Both films are from 2012.

Miriam’s Kite screened at Cinekid in 2013.

All the animals have a friend, except little mole.

This makes him really sad. But then he spots an earthworm. Mmm, tasty! He tries to catch it, but the worm is too fast. After a wild chase underground, the true identity of the worm is discovered and a new friend is found.

Funny, beautifully drawn 2D animation on moulded paper about love and loneliness. Director Johannes Schiehsl, who studied in Vienna, The Czech Republic and Ludwigsburg, made his first animated film as a child, using Lego bricks and coloured paper.

ANDRES TENUSAAR | ESTONIA | 2015 | 5' | 8+

JOHANNES SCHIEHSL | GERMANY | 2015 | 3' | 3+

Dutch title Miriam's straathond Producer Andrus Raudsalu

Dutch title Het molletje en de regenworm Producer

Screenwriter Leelo Tungal Editor Raivo Möllits Composer

Thomas Meyer-Hermann Screenwriter Johannes Schiehsl

Tiit Kikas Production company Nukufilm, Niine 11, 10414

Music Christian Heck Production company + World sales

Tallinn, Estonia, +372 (0)6414307, nukufilm@nukufilm.ee

Studio FILM BILDER GmbH, Ostendstr. 106, 70188 Stuttgart,

World sales Estonian Film Institute, Uus tn 3, 10111 Tallinn,

Germany, +49 (0)711481027, studio@filmbilder.de

Estonia, +372 (0)6276060, film@filmi.ee

62

FILM

BEST EUROPEAN SHORT ANIMATION FILM

MOONWOLVES

THE MOUSTACHE

MÅNULVARNA

VIIKSET

The Moonwolves are amazed by all things that shine, but most of all they love the moon. Every night, the Moonwolves sit and stare dreamily up at it. One night, their longing grows so intense that they decide they can’t just sit and stare at it anymore. So they decide to go to the moon. Will they make it?

While one man shows off a very long moustache, curving impressively, he has a competitor whose moustache is extra thick. A duel of moustaches follows. Things get a bit hairy. The moustaches prove capable of extraordinary tricks, until the inevitable happens.

Anni Oja both scripted and directed this elegant and funny puppet animation in bright colours, set in the 19th century. It was produced at Turku University of Applied Sciences in Turku, Finland.

The Moustache is her graduation film.

Nima Yousefi directed and produced this sweet, magical 3D computer animation. He previously wrote and produced the live action shorts Kilimanjaro (2014) and A4 (2007).

NIMA YOUSEFI | SWEDEN | 2016 | 12' | 5+

ANNI OJA | FINLAND | 2015 | 4' | 8+

Dutch title De maanwolfjes Producer Nima Yousefi

Dutch title De snor Producer Eija Saarinen Screenwriter

Screenwriter Nima Yousefi, Hans-Åke Gabrielsson,

Anni Oja Editor Anna Vepsäläinen Composer Janne Saviranta

Hans-Åke Gabrielsson Editor Oskar Gullstrand Composer

Production company Turku Arts Academy, Lemminkäisenkatu

Josef Tuulse Production company + World sales Hob AB,

30, 20520 Turku, Finland, +358 (0)226335219,

Box 27083, 102 51 Stockholm, Sweden, +46 (0)704811653,

eija.saarinen@turkuamk.fi World sales ShortFilmAgency

nima@hobab.se

Hamburg, Friedensallee 7, D-22765 Hamburg, Germany, +49 (0)4039106328, sales@shortfilm.com

63

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

THE MUSICAL DRAGON

MUSICIDE

LE DRAGON ET LA MUSIQUE

MUSICIDIO

A little girl befriends a dragon in the woods.

They begin to play music together, but this is not without danger, as the king allows only military marches. Will the girl and the dragon find a solution?

This wonderful 2D animation made by drawing on cells was director Camille Müller’s graduation film. She has a Master’s Degree from the Animation 2D department, but also a Certificat Supérieur in Piano from the Conservatoire de Lausanne. In The Musical Dragon, these two backgrounds come together beautifully.

While some people might enjoy bagpipe music, the inhabitants of the neighbourhood where René tries to make a living are sick and tired of the same old sound every day. Even the dogs are not having it anymore. But when they think they’ve finally got rid of it, the musician comes up with a new plan.

Stop-motion clay animation from Catalonia. Ferriol Tugues was responsible for the whole project: script, direction and editing, production, shooting and post-production.

CAMILLE MÜLLER | SWITZERLAND | 2015 | 8' | 3+

FERRIOL TUGUES | SPAIN | 2015 | 6' | 8+

Dutch title De muzikale draak Producer Georges Schwizgebel

Dutch title Muziekziek Producer Carles Isern Screenwriter

Screenwriter Camille Müller Photography Camille Müller

Ferriol Tugues Photography Gustavo Arens Editor

Editor Camille Müller Composer Thierry Epiney Production

Ferriol Tugues Composer Sergio Cavero Production company +

company + World sales Studio GDS, Avenue Vibert 15,

World sales ECIB Barcelona Film School, Carrer de Girona 54,

CH-1227 Carouge, Switzerland, +41 (0)223427236,

08009 Barcelona, Spain, +34 (0)932462615, festivales@ecib.tv

schwizgebel@studio-gds.ch

64

FILM

BEST EUROPEAN SHORT ANIMATION FILM

THE TEENY-WEENY FOX

THE TIE

LE RENARD MINUSCULE

The fox would love to be a little larger – and now he knows how to fulfil his wish. There is a girl with a watering can and incredible magical seeds. Whatever she waters, it grows, thrives and sprouts. However, the girl likes the tiny fellow just the way he is. She can pick him up and put him in her pocket. But the teeny-weeny fox isn’t ready to give up just yet.

The little giraffe is neglected by all the other giraffes. When he discovers one of the giraffes wearing a long necktie, he starts climbing up it. The two play together, but then a malevolent cloud rips the tie in two. The giraffes find a smart solution to keep on playing together, but not for long...

An Vrombaut is a Belgian-born UK-based picture book author, illustrator and director who loves giraffes. She is mostly known for being the creator of the children's TV series 64 Zoo Lane. The Tie, a 3D computer animation with a soft colour palette, is her first computer-generated project. At the Berlinale, the Children’s Jury of Generation Kplus awarded a special mention to this “thrilling and sweetly told story”.

Sylwia Szkiladz and Aline Quertain made this charming, colourful cut-out animation while completing an artist-in-residence programme at the French Folimage Studio.

SYLWIA SZKILADZ, ALINE QUERTAIN BELGIUM, FRANCE, SWITZERLAND | 2015 | 8' | 3+ Dutch title Het kleinste vosje Producer Corinne Destombes, Arnaud Demuynck, Nicolas Burlet Screenwriter Sylwia Szkiladz, Aline Quertain Photography Sara Sponga Editor Hervé Guichard Composer Timothée Jolly Production company

AN VROMBAUT | BELGIUM | 2015 | 9' | 3+

Nadasdy film, 39, rue Eugène-Marziano, CH-1227 Les Acacias

Dutch title De das Producer Annemie Degryse,

/ Genève, Switzerland, +41 (0)223002054, info@nadasdyfilm.

Luc Van Driessche Screenwriter An Vrombaut Composer

ch / La Boite... Productions, 109, rue du Fort 1, 1060 Brussels,

Frederik Sioen Production company Lunanime,

Belgium, +32 (0)25440464, ademuynck@euroanima.net /

Hof Ter Mere 28, 9000 Ghent, Belgium, +32 (0)92770520,

Folimage, La Cartoucherie, 1, rue de Chony, 26500

mail@lunanime.be / Creative Conspiracy, Bomastraat 30,

Bourg-lès-Valence, France, +33 (0)475784868,

9000 Ghent, Belgium, +32 (0)93315510, info@cc.be

contact@folimage.fr World sales Folimage, La Cartoucherie, 1,

World sales Lunanime, Hof Ter Mere 28, 9000 Ghent, Belgium,

rue de Chony, 26500 Bourg-lès-Valence, France,

+32 (0)92770520, mail@lunanime.be

+33 (0)475784868, contact@folimage.fr

65

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

UKA A little young artist wants to paint in her grey art studio. She finds some little colourful bottles that catch the light, and this gives her an idea.

She works really hard and falls asleep. When she wakes up, the whole space is lit up in beautiful colours.

Valle Comba Canales has worked as an art director since 2011. She was part of the art team in several fiction projects directed by Julio Medem, Paco León and Alejandro Amenábar. In 2012, she became interested in the artistic direction of stop-motion. Uka is her debut as a director. Her background as an art director is obvious in this highly detailed stop-motion animation in both black and white and colour. It features beautifully arranged music.

UNHINGED A distinguished doorman gets crazy every time he opens the door of the hotel where he works.

It squeaks! When he puts oil on it, he expects to soon get some rest. But the reason for the squeaking turns out to not be what he expected.

Tom Caulfield has worked as animator and character designer on many films, including Cartoon Saloon’s The Secret of Kells, The Book of Life, and Sylvain Chomet’s L’illusionniste. Unhinged was inspired by Saturday morning cartoons, Disney films and The Muppets. A hand-drawn cartoon in the classic style. The color scheme for the escaped squeaks is based on the Irish Flag: green for their skin, white for their bellies and gold for their tails.

VALLE COMBA CANALES | SPAIN | 2016 | 3' | 3+

TOM CAULFIELD | IRELAND | 2015 | 3' | 8+

Producer Valle Comba Canales, David Castro González

Dutch title Gekkenwerk Producer Barry O'Donoghue,

Screenwriter Valle Comba Canales Photography

Tom Caulfield Screenwriter Tom Caulfield Editor Tom Caulfield

Alejandro Ronda Santamaría Editor Beatriz Colomar,

Composer Steve Morrell Production company

Lidia Llorente Music Andrés Lopetegui Production company

Studio Okinami, Kibarrack Road 217, D05 WR60 Dublin 5,

+ World sales off ecam, c/ Juan de Orduña nº 3, Ciudad de la

Ireland, +1 (0)8188082617, tfitomc@hotmail.com World sales

Imagen, 28223 Pozuelo de Alarcón Madrid, Spain,

Wildcard Distribution, Herbert Place 20, D02 VA09 Dublin,

+34 (0)915121060, info@offecam.com

Ireland, +353 (0)16619006, info@wildcarddistribution.com

66

FILM

BEST EUROPEAN SHORT ANIMATION FILM

VOLTAIRE

WHERE'S RONALD? WAAR IS KO?

Voltaire is an insecure weathercock from a tiny country chapel, who is a magnet for bad luck.

So he grabs the chance to move to the beautiful cathedral on the horizon. But there, he unknowingly stumbles on a murder plot and is forced to overcome his greatest fears.

When Ronald the rabbit escapes, the little boy who owns him follows him underground, where they have many adventures. He follows the little pet to a zoo, a circus and down below sea level, until Ronald finds what he is looking for: a lovely lady rabbit.

Impressive, beautifully designed and awarded film debut by Jan Snoekx, who has garnered 17 years of experience in the field of animation, CGI and film production. The animation combines several techniques: 3D, matte painting and photography.

After working as a character animator and CGI generalist for several years, Snoekx moved on to creating, directing, producing and supervising CGI projects. Recently, he set up his own animation production company, XiOLA.

Where's Ronald? is a funny 3D computer animation based on the children's book by author Cobi Boomsma and illustrator Marieke van Ditshuizen.

This student project from HKU University of the Arts Utrecht stays close to the beautiful style of the original illustration.

JAN SNOEKX | BELGIUM, THE NETHERLANDS | 2015 | 12' | 8+ Producer Anton Roebben, Marc Thelosen Screenwriter

JORN LEEUWERINK, EMMA VAN DAM, ROBIN

Jan Snoekx Photography Frieke Janssens Editor

AERTS | THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 7' | 3+

Karel Vangrimde Composer Miguel Boelens

Producer Jorn Leeuwerink Screenwriter Cobi Boomsma

Production company Walking the Dog, Rue

Composer Birgit de Priester, Morten Brogaard Production

Deschampheleerstraat 24-26, 1081 Brussels, Belgium,

company HKU University of the Arts Utrecht,

+32 (0)24124110, info@walkingthedog.be / seriousFilm,

Oudenoord 700, 3513 EX Utrecht, The Netherlands,

Andrej Sacharovstraat 27, 3065 EC Rotterdam, The Netherlands,

+31 (0)302091209, ssc@hku.nl World sales Kinderboeken

+31 (0)104129357, info@seriousfilm.nl

Uitgeverij de Vierwindstreken, Ampèrelaan 3, 2289 CD

World sales SND Films, Leidsestraat 106, 1017 PG Amsterdam,

Rijswijk, The Netherlands, +31 (0)704131191,

The Netherlands, +31 (0)204040707, info@sndfilms.com

info@vierwindstreken.com

Distribution in The Netherlands KLIK! Distribution Service

Distribution in The Netherlands Aapje.net

67

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

PANORAMA

ZOO STORY

BROTHERS OF THE WIND

CO SE STALO V ZOO

Going to the zoo with a very, very busy mom can be boring – unless you find other friends to play with. Such as a lonely gorilla who is grateful for any company. But what seems like an adventure to one person, may be nerve-wrecking for somebody else; namely her mother.

Zoo Story is a stop-motion animation, made with pencil on paper by Veronica Zacharová. She is a graphic designer, illustrator, animator and director. She studied graphic design at the Brno Faculty of Fine Arts, and then animation at Tomáš Batʼa University in Zlín.

This eagle’s story begins in the nest. The firstborn chick pushes his weaker brother to a certain death on the forest floor. But fate intervenes and the chick is found by Lukas. Naming him Abel, Lukas cares for the creature in secret, finding a love and companionship denied to him at home.

But when the day comes to release Abel back into the wild, will Lukas find his own release into a new life?

This Abel and Cain analogy contains amazing footage of the eagle's nest and the actual deed of brotherly hate. The documentary style sequences are combined with the fictional story of Lukas and his father, who hardly communicate anymore since the death of Lukas' mother.

GERARDO OLIVARES, OTMAR PENKER VERONIKA ZACHAROVÁ

AUSTRIA, ITALY | 2015 | 98' | 10+

CZECH REPUBLIC | 2015 | 4' | 5+

Dutch title Broeders van de wind Producer Philip-Jaime

Dutch title Naar de dierentuin Producer Lukáš Gregor

Alcazar, Walter Köhler Screenwriter Otmar Penker,

Screenwriter Veronika Zacharová Photography

Joanne Reay, Gerald Salmina Photography Otmar Penker,

Veronika Zacharová Editor Veronika Zacharová Production

Óscar Durán Editor Karin Hartusch Leading actors

company Tomáš Baťa University – Faculty of Multimedial

Jean Reno, Manuel Camacho, Tobias Moretti, Eva Kuen

Communications, Štefánikova 2431, 760 01 Zlín, Czech

Production company + World sales Terra Mater Film Studios,

Republic, +420 (0)576034205, gregor@fmk.utb.cz

Wambachergasse 2, 1130 Vienna, Austria, +43 (0)18700327614, office@terramater.at Distribution in The Netherlands Marco Polo Production

68

FILM

PANORAMA

ENCLAVE

FRIENDS FOREVER A PIG'S TALE

ENKLAVA

MULLEWAPP - EINE SCHÖNE SCHWEINEREI

Nenad (10) lives with his dad and his sick granddad in a small Serbian enclave in Kosovo. A grim and especially lonely place to grow up in. Traces of the war, a decade ago, are still omnipresent.

Nenad even has to be taken to school in a KFOR military vehicle. He is the only pupil there. He would love to hang out with three Albanian village boys, but especially the slightly older Bashkim holds a grudge against the Serbs. When an Albanian wedding coincides with Nenad's grandpa's funeral, events conspire to bring the boys together. With potentially catastrophic consequences.

Little pig Waldemar can hardly wait for his birthday to arrive. The sweet scent of the birthday cake his friends have already prepared turns him crazy. Luckily, his friends Franz von Hahn and Johnny Mauser take him on an adventurous bike ride. Meanwhile, a bunch of wild boars have also picked up the scent. The leader tricks the three friends in taking him to the farm yard. All the animals there threat him kindly; only our three heroes understand that the gang of wild boars want to take over their cosy little farm.

Brightly coloured, funny adventure with lively characters after Helme Heine’s beloved children’s books. With the TV series and this second feature, Friends Forever over the years has become one of the few European brands aimed at the tiny tots.

Intense coming-of-age story that shows how deep the blood feuds run and questions whether co-existence is possible. This year's Serbian Foreign Language Oscar submission.

GORAN RADOVANOVIC

THERESA STROZYK | GERMANY | 2016 | 72' | 4+

SERBIA, GERMANY | 2015 | 92' | 12+

Dutch title Mullewapp 2 - wat een zwijnenstal! (3D) Producer

Producer Nico Hain Screenwriter Goran Radovanović

Tony Loeser, Stéphan Roelants Screenwriter Jesper Møller,

Photography Axel Schneppat Editor Andrija Zafranovic

Armin Völckers Photography Olaf Aue Leading actors Carolin

Leading actors Filip Subarić, Denis Murić, Nebojša Glogovac,

Kebekus, Michael Kessler, Axel Prahl Production company

Anica Dobra, Miodrag Krivokapić Production company

Motionworks GmbH, Große Ulrichstraße 22, 06108 Halle,

Sein+Hain Film, Talstraße 41, 70188 Stuttgart, Germany,

Germany, +49 (0)345205690, office@motionworks.eu /

+49 (0)71121720121-0, mail@seinundhain.de World sales

Melusine Productions, 8-10, rue de l'étang, L-5326 Contern,

EastWest Filmdistribution GmbH, Lerchengasse 24/25,

Luxembourg, +352 (0)40 13 20 1 World sales

1080 Vienna, Austria, +43 (0)18908376,

The Festival Agency, 44, rue de Cléry, 75002 Paris, France,

office@eastwest-distribution.com

+33 (0)140263420

69

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

HOORAH! IT’S A HOLIDAY!

IN YOUR DREAMS! ANI VE SNU!

УРА! КАНИКУЛЫ!

Pavel is perhaps the only kid at school that is not ecstatic about winter holidays having started. It means he cannot see Tamara anymore, the top beauty of the school. She categorically ignores him, but he loves her anyway. He does everything to get her attention, even impersonating himself as a famous DJ by using a voice changer. Surprisingly, he and Tamara spend the holidays in the same ski resort. A succession of disasters pursues Pavel, though. For one, he finds a stolen necklace, which results in the kidnapping of his little sister.

Merry family comedy about what really matters in life. The long opening sequence follows an excited principal around the school corridors, checking if everything is ready for a festive kick off of the holidays. All shot in a single take.

Only a few girls practice the art of parkour – running over rooftops, free-climbing up rusted scaffolding and leaping from one wall to the next.

Laura takes it all in her stride. But while she wildly races through the streets of Prague, her thoughts are running wild too. She has a crush on a fellow free runner who doesn't show much interest in her, her parents live apart and she has problems with her best friend. Laura’s life is beset with confusion. She starts sinking into the world of her dreams. At first, they are comical and light, but her failures in real life provoke darker shades of Laura’s personality and, worse, the parallel world of fantasy and dreams gets entangled with reality.

The search for freedom and discovering your personal style that characterizes parkour perfectly fits in with the themes in this coming-of-age.

MAXIM DEMCHENKO RUSSIAN FEDERATION | 2016 | 94' | 7+ Dutch title Hoera, het is vakantie! Producer Natalia Gorina,

PETR OUKROPEC | CZECH REPUBLIC,

Sergey Snegkin Screenwriter Yana Desyatkova,

SLOVAKIA, BULGARIA | 2016 | 79' | 12+

Vladimir Zaharenko, Viktoria Nikolenko, Sergey Snegkin

Screenwriter Egon Tobiáš Photography Tomáš Sysel Editor

Photography Ivan Makarov Editor Ekaterina Murashova Music

Jakub Hejna Composer Filip Míšek Leading actors

Maxim Koshevarov Leading actors Sergey Markeev, Anna

Barbora Štikarová, Toman Rychtera, Veronika Pouchová,

Kovalchuk, Vitaliy Kovalenko, Dmitriy Lusenkov,

Jáchym Novotný Production company + World sales

Yulia Kudoyar Production company + World sales Barmaley-film

Negativ s.r.o., Ostrovní 30, 110 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic,

Ltd, Kronverkskaya street, bldng 5, room 543., 197101 Saint-

+420 (0)224933755, office@negativ.cz

Petersburg, Russian Federation, +7 (0)8123099787, reception@nonstop.pro

70

FILM

PANORAMA

JILL AND JOY'S WINTER

LITTLE MOUNTAIN BOY SCHELLEN-URSLI

ONNELIN JA ANNELIN TALVI

One December evening, a small car, barely the size of a shoebox, pulls up in front of Jill and Joy’s door. It is the teensy-weensy McTiny family. They are searching for Mrs Rosebud, the mysterious woman who designed the girls’ magical house. The McTinies lost their roof when a woodcutter felled their home tree. The girls decide to hide them in their doll’s house and help them find a new home.

Will they succeed in hiding them for the grownups who think the McTinies are the perfect money makers for a freak show?

‘The future of the world depends on how we treat the small ones’, is the moral of this magic realist film, based on a beloved book series by the Finnish writer Marjatta Kurenniemi. A third Jill and Joy film is in the making.

Up in the Swiss Alps lives Ursli, a real mountain boy who has a special gift for caring for and understanding animals. He enjoys his simple life, playing with his goat and helping his father make cheese. When late summer arrives, Ursli and his parents transport their harvest to the village.

Suddenly, an accident happens and the entire harvest drops over a cliff. In order to survive, they must make a deal with the wealthy store owner.

And as if things could not get any worse, Ursli receives the smallest bell of all kids for a local ritual to banish the winter and welcome spring.

All the kids poke fun at him, especially Roman, the school bully. Ursli decides to take matters in his own hands.

Oscar-winning director Xavier Koller (Journey of Hope) based this charming film on the eponymous classic Swiss children’s book.

XAVIER KOLLER | SWITZERLAND | 2015 | 104' | 7+ Dutch title Sepp - de wolvenvriend Producer Ditti Bürgin-Brook,

SAARA CANTELL | FINLAND | 2016 | 81' | 5+ Dutch title Jill en Joy's winter Producer Teea Hyythiä,

Peter-Christian Fueter, Peter Reichenbach Screenwriter

Sari Lempiäinen Screenwriter Sami Keski-Vähälä Photography

Xavier Koller, Stefan Jäger Photography Felix von Muralt Editor

Marita Hällfors Editor Anne Lakanen Music Pietari Koskinen

Gion-Reto Killias Composer Martin Tillman Leading actors

Leading actors Eija Ahvo, Kristiina Elstelä, Edvin Fagerström

Jonas Hartmann, Julia Jeker, Laurin Michael, Marcus Signer,

Production company Zodiak Finland Oy, Kornetintie 3,

Tonia Maria Zindel Production company C-FILMS AG,

FI-00380 Helsinki, Finland, +358 (0)207533000,

Hallenstrasse 10, 8008 Zürich, Switzerland, +41 (0)442536555,

info@zodiakfinland.fi World sales The Annex Entertainment,

c-films@c-films.ch World sales ARRI World Sales, Türkenstraße

110 Cumberland Street, Suite 229, M5R 3V5 Toronto,

89, D-80799 Munich, Germany, +49 (0)8938091288,

Canada, +1 (0)4163639971, sales@thefilmannex.com

worldsales@arri.de Distribution in The Netherlands Just4Kids

71

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

THE SEVEN RAVENS

WE ARE FAMILY

SEDMERO KRKAVCÜ

C'EST QUOI CETTE FAMILLE?!

The young girl Bohdanka was born to the griefstricken family of a baker, whose wife cursed their seven sons in an outburst of rage many years ago and turned them into ravens. The parents keep this tragedy secret from Bohdanka. On the eve of adulthood, Bohdanka learns about the family curse. That's why her mother never smiles!

Bohdanka decides to go and save her brothers.

A local witch advises her to sew shirts for them from nettles that she has to pick and process into fabric. She must do all this without uttering a single word. A nightmare for Bohdanka.

The various divorces and new relationships of Bastien's parents and stepdads have brought him six stepbrothers and stepsisters. This means lots of moms, lots of dads and many bedrooms where the kids spend a few nights, then pack up and move to the other parent’s home. But now, Bastien has had enough. And he's got a revolutionary plan: The seven kids will live in one place and the grownups will be the ones rotating! When the parents reluctantly agree to give Bastien’s model a try, new amorous relationships develop.

This exciting family film by the successful Czech filmmaker Alice Nellis is primarily based on a story by Božena Nemcová. It also uses elements from the Brothers Grimm's version of the same fairy tale. Gorgeous cinematography and costumes and beautiful fairy-tale locations.

Cheerful comedy in which the young characters superbly articulate the feelings and associations children have. Our young hero often comments on things in the voice-over. Pretty liberal and emancipatory, and therefore typically European film.

GABRIEL JULIEN-LAFERRIÈRE FRANCE | 2015 | 98' | 12+ Dutch title Het slaapschema Producer Yves Darondeau, Christophe Lioud, Emmanuel Priou, Jean-Michel Rey

ALICE NELLIS SLOVAKIA, CZECH REPUBLIC | 2015 | 108' | 5+

Screenwriter François Desagnat, Camille Moreau,

Dutch title De zeven raven Producer Ester Honysová,

Romain Protat, Olivier Treiner Photography Cyrill Renaud

Lubomir Slivka, Katarina Vanzurova Screenwriter Alice Nellis

Editor Thomas Beard Music Da Silva, Frédéric Fortuny Leading

Photography Matej Cibulka Music Vaso Patejdl Leading actors

actors Julie Gayet, Thierry Neuvic, Julie Depardieu, Lucien

Zuzana Bydzovská, Marián Geisberg, Martha Issová,

Jean-Baptiste Production company Bonne Pioche Productions,

Csongor Kassai Production company Attack film s.r.o, Kosicka

188, rue de la Roquette, 75011 Paris, France,

58, 821 08 Bratislava, Slovakia, +421 (0)903712204,

+33 (0)149294600, bonnepioche@bonnepioche.fr World

attack@nextra.sk

sales The Festival Agency, 44, rue de Cléry, 75002 Paris, France, +33 (0)140263420

72

FILM

DUTCH SHORTS

BALLONE DI CANNONE

BIRD OF PREY

Loet suffers from vertigo. This doesn’t stop his brother Eduardo from making them perform daredevil stunts. When the rich Mayor comes to visit their circus, Eduardo is blinded by greed.

He decides to raise the stakes whatever the cost: their performance of the Salto Mortale has to be the most dangerous thing the audience – and the Mayor – have ever seen. But is Eduardo going too far?

In a desolate desert, two cowboys are in a standoff, hands resting on their revolvers. As the tension keeps rising, one plays it cool, while the other is slowly losing it. The winner’s prize is a precious bag. They are watched by a hungry vulture who can’t wait for the outcome, sure of a good meal either way.

Director Frodo Kuipers studied at KASK Ghent in Belgium. He graduated with honours with the film Antipoden. After finishing two films during his time at the Netherlands Institute for Animation Film, he founded Studio Mosquito. Following on from the success of its prequel Fata Morgana, Ballone di Cannone brings the two main characters back to the screen.

At the end of 2015, this short animation was selected for the Ultrakort initiative, a programme that screens short films in cinemas ahead of box-office hits. It was commissioned by the Netherlands Film Fund and Pathé Cinemas. Directors David de Rooij and Jelle Brunt, both Willem de Kooning Academy graduates, have succeeded in making the most of two minutes with their wonderful animation technique and thrilling story.

FRODO KUIPERS

JELLE BRUNT, DAVID DE ROOIJ

THE NETHERLANDS | 2015 | 9' | 6+

THE NETHERLANDS | 2015 | 2' | 6+

Producer Chris Mouw Screenwriter Rudi Brekelmans

Screenwriter Jelle Brunt, David de Rooij Composer

Production company il Luster, Schoutenstraat 4 bis, 3512GB

Alex Debicki, Jeroen Nadorp Production company +

Utrecht, The Netherlands, +31 (0)202400768,

World sales il Luster, Schoutenstraat 4 bis, 3512GB Utrecht,

info@illuster.nl World sales SND Films, Leidsestraat 106,

The Netherlands, +31 (0)202400768, info@illuster.nl

1017 PG Amsterdam, The Netherlands, +31 (0)204040707, info@sndfilms.com

73

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

IMPORT

MY LITTLE BIG BROTHER MIJN KLEINE GROTE BROER

In 1994, a young Bosnian refugee family is given a residence permit to stay in the Netherlands, where they end up in a small village. While trying very hard to make this their new home, they get tangled up in all sorts of absurd situations. New friendships arise, but prove difficult to maintain.

Especially for the young sisters, who try their hardest to fit in.

Although young filmmaker Ena Sendijarevic was born in Bosnia and moved to the Netherlands when she was seven years old, this isn’t an autobiographical film. When she wrote the script six years ago, the main focus was on the two sisters’ experiences arriving in a new, strange country.

However, since the current refugee crisis, the story’s perspective has taken a turn towards the absurd. It’s première at Cannes this year is proof of this film’s excellence. It is also the Dutch submission to the Academy Awards.

Being a teenager is hard, especially with a mentally disabled brother who seems to cause trouble everywhere he goes. Through an unfortunate concurrence of events, Fien’s brother Mees has to come to her birthday party at the swimming pool.

After more of his shenanigans, she’s had enough and decides not to help him anymore. But when Mees gets into serious trouble, she realizes she can’t imagine life without him. Will Fien be in time to help him?

My Little Big Brother is the graduation film by director Iris Hogendoorn and producers Kasper Hering and Charlotte Spronk from HKU University of the Arts Utrecht. Hogendoorn was inspired to make the film by her mentally disabled brother.

She wanted to show what it’s like to have such a special, different sibling.

ENA SENDIJAREVIC

IRIS HOGENDOORN

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 17' | 9+

THE NETHERLANDS, BELGIUM | 2016 | 12' | 8+

Screenwriter Ena Sendijarevic Photography Emo Weemhoff

Producer Kasper Hering, Charlotte Spronk Screenwriter

Editor Lot Rossmark Leading actors Alena Dzebo,

Iris Hogendoorn Photography Erik van den Heuvel Editor

Mario Knezović, Esma Hrusto, Aya Crnić Production company

Goos van den Berg Composer Mathijs Wiermans Leading

Pupkin Film, Weesperzijde 4, 1091 EA Amsterdam,

actors Nick Golterman, Aiko Beemsterboer, Mirjam Stolwijk,

The Netherlands, +31 (0)204895088, info@pupkin.com

Edo Brunner, Arnost Kraus, Suus Molenaar, Sterre Boot,

World sales Some Shorts, St Annastraat 149, 6524 ER

Bas van Toor, Ferron de Wit, Valentijn Avé Production company

Nijmegen, The Netherlands, info@someshorts.com

Iris Hogendoorn, Nieuwendammerdijk 259,

Distribution in The Netherlands Some Shorts

1025 LL Amsterdam, The Netherlands, +31 (0)634446475, iris_hogendoorn@hotmail.com

74

FILM

DUTCH SHORTS

PUNCHING BUTTERFLIES

SABAKU

What if one day you come to realize that being a winner simply doesn’t make you happy anymore?

This is the case for a highly skilled, cold-blooded world champion boxer. On one of his midnight runs, he bumps into something that changes his world completely: love!

Sabaku always rides on his friend Buffalo’s back.

But when Buffalo passes away, Sabaku sets out on a journey across the world, having to literally move mountains in his quest to find a new friend.

Preferably one on whose back he can ride.

Animator and illustrator Raymond Schmitz graduated in 2D animation from HKU University of the Arts Utrecht in June 2016. Punching Butterflies was his graduation film. This great animated film is hand drawn. Although three minutes may seem like a short amount of time, Schmitz proves it's enough to mislead his audience and make for a twist they won't see coming.

Hilarious digital cut-out 2D animation by Marlies van der Wel, who was part of last year’s Cinekid animation selection with her debut animation film Jonas and the Sea. She lives and works in Amsterdam. Sabuka was selected for the Ultrakort initiative, which financially supports the making of short animation films and screens them before box-office hits. Sabaku has played ahead of each screening of Finding Dory in all the big Pathé cinemas in the Netherlands.

RAYMOND SCHMITZ THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 3'

MARLIES VAN DER WEL THE NETHERLANDS | 2016

| 6+

| 3' | 6+

Screenwriter Raymond Schmitz Editor Raymond Schmitz

Producer Roel Oude Nijhuis Screenwriter Ruben Picavet,

Composer Matties Grooten, Barry van der Knaap Production

Marlies van der Wel Editor Flip van der Kuil Composer

company + World sales Raymond Schmitz Animatie

Sjam Sjamsoedin Production company Halal, Eerste Jacob

Producties, Gasthuisstraat 8-A, 1211 KD Hilversum,

van Campenstraat 59, 1072 BD Amsterdam, The Netherlands,

The Netherlands, +31 (0)641316033,

+31 (0)206391402, contact@halal.amsterdam World

raymond.schmitz@live.nl

sales SND Films, Leidsestraat 106, 1017 PG Amsterdam, The Netherlands, +31 (0)204040707, info@sndfilms.com Distribution in The Netherlands KLIK! Distribution Service

75

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

TURKISH BOYS

BLUE BICYCLE

RAUF

MAVI BISIKLET

Although twelve-year-old Ali dreams of nothing more than buying a shiny new blue bike, he keeps his savings in his pocket. First, there are more important things to worry about. Ever since his father died in a tragic work accident, Ali helps out his struggling mother – like a real man should.

At school, there’s also work to be done, when a seemingly corrupt principal needs to be stopped.

Ali and his best friend start a secret campaign.

Justice must prevail!

Rauf, a nine-year-old boy from a rural part of Turkey, gets a new, complex look at life after he decides to quit school. He starts working for a carpenter. There he experiences mature themes like falling in love and dealing with those confusing emotions. Also he gets to understand the impact of the conflict that’s been fought out in the nearby mountains. While the battle once seemed far away, now he realises that it hurts everyone in some way.

In this moving Turkish youth drama, children fight for justice in a country where their rights are not always a given. Blue Bicycle shows both a playful and adult adventure, as seen through the eyes of courageous friends who grow up faster than they probably should.

Beautifully shot youth drama in which vast landscapes form the amazing backdrop of the protagonist’s first steps into adulthood. Although only little is explained about the armed battle being waged nearby, the story shows how an observant and sensitive child can experience such a complex and frightening situation.

ÜMIT KÖREKEN

BARIS KAYA, SONER CANER

TURKEY, GERMANY | 2016 | 96' | 9+

TURKEY | 2016 | 92' | 9+

Dutch title De blauwe fiets Producer Ümit Köreken,

Producer Kazim Uğur Kizilaslan, Selman Kızılaslan,

Nursen Cetin Köreken Screenwriter Ümit Köreken, Nursen

Burak Ozan Screenwriter Soner Caner Photography

Cetin Köreken Photography Niklas Lindschau Editor Ali Aga

Vedat Özdemir Editor Ali Emre Uzsuz, Ahmet Boyacıoğlu

Music Cafer Ozan Türkyilmaz Leading actors Selim Kaya,

Music Kemal Sahir Gürel, Ayşe Önder, Ümit Önder, Kayhan

Eray Kilicarslan, Katya Shenkova, Fatih Koca Production

Kalhor Leading actors Alen Hüseyin Gürsoy, Yavuz Gürbüz,

company Drama Film Prodüksiyon, +90 (0)543476456,

Şeyda Sözüer, Veli Ubic, Muhammed Ubic Production

info@dramayapim.com World sales Attraction Distribution,

company + World sales Peri İstanbul, Halaskargazi Caddesi,

5455 De Gaspe Ave., Suite 803, H2T 3B3 Montreal, Quebec,

No:168, Kent Apt. D:13 Şişli, Istanbul, Turkey,

Canada, +1 (0)5148461222, info@attractiondistribution.ca

+90 (0)2123439424, peri.istanbul@periistanbul.com

76

FILM

TURKISH BOYS / BIRTHDAYS

YOUNG WRESTLERS

JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH

GENÇ PEHLIVANLAR

Four talented young Turkish boys live at the Wrestling Training Center in Anatolia. The highly motivated youngsters train together daily, supervised by their tough but fair coaches. The boys are friends, but also competitors. Far from home, the aspiring future champions have to seek mental support from one another during the strict daily life at the boarding school. Only the strongest – both physically and mentally – survive in this all-male community.

Long before Harry Potter was locked away in the cupboard under the stairs, something similar happened to James, the dreamy boy from one of Roald Dahl's first children's books. With the help of some unexpected magical power and six tough insects, James manages to escape from his cruel aunts’ cellar. After they are crushed by a giant peach, the fruit becomes an airship that flies James over the ocean to the magical city of New York.

Dahl himself at first doubted it would be possible to bring this story to the screen, but animation director Henry Selick proved otherwise. With a resourceful combination of live action, slightly surrealistic stop-motion animation and some swinging musical moments, he captures Dahl's unique imagination. 2016 marks the centennial of Roald Dahl’s birth.

This direct-cinema documentary leaves out any commentary or background information about the kids. The repetitive yet exciting lives these boys lead expose their struggles and frustrations in the process of becoming a wrestler, but also the male standards in Turkish society – which can be surprisingly gentle.

METE GÜMÜRHAN TURKEY, THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 90' | 10+ Producer Aydin Dehzad, Aslı Akdağ Screenwriter

HENRY SELICK | UNITED KINGDOM,

Mete Gümürhan Photography Andre Jäger Editor Ali Aga,

UNITED STATES | 1996 | 79' | 9+

Inèz Poortinga Music Cenker Kökten, Huibert Boon

Dutch title De reuzenperzik Producer Tim Burton,

Leading actors Muhammed Ceylan, Beytullah Onur,

Denise Di Novi Screenwriter Karey Kirkpatrick, Jonathan

Baran Kendirlioğlu, Harun Kiliç, Ahmet Yücel, Ümit Yilmaz

Roberts, Steve Bloom Photography Pete Kozachik, Hiro Narita

Production company Kaliber Film, 1e Keucheniusstraat 7hs,

Editor Stan Webb Music Randy Newman Leading actors

1051 HN Amsterdam, The Netherlands, +31 (0) 643061202,

Simon Callow, Richard Dreyfuss, Jane Leeves, Susan Sarandon,

info@kaliberfilm.nl World sales Wide House, 9, rue Bleue,

Pete Postlethwaite Production company Skellington

75009 Paris, France, +33 (0)153952441, infos@widehouse.org

Productions Inc World sales Walt Disney Pictures Distribution

Distribution in The Netherlands Cinema Delicatessen

in The Netherlands The Walt Disney Company (Benelux)

77

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

LABYRINTH

PIM & POM: THE BIG ADVENTURE PIM & POM: HET GROTE AVONTUUR

Selfish teenager Sarah likes to spend a lot of time in her dream world. So she's not amused when one night she has to babysit her little brother. Angry, she wishes him away, only to discover to her horror that the kid is really gone. Regretful, she sets out to find him and has to enter the magical world of the kidnapper – the Goblin King played by David Bowie. To save her brother, she has to brave a maze populated by scary, funny and also moving creatures that in some way represent the hidden fears and longings of girls growing up.

This last film by famous Muppet creator Jim Henson unfolds as a fairy tale with references to Wizard of Oz and M.C. Escher. In 2016, Labyrinth celebrates its 30th birthday, just as Cinekid does.

On top of that, Jim Henson was born 80 years ago this year!

The cats Pim and Pom are two best friends living together with 'The Lady'. One day, her nieces take them to the park for a picnic. There, the girls plan on 'cat-napping' them. Fortunately, Pim and Pom manage to escape, but what now? Roaming the streets, they meet a bunch of streetwise alley cats, who really put their friendship to the test.

This cheerful first Dutch 2D animation feature in thirty years is notable for its almost daring simplicity and graphic style. Earlier, the Pim and Pom TV series won the 2010, 2011 and 2013 Cinekid Kinderkast Awards. Both film and series have their origin in a newspaper cartoon illustrated by Fiep Westendorp, who was born 100 years ago this year. Her illustrations became icons that most Dutch children grew up with.

JIM HENSON | UNITED KINGDOM,

GIOIA SMID | THE NETHERLANDS | 2014 | 70' | 4+

UNITED STATES | 1986 | 101' | 12+

Producer Gioia Smid, Michiel de Rooij Screenwriter F

Producer Eric Rattray Screenwriter Terry Jones Photography

iona van Heemstra, Tingue Dongelmans Editor Hans Walther

Alex Thomson Editor John Grover Music Trevor Jones Leading

Composer Joren van der Voort, Alex Debicki Leading actors

actors David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly Production company

Georgina Verbaan, Tjitske Reidinga, Peter Paul Muller,

The Jim Henson Company World sales Park Circus Limited, 1

Plien van Bennekom, Bianca Krijgsman Production company

Park Terrace, G3 6BY Glasgow, United Kingdom,

Flinck Film, Sarphatistraat 51, 1018 ED Amsterdam,

+44 (0)1413322175, info@parkcircus.com Distribution in

The Netherlands, +31 (0)205703130, info@flinckfilm.nl World

The Netherlands Universal Pictures International Netherlands

sales Attraction Distribution, 5455 De Gaspe Ave., Suite 803, H2T 3B3 Montreal, Quebec, Canada, +1 (0)5148461222, info@attractiondistribution.ca Distribution in The Netherlands In The Air

78

FILM

BIRTHDAYS / GUEST OF THE YEAR

STAND BY ME

EDWARD SCISSORHANDS

When this coming-of-age story begins, the four protagonists are still playing kid's games in their tree huts. When they hear a rumour about a missing boy who died in an accident, they decide to go on a hike to find the body. It will be the adventure of their lives. It not only forces them to confront real and imagined dangers, but they also find the courage to show each other their vulnerable sides.

In just two days, they learn a lot about who they really are and what true friendship is.

Edward was created by an eccentric inventor who died before he could give the unfortunate creature a pair of human hands. Poor Edward is not only stuck with a pair of razor-sharp scissors for hands, but also with virtually no knowledge about the world around him. Fortunately, Peg decides to take him in. Soon, Edward's skill with topiary sculpture and hair design make him popular around the neighbourhood, especially amongst its bored housewives.

This heart-warming comic drama not only excels with the convincing child actors, but also with director Rob Reiner's mature approach, avoiding the usual hackneyed youth adventures. A real classic, now celebrating its 30th birthday together with Cinekid.

Humorous story set in the 1950s, based on a character director Tim Burton made up as a child.

Guest of the Year Simone van Dusseldorp thinks Scissorhands looks like a character from a horror movie, but lives in a modern fairy tale. “Tim Burton again and again creates a world of his own that is unparalleled and highly recognisable at the same time.�

ROB REINER | UNITED STATES | 1986 | 89' | 11+

TIM BURTON | UNITED STATES | 1990 | 105' | 12+

Producer Raynold Gideon, Bruce A. Evans Screenwriter

Producer Tim Burton, Denise Di Novi Screenwriter

Raynold Gideon, Bruce A. Evans Photography Thomas Del Ruth

Caroline Thompson Photography Stefan Czapsky Editor

Editor Robert Leighton Music Jack Nitzsche Leading actors

Richard Halsey, Colleen Halsey Music Danny Elfman

Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell,

Leading actors Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest,

Kiefer Sutherland, Andrew Scheinman Production company

Anthony Michael Hall Production company Twentieth Century

Act III World sales Park Circus Limited, 1 Park Terrace, G3 6BY

Fox Film Corporation, +1 (0)3103691000,

Glasgow, United Kingdom, +44 (0)1413322175,

foxmovies@fox.com World sales Hollywood Classics, Suite

info@parkcircus.com Distribution in The Netherlands

31, Beaufort Court, Admirals Way, E14 9XL London, United

Universal Pictures International Netherlands

Kingdom, +44 (0)2075177525 Distribution in The Netherlands Warner Bros Pictures International Holland

79

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

HERE COMES THE MOLE

MIJN VADER WOONT IN RIO

TÄÄLTÄ TULEE MYYRÄ

The Little Mole and his animal friends in the forest have a lot of thrilling and funny adventures. He comes up against a fierce guard dog, he is hunted by an angry fox and he comes across an abandoned toy car. He also finds out what a lollipop is, makes a new music disc with his chums and together they have to think up a way to water the flowers in the garden.

The well-known Czech short animated films by filmmaker Zdenek Miler from the 1960s and 1970s were brushed up and compiled to enchant a new generation of children. Miler created the character in 1957, when he was working on a film for children about the production of linen. It was a boring subject and Miler needed an appealing character. He found one when he tripped over a mole hill while walking in the woods.

From one day to the next, nine-year-old Liesje discovers her mother hasn’t always told her the truth. For many years, Liesje has been writing letters to her father, who she has been told is living in Rio de Janeiro. Now at last she wants to meet him, but what she doesn’t know is that in reality her father is in prison. Before her mother can do anything about it, Liesje has left home with a ticket for Brazil.

This second film by the now well-established director Ben Sombogaart set a new benchmark in Dutch children’s films. The film was praised for the excellent direction of the actors and its adult approach to the subject matter. One of the favourites of Guest of the Year Simone van Dusseldorp, director of our opening film Owls and Mice.

ZDENEK MILER | CZECH REPUBLIC | 2011 | 51' | 4+

BEN SOMBOGAART

Dutch title De nieuwe avonturen van het Molletje Producer

THE NETHERLANDS | 1989 | 100' | 8+

Tom Carpelan Screenwriter Zdenĕk Miler, Ivan Klíma,

Producer Dirk Schreiner, Paul Voorthuysen Screenwriter Ben

Josef Novotný, Hana Sekyrková Photography Zdenka Hajdová,

Sombogaart, Burny Bos Photography

Ivan Masník, Emil Strakon, Marta Stuchlíková Editor

Jules van den Steenhoven Editor Rimko Haanstra,

Marta Látalová, Kveta Masková Music Wiliam Bukový,

Gys Zevenbergen Music Noud Grupstra Leading actors

Vadim Petrov, Milos Vacek Production company

Wenneke Janssen, Geert de Jong, Theu Boermans, Peter Faber

Krátký film Praha, Kříženeckého nám. 1079/5b, 152 53 Prague,

Production company Added Films World sales PV Pictures BV,

Czech Republic, +420 (0)267091110, info@kratkyfilm.com

Mediapark Mediacentrum, 5e Verdieping,

Distribution in The Netherlands Lumière

Joop van den Endeplein 1, 1217 WJ Hilversum, The Netherlands, +31 (0)356774776, mail@pvpictures.nl

80

FILM

GUEST OF THE YEAR

PONYO ON THE CLIFF BY THE SEA

ZAZIE IN THE SUBWAY

GAKE NO UE NO PONYO

ZAZIE DANS LE MÉTRO

One morning, Sosuke (5) discovers a goldfish named Ponyo that has its head stuck in a jam jar.

Sosuke fascinates Ponyo and vice versa. Ponyo decides she wants to stay in the human world, but her father – once human himself – forces her to return with him to the ocean’s depths. In trying to escape, she accidentally releases the dangerous power of her father’s magical elixir, which makes the sea rise as high as Sosuke’s house on the cliff and threatens his whole village.

This light-hearted comedy stars a cheeky, somewhat cynical 12-year-old girl named Zazie. She is forced to travel to Paris when her mother wants to rendezvous with her lover. Zazie is left in the care of Uncle Gabriel, an eccentric transvestite. Both with him and on her own, Zazie meets a variety of unusual city dwellers and gets into a series of misadventures that reach their peak of wackiness during a café food fight.

Louis Malle's first colour film, his first comedy and his first film about a girl that is exposed to the hypocrisy and corruption of the world of grownups, a theme that returned in his subsequent works. Absolute favourite of Guest of the Year Simone van Dusseldorp, who calls it an anthem to the energy of youthful anarchism.

Hayao Miyazaki wanted to portray the sea as a living organism and created all the sea drawings himself. The whole film is hand-drawn, without using CGI. In 18 months, some 170,000 drawings were hand produced by seventy animators.

HAYAO MIYAZAKI | JAPAN | 2008 | 101' | 6+

LOUIS MALLE | FRANCE, ITALY | 1960 | 93' | 10+

Dutch title Ponyo Producer Toshio Suzuki Screenwriter

Dutch title Zazie in de metro Screenwriter Louis Malle,

Hayao Miyazaki Photography Atsushi Okui Editor

Jean-Paul Rappeneau Photography Henri Raichi Editor

Hayao Miyazaki, Takeshi Seyama Music Joe Hisaishi

Kenout Peltier Music Fiorenzo Carpi, André Pontin

Production company Studio Ghibli, 1-4-25 Kajino-cho,

Leading actors Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret,

184 0002 Koganei-shi,Tokio, Japan, +81 422 50 2511,

Hubert Deschamps Production company Nouvelles Éditions

post@ghibli.co.jp World sales Wild Bunch, 65,

de Films World sales Gaumont, 30, avenue Charles de Gaulle,

rue de Dunkerque, 75009 Paris, France, +33 15 301 5020

92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, +31 (0)146432000

Distribution in The Netherlands September Films

81

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

SPECIAL SCREENING / WRAP!

THE 48 HOUR FILM PROJECT CINEKID

BILLY & BUDDY

The 48 Hour Film Project is a wild, sleepless weekend in which makers and their teams make a movie – write, shoot, edit and score it – in just 48 hours. The teams are given a character, a prop, a line of dialogue and a genre, all of which must be included in their movie. 48 hours later, the movie must be finished. Extra rules for the Cinekid edition: films must be suitable for children and spoken in Dutch. The results will be shown at two special screenings during the festival.

Cocker spaniel Buddy is delighted when Billy, a young boy with hair just as red as his, becomes his new master. Billy's father is not so keen on the boisterous little dog though. And things get worse when the family moves from the French countryside to Paris. A dog in a flat, that doesn't really make sense. Especially with a depressed downstairs neighbour that can't stand the slightest noise. Buddy just keeps on creating situations.

BOULE & BILL

Set in 1976, the film is a brightly coloured, happygo-lucky, slightly nostalgic lookback, featuring a highly appropriate soundtrack and a crimson 2CV. We often follow the action from Buddy's point of view. His thoughts, presented in voice-over, provide an ironic commentary on the goings-on.

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 8+

ALEXANDRE CHARLOT, FRANCK MAGNIER FRANCE | 2013 | 82' | 6+ Dutch title Bollie & Billie Producer Cyril Colbeau-Justin, JeanBaptiste Dupont Screenwriter Alexandre Charlot, Franck Magnier Composer Alexandre Azaria Leading actors Charles Crombez, Manu Payet, Sara Giraudeau, Franck Dubosc, Marina Foïs Production company LGM Cinéma, 53, rue du Faubourg Poissonnière, 75009 Paris, France, +33 1 53 34 99 34, lgm@lgmprod.com World sales Studio Canal, 1 Place du Spectacle, 92863 Issy-Les-Moulineaux Cedex 9, France, +33 1 71 35 35 35 Distribution in The Netherlands Cinekid

82

FILM

WRAP!

ELIOT & ME

THE KING OF PING PONG

Lucy struggles to come to terms with her parents' separation. After a lot of persuasion, Lucy convinces her mum to let her get a dog from the local dog shelter: Eliot. The two become inseparable and Lucy's life starts to improve. Tragedy strikes when Eliot goes missing and Lucy must go on a dangerous journey to find him.

Rille (16) is ostracised and bullied; a nobody.

Everywhere, that is, except in the ping-pong room.

There he rules; he is the King of Ping Pong. His brother Erik (13) is charming, respected and loved by all. Despite the profound difference between them, they share the same blood; at least that is what they both believe. When they learn the truth about their father during spring break, they become bitter adversaries engaged in a life-anddeath struggle.

Eliot & Me is an optimistic story about courage in the face of adversity. Lucy is played very convincingly by director Fintan Connolly's daughter Ella.

According to her, Eliot is the best thing in the film.

“He’s completely untrained, he hasn’t got a clue, he didn’t do anything he was asked. I thought that was hilarious.”

FINTAN CONNOLLY | IRELAND | 2011 | 60' | 8+

Recognisable, moving and funny coming-of-age drama by the successful short-film maker Jens Jonsson. He made the greatest possible use of the setting and lighting of snow-covered northern Sweden for his feature début that won several international awards, such as the Jury Prize World Drama and the Cinematography Award at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.

JENS JONSSON | SWEDEN | 2008 | 107' | 11+

Producer Fiona Bergin Screenwriter Fintan Connolly,

Producer Jan Blomgren Screenwriter Jens Jonsson,

Fiona Bergin Photography Owen McPolin Editor

Hans Gunnarsson Photography Askild Edvardsen Editor

Mairead McIvor, Guy Montgomery Music Stephen Rennicks

Kristofer Nordin Music Martin Willert Leading actors

Leading actors Ella Connolly, Renée Weldon, David Wilmot,

Jerry Johansson, Hampus Johansson, George Staykov,

Joshua Brown Production company Fubar,

Ann-Sofie Nurmi Production company BOB Film Sweden AB,

746 South Circular Road, 8 Dublin, Ireland,

Tegeluddsvägen80, 115 28 Stockholm, Sweden,

+353 (0)872679218, fubarfilm@eircom.net

+46 (0)86609090, info@bobfilm.se Distribution in

Distribution in The Netherlands Cinekid

The Netherlands Cinekid

83

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

PETTSON AND FINDUS – A LITTLE NUISANCE, A GREAT FRIENDSHIP

WINNETOU'S SON WINNETOUS SOHN

PETTERSSON & FINDUS - KLEINER QUÄLGEIST, GROSSE FREUNDSCHAFT

Old Pettson lives alone on his farm in the Swedish countryside. One day, his neighbour Beda brings him a little cat – Findus – which she found in the woods. This really brings some colour back into Pettson’s life, especially when it turns out that Findus can talk. Findus is enterprising and mischievous, but this hides a warm heart. When the farmers decide to scare away a fox using fireworks, it is Findus who feels sorry.

A lot of children will know Pettson and Findus (based on the books by Sven Nordqvist) from previous animated films. This live-action version (with an animated cat) is a cheerful comedy with slapstick elements, songs and pancakes. Sharing makes everything better. Even annoying neighbour Gustavsson is allowed to join in.

Max is a true Indian at heart, even though he is fat and pale and wears glasses. When he dons his Indian’s suit and is in his tent, he doesn’t have to think about his parents who have recently divorced. Max likes to go to summer Indian’s camp. Here, he meets his new friend Morton, who doesn’t feel like an Indian at all. One day, Max hears the Indian’s theme park is looking for a new son of Winnetou for their show. Max puts out all the stops to get the role.

Children’s universal desire for their divorced parents’ reconciliation is couched in an occasionally burlesque tragicomedy full of nostalgic references to classic children’s books about 'Indians' and 'palefaces'.

ANDRÉ ERKAU | GERMANY | 2015 | 91' | 7+ ALI SAMADI AHADI | GERMANY | 2014 | 90' | 4+

Dutch title De zoon van Winnetou Producer Ingelore König

Dutch title Pettson en Findus Producer Thomas Springer,

Screenwriter Thomas Brinx, Anja Kömmerling Photography

Helmut G. Weber, Helge Sasse Screenwriter Thomas Springer

Yann Philippe Blumers Editor Anke Berthold Composer

Photography Mathias Neumann Editor Andrea Mertens

Daniel Hoffknecht, Gary Marlowe Leading actors

Music Ali N. Askin Leading actors Ulrich Noethen,

Lorenzo Germeno, Tristan Göbel, Alice Dwyer,

Marianne Sägebrecht, Max Herberchter Production company

Christoph Letkowski Production company Kinderfilm GmbH,

Tradewind Pictures GmbH, Hohenzollernring 16 - 18,

Richard-Breslau-Str.9, 99094 Erfurt, Germany,

D-50672 Cologne, Germany, +49 (0)2219125610,

+49 (0)361658660, +49 (0)3616586669,

mail@tradewind-pictures.de World sales ARRI World Sales,

info@kinderfilm-gmbh.de World sales Global Screen GmbH,

Türkenstraße 89, D-80799 Munich, Germany,

Sonnenstraße 21, D-80331 Munich, Germany,

+49 (0)8938091288, worldsales@arri.de

+49 (0)892441295500, info@globalscreen.de

Distribution in The Netherlands Cinekid

Distribution in The Netherlands Cinekid

84

FILM

VR

BEYOND THE SKY

BUGGY NIGHT

A journey through colourful and mechanical worlds comes to a magnificent climax when you reach a floating magical world above the clouds!

Due to your flashlight, the frog finds all the beetles and eats them one by one, until the last beetle standing decides to intervene!

AIXLAB | SOUTH KOREA | 2015 | 2´ | 9+

GOOGLE SPOTLIGHT STORIES UNITED STATES | 2016 | 3´ | 7+

DO NOT PUSH THE RED BUTTON

COLOSSE His diamond is everything the ancient giant has left, until the hunter, blinded by its beauty, tries to steal it.

Try not to get crushed when your new friend does decide to push the red button!

FIRE PANDA | UNITED KINGDOM | 2015 | 6´ | 9+

PUTTY STUDIOS | NORWAY | 2015 | 2´ | 7+

INVASION!

LITTLE DOOR GODS DIVINE TOURS

There’s barely any time to get to know your new bunny friend while aliens with evil plans decide to come to earth.

Fly along with dolphins, sea turtles and whales; in the sky!

BAOBAB STUDIOS | USA | 2016 | 4´ | 7+

LIGHT CHASER ANIMATION STUDIOS CHINA | 2016 | 2´ | 7+

PETE'S DRAGON ELLIOT'S FLYOVER

SENT

Experience what it’s like to fly on Elliot’s back.

The back of a real-life dragon!

If you’ve ever wondered where that smiley goes once you’ve sent it, you don’t want to miss this journey!

WETA DIGITAL | NEW ZEALAND | 2016 | 11´ | 7+

LIGHT CHASER ANIMATION STUDIOS CHINA | 2016 | 6´ | 9+

85

TV

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

TELEVISION PROGRAMME 2016 CINEKID, STORIES BY AND FOR EVERYONE Everybody has his or her unique place in the world and everyone has his or her individual story. It is invaluable to share these stories. Now more than ever. Because the world around us is changing, and sharing, watching and experiencing stories inspires, opens up new horizons and enables recognition and understanding.

MIRJAM MARKS

Cinekid is a place where creativity and the urge to tell stories by makers of new media, film and TV are given a stage and an extensive and diverse audience. Children can watch stories for and by children, meet makers and leading characters, discover their talents.

Cinekid has been providing this stage for 30 years now and we go with the flow of the media landscape. ‘Screen time’ is a new term our children are involved in. Via the iPad, smartphone, TV, online or offline, delayed or live; the stories pour in from all sides. In this haystack, Cinekid looks for the needles that will amaze and stir the audience. The wide-ranging and diverse programming offers (young) viewers the opportunity to get to know the world around them and furthers understanding and a reduction of prejudices.

Anchor Even though the Dutch television celebrates its 65th birthday this year, within our shifting world, TV remains an anchor and starting point for

new formats, documentaries, drama series and animation films. So, television is far from retired, but it has to re-evaluate its place within the media landscape. Just like the TV programming at Cinekid. Increasingly, it looks for overlaps, cross-pollination and connections. As the head of TV programming, or should I say ‘screen programming’, I am proud of the range and diversity of programmes we can offer, owing to the people who created them.

These connections and blurring borders can be seen both in the auditoriums and beyond, turning a visit to Cinekid into an allencompassing experience. As soon as visitors enter the festival grounds, they will notice this.

With various installations, worlds can be admired or created; numerous activities and discoveries await them. With Superstar VR (world première), for example, they step into a limousine and feel a superstar for ten minutes.

88

TV

INTRODUCTION

During this festive thirtieth edition of Cinekid, we proudly present no fewer than 56 time slots, in the auditoriums, in pop-up location the CineKeet for the interactive experience, in Cinema Piccolo (the smallest cinema in the world) and in the Kunstbende Bus. The programme contains 16 premières, 26 documentaries, 20 specials around popular TV-programmes and children as creators, our famous pre-schoolers’ workshop, two audio stories, plus the theatre show Aaipet, featuring an iPad. I am delighted with the new and still intensifying cooperation with all the parties with whom we can once more stage an appealing and strong programme this year, including all the public and commercial broadcasters, Zapp, Zapp Echt Gebeurd, Kidsweek, the Fiep Westendorp Foundation and the Media Fund, Discussiëren Kun je Leren, UP! Foundation, Kunstbende, Onlane, Rhythm Souldjaz, Jeugdtheater De Krakeling, OBA, Warchild, IMC weekend school, Free Press Unlimited.

Children as creators Children are the first ones to pick up and adopt changes in the media landscape. They grow up sharing and watching stories. As adult makers, we can learn a lot from them. Therefore, the programme section Pitch & Plug, focussing on the child as a creator, takes up more and more space in the TV programming. This year sees the third edition of Shorts by Kids, a competition of short non-fiction films with the overall theme Me and the world around me. In the second edition of the popular and inspiring live YouTube

Tutorial Show, young YouTubers and Instagrammers demonstrate, illustrated by their channels, how they create an individual style.

Several vlog tutorials by leading characters from (new) TV series are scheduled, and young YouTubers pass on their skills to their peers in various masterclasses. In addition, the results of different external educational programmes are screened, including IMC Weekend School, MovieMixMozaiek and Kunstbende.

The impact of Art4Kids On Sunday and Monday, the TV programming is largely devoted to the impact of art on children. The introduction to art in whatever form and the chance to discover your individual talent is of key importance. Art can be a way for children to express themselves, feel at home or make contact. Under the header The impact of Art4Kids, we show special documentaries from, for example, the VPRO series Little Giants, preschoolers’ programmes and specials in auditoriums and on the festival grounds that children can actively participate in.

In association with IkonDocs’ Just Kids, a debating battle is held in which children discuss the importance of art, based on the documentary Safia’s Summer. In the Art & Kids Docu Show, actor Saman Amini talks to young artists who are the subjects of documentaries. There is an expo, there are performances, installations, a hip hop battle and a big sidewalk-chalk competition hosted by the Fiep Westendorp Foundation.

Non-fiction The deep urge to share personal stories is again evident this year with a large number of youth documentaries from all corners of society and the world. From street soccer to riding a cow, from Siamese twins to Instagram superstars, from Hollywood to Kenya, from rock ‘n’ roll to refugee centres. We are very proud to be the host of this year’s WADADA News for Kids awards ceremony, so we can share news items for kids worldwide.

89

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

Notable events include the world premieres of the youth documentaries Champions of Amsterdam and Mies Goes to Hollywood, both at feature length, and the many world premières in the Dokument Junior and Kids & Docs section.

For as many as sixteen years, Kids & Docs has been the fruitful cooperation between the Media Fund, IDFA, Cinekid, Zapp and the public broadcasters. Every year, a group of gifted makers, coached by a renowned documentary filmmaker and various guest teachers, in six months develops a script for a short youth documentary. The Media Fund will cease to exist at the end of this year, but Kids & Docs will continue in a new form under the NPO Fund (NPO is a Dutch public broadcasting organisation). Because we are very proud of the 84 extraordinary youth documentaries the Kids & Docs workshop has yielded so far, some of these films are screened again in a festive retrospective, while we look forward with confidence.

Television remains the pre-eminent medium to convey knowledge and exhibit talent. This year, we again boast a few great infotainment programmes, in which children set out on adventures with the makers, meanwhile learning about nature, the world, horses or acting.

Fiction In the world of fiction, you can briefly forget reality or lose yourself in unknown realms. This year, too, we present notable premières and specials, such as the tough and exciting series Spooky, and the new series The Curse of Riding School Pegasus, Alone in the World and Soccer Girls.

We proudly screen four beautiful animation films from the Now or Never project, set up in 2002 to encourage the development of culturally diverse writing talent and to ensure that stories that are rooted in the multicultural society get told on television. With reference to the new stop-motion pre-schoolers’ series Rintje, we have our popular daily pre-schoolers’ workshop.

On behalf of the TV and Outdoors programming team, I bid everybody welcome. Come and bring as many kids as possible. Let yourself be carried away beyond the limits of your imagination, online and offline, in the auditoriums and on our festival grounds and go back home with a head full of stories from everyone to share with everyone!

Mirjam Marks Head of TV Programming Sophie Claassen Producer Television Department Richard Bierhuizen Technical Producer Television Department Lotte Muller Assistent Television Department

90

TV

INTRODUCTION

91

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

1MINUTE NATURE

GET IT!

1MINUUTJE NATUUR

SNAPJE

1Minutes started off at the 2009 Cinekid; one-minute radio stories for children from 8 to 12.

They are part documentary, part fiction, challenging the borders between the two. In Berlin, the 1Minutes won the prestigious Prix Europa for Best Radio Drama. This is the first year that not only the ears are catered to, but also the eyes.

1Minute Nature is a series of one-minute animated documentaries on nature. Carefully edited interviews reveal how children experience nature.

Nominated for the Cinekid Kinderkast Jury Award in the category Non-fiction.

Each video contains a knowledge-hack: a small but important principle or fact. Every song starts with a question, which is answered in the song.

Sometimes the purpose is to explain something as clearly as possible, so you will remember it for the rest of your life. Sometimes, a smart, funny mnemonic is used to learn new information. The specific qualities of language, images and music are used for the explanations. For example, the choruses of a song can help information be remembered more easily and images can clarify these explanations.

A Get It? in the 2-minute video clip explains a basic principle or teaches a basic rule.

Nominated for the Cinekid Kinderkast Jury Award in the category Non-fiction.

KATINKA BAEHR, STEFANIE VISJAGER

MASCHA HALBERSTADT

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 1' | 7+

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 3' | 6+

Screenwriter Bente Hamel, Maartje Duin, Chris Bajema,

Editor in Chief Anneke Dorsman Production company

Tjitske Mussche, Laura Stek Production company

Involved TV Station NTR, Postbus 29000, 1202 MA Hilversum,

Radiomakers Desmet, Van Diemenstraat 410 - 412,

The Netherlands, +31 (0)887799999, info@ntr.nl

1013 CR Amsterdam, The Netherlands, +31 (0)206236865, info@radiomakersdesmet.nl Involved TV Station NTR, Postbus 29000, 1012 MA Hilversum, The Netherlands, +31 (0)887799999, info@ntr.nl

92

TV

BEST DUTCH TELEVISION PRODUCTION

REMI, NOBODY’S BOY

SOCCER GIRLS

ALLEEN OP DE WERELD

VOETBALMEISJES

The classical story of the orphan Remi (13) and his incredible journey to find his family.

Remi is a foundling; his adoptive mother Betty found him left behind in a supermarket when he was just a baby. When Betty’s husband returns from work overseas, he is not happy to find Remi.

He decides there is no space for two men in the house and drops the boy at a gas station. Remi is found for the second time in his life – this time

by Vitalis and his pack of traveling circus animals.

Little does he know that this is just the start of a great adventure.

A blistering youth fiction series about multicultural girls’ soccer team FC Athena: ambitious girls, searching for their identity, in relation to one another and to the soccer club that is dominated by boys. They chase their dreams, grow apart, fall in love, accept their loss and jointly fight for victory. Life is not always easy, but fortunately as a member of a soccer team you are never alone.

Nobody’s Boy is a modern adaptation of the renowned book (1878) by French author Hector Malot.

Nominated for the Cinekid Kinderkast Jury Award in the category Fiction.

A series that different youngsters can relate to and that fits the ambitions of modern-day girls in neo-Dutch society. Years ago, creators Sia Hermanides and Alieke van Saarloos graduated from the HKU University of the Arts Utrecht together with a pilot for the first Dutch series about a lesbian girl. She also played for FC Athena, but in that case it was a hockey club.

Nominated for the Cinekid Kinderkast Jury Award in the category Fiction.

MARGIEN ROGAAR, STEVEN WOUTERLOOD

SIA HERMANIDES, ALIEKE SAARLOOS

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 10' | 7+

THE NETHERLANDS | 2015 | 25' | 12+

Screenwriter Mieke de Jong, Anne Hofhuis,

Composer Rik Elstgeest, Bo Koek Production company

Myranda Jongeling Leading actors Julian Ras, Bert Luppus,

BosBros BV, Arie Biemondstraat 111, 1054 PD Amsterdam,

Ricky Koole, Koen van der Molen Editor Christine Houbiers,

The Netherlands, +31 (0)205244030, receptie@bosbros.com

Elsbeth Kasteel Production company Lemming Film,

Involved TV station AVROTROS, Postbus 2, 1200 JA Hilversum,

Valschermkade 36 F, 1059 CD Amsterdam, The Netherlands,

The Netherlands, +31 (0)356717715, info@avrotros.nl

+31 (0)206610424, info@lemmingfilm.com Involved TV station VPRO, Postbus 11, 1200 JC Hilversum, The Netherlands, +31 (0)882058911, info@vpro.nl

93

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

TROLLIE

A YEAR WITHOUT MY PARENTS EEN JAAR ZONDER MIJN OUDERS

Trollie is a light-hearted, entertaining and endearing Christmas story. The arrival of an ill-mannered troll leads Max into hilarious situations and helps him flourish. From a shy, withdrawn bookworm he grows into a self-confident youngster capable of building friendships. Trollie is an ET-type story for a new generation and in a new arena: the fairytale world of the forests where trolls, a moody goblin and even the odd unicorn live.

In 2013, director Gert Embrechts was nominated for the Cinekid Lion Jury Award for Best Children’s Film for his internationally well-received feature film Allez, Eddy! He also wrote the screenplay for the successful Dutch adaptation of A Woman Goes to the Doctor.

“Hi Baba and Mama, I miss you a lot. Tomorrow is my birthday and I’ll be twelve. I want you to know where I sleep and which school I’m going to. I’ll show you everything with my selfie stick.”

When Tareq flees the war in Syria, he must leave his parents, little sister and little brother behind.

He heads for Europe and an uncertain future.

A dangerous journey follows, and once he arrives in the Netherlands, the waiting begins. If he had known in advance that it would take a year, would he still have left? Did he really have a choice?

Part of Just Kids, a series of youth documentaries about children’s rights.

Nominated for the Cinekid Kinderkast Jury Award in the category Non-fiction.

Nominated for the Cinekid Kinderkast Jury Award in the category Fiction.

GERT EMBRECHTS THE NETHERLANDS | 2015 | 25' | 6+

ELS VAN DRIEL

Screenwriter Pieter Bart Korthuis Leading actors

THE NETHERLANDS | 2015 | 24' | 9+

Jelka van Houten, Olga Zuiderhoek, Tjebbo Gerritsma,

Production company + Involved TV station

Editor Lynn Raeymaekers, Thomas van der Vorst

EO, Postbus 21000, 1202 BA Hilversum, The Netherlands,

Editor in Chief Brigitte Baake Production company Nijenhuis

+31 (0)356474747, communicatie@eo.nl

& Co, Karperweg 45, 1075 LB Amsterdam, The Netherlands, +31 (0)207601960, info@nijenhuisenco.nl / Zilvermeer Productions, Kievitstraat 42, 2400 Mol, Belgium, +32 (0)14314343, info@zilvermeerproductions.com Involved TV station KRO-NCRV, Postbus 200, 1200 AE Hilversum, The Netherlands, +31 (0)356713911, info@kro-ncrv.nl

94

TV

BEST DUTCH TELEVISION PRODUCTION

SELECTION FOR THE CINEKID KINDERKAST AUDIENCE AWARDS

CATEGORY 4 – 6 CATS FROM KITTEN LANE

COUNTING DOWN TO ST. NICOLAS’ EVE

SAMMY PARAMARIBO

Dutch title Poesjes

Dutch title Op weg naar pakjesavond

Dutch title Sammy Paramaribo

Director Nova van Dijk

Director Jop de Vries

Director Barbara Bredero

Production company Stormy Minutes

Production company NL Film & TV

Production company IJswater Films

Involved TV station VPRO

Involved TV station Nickelodeon

Involved TV station KRO-NCRV

CATEGORY 6 – 12 COOKING ADVENTURES

1MINUTE NATURE

ANTI BULLY CLUB

Dutch title 1Minuutje Natuur

Dutch title Anti Pest Club

Dutch title Proefkeuken

Director Katinka Baehr, Stefanie Visjager

Director Mike Warmels

Director Willem Revis, Tom Roes

Production company NTR,

Production company EO

Production company BlazHoffski

Radiomakers Desmet

Involved TV station EO

Productions Involved TV station VPRO

Involved TV station NTR

A COW IN A WRONG BODY

THE DOCTOR CORRIE SHOW

GET IT!

Dutch title Een koe in een verkeerd lichaam

Dutch title De Dokter Corrie Show

Dutch title Snapje

Director Denise Janzée

Director Ben van der Meyden

Director Mascha Halberstadt

Production company Hollandse Helden

Production company NTR

Production company NTR

Involved TV station KRO-NCRV

Involved TV station NTR

Involved TV station NTR

SOCCER GIRLS

REMI, NOBODY’S BOY

TROLLIE

Dutch title Voetbalmeisjes

Dutch title Alleen op de wereld

Dutch title Trollie

Director Sia Hermanides, Alieke Saarloos

Director Margien Rogaar,

Director Gert Embrechts

Production company BosBros BV

Steven Wouterlood

Production company Nijenhuis & Co,

Involved TV station AVROTROS

Production company Lemming Film

Zilvermeer Productions

Involved TV station VPRO

Involved TV station KRO-NCRV

A YEAR WITHOUT MY PARENTS Dutch title Een jaar zonder mijn ouders Director Els van Driel Production company EO Involved TV station EO

95

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

THE APPLE CORE

BEN 10

HET KLOKHUIS OVER PAARDEN

The Apple Core made a special serial about horses.

In one episode, they try to find out what it is that makes the strong, sturdy Icelandic horses so special. In another, the Dutch horse photographer Arnd Bronkhorst is being followed while at work. He is present at every big tournament in the world to shoot pictures for professional horse journals. Taking action photos of horses jumping requires totally different skills and lenses than making portraits, he explains.

Interestingly, there are even horse models for fashion shoots.

Mixing satirical and funny sketches with solid but transparent information, The Apple Core has been raising knowledge and awareness since 1988.

The energetic, fun-loving, 10-year-old Ben Tennyson is back. Featuring many new and fan-favourite aliens, this new Ben10 series kicks off with the adventures of Ben, his cousin Gwen and Grandpa Max as they travel the country during summer vacation. When Ben finds the mysterious Omnitrix, a world of alien superpowers opens up to him.

This new animated series is based on the highly successful franchise about an alien-powered kid hero. The popularity of the first show launched three additional animated series (Ben 10: Alien Force, Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, Ben 10: Omniverse); two animated movies (Ben 10: Secret of the Omnitrix, Ben 10: Destroy All Aliens); and two live-action movies (Ben 10: Race against Time, Ben 10: Alien Swarm).

JEANINE VAN GOOL

UNITED STATES | 2016 | 11' | 4+

THE NETHERLANDS | 2015 | 15' | 6+

Production company Man of Action, info@manofaction.tv

Editor Heleen Meertens

Involved TV station Cartoon Network, Great Marlborough

Production company + Involved TV station NTR,

Street 16, W1F 7HS Londen, United Kingdom,

Postbus 29000, 1202 MA Hilversum, The Netherlands,

+44 (0)2076931000, contact@cartoonnetwork.nl

+31 (0)887799999, info@ntr.nl

96

TV

PREMIERES

THE BIRDBOY

CHAMPIONS OF AMSTERDAM

DE VOGELVRIEND

KAMPIOENEN VAN AMSTERDAM

An intimate youth documentary about the unique bond between fourteen-year-old Dave and his owl Tristan. Dave shares everything with his bird. He feels that Tristan knows him better than anyone.

Simultaneously, Dave is trying to push his boundaries and overcome his fears by training Juul, a big and dangerous sea eagle. The past year was marked by the loss of his grandmother. The bond Dave has with the birds and the peace he found in them help him cope with this loss.

Every year, Amsterdam hosts an exciting street soccer tournament with a big final on Dam Square in the town centre. In this long youth documentary, we follow five twelve-year-old boys who participate in this tournament. They come from different areas of the city and all have different socio-cultural backgrounds. Each boy has to meet his own challenges in life. They have one thing in common: their love of the ball! Who will win the prestigious tournament?

In 2012, director Ingrid Kamerling won the Dutch Cultural Media Fund Award Kids & Docs for Sounds for Mazin at IDFA.For After the Summer (2015), she followed religious young people who, after finishing high school, started a study outside their village.

None of the three directors are strangers to the festival. Both Xander de Boer and Denise Janzée are present at this year’s Cinekid with other films, respectively The Majorette King of the North and A Cow in a Wrong Body. A youth documentary at feature length is quite uncommon in the Netherlands.

INGRID KAMERLING

DENISE JANZÉE, XANDER DE BOER,

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 15' | 8+

MARJOLIJN HEIJNEN

Production company La Veranda Film, Planciusstraat 19D5,

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 70' | 8+

1013 MD Amsterdam, The Netherlands, +31 (0)612140647,

Production company Hollandse Helden, Overleek 29, 1141 PE

matthijs@laverandafilm.nl Involved TV station

Monnickendam, The Netherlands, +31 (0)622808105,

VPRO, Postbus 11, 1200 JC Hilversum, The Netherlands,

mail@hollandsehelden.nl Involved TV station KRO-NCRV,

+31 (0)882058911, info@vpro.nl

Postbus 200, 1200 AE Hilversum, The Netherlands, +31 (0)356713911, info@kro-ncrv.nl

97

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

CHILDREN'S TIME

THE CURSE OF RIDING SCHOOL PEGASUS

KINDERTIJD

DE VLOEK VAN MANEGE PEGASUS

In this preview, Children’s Time presents a peek at the new fall season. Children show their bedrooms in the Shelter series; in the I Go series, Marius shows children what it is like to visit an optician; there is a preview of animator Patrick Raats' new series Hats'n Caps, a new children's documentary and lots of other fun programmes.

When the Van der Heijden family (mother Esther, father Rob and the kids Nena and Niek) is moving from the big city to the old, abandoned homestead Pegasus in the countryside to start a stud farm, nothing turns out the way they planned...

A whodunit embedded in an ancient legend in which everything is possible.

Children’s Time is the daily pre-school magazine, aimed at children aged between three and seven, with the main focus on four- and five-year-olds.

Three genres can be distinguished in this show’s programming: animation, real-life action and drama. Children’s Time also offers events, websites, its own web TV channel and online & mobile games.

From 1993 to 1998, director Michiel Geijskes worked as first assistant and director on the Dutch version of Sesame Street. For 16 years, he worked as a director on the first Dutch soap series Good Times, Bad Times.

JOSJE HAZENBERG, ARIANNE HINZ,

MICHIEL GEIJSKES

MARTIJN HULLEGIE, PATRICK RAATS,

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 20' | 9+

HILT LOCHTEN

Screenwriter Manon Spierenburg Photography Edwin Hoeve

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 50' | 4+

Editor Peggy Erprath Composer Guido Heeneman

Production company + Involved TV station KRO-NCRV,

Leading actors Niek Roozen, Lobke de Boer, Luca Hollestelle,

Postbus 200, 1200 AE Hilversum, The Netherlands,

Roscoe Leijen, Peter Post, Wendy Brouwer

+31 (0)356713911, info@kro-ncrv.nl

Production company Messercola Drama, Mediarena 2, 1114 BC Amsterdam, The Netherlands, +31 (0)205659090, info@messercola.nl Involved TV station AVROTROS, Postbus 2, 1200 JA Hilversum, The Netherlands, +31 (0)356717715, info@avrotros.nl

98

TV

PREMIERES

THE DOMINO PLAYER

MIES GOES TO HOLLYWOOD

DE DOMINO SPELER

MIES GAAT NAAR HOLLYWOOD

An old demented man refuses to go to a nursing home. He really wants to play a domino match in his home village to rehabilitate his brother, who passed away many years ago and could have been the champion. The only one who can help him achieve this goal is his nine-year-old grandson.

Mies (11) knows one thing for sure: she will become a famous actress. She is fortunate to have a successful director as her father; the relocation of her family from Amsterdam to Hollywood is the perfect chance for Mies to pursue that dream. And she grabs it with both hands: she indulges in her new, sunny, Californian life, with big Hollywood mansions and swimming pools. With the help of a manager, coaches, dance classes and auditions, she does everything she can to succeed. But she must also learn the language, do a lot of homework, make new friends and go to the orthodontist. Will Mies be able to realize her dream of becoming an actress?

This movie was entirely realised with the cooperation of students at the Circus Hakim film school.

Hakim Traïdia is a famous Dutch theatre maker and mime artist. Generations of Dutch children grew up with him as a fixture on Sesame Street.

HAKIM A TRAÏDIA

NATASJA VAN WIJK

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 18' | 4+

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 65' | 8+

Screenwriter Hakim A Traïdia Photography Jeroen Kiers,

Photography Marieke Niestadt Editor Jelle Redeker

Daan Bothof Editor Jordy Holslag Composer Daniel Malkin,

Composer Truusje Melissen Production company KeyDocs,

Mohamed Rouane Leading actors Mahjoub Benmoussa,

Van Diemenstraat 332, 1013 CR Amsterdam,

Arda Traidia Production company Circus Hakim,

The Netherlands, +31 (0)204222607, info@keydocs.nl /

Korte Verspronckweg 7 - 9, 2023 BS Haarlem,

VPRO, Postbus 11, 1200 JC Hilversum, The Netherlands,

The Netherlands, +31 (0)235769066, info@circushakim.nl

+31 (0)882058911, info@vpro.nl Involved TV station VPRO, Postbus 11, 1200 JC Hilversum, The Netherlands, +31 (0)882058911, info@vpro.nl

99

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

OPERATION OUCH

PUCK AND THE LOST SHEEP

TOPDOKS

PUCK EN HET VERDWENEN SCHAAP

Medical kids programme with a humorous touch, showing children the ins and outs around the human body. The presenter Rachel and doctor Elbert travel all over the place and visit patients in hospitals, show what our body can do and what it does in extreme situations. They talk to the best medical specialists that show what doctors are capable of.

Presenter Rachel Rosier and director Jan Pool worked together on the infotainment children's series Checkpoint, which won the Cinekid Kinderkast Non-fiction (Audience) Award in 2011 and again in 2012. Pool also worked as a director for the popular Dutch youth soap SpangaS.

Wanting to help her heavily pregnant mother, Puck (5) inadvertently causes chaos, meaning she has to go and stay with her cousin Stijn (6) at the sheep farm. There, she takes care of the pregnant sheep with the blue dot. But when the sheep doesn’t return after a trip, Puck feels guilty.

She takes responsibility and sets out, together with her cousin. With a great deal of imagination and ingenuity, they manage to find the sheep with the blue dot, as well as the new lamb. Meanwhile, the sheep farm is in a panic. Will sheep dog Pink manage to trace the scents of Stijn, Puck, the sheep and the little lamb, and bring them home safely?

Directed by Annemarie Mooren, who in 2009 received the Cinekid Kinderkast Audience Award for her series Puppy Patrol.

ANNEMARIE MOOREN JAN POOL | THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 20' | 9+

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 9' | 3+

Photography Stephan Hagemeijer Editor Marius Holdermans

Screenwriter Annemarie Mooren Photography

Production company + Involved TV station EO, Postbus 21000,

Edwin Willem Hoeve Editor Peggy Erprath Composer

1202 BA Hilversum, The Netherlands,

Ronald Schilperoort Leading actors Puk van de Werken,

+31 (0)356474747, communicatie@eo.nl

Bas Lourier, Fabian Jansen Production company Annemarie Mooren Productions, Kromme Jaagpad 7, 2391 NC Hazerswouden-Dorp, The Netherlands, +31 (0)650646211, annemarie@ annemariemoorenproductions.nl Involved TV-station KRO-NCRV, Postbus 200, 1200 AE Hilversum, The Netherlands, +31 (0)356713911, info@kro-ncrv.nl

100

TV

PREMIERES

RAFFAELO IN THE WILD

SPOOKY ENG

RAFFAELO IN HET WILD

Eight-year-old Raffaelo Storm from Drachten, a small town in the northern part of the Netherlands in the province of Friesland, has a dream. One day this small boy hopes to become a biologist. Raffaelo is passionate about animals and nature. The famous Dutch biologist and television host Freek Vonk is an inspiration for Raffaelo. Nothing stands in the way of Raffaelo realizing his dream. Or does it...? There seems to be a serious obstacle for Raffaelo, which is: his fear of frogs!

This moving portrait follows the everyday life of an energetic child full of hope and dreams.

We meet his friends and grandfather, who all confront him with his dream and fear. The film gradually answers the question if Raffaelo's fear will indeed prevent him from becoming a biologist or not.

With nine stand-alone episodes, the serial Spooky offers a diverse palette of creepy and spine-tingling adventures by brave children overcoming their fears. Cinekid screens three episodes. Lena undergoes surgery in a very strange hospital, during training camp, Younes’ dream to become a kickboxer turns into a nightmare, and Bob, Tess and Errol get lost in the woods.

This cinematic youth series is based on the outcome of brainstorm sessions between production company Pupkin Film and children aged 9 to 12. They like to see sturdy, exciting and spooky stories on TV that do have a good ending.

RACHEL VISSCHER

ANIĂ‹LLE WEBSTER, THOMAS KORTHALS ALTES,

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 15' | 7+

SIMONE VAN DUSSELDORP

Screenwriter Rachel Visscher Photography Roel Bentvelzen

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 25' | 9+

Editor Marcel Vendrig Composer Jan Minnaard

Screenwriter Don Duyns, Lineke van den Boezem,

Production company Stichting Stadsliederen,

Jolein Laarman Involved TV station VPRO, Postbus 11, 1200

Havenstraat 183II, 3024 SK Rotterdam, The Netherlands,

JC Hilversum, The Netherlands, +31 (0)882058911, info@vpro.

+31 (0)614024391, rachelhalinavisscher@gmail.com

nl Production company Pupkin, Weesperzijde 4, 1091 EA Amsterdam, The Netherlands, +31 (0)204895088, info@pupkin.com Involved TV station VPRO, Postbus 11, 1200 JC Hilversum, The Netherlands, +31 (0)882058911, info@vpro.nl

101

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

PREMIERES

THINKTANK

ZAPP YOUR PLANET: EXPEDITION OPERATION ELEPHANT

DENKTANK

Four teenagers tour across The Netherlands in an old army van, operated by philosopher Stine Jensen, in search of places where they can catch a glimpse of the future. Their recurring question being: In what kind of world do we want to live?

For example, they examine the future role of robots. Will they take over most jobs? And if so, what is the point of going to school? Shouldn't the school system prepare them differently?

Director Eva van Pelt and the well-known Danish/ Dutch philosopher Stine Jensen previously worked together on the philosophical TV children's series Therefore I Am JR.

ZAPP YOUR PLANET: EXPEDITIE OPERATIE OLIFANT

The well-known Dutch presenter Nienke de la Rive Box and two Dutch young WWF Rangers venture deep into the jungles of Gabon, in search of the endangered African forest elephant. During a unique ten-hour live event on Dutch television, money was raised to save and protect this magnificent animal. All money will be used to train more Rangers for the Loango National Park. The Expedition Team will have to go through a training process, especially designed for them. They must learn how to make their way through the jungle and navigate a boat across the Ndogo Lagune.

In Zapp Your Planet, four presenters of the Dutch public children's broadcaster Zapp take up the gauntlet. The winner goes on an expedition abroad.

EVA VAN PELT

MIKE WARMELS

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 15' | 10+

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 37' | 6+

Photography Jorrit Garretsen, Niels Bakker

Screenwriter Mike Warmels, Robert Fortuijn

Editor Rienk Leendertse Composer Marijn Slager

Photography Stefan Hagemeijer Editor Arnout Mostert

Production company + Involved TV station Human,

Production company + Involved TV station EO,

Postbus 135, 1200 AC Hilversum, The Netherlands,

Postbus 21000, 1202 BA Hilversum, The Netherlands,

+31 (0)882058020, informatie@human.nl

+31 (0)356474747, communicatie@eo.nl

102

TV

NOW OR NEVER

DEDE; MEHMET WITH YELLOW BOOTS

DON'T LOSE YOUR HEAD

DEDE; MEHMET MET DE GELE LAARZEN

KOP OP

Feel-good film about a quest by eleven-year-old Merel to find her biological Turkish grandfather.

During this journey, she becomes entangled in funny and difficult situations and meets surprising, extraordinary characters who contribute to her personal growth.

In 1998, director Tamara Miranda's movie Het leven dat wij droomden was nominated for a Golden Calf for Documentary Short. Arzu Kökeng participated in Cinekid’s 48 Hour Film Project in 2011, writing the scenario for the short film Vast. Made within the framework of Now or Never! 3, a successful incentive project of the Media Fund and Zapp. Culturally diverse youth films from Now or Never 1 and 2 received various international nominations and awards.

Three friends from different cultural backgrounds are playing outside when they find a dumped washing machine. To their utter despair, their heads are accidentally exchanged when sticking them into the machine. When it proves impossible to undo the swap, they have no other option but to return to each other’s homes. Because each household has its own habits and traditions, all three end up in awkward situations and learn things about one another that are new to them.

Animation studio Job, Joris and Marieke has bagged numerous awards, including an Oscar nomination for their short animation film A Single Life. For this project, they teamed up with Lotte Tabbers, who wrote the scenario for Taking Chances, winner of the Cinekid Lion for Best Dutch Film Jury Award in 2011.

TAMARA MIRANDA

JOB, JORIS & MARIEKE

THE NETHERLANDS | 2015 | 25' | 7+

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 25' | 6+

Screenwriter Arzu Kökeng Photography Tjitte Jan Nieuwkoop

Screenwriter Job, Joris & Marieke, Lotte Tabbers

Editor Nikki Faberij-de Jonge Composer Baris Akardere

Composer Job Roggeveen Leading actors Steye van Dam,

Leading actors Ysa Dekker, Batuhan Mikail Eryigit,

Paulien Cornelisse, Nasrdin Dchar, Fockeline Ouwerkerk,

Oya Capelle-Karisman, Loes Schnepper, Nyncke Beekhuijzen

Illias Ojja, Sabri Saad El Hamus, Margo Dames, Chris Bajema,

Production company Corrino Drama BV,

Blaudzun Production company Viking Film, Lindengracht 17,

Van Slingelandtplein 11, 1051 DD Amsterdam, The Netherlands,

1015 KB Amsterdam, The Netherlands, +31 (0)206254788,

+31 (0)204233002, info@corrino.com

info@vikingfilm.nl Involved TV station VPRO,

Involved TV station KRO-NCRV, Postbus 200, 1200 AE Hilversum,

Postbus 11, 1200 JC Hilversum, The Netherlands,

The Netherlands, +31 (0)356713911, info@kro-ncrv.nl

+31 (0)882058911, info@vpro.nl

103

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

NOW OR NEVER

FREE AS A BIRD

POLSKA WARRIOR

VRIJE VOGEL

A ten-year-old boy, Imad, lives in a war zone.

When he finds a bird with a broken wing, he brings it home and carefully nurses it back to health. This new friendship brings Imad joy, dreams and strength. He learns to listen to his heart and finds the courage to choose a (new) future.

Director and screenwriter Joyce van Diepen was a co-author of the short children's drama A Wooly Good Cause, which was nominated for the Cinekid Kinderkast Fiction Audience Award. She is also a production designer.

Shy Eryk lives with his domineering father and three other Poles in a dingy apartment. When the men are at work, Eryk is playing his favourite game. As his avatar Polska Warrior, he has the guts to do anything. But in real life Eryk is not a hero. He is afraid of water and is unable to get his swimming certificate. When his father finds out, he takes away his laptop. Game over!

Now Eryk can’t contact Laura anymore, whom he met in the game. He steals his father’s bike, with severe consequences. Suddenly, Eryk has to save his dad when the latter falls in the water.

Is Eryk as brave as his avatar?

Along with Roberta Amador, director Camiel Schouwenaar won the Cinekid Kinderkast Jury Award for Fiction for Poppentje and Poppentje 2 in 2001 and 2002. In 2015, his short RICH! was one of Cinekid's opening films.

JOYCE VAN DIEPEN

CAMIEL SCHOUWENAAR

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 25' | 6+

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 25' | 8+

Screenwriter Joyce van Diepen Editor Eric Limburg

Screenwriter Pepijn Moors, Christa de Graaf,

Composer Reyn Ouwehand Production company

Camiel Schouwenaar Production company Armadillo Film,

Corrino Media Group, Van Slingelandtplein 11, 1051 DD

Postbus 51056, 1007 EB Amsterdam, The Netherlands,

Amsterdam, The Netherlands, +31 (0)204233002,

+31 (0)650505888, info@armadillofilm.nl Involved TV station

info@corrino.com / NMTrix Animation Studios, Scharlo 49,

NTR, Postbus 29000, 1202 MA Hilversum, The Netherlands,

1815 CN Alkmaar, The Netherlands, +31 (0)725409803,

+31 (0)887799999, info@ntr.nl

info@nmtrix.com Involved TV station KRO-NCRV, Postbus 200, 1200 AE Hilversum, The Netherlands, +31 (0)356713911, info@kro-ncrv.nl

104

TV

NOW OR NEVER / KIDS & DOCS

TEX

CHE

Tex is a typical animation character. Evie is a cute live-action girl. When Tex falls for her, it seems an impossible match. But isn't everything possible in a cartoon? A cartoony romcom about differences, love and longboards.

Absurdist coming-of-age documentary about Che, a street urchin with a vivid imagination who loves eerie and creepy stuff. His parents are divorced, but he doesn’t really mind. It’s actually quite convenient to get a double allowance. While Che is looking forward to Halloween, he finds out it can still be rather a nuisance if you live far from your old friends and have to arrange a meeting with your dad.

Joost van den Bosch and Erik Verkerk jointly studied Animation at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. They own animation studio Ka-Ching Cartoons, which specializes in TV series, short films and commercials.

They directed Tex together with Hans Walther, who worked as an editor and director in the TV and film world for years. Since 2003, he has been directing animation series and the first Dutch computer-animated film Fairy Tale Tree the Movie.

Director Elsbeth Fraanje is an independent filmmaker and researcher. The scenario for this absurdist coming-of-age documentary was developed during the Kids & Docs Workshop.

International premiere.

JOOST VAN DEN BOSCH, ERIK VERKERK, HANS WALTHER | THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 25' | 6+ Screenwriter Marc Veerkamp, Tingue Dongelmans Photography Jan van den Nieuwenhuijzen Editor Joost van den Bosch, Hans Walther, Erik Verkerk

ELSBETH FRAANJE

Composer Rene Merkelbach Leading actors

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 15' | 8+

Boyan van der Heijden, Indy Boerleider, Lucy de Nooij

Photography Rogier Timmermans Editor Ralf Verbeek,

Production company Ka-ching Cartoons, Schiekade 189 unit

Daan Wijdeveld Production company Tangerine Tree,

511, 3013 BR Rotterdam, The Netherlands,

Schieweg 202 C2, 3038 BM Rotterdam, The Netherlands,

+31 (0)645098574, info@ka-chingcartoons.com / BosBros,

+31 (0)643061200, info@tangerinetree.nl

Arie Biemondstraat 111, 1054 PD Amsterdam,

Involved TV station KRO-NCRV,

The Netherlands, +31 (0)205244030, info@bosbros.nl

Postbus 200, 1200 AE Hilversum, The Netherlands,

Involved TV station VPRO, Postbus 11, 1200 JC Hilversum,

+31 (0)356713911, info@kro-ncrv.nl

The Netherlands, +31 (0)882058911, info@vpro.nl

105

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

DRONA & ME

GIRLS

DRONA & IK

MEISJES

We watch the autistic Hindu boy Drona through the eyes of Arjun, his elder brother. The result is an affectionate portrait of both brothers.

Drona finds it difficult to manage information, which in turn makes it difficult to get a grip on life. In order to get by, he asks an extreme number of questions. He constantly checks, for example, if those around him are angry with him. His dream is to be a bus driver and he knows the whole Amsterdam bus system by heart.

A girl should have nice chubby legs and a fat bottom, or the ideal body in the shape of a Coca-Cola bottle. She must be dark-skinned: "Because a white girl doesn't understand that I only eat hot meals." Three swarthy adolescents, Kelvin, Vijay and Nasif - inseparable friends – explain what they think about girls, or they fantasize about what it would be like in bed with one and whether they have already gone all the way. Their words are illustrated by images of girls their age, spruced up for the school party. The end reveals why the director made this film: for her four daughters.

This award-winning portrait is largely filmed in black and white, but Drona’s world quite literally springs into colour when he rides on the bus. For Drona & Me, director Catherine van Campen has won the award for Best Script in the Kids & Docs project. The film was screened at prestigious festivals all over the world.

Girls carried off the Kids & Docs jubilee prize for Best Youth Documentary, the Cinekid Kinderkast Jury Award, the Golden Statue and the Prix Jeunesse 2004. Two years later, director Menna Laura Meijer made the counterpart Boys.

CATHERINE VAN CAMPEN

MENNA LAURA MEIJER

THE NETHERLANDS | 2009 | 29' | 8+

THE NETHERLANDS | 2003 | 25' | 12+

Producer Joost Seelen Production company Zuidenwind

Production company + Involved TV station EO, Postbus 21000,

Filmprodukties, Postbus 4673, 4803 ER Breda,

1202 BA Hilversum, The Netherlands,

The Netherlands, +31 (0)765140871, info@zuidenwind.nl

+31 (0)356474747, communicatie@eo.nl

Involved TV station OHM, Koninginneweg 8, 1217 KX Hilversum, The Netherlands, +31 (0)356260920, info@ohmnet.nl

106

TV

KIDS & DOCS

THE HIDEOUT

A HOME FOR LYDIA

ACHTER DE TOREN

LYDIA BLIJFT

They have been best friends as long as they can remember. Willem, Jurriaan, Ivan and Bas are growing up by the Dutch seaside, in a religious and conservative village. They play together, frequent the local shooting club together, laugh at tourists together and get bored together.

But now, two of them are about to enter high school, an hour's bike ride from their hometown.

Leaving the village means leaving a protected and clear world for an unknown future. It also means a major change in a previously nuclear friendship.

Lydia wants to stay in Holland because she is born here, but her parents have to leave because they are from other countries. To make sure they will not be found and sent back, the family has to keep moving, over and over again. In selfwritten songs she shares her fears about not having friends or a home, but also her hopes for a better future.

This coming-of-age was awarded with a Golden Calf for Best Short Documentary at the Netherlands Film Festival and with the Cinekid Kinderkast Jury Award. Last year, Astrid Bussink's film Giovanni and the Water Ballet also won the Cinekid Kinderkast Jury Award.

Extraordinary in this winner of the 2013 Media Fund Kids & Docs Prize are the scenes where Lydia is filmed in medium close-up while dancing and singing in front of the camera. Lydia is remarkably unreserved, looking straight at us.

The film travelled along film festivals all over the world.

ASTRID BUSSINK

ELINE SCHELLEKENS

THE NETHERLANDS | 2012 | 15' | 8+

THE NETHERLANDS | 2013 | 17' | 8+

Editor Riekje Ziengs

Screenwriter Eline Schellekens Photography Ernst Herstel

Production company + Involved TV station KRO-NCRV,

Editor Patrick Schonewille

Postbus 200, 1200 AE Hilversum, The Netherlands,

Production company + Involved TV station KRO-NCRV,

+31 (0)356713911, info@kro-ncrv.nl

Postbus 200, 1200 AE Hilversum, The Netherlands, +31 (0)356713911, info@kro-ncrv.nl

107

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

I'M NEVER AFRAID!

LET ME GO HOME

IK BEN ECHT NIET BANG!

IK WIL NAAR HUIS

Mack is a small streetwise boy aged 8 who wants to win all the time, living on borrowed time. With his mirrored heart (it is on the right side) he has to perform on the motocross track while death is on his shoulders. When he was three, he rode his first race. Mack gets inspiration from his grandfather who has passed away, and further support from his sister who lives in constant fear of going into anaphylactic shock and dying.

Fourteen-year-old Sietske was taken out of her mother's custody at the age of seven. Since then, she has run away from 39 foster homes, because she refused to accept the fact that she can no longer live with her mother. Sietske has spent the last 18 months in a youth detention facility. Soon, the day will come that she will be allowed to go outside.

A short, occasionally funny youth documentary about the desire to win and facing one’s fears.

It won several international prizes, such as the Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival and the Cinekid Kinderkast Jury Award.

Director Chiel Aldershoff visits her in a youth institution and chose to set up the camera within its four walls while she tells her life story. This is an effective way to make the spectator experience what it feels like to be locked up. This moving film was developed for the 2008-2009 Kids & Docs workshop and nominated for the Cinekid Kinderkast Jury Award.

WILLEM BAPTIST

CHIEL ALDERSHOFF

THE NETHERLANDS | 2010 | 20' | 10+

THE NETHERLANDS | 2009 | 15' | 14+

Editor Dirk-Jan Kerkkamp Production company

Screenwriter Chiel Aldershoff Photography Adri Schrover,

Kaliber Film, 1e Keucheniusstraat 7hs, 1051 HN Amsterdam,

Peter Lataster Editor Chris van Oers Production company

The Netherlands, info@kaliberfilm.nl

IJswater FIlms, Kromme Mijdrechtstraat 110-114,

Involved TV station VPRO, Postbus 11, 1200 JC Hilversum,

1079 LD Amsterdam, The Netherlands, +31 (0)204421760,

The Netherlands, +31 (0)882058911, info@vpro.nl

films@ijswater.nl Involved TV station KRO-NCRV, Postbus 200, 1200 AE Hilversum, The Netherlands, +31 (0)356713911, info@kro-ncrv.nl

108

TV

KIDS & DOCS

LOUIS THE FERRIS WHEEL KID

NINNOC

LOUIS VAN HET REUZENRAD

Louis is the child of an itinerant fun fair family.

Ten months a year, his family and their Ferris wheel travel around the Netherlands. With his brother and the other carnival kids, Louis attends the “mobile school” traveling along with them.

But for Louis this ends after the summer holiday, because he goes to highschool. He will have to move into a boarding school. Louis will miss the Ferris wheel, his wandering family and in particular his little brother.

Lovely film about an alternative way of living that examines the family unit and the unshakeable bonds of brotherly love.

Why do you have to do what everyone else does and why does everyone have to look the same?

Ninnoc struggles when she is in a group.

She doesn’t just want to adapt to the others, but she’s also afraid of being excluded. Can you deviate in a group? Or will you then end up alone?

Ninnoc, a film about exclusion and inclusion and group pressure, is the documentary debut of director Niki Padidar. In this film she visualizes what goes on in the mind of the protagonist. The scenario was developed during the Kids & Docs Workshop. In 2015 it has won the IDFA Award for Best Kids & Docs Documentary. At the Berlinale she was awarded with a special mention by the Generation Kplus children's jury.

TARA FALLAUX

NIKI PADIDAR

THE NETHERLANDS | 2013 | 17' | 8+

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 19' | 10+

Editor Dorith Vinken Production company 100% Halal,

Photography Jefrim Rothuizen Editor Albert Markus

Eerste Jacob van Campenstraat 59, 1072 BD Amsterdam,

Production company Zuidenwind Filmproductions,

The Netherlands, +31 20 639 1402,

Postbus 4673, 4803 ER Breda, The Netherlands,

contact@halal.amsterdam Involved TV station NTR,

+31 (0)765140871, info@zuidenwind.nl

Postbus 29000, 1202 MA Hilversum, The Netherlands,

Involved TV station NTR, Postbus 29000, 1202 MA Hilversum,

+31 (0)887799999, info@ntr.nl

The Netherlands, +31 (0)887799999, info@ntr.nl

109

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

OPPOSITES

PLANK

TEGENPOOL

Mayra (11) and her friends discuss the idea of meeting her complete opposite. How would this stranger look like? What kind of a person is he?

What should she ask him if they met? Then she gets the chance to actually meet her (imaginary) antipode, an ex-convict. Will this experience change her initial prejudice? And is there something Mayra and her opposite can actually learn from each other?

The 15-year-old Dutch-Moroccan Nassim Guammaz is a skateboarder, even though he is well aware that Moroccans are supposed to like soccer or kickboxing. “They just don't think it's cool”, he explains. “When they think of skaters, they think of that Gothic shit and people with black nail polish.” Now that his parents are divorced, Nassim lives with his mother and sisters. Things were tense at home before his folks split. Because his father did not keep his word about paying for Nassim’s soccer membership, he started skating; it is free, after all, and you can do it anywhere.

“Skating is my springboard to another world.”

Director Marta Jurkiewicz completed her art education at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 2005 with the film Agatha, which was granted the René Coelho Award. She subsequently attended the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam. She made several films since and worked as a festival distributor of Dutch experimental films at the EYE Film Institute Netherlands.

This flashy film full of impressive moves, remarkable competition footage and a great soundtrack won prizes in the US, Japan and China.

MARTA JURKIEWICZ

BILLY POLS | THE NETHERLANDS | 2009 | 15' | 9+

THE NETHERLANDS | 2015 | 14' | 8+

Production company Hazazah Pictures, Spui 24 2,

Screenwriter Marta Jurkiewicz Photography Ben Geraerts

1012 XA Amsterdam, The Netherlands,

Editor Leonie Hoever Production company Selfmade Films,

+31 (0)204226422, info@hazazahpictures.com

Nieuwpoortkade 2A, 1055 RX Amsterdam, The Netherlands,

Involved TV-station NTR,

+31 (0)206060789, mail@selfmadefilms.nl

Postbus 29000, 1202 MA Hilversum, The Netherlands,

Involved TV station Human Postbus 135, 1200 AC Hilversum,

+31 (0)887799999, info@ntr.nl

The Netherlands, +31 (0)882058020, informatie@human.nl

110

TV

KIDS & DOCS

ROCKNROLLERS

SEARCH FOR LOEDERTJE

ROCKNROLLERTJES

ZOEKEN NAAR LOEDERTJE

The teenagers Sia, Bas and Vince are best friends who have been playing together in the psychedelic rock band Morganas Illusion for years. When Sia suffers a bout of depression, the group’s future is at stake.

Rocknrollers is a dynamic rockumentary about friendship, the power of music and growing up.

Director Daan Bol was on Cinekid’s screenlist for the first time in 2012 with his well-received graduation film Straight with You. In 2014, he and his co-directors won the Cinekid Kinderkast Non-Fiction Jury Award for the documentary series Tough Cookies.

International premiere.

Willemijn's whole neighbourhood was wiped out by an explosion in a fireworks plant in May 2000.

She lost her house and all her things (including her comic book collection and the doll her grandma gave her). But most importantly, she lost her cat Loedertje. She gets permission to go back through the gates that now surround the area to look for him. Wrapped up in white protective clothing, she walks among the heaps of rubble and debris. She stands on the bare remains of her house and explains where everything used to be. When Willemijn returns home, she is called and told that a tomcat has been caught...

The idea for the scenario for this documentary was by Willemijn herself, and director Juul Bovenberg developed it into the winning scenario of the 2000 Kids & Docs Contest.

DAAN BOL | THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 24' | 11+

JUUL BOVENBERG

Screenwriter Daan Bol Photography Wilko van Oosterhout

THE NETHERLANDS | 2011 | 18' | 8+

Editor Luuk van Stegeren Production company BALDR Film BV,

Producer Juul Bovenberg Screenwriter Juul Bovenberg

Oudezijds Achterburgwal 77, 1012 DC Amsterdam,

Photography Nicole Batteke, Mick van Rossum

The Netherlands, +31 (0)20 303 2670, info@baldrfilm.nl

Production company + Involved TV station KRO-NCRV,

Involved TV station VPRO, Postbus 11, 1200 JC Hilversum,

Postbus 200, 1200 AE Hilversum, The Netherlands,

The Netherlands, +31 (0)882058911, info@vpro.nl

+31 (0)356713911, info@kro-ncrv.nl

111

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

KIDS & DOCS

TEN

TONIGHT WE'LL BECOME WOMEN

TIEN

VANNACHT WORDEN WE VROUWEN

In Brabant, there is a nice word for a pasture: plak. Jolijn (10) lives on farm campsite Martinus Plak, named after her deceased father Martinus, although everyone called him Ten. She is the only family member who does not remember him.

The day after he died, she turned three. Still, she misses him every day and she is afraid people will forget him. Especially now that mommy is going to marry her new boyfriend, but Jolijn has a solution!

Director Nathalie Crum graduated from the Netherlands Film Academy in 2014 with the film Homeland. This also had a rural setting and dealt with loss.

Ismini (13) often stays over at the house of Komal (12), the girl next door who is her closest friend.

Their friendship has been solid since they were three. In the year that they will change more than ever, physically and mentally, we are present at their pyjama parties. They are both convinced that nothing will ever change between them. But will this turn out to be true?

We experience this year as one intimate movie night where they develop from girls into women.

Fun stop-motion sequences show them while tampons and sanitary napkins are strewn across the blankets. They are filmed from above while discussing all kinds of topics in voice-over, but also while dancing together, doing each other’s hair or just laughing the night away.

NATHALIE CRUM

JOSEFIEN HENDRIKS

THE NETHERLANDS | 2015 | 16' | 8+

THE NETHERLANDS | 2013 | 15' | 8+

Screenwriter Nathalie Crum Photography Aafke Beernink

Producer Boudewijn Koole, Iris Lammertsma

Editor Barbara Hin Composer De Kift Production company

Editor Albert Elings Production company Witfilm,

Bureau Voorlichting, Wagenaarstraat 6,

De Kempenaerstraat 11B, 1051 CJ Amsterdam,

1093 CP Amsterdam, The Netherlands,

The Netherlands, +31 20 688 5049, info@witfilm.nl

+31 (0)655863388, info@bureauvoorlichting.nl

Involved TV station OHM, Koninginneweg 8,

Involved TV station KRO-NCRV, Postbus 200, 1200 AE

1217 KX Hilversum, The Netherlands,

Hilversum, The Netherlands,

+31 (0)356260920, info@ohmnet.nl

+31 (0)356713911, info@kro-ncrv.nl

112

TV

DOKUMENT JUNIOR

AHMAD'S HAIR

ALFREDO LORENZO

HET HAAR VAN AHMAD

The shy Ahmad (12) is new in the Netherlands.

He is a refugee from the war in Syria. He would love to make Dutch friends, but is afraid to make the first move. Sometimes, he watches the boys from the neighbourhood play football for a little while, but that's all. Most striking about Ahmad is his long hair. While Ahmad's hair grows, so does his confidence. To the point where he dares to say 'hi' to the boys from his neighbourhood.

Alfredo Lorenzo (12) has a big dream. He wants to be the world's best magician. This is no surprise.

His entire family works in the circus. Alfredo was born and raised a magician. To become the world's best, Alfredo has to train hard and give his best. How will the twelve-year-old Alfredo cope with the pressure? Is he strong enough to become the best in the world? Is he able to make his own choices?

In 2009, director Susan Koenen won the Cinekid Kinderkast Audience Non-Fiction Award for Laura & Anne Forever. She made several youth documentaries that were shown worldwide.

SUSAN KOENEN

MAAIKE VAN DER LINDEN, MARYE HOEBE

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 15' | 8+

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 15' | 8+

Photography Pierre Rezus Production company

Photography Remko Schnorr Editor Femke Klein Obbink

Hollandse Helden, Overleek 29, 1141 PE Monnickendam,

Production company Hollandse Helden, Overleek 29,

The Netherlands, +31 (0)622808105,

1141 PE Monnickendam, The Netherlands,

mail@hollandsehelden.nl

+31 (0)622808105, mail@hollandsehelden.nl

Distribution in The Netherlands Hollandse Helden

Distribution in The Netherlands Hollandse Helden

Involved TV station KRO-NCRV, Postbus 200,

Involved TV station KRO-NCRV, Postbus 200, 1200 AE Hilversum,

1200 AE Hilversum, The Netherlands,

The Netherlands, +31 (0)356713911, info@kro-ncrv.nl

+31 (0)356713911, info@kro-ncrv.nl

113

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

BUBA & SHARON

A COW IN A WRONG BODY EEN KOE IN EEN VERKEERD LICHAAM

Circus girl Sharon has known elephant Buba all her life. Together, they are the stars of her grandfather's circus, but outside the circus ring they are inseparable as well. After this summer, though, a new bill on wild animals in circuses will most likely send Buba away for good. Both Sharon and her family are inconsolable. They consider Buba a family member. Where is she going to live?

Sharon refuses to accept the unavoidable and initiates a petition.

This heart-breaking documentary shows that political choices and changing ideas about animal rights and ethics can have drastic consequences on people's lives. Although the story is told from Sharon’s perspective, shots of her are always followed by those of the elephant. If only she could talk.

Fifteen-year-old Jantien is literally a cow girl.

For years, she kept asking her parents for a horse.

So far in vain. But there are plenty of cows on the farm where she lives. Why not train one of them instead? Her cow Mo is every bit as good as a horse. She trots, gallops, jumps and even competes in horse shows. When Jantien turns 16, she will finally get a horse. And then? Will her love for Mo fade?

Director Denise Janzée worked as an editor on the award-winning documentaries by Leonard Retel Helmrich and various (youth) documentaries.

In 2014, her film Jamey's Fight was nominated for the Cinekid Kinderkast Jury Award and the Cinekid Kinderkast Audience Award.

CHIEL ALDERSHOFF

DENISE JANZÉE

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 15' | 6+

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 18' | 8+

Screenwriter Chiel Aldershoff Photography Daan Veldhuizen

Screenwriter Tamara Vuurmans Photography

Editor Paul de Heer Production company Kapow Films,

Christian van Duuren Editor Denise Janzée

Edisonstraat 23 HS, 1098 TB Amsterdam, The Netherlands,

Production company Hollandse Helden, Overleek 29,

+31 (0)617902223, info@kapowfilms.nl

1141 PE Monnickendam, The Netherlands, +31 (0)622808105,

Involved TV station KRO-NCRV, Postbus 200,

mail@hollandsehelden.nl Involved TV station KRO-NCRV,

1200 AE Hilversum, The Netherlands,

Postbus 200, 1200 AE Hilversum, The Netherlands,

+31 (0)356713911, info@kro-ncrv.nl

+31 (0)356713911, info@kro-ncrv.nl

114

TV

DOKUMENT JUNIOR

THE GIRL OF 672K

THE GLASS WALL

HET MEISJE VAN 672K

DE WAND

The creative talents of the imaginative 15-yearold Dutch/American Annegien attract ample attention in the virtual landscape of YouTube and Instagram. Her personal and artistic photographs on her Instagram account Fetching_tigerss reach over 672,000 followers from all over the world, something most YouTubers can only dream of.

Online TV channel Mediakraft has caught wind of her talents and would love to work with her.

How will her success influence her and her pictures, and what does she aspire to?

Lydia has been suffering from a rare blood disease and her condition hasn't improved. The doctors will now make the ultimate attempt to cure her through bone marrow transplantation. Lydia will have to push through this frightening period in her life all alone, cut off from family and friends, behind a glass wall. To alleviate her solitude, she makes a video log for the outside world. “It is five to eleven at night and the wall has just been closed. I've hugged my dad one last time and now I'm locked into my two-by-four-meter room.�

Coming-of-age film by Cinekid TV programmer Mirjam Marks, who made several youth documentaries that were shown worldwide.

The Girl of 672k is nominated at the Duisburger Filmwoche, in competition at the KUKI Festival (Berlin) and programmed by the Chicago Film Festival.

The experienced director Marc Schmidt is mostly known for his touching documentary Matthew's Laws, about his autistic childhood friend, made with great integrity. It won several prizes, including a Golden Calf for Best Documentary at the Netherlands Film Festival.

MIRJAM MARKS

MARC SCHMIDT

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 18' | 8+

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 20' | 8+

Photography Wiro Felix Editor Patrick Schonewille

Photography Marc Schmidt, Stefano Bertacchini

Production company Hollandse Helden, Overleek 29,

Composer Jasper Boeke Production company Cerutti Film,

1141 PE Monnickendam, The Netherlands,

Wikkelaan 10, 2116 TB Bentveld, The Netherlands,

+31 (0)622808105, mail@hollandsehelden.nl

+31 (0)650208648, willemijn@ceruttifilm.nl

Involved TV station KRO-NCRV, Postbus 200,

Involved TV station KRO-NCRV, Postbus 200,

1200 AE Hilversum, The Netherlands,

1200 AE Hilversum, The Netherlands,

+31 (0)356713911, info@kro-ncrv.nl

+31 (0)356713911, info@kro-ncrv.nl

115

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

THE MAJORETTE KING OF THE NORTH

SCOTT & JULIA

DE MAJORETTEKONING VAN HET NOORDEN

'Dance documentary' about eleven-year-old Janero. He is unable to sit still, he's always dancing. He wants to prove himself and become the best in baton swirling, a sport that's traditionally just for girls. Janero is the only boy his age in the northern Netherlands competing in this type of sports. It's a little weird to outsiders; a guy practicing with his baton day and night.

But Janero doesn't mind being the only boy in this sport. He wants to prove once and for all that baton swirling is not restricted to girls.

In 2012, director Xander de Boer made another documentary about a boy following his passion irrespective of what others think: Dancing with Style. He made several youth documentaries that were screened at several international festivals, including Cinekid.

Scott is a happy and fearless child of 15 when he gets involved in a terrible accident. He may never walk again. Fortunately, he's got Julia, his great love and help and support. “When she's here, it feels like I'm part of the normal world again.”

With Julia he can laugh and she takes Scott out for a walk, which is difficult for him now. But Julia has her own busy life, she can’t always be there.

Scott wants to be able to do things by himself, without having to ask for help. Then Dexter comes along. A young and jumpy puppy that will help him in his struggle for independence. But Dexter still has a lot to learn...

Director Annelies Kruk has made several youth documentaries that were screened at Cinekid, such as Nima, A Dress for Anuschka and Father Wanted with a Piggy Nose.

XANDER DE BOER

ANNELIES KRUK

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 15' | 8+

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 25' | 8+

Photography Pierre Rezus Editor Denise Janzée

Photography Nicole Batteké Editor Aart Jan van der Linden

Production company Hollandse Helden, Overleek 29, 1141 PE

Production company Hollandse Helden, Overleek29, 1141 PE

Monnickendam, The Netherlands, +31 (0)622808105,

Monnickendam, The Netherlands, +31 (0)622808105,

mail@hollandsehelden.nl Involved TV station KRO-NCRV,

albert@hollandsehelden.nl Involved TV station KRO-NCRV,

Postbus 200, 1200 AE Hilversum, The Netherlands,

Postbus 200, 1200 AE Hilversum, The Netherlands,

+31 (0)356713911, info@kro-ncrv.nl

+31 (0)356713911, info@kro-ncrv.nl

116

TV

DOKUMENT JUNIOR

SHENEEVA AND CHENELVA

THE WORLD OF KIM AND BOB

SHENEEVA EN CHENELVA

DE WERELD VAN KIM EN BOB

Sheneeva and Chenelva are Siamese twin sisters from Amsterdam. They are 15 years old and fed up with their strict mother who always decides everything for them. They want to make their own choices. They want to choose their own clothes, just like their friends at school. Will they succeed in changing their mother's mind?

Kim is boyish and finds it hard to sit still, Bob is a calm and gentle boy with a glass eye and severe dyslexia. Despite their divergent characters, they completely accept each other and form a pact against the rest of the world; a world in which they do not always feel comfortable. Their children’s games and imagination play an important role in their friendship, but what will remain of this when they grow up?

Youth documentary by director Sanne Rovers about the close friendship between a boy and a girl on the verge of parting with childhood.

Her short youth documentary Wild Lilly was shown at Cinekid in 2012.

LEON BELLAART

SANNE ROVERS

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 15' | 8+

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 15' | 8+

Photography Reinout Steenhuizen Editor Denise JanzĂŠe,

Photography Diderik Evers, Lonneke Worm Editor

Jeannine Kooistra Production company Hollandse Helden,

Patrick Schonewille, Annelotte Medema, Tim Roza Composer

Overleek 29, 1141 PE Monnickendam, The Netherlands,

Tobias Borkert Production company Witfilm,

+31 (0)622808105, mail@hollandsehelden.nl

De Kempenaerstraat11 B, 1051CJ Amsterdam,

Involved TV station KRO-NCRV, Postbus 200,

The Netherlands, +31 (0)206885049, info@witfilm.nl

1200 AE Hilversum, The Netherlands,

Involved TV station KRO-NCRV, Postbus 200,

+31 (0)356713911, info@kro-ncrv.nl

1200 AE Hilversum, The Netherlands, +31 (0)356713911, info@kro-ncrv.nl

117

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

JUST KIDS

CHICKENS FOR KIMARU

SAFIA'S SUMMER

KIPPEN VOOR KIMARU

SAFIA'S ZOMER

Kimaru is ten years old. He lives in a slum in Nairobi with his mother and two sisters. His father has recently died, and his mother can no longer afford her children’s tuition fees. Luckily, Aunt Ursula has come to visit, bringing a box with five chickens for Kimaru. If all goes well, the chickens will soon start laying eggs every day and Kimaru will be able to sell them. The money he earns will be enough to pay his school fees. But rearing chicks is far from easy.

When Safia still lived in Libya, she was locked up in her house for a year; the war made it too dangerous to go out. Now she lives in an asylum.

Although she can go to school again, she still feels locked up. She describes her life as ‘Living in Black’, because she feels it is utterly failed. But in the summer, there is a ray of light: she is allowed to go to a youth camp with other children. This is how her life should look like.

The Just Kids series presents youth documentaries focusing on children's rights. Director Anne van Campenhout made several documentaries in Africa. Chickens for Kimaru is a documentary that helps children understand the privilege of going to school. Education is the main key to combatting the injustice called poverty.

Just Kids is a series of youth documentaries about children's rights. It gives children a voice by making them tell their individual stories. Children that touch our hearts, give us hope, let us laugh and inspire us to take action and defend the rights of people around us. Last year, Just Kids was proclaimed the winner of the Golden Kinderkast Jury Award.

ANNE VAN CAMPENHOUT

ELS VAN DRIEL

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 20' | 8+

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 15' | 6+

Production company + Involved TV station EO/IKONdocs,

Editor Bjorn Mentink Production company + Involved TV

Postbus 21000, 1202 BA Hilversum, The Netherlands,

station EO/IKONdocs, Postbus 21000, 1202 BA Hilversum,

+31 (0)356474747, communicatie@eo.nl

The Netherlands, +31 (0)356474747, communicatie@eo.nl

118

TV

PITCH & PLUG

WAR CHILD KIDSCLUB VLOG TUTORIAL

IMC WEEKENDSCHOOL FILMS

WAR CHILD KIDSCLUB VLOGTUTORIAL MET BRITT SCHOLTE

The War Child Kids Club vloggers host a vlogging tutorial, explaining how to make a vlog and reach as many people as possible. Next, the vloggers and participants jointly put this into practice! Experience is the best teacher. The tutorial also pays attention to editing vlogs. The participants are sent the vlog and a list of tips & tricks via email.

Première of the documentaries that pupils of the IMC Weekend School made with the theme 'me and the world around me'. In the Film course, they learn everything it takes to make a documentary. Coached by professionals from the film and documentary industry, they directed and shot their own film.

War Child has one main goal: help as many children as possible who have to grow up in or directly after a war. War Child also considers it vital that Dutch children develop a critical understanding of the world around them. For this reason, the War Child Kids Club was founded, offering all sorts of activities. For example, the vloggers set out with their cameras to shoot remarkable videos.

The IMC Weekend School was founded in 1998.

It is a school for supplemental education for motivated youngsters in ten neighbourhoods in seven big Dutch cities. For three years, on around eighty Sundays, children aged 10 to 14 get acquainted with passionate professionals from all sorts of film disciplines. These professionals make the youngsters experience what their work entails.

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 50' | 10+

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 20' | 9+

Production company War Child, Helmholtzstraat61 G,

Production company IMC Weekendschool, Strawinskylaan

1098 LE Amsterdam, The Netherlands,

719, 1077 XX Amsterdam, The Netherlands,

+31 (0)204227777, info@warchild.nl

+31 (0)202582700, info@weekendschool.nl / Firekids Filmproductions NL / Eye Film Instituut Nederland, +31 (0)205891400, info@eyefilm.nl / Cinekid, Asterweg 20 G2, 1031 HN Amsterdam, The Netherlands, +31 (0)20 531 7890, info@cinekid.nl

119

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

SHORTS BY KIDS

VLOGTUTORIAL: NIEK ROOZEN VLOGGEN MET NIEK ROOZEN

Prior to the festival, Cinekid, the TV station Zapp Echt Gebeurd and kids’ newspaper Kidsweek called on children between 9 and 14 who make their own videos to submit a film about this year’s Cinekid theme: me and the world around me. Professionals from Dutch Children’s TV will talk in detail about what struck them in the submitted films. The best video wins a Go Pro camera.

Children get more and easier access to the means required to make films and are super-fast at picking up new technologies. At an ever lower age, children reveal themselves as creators and claim their rightful place. With this program, we offer them one.

Niek Roozen boasts over 119,000 followers on his YouTube channel. His vlog gives updates on his life as an actor. He plays a part in the popular scripted reality series The First Years and regularly posts about what happens backstage.

The fiction series The Curse of Riding School Pegasus, which he plays a part in, will celebrate its premiere at this year's festival. Roozen will probably turn this vlog tutorial into a nice show.

YouTubers are the new stars; they boast a large number of followers and fans, they are literally closer to their followers’ worlds, they are eager to learn and curious. More and more cross-pollination and inspiring collaborations and exchanges take place between established parties of linear television and online TV channels.

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 40' | 6+

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 50' | 10+

Cinekid Mirjam Marks

Presenter Niek Roozen

Zapp Echt gebeurd Melanie Delangen

120

TV

PITCH & PLUG / SPECIALS

YOUTUBE TUTORIAL SHOW

CASTING MASTERCLASS XL

Even the most famous YouTube stars once started out with zero followers. They had no idea their channel would become so popular. So, where did they find these thousands of followers? How do you set up a channel? Where do you get your inspiration from, how do you film yourself and how do you turn your vlog into a great video?

Children who want to start their own vlog can pose all these questions to various well-known YouTubers, who explain and show how they went about it.

Many children that act in the Dutch films and TV series that are screened at Cinekid were cast by the well-known casting agency Elskes kast.

This year, this applies to the film Mr. Frog and the opening film Owls and Mice, and to the TV series Alone in the World and Spooky. Owner Elske Falkena has been participating in Cinekid for years now, giving workshops and masterclasses. This year, too. Children will learn what casting is exactly.

How does it work? Why are some children picked and others aren’t? Children can also play a few scenes with experienced child actors.

After last year's success, the YouTube Tutorial Show is back. The well-known vlogger Noah Zeeuw of Ponkers will host this show, in which YouTubers and Instagrammers like Fetching_tigerss, iNowie, Rooy and Chelseahegener will show their vlogs, films and videos and dwell upon the different styles they apply.

Since 1999, Elskes Kast has been a casting agency specialising in casting children (from three years old) and youngsters (until 25 years old) for movies, TV series, commercials, music videos and stage productions.

MICHEL PRUIJSERS, MIRJAM MARKS

ELSKE FALKENA

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 80' | 10+

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 50' | 9+

Production company Onlane, Leidsestraat 32b,

Production company Elskes Kast,

1017 PB Amsterdam, The Netherlands,

Jacob van Lennepkade 227 A, 1054 ZR Amsterdam,

+31 (0)206261400, info@onlane.nl

The Netherlands, +31 (0)204865270, info@elskeskast.nl

121

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

CATS FROM KITTEN LANE

THE FIRST YEARS BRUGKLAS

POESJES

In a giant doll house on 9 Kitten Lane, mother Mimi lives with her four kittens: Django, Kate, Lotty and Patrick. Father Lucas works in Dubai as a mouse hunter. When Mimi leaves for work every day, lazy uncle Baldwin, who lives downstairs, promises to look after his cousins.

If only Mimi knew that Baldwin cares more about a Bloody Mary than he does about his brother’s children. While Baldwin takes another nap, his loyal butler Ed, who is a turtle, has to take care of the kittens. Every evening before going to bed, the kittens watch their own tv show ‘Crazy Pepe’, starring a Mexican hamster. When Ed's working day has come to an end, and the kittens are sound asleep, Ed likes to take the edge off by singing some karaoke. Sinatra is his favourite.

The First Years is a contemporary scripted reality series about the first year of secondary school.

The stories are based on true events, which makes them very recognisable to young viewers.

All parts are played by amateurs and real students. Most scenes are improvised, but scripted to a plot. The combination of these two elements gives The First Years a very real, raw and authentic feel and look.

The First Years wants to inspire young kids at an important and crucial time of their lives.

Children come into a new phase of their lives and everything is changing dramatically. All episodes have a slot length of 20 minutes. In each episode, two short stories are told.

‘Real-life’ children’s series about the adventures of a family of cats.

TIMON MOLL, DAPHNE SCHRIEK, GEERT-JAN VAN MORSELT THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 20' | 6+ NOVA VAN DIJK

Screenwriter Arnout Vallenduuk, Merle Claus

THE NETHERLANDS | 2015 | 12' | 3+

Editor Vincent Manuhuwa, Dolf de Haan, Remco Wiekard

Screenwriter Nova van Dijk, Laura van Dijk

Composer Willem Laseroms, Maarten ten Hove, Windsant

Photography Stephan Polman Production company

Vermeulen Leading actors Belle Zimmerman, Bickel Krabbe,

Stormy Minutes, Sarphatikade 11, 1017 WV Amsterdam,

Sonia Eijken, Edwin Bakker, Birgit Kunstt, May Hollerman,

The Netherlands, +31 (0)205307190, info@stormyminutes.nl

Niek Roozen, Britt Scholte Production company Tuvalu Media,

Involved TV station VPRO, Postbus 11, 1200 JC Hilversum,

Moermanskade111, 1013 BC Amsterdam, The Netherlands,

The Netherlands, +31 (0)882058911, info@vpro.nl

+31 (0)207630063, info@tuvalu.nl Involved TV station VPRO, Postbus 11, 1200 JC Hilversum, The Netherlands, +31 (0)882058911, info@vpro.n

122

TV

SPECIALS

KUNUMI, THE NATIVE THUNDER

LITTLE GIANTS

Werá (14) is a proud Guarani, a member of an Indian minority living in the village of Krukutu on the outskirts of Sao Paulo. The FIFA invited him to represent the indigenous minorities at the World Soccer Championships in Brazil. He decides to use soccer and music to defend his community and make a stand against demarcation.

Some kids just have it; they’re born with a special talent. From day one, they feel the urge to create.

Dance, art, film, writing, design or singing.

There’s no stopping them. Some parents see the arts as a necessary part of their child’s education; some kids have to pave their own way.

This is the first ever Brazilian youth documentary produced in the 15-minute format.

It is part of Minha Vez, a youth documentary project initiated by Free Press Unlimited and supported by National Postcode Lottery Netherlands.

An extraordinary documentary in an extraordinary language: Guarani.

TITAANTJES

In each episode of the Little Giants series, one such passionate young artist is followed during everyday life, at home and school, but especially in their creative processes. In every episode, the young protagonist gets the surprise of a lifetime: a meeting with his or her idol. Little Giants is about true passion for art.

MAURO D'ADDIO DA SILVA

KATINKA DE MAAR, ANNEKE DE LIND VAN

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 15' | 11+

WIJNGAARDEN, NATALIE BRUIJNS

Screenwriter Mauro D'Addio da Silva

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 25' | 8+

Photography Otavio Pupo Editor Fernando Watanabe

Photography Jelle Odé, Reinout Steenhuizen, Jean Counet

Production company Free Press Unlimited,

Editor Anneke de Lind van Wijngaarden, Hinne Brouwer, Daan

Weesperstraat 3, 1018 DN Amsterdam, The Netherlands,

Odufré, Ben Hendriks, Jeroen van den Berk

+31 (0)208000400, info@freepressunlimited.org

Production company Witfilm, De Kempenaerstraat 11B, 1051 CJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands, +31 (0)206885049, info@witfilm.nl Involved TV station VPRO, Postbus 11, 1200 JC Hilversum, The Netherlands, +31 (0)882058911, info@vpro.nl

123

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

MISS ROSE

MONKEY NUTS

JUF ROOS

APENNOTEN

Miss Rose lives in a colourful windmill and loves to sing all day long. She mostly sings popular Dutch nursery rhymes for young and old. Gijs – the boy next door – visits her every day and together they take the children to a fantasy world in which the rhymes come to life. Everything is possible in that beautiful mill on the dyke!

In this popular pre-schoolers’ series, children sing the nicest children's songs together with host Pepijn and musician Bas. Along the way, different musicians learn the children fun facts about various instruments. At Cinekid, a new episode of this show has its premiere and there is a workshop by percussionist Chris Colleye, who teaches children to play the drums.

The series is broadcast daily on RTL Telekids. It combines live action and animation. Every time Miss Rose is about to start her song, she and Gijs pop up in a brightly coloured 2D animated world.

The series has its own YouTube channel and its own app for IOS.

In each episode, the children and Pepijn carry an enormous chest onto the merry and bright stage. After they've sung a song and learned about a new instrument, the chest that is filled with instruments is opened. Together, they play another song.

FRANK JAN HORST

JAN GITSELS | THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 10' | 4+

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 5' | 3+

Production company + Involved TV station KRO-NCRV,

Leading actors Melissa Drost, Jörgen Scholtens

Postbus 200, 1200 AE Hilversum, The Netherlands,

Production company Blooming Media,

+31 (0)356713911, info@kro-ncrv.nl

Paul van Vlissingenstraat 6 C, 1096 BK Amsterdam,

Presenter Pepijn Gunneweg Composer Bas Fortgens

The Netherlands, +31 (0)208200678, frankjan.horst@bloomingmedia.nl Involved TV station RTL Telekids, Postbus 15016, 1200 TV Hilversum, The Netherlands, +31 (0)356718718, info@rtl.nl

124

TV

SPECIALS

ON STAGE JR.

OUF OF SERVICE

DE VLOER OP JR.

DE BUITENDIENST

On Stage uses the same tried-and-trusted formula as the original On Stage (for grown-ups): actors are given an assignment that they have not prepared for and work together to improvise a story. This time around, the core actors from the original On Stage will play the scenes with surprisingly talented children. Actor/scene leader Leopold Witte sets the scenes, sometimes taken from a child’s everyday life, and other times inspired by unbridled imagination.

The four hosts of Out of Office head out into nature to find answers to some classic ‘Out of Office’ questions. Can you make clothes out of fish skin? Are chickens really dinosaurs? Out of Office is a series that makes you wonder about nature and the way we treat it. Raw, exciting and guaranteed to make you burst out laughing!

After the screening of an as yet unbroadcast episode from the new season, there will be a live improvisation with the audience and the children can put all their questions to the actors. In the MediaLab, there will be a casting session with Elskeskast casting agency, who are looking for young actors for On Stage.

The hosts are alternately given fieldwork. Two of them take an old city bus, set out and investigate miscellaneous matters in nature or in the technical realm. They compete with each other, because they can have quite opposing ideas and both want to be proven right. And they make a game out of pulling each other’s legs.

FLOOR MAAS | THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 17' | 9+

INGE TOL, THIJS BRANDSMA

Editor Annelies Scheepens

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 20' | 6+

Production company + Involved TV station Human,

Production company + Involved TV station NTR,

Postbus 135, 1200 AC Hilversum, The Netherlands,

Postbus 29000, 1202 MA Hilversum, The Netherlands,

+31 (0)882058020, informatie@human.nl

+31 (0)887799817, info@ntr.nl

125

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

REMI, NOBODY'S BOY

RUSTY

ALLEEN OP DE WERELD

RINTJE

The classical story of the orphan Remi (13) and his incredible journey to find his family.

Remi is a foundling; his adoptive mother Betty found him left behind in a supermarket when he was just a baby. When Betty’s husband returns from work overseas, he is not happy to find Remi.

He decides there is no space for two men in the house and drops the boy at a gas station.

Remi is found for the second time in his life – this time by Vitalis and his pack of traveling circus animals. Little does he know that this is just the start of a great adventure.

Rintje is a puppy dog who discovers the world the same way a child does, which makes him recognizable, sweet and touching. Rintje loves to have adventures and can be naughty at times. He goes to school for the first time, celebrates his birthday, has a loose tooth, stays over at granny’s and gets his first injection. Children watch one episode and make their own stop-motion film with Rintje and other cardboard characters they've created themselves.

Nobody's Boy is a modern adaptation of the renowned book (1878) by French author Hector Malot.

Based on the illustrations by multiple award winner Sieb Posthuma. The stories about Rintje, written and illustrated by Sieb Posthuma, appeared weekly in NRC Handelsblad for ten years (from 2001 to 2012). Animator Rianne van Duin has been successfully leading the Cinekid pre-schoolers’ workshops for years

MARGIEN ROGAAR, STEVEN WOUTERLOOD

STEVEN DE BEUL, BEN TESSEUR

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 10' | 7+

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 5' | 4+

Screenwriter Mieke de Jong, Anne Hofhuis,

Screenwriter Mieke de Jong Photography Steven Frederickx

Myranda Jongeling Photography Sal Kroonenberg Editor

Editor Ben Tesseur, Steven de Beul Composer

Christine Houbiers, Elsbeth Kasteel Composer Rik Elstgeest

Chrisnanne Wiegel, Jelle Verstraten Leading actors

Leading actors Julian Ras, Bert Luppus, Ricky Koole,

Guy Clemens, Georgina Verbaan, Nasrdin Dchar, Alice

Koen van der Molen Production company Lemming Film,

Reijs, Clairy Polak Production company Lemming Film,

Valschermkade 36 F, 1059 CD Amsterdam, The Netherlands,

Valschermkade 36F, 1059 CD Amsterdam, The Netherlands,

+31 (0)206610424, info@lemmingfilm.com

+31 (0)206610424, info@lemmingfilm.com / A Private View,

Involved TV station VPRO, Postbus 11, 1200 JC Hilversum,

Lange Violettestraat 237, 9000 Gent, Belgium,

The Netherlands, +31 (0)882058911, info@vpro.nl

+32 (0)92401000, info@aprivateview.be Involved TV station AVROTROS, Postbus 2, 1200 JA Hilversum, The Netherlands, +31 (0)356717715, info@avrotros.nl

126

TV

SPECIALS

SOCCER GIRLS

SPANGAS

VOETBALMEISJES

A blistering youth fiction series about multicultural girls’ soccer team FC Athena: ambitious girls, searching for their identity, in relation to one another and to the soccer club that is dominated by boys. They chase their dreams, grow apart, fall in love, accept their loss and jointly fight for victory. Life is not always easy, but fortunately as a member of a soccer team you are never alone.

SpangaS deals with the day-to-day experiences of ten main characters in highschool experiencing all sorts of recognisable, exciting adventures.

The stories mostly revolve around the school and schoolyard, but are sometimes set in the students’ homes. Each student has his or her own unique story line.

A series that different youngsters can relate to and that fits the ambitions of modern-day girls in neo-Dutch society. Years ago, creators Sia Hermanides and Alieke van Saarloos graduated from the HKU University of the Arts Utrecht together with a pilot for the first Dutch series about a lesbian girl. She also played for FC Athena, but in that case it was a hockey club.

SpangaS is a successful crossmedia series that is broadcast daily on weekdays. It has been running since 2007. At Cinekid, five episodes (covering one week) will be shown before they are broadcast.

Two actors from SpangaS will attend the screening and give an acting masterclass in the MediaLab.

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 50' | 9+ Screenwriter Jetske Vulsma, Patrick Limpens Photography Jop de Vries Editor Lidewij Martens, Ceciel Jacobs,

SIA HERMANIDES, ALIEKE SAARLOOS THE NETHERLANDS | 2015 | 25' | 12+

Tessa van der Bie, Diana Sno, Brian de Vore,

Production company BosBros BV, Arie Biemondstraat 111,

Karen van den Ende, Gerben Hetebrij, Arzu Kokeng

1054 PD Amsterdam, The Netherlands, +31 (0)205244030,

Leading actors Stephanie van Eer, Iris van Loen, Timo Wils, Sia

receptie@bosbros.com Involved TV station AVROTROS,

Cyrroes, Joe Sinduhije, Tara Hetharia, Bruno Prent Production

Postbus 2, 1200 JA Hilversum, The Netherlands,

company NL Film, Johannes Vermeerstraat 55, 1071 DM

+31 (0)356717715, info@avrotros.nl

Amsterdam, The Netherlands, +31 (0)205747626, info@nlfilm.tv Involved TV-station KRO-NCRV, Postbus 200, 1200 AE Hilversum, The Netherlands, +31 (0)356713911, info@kro-ncrv.nl

127

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

THE YOUNG CHEFS

WADADA AWARDS

JONGE GARDE

“Jonge Garde” is an exclusive cooking and catering course at a beautiful location somewhere in the Netherlands. A select group of students is prepped here to take steps towards a successful life in the restaurant business. The students live at the boarding school 24/7. They live here to make their dream of becoming a chef come true. And for that dream, they are willing to lead a life far from home. They miss their family, and they truly need the mutual friendship and support they give each other. But will that friendship survive the rising pressure in the second season?

This series is part of Disney Channel’s strategy to also invest, besides in programmes from the US and Europe, in local series that fit in with the viewers’ daily experiences.

Children’s perspectives are rarely reflected in news broadcasts. To involve our youngest generation in the world around them, and enable them to have their say about what the future holds in store, Free Press Unlimited connects and supports broadcasters and producers worldwide to set up local news bulletins for children and youths. The WADADA News for Kids world edition is a weekly update bringing together the best items from around the globe. Every year, the network awards the best items made by their partners. This year, the awards ceremony takes place at Cinekid.

WADADA News for Kids is an international news programme by Free Press Unlimited in cooperation with currently 16 News for Kids programmes worldwide that reaches over 100 million viewers worldwide.

TIMON MOLL, NICOLIEN KOOL

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 105' | 10+

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 12' | 6+

Production company Free Press Unlimited,

Leading actors Manouk Pluis, Ridder van Kooten,

Weesperstraat 3, 1018 DN Amsterdam, The Netherlands,

Hanneleen Claes, Rohan Sukhraj, Amelie Scheepers,

+31 (0)208000400, info@freepressunlimited.org

Mathias T'syen Production company Tuvalu Media, Moermanskkade 111, 1013 BC Amsterdam, The Netherlands, +31 (0)207630063, info@tuvalu.nl Involved TV station Disney Channel, Taurusavenue 9, 2132 LS Hoofddorp, The Netherlands, +31 (0)237993300, info@disney.nl

128

TV

SPECIALS

WILLEM WEVER In Willem Wever, children get answers to their questions. They search for these answers together with the host. In each episode, two issues are addressed. This can be anything, because Willem Wever obviously knows an answer to each and every question. The programme pays a visit to experts, who elucidate their answers as visually as possible. This makes the answer to the question and the explanation clearer to viewers.

The programme often uses tests, which viewers can sometimes imitate at home.

In 2001, the popular educational series that has existed since 1994 won the Cinekid Kinderkast Audience Award. Since its launch, the programme has answered hundreds of questions. Like this one: Why are bananas curved?

RICHARD VAN BOSSTRATEN, MICHIEL BORST THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 25' | 9+ Screenwriter Michiel Borst Editor Erik van der Horst Presenter Ajoued El Miloudi, Tess Milne Production company + Involved TV station KRO-NCRV, Postbus 200, 1200 AE Hilversum, The Netherlands, +31 (0)356713911, info@kro-ncrv.nl

129

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

DISNEY CHANNEL: MAKE YOUR OWN CROCKERY

AAIPET AaiPet is a hilarious theatre production for toddlers without talking, with a lot of music, magic and movement.

Children can make their own unique crockery at the Jonge Garde stand.

DROMOSCOPE ATTACHMENT: THE POETRY MACHINE

Stick your head in the Dromoscope and you’ll be treated to light, sound, smells and visual spectacle.

Send digital messages, images or videos out into the ether with this ‘message-in-a-bottle 2.0’.

EXHIBITIONS

BZT BUS

On the theme day The Impact of Art4Kids there will be exhibitions by young artists in the making all over the site, for example by @fetching_tigerss.

In the BZT Bus, kids can make crazy, messy or tough wishes. Who knows, they might just turn up in the programme one day.

FIEP BUS The Fiep bus will pull up to mark 100 years of Fiep Westendorp. Her illustrations became icons most Dutch children grew up with. Come and draw, do crafts and play with apps from the Cinekid Applab.

CAROUSEL Ride to live, live to ride! Children can enjoy a spin on this Old Dutch carousel, covered in hundreds of white lights.

FOURARMS To mark a brand new season of Ben 10, children can get their photo taken in a Fourarms costume.

CINECHAT A mini-talk show with performances by special guests from the programme.

HAPPYTESSA SCHMINKT How do you want to be made up? Like a ferocious lion, a cool pirate or a beautiful princess?

130

TV

SIDE PROGRAMME

READING ALOUD: RUSTY I VITELLONI: CINEMA PICCOLO

There’s a brand new animated series about Rusty, but the books by Sieb Posthuma came first, of course. Want to come listen?

The smallest cinema on earth is back, especially for you! Take your place in the driver’s seat of this bright yellow vehicle!

RHYTHM SOULDJAZ There’s always a good vibe around this hip-hop crew! They will present a spectacular performance and a crew battle.

KUNSTBENDE PRESENTS TALENT This bus is also a stage where young talent can show off.

SILENT DISCO: STORIES TO LISTEN TO Listen to the well-known First Times by Doctor Corrie or get inspired by a 1Minute Nature.

THE MAGIC TABLE Interactive variant on the shadow play that invites visitors to create their own stories and see these brought to life on the screen.

STREET SOCCER Learn some neat street soccer tricks from Rocky, from BNN’s The Freestyle Games. She is a really great soccer player, so grab your chance!

MOVIEMIXMOZAÏEK

SUPERSTAR VR

Here you can watch the impressive result of the film workshops given by UP! at various refugee centers.

How does it feel to be a young international superstar? Experience one day in your life as a famous DJ in this 360-degree film.

THINK TANK: MINI-CINEMATO

POLYTOPE Dance with this animated sculpture and find out how its shape changes with the way you move!

What will your future be like? Step into the ‘think tank’ of this new TV programme, watch episodes and think along!

131

NEW MEDIA

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

CINEKID MEDIALAB 2016 STORYFACTORY: MACHINES BETWEEN HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE How to build a story: Digital storytelling is moving slowly beyond the screen, while the physical world is becoming definitely part of the digital. This is resulting in new tools and technologies and new tangible interfaces where personal touch is key and new interactions are migrating from the narrative to the experience.

PAULIEN DRESSCHER

The MediaLab – a hands-on and interactive exposition for kids at the crossroads of media technologies, art and science – is a place where the worlds of traditional and emerging media converge. Located in a 1,200 m2 industrial space called the Zuiveringshal, for 10 days the MediaLab is a place where more than 10, 000 visitors find their way to more than 50 different innovative, challenging, original and highquality games, interactive installations, apps, performances, prototypes, experiments and workshops developed by an international group of young talent, acclaimed artists, students, developers and technologists. This year, we are proud to announce that we are working with the students from London-based The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL and its Interactive Architecture Lab together with founder, director and artist Ruairi Glynn (Golem, Eye Catcher), New York-based artist from Taiwan Yu-Ting Feng (Dear Deer) and famous experimental design collective Marshmallow Laser Feast (TREEHUGGER CHAPTER 01: WAWONA), among others. While the MediaLab is aimed primarily at a young audience, its content is far from

childish: every year, a growing group of parents, international educators, decision-makers, politicians, researchers and media professionals visit the MediaLab and consider it a place where they can get tuned in to the latest possibilities of creative image culture, art, science and technology.

Every year, the MediaLab focuses on new works straight from research labs, artists’ studios and universities. The installations and games demonstrate rich, profound ideas from the worlds of art and technology, while at the same time the workshops show the ‘back ends’ to these installations: visitors can experience the technologies and vocabularies behind them: robot programming, filmmaking and building interactive stories are included in the programme. Meanwhile, we aim to peek into the future: what’s out there for us and our young audiences, and how can we relate to and

134

NEW MEDIA

INTRODUCTION

reflect on this in a meaningful way? At the same time, the MediaLab looks for a balance between cultural technologies, physical interaction and wonder as starting points for media literacy, media resistance, tinkering and an active approach to technology in general. The target group is not just engaged in new experiences, but also invited to participate, as producers of media technologies and in critical reflection.

Storyfactory As we recuperate from the last transmedia storytelling hype (about 7 years ago), today we see on the one hand how the rise of Virtual Reality (VR) is challenging us to develop new vocabularies and audiences, while on the other the networked physical world is claiming an increasingly influential role in our relationships to technology. Under the title Storyfactory: Machines Between Hardware and Software, this year the MediaLab is looking into these new forms of storytelling and investigating the new appearances, tangible interfaces, new relations and stories that are emerging from these developments. The MediaLab will be crowded with tools – objects and digital entities that give space to a tangible world where we can experience amazing new stories and witness their construction, while the relationship between the online and the offline will be questioned.

Within this scheme, several landscapes, surfaces, skins, animal-like objects, playful interactions and mysterious insights address all the senses, balancing their stories between the offline and the online, the physical and the digital. One of the key installations in the MediaLab is TREEHUGGER CHAPTER 01: WAWONA (Marshmallow Laser Feast, UK 2016), an installation commissioned by Cinekid together with STRP (Eindhoven), Southbank

135

Centre (London) and Migrations (Brighton).

Treehugger is a VR application where man and nature, and the physical and the digital, meet.

By using a huge replica model of a giant sequoia tree and a Vive VR headset, we can experience the scale and wonder of what is arguably the largest living individual organism on earth through a representation built in scanned-in and sub-millimeter detail, through a combination of LIDAR and CT scanning. At the other end of the scale, we meet more low-tech, personal imaginations: for example StoryMaker, developed

by Cinekid and AKV|St.Joost (Breda), a workshop where children can act in a green-screen powered, animated visualization of the online.

Or the installation Dear Deer, in which a deer with a writer’s block uses a digitized poemgenerator that uses the personal input from children’s answers to questions collected by an old-fashioned typewriter. Between these contrasting forms of offline/online, low-tech/ high-tech storytelling, we meet a world full of bodies, soft or hardwired, that seduce our senses.

The role of VR in the media landscape these days is both undeniable and unavoidable. There is huge curiosity about this and artists and developers are experimenting with the possibilities this is throwing up for makers and audiences. One of the more philosophical storytelling issues that are arising from VR is the disappearance of the ‘fourth wall’. The VR application called Diorama No.4: The Fernweh Opera (Daniel Ernst, NL 2016) elaborates on this phenomenon. In this work, the opera stage becomes a window to the universe itself. While the singer drifts gently above the stage, surrounded by stars and nebulas, she slowly exceeds this space, transforming into a ‘floating close-up’ while interacting directly with the audience.

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

However, at the same time, the world of the narrative is definitely moving beyond screens and headsets. More and more often, the physical world surrounding us is interactive, connected and kinetic. The Internet of Things has arrived – objects have online representatives and can communicate with each other, and with us.

Objects are therefore no longer just carriers of plain information, but are also now seen as objects that embody emotions and display an alleged autonomy. We can experience this in Golem, for example, developed at the Interactive Architecture Lab at The Bartlett School of Architecture in London. Golem is a lightweight, self-assembled robot that can hobble around with origami skins, using air as its main source of energy and leave us wondering about its nature, motivation and feelings.

But even more objects and creatures seem to be evolving and coming to life in the MediaLab: Anima (Nick Verstand, NL 2015), for example, a luminescent orb that investigates the emotional relationship between humans and artificial entities by using movement, texture, light and sound. Fluid, shimmering patterns flow on its surface, leaving the spectator in silent amazement. Or Fiet (Studio Toer, NL 2015), an illuminated animal-like shape, built out of hundreds of semi-transparent cones, that shivers and shakes when sounds get too loud. This installation makes you feel you are witnessing a new sensitive entity with feelings and emotional expression, vaguely reminding us of the living creatures we are used to: we ‘read’ Fiet as if he or she were alive.

By moving beyond the screen and the obligatory keyboards and joysticks, the physical world is also engaging our senses in a more personal and intense way. We find this, for example, with Tactile Orchestra (Roos Meerman, NL 2015), a fluffy hairy wall that hides a complete orchestra. Visitors are invited to move their fingers through the surface and search through the different levels of the piece. Eyes close and smiles emerge as intense concentration enhances this aural adventure in hearing and touching.

In addition, children can build their own holograms, sharpen their cinematographic skills in the Masterclasses, work with pancake, paper pulp and clay printers in Little Factory, measure and visualize the quality of the air, soil, water or farts in Smart Kids Lab (in collaboration with Waag Society) and play around with several Kickstarter projects, enabling them to explore plug-and-play creative & cultural technologies.

And of course this year we will again be presenting the well-known Cinekid Lions for New Media awards (see page 152), with 12 excellent nominations selected by a jury made up of Astrid Poot (chair), and Anton Damen, Karel Millenaar, Matthijs Dierckx and DouweSjoerd Boschman and to be experienced in the MediaLab as well. But we are also happy to announce a new prize: an international jury, consisting of David Kleeman, Juliet Tzabar, and Gioia Smid, will choose the App of the Year from 12 nominations from the Cinekid AppLab.

136

NEW MEDIA

INTRODUCTION

And for those who just can’t get enough and want to linger in the wonderful world of new media technologies for longer than the 10 days of the festival, the initiative “Enter the Writers” will launch a publication during the Cinekid for Professionals conference in which the works of the MediaLab will be given a broader artistic, social and technological context (page 187). Our partner the Publishing Lab will be working on an online publication, to be found after the festival via this link www.cinekid.nl/professional/unfold/ nl. The writers are Kaweh Moderi, Dirk Vis, Marloeke van der Vlugt, Marian Cousijn and Marijn van der Jagt, with Anna van Leeuwen as editor. Set up in collaboration with Domein voor Kunstkritiek.

Altogether, through the games, installations, workshops and publications, the MediaLab can be experienced as a trip through a new extraterrestrial or ultra-terrestrial world that needs to be discovered with all the senses, populated by new live forms, strange moving skins and mesmerizing landscapes.

Paulien Dresscher Curator and Head of New Media Department Tim Hoogesteger Senior Producer MediaLab Kees Buning Senior Producer Workshops Lies de Jager Assistant Producer MediaLab Siuli Ko Senior Producer Storyfactory and Enter the Writers Donna Schreuter, Cheyenne Broerse Production Assistant Workshops Emma O’Hare Production Manager Cinekid AppLab Nicole Overmars Assistant Cinekid AppLab and Festival Kitlyn van Slijpe Coordinator Cinekid Lion New Media Award

137

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

CINEKID MEDIALAB 23

25

21

24

20

26

22

27

36

12

35 34 33 32 30

29

28

31

1

Love You To Bits

2

Lines

m

DNA Play

3

Prune

n

Sago Mini Friends

4

The Everything Machine

o

5

AppCamp:

Shadowmatic

l

Duckie Deck Homemade Orchestra

a

SPRK Lightning Lab

6

Hindsight

b

Dash & Dot Robots

7

Smart Kids Lab

c

Osmo Coding

8

Little Factory

d

Robo Wunderkind

9

PaperWork

e

iStopMotion

10

Animation Zone

f

A Distant Journey

11

What If…?

g

With a Few Bricks

12

h

Weirdwood Manor

Diorama No.4: The Fernweh Opera

i

Lumino City

j k

Mathie Skycrapers by Tinybop

13

Treehugger

14

Hologram Pyramid

15

Line Wobbler

138

NEW MEDIA

15

18

19

MEDIALAB

11

14

13

17

10

1

16

2 3

12

4

9

6

5

7

16

MU Cartographer

17

Multiversescope

18

HoloLEMS

33

19

Animation Celebration

34

20

Masterclass

35

21

ANIMA

36

22

Dear Deer

23

Eye Catcher

24

Out of Sight

25

Fiet

26

Golem

27

Tactile Orchestra

28

Physical Pong

29

StoryMaker

30

Story Table

31

32

National Waterline Museum: Strong Water

139

LEGO Dimensions Toca Dance Tearaway Unfolded Orchids to Dusk Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

8

Cinekid Lion New Media Nomination Cinekid Lion Applab Award

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

ANIMA Television and the internet have shifted the world of storytelling from oral narration and print to large and small screens and broadcasting systems. However, today’s digital technologies make it possible to shift these stories still further; to take them beyond the screen and turn them into experiences.

Fluid, shimmering patterns flow on the surface of a luminescent orb suspended in space; tones oscillate, filling the room. ANIMA is an immersive interactive installation that investigates the emotional relationship between humans and artificial entities through the use of movement, texture, light and sound. The spherical imagery, which emanates from inside the object, is achieved by using a single projector coupled with a hemispherical lens. Both image and sound are generated in real time, based on the entity’s contingent perception of our presence. ANIMA interprets our behaviour and expresses its character by responding to the viewer with an array of audiovisual expressions. Through this behavioral process, the installation creates the illusion of being an autonomous, sensory entity, thereby challenging us to reflect upon our position in relation to artificially created intelligence and investigate the extent to which an object can feel, acquire agency – or even possess a soul.

Nick Verstand’s installations bring people together by creating approachable environments that inspire curious exploration and social interaction. Berlin-based design studio onformative created the generative fluid projection; Edinburgh-based company Pufferfish created and supplied the spherical projection system. ANIMA has been exhibited at SXSW (USA), Van Gogh Museum, TEDx and ADE (Amsterdam Dance Event).

NICK VERSTAND | THE NETHERLANDS 2014-2016 | ALL AGES Artist Nick Verstand, www.nickverstand.com, studio@nickverstand.com, Instagram @nickverstand Spherical projection hardware Pufferfish Music composition Pandelis Diamantides Software onformative, Dirk Broenink

140

NEW MEDIA

INSTALLATIONS

DEAR DEER Interactivity comes on different levels. Usually, it means the user can choose from a series of preselected actions that have a limited range of effects.

However, in its ultimate form, an interactive work enables the viewer to truly make an imprint on the eventual output. Dear Deer is a work in which we can leave a serious, personal impression on the final work, which we can also take home with us.

Dear Deer invites the user to help a deer to overcome his writer’s block. The viewer sits at an old fashioned typewriter and faces a projection in which s/he sees the deer sitting at his desk.

Facing writer’s block, the unnamed deer asks each person a set of questions, like “What did you have for breakfast?” or “When was the last time you were happy?” Participants reply using a keyboard to type in their responses, which are used to help the deer compose a poem. The input texts are algorithmically transformed into a personal poem that can be read from the screen and is also printed out in front of the visitor. The poems are short, funny and contemplative. Dear Deer is celebrating its Dutch premiere. The installation has been translated into Dutch specially for the MediaLab exhibition.

141

Dear Deer is an ongoing interactive project by Yu-Ting Feng. It has been shown at multiple international art festivals including the MTA Arts for Transit – Poetry in Motion Springfest in New York, Dumbo Arts Festival at Brooklyn and Red House Theater in Taiwan. Yu-Ting’s work as an artist and designer has been featured in New York Times, Taipei Times, AD Week, and many other publications.

YU-TING FENG | TAIWAN | 2014 | 6+ Developer Yu-Ting Feng, www.deardeer.co, deer@deardeer.co

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

DIORAMA NO.4: THE FERNWEH OPERA Since the development of the Oculus Rift in 2012, attention has been focused on the technical and conceptual developments surrounding virtual reality in an unprecedented way. This opens up opportunities for new ways of telling stories and requires that we develop a new vocabulary. With his series of dioramas, Daniel Ernst is a pioneer in this area.

Fernweh Opera is part of The Shoebox Dioramas, a series of interactive 3D animations which allow us to wander around. The series consists of Blocked In; Der Grosse Gottlieb (part of the Cinekid MediaLab in 2014) and Marchland. Fernweh Opera was commissioned by the Dutch Literature Fund and Fund Creative Industries NL for the Frankfürter Buchmesse as part of a series of literary VR works.

In Diorama No.4: The Fernweh Opera language and music play the lead roles. The spectator is drawn into a wonderful, bizarre show right from the heart of the universe. As soon as the spectator puts on the VR headset, s/he finds him/herself seated in a majestic opera house and becomes part of an impossible performance. Instead of a traditional set design, the stage is a window onto the universe itself. Stars, planets and nebulae drift around. The opera singer gently lands in the center of the stage. Once the music starts, she slowly starts to grow, until she is in full close-up from the point of view of the audience. During her performance, her gigantic presence turns from spectator to spectator, providing each of them in turn with a personal experience – an intimate, personal encounter between her and her audience.

Fernweh Opera is, as the title underlines, about the longing for the far away, that what is in the distance.

DANIEL ERNST | THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 5+ Director/interactive illustrator Daniel Ernst, www.theshoeboxdiorama.com, info@theshoeboxdiorama.com Writings/musings Maud Vanhauweart Performer/choreography Annina Gieré Composer Misha Velthuis Arranger Naren Chandavarkar Character modeller Koen Koopman Art installation Catinka Kersten Netwerk code Maarten Brouwer Audio design Nineyards Graphic design libretto Roos Laan German translation Allard van Gent

142

NEW MEDIA

INSTALLATIONS

EYE CATCHER When the digital moves beyond the screen and objects become interactive in a more subtle way, the potential relationships we can have with these objects need to be redefined; sometimes, even the distinction between what is organic and what mechanical is not even so clear.

Eye Catcher investigates the primitive effects of eye (and eye-like) stimuli in a novel, expressive interface whereby emotion-recognition algorithms read viewers’ faces, triggering the animation of a face made up of ferrofluid. Eye Catcher uses a combination of industrial robotics and high-power magnets to make a seemingly inconspicuous frame on a wall magically come to life. As people walk by, they see an unexpected movement out of the corner of their eye. Turning their head, they find an empty frame on the wall appearing to move towards them. As they stop in disbelief, it positions itself to look straight at them. Suddenly from the murky black liquid sitting in the bottom of the frame, two primordial pupils rise up and seem to stare back at the viewer. A hidden pinhole camera in the frame captures the viewer’s facial expressions and responds with a range of emotions crafted from the subtle manipulation of motion cues.

143

Charlie Zhang developed Eye Catcher at the Interactive Architecture Lab, a multidisciplinary studio interested in the behaviour and interaction of things, environments and their inhabitants founded and led by Ruairi Glynn. The installation Golem, also exhibited at the MediaLab, was developed there too.

INTERACTIVE ARCHITECTURE LAB UNITED KINGDOM | 2014 | ALL AGES Production company Interactive Architecture Lab Lead designer Charlie Zhang Lab director Ruairi Glynn The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL Website www.interactivearchitecture.org

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

FIET When objects start to respond to our actions and exhibit behavior that reminds us of living organisms, the distinction between living and non-living matter starts to fade. Objects become charged with emotions and evoke these accordingly. Fiet, an installation that consists mainly of an interactive, wired skin, seems to have adopted reflexes and sounds that remind us of an as yet unknown organism.

Toer is the creative studio of Castor Bours and Wouter Widdershoven. Toer’s passion is to explore the boundaries of product and spatial design and the opportunities thrown up by new interventions. Following on from their fascination with kinetics, they investigate the power of movements and forms and the emotional impact these can have.

Fiet is an interactive, animal-like light object hanging from the ceiling that visualizes the emotional impact of movement. It uses sound sensors to detect changes in volume in its surroundings. When triggered, it shivers and shakes and seems to respond in an emotional way.

The object consists mainly of a skin, built out of hundreds of illuminated, semi-transparent cones.

This emphasizes the motion of the surface: the base points of the cones move closer to each other or further apart as the skin moves. The sculpture becomes stressed when there is a sudden noise, but when it’s quiet and peaceful it moves in a comfortable way. Fiet seems to be alive, causing visitors to experiment with their bodies and voices to find out what responses they can evoke, while questioning the true nature of this object and their relationship to it.

TOER | THE NETHERLANDS | 2013 | 4+ Design/development/production Toer (Castor Bours, Wouter Widdershoven) e-mail@studiotoer.com, www.studiotoer.com

144

NEW MEDIA

INSTALLATIONS

HINDSIGHT Today, our eyes are more and more glued to little screens, or closed off by VR headsets luring us into amazing new worlds made up of pixels and vectors. With this installation, PIPS:lab also asks you to put on a VR headset‌ but to become immersed not in the virtual, but in the real world!

This time, instead of putting the VR headset over our eyes, we put it on backwards. As we enter a dome and move and look around, our point of view changes and all sorts of moving lights, motors and sounds are activated and de-activated. The spectator is the center and activator of a beautiful sound and light show, in which his point of view is crucial. This system is based on the idea of the Internet of Things, a system in which everyday objects are all connected through a network and can exchange information with one another. The network knows of every element and its threedimensional position in space, and objects can be programmed and activated simply by looking at them. Hindsight is a prototype of a brand new concept, to be further developed later this year.

The MediaLab functions as a testing ground for the beta version, and their input will be used.

145

PIPS:lab originated from the dark corners of the Amsterdam underground party scene, and has conquered the theatre, pop and art worlds during the 15 years of their existence. The computer is their mixing tool, with which they blend music, theatre, film and a healthy dose of comedy into absurd media theatre, interactive installations and surprise acts.

PIPS:LAB | THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 Artist PIPS:lab, www.pipslab.org Thanks to Annika Kappner, Blendid, gg-loop, JoĂŤl Heel Phil, Fred Rodrigues, Ubi de Feo, Ohme Dirk

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

HOLOLEMS The Microsoft HoloLens is the first fully self-contained, holographic computer, enabling you to interact with high-definition holograms in your world. The applications for projecting 3D digital elements on top of real-world objects and spaces are limitless.

Goldmund, Wyldebeast & Wunderliebe is a web tech agency based in Amsterdam and Groningen, The Netherlands. Under the label Startup Kid, they organize tech workshops for kids to make them enthusiastic about technology.

In HoloLEMS, Globacore has taken advantage of the headset’s ability to dynamically map the realworld environment and reconstruct 3D digital surfaces on top of it. Inspired by an early 90’s classic video game called Lemmings, HoloLEMS asks you to help guide a bunch of wayward lemmings through the virtual environment, giving them safe passage to the final goal. Along the way, you will be asked to utilize some of the special abilities of these easily-influenced creatures by walking over to them, looking at them, and issuing commands with your own voice!

GLOBACORE | CANADA | 2016 | 13+ Artist Globacore, info@globacore.com, www.globacore.com in collaboration with Goldmund, Wyldebeast & Wunderliebe, www.startupkid.nl

Globacore is an award-winning creative technology company specializing in virtual reality, game dev, multi-touch surfaces and unique human-computer interactions. Based in Toronto, Canada this is the second time Globacore has shown work at Cinekid. In 2013, Globacore’s PaperDude VR won the coveted Cinekid Lion Audience Award for Best New Media Production!

146

NEW MEDIA

INSTALLATIONS

LINE WOBBLER In the rapidly developing field of digital media and games, we are usually overwhelmed by mesmerizing visual spectacle and the latest technological possibilities. However, sometimes less is more.

Simplicity and restriction can challenge the way we think about computer games and introduce new forms of interaction and unusual visual feedback.

Line Wobbler is a one-dimensional custom hardware game as well as an experiment in minimalism in game design, the use of novel input mechanics and the incorporation of physical space into a game. The restriction to a single dimension poses formidable challenges in terms of creating engaging gameplay, artistic direction and technical realization.It works with a wobble controller made out of a steel spring and a five-meter long ultra-bright LED strip display. The game is a dungeon crawler in which the player navigates obstacles and fights enemies through a series of increasingly difficult levels in order to reach the exit. Movement is controlled by bending the wobble controller left and right, while enemies are attacked by flipping the spring. Obstacles such as lava fields, conveyor belts and slopes challenge the players’ navigational skills.

147

Robin Baumgarten is a German indie game developer based in London. Having started out with mobile games, he is now exploring custom hardware games involving unusual sensors, mixed reality and incorporating architecture into games.

Line Wobbler has won several prizes, including the Game Design Award at IndieCade (Los Angeles) and the WTF!? Award and Audience Award at A MAZE (Berlin).

ROBIN BAUMGARTEN | GERMANY | 2015 | 5+ Artist Robin Baumgarten, www.linewobbler.com, robin@aipanic.com

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

MU CARTOGRAPHER Cartography is the study and practice of making maps which combines science, design and technology to communicate spatial information. Although maps are usually representations of reality, they don’t have to be. They also can be representations of your imagination – or even of something that doesn’t exist at all.

The Klondike Collective is a group of friends who make games at the intersection of art and play.

Their work has been shown at A MAZE in Berlin and was presented at the Experimental Gameplay Workshop at the Game Developers’ Conference in San Francisco.

Mu Cartographer is a toy and a game at the same time. While toggling sliders and buttons, the user can discover and shape possible landscapes, changing heights, colors and shapes. The players are free to enjoy these creative aspects without limits. However, while searching through the shapes, colors and curves, the user also explores Mu Cartographer as a game. While browsing, it is possible to find content and unlock hidden treasures and discover new elements for the toy aspect, as well as discover the backstory to the game. The players finally unlock messages that allow them to understand the story of the three explorers of this strange world. The beauty of Mu Cartographer lies in the coexistence of these two aspects, the toy and the game, and how the players wander between these with a reasonable amount of freedom. The ‘Mu’ in the title refers to the lost continent and stands for any mysterious place or space; the ‘Cartographer’ is one of the characters in the game’s story, obsessed with the cartography of a world that doesn’t follow the rules of time and space.

TITOUAN MILLET | FRANCE | 2016 | ALL AGES Artist/designer Titouan Millet, www.titouanm.com, titouan.millet@gmail.com

148

NEW MEDIA

INSTALLATIONS

MULTIVERSESCOPE There is much more than we know of, or can measure, in our universe: out of reach of our telescopes, or too small for our microscopes. Then there is also the possible existence of parallel universes with different particles, powers and scientific rules beyond our perception, which have been a source of inspiration and fascination in art, literature and science.

Multiversescope is an installation that deals with the discrepancy between real and imagined space and the depth of our suspension of disbelief. Using a control panel and a camera, the visitor can pan, zoom and search through an unknown universe inside a metal sphere. The different spaces, power fields and movements are measured and modeled at the same time. The reality within the sphere can be seen as one of the many parallel universes that exist in this world, waiting to be discovered.

This universe is populated by strange structures with organic forms surrounded by dark holes entailing new potential realities, visualized with a combination of camera and real-life augmented reality techniques. At the same time, the Multiversescope can measure the kinds of particles and power that exist in this newly discovered reality.

In order to visualize these, the artist has made a

149

computer model so visitors can investigate these particles in a modeled reality by observing how they move and react to each other.

Tim Demper just graduated from the Fine Art department of the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. While being inspired by biological and scientific phenomena, in his work he elaborates on the visualization of different realities, taking on both the roles of coder and of artist/director.

TIM DEMPER | THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 6+ Fine artist/developer Tim Demper, www.timdemper.com, timdemper@gmail.com Developed at Willem de Kooning Academie

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

OUT OF SIGHT Many aspects of storytelling in Virtual Reality (VR) have not yet been explored. In most projects, we find rendered realities are the focus of the representation, while the creation of fictional animated worlds is underexposed. Another aspect warranting further investigation is how audiences can be involved in dialogue and interior monologue at the same time. Simultaneously, VR gives the opportunity to navigate through multiple storylines from multiple points of view in a single experience. Out of Sight elaborates on such new narrative elements.

Out of Sight was developed for the Dutch Literature Fund and Fund Creative Industries NL in a series of literary VR works by Sara Kolster in close collaboration with Jaap Robben, illustrator Gijs Kast and Zesbaans. Kolster’s work VR Drawing Room, a collaboration with Jan Rothuizen, was awarded the prestigious IDFA Doclab Award for Digital Storytelling in 2015.

SARA KOLSTSER | THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 8+ Dutch title Tafelgeheim Website www.tafelgeheim.nl

Out of Sight is an animated VR experience in which a drawn, animated world uses (and at the same time moves beyond) a virtual world in order to take the audience into the story of nine-year-old Lena and her father. While Lena is busy dissecting an owl pellet, her father is being consumed by memories. They talk to each other, but at the same time are more occupied with themselves. Apart yet together, they both think about the same thing at the same time: the death of their sister and daughter, Lisa. The spectator can take the seat of either the father or the daughter; this choice determines the perspective from which the story is told.

Script Jaap Robben Art work Gijs Kast Technical lead Harm van de Ven Technical realisation Zesbaans Animation Mitchel Tan, Harm van de Ven Modeling Péter Illés, Max Italiaander, Mitchel Tan Programming Juul Spee, Harm van de Ven Voices Sophie Hertzberger, Joshua Rubin Music/sound composition Roald van Oosten Assistants Nikki van Sprundel, Harmen Smit, Marco Mooren Spatial design Rogier Martens Made possible by AFK, Het Vlaams Nederlands Gastlandschap, Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, Ministerie van OC&W Out of Sight was commissioned by the Dutch Foundation for Literature and Fund Creative Industries NL for the Frankfurt Book Fair 2016 where Flanders and the Netherlands are the Guest of Honour.

150

NEW MEDIA

INSTALLATIONS

PHYSICAL PONG Whereas until now it has been more usual for physical games to be translated into digital versions, today we are increasingly seeing the opposite: digital games being translated into more real-world forms of play, with physical objects having to be touched and moved around while players run around in a field.

Thijs Eerens is an independent creative technologist who develops media technology concepts such as YouCube, Pump to Jump and PipeMania. Eerens is one of the artists who regularly shows his work at Cinekid.

Physical Pong is a physical translation of one of the earliest arcade video games called Pong. Originally released by Atari in 1972, Pong was a two-dimensional table tennis game which – as one of the first ever video games – achieved mainstream popularity and helped establish the video game industry.

In the both the original Pong and in Physical Pong, the player has to defeat an opponent by earning a higher score in a simulated game of table-tennis. In the physical version, two teams of two people play against each other. Each team has to collaborate to manipulate the bats by pulling ropes up and down, which in turn activate the ball. The ball is repositioned by 4 motors through a flat, vertical surface using a ‘Zarplotter’ – a resizable drawing and lettering robot that also can be used as a personal rendering machine, and which is quite spectacular to watch at the human scale. All the objects in Physical Pong are illuminated by LED lights, including the highlighting of scores and specific actions.

THIJS EERENS | THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 5+

151

Developer Thijs Eerens, www.thijseerens.com Software Ramon van Bezouw Servo motors Remy Wegman Services Inverse kinematics InterACT International b.v.

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

TACTILE ORCHESTRA Different forms of ‘human-computer communication’ can be investigated as we move beyond the screen, fixed buttons and QWERTY keyboards.

New interfaces that are more modular and flexible and offer scope for detail and a personal touch are making different experiences possible. In Tactile Orchestra, it is even hard to tell where the interface stops and the work itself begins.

phenomena by experimenting with materials and techniques. The studio has won several prizes.

KunstLAB and Studio Roos Meerman founded Art Officials, a creativity consultancy that aims to convert creative experiments into useful applications for society. KunstLAB believes art is the R&D department of society.

Tactile Orchestra is an installation that works with smart textiles and allows a musical composition consisting of the various instruments of the Zapp4 string quartet and electronics by artist Jan Bang to be discovered. By touching the soft, fluffy fabric on a wall with both hands, the installation is activated, bit by bit. As the user strokes, the piece opens up and s/he can discover and explore different levels that seem to be hidden in the wall. Anyone can bring this orchestra to life and conduct it using the intensity and tempo of your own touch. This ‘instrument’ can be played individually or in collaboration with others to jointly unleash the full composition with all its different tones and sounds. Textile Orchestra connects people and brings them together.

KUNSTLAB ARNHEM, STUDIO ROOS MEERMAN THE NETHERLANDS | 2014 | ALL AGES Artist KunstLAB Arnhem, Studio Roos Meerman in co-production with Oddstream Music ‘String Quartet #5’- Zapp4, Jan Bang Thanks to November Music, Bimhuis Amsterdam Website www.roosmeerman.com Contact stefanie@kunstlabarnhem.nl

Textile Orchestra is a collaboration between KunstLAB and Studio Roos Meerman. In her laboratory, Roos Meerman researches the influence of the mechanical manipulation of natural

152

NEW MEDIA

INSTALLATIONS

TREEHUGGER CHAPTER 01: WAWONA Virtual reality offers us new ways of telling stories and engaging audiences. New languages and interaction models can arise thanks to the use of new and more traditional tools. Commissioned by Cinekid, STRP, Southbank Centre and Migrations, Marshmallow Laser Feast has developed an entirely new experience aimed at reconnecting humans to nature and shifting mindsets from consumerism to conservation.

CT scanning creates a VR experience that distorts space and time and makes the invisible visible.

If the real tree is damaged, Treehugger becomes a digital fossil.

Using a huge replica of a giant sequoia tree and a Vive VR headset, Treehugger allows people to experience the scale and wonder of one of the largest trees on earth. The longer the hug, the deeper we drift into a hidden world just beyond the limits of our senses. Those who hug hard enough can explore the tree’s bark, fungi and moss in amazing detail. As they push deeper into the tree’s hidden inner structure, they’re rewarded with details that are usually beyond the limits of human eyes.

Grooves in the bark become giant cliffs; pine cones feel like the Sydney Opera house. Look down and get vertigo; look up and experience the wonder of complex energy flows reaching high into the uppermost branches. The project is rooted in scientific research and the latest 3D imaging techniques. A combination of LIDAR, white light and

153

Treehugger is the brainchild of Marshmallow Laser Feast, a London-based creative design studio working at the intersection of technology, art and science and always looking to create ground-breaking experiences that immerse and amaze in completely unexpected ways.

MARSHMALLOW LASER FEAST UNITED KINGDOM | 2016 | 6+ Concept Marshmallow Laser Feast , www.marshmallowlaserfeast.com Direction Barnaby Steel, Ersin Han Ersin Collaborating artist Natan Sinigaglia Executive producer Eleanor Whitley Senior producer Mike Jones Sonic artist Mileece I’Anson Commissioned by Cinekid, Southbank Centre, STRP and Migrations.

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

DASH & DOT ROBOTS Physical objects are becoming more and more a part of the digital world, and so of our daily surroundings. In order to have agency over these programmable objects, it is important to understand how they work. Coding is key. Fortunately, we are seeing an increase in interesting educational and cool tools that make coding fun and simple.

Wonder Workshop is a company that builds coding languages uniquely designed for kids aged 6 and up, putting the power of play in their hands. While playing, kids master the language by transforming the characters and robots into ready-to-play pals with code.

Through the programmable robots Dash and Dot, children can learn the fundamental processes of this language of the future. Topics such as creative problem solving, mathematics and algorithms or making music – the options are endless. The robots seem simple, but once they are activated they turn out to be fairly complicated.

Dash has wheels to move around and has a pretty versatile range of movements; Dot is fixed. These robots can be controlled by children completely independently and can be programmed through four free coding apps. Each robot has its own characteristics: Dash responds to voice, navigating objects, dancing and singing. Dot comes with several games and is a companion robot who enables more complex interactions with and

by Dash. Using Wonder, Blockly and other apps it is possible to create new behaviours for Dash, and with Dot you get to see how these games are created. It is also possible to make over a hundred more of your own games. The robots can also be personalized with various accessories.

TOOLS FOR TALENTS, WONDER WORKSHOP UNITED STATES | 2015 | 4+ | IOS | ANDROID Production company Tools for Talents, Vlotlaan 324, 2681 TV Monster, The Netherlands, +31 646382856, info@toolsfortalents.com, www.toolsfortalents.com; Wonder Workshop, www.makewonder.com

154

NEW MEDIA

NEW MEDIA AWARD

THE EVERYTHING MACHINE For many modern kids, iPads and mobile phones, toys, media centres and other tools are becoming ever easier to use. At the same time, it is getting increasingly difficult to understand how all these toys and devices work. They are closed systems, impenetrable, locked away from tinkering fingers.

But it’s important children still have agency over their own devices. Playful experimentation is crucial for understanding.

Tinybop is a prizewinning app studio where designers, artists and developers work together to make digital toys that foster the curiosity of kids and encourage them to learn by playing. The Everything Machine was selected by Apple as one of the 10 Best Apps of 2015.

TINYBOP INC. | UNITED STATES | 2016 | 8+ | IOS

The app Everything Machine is one way of fulfilling this need: it turns an iPhone or an iPad insideout, allowing kids access to all the sensors and tools inside and presenting these as ‘playthings’.

Basically, The Everything Machine is a visual programming iOS app. Kids can invent and create anything they can imagine using the tools and sensors in the iPhone or iPad. From here, children can begin to understand the fundamentals of physical programming. Many of the decisions made about this app, from the content to its UX behaviour, were driven by ongoing conversations with children about what they want to do and make. Children can create something as simple as a light switch or as complex as a kaleidoscope, a voice disguiser, a stop-motion camera or a cookie thief catcher.

155

Production company Tinybop Inc., www.tinybop.com

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

LEGO DIMENSIONS As we see the digital become more and more grounded in the physical, sometimes the physical looks beyond its borders and explores the online on its own terms. At the same time, the digital environment is also able to cross other borders, meaning convergences can take place between different story worlds.

TT Games was established in 2005 through the merger of games publisher Giant Interactive and developer Traveller’s Tales. The group has since grown to include the games development studio TT Fusion and TV company TT Animation. In 2007, TT Games was acquired by Warner Bros.

With LEGO Dimensions, users have to literally build and play at the same time. They have to construct and re-assemble vehicles and gadgets in order to use them right away in the gaming worlds of their favourite heroes. In this game, a mysterious, strong vortex appears in several story worlds at the same time, causing different characters to be dragged along. In order to save their friends, the main characters Batman, Gandalf and Wyldstyle bravely leap into the vortex, where they soon find themselves in a battle for the fate of all LEGO-mankind. Users can travel through unexpected environments and collaborate with several characters from all the different worlds in order to defeat the evil lord Vortech. In line with the LEGO series from TT, this game has a low level of difficulty, so kids can handle it easily. However, there is enough humour and slapstick to make it attractive for parents to join in and experience the gameplay together with their kids.

TT STUDIOS | THE NETHERLANDS 2015 | 7+ | XBOX ONE | XBOX 360 PLAYSTATION 4 | PLAYSTATION 3 | WII U Production company TT Studios, www.ttgames.com Publisher Warner Bros, Piet Heinkade 173, 1019 GM Amsterdam, The Netherlands, +31 206802300, www. warnerbros.com

156

NEW MEDIA

NEW MEDIA AWARD

LINES Sometimes you meet a game that reminds you of the fact that some games can do so much more for your state of mind than the usual puzzle, shooter or action game. Minimalistic zen games can be a nice change of habit, can calm the senses and make you slow down, which sometimes is a good thing.

Lines is just such an abstract, beautiful game. It has one simple goal: place or remove dots to initiate a race between the colour points, which fill up a drawing. The colour that dominates the drawing wins that stage. Altogether, the app has more than 250 levels, divided between five different game modes: Point, Eraser, Rope, Knife and Mix. Lines is the perfect game to play while commuting or during other short spells of downtime. Lines offers a delicate tension between waiting and deciding, and between your own decisions and the specifics of the game. The game is accompanied by several sound effects and a tranquil piano soundtrack that helps you relax. Lines is made in GameMaker Studio, a free, simple programme that enables everybody – even children – to make games in an easy way.

157

Gamious is a young, ambitious game developer company based in Haarlem, the Netherlands, that creates original and accessible games featuring pure gameplay. They either self-publish, work with publishers, or use a mix in order to get their games onto the right platforms. The small team behind Lines is organized based on shared revenues: everybody contributes to the risks and shares the profits. Lines won the Best Casual Entertainment Game at the 2015 Dutch Game Awards.

GAMIOUS | THE NETHERLANDS 2015 | ALL AGES | IOS Developer Gamious, Stationsplein 116, 2011 LN Haarlem, The Netherlands, info@gamious.com, www.gamious.com Concept/producer Jos Bouman Programming Erik Leppen Game design Jos Bouman, Erik Leppen Graphics Jan-Maarten Nachtegeller Sound effects Arjen Schut Music Jan Jaap Doeven Community/PR Aryeh Loeb

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

LOVE YOU TO BITS Some games go beyond winning and losing, beyond points and puzzles; these are more narrative-based, and appeal to the imagination. They look for ways to address dreams and hopes in a playful, engaging way.

Love You To Bits is a wordless and cute point-andclick sci-fi adventure puzzle dealing with space travel and love: beautiful, funny and extremely well executed. In the game, you help Kosmo – a clumsy, rookie space explorer in search of Nova, his robot girlfriend. After a fatal accident, all of Nova’s pieces got scattered in outer space. So now Kosmo wants to retrieve all Nova’s bits, rebuild her, and get back together with her. In the quest to help Kosmo, players explore the strangest worlds and planets full of fantastic aliens, space-time puzzles and hidden objects to collect. As the player completes the levels, s/he will discover Kosmo and Nova’s heart-breaking love story while outsmarting dozens of bizarre creatures and aliens from all around the universe. Playing Love You To Bits is a thrilling love story for everyone: pure visual storytelling with stylized visuals and a hair-raising soundtrack.

Thief, developed by 5Ants and published by Rovio.

Since its launch, Love You to Bits has won and been a finalist in various international awards including Indie Plus, IMGA, Gamelab and 3DWire.

(There is a second nomination that combines love and space, namely Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime, see below.)

ALIKE STUDIO | SPAIN | 2016 | 8+ | IOS Production company Alike Studio, info@alikestudio.com, www.alikestudio.com; Pati.io, enric@pati.io

Love You to Bits is the result of a collaboration between Alike Studio and Pati.io, two young studios based in Barcelona, Spain. The team is made up of key members of the award-winning Tiny

158

NEW MEDIA

NEW MEDIA AWARD

LOVERS IN A DANGEROUS SPACETIME The second title in this series of nominations concerning love and space, alongside Love You to Bits. This is now officially a theme! However, Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime basically focusses on working together.

In this thrilling 1-to-4-player couch co-op adventure, the players explore a neon galaxy in their personal battleship. Only through teamwork is it possible to triumph over the evil forces of Anti-Love, rescue kidnapped space bunnies and avoid demise. Deep space is a dangerous place, but luckily as players we don’t have to face it alone. Together with the co-pilot, we fly a circular spaceship, lined with various terminals, on a rescue mission through asteroid belts, space stations and other confined environments. Each terminal serves a different function. The basic ship has turrets in all four cardinal directions, a station that lets you rotate a projectile-blocking shield around your ship, a ‘super weapon’ with a long recharge, a pilot’s chair and, most amusingly, a map terminal you have to use periodically to get your bearings.

Based in Toronto, Canada, Asteroid Base is an independent video game studio founded by three

159

friends – an illustrator, an animator and a particle physicist. Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime was the first commercial release and has been nominated for many awards and accolades, including three BAFTAs, an IGF award and an SXSW Gaming award. It was built in Unity to achieve cross-compatibility and for easier launch on PC, Mac, Xbox One and PS4.

ASTEROID BASE CANADA | 2015 | 7+ | XBOX | PS4 | PC Production company Asteroid Base, info@asteroidbase.com, www.asteroidbase.com Producer Jamie Tucker Art director Matt Hammill Technical director Adam Winkels

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

NATIONAL WATERLINE MUSEUM: STRONG WATER Sometimes it is not a single application that is nominated for the Cinekid Lion, but rather a whole exhibition that combines a multitude of technologies, forms, ideas and collaborations in order to convey the overall narrative.

Strong Water is a permanent exhibition in the National Waterline Museum at Fort bij Vechten, telling the story of 300 years of Dutch water management and exploring the operation and history of the old and new Dutch Water Lines. It is a multi-media, interactive experience with several games, films, animations and talking heads projected onto felt puppet sculptures that address the visitor, and even includes a virtual reality parachute jump that allows the Dutch Water Fronts to be experienced from above (only this part will be on display in the MediaLab). While walking through the museum, an interactive wrist band brings everything to life. The exhibition is not only suitable for all ages, but also challenges young and old alike. Technology, storytelling and architecture are put to use in a smart, profound way during a 2-hour visit.

motivation to develop. Platvorm is a multidisciplinary design studio specialized in exhibitions for museums and visitors centres. Duinzand is a narrative-centred studio for content development and realization of audio-visual productions for museums. IJsfontein has previously been nominated for and won the Cinekid New Media Lion.

IJSFONTEIN | THE NETHERLANDS 2015 | ALL AGES | INSTALLATION Production company IJsfontein, Kattenburgerstraat 7, Pand 024, 1018 JA Amsterdam, The Netherlands, +31 203300111, info@ijsfontein.nl, www.ijsfontein.nl; Platvorm, Silodam 182, 1013 AS Amsterdam, The Netherlands, +31 205304181, info@platvorm.nl, www.platvorm.nl; Duinzand, Jan Luijkenstraat 46-2, 1071 CR Amsterdam, The Netherlands, +31 654315548, info@duinzand.nl, www.duinzand.nl; Waterliniemuseum, Achterdijk 23, Bunnik, +31 306565285, info@waterliniemuseum.nl, www.waterliniemuseum.nl

Strong Water was made by exhibition developers Platvorm and Duinzand and interactive studio IJsfontein. IJsfontein develops and designs digital learning through play from the conviction that every person is curious and has an intrinsic

160

NEW MEDIA

NEW MEDIA AWARD

ORCHIDS TO DUSK As we have seen, a game can be as serious, disturbing and contemplative as a book or a film.

These kinds of game experiences broaden the horizons of game developers and players at the same time. They can be the opposite of everything we are used to, which can be discomforting, but also insightful and poetic.

Orchids to Dusk is a short, contemplative wandering experience about an astronaut who is stranded on an alien planet, with just a few minutes left to live. The player can spend this time wandering the calm landscape, exploring its scattered forests and occasionally encountering another unfortunate astronaut’s long-dead body.

However, you could also chose to stop a while and contemplate the scenery; it will start to come to life around you. Alien creatures sprout and circle you peacefully. As you keep waiting, you will be given the opportunity to surrender to the planet, remove your helmet, and embrace death on your own terms. Then the astronaut’s body collapses and serves as a new seed for alien plants to grow from, giving birth to another forest. Every player’s endgame is an additional element for the next player to stumble upon and explore. The game navigates notions of acceptance and legacy, and explores asynchronous multiplayer dynamics.

161

Pol Clarissou is a young developer and artist from the French Klondike collective. He likes to experiment with games as a medium, and plays with the tools and processes of digital arts. Orchids to Dusk was nominated by the Independent Games Festival for Best Student Film and for the Nuevo Award.

POL CLARISSOU | FRANCE 2015 | ALL AGES | PC | MAC | LINUX Artist Pol Clarissou, www.polclarissou.com Financial/creative support KO_OP Soundtrack/sound design Ramsey Kharroubi

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

PRUNE Today, there is a growing group of makers and artists using apps as a canvas. Instead of being interested in growth hacking, customer acquisition and viral hooks, their focus is on experimenting with medium-specific qualities, new forms of communication and interactive aesthetics.

Joel McDonald is an independent game developer.

He spent 15 months finishing this project. Before Prune, McDonald used to build shooter games and worked at Raven Software. Last year, Prune was Apple’s iPad Game of the Year and TIME Magazine’s Game of the Year.

Prune is a minimalist game and therefore throws out many of the standard conventions seen in other mobile games. It does away with free-toplay, with ads, with currencies, and with gold stars. Instead, it’s just you and the trees – a meditation on what matters in life. Prune is a zenlike game about the beauty and joy of cultivation; a love letter to trees. As a mobile puzzle game, it focuses on one simple thing: pruning tree branches. The game has several chapters, with about 12 levels in each. In every level, you have to grow a tree with a swipe of the finger, then shape it properly so that it reaches the sunlight while avoiding the dangerous shadows in the forsaken, hostile surroundings. In this game, players can bring life to a forgotten landscape and uncover a story hidden deep beneath the soil. The game starts out easy enough, but soon the player starts to venture out into a hazardous world, encountering many dangers along the way.

JOEL MCDONALD | UNITED STATES 2015 | ALL AGES | IOS | ANDROID | WINDOWS Artist Joel McDonald Composer/music Kyle Preston

162

NEW MEDIA

NEW MEDIA AWARD

STORY TABLE More and more often, we are seeing digital setups being incorporated into the public space: museums, hospitals, waiting rooms and public libraries are using new media tools to enhance their stories, convey information or add value to visitors’ experiences.

engage their young audiences. Studio Kloek has previously been nominated for the Cinekid Lion, namely for Joost en de Reuzenkriebel (2007) and The Crazy Zoo (2013). They also won the Gouden Apenstaart award and a Media Ukkie Award for the website of Dutch broadcaster KRO.

Story Table is part of an exhibition about national celebrations in different cultures. At the Story Table, a few people can – in collaboration and using animation, Playmobil and their own voices – re-enact a celebratory story from another culture.

The stories are linear and the players are directed by animated instructions. When the animation pauses, the play leader can move through a touchpanel to the next scene. Each re-enactment will be recorded and uploaded to YouTube where it can be viewed using a code. The goal of the Story Table is to activate as many people as possible and involve them in the different stories in the world.

The setup is therefore simple and easy to use. A computer, two screens, a webcam and microphone is all you need.

Story Table is made by Studio Kloek. They make installations for museums, but also apps and websites for children. They aim at funny, narrative, educational and playful applications that

163

STUDIO KLOEK | THE NETHERLANDS 2015 | 5+ | INSTALLATION Production company Studio Kloek, Zomerhofstraat 76-90, 3032 CM Rotterdam, +31 615171719, martijn@studiokloek. nl, www.studiokloek.nl; Nederlands Openluchtmuseum, Hoeferlaan 4, 6816 SG Arnhem, +31 263576111, info@openluchtmuseum.nl, www.openluchtmuseum.nl Concept/artwork/code Studio Kloek Project leader/educator Gitta Paans Hardware technician Joost Dekkers

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

TEARAWAY UNFOLDED TM Alongside the flashy, even slick, images and sci-fi vocabulary often used in app country, every now and then a game comes along that tries a more non-digital look. Often, this means devoting a huge amount of cutting-edge technology and time to achieving a very specific, personal style. In this case, the game world looks, sounds and reacts like a real world made entirely out of paper.

Tearaway is built by Media Molecule, a video game development studio based in Guilford, UK, and a proud member of the PlayStation Worldwide Studios. They are the creators of multi-award-winning games LittleBigPlanet and LittleBigPlanet 2.

MEDIA MOLECULE | UNITED KINGDOM

Tearaway Unfolded for PlayStation4 is an expanded retelling of the BAFTA Award-winning PlayStation Vita game Tearaway. The adventure has been reimagined as a world inside the TV, with a bigger, more beautiful world to explore and all-new, fourth-wall-busting ways to play. The player has to guide a plucky messenger with a unique message locked away inside their ‘envelope head’ through a vibrant, living papery world. There is choice between two guides, each a bold courier with an expressive personality. While traveling together through this buddy movie-style, rites-ofpassage adventure, the player and the messenger rely on each other’s strengths to overcome perilous challenges, and form a long-lasting bond.

Together, they uncover a magical dimension inspired by half-forgotten stories and folklore and built realistically from paper that unfolds and comes alive before their very eyes; from lost islands and forgotten forests to bottomless canyons and mysterious structures.

2015 | 7+ | PLAYSTATION 4 Development studio Media Molecule, www.mediamolecule.com

164

NEW MEDIA

NEW MEDIA AWARD

TOCA DANCE Some apps are not built with direct and narrow instructions, rules or winning points, but are rather open-ended and open to various forms of use. Children can therefore play, create and imagine at their own pace, and use their personalities to fill in the details.

Toca Dance lets kids explore their creativity through dance and music. No technical skills are required; it’s all about wacky, fun and expressive movement. Inspired by the high-energy styles found in J-pop and dubstep, as well as the quirkiness of creators like Michel Gondry, Toca Boca made Toca Dance so all kids can relate to it.

It’s designed for kids to embrace the simple joy of dance while exploring fun and silliness. Whether they are dance masters or have two left feet, Toca Dance transforms kids into a star choreographer.

They choose up to three dancers to form their team, dress them for the performance and teach them moves with the swipe of a finger. Kids set the stage using special effects and then watch it all unfold. They can even record their music/ dance videos and share them with their friends.

According to executive producer and Toca Boca co-founder Emil Ovemar, everyone can relate to dance and movement. “It doesn’t matter how good you are, that need to move is something born in us all and kids understand.”

165

Toca Boca is a play studio that makes digital toys that help stimulate the imagination. It believes in the power of play. Play for the sake of play, without rules, levels or predetermined outcomes.

Play that unleashes kids’ superpowers. Toca Boca doesn’t use advertising or in-app purchases.

TOCA BOCA | SWEDEN | 2016 | 8+ | IOS Production company Toca Boca, www.tocaboca.com Programmer Victor Guerro, Leo Sundholm Lead artist Emil Berner Artist Rebecca Tell 3D artist Christoffer Svenningsson Lead programmer Lars-Erik Rönnheden Project manager Sara Roos Executive producer Emil Ovemar Play designer Emil Ovemar, Willow Mellbratt

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

ANIMATION CELEBRATION This year, Cinekid celebrates its 30th anniversary.

In order to make this event a real party, Cinekid has invited a couple of special guests. One of these is School of Machines, Making & Make-Believe from Berlin. In this extraordinary workshop, participants learn how to build a party with a proper light show, all by themselves!

ity and storytelling, work a lot with young people and enjoy learning and playing with tools that make our brains and our dreams come to life. Last year Rachel Uwa, the founder of this initiative, came to Cinekid to give a masterclass on Touch Board Technology.

With the help of Makey Makey and openFrameworks, children can build their own interactive cardboard interfaces, with real buttons and sliders, as well as create the input and the output for an actual VJ action set. On a wall filled with different screens in different sizes, children will be able to control the shape, colour and content of the wall, but they can also decide themselves how they want to control all of this. Makey Makey is an invention kit that enables you to find creative ways to interact with computers by using every day objects as a replacement for keyboards and mice. openFrameworks is an open source C++ toolkit designed to assist the creative process by providing a simple and intuitive framework for experimentation. Together they are used to offer maximum freedom of ideas and execution.

SCHOOL OF MACHINES, MAKING & MAKE-BELIEVE | GERMANY | 2016 | 7+ Producer Rachel Uwa Developer Sukanya Aneja Animator Deborah Rodrigues-Moreira Website schoolofma.org Contact hello@schoolofma.orgy

School of Machines, Making & Make-Believe is an organisation dedicated to the imaginative exploration of art, technology, design and human connection. They are passionate about interactiv-

166

NEW MEDIA

WORKSHOPS

ANIMATION ZONE Stop-motion animation is one of the oldest film techniques there is. Over the years, many variations have arisen, but the basic idea has stayed the same: a series of stills with tiny changes which, when shown one after the other, give a more or less smooth moving picture. The possible variations in form and materials are endless, so this is rich material for kids to work with.

Animation Zone was developed more than ten years ago by Michael van Eeden and others, and the workshop is still successfully followed in many different forms both in and outside of the Netherlands. Ineke Goes is an animator for TV programmes like Sesame Street.

At the Animation Zone, children and professional animators can make animated films together.

Every morning is dedicated specially to young children. In these sessions, the children animate with a character specially thought up by Ineke Goes for Cinekid: Sjef the Super Chef. Some may remember Sjef from last year’s festival. Every day, this cook experiences new adventures thought up by the children. In the afternoons, children can animate with Little E-Monsters. This workshop, inspired by the problematic quantities of E-waste being produced, is set deep in the bellies of computers. The bodies of these beings are made up of printed circuits and other computer components.

Children can build their own E-being, which then becomes part of a new story. Tackling this subject in a playful way stimulates consciousness and thinking in creative solutions.

167

CINEKID, INEKE GOES THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 4+ Production Company Cinekid Foundation, Asterweg 20 G2, 1031HN Amsterdam, The Netherlands, +31 20 5317890, info@cinekid.nl, www.cinekid.nl Concept MIEG, MichaĂŤl van Eeden, Roomolenstraat 1, 1015 AN Amsterdam, The Netherlands, mieg@mieg.nl, www.mieg.nl Concept Sjef de SuperChef Ineke Goes, Brederodestraat 75 III, 1054 VB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, info@inekegoes.nl

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

GOLEM Designed and programmable moving objects can be seen as powerful storytelling elements. As people do respond emotionally to physical action, robotic motion can be a tool to communicate and engage with others and to express oneself.

Different forms of locomotion are imaginable, from clumsy to smooth, bipedal or insect-like. In this project students have explored possibilities in mobile structures by investigating various strategies for locomotion.

Students Juncheng Chen, Siyuan Jing, and Lydia Zhou developed Golem Kit at the Interactive Architecture Lab in London, founded and led by Ruairi Glynn. The installation Eye Catcher, also exhibited at the MediaLab, was also developed at the Interactive Architecture Lab.

INTERACTIVE ARCHITECTURE LAB UNITED KINGDOM | 2016 | 7+

The Golem from Jewish folklore is a mythical creature, made from inanimate materials, that magically comes to life. Golem is a reinterpretation of the myth as a collection of construction components, that when assembled into mechanical structures can begin to move and behave like living creatures. Inspired by Theo Jansen’s kinetic mechanisms for the walking machines called ‘Strandbeesten’, Golem is designed as a lightweight, affordable and open source system, using air as the main energy source. Homemade, lowcost air muscle actuators generate movements of their physiological arrangement of structures commands the types of behaviours that emerge.

The Golem Kit (see www.golemkit.org) is a fast prototyping tool for designers and students who seek to research and develop kinetic designs. It provides a wide range of design possibilities and highly accessible tools.

Production Company Interactive Architecture Lab, www.interactivearchitecture.org Lead designers Juncheng Chen, Siyuan Jing, and Lydia Zhou Lab director Ruairi Glynn, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

168

NEW MEDIA

WORKSHOPS

HOLOGRAM PYRAMID There are lots of different ways of projecting objects in 3D. One simple way of doing it is the illusiontechnique known as Pepper’s Ghost. This technique was used to make ghosts appear on stage, and is still used in devices such as Teleprompters. Pepper’s Ghost is also used in museums, amusement parks or to create the illusion of long-deceased performers appearing on stage.

In this workshop, children can use this technique to create their own ‘hologram pyramid’ out of simple materials. The reflection of the pyramid is reflected on the smartphone screen, and looks like a hologram. By making a ‘hologram pyramid’ themselves and trying it out, children can learn how the Pepper’s Ghost technique works. They cut out a piece of plastic into a shape that can be folded into a pyramid. This can then be placed on the screen of a smartphone. If a hologram video is then played, this results in a 3D illusion. In addition to making the hardware, the children can also make the content themselves, to match the format of the hologram pyramid. Recordings can be made in a mini green screen studio, and these can then be watched live on a large version of the hologram pyramid.

169

Dutch Instagram artist Annegien Schilling (of Instagram channel @fetching_tigerss) will create a few nice examples of this Pepper’s Ghost technique. The documentary about Annegien, The Girl of 672K screens in the television programme and she will also be giving masterclasses on Making Instagram photos with Fetching_Tigerss.

CINEKID, FLOORTJE ZONNEVELD THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 7+ Production Company Cinekid Foundation, Asterweg 20 G2, 1031HN Amsterdam, the Netherlands, +31 205317890, info@cinekid.nl, www.cinekid.nl Concept Floortje Zonneveld, www.ijsblink.nl, floortje@ijsblink.nl

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

LITTLE FACTORY A lot of things we throw away can be used to make something new. And this isn’t only good for the environment – it’s also handy and fun. Little Factory is made up of different parts that allow new life to be breathed into waste using old and new technologies. Here, old materials that are no longer wanted are made ready to tell new stories.

CINEKID | THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 7+ Production company Cinekid Foundation, Asterweg 20 G2, 1031HN Amsterdam, The Netherlands,+31 205317890, info@cinekid.nl

In the Netherlands, more and more decision makers are convinced of the fact that we need to reshape our economy into a circular one. In the future, production chains without waste or pollution should be the standard, not the exception.

Little Factory is made up of different parts that allow new life to be breathed into waste using old and new technologies. It helps children to see the potential in what we usually perceive as waste. In spite of all our computers, iPads and screens, we still consume and spill huge quantities of paper.

We immediately throw away half of the plastic we buy. And the amount of electronic products discarded globally has skyrocketed, with 20 to 50 million tonnes generated annually. But recycling these does not have to be left to the big recycling companies; we can do a lot of it ourselves.

Teaming up with several partners such as Ultimaker, Filamaker.eu and Formfutura.com, Cinekid has collected several cool technologies to inspire people and let them try them at home.

170

NEW MEDIA

WORKSHOPS

MASTERCLASSES AND CASTINGS What exactly goes on behind the scenes of film, television and new media productions? Cinekid gives children the chance to find out – and get involved themselves. The Masterclasses are a unique part of the festival that allows children to meet their heroes, get to know more about various aspects of the field and try things out for themselves.

The base for this workshop is a specially set up space that includes a small film set from where acting coach Hidde Simons has for many years coordinated the various programmes and topics.

CINEKID | THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 7+ Production company Cinekid Foundation, Asterweg 20 G2,

During the festival, professionals from all over the world attend the screenings and presentations of their work. Most of them are honoured to share their experience with the young visitors of Cinekid in our very well-visited masterclasses.

The young leading actress of our opening film Owls and Mice, Hiba Ghafry, participated in one of last year's masterclasses. And see where it brought her! Almost every two hours, there is an interesting casting or masterclass. There are casting sessions by various Dutch casting agencies for film and advertising, and in particular for the voices in a new animated film from Universal: Indespicable Me 3 and Smurfs: the Lost Village. There is also a workshop on Scary Sounds, in which children can learn how scary sound effects are made for films. The kids can also learn how the most beautiful Instagram photos are made or listen to well-known YouTube stars talking about how they set up their own channels.

171

1031HN Amsterdam, The Netherlands, +31 205317890, info@cinekid.nl, www.cinekid.nl Concept coaching Hidde Simons, Hidden Ways, +31 204639245, simons@hiddenways.com, www.hiddenways.com Setdressing Behind the Seens, Jamie Sutherland, Gerard Doustraat 103d, 1073 VS Amsterdam, The Netherlands, +31 616043810, behindtheseens@gmail.com

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

PAPERWORK PaperWork is a new workplace dedicated to recycling, design and manufacture. The engine behind the lab is a papier-machĂŠ 3D printer which constantly prints out designs made by children using specially developed 3D design software.

tively. Nou&Herkauw have performed regularly at Cinekid, as well as at the Ajyal Film Festival (Qatar), International Film Festival Rotterdam and Picnic (Amsterdam), among many.

The participants ensure that the whole recycling cycle is passed through, right up to the finishing of the 3D prints. The aim is to recycle paper waste and to transform it into functional, fun designs.

First, paper has to be collected and processed into paper pulp. Once the paste is ready, this is pressed into the cartridges for the 3D printers using a special vacuum bicycle pump. The designs are created together with the children, bearing in mind what is needed in the rest of the MediaLab. For example: vases, pots, trays, boxes, stools or waste containers. Once the designs have been printed out, they can be finished with an attractive paint job and finally covered in a protective layer, creating imaginative, colourful new furniture and other objects. The entire process is carried out actively by the children.

NOU&HERKAUW | THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 7+ Production company Nou&Herkauw, info@nouenherkauw.nl Design/production Nou&Herkauw, Tom Dijkstra, Adri Schokker

Nou&Herkauw is a collective that focuses on developing games, interactive installations and workshops, especially for children. These are based on the same principles: it must be possible to implement all ideas immediately, and the technology used must work simply and intui-

172

NEW MEDIA

WORKSHOPS

SMART KIDS LAB How clean is the water you drink or swim in?

What about the quality of the soil, and the air you breathe? And why is it that some sounds are unpleasant on the ears, while others are not?

All of these questions are the staring points for stories to which value is attached by carrying out measurements.

In the Smart Kids Lab, children can investigate water, sound, air, earth and light using measuring instruments they make themselves. They can also measure gas, dust and sounds at an interactive wall. The values measured are made concrete by the specially developed Compare-O-Meters.

How loud is a scream compared to a plane? Or: how much CO2 do you emit, and how does that compare to a cow, or a stall? In three different components, children can get to know the various aspects of measuring the environment around them. Measuring instruments can be made, measurements taken, and the Compare-O-Meter puts these measurements into perspective.

Your own personal environment mapped out in measurements. Would you like to make measuring instruments and take measurements? Then hurry over to smartkidslab.nl.

173

This workshop was created in cooperation with the Waag Society – Institute for Art, Science and Technology – as part of the European Making Sense programme, and was co-financed by Stichting Cultuur en Educatie. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.

CINEKID, WAAG SOCIETY THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 7+ Production company Cinekid Foundation, Asterweg 20 G2, 1031HN Amsterdam, The Netherlands, +31 205317890, info@cinekid.nl, www.cinekid.nl Production company Waag Society, Sint Antoniesbreestraat 69, 1011 HB Amsterdam, The Netherlands, +31 205579898, society@waag.org

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

STORYMAKER The digital highway, the Cloud and surfing are examples of metaphors often used concerning the internet – but how exactly do we imagine the online world? Do we have a conception of this?

And if so, what is possible there, and what is not?

an alternating group of makers and is given new content every year. This is the first time that so many young artists have worked together in this workshop.

In the StoryMaker, children are both the director and main character in their own interactive film.

They can choose three scenes from a series of animations. In each scene, the child has to do something physical on a set with a camera and a green screen. Placed one after the other, the three scenes tell a short story. The green background is removed live using Chromakey and replaced by the animated scenes. This means the result can be seen immediately by the spectators, and the children can also watch the film later at home. This workshop was created in close cooperation with twenty-five final year students at the AKV|St. Joost academy. They spent six weeks working in groups on the question of how the online world can be imagined and represented. They also thought about how the various storylines from the various scenes could link up, in both narrative and design.

CINEKID | THE NETHERLANDS | 2015 | 7+ Production company Cinekid Foundation, Asterweg 20 G2, 1031HN Amsterdam, The Netherlands, +31 205317890, info@cinekid.nl Animations AKV|St.Joost, Beukenlaan 1, 4834 CR Breda, +31 885257500, Leon@playgroundsfestival.nl

The system used in this workshop, which was originally called Leap in the Deep and won the Cinekid New Media Audience Award in 2012, was developed by Cinekid in collaboration with

174

NEW MEDIA

WORKSHOPS

WHAT IF…?

Many people – and younger people in particular – take the accomplishments of the digitalworld for granted. People rarely stop and think about how something can actually work, and even more seldom about how it could be done differently. The workshop What If...? was set up with the aim of tackling these issues in a playful, creative way.

The workshop aims to raise awareness of how dependent we have become on the internet. With an online and an offline portal plus an index with example situations, children are invited to do two things: firstly, in the online portal, they visualise the online situation, including its (technological) back end. Then, in the offline portal, they design an offline alternative for the situation. Possible situations they can work on are Instagram, Facebook or Pokemon Go, for example. The card index contains a collection of possible problems to solve, but new examples can be added. At the end of the festival there will be an overview of all the problems children would encounter in a world without internet. Together with a workshop leader, they work on representations of these online situations, but at the same time they can come up with solutions: how to translate these to an offline situation.

175

This workshop, developed by Cinekid, combines different analogue and digital technologies. The representations are made using a series of design apps such as 123D Design-Autocad, Thingmaker or Gravity Sketch, Draw in 3D and Adobe Draw, but also a printer and pen, scissors, paper and glue.

CINEKID | THE NETHERLANDS | 2015 | 7+ Production company Cinekid Foundation, Asterweg 20 G2, 1031HN Amsterdam, The Netherlands, +31 205317890, info@cinekid.nl

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

DASH & DOT ROBOTS

A DISTANT JOURNEY

Through the programmable robots Dash and Dot, children can learn the fundamental processes of coding – the language of the future. The robots can be controlled by children completely independently and can be programmed using four free coding apps. Each robot has its own characteristics: Dash responds to voice, navigating objects, dancing and singing. Dot comes with several games and is a companion robot who enables more complex interactions with and by Dash. It is possible to create new behaviours for Dash using Wonder, Blockly and other apps.

This interactive app about an elephant who one day decides to go to the desert, is based on a fable

by Dutch writer Toon Tellegen. Children can either read it themselves – at their own pace, there is a pause button – or listen to Tellegen reading it, which is particularly good for younger children. Cheerful, hand-drawn animations lead them through the story. Carrying out simple assignments brings them to the next scene. This app helps children get to know the characters and their motivations better.

AWARD NOMINEE

TOOLS FOR TALENTS, WONDER WORKSHOP

YIPYIP, GWENST, QUERIDO KINDERBOEKEN

UNITED STATES | 2015 | 4+ | IOS | ANDROID

THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 6+

Production company Tools for Talents, Vlotlaan 324,

Dutch title Een Verre Reis Production company Gwenst,

2681 TV Monster, The Netherlands, +31 646382856,

Querido Kinderboeken, YipYip: Schiehavenkade 264-266,

info@toolsfortalents.com, www.toolsfortalents.com;

3024 EZ Rotterdam, +31 10 7630763, z.bebenroth@yipyip.nl,

Wonder Workshop, www.makewonder.com

www.verrereis.yipyip.nl

DNA PLAY

DUCKIE DECK HOMEMADE ORCHESTRA

DNA Play introduces children to the basic concept of genetics through simple, open-ended gameplay. By completing a series of DNA puzzles, they can create unique monsters with different body parts. They can then play with their newly-made monsters and changing their shapes in real-time while they dance, skate, eat or sleep. Kids can create over 200 billion unique creatures by building and tweaking their DNA. If they get stuck, the game provides visual hints. Google Play Award Winner 2016 (Best Family App) and App Store Best of 2015.

More and more app developers connect the virtual and physical worlds, as in Homemade Orchestra. Children can customize and play 20 musical instruments made from everyday objects, from shakers made with marble-filled jars to pot lids-turned-cymbals. In Play mode, up to eight instruments can be combined to play a song. In the Explore mode, children can play one instrument at a time. The colourful graphics and fun sound effects are engaging. The app is intuitive and easy to use and it encourages kids to be creative in the real world.

AWARD NOMINEE

AWARD NOMINEE

AVOKIDDO | CYPRUS | 2015 | 3+

DUCKIE DECK DEVELOPMENT | POLAND | 2016 | 2+

Production company Avokiddo

Production company Duckie Deck Development, quack@duckiedeck.com, www.duckiedeck.com

176

NEW MEDIA

APPCAMP

ISTOPMOTION

LUMINO CITY

With the app iStopMotion, anybody can easily create their own masterpiece at home. The app has a time-lapse mode that captures frames automatically at given time intervals, but the film can also be built frame by frame. While animating, users can actually see what changes they are making to the scene by seeing both the last picture they’ve taken and the current view from the overlaid camera. This makes the animation process quick and accurate. Extra lesson materials for children will be made available during the festival.

State of Play built an entire city crafted entirely by hand out of paper, card, miniature lights and motors, then filmed it as the backdrop to the game. Through this gorgeous environment a clever, charming and puzzling adventure weaves. Lumi’s grandfather, the caretaker of Lumino City, has been kidnapped. To find him, you must explore the city and figure out the fascinating mechanisms that power this unique world. Winner of numerous international awards, including the BAFTA for Artistic Achievement. Made by a small indie team in London over the course of three years.

BOINX SOFTWARE LTD. | GERMANY | 2011 | 7+ | APP

AWARD NOMINEE

STATE OF PLAY GAMES

Production company Boinx Software Ltd., www.boinx.com,

UNITED KINGDOM | 2015 | 8+

sales@boinx.com

Production company State of Play Games, mail@stateofplaygames.com, www.stateofplaygames.com

MATHIE

OSMO CODING

In Mathie, kids solve puzzles and draw paths to deliver cookies to a little monster. The activities in the app are based on early math activities, such as tracing shapes and numbers, matching shapes, and counting. This open-play game teaches children to recognise numbers and shapes and to do simple sums at their own pace.

Each chapter presents a new skill, allowing children to build their confidence. By learning through play, children can develop positive associations with logic and arithmetic.

Osmo makes apps in which physical movements appear as an interaction on the iPad screen.

The app Osmo Coding, that requires the Osmo Gaming System and Osmo Coding Set, teaches problem-solving and logic skills. Using physical blocks in the real world, children control Awbie – a playful character who loves delicious strawberries. Each block represents a coding command.

Snap blocks together to create sequences of commands to guide the little monster Awbie on a wondrous tree-shaking, strawberry-munching adventure.

AWARD NOMINEE AWARD NOMINEE

HOGLET STUDIO | POLAND | 2016 | 3+ Production company Hoglet Studio, www.hogletstudio.com,

OSMO | UNITED STATES | 2016 | 5-12

michal@hogletstudio.com Developer Anna Kucharczyk,

Production company Osmo,

Michal Kucharczyk Facebook/Twitter @hogletstudio

osmo@playosmo.com, www.playosmo.com

177

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

ROBO WUNDERKIND

SAGO MINI FRIENDS

This robotics kit enables kids to build and play with their own robots while picking up the basics of coding. The robots are colourful cubes that can be programmed to solve mazes, go on treasure hunts, play music, navigate around obstacles – the possibilities are endless. The cubes embed gadgets as varied as cameras, proximity sensors and motion sensors. Children just have to snap these cubes together and then programme their creation using an intuitive app. This stimulates children’s curiosity and their ability to think creatively.

How should you treat one another? How do you share fairly? Apps can stimulate cooperation and teach children how to deal with others. Playing together, sharing and recognising social signals are prominent aspects in Sago Mini Friends. A range of activities – from doing the washing up to blowing up balloons, from growing plants to dressing up – is available. This gender-neutral app contains comical effects and doesn’t involve language. An open-play game that invites children to have fun playing and discovering.

AWARD NOMINEE

ROBO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH | AUSTRIA | 2016 | 5+

SAGO SAGO | CANADA | 2014 | 2+

Production company Robo Technologies GmbH

Production company Sago Sago

SHADOWMATIC

SKYSCRAPERS BY TINYBOP

In this puzzle that stirs the imagination, users rotate abstract objects in a spotlight to find recognizable silhouettes in projected shadows, matching the surroundings. It is easy at first, but gets more and more difficult along the way.

On their journey to discover the right solution, players will stumble upon many unexpected and infinitely varied silhouettes. The game includes a system of hints. Won several prizes, including the Apple Design Award WWDC 2015.

Skyscrapers is an educational app for kids. Children learn about architecture and engineering as they design, build and explore the tallest buildings in the world. They can discover how people build, live, and play in skyscrapers. They can go up and down, through every floor, and underground. Spark a blackout, fix a pipe, or clog the toilets. And test their building’s engineering when dinosaurs invade, lightning strikes, or the earth quakes. Production company Tinybop also developed The Everything Machine, that has been selected for this year’s Cinekid New Media Award.

AWARD NOMINEE

AWARD NOMINEE

TRIADA STUDIO | ARMENIA | 2015 | 4+

TINYBOP INC. | UNITED STATES | 2016 | 6+

Production company Triada Studio, 81 Charents st, Yerevan,

Production company Tinybop Inc., 540 Atlantic Ave. Ste. 5

Armenia, +374 96333066, masha@triadastudio.com,

Brooklyn, NY 11217, +1 718 536-0199, press@tinybop.com,

www.shadowmatic.com

www.tinybop.com

178

NEW MEDIA

APPCAMP

SPRK LIGHTNING LAB

WEIRDWOOD MANOR

Like the Sphero, Sphero SPRK+ is a robot ball, but this one is transparent allowing you to see the components inside. The app SPRK Lightning Lab empowers anyone to programme a robot. The visual block-based building app makes learning the basic principles of programming approachable and fun. Drag and drop actions, controls, operators and more teach how the Sphero works.

The written code you create can be viewed beside your block sequence for a more advanced understanding of our C-based language.

Three talented children, all misfits, win a trip to Weirdwood Manor, the castle of eccentric writer and inventor, Arthur Weirdwood. There’s also a robot butler, a ghost, and a librarian full of secrets. This interactive book series is part picture book, part game and part animated film. The games, puzzles and riddles are tightly integrated into the story and allow the reader to unlock hidden content. The story aims to inspire children to celebrate their uniqueness, recognize their talents, and embrace their imagination.

AWARD NOMINEE

AWARD NOMINEE

SPHERO INC. | UNITED STATES | 2015 | 6+

ALL PLAY, NO WORK INC. | CANADA | 2015 | 8+

Production company Sphero, Inc.

Production company All Play, No Work Inc., 205 Augusta Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5T 2L4, +1 647-477-8192, hello@weirdwood.com, www.weirdwood.com

WITH A FEW BRICKS A boy grew up only eating bricks. This makes him feel stronger, until one day drops start dripping from his eye. He discovers a little castle inside him, imprisoning his heart. What will happen when he is overcome with emotion? This uncommon children’s app in red, white and blue is inspired by a printed popup book by Vincent Godeau. On screen, his pop-ups are translated into interactions between user and character, thereby strengthening the impact of the words. There is no narrator, the story is meant to be read by a grown-up.

AWARD NOMINEE

VINCENT GODEAU | FRANCE | 2016 | 8+ Text & illustrations Vincent Godeau Adaptation Cléa Dieudonné, cleadieudonne@gmail.com Developer Christian de Wit Sound design Benoit B Book publisher L’Agrume, www.afewbricks.com Facebook @withafewbricks

179

CINEKID FOR PROFESSIONALS

CINEKID FOR PROFESSIONALS 2016

WELCOME TO THE 15TH CINEKID FOR PROFESSIONALS This year Cinekid is celebrating its 30th edition – an excellent moment to take a look at how storytelling has evolved, but also to assess how the audience has changed. We intend to draw from lessons of the past as we address the concerns of the future.

NIENKE POELSMA

The media industry is continually changing.

On the one hand kids will always have the same needs no matter how much the world around them is transforming. On the other hand, the evolving communications landscape means that today children have different relationships with media.

Media habits are changing and the ‘newest’ generation, the so-called plurals or Generation Z, are very much digital natives who live within media and don’t think in terms of ‘first’ and ‘second’ screens.

Media makers need to be aware of these changes and adapt to them, but also at the same time keep in mind the basic desires and needs of the child.

High quality content and stories remain key, but new technologies offer new ways of telling stories and involve audiences in other exciting ways.

As professionals in the kids media industry, our goal is to create enticing and innovative ways to engage our audience via new content and products that push the limits of technology – at the same time not forgetting to take children seriously, especially at a time when they are increasingly becoming successful content creators themselves.

Let's ask ourselves the question: in the ever chang-

ing media landscape, kids will be kids, won't they…?

We are grateful that some of the leading conference researchers, innovative A/V companies and emerging players within the children’s media industry will provide us with insights and practical tools to adapt to the changing industry during our full professionals programme. With examples of best practices, innovative approaches in our main Professionals Conference, as well as seminars and masterclasses, we aim to get to the heart of urgent trending topics.

Apart from our annual conference and seminar programme, which deserves the fullest attention, we are very honoured that the European Commission has invited us to host its European Film Forum at Cinekid. The European Film Forum is a platform for a structured dialogue between policymakers and the audiovisual sector. The forum aims to inform the sector of the current policy agenda, and consult it on existing needs. This European Film Forum will have a specific focus on The Future of European Children´s Content where key players from the audiovisual industry will provide an insight into their business models.

Government officials and the media industry, including broadcasters, online platform and content creators, will be present.

182

INTRODUCTION

We are very happy that international leading professionals and executives see Cinekid as a platform for good business. Fortunately, that international audience is growing each year.

Last year we grew 14% compared to the year before, welcoming over five hundred international guests to Amsterdam. Over the years more than 300 projects have been selected for the Junior Co-production Market (JCM), of which 52% have been realised, many very successfully. This year alone we had five former JCM projects selected at prestigious international festivals such as the Berlinale Generation Kplus programme, Venice Days and Toronto International Film Festival.

Furthermore, I’m happy that seven former Junior Co-production Market projects are screening at Cinekid Festival; go see them and please meet with the new batch of wonderful film, television and cross-media projects we have selected for you in our co-production market.

Because our programme is so extensive, I have many people to thank, starting with our funders Creative Europe MEDIA Programme, Netherlands Film Fund, Ammodo Fund, Creative Industries Fund NL, Mondriaan Fund and Dutch Culture without whom Cinekid for Professionals would not exist.

We would like to thank all our supporting partners. As substantial contributors to this platform, they really underline the importance of a strong and competitive independent children’s media industry across Europe and beyond.

We would also like to thank the Cinekid for Professionals International Advisory Board for being our ambassadors and for thinking with us.

Last, but certainly not least, I would like to thank my brilliant team. They have done a tremendous job and without them there would be no Cinekid for Professionals!

Besides projects in development we also select finished productions for the ScreeningClub, our digital video library which offers over 300 recent children’s productions. These productions are selected by Cinekid, and come from all over the world, with a focus on EU productions. The ScreeningClub offers TV buyers, sales agents, programmers and distributors the opportunity to watch these productions in private screening booths for programming or acquisition purposes.

Nienke Poelsma Head of Cinekid for Professionals

For the third year in a row we organise our Cinekid Script LAB, a four-month script-training programme for writers with a children's film project. Training takes place during Cinekid for Professionals in October and continues into Berlinale the following February. In this project-driven lab an international group of writers and writer/directors will further develop their plans for children’s feature films across all stages of development. The coaching offered to each filmmaker within this trajectory is tailor-made and will answer the specific needs both of the writer and story.

Overall we can look at a richly filled programme that suits everybody’s taste. Our intention is that, after Cinekid for Professionals, you are updated, fuelled and inspired for the year to come. Enjoy, and please feel free to tap us on the shoulder in case you need any assistance. We’re here for you!

183

Fay Breeman Coordinator CfP Emmy Sidiras Coordinator Guest Service Matthijs van der Veer Producer Hospitality Fleur Dopheide Guest Service Eva Hekman Producer ScreeningClub Bram Snijders Producer CfP Sem Nas Assistant CfP Emma O’Hare Coordinator Conference & Seminar & Marketing CfP Paulien Dresscher Head of New Media Siuli Ko Coordinator MediaLab Academy Masterclasses Esther van Driesum Head of Studies Script LAB

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

CONFERENCE, SEMINARS & MASTERCLASSES VPRO MEDIALAB MEET UP @ CINEKID

PROFESSIONALS CONFERENCE

Tuesday 18 October, 09.30 – 12.30 Museum Het Schip, tickets online VPRO Medialab is going up and down the country with the travelling dialogue programme ‘VPRO Medialab Meet Up’ to find out what the future holds for storytelling. The programme enables media makers and storytellers from all kinds of backgrounds and disciplines to come together to discover new things and inspire each other. The second Meet Up of the travelling dialogue is with us at Cinekid for Professionals and will discuss Immersive Stories. How do you lure children into a story with mixed reality formats like VR and AR? How can you convey a story without a real storyline?

Wednesday 19 October, 09.30 – 18.00 Westergas Theatre, tickets online At the full day Professionals Conference we always aim to address current topics, issues and trends in order to provide professionals within the children’s media industry with the ammunition to remain robust, well-informed and competitive. This year Cinekid is celebrating its 30th edition - an excellent moment to take a look at how storytelling has evolved, but also to assess how audiences have changed.

SPEAKERS: RAUL GUTIERREZ, CEO AND FOUNDER TINYBOP

ERSIN HAN ERSIN, CREATIVE DIRECTOR MARSHMALLOW LASER FEAST

The media industry is in a state of constant flux.

On the one hand kids will always have the same wants and needs no matter how much the world around them is transforming. On the other hand, the changing communications landscape means that today children have different relationships with media. Media habits are also changing and the ‘newest’ generation, the so-called plurals or Generation Z, are very much digital natives who live within media and don’t think in terms of ‘first’ and ‘second’ screens.

As professionals in the kids media industry, our goal is to create enticing and innovative ways to engage our audience via new content and products that push the limits of technology - at the same time not forgetting to take children seriously, especially at a time when they are increasingly becoming successful content creators themselves.

Let's ask ourselves the question: in the ever-changing media landscape, kids will be kids, won't they…?

184

CINEKID FOR PROFESSIONALS PROGRAMME

Topics of the Professionals Conference include: Celebrating 30 years of Cinekid, 30 years of children’s film This year’s openings film at Cinekid will be the world premiere of Owls and Mice by Dutch director Simone van Dusseldorp. Van Dusseldorp is also this year’s special guest, which means that her personal top five movies for children and teenagers will be part of the programme. During the conference Monique Ruinen (Netherlands Film Fund) will interview Van Dusseldorp on the changes, challenges and strengths of Dutch children’s film.

SPEAKERS: SIMONE VAN DUSSELDORP, DIRECTOR OF MANY RENOWNED CHILDREN’S FILMS, A.O. OWLS AND MICE

PROFESSIONALS

‘Kindfulness’ and mindfulness in media The latest trend in children’s media is the focus on building character skills, with discussion centred on the need to help children develop kindness, mindfulness (sometimes called “kindfulness”), gratitude, self-awareness and other important skills that are proven to help them succeed in later life. Why is this happening now?

Lesli Rotenberg (PBS Kids), Akwasi Ansah and Mascha Halberstad will share how and why they incorporate kindfulness and mindfulness into their content.

SPEAKERS: AKWASI ANSAH, WRITER, ACTOR AND HIP-HOP ARTIST

MONIQUE RUINEN, FILM COMMISSIONER AT THE NETHERLANDS FILM FUND

MASCHA HALBERSTAD, DIRECTOR AND ANIMATOR

LESLI ROTENBERG, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT AND GENERAL MANAGER PBS KIDS

10 years of Copenhagen Bombay: ‘behind the scenes’ stories It’s a year full of celebration. During our 30th edition of Cinekid, Copenhagen Bombay is also celebrating its 10th anniversary. Especially for this occasion the renowned film production company’s founder and CEO Sarita Christensen will give us an insight into the workings of the studio: what went well, what didn’t, and how have both storytelling and audiences changed over this period?

SPEAKERS:

International co-production: the effects of cultural differences on storytelling When developing children’s content with co-producers from different countries, how do you deal with cultural differences and how does it affect the story? How do cultural differences enrich the productions, and how can they sometimes be a barrier?

SPEAKERS:

SARITA CHRISTENSEN, CEO AND FOUNDER COPENHAGEN BOMBAY

PETTER LINDBLAD, PRODUCER AND OWNER AT SNOWCLOUD FILMS

Creating appealing characters Dreamworks’ Annika Bluhm will talk about how to reboot existing characters so they appeal to today’s kids. How do you adjust your design and characters to a fresh and modern audience, while retaining the essence of the originals?

SPEAKERS: ANNIKA BLUHM, CREATIVE EXECUTIVE DREAMWORKS TV

185

MARLEEN SLOT, FOUNDER AND PRODUCER AT VIKING FILM

MONIQUE RUINEN, FILM COMMISSIONER AT THE NETHERLANDS FILM FUND

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

Gender in (and/or out of) the picture: on gender representation and equality Gender representation on and behind the screen is a topic that more and more makers are becoming aware of. What are the struggles that media makers come across, which changes have been effected, and where are productions still failing to achieve equality in representation?

We will learn from the experiences of makers, but also hear from experts, such as researcher of gender in media Sofie van Bauwel as well as Anna Serner, CEO of the Swedish Film Institute, who has already achieved so much in addressing gender inequality in Swedish films.

Storyfactory: between hardware and software With the title Storyfactory: Machines Between Hardware and Software, this year’s Cinekid MediaLab is looking into new forms of storytelling and will both investigate and assess the new appearances, tangible interfaces, emerging relations and dynamic stories emerging from these developments. Artists from three commissioned works in the MediaLab will be addressing new forms of storytelling: Hololens, VR and the Internet of Things. Right after the conference you can get to experience at first hand the installations during the MediaLab drinks.

SPEAKERS:

The artists of the interactive theatre collective PIPS:lab will come and shake things up. How? You’ll just have to come join us and find out!

RUAIRI GLYNN, DIRECTOR OF INTERACTIVE ARCHITECTURE LAB

SPEAKERS: ERSIN HAN ERSIN, CREATIVE DIRECTOR AT MARSHMALLOW LASER FEAST

ANNA SERNER, CEO SWEDISH FILM INSTITUTE

SOFIE VAN BAUWEL, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AT THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION STUDIES AT THE GHENT UNIVERSITY

BEN UNSWORTH, CO-FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT AT GLOBACORE

SHEENA MACRAE, DIRECTOR AT LIGHTCUBE

ANDREW KAVANAGH, CEO AND FOUNDER KAVALEER PRODUCTIONS LESLI ROTENBERG, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT AND GENERAL MANAGER PBS KIDS

186

CINEKID FOR PROFESSIONALS PROGRAMME

MEDIALAB ACADEMY PIPS:LAB PRESENTS: ONEMINUTEOFTHEFREESIXTIES

PROFESSIONALS

MEDIA LITERACY SEMINAR

Thursday 20 October, 09.00 – 17.00 PIPS:lab, tickets online In this very unique Masterclass, participants will get acquainted with the secrets of multi-linear and multi-perspective VR storytelling. Right in the heart of the PIPS:lab incubator studios in Amsterdam Noord, the masterclass will give you the opportunity to create your own one minute multiple-first-person-view 360-degree movie and share your experiences with others. The PIPS:lab team, that includes among others Keez Duyves, Willem Weemhof, Dirk van Weelden and Zeynep Gunduz, will guide you through all the necessary steps and will introduce you to the new vocabularies you need for this medium.

During the day, you will experience the VR installation made by PIPS:lab called Anyways, a 360° virtual reality screenplay simultaneously experienced by six participants. Six ocular rift glasses with an experimental sound audio set-up offer participants a synchronised virtual experience of a single storyline with different karma.

The virtual experience is complemented via real world audio and tactile diversions. It aims to start a conversation among the participants to collectively figure out the story, or get nauseous trying!

Thursday 20 October, 09.30 – 12.30 North Sea Jazz Club, tickets online Media play an important role in the development of cultural identity. So there is a strong need for tools and materials that help children comprehend the effects of media, that contextualise media messages, and that enable children to understand cultural differences more clearly.

This year’s Media Literacy Seminar will address the role media play in presenting issues such as Euroscepticism, Brexit, the refugee crisis, attacks

by Islamic State and the rise of nationalist groups to children and young people.

This seminar aims to make educators, mediamakers and producers of educational content aware of the effect that media have on cultural identity, and how it is formed by the youngest generation.

SPEAKERS: DAVID KLEEMAN (MODERATOR), SVP OF GLOBAL TRENDS AT DUBIT

NATHALIE BANK (PHD), CYBER INFLUENCE WARFARE RESEARCHER AT THE DUTCH DEFENCE ACADEMY, UTRECHT UNIVERSITY AND TNO MTHOBA CHAPI, DIRECTOR AT VUSELELA-MEDIA NPC

Lunch will be provided at the adjacent De Ceuvel, an award-winning, sustainably designed workplace for creative and social enterprises.

HANNAH HIGGINSON, ENGAGEMENT PRODUCER AT WATERSHED

PIPS:LAB TEAM KEEZ DUYVES

JASMINE THOMPSON, ILLUSTRATOR, DESIGNER AND CONTENT CREATOR RIFE MAGAZINE

WILLEM VAN WEELDEN

JOHN LEEK, PROGRAMME TEAM AT MEDIAWIJZER.NET

THIJS DE WIT

FLORINE WIEBENGA, HEAD OF EDUCATION AT EYE

ZEYNEP GUNDUZ

Powered by Mediawijzer.net

187

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

EUROPEAN FILM FORUM

SEMINAR APPS FOR CHILDREN

Thursday 20 October, 13.30 - 17.30 North Sea Jazz Club, accreditation required This year Cinekid Festival will host an European Film Forum on the Future of Children’s Content.

Thursday 20 October, 13.30 – 16.00 Westergas Theatre, tickets online How do you create a good educational app for children and ensure its success? During this seminar creativity will be made concrete! From sound design to character building and usability, experts will fill you in on the do’s and don’ts.

The European Film Forum is a platform, initiated by the European Commission for structured dialogue between policymakers and the audiovisual sector. With Cinekid Festival being one of the leading festivals in children´s film, television and interactive media, the European Film Forum will have a specific focus on the future of children´s content.

SPEAKERS: RAUL GUTIERREZ, FOUNDER AND CEO TINYBOP

SABINA IDLER, UX RESEARCH AND INTERACTION DESIGN - SPECIALISED IN UX FOR KIDS

Now is the time to take a close look at children’s and youth programming. Viewing habits are rapidly changing and media is becoming the third role model in children’s lives, next to their parents and their peer group. Therefore assuring quality and diversity in media is essential, since it’s a vital part of the life quality of our children, of our near future and citizenship.

ROMAN SCHÖNSEE, COMPOSER, PRODUCER AND SOUND DESIGNER

JULIET TZABAR, MANAGING DIRECTOR AT PLUG-IN MEDIA

The major Video on Demand platforms are in fierce competition for the attention of our kids, buying and creating original kids’ content to secure their parents VoD-subscription. But new legislation is on hand: how will VoD services address the update of the European Audiovisual Media Services Directive? And will this contribute to more investment in high quality European kids content?

LISELOTTE VAN WICKEREN, UX RESEARCH AND CONSULTANCY SPECIALISED IN UX FOR KIDS

We have asked key players from the audiovisual industry to provide an insight into their business models, such as audience tracking, cultural diversity, multi-platform strategies and so on. Our aim is that the Forum will inspire and provide clear recommendations for the Member-States and the audiovisual industries.

Organised in partnership with Kennisnet and ECP

In cooperation with Creative Europe Desk NL | DutchCulture

This seminar is co-financed by the European Union's Connecting Europe Facility

188

CINEKID FOR PROFESSIONALS PROGRAMME

MASTERCLASS CHILDREN’S ANIMATION

PROFESSIONALS

ENTER THE WRITERS

Friday 21 October, 10.00 – 13.00 Westergas Theatre Storyboarding is perhaps the most important stage for the design, development and operation of a story and characters in an animation production. When setting up a narrative, it is important to immediately get visual clarity, by simultaneously drawing up the story and all its components. Especially since animation is usually not purely based on reality. Fantasy characters and settings cannot always be explained by just using text. Therefore, storyboarding is key.

During the Masterclass Children’s Animation, scriptwriters and storyboarders of children’s animation will take a closer look at the interaction between script writing and storyboarding.

SPEAKERS: PAUL WELLS (MODERATOR), DIRECTOR OF THE ANIMATION ACADEMY AND CHAIR OF THE ASSOCIATION OF BRITISH ANIMATION COLLECTIONS VINCENT BAL, DIRECTOR OF A.O. KIKA AND BOB

Technology is not simply a tool in our hands; it influences who we are, how we work, live, love – and even how our brains work. All of which doesn’t mean we have no control whatsoever over how we relate to technology. Media artists in particular work at this intersection of man and technology, making use not only of existing tools but creating new toolsets by experimentation as they go. This leads to the exploration of new cultural technologies, applications and interfaces that in turn open up alternative relationships between man and the world. The ensuing works show us new applications, lay new foundations for narratives and hint at possible futures. Art as a mirror of our times, but also as a laboratory of the future: how do we wish to relate to all this? How to be human?

Enter the Writers seeks to investigate these possible futures, reflect on them and provide context. In a series of blog posts and essays, five writers, artists and filmmakers have been invited to reflect from their own perspectives on the works arising in the MediaLab and link these to bigger themes.

The main outlines of these reflections have been collected and will be presented at the Cinekid for Professionals conference.

Set up in collaboration with Domein voor Kunstkritiek.

Supported by Creative Industries Fund NL and Mondriaan Fund.

RÉMI CHAYÉ, DIRECTOR OF A.O. THE SECRET OF KELLS

WRITERS: MARIJN VAN DER JAGT

JEAN−CHRISTOPHE ROGER, DIRECTOR, SCRIPTWRITER AND STORYBOARD ARTIST OF A.O. ERNEST ET CÉLESTINE

KAWEH MODIRI

DIRK VOS

MARLOEKE VAN DE VLUGT

MARIAN COUSIJN EDITOR IN CHIEF: ANNA VAN LEEUWEN In collaboration with Association of the Netherlands Animation Producers (VNAP) 189

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

MARKET ACTIVITIES SCREENINGCLUB Tuesday 18 October. 8 - 20 October 09.00 18.00, 21 October 09.00 - 16.00 at ScreeningClub English language or subtitles.

Accreditation required.

Cinekid’s digital screening facility offers a selection of more than 300 recent children’s productions from across the world with a specific focus on EU productions. A wide range of new works is on offer including shorts, feature films, documentaries, TV-series, live-action, animation and much more. Professionals can watch these productions in private screening booths for programming or acquisition purposes. Participants include TV buyers, sales agents, programmers and distributors.

Supported by NPO Sales.

PRODUCERS ONE-TO-ONE Tuesday 18 October. 14.00 – 18.00 at Professionals HUB English language. Invitation only.

Producers from various territories will meet each other during short one-to-one meetings to explore potential collaborations. This simple yet effective programme is aimed at improving and strengthening the network of professionals working in the children’s media sector, and thereby reinforcing this industry as a whole.

Organised in partnership with ACE, Agência Nacional do Cinema (Brazil), Catalan Films, Film Producers Netherlands, Finnish Film Foundation, Norwegian Film Institute, Netherlands Film Fund and the Swedish Film Institute.

190

CINEKID FOR PROFESSIONALS PROGRAMME

PROFESSIONALS

JUNIOR CO-PRODUCTION MARKET Thursday 20 October. 09.00 – 12.30: JCM Pitch at Westergas Theatre. Thursday 20 October.

14.00 – 18:00 & Friday 21 October 09.30 – 12.30 & 14.00 – 16.30: JCM One-to One Meetings at Professionals HUB English language. Accreditation required.

The Junior Co-production Market is an integrated two-day co-production market held during Cinekid for Professionals. It enables financiers, broadcasters and producers to find new and innovative projects for young audiences across the cross-media, film and television sectors. A high degree of interactivity and potential for cross-financing across these sectors reflects in the market’s selection. A total of 30 projects in development (17 film, 7 TV, 6 cross-media) will be presented within a unique and nurturing environment designed to encourage international co-operation. The JCM starts with a public pitch of all selected projects, followed by a day and a half of one-to-one meetings. More information on the selected projects can be found at Cinekid.com, and in the JCM-booklet.

TEST & PITCH WITH KIDS Friday 13 October. 9.30 – 13.00 at Ketelhuis 3 English language. Invitation only.

Industry experts attending the Junior Co-Production Market get the chance to pitch their projects in development to a group of international (English-speaking) children. They will show clips and ask for the kids’ opinion - a unique opportunity for professionals to see how a young audience reacts to their projects. To hear and see what they think. In this programme children are the experts, and their feedback might just influence the final outcome of these productions.

Moderated by Dutch TV-presenter Lisa Wade.

191

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

OTHER CFP EVENTS & INITIATIVES ZAPP DAY

CINEKID SCRIPT LAB

Tuesday 18 October. 12.00 – 18.00 at Westergas Theatre Invitation only.

The Zapp Day is the yearly gathering of the Dutch children’s television industry, offering inspiration as well as networking opportunities. The Zapp Day is organised in partnership with Dutch public broadcaster Zapp.

Sunday 16, Monday 17, Tuesday 18, Wednesday 19 October. 9.30 – 17.30 at Museum Het Schip English Language. Invitation only The Cinekid Script LAB is a four-month script-training programme for writers with a children's film project, co-funded by high profile film institutes and supported by Creative Europe.

The first part of the Script LAB 2016-2017 takes place at Cinekid for Professionals in Amsterdam where the participants can take their bearings and start positioning their projects on the international market. After Cinekid the participants follow up with their coaches via Skype. The third part brings them to Berlin where the Script LAB takes place just before to the Berlinale (February 2017), where participants can meet their fellow filmmakers. Coaches of the Script LAB include Rasmus Horksjaer (DK), Boudewijn Koole (NL), and Mieke de Jong (NL).

WRAP! MEETINGS Friday 21 October. 09:30 – 16.00 at Museum Het Schip English Language. Invitation only.

Wrap! is a collaboration between nine European institutes and festivals who will collectively build a catalogue of European films for children, with accompanying educational materials, that will be accessible across Europe. Apart from at festivals, there is a very limited offer of suitable European films that are readily accessible for (very) young audiences. Currently the catalogue contains 20 titles, with 24 different language versions. The catalogue is rich in content and film language, and (re)presents numerous different stories and regions from Europe. During the coming years the catalogue will expand to thirty titles with 27 different language versions.

During Spring and Summer 2015 the new distribution outlet kicked off with pilot educational screenings in each partner country. These were rolled-out on a much larger scale in subsequent years using established distribution models as well as new digital distribution models. The project is supported by the Audience Development - Film Literacy programme of Creative Europe.

Partners: Cinekid (NL); Swedish Film Institute (20142015), Biografcentralen (SE) (2015-2017); New Horizons (PL) (2014-2017); Espoo cine (FI)(2015-2017); Film & Kino (NO)(2014-2016), Norwegian Film Institute (2016-2017); Creative Scotland (UK) (2014-2015, 20162017); PLAY Acció Cutural (SP) (2016-2017).

Organised in collaboration with Finnish Film Foundation, Flanders Audiovisual Fund, Icelandic Film Centre, Netherlands Film Fund, Norwegian Film Institute, Polish Film Institute and Swedish Film Institute.

192

CINEKID FOR PROFESSIONALS PROGRAMME

PROFESSIONALS

FOOD, DRINKS & NETWORKING OPENING DRINKS CINEKID FOR PROFESSIONALS

INDUSTRY DINNER

Tuesday 18 October. 18.00 – 19.30 at Professionals HUB For accredited guests, and by invitation.

The official opening of Cinekid for Professionals, where we would like to welcome our guests and partners. Co-hosted by Film Producers Netherlands.

Thursday 20 October. 19.00 – 22.00 at Raïnaraï For accredited guests only.

A great opportunity to have dinner with colleagues and meet other professionals while enjoying great food within a relaxed atmosphere.

The Industry Dinner will take place at the restaurant Raïnaraï at the festival site. Accreditation and dinner ticket required. Dinner tickets cost €35 and can be purchased via MyCinekid or at the Guest Desk.

INDUSTRY LUNCHES Tuesday 18 – Friday 21 October.

12.00 – 14.00 at Brouwerij Troost For accredited guests only.

EUROPEAN FILM FORUM DRINKS

MEDIALAB DRINKS Wednesday 19 October. 18.00 – 19.30 in the Medialab For accredited guests, and by invitation.

The Cinekid MediaLab is a 1,200m2 digital playground that is filled to the brim with the latest games, apps, virtual reality installations and much more. During the day it is the territory of young explorers. On Wednesday night it opens exclusively for the relations and guests of Cinekid.

So grab a drink, release your inner child, have fun, and improve your network along the way.

Thursday 20 October, 17.30 – 19.00 at North Sea Jazz Café For accredited guests only.

This year the European Commission is hosting the European Film Forum at the Cinekid Festival.

After the programme there is an opportunity to discuss the topics that have emerged during the event, while enjoying a drink. In cooperation with Creative Europe Desk NL | DutchCulture

AWARDS DRINKS Friday 23 October. 12.00 – 13.30 at Professionals HUB English language. For accredited guest, and by invitation.

Award ceremony with drinks and snacks. A jury will hand out the CfP Best Project Award to the best overall project of the Junior Co-production Market based on its quality, innovation and international potential. The award is accompanied by a € 2.500 cash prize.

The Eurimages Co-production Development Award will be awarded to the best eligible film project in the Junior Co-production Market. The award is provided by the European cinema support fund Eurimages both to promote European youth film and to stimulate European co-productions. The winner will receive € 20.000.

193

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

INDEX 90 1Minute Nature

174 DNA Play

80 48 Hour Film Project Cinekid, The

83 DO NOT Push the Red Button

128 AaiPet

97 Domino Player, The

111 Ahmad's Hair

101 Don't Lose Your Head

111 Alfredo Lorenzo

34 Dragonheart

138 ANIMA

128 Dromoscope

164 Animation Celebration

104 Drona & me

165 Animation Zone

174 Duckie Deck Homemade Orchestra

94 Apple Core, The

47 Dummie the Mummy

128 Attachment: the Poetry Machine

and the Sfinx of Shakaba

71 Ballone di Cannone

56 Dunder

94 Ben 10

77 Edward Scissorhands

83 Beyond the Sky

81 Eliot & Me

80 Billy & Buddy

67 Enclave

71 Bird of Prey

153 Everything Machine, The

95 Birdboy, The

128 Exhibitions

32 Blanka

141 Eye Catcher

74 Blue Bicycle

128 Fiep bus

55 Box & Ball - The Flag

142 Fiet

66 Brothers of the Wind

120 First Years, The

112 Buba & Sharon

57 Flight

83 Buggy Night

128 Fourarms

128 BZT bus

102 Free as a Bird

128 Carousel

67 Friends Forever - A Pig's Tale

119 Casting Masterclass Xl

90 Get it!

55 Cats & Dogs

35 Get Santa

120 Cats from Kitten Lane

113 Girl of 672K, The

95 Champions of Amsterdam

104 Girls

56 Charge the Dragon

113 Glass Wall, The

103 Che

166 Golem

116 Chickens for Kimaru

57 Grandma's Hero

96 Children's Time

128 HappyTessa Schminkt

128 Cinechat

36 Helmsman

83 Colosse

78 Here Comes the Mole

33 Come Along

58 Hey Deer!

112 Cow in a Wrong Body, A

105 Hideout, The

96 Curse of Riding School Pegasus, The

143 Hindsight

167 Hologram Pyramid

152, 174

Dash & Dot Robots

139 Dear Deer

144 HoloLEMS

101 Dede; Mehmet with Yellow Boots

105 Home for Lydia, A

140 Diorama No.4: The Fernweh Opera

68 Hoorah! It’s a holiday!

128 Disney Channel:

129 I Vitelloni: Cinema Piccolo

Make Your own Crockery

106 I'm Never Afraid!

174 Distant Journey, A

117 IMC Weekendschool films

194

INDEX

72 Import

107 Ninnoc

58 In a Cage

40 OFFLINE:

68 In Your Dreams!

Are You Ready for the Next Level?

83 Invasion!

123 On Stage jr.

175 iStopMotion

98 Operation Ouch

75 James and the Giant Peach

108 Opposites

69 Jill and Joy's Winter

159 Orchids to Dusk

59 Kid and the Hedgehog, The

175 Osmo Coding

81 King of Ping Pong, The

123 Ouf of Service

129 Kunstbende Presents Talent

148 Out of Sight

121 Kunumi, The Native Thunder

76 Labyrinth

170 PaperWork

154 LEGO Dimensions

83 Pete's Dragon - Elliot's Flyover

106 Let Me Go Home

82 Pettson and Findus –

145 Line Wobbler

a Little Nuisance, a Great Friendship

155 Lines

149 Physical Pong

83 Little Door Gods - Divine Tours

76 Pim & Pom: The Big Adventure

168 Little Factory

108 Plank

121 Little Giants

102 Polska Warrior

37 Little Grey Fergie: Country Fun!

129 Polytope

69 Little Mountain Boy

79 Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea

59 Little Seed, The

160 Prune

107 Louis the Ferris Wheel kid

98 Puck and the Lost Sheep

156 Love You To Bits

73 Punching Butterflies

157 Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

99 Raffaelo in the Wild

175 Lumino City

74 Rauf

129 Magic Table, The

129 Reading Aloud: Rusty

114 Majorette King of the North, The

51 Red Turtle, The

169 Masterclasses and Castings

175 Mathie

129 Rhythm Souldjaz

48 MeesterSpion

176 Robo Wunderkind

97 Mies goes to Hollywood

109 Rocknrollers

78 Mijn vader woont in Rio

124 Rusty

60 Miriam's Stray Dog

73 Sabaku

38 Miss Impossible

116 Safia's Summer

122 Miss Rose

176 Sago Mini Friends

60 Mole and the Earthworm, The

114 Scott & Julia

122 Monkey Nuts

109 Search for Loedertje

61 Moonwolves

83 Sent

61 Moustache, The

70 Seven Ravens, The

129 MovieMixMozaïek

176 Shadowmatic

49 Mr. Frog

115 Sheneeva and Chenelva

146 Mu Cartographer

118 Shorts by Kids

147 Multiversescope

129 Silent Disco: Stories to Listen to

62 Musical Dragon, The

52 Siv Sleeps Astray

62 Musicide

176 Skyscrapers by Tinybop

39 My Life as a Courgette

171 Smart Kids Lab

72 My Little Big Brother

158 National Waterline Museum:

125 SpangaS

Strong Water

99 Spooky

195

41, 50

91, 124

91, 125

Owls and Mice

Remi, Nobody's Boy

Soccer Girls

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

177 SPRK Lightning Lab 77 Stand By Me 161 Story Table 172 StoryMaker 129 Street Soccer 129 Superstar VR 42 Swallows and Amazons 150 Tactile Orchestra 162 Tearaway Unfolded TM 43 Ted Sieger's Molly Monster 63 Teeny-weeny Fox, The 110 Ten 103 TEX 129 Think Tank: Mini-cinemato 100 Thinktank 63 Tie, The 163 Toca Dance 110 Tonight we'll become Women 151 TREEHUGGER CHAPTER 01: WAWONA 92 Trollie 44 Tsatsiki, Dad and the Olive War 64 Uka 64 Unhinged 45 Villads From Valby 118 Vlogtutorial: Niek Roozen 65 Voltaire 126 WADADA Awards 117 War Child Kidsclub Vlog Tutorial 70 We Are Family 177 Weirdwood Manor 173 What If…?

65 Where's Ronald?

127 Willem Wever 82 Winnetou's Son 177 With A Few Bricks 53 Woozle and Pip: In Search of the Scallywagger!

115 World of Kim and Bob, The 92 Year Without My Parents, A 126 Young Chefs, The

54, 75

Young Wrestlers

119 YouTube Tutorial Show 100 Zapp Your Planet: Expedition Operation Elephant 79 Zazie in the Subway 46 Zip & Zap and the Captain's Island 66 Zoo Story

196

INDEX

197

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

Cinekid foundation Asterweg 20 G2 1031 HN Amsterdam +31 (0) 20 531 78 90 www.cinekid.nl / info@cinekid.nl Board of Directors Martien Kuitenbrouwer, Ingrid Brekelmans, Niels Baas, Willem-Albert Bol, Hedda Bruessing, Barbera Wolfensberger Management Team Director Sannette Naeyé Business Executive Irene Ford Head of Development & Production Anne Schaepman Marketing & Communication Head of Marketing & Communication Sandra van Beers Print & Press Officer Rachel Voorbij Online Marketing & Communication Emma de Boer Graphic Design Tess Semin, Sonja van Well Marketing Cinekid for Professionals Emma O’Hare Marketing Cinekid on Location Tessa Stoke Festival Office Office Manager Shura Ible Assistant Office Manager Judith Borra PA Director Toa Maes Film Head of Film Department Sannette Naeyé Coordinator Film Department Erik Tijman Advisor Film Programme Merel Gilsing Assistant Film / Programmer Dutch Shorts Berit van Lier Print Traffic Coordinator Nadja Cohen Television Head of Television Department Mirjam Marks Producer Television Sophie Claassen Assistent Producer Television Lotte Muller Technical Producer Television Richard Bierhuizen New Media Curator and Head of New Media Department Paulien Dresscher Senior Producer MediaLab Tim Hoogesteger Senior Producer Storyfactory and Enter the Writers Siuli Ko Senior Producer Workshops Kees Buning Assistant Producer MediaLab Lies de Jager Production Assistant

Workshops Donna Schreuter, Cheyenne Broerse Coordinator Cinekid Lion New Media Award Kitlyn van Slijpe Project Manager Cinekid AppLab Emma O’Hare Assistant Cinekid AppLab and Festival Nicole Overmars Cinekid Location & Education Programme Project Managers Tessa Stoke, Vanessa Pattipeilohy Producers Emma Eigenraam, Erik Pijpers, Merel Booleman Cinekid Projects Head of Projects Anne Schaepman Senior Producers Tessa Stoke, Kees Buning, Vanessa Pattipeilohy Assistant Producer Emma Eigenraam Cinekid for Professionals (CfP) Head of CfP Nienke Poelsma Coordinator CfP Fay Breeman Coordinator Guest Service Emmy Sidiras Producer Hospitality Matthijs van der Veer Guest Service Fleur Dopheide Producer ScreeningClub Eva Hekman Technical Producer CfP Bram Snijders Assistant CfP Sem Nas, Alessia Acone Coordinator Conference & Seminar Emma O’Hare Head of New Media Paulien Dresscher Coordinator MediaLab Academy Masterclasses Siuli Ko Head of Studies Script LAB Esther van Driesum Festival Production Production Manager Siuli Ko Technical Producer Television Richard Bierhuizen Technical Producer Professionals Bram Snijders Technical Producer Award Show Manon van Alten Production Assistant Sara Halbertsma Volunteers Coordinators Ilona Hol, Jos Motshagen Film Technique Film*Technique B.V. Rotterdam Box Office & Ticketing FestivalTickets, Active Tickets Audiovisual Production BeamSystems Technical Facilities Art Support, Storm Projecten, Markies Signing LENN Printer InDrukWerk Object Design Octant Objects Technical Production Taco Brugman, Art van Weerelt, Fonga Woodwork, Magnus Monfeldt Location Managers Odin Heyligen, Lutz Baumann, Georg Elbers, Valentina Scheuder, Jorn Kortooms, Ninelotte Dijk, Yke Maas

198

CREDITS

Head Operators Dennis Bor – Van Hemert, Barbara Rokven – Het Ketelhuis, Robbert Linnemann – The Movies Senior Producer MediaLab Tim Hoogesteger Production Team MediaLab Kees Buning, Floris Visser, Teun van der Laan, Johan Bloemberg, Lies de Jager, Nicole Overmars, Kitlyn van Slijpe, Donna Schreuter, Zoe Reddy, Francois Lombarts, Ivo Sieben, Niels Houg, Suze van Miltenburg, Daniel de Bruin, Ruben Benjamin, Fong Kuo, Lutz Baumann, Georg Elbers Runner Ambulant Sneltransport, Marcel Moerenhout Crew catering Media Café Festival catering Pacific Parc, Het Ketelhuis, North Sea Jazz Club Telecommunications Tring Internet Bart Koppe, VBVB Translations Elly Straatsburg, Arno Zeeman Q&A Elsbeth van Saane, Anja Steffens Voice over Marcia Hexspoor, Jerusha Hexspoor Jury Coordination Ilma van de Beek, Lisanne Stollman, Merel Booleman Workshop Supervisors Anna de Jong, Anne van Scheijk, Carien van Aubel, Cheyenne Broerse, Daan Uttien, Ed Spil, Els Hiddink, Esther Bogte, Eva Bullens, Floortje Zonneveld, Guido Paap, Hidde Simons, Ineke Goes, Inti Mego, Jolien de Lange, Josephine Beijer, Leon Brill, Maaike Boorsma, Marieke van Heerde, Merel Das, Myriam Simons, Raquel van Tongeren, Rianne van Duin, Rosan Limburg, Rozemarijn Tromp, Sanne Bolten, Sieta van Horck, Thijs Janssen, Vincent Leloux, Willem Bouwens, Ymke Kelders, Zoe Reddy Enter the Writers Concept Paulien Dresscher, Siuli Ko Project Development Sonja van der Valk - Domein voor Kunstkritiek Project Coordination Siuli Ko Editorin-Chief Anna van Leeuwen Writers Marian Cousijn, Marijn van der Jagt, Kaweh Modiri, Dirk Vis, Marloeke van der Vlugt Publication coordinator Sonja van der Valk Translation Richard Foster, Ann Doherty Text correction Ann Doherty Design Janne van Hooff Editorial staff Maartje Knepper Printer Printvisie Festival Photography Nadine Maas, Corinne de Korver, Anke Teunissen Campaign Design 2016 Concept & Design andrews:degen Photography Tim van der Most Props Maaike Fransen

199

Web Realisation 2016 Design Egotribe Technical Realisation M13G.com Catalogue 2016 Editor-in-chief Wendy Koops Text Contributors Leo Bankersen, Paulien Dresscher, Merel Gilsing, Wendy Koops, Maricke Nieuwdorp, Mirjam Marks, Sannette Naeyé, Berit van Lier Translators / Editors Mark Baker, Sjaan de Bruijn Photo Credits Femfotografie (Femque Schook), Corinne de Korver, Nadine Maas, Anke Teunissen, Morten Holtum, Lumafilm, Bert Nijman, Paul Ridderhof, Sofie Silbermann, TIFF, P. Zani, Nichon Glerum, Krijn van Noordwijk, Robin de Puy, Rahi Rezvani Design andrews:degen, Tess Semin, Sonja van Well Print Indrukwerk TV Commercial 2016 Concept & Directing Maarten Berkers, Lilian van den Braak Choreography Lilian van den Braak Costume & Props Maaike Fransen Motion Capture & 3D Animation Jur Baltussen, Vincent Wijnbergen 2D Animation Michelle Verhoeks, Maarten Berkers Music & Sound Frank Sens Actrice Hiba Ghafry Design MediaLab 2016 Octant Objects Set Dressing Masterclass Behind the Seens Woodworks MediaLab Fong Kuo Design & Artwork Map MediaLab Yulia Kryazheva Opening and Award Ceremony Opening: Direction Elisabeth Hesemans Video Lilian van den Braak Technical Producer Hansjan Fokkens Choreography Dietrich Pott, Lisette Koster Presentation Akwasi Award Ceremony: Lead Producer Manon van Alten Video Lilian van den Braak Technical Producer Hansjan Fokkens Chief Editor Ewart van der Horst Cinekid Lions Design Jeroen Henneman Cinekid Kinderkast Design Jan Wolkers

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

The following schools participated in the audience jury for the Cinekid Kinderkast Stichting J.H. Donnerschool, De Glind; OBS De Timp, Hengelo; ’t Twiespan, Emmen; OBS De Hagenpoort, Deventer; Anne Frankschool Hoogkerk, Groningen; BS Samenspel, Amsterdam; PCB De Zevensprong, Dronten; OBS Twa Yn Ien, Echtenerbrug; OBS De Meerpaal, Anna Paulowna; Saltoschool Louis Buelens, Eindhoven; OBS De Werkschuit, Wijk bij Duurstede; OBS ’t Landje, Rotterdam; John F. Kennedy school, Arnhem; De Vlissingse Schoolvereniging, Vlissingen; OBS Aan de Meule, Sittard Festival Locations Westergasfabriek, Het Ketelhuis, The Movies Cinekid 2016 has been realised with support from Netherlands Film Fund, City of Amsterdam, Creative Industries Fund NL, VSBfonds, Fonds 21, The Cultural Participation Fund, Mondriaan Fonds, Creative Europe MEDIA Programme, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Fiep Westendorp Foundation, Stichting Educatie & Cultuur, Janivo Stichting Media Partners De Volkskrant, Ngage Media, Young & Connected, YouTech, Zapp, Cartoon Network, Disney Channel, Go Kids Partners & Sponsors Cinekid Festival 48 Hour Film Project, Active Tickets, AKV|St. Joost, All Rent, Saman Amini, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Annegien Schilling, The Art of Impact, AVROTROS, Interactive Architecture Lab - Bartlett School for Architecture, Baldr Film, BeamSystems, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, Bind Film, Blooming Media, Boekx Advocaten, Bontehond, BosBros Film-TV Productions, Michiel Brongers, Camalot, Cerutti Film, Cinéart Nederland, Cinema Delicatessen, Constant IT, Corrino Film, Domein voor Kunstkritiek, Dromenjager, Rianne van Duin, Dutch Features Global Entertainment, Dutch FilmWorks, Dutch Foundation for Literature, Elskes Kast, Entertainment One Benelux, EO, Evelien Bosch, EYE Film Institute Netherlands,

EYE International, FedEx, Festivaltickets, Filamaker, Filem’On, Film*Techniek Rotterdam, Formfutura, Green DCP, Sebastiaan Hensen, Hollandse Helden, HUMAN, IkonDocs, il Luster, IMC Weekendschool, In The Air, Indrukwerk, Institut Français, Just Entertainment, Just4Kids, Kaliber Film, Het Ketelhuis, KeyDocs, KLIK! Distribution Service, KRO-NCRV, Kunstbende, La Veranda Film, Lemming Film, Lumière, Making & Make-Believe, Marco Polo Production, Media Tornado, Ton Meijer, Migrations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of ECS, The Movies, NTR, Onlane, Charlotte van Otterloo, Ovidius Law, Pupkin Film, PV Pictures, Rhythm Soldjaz, School of Machines, Selfmade Films, September Films, Chris Silos, SND Films, Some Shorts, Southbank Centre, Stichting Discussiëren kun je leren, Stormy Minutes, STRP, Tangerine Tree, Hakim Traïdia, Tuvalu Media, Tweetakt, Twin Film, Ultimaker, Universal Pictures International Netherlands, University College of London, UP!, Viking Film, VPRO, WAAG Society, Wadada Free Press Unlimited, Walt Disney Pictures, Warner Bros Pictures International Holland, War Child, Wim Pel Productions, Witfilm, Zapp, Zapp Echt Gebeurd, Zuidenwild Filmproductions, Fiona Yauw Partners & Sponsors Cinekid for Professionals Creative Europe MEDIA Programme, Netherlands Film Fund, Ammodo, Mondriaan Fund, Creative Industries Fund NL, Eurimages, Domein voor Kunstkritiek, Dutch Culture, Creative Europe Desk NL, EYE International, Finnish Film Foundation, Norwegian Film Institute, Swedish Film Institute, Flanders Audiovisual Fund, Icelandic Film Centre, Polish Film Institute, Catalan Films, Film Producers Netherlands, Agência Nacional do Cinema (Brazil), Zapp, NTR, VPRO Medialab, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences-Publishing Lab, VNAP, ECP, Mediawijzer. net, Mijn Kind Online, Kennisnet, NFDC, Free Press Unlimited, ACE, EAVE, NPO Sales, The Screening Factory, Museum Het Schip, Mercure Hotel Amsterdam, Sloterdijk Station, WestCord Art Hotel, Westergasfabriek, Verhoef Service Company

200

CREDITS

Partners Cinekid on Location Gofilex, Filmhuis Alkmaar, denieuwebibliotheek Almere, Parkvilla Filmhuis Alphen aan den Rijn, Theater De Lieve Vrouw Amersfoort, De Krakeling Amsterdam, Kriterion Amsterdam, Podium & Filmtheater Gigant Apeldoorn, Cinebergen Bergen, Het Postkantoor Bovenkarspel, Filmhuis Bussum, Filmhuis Lumen Delft, Filmhuis De Keizer Deventer, Cinemec Ede, NatLab PlazaFutura Eindhoven, Concordia Enschede, Filmhuis Gouda, Groninger Forum, Filmschuur Haarlem, Filmtheater Hilversum, Cinema Oostereiland Hoorn, Slieker Film Leeuwarden, Filmtheater Lumiére Maastricht, Cinema Middelburg, LUX Nijmegen, Filmcafé Oosterhout, De Groene Engel Oss, Filmtheater Fanfare Oudenbosch, ECI Cultuurfabriek Roermond, LantarenVenster Rotterdam, Louis Hartlooper Complex Utrecht, Filmtheater ‘t Hoogt Utrecht, Filmtheater Voorschoten, Calypso Wijk bij Duurstede, Luxor Filmtheater Zutphen, Filmtheater Fraterhuis Zwolle And all other organisations, volunteers and individuals that helped realise the 2016 festival with their artistic, organisational, scientific or technical contributions.

201

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

CINEKID 2016 HAS BEEN REALISED WITH FINANCIAL SUPPORT FROM:

LOCATION PARTNERS

Ontwerp: Godert von Weiler - MKB-Reklame.nl

MEDIA PARTNERS

PARTNERS

by NFDC

202

PARTNERS

203

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

    





BELEEF

CINEKID DE VOLKS KRANT MET

volkskrant.nl/cinekid

204

PARTNERS

www.international.eyefilm.nl www.facebook.com/eyeinternational Advertentie EYE - Vertical Version 3 - dd 28-9-16.indd 1

28-9-2016 10:35:07

Alles onder controle FestivalTickets: advies, organisatie en uitvoering van online en onsite kaartverkoop bij evenementen.

Online en onsite kaartverkoop

Coรถrdinatie en support

Verhuur

Maatwerk

FestivalTickets heeft een online kassa

FestivalTickets werkt met een team

FestivalTickets beschikt over een rijk

FestivalTickets levert standaard maat-

voor het complete beheer van uw

van ervaren coรถrdinatoren voor het

assortiment aan apparatuur speciaal

werk. Door jaren ervaring kennen we

webverkoop. Ook verzorgen wij uw

opzetten, ondersteunen en uitvoeren

bestemd voor de kaartverkoop en

de grote lijnen waarlangs de organisatie

volledige kaartverkoop op locatie.

van de kaartverkoop.

toegangscontrole van evenementen.

van kaartverkoop verloopt.

www.festivaltickets.nl +31(0)10 - 437 47 36

205

CINEKID CATALOGUE 2016

DCP ✶ video ✶ 70 mm ✶ 35 mm ✶ 16 mm ✶ Super 8 ✶ 8 mm www.filmtechniek.nl

Adv 128x190 CenF.indd 1

02-07-15 00:14

VOOR KLEIN EN GROOT 206

PARTNERS

Weekkrant voor jongeren

WEEK

27

35

16 KEN JE KLASSIEKERS

Pagina 25 Vlaamse vloggers Pagina 18 Terug-naarschool-tips 6> Schommelen op grote hoogte • 8> Gezocht: codekrakers • 15> Zandkasteelrecord • 16-17> Weer-naar-school-test

Kidsweek.nl

€2,10

Foto ANP

Ben je dol op grote en bijzondere schepen? Dan moet je dit Daar zijn de Wereldhavendagen (op de foto). In en rondom de haven zijn allerlei dingen te zien, te doen en te beleven. In Amsterdam kun je de komende dagen ook terecht als je van watersport houdt. Daar is nog tot en met zondag de botenbeurs HISWA te water. Je kunt er Foto Shutterstock

bijvoorbeeld wakeboarden en zeillessen volgen.

geschorst is.

Antwoord: Omdat hij

WEETJE

WARME ZOMER Deze zomer is één van de warmste zomers ooit in Nederland.

Sinds 1901 werd het maar in acht zomers warmer.

Maar nat was-ie ook!

Bron: Weeronline

2016

HOE VER 05

weekend in Rotterdam zijn.

RAADSEL VAN YARA

16 september

Een goed bekeken vlog levert aardig wat geld op.

En dus gaan sommige vloggers steeds verder met hun filmpjes. Maar wanneer gaan ze té ver?

Waterpret

Waarom gaat een boom niet

37

www.sevendays.nl • www.facebook.com/7daysnl • @7daysnl • prijs € 2,25

Zwemmen met dolfijnen

naar school?

week

12 Keet is Nederlands kampioen skaten 1 SEPTEMBER 2016

KORT

31 obduction: puzzelen voor gevorderden

Door Gitte Hessels - Knuffelen, een spelen en zwemmen met echte dolfijn: op Hawaï kan het over een tijdje misschien niet meer. De Amerikaanse overheid werkt aan een wet om het te verbieden.

De dolfijnen moeten meer kunnen rusten.

Voor de kust van Hawaï kom je geen dolfijnen tegen. Als je er eentje wilt zien, moet je een flinke smak geld betalen. Dan word je met een bootje naar een baai gebracht.

Betaal je meer, dan mag je uit de boot springen en zwemmen met de dolfijnen in de baai. Steeds meer toeristen willen dat.

Uitrusten ‘Het loopt uit de hand’, zegt zeebioloog Katja Peijnenburg. Een tijdje terug was ze zelf nog op Hawaï.

‘Soms staan er wel twintig boten in één baai’, weet ze. ‘Dolfijnen komen overdag eigenlijk naar zo’n baai om te rusten. Want jagen doen ze ’s avonds en ’s nachts. Maar als er veel boten dobberen, kúnnen ze helemaal niet uitrusten.’ Toeristen plonzen in het water en willen de hele dag met de dolfijnen spelen.

Op afstand De dolfijnen rusten zó weinig dat ze bijna geen energie meer

overhouden om te jagen op vis. Ze verliezen gewicht en de kans is kleiner dat er nieuwe dolfijntjes geboren worden. De Amerikaanse overheid maakt zich zorgen en wil de dolfijnen op Hawaï nu beschermen door het zwemmen met dolfijnen te verbieden. Als het verbod wordt goedgekeurd, mogen toeristen straks alleen op een afstand van 45 meter naar de dieren kijken.

MAG JE VLOG GAAN?

‘Goed plan’, vindt Peijnenburg.

‘Dolfijnen zijn prachtige beesten, maar het zijn wel wilde dieren, geen knuffeldieren.’

© ISTOCK

Ik wil grumpy cat wel aaien 28

14

ISSN 1879-4254

What’s Next?

19-23 oktober 6 november 10-13 november 19 november 20 november 25-27 november 8-14 december

Amsterdam Dance Event Sunday Market Sieraad Art Fair Shirma’s Soulkitchen XL NeighbourFood Market Meesterlijk Design en Ambacht Spiritwalking – Nederlands Dans Theater

Bij de Westergasfabriek is altijd wat te doen!

Volg ons op www.westergasfabriek.nl

207

STICHTING CINEKID ASTERWEG 20G2, 1031 HN AMSTERDAM +31 (0) 20 531 78 90, INFO@CINEKID.NL CINEKID.NL