September 11-12 | Online & ECI Roermond
Take this chance to try something stimulative. Shift Distances! Find more information on www.CineSud.nl
SHIFT | Festival Program
On September 11-12, 2020 we celebrate the sixth edition of the SHIFT Film Festival and we do so in spite, and maybe especially because, of the crazy times that 2020 has brought us so far.
Date
Time
Language
BOOTCAMP SHORTS LAB MASTERCLASSES Script Development
11-sep
10:00 - 13:00
English
Script Development for Documentary
11-sep
10:00 - 13:00
English
With film production on hold, a closedown of cinemas, financial and funding insecurities and the pressure of the lockdown, it is creativity that thrives and needs a double-boost.
Producing
11-sep
14:00 - 15:30
English
Directing
11-sep
15:40 - 17:10
English
Camera & Composition
12-sep
10:00 - 11:30
English
Editing & Sound
12-sep
11:40 - 13:10
English
This year’s edition of the SHIFT Film Festival will run online, shifting distance and creating a space for all the filmmakers to screen their films in an online cinema and to enhance their filmmaking skills during the Bootcamp Shorts Lab.
Distribution
12-sep
14:00 - 15:30
English
Let us try something new together and stay positive and fresh and eager to learn new things. Let us connect despite our physical distances and prove that creativity and our love of film can shift distances!
SPECIALS Workshop: Understanding Film, Day 1
05-sep
11:00 - 15:00
English
CineTalk with Sonja Wyss
11-sep
20:00 - 21:00
English
Workshop: Understanding Film, Day 2
12-sep
10:00 - 14:00
English
CineTalk with Ben Sombogaart
12-sep
20:00 - 20:45
English
NETWORKING
For tickets and more information: bit.ly/shift20_
Online Lunch & Filmmakers Talk
11-sep
13:15 - 13:45
English
Online Lunch & Filmmakers Talk
12-sep
13:15 - 13:45
English
FILMS Silence of the Fish
SHIFT FILM 2020 FESTIVAL
SHIFT | Film Festival
Short Film Competition 1
11-sep
18:00 - 19:30
English sb
Short Film Competition 2
12-sep
18:00 - 19:30
English sb
Made in Limburg
12-sep
18:00 - 19:30
Dutch
Lillian (2019, Andreas Horvath)
12-sep
20:00 - 22:10
Dutch sb
Farewell Paradise (2020, Sonja Wyss)
12-sep
20:15 - 22:00
Dutch sb
Award Ceremony
12-sep
20:45 - 21:00
English
Tickets: All-access Bootcamp Shorts Lab 2020
14€
SHIFT | The Coaches
Masterclasses
Eva Verweij and Loes Komen are successful with their own production
Script Development
Eric Collins is a writer with over 25 years
company Room for Film. Their films have
of experience as a feature-film screenwriter
been selected for multiple international film
11 September | 10:00-13:00
and script advisor. The film The Lover (1992),
festivals and won several awards such as a
Shape Up Your Idea into a Killer Script with Eric Collins
where he was involved as a screenwriter,
Golden Calf (En Route, 2019) and a Student
was nominated for the Oscar and 6 Césars.
Oscar (Grey is a Colour, 2016).
Script Development for Documentary 11 September | 10:00-13:00
Ruud Lenssen is an independent
Michiel ten Horn had the world
Develop Your Documentary Idea into a Filmable Short
documentary filmmaker, known from films
premier of his successful debut movie
Film Project with Ruud Lenssen
such as Lost in Memories (2019) and
De ontmaagding van Eva van End (2012)
Kathem & Chris (2010). The lessons of his
at the Toronto International Film Festival.
youth manifest themselves in all of his films
The prestigious American film magazine
Producing 11 September | 14:00-15:30
Find Ways to Finance Your Film with Eva Verweij &
through the choice of socially relevant themes.
Variety listed Ten Horn as one of ‘Ten
European directors to watch’.
Where Am I?
SHIFT | Bootcamp Shorts Lab
Loes Komen
11 September | 15:40-17:10
Window
Directing
Brigit Hillenius received a Silver Bear at the Berlinale with her short film GREAT! (2003) which she wrote, co-directed and
Bring Your Vision to the Screen with Michiel ten Horn
Camera & Composition
filmed. Her filmmusical Bolletjes Blues (2006) received 4 Gouden Kalf Nominations
and won 1 Gouden Kalf for Music.
12 September | 10:00-11:30
SHORT FILM COMPETITION:
SHIFTING DISTANCE I 11 September | 18:00 - 19:30 | Online
Jasper Quispel is a Dutch film editor who
Make Your Story Visual with Brigit Hillenius
Register now via bit.ly/shiftfilmscreening1
mainly works in feature film, drama series,
Editing & Sound
documentary and commercials. In 2018 he
Window, Inara Chayamiti,
was nominated for a Golden Calf for Best
Documentary, Experimental, Netherlands, 2020, 13 min.
Editing at the Netherlands Film Festival
A cinematographic window connects five self-isolated
for the movie In Blue (2017).
perspectives of the coronavirus.
12 September | 14:00-15:30
Wouter Jansen is the owner of the
8563, Áron Farkas & Ottó Kinizsi,
Submit to be Selected with Wouter Jansen
sales and festival distribution company
Fiction, Hungary, 2020, 6 min.
Square Eyes. Some of the films premiered
A game can go wrong in many ways.
12 September | 11:40-13:10 Enhance Your Story in the Post with Jasper Quispel
Distribution
at prestigious festivals and won multiple awards over the last few years such as
Where Am I?, Cheng Qiu,
main prizes in Cannes, TIFF, Berlin, and
Animation, Experimental, United Kingdom, 2020, 4 min.
Clermont-Ferrand.
What do you see inside the mist?
Der und die
Cuckoo!
SHIFT | Professionals Jury
Maya de Weerdt (17) is a Dutch student and has been involved with theatre, writing
SHORT FILM COMPETITION:
SHIFTING DISTANCE II
Brigit Hillenius is not only the coach for the
and directing since her childhood years. At
Bootcamp Shorts Lab Masterclass Camera
the moment she is focussing on her career
& Composition, but also a member of the
in the theatre and film world.
SHIFT Film Festival Professional Jury.
Muriel Bujotzek (17) is a German pupil currently participating in a literature course
Jan Pool is an independent film and tv
in which films are being evaluated and ana-
director, writer and producer. The children
lysed and the participants are also actively
12 September | 18:00 - 19:30 | Online
series Checkpoint (2009 - today), on which
creating visual content themselves.
Register now via bit.ly/shiftfilmscreening2
he worked as a director, won several prizes,
STAR, Catherina Iosifidis,
among which are the Prix de Jeunesse and
Nino Valcq (19) studies the course AV-
the Cinekid Award.
specialist. He has the ambition to become
Fiction, Netherlands, 2019, 12 min.
a film director in the future because he loves
Stella does everything to get a solo dance part but
Joris Hoebe is a director who co-founded
she quickly loses touch with reality.
the storytelling agency and production
to create worlds where everything is possible.
company Spektor Storytelling in 2011. LaSilence of the Fish, Hilke Rönnefeldt,
The Woman Who Feared to Vanish, Sam van Zoest,
ter, Joris also founded a film platform ba-
Zoé Stegers (18) is a freshly graduated
Fiction, Iceland, 2019, 19 min.
Fiction, Netherlands, 2020, 15 min.
sed on the concept of Cinesud but then for
German pupil who studied Design and Art.
In the Icelandic Fjords a teenager has to fight a battle
Afraid that she will vanish if she isn’t seen by others,
the Northern region - New Noardic Wave.
Zoé is highly interested in different cultures,
against her mother’s depression.
a woman hires a stalker.
therefore her favourite motto is “Art knows
SHIFT | Youth Jury
Der und die, Peter Böving,
Fiction, Netherlands, 2020, 5 min.
Experimental, Animation, Germany, 2019, 10 min.
When a mechanic opens the hood of a car he accidentally
A “tête-à-tête” between a Dresden woman and a Martian.
Damiën Joosten (21) is a Dutch Visual
awakens a dark force of nature.
Based on a poem by Ernst Jandl.
Artist with his own company Obscura
The Red Ball, Jussi Rautaniemi,
Room 5, Nihat Seven,
on Film/Cinema/Video Studies from Arcus
Fiction, Finland, 2020, 4 min.
Fiction, United Kingdom, 2020, 12 min.
Campus/Vista College.
A boy is waiting for his father. Something is not right.
A woman has run away from her abusive husband
The world is about to end.
with her 7-year-old son looking for refuge.
Video. He holds an AV-certificate focused
Daniel Feldman (22) is a former British school teacher turned Film Studies under-
Cuckoo!, Jörgen Scholtens,
I See You Now, Tara Gadomski,
graduate. His areas of expertise include
Fiction, Netherlands, 2019, 7 min.
Fiction, United States, 2020, 11 min.
racial representations in cinema, classical
Inside a cuckoo clock lives a lonely man.
Stuck at home during quarantine a religious father
and contemporary, and the forming of
Every hour he is catapulted out of his tiny house.
struggles to connect with his gay daughter.
Hollywood as an industry.
The Red Ball
A Stranger from the Past, Jan Verdijk,
no borders”.
A Stranger from the Past
SHIFT | Films & Specials
SPECIAL SCREENINGS IN ECI CULTUURFABRIEK ROERMOND
SHIFT | Youth Jury special
SHIFT | Festival Organisation
THANK YOU!
September 12 | 20:00 - 22:10, 20:15 - 22:00
We want to thank you for being part of the sixth edition of the SHIFT Film Festival. Your enthusiasm and support
MADE IN LIMBURG
Lillian, Andreas Horvath,
makes this festival possible even despite the crazy times
Fiction, Austria, 2019, 130 min.
we live in at the moment. We want to express our gratitude
Lillian, an emigrant stranded in New York City,
to all our partners, sponsors, filmmakers and audience
decides to walk back to her native Russia.
for another unforgettable and truly special festival.
Tickets can be bought via bit.ly/SHIFTlillian Price: €9,00
Anna Demianenko | Festival Manager Saskia Lößer | Festival Coordinator
September 12 | 18:00 - 19:00 | ECI Cultuurfabriek
Farewell Paradise, Sonja Wyss,
Roy Lurken | Graphic Design
Tickets can be bought via bit.ly/madeinlimburg20
Documentary, Netherlands, 2020, 93 min.
Mirthe Simoen | Photographer
Price: €7,00
A film about the memories of a broken family.
Guido Franken | Director CineSud
Tickets can be bought via bit.ly/SHIFTfarewell-paradise
Toon Hezemans, Geertje Caris, Sjoerd van Heugten
Price: €9,00
Supervisory Board CineSud
Zo Gezegd, Mark Stevens, Fiction, Netherlands, 2020, 8 min. A film addressing mental health problems. In Pieces, Nils Hanssen, Fiction, Netherlands, 2020, 23 min. Adam comes face to face with his biggest fear when his love for Eva pushes him to his limits. The film is screened as an avant-première.
WORKSHOP UNDERSTANDING FILM
Special thanks to ECI Cultuurfabriek for the hosting of the live screenings! Check www.CineSud.nl for more upcoming events and activities for filmmakers.
5 September, 11:00-15:00; 12 September, 10:00 - 14:00 Waiting Room, Laura Huygen,
Learn How to Watch Films Analytically and Write Your
Documentary, Netherlands, 2019, 11 min.
Own Film Review with Karel Deburchgrave
A portrait of eight people who await their asylum procedure.
Karel Deburchgrave is a film critic and the Schijntijd, Yorn Heijnen,
chairman of the Belgian film magazine Film-
The SHIFT Film Festival and/or program-sections
Fiction, Netherlands, 2020, 8 min.
magie. He has been a member of many film
of the festival are made possible by
A spy goes undercover investigating a mysterious
festivals, including Karlovy Vary (2008), Prix
patient in an asylum. The film is screened as an avant-première.
Italia Torino (2011), Montreal (2012), Berlin
(2014) and Film Fest Washington DC (2015).