Jan Van Dyck janvan.dyck@skynet.be Ben Vandendaele ben@radiatorsales.eu
BIOGRAPHIES Jan Van Dyck (Director) is a freelance writer, director and script doctor. After studying philosophy at the university of Louvain, he worked in the theatre as dramaturg, writer, translator and director. From 2010 on he has been concentrating mainly on work for film and television. He made two short films: Until it hits you (2013) and Homeful Bliss (2015), which was part of SXSW in Austin, Texas 2016. Currently he is writing feature films and TV-series for other directors as well (in Belgium and in the Netherlands) and preparing as writer/director a documentary feature Soldier of Love and a feature film L’Invisible. He teaches at the Sint-Lukas Film School in Brussels. Ben Vandendaele (Producer) studied at Rits film school in Brussels, after which he started working at Czar. In 2009 he got the opportunity to produce his first short film, Siemiany, that premiered at ClermontFerrand IFF and at Berlinale. Since 2012 he’s a freelance producer/ post-producer and founded his own production company, Bekke Films.
INTENTIONS I would like to make a light story about something dark, because I think that’s the best way to tackle it. I’m a big fan of Anton Chekhov. In his plays, people commit suicide and they are called comedies. His contemporary kin is arguably Woody Allen and it’s in his spirit I would like to take on a delicate topic like cancer. Sanders’ gift is magical. Like fairy tales need dark woods or castles, this modern urban fairy tale needs a big city in which people can be anonymous and abandoned. A place in which also contemporary magic is possible, say the glamour of movies and photography for example. New York immediately comes to mind.It’s a story about once being in the spotlights, now being afraid of the light and ultimately overcoming that fear once again. So cinematographically I would like this film to be about light and darkness: a color movie inspired by the film noir magic of shadows, with rays of light as signs of vitality. I’m much inspired by photographer Saul Leiter who was so beautifully paid homage to in Carol. The Nipple Whisperer, at it’s core a movie about destruction, has to be an ode to cinematic beauty, physical beauty and a beauty marked by the scars of life and decay.
PRODUCTION NOTE Genre: Tragicomedy
Budget: 75.000
Lenght: 20 min
Financing: Flemish Audiovisual Fund application in March 2017 (60.000)
Format: 2K Language: English Status: In development
Production company: Bekke Films Looking for: Co-producer
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