Series & Shorts

Quoting Masterpieces

Two Paintings by Yokoo Tadanori

How close to an artist whom you admire can you get? In an ultimate effort, director Koert Davidse identifies to the extreme with the work of Japanese artist Yokoo Tadanori.
Director: Koert Davidse
Camera: Annigje Peters
Photography: Hiko Uemura
Sound design: Wiebe de Boer
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Grading & deliveries: Laurent Fluttert
Music: Berend Dubbe
Producer: Marc Thelosen | seriousFilm; Camera Japan Rotterdam / 11 min; 2023

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Poetry Poli

Medicine for the Soul

Short film about writer and poetess Gerda Blees who offers doctors, patients and visitors of the Academic Hospital in Utrecht a tailor-made poem.
Director: Duco Tellegen
Camera: Duco Tellegen
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Producer: Dovanafilms; 6 min; 2022

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Showreel Incentive TV Series

Short trailer for The Dutch Film Fund of High End Tv Productions and Series.

Dutch Film Fund / 1 min

2022

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Martin Ennals Award 2020

Three Portraits

Three short documentary portraits about three human rights defenders who are selected by a jury of ten global human rights organisations for the Martin Ennals Award, in 2020 being: Huda Al-Sarari (Yemen), Norma Ledezma (Mexico), Sizani Ngubane (South Africa).
Director: True Heroes Films (camera & direction)
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Producer: True Heroes Films; MEA Ceremony Geneva / 3 x 10 min; 2020

UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances

Short Doc and Trailer

Short documentary and trailer on the work and meaning of the UN Working Group on enforced and involuntary disappearances.
Director: True Heroes Films (camera & direction)
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Producer: True Heroes Films; OHCHR / Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; 2019

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Martin Ennals Award 2019

Three Portraits

Three short documentary portraits about three human rights defenders who are selected by a jury of ten global human rights organisations for the Martin Ennals Award in 2019 being: Eren Kaskin (Turkey), Abdul Aziz Muhammat (Sudan), Marino Cordoba Beriio (Colombia).
Director: True Heroes Films (camera & direction)
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Producer: True Heroes Films; MEA Ceremony Geneva / 3 x 10 min; 2019

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Estela de Carlotto

Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo

The women who once bravely started out with their silent protest marches as The Madres de la Plaza de Mayo during the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina in the seventies, are still searching for their disappeared grandchildren as The Abuelas de la Plaza de Mayo. Supported for four decades of UN advocacy try and find justice.
Director: True Heroes Films (camera & direction)
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Producer: True Heroes Films; UN Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture; 2019

Morning and Evening

Short Trailer | Study

An old fisherman wakes up one morning, everything appears to be the same but yet it is not. As in a dream, significant events from his life flash before his eyes. Gradually it dawns on him that he died that very morning. Exploring possibilities for a film about the work of Norwegian author Jon Fosse.
Director: Ellen Blom
Camera: Martijn Cousijn
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Grading & deliveries: Pepijn Klijs; 2018

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Showreel Europe Commerce

Trailer/Showreel celebrating the signing of the renewed convention of the European Council for Cinematographic Coproductions on the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Filmfund & IFFR / 1:30 min

2017

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Tujenge Amani

Let's Build Peace

Documentary on how, supported by a conflict prevention and mediation project, the population of Congo has become resilient and determined to fight for peace.
Director: True Heroes Films (camera & direction)
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Producer: True Heroes Films; Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs / 19 min; 2017

Martin Ennals Award 2017

Three Portraits

Three short documentary portraits about three human rights defenders who are selected by a jury of ten global human rights organisations for the Martin Ennals Award, in 2017 being: Karla Avelar (El Salvador), FreetheFiveKH (Cambodia), Mohamed Zarree (Egypt).
Director: True Heroes Films (camera & direction)
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Producer: True Heroes Films; MEA Ceremony Geneva / 3 x 10 min; 2017

Torture

From Horror to Healing

The United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture celebrates its 35th birthday this year. The fund provides vital funding to doctors, therapists and lawyers working directly with torture victims. Every year, it helps on average 50,000 victims and their families regain their dignity and lives in all regions of the world.
Director: True Heroes Films (camera & direction)
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Producer: True Heroes Films; UN Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture / 5 thematic shorts; 2016

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Water as a Right

Bill of Rights

True Heroes Films in Geneva made portraits of people around the world, to whose lives and situation the Bill of Rights made a huge difference, defending their basic universal rights. In the heyday of the American automobile industry, Detroit was one of the richest cities in the US. The collapse of the industry brought widespread unemployment. The resulting poverty affected one of the most basic human rights - the right to water.
Director: True Heroes Films (camera & direction)
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Producer: True Heroes Films for HSD Switzerland; OHCHR / Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights / 8 min; 2016

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Abdul Baha

An Enlightened Iranian Abroad

Short introductory film on the life of Abdul Baha, based on archive material.

Bahai Foundation

2015

Last Words

Linguist-philologist Mark Janse discovers speakers of the Cappadocian language – previously assumed extinct. Linguists worldwide are exhilarated at the discovery, but Janse realises the rediscovered language is doomed to die anyway.
Director: Koert Davidse
Camera: Ton Peters
Sound: Mark Wessner
Sound design: Bart Jilesen
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Grading & deliveries: Laurent Fluttert
Music: Michel Banabila
Producer: Marc thelosen | seriousFilm; Festivals & Universities Screenings / 29 min; 2014

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Stained

Short Fiction Film

Whenever Rudolph the forester decides a tree has to be cut down, he marks it by staining it with red paint. With a single stroke of paint, Rudolph decides whether a tree stands or falls. One day, when Rudolph wakes up, everything has changed...
Director: Ellen Blom
Scenario: Ellen Blom
Cast: Herwig Ilegems (Rudolph)
Camera: Martijn Cousijn
Sound: Stefan de Groen
Sound design: Rob Dul (sound design & audiomix)
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Grading & deliveries: Pepijn Klijs
Music: Bart van de Lisdonk
Producer: Vincent Fitz-Jim; 15 min; 2013

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Fingerprints

Element #76: Osmium

An intimate short film exploring the stories of prisoners through their hands. 'Fingerprints' was made as part of The 94 Elements, From Hydrogen to Plutonium Project. It takes the element osmium, used in detecting fingerprints at crime scenes, as its starting point.
Director: Helmie Stil
Camera: Nils Post
Sound: Helmie Stil
Sound design: Wiebe de Boer (sound design & mix)
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Grading & deliveries: Petro van Leeuwen
Producer: Mike Paterson; 6 min; 2013

Hidden Not Forgotten

Film about Fort de Bilt and film about Amersfoort Concentration Camp. Both films are part of a series of 4 documentaries about War Monuments, that often remind us of stories that are unknown to us while we pass by every day.
Director: Tie van der Horst
Camera: Willem Hessusius
Sound: Eugene de Groot
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Grading & deliveries: Ralph de Lange
Producer: Eugene de Groot & Tie van der Horst, Full Moon Productions; RTV Utrecht / 2 x 12 min; 2013

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The Collectors

Triptych, 2006–2012

Triptych about the phenomena of collecting, portraying 3 different collectors in 3 films: The World as a Collection portraying artist collectioneur Erik Fens; They are Giants, portraying miniature collector Guus Thurkow †; Asian Delight portraying Ferry Bertholet, the most important collector of Asian erotic art world wide.
Director: Koert Davidse
Camera: Ton Peters
Sound: Diego van Uden, Mark Wessner, Ab Grooters
Sound design: Bart Jilesen
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Grading & deliveries: Laurent Fluttert
Music: Esteve Molero Olivella
Producer: Marc Thelosen | seriousFilm; 2012

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I Didn't Know it Really Happened

Concentration camp survivor Velo Bierman sees it as his mission to continue telling the story, in this case to students of the school Breul Zeist, with whom he annually visits former concentration camp Natzweiler.
Director: Ellen Blom
Camera: Martijn Cousijn
Sound: Jillis Schriel
Sound design: Danny Rosendahl (sound design & mix)
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Grading & deliveries: Luce van de Weg
Producer: Pieter Schut | Tadorna Media; RTV Utrecht / 18 min; 2010

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LOS

The ferry that has been sailing daily between Stockholm and Helsinki since 1959 is known for the wild and heavy drinking of young passengers, encouraged by the taxfree shops, bars and discotheques on board. Together with a group of passengers we cross the border into a different world. The further we get out at sea, the more the usually introverted Scandinavians seem to be transformed...
Director: Edward Cook
Camera: Edward Cook, Vladas Naudzius
Sound: Rik Meijer
Sound design: Bart Jillesen (sound design & mix)
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Music: Paleis van Boem, David Berndsen
Production assistant: Sophie Slabbekoorn
Producer: Koert Davidse, Marc Thelosen, Yan Ting Yuen | seriousFilm
Comm. editor: Niek Koppen (NFF Wild Card); NFF / 22 min; 2010

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I Breathe Through My Eyes

Video Clip for a song by Spinvis

Video clip for a song by Spinvis.
Director: Pauline Huntjes
Camera: Onno van der Wal
Editor: Luce van de Weg; 3 min; 2007

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Living Rights

6-part series, 2001–2004

Living Rights is a six part documentary series (6×25′) on the Rights of the Child, 6 intimate portraits of 6 children who live somewhere in the world, and whose everyday reality is somehow conflicting with the United Nation's convention. India: Nisha · Kenya: Tohti · Japan: Yoshi · Belarus: Lena · Peru: Roy · Netherlands: Joey.
Director: Duco Tellegen (director & scenario)
Camera: Danny Elsen, Peter Brugman
Sound: Duco Tellegen
Sound design: Vladimir Golovnitskiy
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Producer: Duco Tellegen | Dovanafilms
Comm. editor: Arjan Lock (EO); EO / 6 x 30 min; 2004

Behind Closed Eyes

Four children with war experiences learn how to build a future, despite hauling their past as excess luggage with them. They are blessed with an impressive survival instinct. The series presents the face and voice of a child, for whom the war is neither history nor politics. Kossovo: Eranda · Liberia: Spencer · Cambodia: Nohm · Rwanda: Jacqueline.
Director: Duco Tellegen (director & scenario)
Camera: Danny Elsen, Peter Brugman, Brigit Hillenius
Sound: Duco Tellegen, Kristine van Roon
Sound design: Vladimir Golovnitskiy
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Producer: Duco Tellegen | Dovanafilms
Comm. editor: Henk Hagoort (EO); EO / 4 x 25 min; 2000