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Cinestud
International Student Film Festival Cinestud is all about student cinema,
as it has been for 50 years. In the main program a selection of the
admissions will be screened, reflecting the best this generation of student
filmmakers has to offer. The festival will start at 30th of March till 4th of April
in Cinema Kriterion in Amsterdam.
Everywere student films are involved, Breaking Ground pops up!
At Cinestud we'll organize a 3-day during workshop program around the theme
offline versus online cinema. Join this program if you're interested in making a block-buster for the online screen. We'll organize a speed-date session as well!
See ya @ Amsterdam!
Holland Doc
Holland Doc is the documentary platform of the Public Broadcasting. With every Thursday night around 11 o'clock an arthouse documentary on channel 2, every Sunday night around 21.00 a radio documentary on Radio 1 and 24 hours a day, 7 days a week digital television and internet with space of recent and special older documentaries from the Netherlands and abroad.
Breaking Ground programs a selection of the best student documentaries in the student theme week on digital television from the 29th of August until the 4th of September. Besides that Breaking Ground provides Holland Doc with a monthly gem every first Monday of the month at around 23.00 (from the 6th of September).
Holland Doc 24 can be seen on digital television:
UPC Digital at channel 309
CAIW at channel 119
Ziggo at channel 206
or Livestream on the internet: http://www.hollanddoc.nl/gids/
(digital television can unfortunately only be watched from the Netherlands)
In Vervoering
'In Vervoering' (freely translater 'Moving') is a mobile and intimate festival about theater, film, literature and visual arts. It's (mainly) free and open for everyone. In Vervoering has two locations, in Utrecht and Amersfoort (The Netherlands), and several stages in not-so-ordinary locations; vans, horse carts, carrier cylces, caravans, campers, botes, coaches and folders.Come and listen to Stairs to Nowhere, Most Unpleasant Men, Only Seven Left, Kismet and more. Come and sail with us while you're part of intimate shows of singer-songwriters like Marten de Paepe and a balladeer (marinus solo) or dance on the records of Radio Barkas. Let the wind from through your hair, sitting in a carrier cyclt, listering to stories from writers like Oscar Kocken, Jaap Robben or Chiron Holwijn.
Come and check it out for yourself!
29th of August we park in the Brouwersplantsoen in Amersfoort and the 30th of August we land in Park Lepelenburg in Utrecht. From 14.00 till 20.00
Moving Concepts
Moving Concepts is founded for facilitating the theatre and multimedia needs of every sort of artists to present their work on location. Moving Concepts offers them a stage wherever the like. To fulfill those needs the Moving Concepts foundation renewed and redecorated an old, beatiful truck from 1967 (actually a horse cart) which is easy to adjust to every possible situation and which fits in, because of it's great oldtime look, with every sort of festival.Nederlands Film Festival
Every year, in the last week of September, Utrecht (NL) is all about Dutch film. Then the Nederlands Film Festival (Netherlands Film Festival) takes places that focusses on all aspects of Dutch film. In 2008 the festival showed almost 400 films - from which 125 premiered at the festival - and a record of 145.000 people visited besides the screenings als presentations, discussions and expositions. And not only that! More than 1,5 million visitors also kept up with the festival online.Louis Hartlooper Complex
Every other month Breaking Ground organizes Breaking Ground NL in the Louis Hartlooper Complex: one of the few art-house cinemas Utrecht has.The Louis Hartlooper Complex is a former police station in Utrecht, in the area Museumkwartier. It is named after Louis Hartlooper (1864 - 1922), one of the most famous film interpreters The Netherlands has ever known. He told the audience the story that went along with the silence films of that time.
Jos Stelling (director of The Flying Dutchman) acquired the building in 2001 and made it into the cultural centre it is today. The Louis Hartlooper Complex shows art house films, organizes exhibitions and is the centre of several filmfestivals, including Breaking Ground NL!
Go Short
In March Breaking Ground meets up with Go Short to organise the Breaking Shorts competition (with the best European student films) and Breaking Shorts Campus. But who is Go Short?
Go Short is a brand new, refreshing film festival for short films that takes place in the city of Nijmegen. It is an unique event in The Netherlands at which the audience is treated to short films, most of them made by young, talented filmmakers from all over Europe. The festival will take place at film theatre LUX, but short films will also be shown at other, surprising spots in the city centre. Short films are getting a lot of attention at the moment, thanks to digital channels like YouTube. Not everything on these websites is of good quality though. Go Short guarantees a high standard. All films have been selected with care.
Besides competitions for best short fiction film, documentary, animation, and art film, there will be a diversity of interesting additional programs. The audience and film professionals will be able to get to know more about the possibilities of the short film by visiting retrospectives, master classes, debates, expositions, lectures, and programs around new media, like mobile phones and the iPod.
Utrecht Uitfeest
Culturele Zondagen
Flachland Fest
Cambridge International Student Film Festival
The Cambridge International Student Film Festival is a pioneering enterprise and the first international student-led film festival in the UK. From June 18th-20th, it will bring together student film-makers, industry professionals and devotees from all over the world, showcase their films and celebrate their talents in a 3 day film fest of extravagant proportions. Their aim is to put Cambridge on the map as one of the film-making capitals of the country, if not the world. At this moment Breaking Ground and this festival are seeking of ways of collaborating.