Every year, the Netherlands Film Festival organizes a special program segment together with the Guest of the Year. This year, actress Anneke Blok is in the spotlight as Guest of the Year. Anneke Blok's choice focuses on disciplines within film that are not immediately visible to the public: costume design and still photography. Anneke Blok's wish is to give these unknown, yet enormously important aspects a special place during the 30th Netherlands Film Festival.

The Netherlands Film Festival is organizing a special retrospective exhibition in Galerie 10 during the festival, in collaboration with set photographer Jaap Vrenegoor. Vrenegoor has an impressive track record and took photos on the sets of the Dutch films MINOES, VET HARD, PHILEINE ZEGT SORRY, OORLOGSWINTER, and ZWARTBOEK, but he has also worked on international films with Paul Verhoeven, Naomi Watts, Burt Reynolds, Christian Slater, and Val Kilmer, among others.

Photo contest
Alongside the exhibition, the festival is launching a special competition for people working on film sets. Being on a set means: waiting, waiting, waiting. Waiting for a cloud to disappear before that one ray of sunshine that makes a scene look like the height of summer. Waiting for the camera to be moved and for the lens to be changed. Waiting for the wind machine and the right amount of leaves to illustrate the effect of a stormy relationship.

What does waiting on a set look like to you? Capture those moments with your photo. Look at your colleague from a different perspective and capture that moment of indifferent waiting, a concentrated pause, or a relieved distraction. An old photo is, of course, also allowed. The special jury, consisting of Anneke Blok, Hans Kemna, Paula van der Oest, and Jaap Vrenegoor, will choose the winner. If you win, you will receive a Canon EOS 550D. This combines high-quality photography with the ability to capture Full HD (1080p) video footage! And your own photo will be beautifully enlarged.

Please state the date/year the photo was taken and which film it depicts. Who is visible in the photo? Send your photo to [email protected] before September 1st with a 300 dpi extension. Do you only need a print? Then send your photo to: Nederlands Film Festival, Attn: Tineke Teerink, P.O. Box 1581, 3500 BN Utrecht

Photo from ALLES IS LIEFDE by Jaap Vrenegoor



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