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The Dutch short youth film THE MOON OF ANOUAR has been selected for the Toronto International Children's Film Festival. The prestigious film festival for a select number of youth films from around the world takes place from April 9 to 21, 2013, in Canada. Director Michiel van Jaarsveld will attend the international premiere of this special children's film. The screenplay was written by Amarins Romkema, and the producer is IJswater Films in collaboration with the co-producing broadcaster NTR.
ANOUAR'S MOON (25 minutes) tells the fairytale-like story of ten-year-old Iranian Anouar (Pedram Parastar), where the curtains at home in Amsterdam-West are closed day and night and his mother Mahvash (Mehrnoush Rahmani) is always in bed. To bring the light back into the house and comfort his little sister Sahar (Golda de Leon), Anouar decides to go get the moon for her.
THE MOON OF ANOUAR was created as part of 'Nu of Nooit', a project by Z@pp and the Media Fund. Director Michiel van Jaarsveld, screenwriter Amarins Romkema, and producer Marc Bary are the same team behind the award-winning IJswater youth short film 'Papa's Tango' (25 international film festival selections, including the Berlinale, and winner of Best Film Awards in Italy and Denmark). THE MOON OF ANOUAR premiered at EYE in late December and was shown on television in early January.
Meanwhile, IJswater is developing the new 'Nu of Nooit' youth film 'SalÄ m' in collaboration with the KRO, by Johan Timmers (director) and Floor Paul (screenplay).
THE MOON OF ANOUAR can still be seen on Zappbios short catch-up TV:
http://www.uitzendinggemist.nl/afleveringen/1317107
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More info: Eline van Hagen/IJswater Films ǀ T: 020-4421760 ǀ [email protected] ǀ www.ijswater.nl
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