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Length: 47 minutes. Synopsis In The years 50, an enthusiastic social worker founded the Rotterdam Boys Choir to keep the children of the street. In addition to the colourful history of the choir, the documentary focuses on what it means to be a member today. The choir consists mainly of ' ordinary ' grotestadsjongens that sit on football, love rap music and full of surrender the Choras from the Matthäus Passion of J.S. Bach sing. Credits screenplay and Director: Wendelien Guardian | Camera and sound: Conny downstairs | Editor: Johnny Zaheer | Advice and final editing: Cees van der Wel (RTV rijnmond) | Funding: Rotterdam Film Fund and other funds impressions RTV Rijnmond (2007), International film Festival Rotterdam 2008, Selection Regiodoc 2008, Hollanddoc.nl. Watch Online

The Miracle of Weebosch (2011, 52 ") Synopsis in a village where everyone believes in the forces of Saint Gerardus, where life and death are still connected to the church and where you can bless your pony every year in his name, three young pony girls defy the myth of H ET village. Does Saint Gerardus really have special powers? Is it crap or is there something from where? The screenplay of The Miracle of Weebosch was written during the IDFA documentary Workshop 2008 under the direction of John Appel credits screenplay and Director: Wendelien Guardian | Production: Razmatazz, Els Tau | D. O. P: Hans Bouman | Additional camera: Pim Haddad A.O. | Etymology | Editor: Hinne Brouwer | Opinions: John Appel | Final editors: Lout donders (broadcaster Brabant) | Funding: Media Fund impressions Intimate Lens Festival, Mondoni (2015), Rubin Museum of Art, New York (2013) broadcaster Brabant (2012), International Documentary festival Amsterdam IDFA (2011) Trailer

Tiffany's Dream will be premiered on 14 April 2018 during the Rotterdam Sport Film Festival and is selected for the sport film Award 2018. The jury, including judoka @MarhindeV, director @HansGroenendijk and former winner René van Zundert, chooses the winner. Exciting!

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It is King’s Day and I am off to Staphorst to start my first Day of filming. People in Staphorst are extremely loyal to the House of Orange, our royal family. I should say part of Stap Horst, because the people of Staphorst do not represent a homogeneous group. But most of those who belong to the Reformatist church are very loyal royalists. This loyalty to the House of Orange goes back to 1573 when William of Orange, Protestant himself, claimed to have a special bond with God. Since then Orthodox Protestant cherish the Trinity God, the House of Orange and the Dutch Nation and my seamtresses collect all sorts of royal paraphernalia and don’t miss an opportunity to express their loyalty to the Dutch royal House. A film maker friend of mine asked whether Staphorst women were jewelry to go with their traditional dresses. Staphorst women do wear silver headgear, with ‘ curls ‘ or gold-in the past, the amount of ‘ curls ‘ hexose with the wealth of the family in woman belonged to-and they do wear Bibles and pursess decorated with silver. Young girls are given a silver buckle with their father’s initials engraved on it, to wear on their hat-wear called the ‘ neate ‘. The clasp later is sawn on the black cloaks, which they wear to church on Sundays.  But these silver and golden artifacts are not jewelry in the sense of beautifying the body, like earings do, or necklaces, because traditional Staphorsters reject vanity, which they consider not-Biblical and therefore sinfull. For a community of farmers where wealth and prosperity is measured and shown off, this objection to vanity and frivolity presents a spiritual challenge, which is solved in many creative ways. Just One note before I leave: There are specialists in Staphorst and outside the village, who know much more about the details of the Staphorst’s dressmaking traditions than I do, to which I owe much respect. Most of them are described in detail on the website StaphorstinBeeld.nl. Please don’t hesitate to correct me or send me questions and I’ll try to clarify them.