Quoting Masterpieces
Two Paintings by Yooko 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.
Camera: Annigje Peters
Photography: Hiko Uemura
Editing: Luce van de Weg
Music: Berend Dubbe
Sounddesign: Wiebe de Boer
Grading & deliveries : Laurent Fluttert
Producer: Marc Thelosen | seriousFilm
Camera Japan Rotterdam | 11 min
2023
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:
Norma Ledezma - Mexico
Sizani Ngubane - South Africa
Camera & Direction: True Heroes Films
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Produced by True heroes Films | 3 X 10 min
2020
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:
Abdul Aziz Muhammat - Sudan
Marino Cordoba Beriio - Colombia
Camera & Direction: True Heroes Films
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Produced by True Heroes Films |. 3 x 10 min
2019
Estela de Carlotto
The Abuelas Search for Truth and Justice – four decades of UN advocacy by the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo of Argentina to find their disappeared grandchildren
Camera & Direction: True Heroes Films
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Produced by 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: Pepijn Klijs
2018
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:
FreetheFiveKH - Cambodia
Mohamed Zarree: Egypt
Camera & Direction: True Heroes Films
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Produced by True Heroes Films |. 3 x 10 min
2019
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
Camera & Direction: True heroes Films
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Produced by True Heroes Films for HSD Switzerland
| min
2017
Abdul Baha
An Enlighted Iranian Abroad
Short introductory film on the life of Abdul Baha, based on archive material.
Camera: Martijn Cousijn
Sound Jillis Schriel
Grading: Pepijn Klijs
Sound Design: Erik Griekspoor
Producer: Valérie Schuit | Viewpoint
Editor in chief: Oscar van de Kroon | Jan Willem Husken
NPS | 52 min
2015
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.
Camera & Direction: True Heroes Films
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Produced by True Heroes Films |. 5 thematically shorts
2016
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
Camera & Direction: True heroes Films
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Produced by True Heroes Films for HSD Switzerland
| min
2016
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
Grading: Laurent Fluttert
Sounddesign: Bart Jilesen
Music: Michel Banabila
Producer: Marc thelosen | seriousFilm
Festivals & Universities Screenings | 29 min
2014
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 and Scenario: Ellen Blom
Rudolph: Herwig Ilegems
Camera: Martijn Cousijn
Sound: Stefan de Groen
Music: Bart van de Lisdonk
Sounddesign and Audiomix: Rob Dul
Grading: Pepijn Klijs
Producer: Vincent Fitz-Jim
15 min
2013
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 and mix: Wiebe de Boer
Grading: 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
Grading: Ralph de Lange
Producer: Eugene de Groot & Tie van der Horst
Full Moon Productions
RTV Utrecht | 2 x 12 min
2013
The Collectors
Triptich 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.
Regie :Koert Davidse
Camera: Ton Peters
Sound: Diego van Uden, Mark Wessner, Ab Grooters
Sound design: Bart Jilesen
Grading: Laurent Fluttert
Music: Esteve Molero Olivella
Producer: Marc Thelosen | seriousFilm
2006 - 2012
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 and mix: Danny Rosendahl
Grading: Luce van de Weg
Producer: Pieter Schut | Tadorna Media
RTV Utrecht | 18 min
2010
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 and mix: Bart Jillesen
Music: Paleis van Boem David Berndsen
Production Assistent: Sophie Slabbekoorn
Producers: Koert Davidse, Marc Thelosen, Yan Ting Yuen | seriousFilm
Comissioning Editor for NFF Wild Card: Niek Koppen
NFF | 22 min
2010
Living Rights
Living Rights is a six part documentary series (6×25′) on the Rights of the Child, 6 intimate portraits of 6 children's who live somewhere in the world, and whose every day reality is somehow conflicting with the United Nation’s convention.
India: Nisha
Kenia: Tohti
Japan: Yoshi
Belarus: Lena
Peru: Roy
Netherlands: Joey
Director: Duco Tellegen
Scenario: Duco Tellegen
Camera: Danny Elsen, Peter Brugman
Sound: Duco Tellegen
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Sounddesign: Vladimir Golovnitskiy
Producer: Duco Tellegen | Dovanafilms
Commissioning Editor for EO: Arjan Lock
EO | 6 x 30 min
2001 - 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
Scenario: Duco Tellegen
Camera: Danny Elsen, Peter Brugman, Brigit Hillenius
Sound: Duco Tellegen, Kristine van Roon
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Sounddesign: Vladimir Golovnitskiy
Producer: Duco Tellegen | Dovanafilms
Commissioning Editor for EO: Henk Hagoort
EO | 4 x 25 min
2000