Series & Shorts

Quoting Masterpieces

Two Paintings by Yokoo 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.
Director: Koert Davidse
Camera: Annigje Peters
Photography: Hiko Uemura
Sound design: Wiebe de Boer
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Grading & deliveries: Laurent Fluttert
Music: Berend Dubbe
Producer: Marc Thelosen | seriousFilm; Camera Japan Rotterdam / 11 min; 2023

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Poetry Poli

Medicine for the Soul

Short film about writer and poetess Gerda Blees who offers doctors, patients and visitors of the Academic Hospital in Utrecht a tailor-made poem.
Director: Duco Tellegen
Camera: Duco Tellegen
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Producer: Dovanafilms; 6 min; 2022

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Unicef Films on War in Ukraine

11 year old Hlib in Lviv

Unicef films on the war in Ukraine, portraying 11 year old Hlib in Lviv.
Director: Dovanafilms (camera & direction)
Editor: Duco Tellegen | Luce van de Weg; 2022

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Bartholomeus Hospital

Six Centuries of Elderly Care in the Heart of Utrecht

A short documentary film by Jos Stelling, commissioned by care and nursing home the Bartholomeus Gasthuis. 'Van Armenpot tot Zorgpakket' tells their impressive history as oldest independently functioning almshouse in the Netherlands. The film serves as an introduction to the historical collection of the Gasthuis and is also screened during their guided tours.
Director: Jos Stelling
Scenario: Jos Stelling & Ingmar Heytze
Narrator: Ingmar Heitze
Camera: Reinout Steenhuizen
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Producer: Judith van den Burg (production), Anton Kramer for Stelling Films BV; 16 min; 2021

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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: Huda Al-Sarari (Yemen), Norma Ledezma (Mexico), Sizani Ngubane (South Africa).
Director: True Heroes Films (camera & direction)
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Producer: True Heroes Films; MEA Ceremony Geneva / 3 x 10 min; 2020

UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances

Short Doc and Trailer

Short documentary and trailer on the work and meaning of the UN Working Group on enforced and involuntary disappearances.
Director: True Heroes Films (camera & direction)
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Producer: True Heroes Films; OHCHR / Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; 2019

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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: Eren Kaskin (Turkey), Abdul Aziz Muhammat (Sudan), Marino Cordoba Beriio (Colombia).
Director: True Heroes Films (camera & direction)
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Producer: True Heroes Films; MEA Ceremony Geneva / 3 x 10 min; 2019

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Estela de Carlotto

Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo

The women who once bravely started out with their silent protest marches as The Madres de la Plaza de Mayo during the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina in the seventies, are still searching for their disappeared grandchildren as The Abuelas de la Plaza de Mayo. Supported for four decades of UN advocacy try and find justice.
Director: True Heroes Films (camera & direction)
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Producer: True Heroes Films; UN Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture; 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.
Director: True Heroes Films (camera & direction)
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Producer: True Heroes Films; Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs / 19 min; 2017

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: Karla Avelar (El Salvador), FreetheFiveKH (Cambodia), Mohamed Zarree (Egypt).
Director: True Heroes Films (camera & direction)
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Producer: True Heroes Films; MEA Ceremony Geneva / 3 x 10 min; 2017

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.
Director: True Heroes Films (camera & direction)
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Producer: True Heroes Films; UN Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture / 5 thematic shorts; 2016

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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.
Director: True Heroes Films (camera & direction)
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Producer: True Heroes Films for HSD Switzerland; OHCHR / Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights / 8 min; 2016

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Abdul Baha

An Enlightened Iranian Abroad

Short introductory film on the life of Abdul Baha, based on archive material.

Bahai Foundation

2015

Unicef Films on Education

Portraits of children for Unicef on Education: Sabita in Nepal, Kalita in Nepal, Lantonirina in Madagascar, children in Bangladesh.
Director: Dovanafilms (camera & direction)
Editor: Duco Tellegen | Luce van de Weg; 2015

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
Sound design: Bart Jilesen
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Grading & deliveries: Laurent Fluttert
Music: Michel Banabila
Producer: Marc thelosen | seriousFilm; Festivals & Universities Screenings / 29 min; 2014

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Unicef Films on Malnutrition

Portraits of children for Unicef on Malnutrition.
Director: Dovanafilms (camera & direction)
Editor: Duco Tellegen | Luce van de Weg; 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: Ellen Blom
Scenario: Ellen Blom
Cast: Herwig Ilegems (Rudolph)
Camera: Martijn Cousijn
Sound: Stefan de Groen
Sound design: Rob Dul (sound design & audiomix)
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Grading & deliveries: Pepijn Klijs
Music: Bart van de Lisdonk
Producer: Vincent Fitz-Jim; 15 min; 2013

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Unicef Films on Syrian Refugee Children in Lebanon

The civilian war in Syria which started in 2011 caused the total number of Syrian refugees to pass the 3 million mark already in 2014. Dovanafilms covered how that humanitarian crisis affected children in several films for Unicef: Mia Farrow visit, Aya, Voices of the Children, Education.
Director: Duco Tellegen
Camera: Duco Tellegen (camera & sound)
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Producer: Dovanafilms for Unicef; 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
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Grading & deliveries: Ralph de Lange
Producer: Eugene de Groot & Tie van der Horst, Full Moon Productions; RTV Utrecht / 2 x 12 min; 2013

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The Collectors

Triptych, 2006–2012

Triptych 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.
Director: Koert Davidse
Camera: Ton Peters
Sound: Diego van Uden, Mark Wessner, Ab Grooters
Sound design: Bart Jilesen
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Grading & deliveries: Laurent Fluttert
Music: Esteve Molero Olivella
Producer: Marc Thelosen | seriousFilm; 2012

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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: Danny Rosendahl (sound design & mix)
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Grading & deliveries: Luce van de Weg
Producer: Pieter Schut | Tadorna Media; RTV Utrecht / 18 min; 2010

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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: Bart Jillesen (sound design & mix)
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Music: Paleis van Boem, David Berndsen
Production assistant: Sophie Slabbekoorn
Producer: Koert Davidse, Marc Thelosen, Yan Ting Yuen | seriousFilm
Comm. editor: Niek Koppen (NFF Wild Card); NFF / 22 min; 2010

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Living Rights

6-part series, 2001–2004

Living Rights is a six part documentary series (6×25′) on the Rights of the Child, 6 intimate portraits of 6 children who live somewhere in the world, and whose everyday reality is somehow conflicting with the United Nation's convention. India: Nisha · Kenya: Tohti · Japan: Yoshi · Belarus: Lena · Peru: Roy · Netherlands: Joey.
Director: Duco Tellegen (director & scenario)
Camera: Danny Elsen, Peter Brugman
Sound: Duco Tellegen
Sound design: Vladimir Golovnitskiy
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Producer: Duco Tellegen | Dovanafilms
Comm. editor: Arjan Lock (EO); Prize of French Ambassador – Pärnu International Documentary FF
Special Mention Human Rights – 58th Locarno International FF
BUSTER's Documentary Award – BUSTER Copenhagen International Film Festival for Children and Youth – Yoshi
Child Right Award – Osnabrück Youth Jury 2006 – Roy | Toti
Nomination Signis Award – Romania 2006 – Lena
Nomination Movie Squad Award – Youth Prize Amnesty International 2006 – Roy | Toti; EO / 6 x 30 min; 2004

Nisha

Nisha's (11) world begins unravelling when her mother reveals that they are both infected with the HIV virus. 'Nisha' is a young girl's brave struggle to face the stigmatisations around AIDS and the fatality of her illness. Upon request login codes to watch the online version. Nisha was a pilot short documentary and the first of the short documentary series Living Rights.
Director: Duco Tellegen
Camera: Peter Brugman NSC
Sound: Duco Tellegen
Sound design: Vladimir Golovnitski
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Producer: Stichting Dovanafilms; Best Short Documentary Nomination Silver Wolf IDFA 2001
Grand Prix at Academia Film Olomouc 2002
Special Mention Children Jury Nord-Sud Media Festival Geneva 2002; 2001

Behind Closed Eyes

Four children with war experiences learn how to build a future, despite hauling their past as excess luggage with them. 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 (director & scenario)
Camera: Danny Elsen, Peter Brugman, Brigit Hillenius
Sound: Duco Tellegen, Kristine van Roon
Sound design: Vladimir Golovnitskiy
Editor: Luce van de Weg
Producer: Duco Tellegen | Dovanafilms
Comm. editor: Henk Hagoort (EO); Award Utrecht City – Netherlands Film Festival 2000
ICODO Award Nomination 2000
Audience Award IDFA 2000 – 2nd
Dick Scherpenzeel Award 2000
Award for Historical Documentary, Cinema & History Festival Istanbul 2001; EO / 4 x 25 min; 2000

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