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This year we’ll be visiting the Cannes Film Festival again, from 14 – 21 May. We’re presenting the following development slate.
Contact in Cannes: 35 Rue Felix Faure, Cannes (at the old harbour) – Phone : +31 6 24908696 – raymond@revolver.nl
COMMON DESCENT
At a hedonistic retreat in the countryside, a neurotic young hedge fund analyst and his arrogant colleagues fall hostage to an enraged outsider. To survive the weekend, the analyst must outmanoeuvre both his captor and his coworkers – and confront disturbing truths about what he does for a living.
A taut and distressing thriller penetrates the fog of the global financial crisis and distils it into elemental human urges. Infused with timeless themes of greed, guilt, and self-deception, this film tackles the web of immoral and amoral forces behind a disaster that continues to shape our individual and collective fates.
Director: Eelko Ferwerda (“American Dreams”, winner Hollywood Discovery Award – Hollywood Film Festival 2006, “Born and Raised”, Winner Grand Prix – Very Short Film Festival 2010, International Competition of the Short Film Festival Clermont-Ferrand)
Status: Development
Cast: Rutger Hauer (letter of intent)
I DREAM IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE
Screenplay awarded with the Sundance Global Filmmaking Award 2011
An indigenous Mexican language is about to disappear because the last two speakers had a fight. A young, ambitious linguist, urged by his scientific aims, travels to Mexico to save the language. He has to convince the two old men to talk to each other again but uncovers surprising truths about their complicated relationship.
Developed at the Sundance Screenwriters Lab and Binger Filmlab
Director: Ernesto Contreras (“Parpados Azules”, nominated Camera d’Or 2008, winner Sundance Jury Award 2008)
Status: Financing
SUPERNOVA
Meis is fifteen, lives in the back of beyond and aspires to a grand and stirring life. But all that happens is the passing of time, waiting for the next car crash into the front of the house.
Director: Tamar van den Dop (“Blind”, Toronto 2008)
Status: Financing (90% in place)
Budget: 1.5 mio
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Happy to read the very nice article (in Dutch) in Adformatie magazine about the ‘Instant Poster Power’ campaign Revolver did for ad agency Lemon Scented Tea and Océ. Check the full campaign on InstantPosterPower.com.
Have a look!
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It’s a dream scenario for any creative over the age of 24: to escape the monotony of a studio’s four white walls and take their creativity on the road. This is the scenario for Océ latest campaign targeting the global creative B2B industry.
Two young guys, their customized van, a printer and a business model they dub ‘Instant Poster Power’. The ‘documentary’ follows the two micropreneurs as they service small businesses, pull pranks, do some social good and transform the urban landscape. In short, how posters, when made more accessible, can emotionalize communication.
Revolver worked together with Amsterdam advertising and storytelling agency Lemon Scented Tea and its client Océ to develop the ‘Instant Poster Power’ campaign. The campaign uses a rough unscripted documentary style video to drive home a clear message; namely, that the Océ Poster Printer is the fastest and easiest poster printer on the planet.
“We wanted a campaign that would tell the story of the PosterPrinter in a way that would inspire our sales force and function as a conversation starter. A B2B story that didn’t feel B2B,” (Ed Lensen, International Business Development Manager of Océ Display Graphics Systems)
Shot by our director Eelko Ferwerda, the documentary is the first of several short online films Océ will launch in the next few months targeting creative industries such as printers, copy shops and multinationals. The campaign is also supported by a website, for which Revolver was also responsible.
The poster culture is very proactive and spontaneous. We wanted that to be part of the campaign, which was shot mostly guerrilla style and, with the exception of a hundred pages of back stories and fictitious interviews, unscripted. Revolver worked very closely with the agency and its client Océ to develop these stories, build the characters and make sure there would be enough space for improvisation. Shot entirely in Capetown, we could make use of our experience with international productions as well as knowledge of making documentaries and producing in a guerrilla style.
Agency: Lemon Scented Tea
Account & RTV: Stephanie van der Klift
Client lead: Ed Lensen, Aarthi Rasiawan
Director: Eelko Ferwerda (Revolver)
Producer: Raymond van der Kaaij
Line producer Capetown: Mona Mortier, Episode
DOP: Gregg Telussa
Editor: Jelmar Hoekstra
Music: Bo Koek
Grading: De Grot
Sound design: Haai Faai Deluxe
Online: Revolver
Photographer: David Bloomer
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Voor KesselsKramer en naar een idee van Erik Kessels an Hans Aarsman maakte we drie korte films in de aanloop naar de verkiezingen van 9 juni jl. Met deze films wilden we op fictionele wijze burgers portretteren die te maken krijgen met een aantal van de maatregelen die door politieke partijen waren aangekondigd.
Het resultaat: een ironische kijk op Nederland na de verkiezingen waarin een aantal van deze maatregelen ook daadwerkelijk worden uitgevoerd. De films werden verspreid via onder andere Youtube maar ook diverse weblogs waaronder Flabber en VKmag.
Regie: Eelko Ferwerda
DOP: Jasper Bazuin
Edit: Jasper Verhorevoort
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Again a major prize for the mini short film that Eelko Ferwerda (Waanzee) directed. This time the film received both the Grand Prize AND the Audience Award at the Curtocircuito Festival. Previously, ‘Born & Raised won the Grand Prix of the Very Short Film Festival 2010 and was selected for the International Competition of the Short Film Festival in Clermont-Ferrand. The film premiered at the Netherlands Film Festival in Utrecht.
Born and Raised is a humorous short film about Elsa and Bo who are expecting their first baby. Bo composes a song for his child that he does not call a song but a ‘sound painting’. The film was initially made as speccommercial for Kitkat.
‘Born and Raised’ was made without budget or support of funds, so even more reasons for a big congrats to Eelko and his crew for this fantastic success!
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The campaign “Kraakt-ie ‘m of kraakt-ie ‘m niet” has won a SAN Accent Award yesterday night!! For this campaign, Revolver produced all the online video and worked closely together with the team of Lost Boys, from pitch to execution.
Basic idea behind the campaign is that people often intuitively feel something is wrong or suspected, but dont react on it. The campaign targets at just that feeling and calls upon trusting your first reaction. On the website, suspected situations that could point at car theft are shown with the question: “Will be break in or not?” ( “Kraakt-ie ‘m of kraakt-ie ‘m niet”).
Using four clear signals that could point at car theft, the campaign helps to recognize suspected behaviour. We gave the campaign a very filmic and direct character, approaching the four situations as short films, using tperspective change and parallell storylines.
Congrats to Marnix, Alain and the team at Lost Boys, Eelko for directing four great movies and Jasper for his camerawork!
Client: LBI OER
Concept: Marnix Tellings, Alain Dujardin
Director: Eelko Ferwerda
DOP: Jasper Bazuin
Postproduction:Waanzee
Sound: Sonic Picnic
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A short update to tell about a new project we recently finished, an online video project for Dutch energy supplier ENECO. In the game we join the two main characters from the TV commercials, Ad & Rini in a bustour that ultimately can bring the visitors some attractive prizes!
We where responsible for the whole production and postproduction, as well as the production of the banners that accompany the online campaign. Client was Tribal DDB, directed by Eelko Ferwerda and the DOP was Jasper Bazuin.
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