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June 6th 2011 . written by

We’re very proud that starting 9th June, our movie CLUB ZEUS will be screened in Dutch cinemas Ketelhuis (Amsterdam), Louis Hartlooper Complex (Utrecht), Lantaren/Venster (Rotterdam), Lux (Nijmegen) en Filmhuis Den Haag!

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January 5th 2011 . written by

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Club Zeus, nieuwe film van David Verbeek (R U There, Shanghai Trance), in première op het International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Filmisch portret van hostboys als professionale hartendieven in Shanghai geselecteerd voor “Return of the Tiger”.

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Club Zeus, de nieuwe film van de Nederlandse jonge regisseur David Verbeek, beleeft zijn première op het 40e International Film Festival Rotterdam (26 januari – 6 februari 2011). De film is geselecteerd voor het “Return of the Tiger” programma. David Verbeek regisseerde eerder de lange speelfilm R U There, die in 2010 in het prestigieuze ‘Un Certain Regard’ van het Filmfestival van Cannes in première ging. Ook regisseerde hij de film Shanghai Trance, waarmee hij genomineerd was voor een Tiger Award op het International Film Festival Rotterdam 2008. Het scenario werd eveneens door David Verbeek geschreven. Producent is Raymond van der Kaaij voor het Rotterdamse Revolver Media. In korte tijd is dit inmiddels David Verbeeks vierde film.

Zie ook http://www.facebook.com/clubzeus

Binnenkort zijn screeners beschikbaar. U kunt deze opvragen bij MVSP / Monique van Schendelen. David Verbeek is beschikbaar voor interviews.

Club Zeus vertelt het verhaal van twee professionele hostboys in Shanghai. Deze jongens werken in een zogenaamde hostclub, waar iedere avond vrouwen komen die behoefte hebben aan gezelschap, aandacht, een gesprek, liefde. Hostboys zijn professionele hartendieven, wiens doel het is ervoor te zorgen dat de vrouwen blijven terugkomen en soms tienduizenden euro’s aan champagne en feesten uitgeven. Leonardo is één van deze hosts, een ingetogen jongen wiens dag begint als de nacht valt en eindigt als de zon weer opkomt. Leonardo verdient goed met het verkopen van aandacht, vriendschap en emotie en hij heeft een dagtaak aan het onderhouden van tientallen ‘relaties’ met vrouwen. Op een dag staat Sly (27) voor zijn deur, een knappe, slanke jongen en ooit de best verkopende host. read more >>

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December 29th 2010 . written by

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We’re very happy to announce that our feature film Club Zeus has been selected for the upcoming edition of the International Filmfestival Rotterdam. The film will be part of the ‘Return of the Tiger‘ section, which showcases new work by former Tiger Award nominees.

‘Club Zeus’ needs a little background information, as it was developed and produced in a less ordinary way. While director David Verbeek was preparing his next feature film ‘R U There’ (selected for Cannes 2010), the plan came up to shoot a film in Shanghai in the meantime, mainly for the sake of fun, ambition and to need to create something together. We proposed a plan to the Dutch Filmfund and the Fund for the Arts (Fonds BKVB) to shoot a film about hostboys, mainly based on improvisation.

In the meantime, David wrote the first rough draft of a script of around 40 pages. The two funds reacted positively on our proposal and decided to support the project, after which the Rotterdam Media Fund came on board as well. All based on a plan without script (kudos to the funds!). While we where in preproduction, we realized the potential to actually make a feature film with this, so we kept this option open and decided to use all the available funding for the actual shoot.

We flew to Shanghai where we shot the film with an all-Chinese crew in ten days, with the help, endless energy and enthusiasm of our local production partner Natacha Devillers and her team. Great fun, huge creative energy and an amazing city! After returning, David edited a first cut of the movie over the course of a few months (as he started prepping his following project). Since we used all our financial resources for the shoot, we took a fairly rough cut of about 75 minutes to the Dutch Filmfund and proposed it for a postproduction subsidy. The fund generously decided to help us and with this financial backing and the enthusiasm of a lot of people we managed to finish the film.

What a ride…

So… just to say a big thank you to, well, everybody that helped us with this crazy project! David, Natacha, Sisi and the rest of the Chinese crew, Sander, Jasper, Eelko, Sander (another one), Ranko, Arthur, Martijn, Gayle and the other Ambassadors, the funds ofcourse… lets have a great party in January!

UPDATE:
We’ve just created a Facebook page which you can find here

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December 8th 2010 . written by

Tres cool, the film we made last year with Jean-Julien Pous for the Louis Vuitton competition, has been selected for the 40th edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam. We like!

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December 11th 2009 . written by

For the 2010 edition of the renowned International Filmfestival Rotterdam, we produced the new commercial for TV, Cinemas and internet.

The commercial was directed by David Verbeek, whos previous film Shanghai Trance was one of the Tiger Award nominees at the previous festival edition. It was the festivals wish for this year to ask a film director with a clear link to the festival to create a very personal interpretation of what the IFFR stands for and what makes the festival unique.

David focused on travelling and exploring, discovering new films and filmmakers, experiencing extraordinary cinematographic journeys and ultimately, enjoying cinema. Pretty cool detail is that we used audio fragments of actual films that have been screened and distributed by the festival…

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