Reeled In

28/06/2024

"Take a picture while I pretend to be working 🤓" me circa now.

We did manage to finish the shot list though 🔥💪

07/06/2024

Third time the charm! ✨✨✨
For my third visit I renewed the tradition.

Intense, stimulating and sunny as usual! ☀️
This edition was particularly interesting with many inspiring workshops, invigorating encounters and of course many brilliant films which I'm very happy to have managed to see. 🎞️

Till the 78th !

31/03/2024

Happy chocolate day you all 🐥

Due to my mail box being full and a tad of a drama queen i almost missed the notification 😬: crisis averted though 😅
So happy to be featured in lovely Zeeland 🐚 amongst many other talented filmmakers!

Meet you all in may at the .tegenstroom 💫

23/03/2024

What a sparkly and inspiring weekend we had ! ✨✨
As part of the .nl team I had the pleasure to organize the Crossborder Film Conference and Euregion Film Forum and thus meet all our lovely guests, listen to their fascinating panels, watch the amazing films within our screening selections and learn a lot during the many workshops across the four residencies we hosted in Maastricht! 💫
A huge thanks to all who participated in our activities, to my colleagues at CineSud and to our partners , Creative Europe Desk Luxembourg, Creative Europe Desk North Rhine-Westphalia, and for the successful edition of 2024! 🙏🙏
Till next time 🌟

📸 .driessen.photographymahani

25/01/2024

Trust the process. Embrace the chaos.

I've been using coloured post it to work on my narrative skeleton. It's perfectly tidy here eventhough it doesnt look it. Yes it is. Shut up.

Note how I debrief out loud wether I have a writer's room buddy or not, as showcased by the open mouth and the southern European hand gestures.

Also I have my own personal paparazzo to catch spontaneous slice of life and create Instagram content, sue me!

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10/11/2023

A couple of weeks ago we had an amazing time at !

What an honour to be part of such a qualitative screening block alongside so many great shorts.

A huge thanks to the organization team, to our friendly hosts who had very inspiring questions during the Q&A, to the filmmakers who were very approachable and whose work were amazing and of course to our lovely audience.

First time getting my name on a seat also which felt very official ✨
Thanks .mahani for the 📸

28/09/2023

So very proud to announce De Wissel has been selected to as part of the Nederland Nieuw Peil category! ✨✨

What an honour ! 🤩
Also what noble and interesting choice to have a angler fish as a mascotte: truly an organisation of fine taste 😏

Looking forward to be there and discover the many other films in their selection (personally super excited to see the landmower man on the big screen!)

Thank you Imagine film festival ! See you in a few weeks !!

11/10/2022

I shall tease once more ! 💫

De Wissel in our latest film. It's a lovely little horror film 🕸️🎥😱

Might be worth noting that it allowed me to redecorate my house as I get to keep most of the wonderful props used during the shoot. No, this is not why we make films, but it certainly is a perk! 🤗

Discover it on Sunday 30th October at Lumière Maastricht during the Fright Night of .nl 🎃

30/09/2022

Incredible, Inspiring, Intense 🏵️🏵️🏵️

The Netherlands Film Festival this year was incredible ✨

The CineSud delegation had a ton of fun. I'm lucky to be surrounded by awesome colleagues who sublimate these experiences.

We met some friends and made some new: either way a strong display of talent in all departments of our beautiful craft. 🎥🎬🎞️

Big shout out to the organisation team for their humongous work and for hosting all these amazing panels, keynotes, networking drinks and of course screenings !! Thanks for having me, thanks for allowing my work to première during your prestigious festival! ❤️

20/09/2022

Feeling grateful to be working with those awesome ladies 💃💃

What a blast we had at SHIFT Film Festival this year! ✨✨✨
Thanks to our amazing guests, the talented directors village filmmakers, our brilliant crew and to the for hosting us in the charming Royal Theater Heerlen.
And of course shout out to .driessen
For those beautiful pictures 📸

See you all next year !

08/09/2022

De Wissel
Coming soon ! ✨✨

Can you guess whats in the box🍍(I'm not going to tell you, but guessing games are always fun, no?)

15/08/2022

Snip snap snip snap- montage session 🎞️🎞️🎞️
I'd very much like a second screen though (just sayin')

08/06/2022

What a week ✨✨

Met a lot of lovely people, watched a few films and caught a bit of Sun (still as pale as a ghost but slightly less translucent now)

I am rarely homesick, but I must admit that the return to the Netherlands was a bit difficult.

Thanks to all the wonderful participants, you were awesome, and I hope this visit will bring you lots of great things to come. May all the seeds you planted, sprout and grow in the sun 🌱🌞

Can't wait for next year !
Merci beaucoup:nltilburg
nicole jachmann






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24/05/2022

Guess where I am this week!? 🔥🔥

6 years ago if you had told me I was going to be living in the Netherlands I would have been very surprised (and sceptical).
If you had told me I was going to work in films I would have laughed.
If you had told I was going to attend the Cannes Film Festival I would have asked you, with care and love, to please stop drinking.

But here I am !!
Life is random, enjoy it ❤️✨

07/03/2022

What a wonderful week-end at ! 🎉🎉

Thank you to all the participants, attendees, guests, and speakers. Had a blast and was fabulous to catch up: many interesting and talented people and overall great company. 🤩

Thanks to my amazing cast and crew for coming- a big shout out to the members of our crew that couldnt be there!
Thanks to the incredible people I met this week-end, and hoping they had as much fun as I did !
Thanks to my awesome colleagues with whom the festival felt like a walk in the park!
See you all next year ? 💚
📸 .driessen for .nl

09/02/2022

Cast and crew première ✨

Very proud and happy to announce the premiere of Le Trajet on 5 March, during a non competitive screening at the occasion of the seventh edition of the Euregion Film Festival at the Royal Theatre in Heerlen. 🍿

The film will be screened along other films from talented makers and of course Made in Limburg ! 🥳🥳🥳

For more information about the seats and the other screenings and festival activities rdv at bit.ly/cseff22 🎫🎫🎫

Film made with the support of nl

31/12/2021

Last post of the year, 100th on IG, all this to announce the picture lock of short film "Le Trajet"!
One step closer ! 💯✊
I wish you are not driving into 22 with the same faces of desperation and exhaustion 😅😆
A big thanks to every one in the team 💚 and particularly to and for their performances. Bear with me a couple more weeks, team, and I'll be able to show you the result ! 🤩
Grateful for a surprisingly eventful 2021 and wishing for the same energy in 2022 💚💚
What have you got planned for the last day of the year ? Rudy and I will be eating and sleeping (bear style celebration 🐻)
A production made possible with the support of & .nl 🌟🌟

06/12/2021

Some conversations are not enjoyable to have but are essential to have.
Steadily approaching the completion of the project 🌟
Beautiful
And in the skin of their alter-ego mother/daughter Nathalie and Julie- clashing hard 🥊
.nl

25/11/2021

Creation, one of the many creative experiments of 💚

Accompanied by 🎻 🙏 and 🧘🏻‍♀️ for

Let the universe and the flow of creation through you 🌘🌟

I wish the full poster fitted on IG but it doesn't 🙃 so I tagged all the good people from the bottom text onto the picture -
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15/11/2021

V1 is ready so it is now time for the refining process ! 🧂🧂
Still remembering that week-end very fondly and happy to have had a team ready to give 150% (I know it is a mathematical inacurracy but it's a very efficient metaphore) 🌟

Can't wait to show a sneak peak of the result ☺️

Produced thanks to

📸

11/10/2021

Les Yeux Plus Gros que le Ventre selected for the Halloween Horror Showcase of the Indy Film Library ! Tune in as of Monday 18th Octobre for access to the free streaming of their selection, for two weeks

24/09/2021

Thank you so much !!✨✨✨

The best roller coaster 🎢 What a marvelous outcome.
Happy, grateful, surprised!
Will work my head off to make the best film I can make !nl

18/09/2021

Nice hood ornament you got there 🎥

Our lens underwent a cold shower 🌧️ Hope it doesn't catch pneumonia!

15/09/2021

In a couple of weeks I'll be directing again!

The same week-end I'll be turning 28-
Having a project realised is a great birthday gift 🎁

Happy to be at it once more, scared (as always) but also trusting of my team (as always) ☺️

Preparing for "𝓐𝓬𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷"

 

12/07/2021

Deer caught in headlights while eating lasagna

"Les Yeux plus gros que le Ventre" (it's a dang long title so I call it "Les Yeux" most of the time) was my first own production as a writer, director and producer. It was rich in emotions and meant so much for me for several reasons:

It taught me a lot about what I like doing and what I don't like doing on set. What are my strong points and my weak points. How to handle stress and deal with it. How to make a planning before throwing said planning out the window because chaos will happen no matter how well you oiled your machine.

On a personal level, the film was revolving around a topic very close to my heart. I don't know if I can say I'm cured from my ED (can you even ever get rid of those things?) but I know that it helped me understand and process it tremendously. Talk about cathartic work!

Most of all: as the first project successfully carried through, it gave me the courage to write and make more. At the time, making it seemed very scary, but in the end it all worked out. Not to say I'm not scared about the next one, in fact I'm terrified! But having made one definitely comforted me in the idea I could do it.

I had sworn that after this heavy drama I'd make something a bit lighter and even funny: well, next one is a drama too. But it is definitely a more positive one! More on that very soon !!

Beautiful Alexia Fleres through the lens of camera wizard .robson.films

   

26/06/2021

It's that time of the year again when lilypads sprout aluminium cans 🤷🏼‍♀️💮

19/06/2021

Almost two years since my own first set 🎬🎥

Good vibes and good people who were there for me even if it was literally 40°c on set 🌡️
Shooting in an oven would have been cooler at this point- which made me think: summer shoot yes, but only in ventilated places ! 

Remembering the experience fondly and excited to do it again soon! 

Here are a few great analogue photos from -
swipe and see a narrative unfold:

1 & 2 shooting a scene
3 directing between takes
4 conditioning 
5 hidden behind the couch to remain out of frame
6 reviewing takes together 
7 stretching and relief after the wrap of the day 

11/06/2021

Waaah time flies

I have not been loafing around 🍞 I swear ! -(at least not too much...)

Here is one of my latest work in progress: I've been working together with wickedly talented on this graphic novel project. A first time for her and for me! So, exciting, new and challenging (the good kind).

During the first wave of the pandemic I wrote chrysalis 🐛
The story is about fear of contamination. It was created while I was myself in lockdown and inclined to germaphobia 🤧

Iris took on the challenge to illustrate it and thus this collaboration started
Although it is very different from films, I must say I am really enjoying working with illustrations 🎨
The teamwork aspect is still very present and so is the creativity!

Work still in progress but feeling daring and therefore here is a sneek pic !

Stay tuned for more !

12/04/2021

3.5 that a pretty decent score for a debut =)))

Director: Marie Lormeau Writer: Marie Lormeau Cast: Alexia Fleres, Frauke Wonnink, Johnny van Denhurk, Reebal Rafeh Running time: 11mins The ideological paradoxes of superficial, consumption-driven…

23/02/2021

I don't believe the plants need masks - Do they ?