ASSIGNMENTS 1993 - 2010
2010
July 2010
SF Tagesschau/'10vor10'
After the Dutch national team lost the world cup final from Spain the fans are in total despair after not winning the world cup for the third time. Depressed and dazed the inhabitants of the most orange street of Amsterdam read their newspapers. They blame the referee who gave a record of yellow cards and a red one in the bad and violent match. Although the Dutch team is heavily criticised for playing such a defensive and violent game the orange street inhabitants are proud of having the second strongest team in the world. Activities: research, set-up, direction and interviews, accompany satellite feed. to list
July 2010
SF Tagesschau/'10vor10'
The Dutch are preparing for their third world cup final against Spain. From the Museum Square Swiss TV reporters watch the final match together with 180.000 crazy fans. Hundreds of TV journalists and crews are setting up for the live coverage of the world cup final. Fans are optimistic of the chance for the Dutch to final win the world cup.
Activities: reseach and organise accreditation, research live stand-up location. to list
July 2010
ARD Morgenmagazin
The German ARD morning program Morgenmagazin visits the Orionstraat, the street elected as the most orange street in Amsterdam. In three live broadcasts Michael Heussen checks out the wild orange decorations and meets some the inhabitants totally dressed in orange, including lion caps and tails. They cannot wait to see the final. A wonderful climax after their national team won all the world cup qualification and tournament matches. Only a few hours to wait. Activities: research location, organise orange street footage, accompany live broadcasts, styling (organise orange plastic clogs for the presenter). to list
July 2010
SF Tagesschau
After winning from Brazil the Dutch football team will play Uruguay in the semi-final. On the day of the semi-final Swiss TV comes to Amsterdam to pick up the atmosphere before and after the game. Getting so close to the final the Dutch become totally orange crazy. The fan shops are getting sold out and in cafe Orange the customers are already over excited. They are all pretty sure the Dutch will reach the final. In the Orionstraat, elected as the most orange street in Amsterdam, the fans are getting prepared to watch the game. They hope the Dutch will play the Germans, so the trauma of losing the 1974 final can be wiped out. Live coverage and stand-ups from the Museum square, where 120.000 crazy fans watch the match. Activities: research, set-up and planning, accompany filming.
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July 2010
NHK News
NHK news wants to know what the Dutch think about the upcoming world cup quarter final match between the Netherlands and Brazil. Filming Amsterdam in orange, vox pops at a Dutch team fan shop and genral views of the orange decorations in the fantic North of town. Activities: book cameraman, research, set-up, planning, direction, interviews, accompany feed. to list
June 2010
ABC News
The notorious Joran van der Sloot, known for his connection to the Natalee Holloway disappearance in Aruba, is arrested in Chili and brought to Peru as a suspect for the murder of Stephany Flores Ramirez a Peruvian young woman. After a few days in jail two Dutch journalists manage to interview him. Activities: translation of newspaper articles.
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June 2010
NHK News
The Japanese EU correspondent Susumu Kojima comes to the Netherlands to cover the world cup football match between the Netherlands and Japan. First he visits Venlo; a town in the south of the country were the Japanese key footballer Keisuke Honda played for the local club VVV Venlo. Filming 'orange mania' atmosphere in Amsterdam. Covering the viewing of the match with Dutch fans on the Texel square, one of the most colorful orange fan area's in town. Activities: research, set-up and planning, accompany filming, vox pops, accompany feeds, translations. to list
June 2010
SF Tagesschau
The Swiss minister of Traffic Moritz Leuenberger attends 'From corridors to network’, a Ministerial EU conference, on so-called rail freight corridors in Rotterdam. Swiss TV reports on the Signing of Ministerial declaration, and wants to know from the minister why rail freight corridors are important. Activities: book cameraman, research feed point, planning, direction and interview, accompany feed. to list
June 2010
SF Tagesschau
On the day of the Dutch National elections Swiss EU correspondent Christoph Nufer is in The Hague to analyse the first results. Activities: research, check-out TV and work and stand-up locations, analyses of exit polls, advise & accompaniment live-stand ups. to list
June 2010
'10 vor 10'
Since the expected budget cuts is the main issue in the Dutch national elections, the Swiss correspondent comes to the Netherlands to see how the Dutch copes with the economic crisis. Innovation and durability seems to be the key words. Some interesting existing Dutch brands like TomTom and Bugaboo and new products from the yearly Dutch innovation top 100 pass in review. The scientist of the agricultural University of Wageningen shows a newly developed fish that is similar to the endangered tuna fish, and the owner of a fish farms show how animal and environmental friendly fish is produced on land. Activities: research, advise, set-up and planning, book hotel rooms. to list
June 2010
SF Tagesschau
After it turns out that the Dutch national elections will be a fight between the liberal VVD and the social democrat PvdA, Swiss news covers ‘Het Lagerhuis’ (House of Commons), a very popular life Dutch discussion program where a mix of Dutch citizens discuss actual topics in a similar setting as in the English parliament. On the day before the elections Liberal leader Mark Rutte and Social Democrat leader Job Cohen are the special guests. The perfect moment to interview and portrait both politicians, and to ask the debaters and public about their opinion. Activities: research, set-up, planning, accompany filming, organise footage program, translations. to list
June 2010
ABC News
While the oil already flows into the Gulf of Mexico Dutch for many weeks, the Dutch turn out to have a very effective system to clean up oil in open sea. The systems cleaned up most of the oil after the ‘Prestige oil spill’ in 2002 and the system is on standby in many European harbours. American laws still block the use of the system. NBC News looks for video footage of the cleaning system. Activities: research & find video footage. to list
June 2010
KURIER
Political journalist Ingrid Steiner from the Austrian newspaper Kurier comes to the Netherlands to cover the Dutch national elections and especially the popularity of the Party of Freedom (PVV) from Geert Wilders. She interviews the Dutch political scientist and writer Paul Scheffer and Muslim politician Fatima Elatik, and vists a heavily guarded political rally from the PVV in the outskirts of The Hague. Activities: research, advice and set-up, accompany coverage political rally PVV, translations. to list
May 2010
BBC Wales
For a Welsh choirboy, it was the stuff of dreams. Within the walls of Caernarfon Castle, Kenner Elias J. proudly held aloft the white cross at the investiture of Prince Charles as the Prince of Wales. Thirty years later, the charismatic Mr. J. cuts an equally spiritual figure at the head of an evangelical movement that claims to be leading hundreds of prison inmates towards a crime-free future. But when money is at stake, this life-long churchgoer seems to lose any regard for Christian teachings. An investigation by The Independent has found the national co-ordinator of a religious community, that has been allowed to take control of entire prison wings, is a consummate conman with over 70 criminal convictions. Earlier this year Ken J. is arrested in the Netherlands, and released a month later. BBC Wales wants to know if he is still in the Netherlands. It runs out that Ken J. had already ripped off all the Dutch hotels where he stayed. Activities: research. to list
May 2010
NHK
The London bureau from the Japanese broadcaster NHK is paying attention to the outcome of both the English and Dutch parliamentary inquiries after the decision to participate in the war in Iraq. Activities: research and advice. to list
May 2010
ORF Weltjournal
El Asira, the first company that sells erotic products via internet is based in the Netherlands. For the Austrian background reportage program Weltjournal a reporter is send to the Netherlands to cover the story. He interviews the strict Muslim founder, an imam, a young Muslim woman and youngsters at a community center. Activities: research, set-up, planning, book camera crew, organise fixer for accompaniment, translations. to list
April 2010
SF '10 vor 10'
More and more Swiss farmers stop farming. Only last year 860 Swiss farmers stopped farming. Since the Swiss are planning to liberalise trade in the agricultural branch farmers are afraid for the European competition. Correspondent Christoph Nufer comes to the Netherlands to make a reportage about the innovative Dutch greenhouse sector for the background reportage program '10 vor 10'. He visits a red- and green pepper green house of the size of 40 football pitches, where 12.000 tons of peppers are produced every .He also visits a company that produces high quality cherry tomatoes. They even came up with a special name, the honey tomato, since they are so sweet. Although one would expect that cultivating in green houses is very bad for the environment, it turns out to be the opposite. Most greenhouse farmer’s producer their own energy, and give the energy surplus back to the grid. Also earth heat is widely used. Only drawback is the lack of space to produce. According to an environmental lobbyist the Dutch should stop exporting large quantities of vegetables and fruit. Instead they should export the knowledge and start to produce together with the farmers abroad. Activities: research, advice, set-up and planning, book hotel rooms, accompany filming. to list
April 2010
NCRV/Bromet en Dochters
On July 2 2009, a large majority of the Amsterdam council voted in favor of the ‘Coalition 1012 plan’. The plan has to change the Amsterdam Red Light district into a 'safer, more beautiful and more livable area'. It involves the closure of around half of the prostitute windows and many of the coffee shops. For the Dutch documentary program NCRV Dokument director/cameraman Frans Bromet follows and interviews a variety of protagonists living and working in the district, to see how the new city hall plans take form and how the new policy will influence their lives. The Amsterdam city hall is putting the policy into practice trying to buy out or expropriate some of the window renters and some of the coffee shop owners only got a last license for another few years. Activities: write plan, research, set-up, planning, accompany filming, sound. to list
March 2010
SF '10 vor 10'
The Dutch economic research bureau Profundo did a research after the financing of tar sands companies by the Swiss banks UBS and Credit Suisse for Greenpeace Switzerland. SF journalist Jonas Projer comes to Amsterdam to interview one of the researchers. Activities: book cameraman, organise material for special effect falling sand, accompany filming. to list
March 2010
SF '10 vor 10'
In the Netherlands unemployment is relatively low compared to the rest of Europe. In Rotterdam politicians even claim to end employment by forcing people to take a job or do a course. In Switzerland there are also plans to force young people to work. Correspondent Christoph Nufer comes to Rotterdam to see how the system works. Filming a street cleaning team at work and portray an unemployed fire fighter that had to take the job of street sweeper. Interview with the responsible alderman, and filming at a job course center and a supermarket where unemployed help to pack groceries for a small extra fee. Activities: research, advise, set-up and planning, accompany filming, translations. to list
March 2010
NHK News
For a background reportage about the innovative Dutch food branch NHK sends reporter Ryusuke Kimura to film in the modern and durable greenhouse sector, in The Restaurant of the Future in scientific Food Valley district and at a huge chicken farm, where eggs are produced for medicines. Interviews at the laboratories of the Japanese soya sauce producer Kikkoman and the University hospital in Maastricht. Activities: research, advise, set-up and planning, hire van, driving and accompany filming, book extra fixer. to list
March 2010
NHK News/Sports
In the Netherlands, Denmark and Cameroon NHK Sports journalists Yuki Ohba makes a series of portraits of the teams that the national football team of Japan will meet in the first round of the World Cup in South Africa. Filming at a training and press conference at Ajax Amsterdam and Feyenoord Rotterdam, interview with Dutch and Danish internationals, filming at football match Feyenoord against Roda JC and an extensive interview with Dutch football journalist Willem Vissers. Activities: research, set-up, planning, hire van, drive, accompany filming, translations. to list
March 2010
SF '10 vor 10'
Background reportage about the Dutch local elections 2010. Covering a radio debate and interview local politician from Wilders Party of Freedom. Filming atmosphere and street interviews in the Schilderswijk, a multicultural area in the center of The Hague. Follow politicians of the liberal party VVD campaigning in their stronghold in The Hague, and Social Democrat leader Wouter Bos handing out roses in the center of town. Activities: research, set-up and planning, accompany filming. to list
March 2010
BBC Scotland/Eorpa
The collapse of the Dutch government has presented the Dutch electorate with a problem to which no easy solution seems obvious. The government has split over the question of troops in Afghanistan, but this can be seen as merely the explosive element that has blown a precariously built coalition apart. The nature of Dutch politics makes it inevitable that another coalition will follow, possibly consisting of up to four parties, which would hardly be conducive to political coherency. As the larger parties fight amongst each other, the smaller parties are likely to reap the benefits – among them Geert Wilders’s anti-immigration Party of Freedom (PVV). Since local elections are held just before the national elections it will be the indicator to see how the Dutch political landscape will look the upcoming years. Christian democrat State Secretary of Defense and spin doctor Jack de Vries and resigned Minister Eberhart give their views, portraits and interviews at the Amsterdam Polder Mosque and filming campaigning in Almere, a new town in the polder, and one of just two in which the PVV from Wilders will stand in the local elections. Activities: research, set-up and planning, driving, accompany filming, interviews and translations. to list
February 2010
Wall to Wall/BBC
Who Do You Think You Are? is a British genealogy documentary series that has aired on the BBC since 2004. Made by Wall to Wall, in each episode, a celebrity goes on a journey to trace his or her family tree. The actor Hugh Quarshie, from the hospital soaps series Holby City, uncovers a love story that challenges our understanding of Europe’s role in Africa during the 19th century. Activities: field-, documentation- and location research, organise drivers to accompany filming in Netherlands. to list
February 2010
ARD Tagesschau
The German minister of labour is visiting the Netherlands. A TV-crew from the German public TV channel ARD is following the caravan. The video material needs to be fed via satellite to Germany as soon as possible. Activities: research and organise pick-up feed, extra research feed point, find new feed point & planning, bring tape to feed point & accompany feed. to list
January 2010
ITV / FOUR PARTIES
The English broadcaster ITV produces a one off program called Four Parties. Four different protagonists attend each others 21 year birthday parties, judging which one is the nicest. One of them decides to celebrate in Amsterdam. Activities: accompany research cafes, restaurants, venues and clubs, organise permission to film, advise locations for general views of Amsterdam. to list
January 2010
NCRV/Bromet en Dochters
On July 2 2009, a large majority of the Amsterdam council voted in favor of the ‘Coalition 1012 plan’. The plan has to change the Amsterdam Red Light district into a 'safer, more beautiful and more livable area'. It involves the closure of around half of the prostitute windows and many of the coffee shops. For the Dutch documentary program NCRV Dokument director/cameraman Frans Bromet follows and interviews a variety of protagonists living and working in the district, to see how the new city hall plans take form and how the new policy will influence their lives. The Amsterdam city hall is putting the policy into practice trying to buy out or expropriate some of the window renters and some of the coffee shop owners only get a last license for three years. In early March local elections will be held and it remains to be seen if the new policy for the red light district is election proof. Activities: write plan, research, set-up, planning, accompany filming, sound. to list
January 2010
Wall to Wall/BBC
The English production company Wall to Wall produces the program Who Do You Think You Are for the BBC. The program finds out the genealogical tree and information of a famous English person and takes this person around the world to discover the history of the ancestors. This time the path leads to the Netherlands and Africa. A Dutch person has a family archive that goes back many centuries and it turns out he has pictures of some of the relatives of the protagonist. Activities: research, visit Dutch protagonist, make photos and write report. to list
January 2010
SF Rundschau
In Switzerland a new chef of the Swiss Post is taken on to modernise the system. The Swiss were too late with privatising and the Dutch postal company TNT Express is portrayed as an example of successful innovation and expansion. The Dutch Post was privatised as one of the first in Europe and they managed to buy the Australian company TNT, becoming one of the four largest postal companies in the world. Activities: research, book crew, organise footage, direction and interview, translations and accompany satellite feed. to list
January 2010
SF Rundschau
Ater the failed attack on flight 253 landing in Detroit the Dutch decided to use body scanners to scan all passengers leaving for the US. Besides the body scanners that were already tested, the Dutch authorities orders 20 extra scanners. Swiss TV wants to see how the body scanner works in practice, if the radiation is dangerous and if privacy is protected. A specialist and a spokesperson from the airport explain how the new machine works and terrorism expert Edwin Bakker gives his views. The latter emphasises that the anti-terror measures work pretty well, since the attack on flight 253 failed. Activities: research, book crew, direction and interviews with airport spokesperson and a Dutch terrorism expert, accompany satellite feed. to list
2009
December 2009
ABC News
The Nigerian youngster that tried to blow up a Flight 253 while landing in Detroit with explosives in his underwear, took the plane from the Amsterdam airport Schiphol. The Dutch Minister of Internal Affairs gives a press conference to bring across what they know about the attack and to announce that body scanners will be used to scan all passengers leaving for the US. Activities: research, book crew, direction and interviews with minister and the Dutch coordinator of the fight against terrorism, accompany satellite feed. to list
December 2009
SF '10 vor 10'
After the Swiss decided for a minaret ban by referendum, the Swiss TV-program '10 vor 10' wants to have a closer look at anti-Islam legislation in the rest of Europe. Besides France now also Belgium has decided to ban head-scarfs on schools. In Antwerp the last two schools decided to ban head scarfs as well, resulting in demonstrations and in girls staying away from school. Some young Muslim women and some Flemish feminists decide to establish the 'boss over our own heads' organisation. Correspondent Christoph Nufer has a talk with the head master of one of the schools and with one of the founders of the 'boss over our own heads' movement. Activities: research, set-up, planning, research archive footage and accompany filming. to list
December 2009
ABC Nightline
The Smith and Jones clinic in Amsterdam treats gaming addicts from all over the world. The therapy partly happens together with drug addicts. The director of the clinic fears that gaming addiction will become the largest addiction in the world. Activities: research, set-up and planning. to list
October 2009
ORF Weltjournal
Like many other countries Austria is getting ready for the vaccination of all its inhabitants against Swine fever. The Dutch seems to have a different approach. They only want to vaccinate people that run extra risks to become infected. Activities: research Dutch actuality and approach, research Dutch specialists. to list
October 2009
ARD Monitor
For a investigative reportage about the Dutch military presence in Afghanistan the ARD TV program Monitor needs extra information. Activities: research purchase of certain military equipment, find background info and find specialists. to list
October 2009
BBC Radio Scotland
Scottish BBC radio produce a background reportage about a possible new football league in the north of Europe. For this interviews with Dutch football specialists are needed. Activities: research and advise on Dutch football specialists. to list
October 2009
SF '10 VOR 10'
A right wing party has officially requested a referendum to see if a majority of the Swiss are in favor of a ban of minarets. Since the Netherlands is known to house a large number of mosques and some are constructed with minarets the EU correspondent visits Rotterdam. He interviews Rotterdam inhabitants in front of the Mevlana mosque, he interviews populist member of the Rotterdam council Marco Pastors, he visits what seems to be the future largest mosque in Europe, a mosque that is still under construction and meets the Dutch architect and the representatives of the mosque. Activities: research and set-up, planning filming day, accompany filming. to list
October 2009
ORF WELTJOURNAL
In 2000 the Dutch city of Utrecht started with a new approach to handle the problems with homeless people. The city hall stimulated cooperation between all the different departments and organisations helping and handling the homeless and in many Utrecht neighborhoods special hostels were set-up to house the people without a roof above their head. In 2004 also Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague took over the new approach. Now Utrecht is proud to state that all the homeless are off the streets and most of them have a job or other activities. Even ‘Utrecht Underground’ is organised, a tour led by ex-homeless that explain how life was on the streets, including visiting the locations in and under the Utrecht shopping center Hoog Catherijne where they slept and used drugs. Activities: research and set-up, planning filming day, book cameraman, accompany filming and translations. to list
October 2009
SF ECO
Cablecom, sister company of UPC, is the company with the worst reputation in Switzerland. A journalist form the economical program ECO comes to the Netherlands to talk to officials at the headquarters of UPC Europe. Experts give their views on the reputation of UPC in the Netherlands, and the way the company is run from the United States. Activities: research the reputation of UPC in the Netherlands, find specialists.
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October 2009
SF '10 VOR 10'
The Swiss are discussing to introduce a logo so consumers can see if a food product is healthy or not. Part of the reportages is filmed in the Netherlands because a consumer health logo is already implemented a while ago. In a Dutch supermarket in The Hague a specialist explains how the logo works and consumers give insight on if and how they use the logo. Activities: research and set-up, planning, book cameraman, interviews and direction, accompany feed and translations. to list
Sept 2009
TF1 NEWS
Because of huge overpopulation and the rise of the number of suicides in French jails, a journalist from TF1 news comes to the Netherlands and to Belgium to see how the jails are looking and how they are managed. The situation in Dutch jails is very difference from France. Inmates have their own cell including toilet and television, most of the jails are new and well maintained. There are loads of activities and new experiments are preparing the inmates for their life after jail. Many inmates do voluntary work like maintaining parks and some inmates learn crafts like plasterer and painter. Some of the inmates even already have a job when they are released out of their cell. Last but not least the Dutch jails do not suffer from heavy overpopulation like in France. The Dutch even have to close jails because there are too many empty cells. The Belgian state asked the Dutch if it is possible to stick some of the Belgian inmates into Dutch cells to fight overpopulation in Belgium. Activities: research and set-up, planning filming day, accompany filming, interviews and translations. to list
July 2009
SF '10 vor 10'
For the summer season Swiss reportage program '10 vor 10' asks Europe correspondent Christoph Nufer to make a portrait of Oswalt Kolle. The German sex educator, who became famous in the 1960s for his books and films on human sexuality. Kolle has lived in Amsterdam since the 1970s and prefers to do the filming in the harbour of Volendam. Activities: book cameraman, planning, organsie filming in Voldendam restaurant. to list
July 2009
NCRV/Bromet & Dochters
On July 2 a large majority of the Amsterdam council voted in favor of the ‘Coalition 1012 plan’. The plan has to change the Amsterdam Red Light district into a 'safer, more beautiful and more livable area'. It involves the closure of around half of the prostitute windows and many of the coffee shops. For the Dutch documentary program NCRV Document director/cameraman Frans Bromet follows and interviews a variety of protagonists living and working in the district to see how the new city hall plans take form and how the new policy will influence their lives. Activities: write plan, research, set-up, planning, accompany filming, sound. to list
June 2009
SF ECO
In Switzerland it becomes clear that the way the health care system is organised needs serious change. The system does not have the incentives to save money. Reto Gerber from the Economical program Eco, comes to the Netherlands to see how the Dutch organised the health care. In the reportage 'Gesundheitssystem: Vorbild Holland' Reto meets a member of the Dutch Health Care Insurance Board, a family doctor and a retired Swiss surgeon living in Amsterdam. Reto finishes his research in the Orbis medical center, a huge new hospital where all innovations possible are implemented. The hospital looks like a hotel, is almost totally paper free and Swiss robot cars move around medicines and food. Every patient has its own room where a family member can sleep as well. Everything in the room can be operated from a touch screen. All the non medical services are done by differently dressed 'hotel' personnel and the doctors, surgeons and nurses work together in a huge open office. view video (sf.tv./eco) Activities: research, set-up and planning, book cameraman, accompany filming. to list
June 2009
Cogent Benger
The Canadian documentary production company Cogent Benger produces a documentary about the revolution in biking in North America. Lately more and more people use bikes and the infrastructure of cities is changing in favor of the biker. Producer Christoph Sumpton comes to Amsterdam to find out how the bike is integrated in daily life. Activities: advise, research and set-up, book rental van, organise three wheeler bike and bike chauffeur for filming, organise happy loving bike couple, driving and accompaniment filming. to list
May 2009
ARD Tagesthemen
Preceding the European elections the first German TV channel ARD makes a tour through the neighboring countries to measure the European political temperature. The tour ends in Amsterdam. The evening program Tagesthemen broadcasts live from the centre of Amsterdam. Historian, writer and documentary maker Geert Mak explains why the Dutch became so anti-Europe and inward looking. view video (tagesschau.de / starts at 8.20 min.)
Activities: organise licenses and parking for SNG- and lights van, rental boat, aggregate, permission lighting of background, replacement of broken bulbs bridge. Organise and accompany Amsterdam postcard filming, find and organise cable assistants, accompany research day and live transmissions. to list
May 2009
ARD Morgenmagazin
Preceding the european elections the first German TV channel ARD makes a tour through it neighboring countries to measure the European political temperature. The tour ends in Amsterdam. The morning program Morgenmagazin broadcasts live from the Amstel river in the centre of Amsterdam. A German/Dutch family living on a house boat is portrayed. view video (daserste.de/moma) Activities: organise licenses and parking for SNG and lights van, rental boat, book camera crew and direction of portraits mother and the father of the family, find and organise cable assistants, accompany research day and live transmissions. to list
May 2009
SF '10 vor 10'
Another whole generation is in danger of being lost in Rotterdam. Has the city become a ticking time bomb? The city is largely dependent on its port and the collapse of world trade in the wake of the economic crisis is taking a heavy toll on the port. As a result, Rotterdam will be harder hit than the Dutch economy as a whole, is the inauspicious message from mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb. Correspondent Christoph Nufer meets a unemployed harbor worker and gets a tour through the Rotterdam harbor to see where the crisis takes its toll. Activities: story advise, research, set-up and planning, organise footage and accompany filming. to list
May 2009
ZDF Mona Lisa
German prosecutors claim that John Demjanjuk served as a Nazi guard at the Sobibor death camp in present-day Poland between March and late September 1943. In the current attempt to bring him to justice, Munich prosecutors applied for the warrant based on a document from Bavarian criminal investigators that testified to the authenticity of the SS identity card provided by US officials. Demjanjuk is moved to Munich to await his trial. For a background reportage Mona Lisa needs an interview with a relative of one of the many Dutch families that where killed in Sobibor. Activities: organise interview, book crew, direction and interview, organise material to be flown to Munich. to list
April 2009
ARD Brisant/Tageschau
This year the city Apeldoorn is chosen by Queen Beatrix to visit during the celebration of the Dutch traditional Queens Day. The Queen and her family arrive at the Oranje park and walk around to see all the hobbies, sports, culture and crafts presented by the municipality and especially the inhabitants. The tour ends with a bus ride that meets a parade of historical cars and figures that visualise the life of Juliana, the mother of Beatrix, since it is exactly 100 years ago that she was born. Spectators express their love for the Queen. The cheerful and sunny day turns into a nightmare when it becomes clear that a maniac drove into the public with his car, killing himself en six bystanders and leaving many heavily injured. The car crashes into the monument called 'De Naald', a gift from the people of Apeldoorn to Queen Wilhelmina (mother of Juliana) in 1901. The festivities are cancelled immediately and most of the public leaves Apeldoorn. Some stay behind. Tearing down their stands or sitting around quietly with glassy looks. The theme of the story changes around from celebration to bewilderment. Activities: research, book crew and satellite van, direction and street interviews, attend satellite feed and press conference. to list
April 2009
ARD Morgenmagazin
The morning program from the first German channel reports live from Apeldoorn, the city that Queen Beatrix and her family will visit later in the day to celebrate Queens Day. The gate of the palace Het Loo is still closed and only four old women from the religious town of Staphorst, dressed in traditional costume, are already present to see the Queen. Historian and royalty specialist Reinildis van Ditshuyzen answers questions. Mainly about the possible resignation of the Queen. Activities: research & advise on live location, organising permission for SNG Van, organise royalty specialist, accompany live stand-ups. to list
April 2009
ARD Europamagazin
After the collapse of the city archive in Cologne caused by the construction of the North/South metro line, Europamagzin meets a specialised engineer and two former inhabitants of some historical buildings that sank because the newly constructed walls of a station for the future Amsterdam North/South metro line started leaking. The inhabitants had to leave their houses immediately, now living and working on alternative locations while their houses are supported with wooden beams so they do not fall apart. Whereas the drilling of the tunnel still has to start most of the building activities had to be halted. A special commission is researching what to do next. Activities: research, set-up and planning. to list
April 2009
NCRV/Bromet & Dochters
It turns out that most of the window brothels, coffee shops, tourist- and fast food shops in the Amsterdam red light district will have to close. Final decisions are already planned to be taken by the council in June this year. Director and cameraman Frans Bromet follows two window renters and other key figures to document how the new city hall plans take form and how the new policy will influence the lives and work of the protagonists. Activities: write plan, research, set-up, planning, accompany filming, sound. to list
April 2009
ARD Brisant
King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden visit the Netherlands for a three day state visit. They began their visit, as they were greeted by Queen Beatrix and were given a welcoming ceremony at the Hague. During the three days, the Swedish King and the Dutch Queen discussed ways to strengthen ties between their two kingdoms, both politically and economically. The royal couple from Sweden also visits business seminars, exhibitions and a children’s rights meeting. Activities: research, accompany filming, organise pool video material. to list
March 2009
ARD Morgenmagazin
In a special week of economical programs on different European locations, ARD Morgenmagazin is also broadcasting from the Holland Flora flower auction in the Netherlands. Because the anchor people will comment from different locations, cable assistants are needed to relocate the camera cables. Activities: find & organise cable assistants. to list
March 2009
BBC SCOTLAND
The Scottish BBC is producing a documentary on the human cell. A part of the filming is done on the Dutch University of Delft. For a historical flash back in the film an old wooden rowing boats is needed. Activities: Find and organise rowing boat, organise transport.
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March 2009
ARD Tagesthemen
After the city archives of Cologne collapsed because a mistake was made in the construction of the North-South metro line, ARD Tagesthemen plans a reportage about the problems with the construction of a Amsterdam metro line with exactly the same name. In Amsterdam only the metro stations are constructed, but already the inhabitants of a few historical houses on the Vijzelgracht had to leave their homes, because the houses were sinking. The houses are supported so they do not fall apart, but the tunnels still have to be drilled. What are the dangers during the metro construction in Amsterdam? Activities: research, book camera crew, set-up. to list
March 2009
BBC Scotland
We import 40% of what we eat. If supplies were to be suddenly cut off, we’d run out of fresh imported food in just two days. So how does it all get to our supermarket shelves – at the precise moment it’s ready to eat? In a 60 minutes documentary Jimmy Doherty is going to discover how the food industry overcomes the enormous challenges of processing, packaging, transporting, storing, and distributing – how our food gets from the world’s fields to our plates. On his journey he’s going to find out how technology, science, and a vast army of people all over the world make a hugely complex operation go like clockwork to ensure an uninterrupted supply. What he witnesses will fill his journey with surprises and confound assumptions. As a farmer, his approach to producing food emphasises “ local is best”. But the realities of how food travels around the world will force him to re-think some of his own beliefs. His travel plans include Egypt, Costa Rica, Kenya, and the Netherlands. Activities: organise 'grape picker' for filming greenhouses in the Netherlands. to list
February 2009
ABC News
After a Turkish airliner crashed near the Amsterdam airport Schiphol, ABC News needs up to date information, reports data and advice. Activities: provide up to date data and information, life interview, advise on side stories. to list
February 2009
ARD Tagesshau/Tagesthemen
After a Turkish airliner crashed near the airport Schiphol, correspondent Michael Strempel needs a camera man and vox pops. Activities: research, book extra cameraman, location research and set-up, vox pops, accompany filming. to list
February 2009
SF Tagesschau
After a Turkish airliner crashed near the airport Schiphol, correspondent Christoph Nufer needs actual information, a SNG van and vox pops. Activities: research, book SNG Van, location research, vox pops, accompany filming. to list
January 2009
SF Tagesschau
In autumn The Storm, a film about the severe Dutch floods in 1953, will come out. On the first of February it is 55 years ago that the disaster took place. Swiss TV news reports about the commemoration day and on the making of The Storm, including an interview with the director. Activities: advise, research, set-up, planning, book cameraman, direction, interview, accompaniment satellite feed. to list
January 2009
SF Tagesschau
After eleven years the Dutch have a few days of real cold winter weather. Immediately the Dutch put on the skates to experience a skating ride on the rare natural ice. Within in a few days the skating fever is spreading like wildfire, resulting in picturesque images of frozen canals, lakes and ponds full of skating people. Activities: advise, research, set-up, planning, accompaniment filming. to list
January 2009
SF Rundschau
It turns out that most of the window brothels, coffee shops, tourist- and fast food shops in the Amsterdam red light district will have to close. Final decisions are already planned to be taken by the council in June this year. The employers' lobby organisation is not amused: ‘The arrogant administration is shoving the new policy down our throats, destroying the traditional Amsterdam red light district culture.’ In the 10 minute reportage with the titel 'Rotlight Aus', the chairman of the lobby organisation gives a tour through the area, interviews with the Amsterdam mayor, a coffee shop owner, window renter, a prostitute and some locals give their views. view video (sf.tv./rundschau)
Activities: advise, research, set-up, planning, accompaniment filming, interviews. to list
2008
December 2008
NHK
In Japan students of well known universities are arrested because they were growing cannabis plants. While in the Netherlands a cannabis summit is organised and suddenly many coffee shops are threatened with closure, NHK EU correspondent Go Kamosiha comes to Amsterdam to investigate the Dutch soft drugs policy in practice. He meets an official that explains the policy, an opponent MP, a Dutch seed producer and exporter, the manager of a cannabis information center and the assistant manager of a school in the center of Amsterdam. Last but not least he meets and interviews the chairman of the union of Dutch coffee shop owners in his own Amsterdam coffee shop. Activities: research, set-up and planning, hire car, accompany filming and driving. to list
December 2008
SF Kassensturz
Traditionally the Swiss consumer program Kassensturz broadcasts a compilation of international consumer reportages at the end of the year. In the 2008 program a Dutch reportage about the violent way Dutch window cleaners are defending their territories will be shown. Activities: advice and research, organise footage and courier, translations.
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December 2008
ARD Weltspiegel
Halfway 2008 Greenpeace published a report on the industrial shellfish fishery along the coast of Mauretania. The conclusions are that both nature and the local economy are damaged severely. Greenpeace warns that the new plans of a Dutch shell fish fishery company will be even more devastating. Activities: research & set-up. to list
November 2008
ARD Weltspiegel
After Bergen op Zoom en Roosendaal, two Dutch cities along the border with Belgium, indicated to close all coffee shops within two years, a special cannabis summit is organised. The mayors of cities with coffee shops meet to discuss the problems with drugs tourism and with handling the complicated practice of the Dutch soft drugs policy. ARD Weltspiegel checks out the situation in Bergen op Zoom and Maastricht. Mayors and a coffee shop owner explain the way they see the future of the Dutch soft drugs policy. Activities: research, set-up and planning, accompany filming. to list
November 2008
BBC SCOTLAND Eorpa
The Dutch Taskforce Management Floods organises the 'Water Test', a national floods simulation exercise. The participants of the 'Water Test' are administrators, national-, regional- and local emergency services and the water board districts On the basis of the worst imaginable floods the involved departments and services will practice the operational preparation and handling of simulated floods. The 'water test' is mainly a simulation exercise with a few visible elements like the bursting of a dike, evacuation, the reinforcement of dunes and a multidisciplinary rescue operation. A reportage about the latest Dutch plans to fight the rising sea water and increasing amounts of river water ending up in the Netherlands. A full coverage of one of the flood disaster simulations, a research into the future plans to protect the Netherlands from possible floods and a portrait of a man that experienced the Dutch floods in 1953. Activities: research, set-up and planning, accompanying filming, driving, organise archive footage. to list
November 2008
ARD Tagesshau
The Dutch Taskforce Management Floods organises the 'Water Test', a national floods simulation exercise. The participants of the 'Water Test' are administrators, national-, regional- and local emergency services and the water board districts. On the basis of the worst imaginable floods the involved departments and services will practice the operational preparation and handling of simulated floods. The 'water test' is mainly a simulation exercise with a few visible elements like the bursting of a dike, evacuation, the reinforcement of dunes and a multidisciplinary rescue operation. Activities: research.
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October 2008
ARD Tagesthemen
Dutch researcher Maurice Crul from the University of Amsterdam visits the Metropolis conference in Bonn. A conference about integration in the European Union. Crul presents his research that concluds that, compared to the Netherlands, Belgium and especially France, migrant students in Germany stay behind in education. In the German most of the migrant pupils do not manage to enter higher education. In the Netherlands the InHolland University educates many migrant students. Through the mentor project young migrant students are linked with older students for extra guidance and help. Most of the students find a job after they finished their education. A successful Dutch Moroccan girl explains how she did it. She works at the external communication department of a large company. Because of her success and mentorship at the Inholland University, she got a the yearly student price from the Dutch Minister of Education. Entering school at a young age, choosing the final education at a late age and extra attention, turn out to be the reasons behind the success of migrant students in The Netherlands. Activities: research, set-up and planning, book camera crew, direction and interviews, accompany satellite feed.
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October 2008
ORF Tagesschau
Although homosexuality is very accepted in the Netherlands, and Amsterdam is often seen as the Gay-capital of Europe, it is still a taboo in old people's homes. Elderly homosexuals fear the moment they become in need of care. The L.A. Rieshuis in Amsterdam is the first retirement home for gays and lesbians in the world. Portraits of two residents. Activities: research, set-up, planning and accompaniment filming. to list
September 2008
SF '10 vor 10'
Watt, the first ecological discotheque in the World opens its doors this week in Rotterdam. Three Rotterdam night club entrepreneurs want to give more attention to sustainability in the Dutch night life. There is a dance floor that generates energy that is used to light the floor. At the ‘zero waste’ bars recycling is the key word and the toilets are flushed with rainwater. All the ecological measures and techniques will save 30% electricity and even 50% of water, waste and paper. Activities: research, set-up and planning. to list
September 2008
SF '10 vor 10'
In Switzerland parents receive a letter that tells them where their child will go to school. In the Netherlands parents are free to decide to which school their child will go to. Sometimes this leads to schools with a majority of native or migrant pupils. Schools can decide to select by postcode, so local children get a preferential treatment. A Swiss mother decided to put her children on a school in another neighbourhood, because the local school had too many migrant pupils. In the end she doubts if the local school would not have been a better option. Activities: research, set-up, planning, accompaniment filming. to list
September 2008
SF Eco
The European market leader in navigation systems TOMTOM introduces a new traffic information system called HD traffic in Switzerland. TOMOTOM already introduced the service a year before in the Netherlands. By using different traffic data streams and a GSM connection, the navigation system offers accurate traffic jam information, calculates the delays and offers alternative less busy routes. Apart from the traditional national traffic information HD traffic makes use of the GSM signals of Vodafone users and from HD traffic users that that okayed their data to be used. After Nokia bought the map maker Navteq and TOMTOM bought mapmaker Teleatlas, the future will tell which company will dominate the navigation market. Activities: research, set-up, planning accompaniment filming. to list
September 2008
ARD Europamagazin
The Netherlands District Court in The Hague will deliver its verdict on whether the Dutch state and its contingent of United Nations peace-keeping troops can be held responsible for handing over Bosnian refugees who had looked to them for protection to be murdered by Serb soldiers. In July 1995 Bosnians who had sought refuge In the UN forces' base at Potocari were ordered by Dutch UN peacekeepers to leave the safety of the base and sent to face the prospect of certain death with Bosnian refugees already being killed and raped by Serb soldiers only a few meters outside the area under UN protection. The UN forces even denied protection to Bosnians who were known personally to them and to the family of their interpreter Hasan Nuhanovic. Activities: research, set-up, book camera crew.
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September 2008
ORF Tagesschau
Since the first of July smoking in cafes, restaurants and night clubs is banned in the Netherlands. Tobacco smoking is also forbidden in the famous Dutch coffee shops, while the tolerated cannabis and hash can be smoked pure without a problem. An Amsterdam coffee shop owner and some of his clients explain what they think of the new law. Activities: research, set-up and accompanying filming. to list
August 2008
ARD Europamagazin
Hasan Nuhanovic, a former interpreter of the Dutch UN battalion in Srebrenica, is unstoppable in his determination to get at the truth. He is one of the few survivors of the Srebrenica massacre and never managed to save his mother, father and younger brother. In a Dutch court he accuses the Dutch State of not being able to prevent that his family and thousands of others were murdered in Europe's worst massacre since the second world war. Activities: research, set-up, planning and accompanying filming. to list
July 2008
ARD Brisant
Faktor Giel is a weekly reality based Dutch television show, in which host Giel Beelen experiences excruciating experiments. Giel checks out how long he can stay in a freezing chamber, how it is to be buried alive or to be tortured. How does one experience coma drinking, doping and poisonous insects? These are all questions that Giel Beelen finds answers for. Activities: organise interview, research footage. to list
July 2008
VERDICT SCREBRENICA COURT CASE ARD Tagesschau
The verdict is given in the lawsuit started at a civilian court in The Hague by the group Mothers of Srebrenica. The group, which represents 6,000 relatives of the victims, says the UN and the Dutch state are in part responsible for the deaths of 8,000 Bosnian-Muslim men and boys in July 1995 since Srebrenica was a "safe area" under UN protection. The women were demanding that the court in The Hague recognise the failure of the UN to protect the men and boys, and that the victims' families receive compensation of 25,000 Euros. Activities: research, set-up, book camera crew, direction and interviews, accompany feed. to list
June 2008
SF Tagesschau
Dutch football fans left an overwhelming impression in Bern during the European Football championships. After the orange invasion the Swiss want to know more about the Dutch football supporter culture. In a street in the north of Amsterdam - still dressed in orange - a local fanatic supporter explains how much he loves the Dutch team. The spokesman of the major Dutch football supporter organisation will definitely go back to Bern this summer. This time on vacation, with his family. Activities: research, set-up and accompany filming. to list
June 2008
Spin Free Productions / Discovery
Canadian documentary film company Spin Free Productions Inc. produces 'Gridlock', a world-wide documentary on traffic jams for CTV and Discovery Channel. In the Netherlands the documentary explores what solutions the Dutch come up with to fight the extreme traffic problems. Activities: research, set-up, hire & drive van, accompany filming. to list
June 2008
Telesearch
For a Japanese reportage on traditional Friesian ditch jumping in the Netherlands, production house Telesearch needs help to find a fixer, rental cars, drivers and a camera crew. Activities: research. to list
June 2008
SCREBRENICA COURT CASE ARD Tagesschau
Ten members of the group Mothers of Srebrenica ask a civilian court in The Hague to waive the UN's immunity from prosecution. The group, which represents 6,000 relatives of the victims, says the UN and the Dutch state are in part responsible for the deaths of 8,000 Bosnian-Muslim men and boys in July 1995 since Srebrenica was a "safe area" under UN protection. The women are demanding that the court in The Hague recognise the failure of the UN to protect the men and boys, and that the victims' families receive compensation of 25,000 Euros. Activities: research, set-up, planning, accompany filming, life stand-up and satellite feed. to list
June 2008
WDR Monitor
When EU exports its food products to African countries for prices that a much lower than local prices, business becomes impossible for local farmers. To some this practice will lead to a lot of starvation in the world. WDR monitor reports on the effects of EU food exports on economies in Africa. Activities: research and set-up. to list
June 2008
BBC Scotland
Scottish TV is doing a story on assisted dying. For the filming in the Netherlands a lighting cameraman is needed. Activities: organise camera person. to list
May 2008
ARD Weltspiegel
Most of the chicken runs from Kofi, a chicken farmer in Ghana, are empty. Around 90% of the chicken farmers already went bankrupt. The market in Ghana almost does not want the local chicken meat anymore. According to traders it is too expensive. Chicken meat from Europe is much, much cheaper. ARD Weltspiegel broadcasts a background reportage filmed in Ghana and in the Netherlands, one of the largest European chicken meat exporters. Activities: research, set-up and planning, accompanying filming. to list
May 2008
ORF Tagesschau
The Baja Beach Club, a night club in Rotterdam, offers its VIP clients the opportunity to have a injected microchip implanted in their upper arms. The chip does not only gives them special access to VIP lounges, but also acts as a debit account from which they can pay for drinks. Activities: research, set-up and planning. to list
May 2008
WDR Monitor
When German doctors threaten with Strikes for more salary, the WDR political program Monitor checks out how the Dutch organised their health insurance system. Activities: research. to list
May 2008
SF '10 vor 10'
On Mother's day Swiss TV brings a report about the Dutch flower branch. During the extensive coverage of one the massive flower auctions in the Netherlands, it turns out that apart from the Dutch flowers, the Mother's day bouquets exported to Switzerland contain flowers from all over the world. Especially from Africa, where the flower production is seriously expanding. Activities: research, set-up and planning and accompanying filming. to list
April 2008
ARD Brisant
Every year, on April 30, the Dutch queen and her family visit a region of the Netherlands on to celebrate Queens day, the birthday of her mother, the late Princess Juliana. This year Beatrix visits two towns in the province of Friesland. ARD Brisant wants a report and some quotes from the spectators. Activities: research, book camera crew, direction and interviews, accompany satellite feed. to list
April 2008
ORF Tagesschau
Dutch pension fund Paerel Leven offers smokers lucrative interest payouts that can go up to 16% because of a lower life expectancy. A heavy smoker, already missing one long, the owner of Paerel Leven and a doctor explain what they think of the new formula. Activities: research, set-up and planning of interviews. to list
April 2008
SF '10 vor 10'
After the publication of 'Me and War criminals, The Hunt', written by Carla Del Ponte, '10 vor 10' needs an interview with a Swiss judge working at the Tribunal for ex-Yugoslavia, about the mentioning of illegal transplantation of organs of Serbs prisoners from Kosovo. In her book Del Ponte reports the allegations made by several sources that KLA fighters, at a senior level, had authorised and profited from an organ-harvesting racket preying on Serbs transported from Kosovo. Some say that she got the information they provided through UN officials and "trusted journalists", but not from the sources themselves.
Activities: organise interview, book camera crew, direction and interview, accompany satellite feed. to list
April 2008
SF '10 vor 10'
Aquapol is an European partnership of ten countries for police work in inland waterway shipping, on the seas and in seaports, aimed at advancing safety and fighting crime in Europe. In 2008, Aquapol’s presidency was given to the Netherlands. One of the areas of attention for the Aquapol countries is Rotterdam’s port policy, because it is at the forefront of security and the fight against crime. Aquapol will double the number of joint operations in 2008. Twenty-five operations will be conducted at sea, on rivers and in the ports of the countries participating in Aquapol. These operations focus on smuggling, stolen vessels, illegal work and safety regulations. In an age of increasing imports from China and a shortage of qualitfied personnel the European harbour and river police has to be extra watchful. The Rotterdam harbour police takes press along to show inspections of inland cargo vessels transporting dangerous goods on a day simular Aquapol inspections take place all over Europe. Activities: research and set-up & accompany filming, research and organise archive footage. to list
April 2008
FULCRUM TV / MEDIALAB UK
Fulcrum Tv is making a program about mummification. An American man who is terminally ill and who will donate his body to science is exploring the technology behind nummification. His wife and family are accompanying him to Egypt to be part of the story about how we deal with death today and how it compares to ancient Egypt. During their trip to Egypt the main contributor to the story and his wife stay over in Amsterdam to have a rest and to break up the long flight from the US to Egypt. Activities: research, organise mini-van transport, organise extra oxygen, accompany contributor and his wife during their arrival and departure. to list
March 2008
SF Tagesschau
The controversial anti-Koran short film by anti-immigration Dutch MP Geert Wilders was finally released on the internet on Thursday evening the 27th of March. Most of the Dutch and foreign media report that the film is milder than expected and lacks surprises. No problems in the Netherlands or abroad have been reported following the long-awaited release of the controversial anti-Koran film by Dutch MP Geert Wilders, reports the National Crisis Centre on Friday morning. The Dutch anti-terrorism coordinator has not increased the country’s alarm level which remains on the second highest setting, says ANP news service. And a spokesman for the Dutch troops in Afghanistan told BNR Nieuwsradio that there have not been any reactions to the film in the region although security would be stepped up. On the political front, religious leaders and representatives from various ethnic minority organisations are due to meet the integration and justice ministers to discuss their reactions to the film. Nevertheless the public prosecution department is to consider whether Fitna breaks the law, said prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende in a reaction on Thursday night. In a live televised speech he said the cabinet regrets the showing of the short film, adding that its only aim is to upset people. Swiss correspondent Christoph Nufer meets a Liberal Dutch Muslim columnist and visits a mosque to find out what the visitors and a representative of the Turkish Muslim community think about the Wilders film. Activities: research, set-up, planning, accompany filming, editing and satellite feed. to list
March 2008
BBC Scotland Eorpa
Since November 2007 it is known that an eccentric far right wing politician Geert Wilders has a plan for an anti-Koran film. The film with the name Fitna will probably be shown on the internet before 1 April. The Freedom Party (PVV) leader could not yet give an exact date. "As soon as everything is ready, I'll let you know," Wilders said. Wilders plans to release the movie attacking Islam and the Koran despite complaints from religious groups and warnings it could provoke violent protests around the world. He said in November that the 15-minute film would show the Koran was a "fascist book", a claim which has already drawn complaints from several Muslim countries including Pakistan, Indonesia, Egypt, Iran and Afghanistan. Dutch officials have unsuccessfully urged Geert Wilders to drop the project, fearing a repeat of the violent protests that erupted after European newspapers published cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammed. A tour along involved people and organisations: protesters handing out flyers for an anti-racism demonstration on a multiethnic market, young liberals that stand for the freedom of speech, the chairman of the Muslim board, a representative from a military union -stating on the possible effects on the Dutch mission in Afghanistan-, a young Muslim MP of the Green Left party and comments on the coming film from a variety of Dutch citizens. Activities: research, set-up and planning, accompaniment filming, interviews, organise footage, driving and translations. to list
March 2008
ORF Weltjournal
After the local elections in 2006 Ahmed Marcouch became the first Muslim mayor of the Amsterdam district of Slotervaart. A Social Democrat, he is a man of action, resolutely pushing through tough measures – something that doesn't always win him friends. Most of Slotervaart's 45,000 inhabitants are immigrants, largely from Morocco. Slotervaart became well-known because several members of a supposed Islamist terror organization grew up there, as did Mohammed B., murderer of the Dutch film director Theo van Gogh. With his dynamic manner, firm handshake, his assertive look, and dark, scrutinizing eyes, there is no doubt that Marcouch is nobody's fool, as the young Moroccan criminals he used to deal with as a policeman soon discovered. Together with six other Muslim police officers he was given the task of re-establishing the contact with the Muslim population that his colleagues had completely lost. A portrait of Ahmed Marcouch and the Slotervaart district through the eye's of a Dutch Moroccan policeman and a rapper; and a biking course for migrant women. Activities: research, set up, planning, accompany filming, interviews, translations, driving. to list
March 2008
ARD Brisant
Queen Beatrix saw her life reflected in the new exhibition ‘Amsterdam and the House of Orange’, she opened at the Amsterdam Historical Museum. For although the exhibit on two floors of the museum looks at the centuries of often testy relations between Amsterdam and the princely, later royal family, there is also a lot of personal history of Beatrix on display. The museum had wanted to host this exhibition for quite some time. For a while it was thought the investiture of Prince Willem-Alexander as King would provide a good opportunity, till the museum realised that this might still be a few years of. Organising the exposition also would require more time than under those circumstances would be allowed. Hence the decision to dedicate the present exhibition to Queen Beatrix' 70th birthday. While there is great affection for the Oranges in Amsterdam, the city also has its share of republican sympathisers. Sometimes the enthusiasm grows to a crescendo, as the intense riots during the investiture of Queen Wilhelmina in 1898; sometimes there is opposition, for example against the marriage of Princess Beatrix and Claus von Amsberg in 1966. Activities: research, accompany filming, organise pool material. to list
February 2008
Al Jazeera Int.
Municipal Police will hold a reconstruction of five stolen statues of the Radya Pustaka Museum collection in the Indonesian town Solo, today. In their testimony, the suspects said the hundreds of year-old statues were taken from the museum in three stages. In July 2006, two statues, Ciwa and Durga Mahasasuramadini were taken first. The robberies continued in September 2006 with the Agatsya and in November 2006, the eight-handed Durga Mahesasura Madini and Mahakala. In addition to holding the statue theft reconstruction, it is planned that today the Solo Police investigators will also ask for statements from three witnesses. One of them is businessperson Heru Suryanto, the last buyer of the five statues. However, it is a big possibility that HS will not be able to fulfill the police summons as he is still in London, England. Hugo E. Kreijger, the key witness in the statue theft in the Radya Pustaka Museum, said that the transaction receipt of the historic statue was original. “I swear, the sales receipt is original. I’m accustomed to seeing the antique goods’ original sales transaction receipt. Kreijger, former Director for Asia-Pacific of Christie’s Amsterdam, an antique and historic goods auction body, said that between last March and April, he in fact met with Heru Suryanto—an antique goods seller who has already been declared suspect by the police. Activities: book cameraman and equipment, direction and interview Hugo E. Kreijger, accompany courier shipment XD-cam disk. to list
February 2008
ARD Tagesthemen
Johannes Heesters, a 104-year-old Dutch cabaret singer who once performed in Nazi Germany has given a concert in the Netherlands for the first time in four decades. It was Heesters' first performance in his homeland since the 1960s. There were protests and tight security around the theatre in Amersfoort where Johannes Heesters appeared. Although Heesters insists he never espoused Nazi politics, he performed for Adolf Hitler and visited the Dachau concentration camp. Correspondents say many Dutch people have never forgiven him. "He kept singing for the Nazi regime, for the Wehrmacht, and he earned millions," said Piet Schouten, representative of a committee formed to protest against Saturday's performance."We have a problem with that on behalf of all the victims," he told national broadcaster NOS. Johannes Heesters, born Johan, began his career in Amsterdam in the 1920s and moved to Germany in 1935, where he enjoyed a successful career. Heesters was never accused of being a Nazi propagandist, and the Allies allowed him to continue performing after the war. He was booed off the stage in Amsterdam when he previously tried to stage a comeback in the early 1960s. Since then he has performed in other countries, notably Germany and Austria. Activities: research and set up filming.to list
February 2008
ABC 20/20 & GMA
ABC reporter Chris Cuomo and two colleagues on Aruba reconstruct the last hours of Natallee Holloway, the American girl that disappeared on Aruba in 2005, using the secretly taped admissions from main Dutch suspect Joran van der S. in a Dutch crime program. Chris Cuomo reports live form the centre of Amsterdam. Activities: stand-up location advise, organise mini-vans & drivers, book hotel rooms, organise licenses for SNG truck live location, story- & footage research and production; accompany preparation, live-stand-ups and set-up of extra lights. to list
January 2008
SF Tagesschau
At the end of last year the Dutch conservative politician Geert Wilders announced that he will produce a critical film about the Koran. The Dutch society and politics fear the consequences of a film that is not finished. Swiss correspondent Christoph Nufer interviews Wilders to find out what he wants to say with the film. Activities: research & set-up, organise interview, research archive footage
January 2008
ORF Weltjournal
After an inhabitant of Slotervaart killed Dutch movie maker Theo van Gogh in 2004 the neighbourhood got a lot of bad press. Over the last months a few cars burned out and a stabbing took place. The new district mayor Ahmed Marcouch is born in Morocco and served at the Amsterdam police for many years. He became a symbol of a new age for Slotervaart. The troublemakers need to be dealt with, police coordinators and street coaches roam the streets and families get help with the education of their children. How is integration doing in Slotervaart? Activities: research & set-up. to list
January 2008
ORF Weltjournal
In the Dutch year of the religious heritage a new foundation devoted itself to save churches from demolition. In the upcoming 5 years around 1200 Dutch churches will go out of use because of the secularisation. Many of these churches have to be demolished to pay for the renovations of other churches or because the diocese does not allow another use for the house of God. Former churchgoers, local residents and art historians fight for the preservation of the Dutch religious heritage. Activities: research, accompany filming, interviews and translations. to list
2007
December 2007
PBS/Kontentreal
2012 Architects views re-use as an integrated design strategy. Working under the name Superuse Architects 2012 is busy creating a knowledge database for the simpler and more efficient use of re-use in the construction industry. However, ecological considerations are not the prime motivation. Equally important, in their view, is the creative inspiration they draw from the potentialities of recovered objects. The qualities that are inherent in used products and materials offer
potential added-value when incorporated in new products and compositions: the ready-made principle of art applied to architecture. For 2012 the re-use concept applies as well to the material world as to energy, human resources and water. Ultimately leading to very contemporary design integrating all of these aspects. The PBS documentary series Design e2 has a close look at the idea's and creations of the three leading architects of 2012 Architects. Activities: organise & hire camera assistant, soundman, grip gear, Magliner and rental van. Accompany filming, reorganise planning, driving and act as shop client. to list
December 2007
SWR/ARD
Since a while the status of the multicultural society is under discussion in Germany. A German documentary maker comes to the Netherlands for research and the set-up of filming for a documentary about the status of the multi-culti society in The Netherlands. Since the rise and fall of the Dutch populist politician Pim Fortuyn the multicultural has been subject of discussion. Activities: research & advise, organise meetings with a sociologist and columnist. to list
November 2007
ARD Tagesthemen
The council of the Amsterdam Centre district declared that the tree behind the Anne Frank house, had to be cut down on November 20, 2007 due to the risk that it could otherwise fall down. But on November 21, 2007 a judge issued a temporary injunction stopping the removal. Second opinion analysis by the Dutch Tree Foundation has shown that there exists no acute danger of collapse. The Dutch Tree foundation and some of the neighbours start a lawsuit against the Amsterdam centre district and the owner of the ground to save the tree. The judge even decides to check out the tree himself, causing a lot of consternation by the press in the gardens behind the Anne Frank house. Activities: research, book camera crew, direction, interview, accompany satellite feed. to list
November 2007
SF Tagesschau
The Anne Frank tree is the horse-chestnut tree in the city center of Amsterdam that was featured in Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl. Anne Frank described the tree from the annex, the building where she and her family were hiding for the Nazis during the Second World War. The tree is estimated between 150 and 170 years old, and for the past several years it has been battling both a fungus and a moth infestation. The council of the Amsterdam centre district declared that the tree had to be cut down on November 20, 2007 due to the risk that it could otherwise fall down. Activities: research, organise Dutch reportage, organise & accompany satellite feed, translation text and news update. to list
November 2007
ORF Tagesschau
In Austria the legalisation of gay marriage is discussed. Correspondent Sonja Sagmeister visits the Netherlands to see how the Dutch gay marriage is doing. She finds out that Dutch married gays even can adopt children. Activities: research and set-up filming, accompanying filming. to list
November 2007
SF
For the first time in 40 years the Dutch, English and Germans expect a heavy storm and high tide. The complete Dutch coast is monitored by dyke inspectors. The dams of the Dutch Delta coast protection system called the Delta Works are closed. For the futuristic Maeslandt dam that can close off the entrance of the Rotterdam harbor, this is the first time since it was constructed. Although some English streets are flooded, the storm and high tide turn out to be pretty harmless. Extensive video footage of the Dutch cost protection system is needed for background reportage. Activities: story advise, footage advise. to list
November 2007
SF ´10 vor 10´
Since helping to die is legal in Switzerland a lot of foreigners travel to Switzerland to be helped to die. The neighbors of the locations where the dying takes place protest against the constant stream of corpses taken out in coffins. The organisations that help people to die have to move location constantly and are often forced to hire a camper and assist the suicide along a road or deep in a forest. In The Netherlands euthanasia is legalised, but it is has to be carried out by a doctor and through a set of rules and regulation it is only possible for Dutch inhabitants. The foreigners that contact the Dutch association of voluntary euthanasia are advised to go to Switzerland. Activities: research and set up, book cameraman, direction and interview, accompany satellite feed. to list
November 2007
SF '10 vor 10'
More than 20 million toys made in China have been recalled worldwide over the past four months because of potentially dangerous levels of lead or choking hazards due to small magnets. Some of these toys were manufactured using paints from unauthorized suppliers, to which the paints had toxic levels of lead. Swiss correspondent Christoph Nufer checks out how the shipments of containers filled with toys for the rest of Europe are controlled in the Rotterdam harbor. The Dutch food and product safety Authority (VWA) and the Dutch customs make risk analyses to decide which container needs to be inspected. Often the inspection happens at importers inside the country, to prevent the constant flow of containers in the harbor is frustrated. Papers and toys are checked and samples are taken and tested in the VWA labs. Activities: research and set up, plan filming; direction and interview. to list
November 2007
ARD
Europol arranges a press conference in The Hague to announce the dismantling of a worldwide child sex offender’s network. The case, named ‘Operation Koala’, began in 2006 when a child abuse video was discovered in Australia. This particular video had been produced in Belgium. A Belgian perpetrator and two victims were identified. Consequently, the sole producer of the material, a 42-year-old Italian national, was arrested. He was running a website on which he sold over 150 self-made, sexually explicit videos of underage girls. This business had been running for a year and a half, generating considerable profits from around 2500 customers worldwide. The information from Australia was routed via Interpol to Belgium and Europol. The keys to the success of this operation are the provision of valuable data by Member States and Interpol and crime analysis for more than a year carried out by specialists in dealing with online child sex abuse cases at Europol and the judicial co-ordination carried out by Eurojust. Activities: research, book cameraman, cover press conference, organise background information, accompany feed. to list
October 2007
ARD Monitor
For a reportage about the German links to the PKK, ARD Monitor needs images from the arrest of a group of PKK trainees in the Netherlands in 2004. Activities: find the footage, organise unblocking at prosecutor and Dutch news and accompany satellite feed. to list
October 2007
NHK
Just before the new EU treaty is signed, the Japanese NHK correspondent checks out why the Dutch government decided to skip a second referendum. The opposition is busy to organise support for a new referendum, while the Minister of European Affairs explains that for this treaty a referendum is not obliged and not necessary. In a The Hague shopping street the reactions differ. Some regret the lack of a second possibility to speak out, others support the European cause totally. It seems the Dutch managed to sail around a sensitive issue, although the opposition still gathers signatures to organise a new referendum. Activities: research, set up, accompany filming, vox pops, translations, organise TV archive footage, direction & interviews and accompany satellite feed. to list
October 2007
ORF News
Because a girl refugee threatens to kill herself after her family is send back to Kosovo, ORF correspondent Sonja Sagmeister reports on the actual situation in The Netherlands, where a general amnesty for asylum seekers is given. An Angolan couple with a young baby enjoys the new Dutch status in a refuge centre in Eindhoven, while a young man from the same country is finally forced to re-emigrate. His little brother got a Dutch permit of stay, their parents are both dead. Activities: research, set-up, planning, accompanying filming, translations, interviews. to list
September 2007
Nash TV
The US TV company NASH Entertainment produces a show called ‘World’s Most Daring Rescues caught on tape.’ One of the clips they want to use concerns a Dutch paraglider who was rescued during an accident in New Zealand in 2001. Bergsma: 'I got stuck in high-voltage cables. The TV crews arrived on the scene in a few minutes, sadly enough it took the rescue team an hour to arrive.' Activities: find Dutch paraglider. to list
September 2007
Deutsche Welle
Since the last Dutch local elections the Amsterdam neighborhood Slotervaart has Ahmed Marcouch, a Dutch Moroccan mayor. A social democrat, ex-policeman and an outspoken man. The mayor wants to fight prejudices and so-called radicalization and fight for a good future for the citizens of his district. Activities: research and set-up. to list
September 2007
SFdrs
It seems to be a trend, the establishments of ex-Muslim committees in Europe. With the German and English founders of these kinds of committees, the Dutch student Ashan Jami erects a Dutch committee of ex-Muslims in The Hague. EU correspondent Christoph Nufer visits the press conference, has a personal interview with Ashan Jami and checks out what the Dutch think about it. Activities: research & set-up, accompany filming, interview, vox pops and translations. to list
September 2007
SFdrs
Over the last years the cultivation of fish on land is seriously increasing. One of the most striking projects is ‘Happy Shrimps’, the breeding of large exotic shrimps in the Rotterdam harbour by using the surplus heat of a power plant. The next step is cultivation of glasswort, using the same aquarium and the excrements of the shrimp as fertilizer and buying a tropical island which will be totally forbidden for humans. Activities: propose reportage idea, research and set-up, accompany filming. to list
September 2007
BBC Scotland/Eorpa
An epic landscape experiment is underway in the Netherlands. Its aim is to make Holland, the most developed of all European countries, wild again. Its method is to establish a vast network of natural habitats and wildlife corridors. Frans Vera, one of the ecologists driving the project, imagines it as a 'green circulation system' that will allow the freer movement of non-human species around North West Europe. Plans for the project show a mesh of green arteries, veins and capillaries, covering much of Holland and infiltrating Germany and Belgium. A conflict occurs when the wild animals die in winter caused by over population. Since the general public does not want to see deer, horses and reintroduced primeval bulls die of hunger, it is decided to kill the animals that are sick. How wild can a natural reserve run in a developed world ? Activities: research, set up, accompanying filming & interviews. to list
September 2007
BBC Scotland/Eorpa
After the implementation of the new Dutch naturalisation law around 250 thousand migrants, who often already live in The Netherlands for years, are obliged to do a naturalisation course and exams. The costs for the course and the exams have to be partly paid by the migrants themselves. The new law caused a lot of commotion. Eventually the Dutch government wanted to oblige all 800.000 migrants that come from outside of Europe to do the course. This was forbidden by the Dutch Council of State, since it is impossible to oblige naturalised Dutch people to do the exams. The new law obliges migrants to learn Dutch, to improve the knowledge of the Dutch society and learning to read and especially talk are the main activities. Most of the Dutch municipalities have outsourced the activities. The naturalisation course and exams need to be finished in five years. If people do not manage to pass the exams in time they will be fined. A varied migrant group gets a cultural language tour through the Amsterdam historical museum. Some so-called old comers from Turkey that already live in The Netherlands for many years complain, and the duo-project – one on one meetings between Dutch volunteers and migrants - is portrayed. Activities: propose reportage idea, research and set-up, accompany filming, interviews. to list
September 2007
BBC Scotland/Eorpa
Five years ago the city of The Hague started with a special dentist visiting hour for homeless people. The formula turns out to be a huge success. Getting rid of the homeless cliché, namely bad teeth, helps homeless to take the next steps to a steady live. After having a good set of teeth again, many homeless soon find a job, a home and even a girlfriend. Activities: propose reportage idea, research and set-up. to list
September 2007
ABC (US)/Nightline
In 2003 Dutch Iraqi Wesam Delaema visits his mother country Iraq after the US and UK invaded. He marries his wife in Bagdad and wants to finally see his family again. To show his friends in The Netherlands the other side of Iraq, he decides to film everything during his trip. When he films in his birth town Faluja, he ends up filming local masked fighters with the infra red function on his camera. In sinister green light the fighters show Wesam where they placed what seems to be a road bomb. After Wesam arrived back in The Netherlands he is suspected of being involved in the Berg case. It turns out that Wesam has nothing to do with it, but the Dutch keep on following him, and even arrest him, just after his wife arrived from Iraq. In this period the video tapes are found in his house. He is jailed and even extradited to the US. In January the Wesam trial will start in Washington. Since Wesam Delaema arrived in The Netherlands he created a large network of friends. These friends cannot believe that Wesma did something wrong, and do everything they can to proof his innocence and help his wife and brother. Activities: research and set-up, archive footage research. to list
August 2007
Kontentreal
Final activities for the purchase and sending old film footage and photos of the Amsterdam harbor. Activities: Organise copyrights film and high res photo material. to list
August 2007
BBC
The veil is a series of documentaries looking at women and fashion across the Muslim world. Besides filming in countries like Yemen, Dubai, Egypt and the UK, the crew also visits The Netherlands. The series has a strong fashion and cultural angle, but for example also looks at the music scene in the Netherlands. The Veil is about debunking myths and challenging stereo types, hoping that the series will introduce the BBC audience to Muslim women who wear the veil, but are as individual in personality and character. It is this individuality that will make audiences stand up and take note of the woman beneath the veil. Activities: research and advise. to list
August 2007
ARD Monitor
The German chemical company Bayer is laying a pipe line for CO2 in Germany. CO2 is used for the fabrication of plastics and is highly toxic. The pipeline often passes by at a few meters of houses. How unsafe is the transport of CO2? ARD Monitor wants to find out how the Dutch placed and manage a CO2 pipeline from the Rotterdam to the Antwerp harbor. The CO2 pipeline is placed in a special underground -100 meters wide- pipeline street together with many other pipelines and cables. The director of the Dutch pipe line street explains why the Dutch created this pipeline street and how save the transport of CO2 is. Besides the Dutch CO2 pipeline there is practically no housing. Activities: research & set-up, accompany filming, interviews and translation. to list
June 2007
Sfdrs
After the Dutch and the French said no to the new European Constitution in a referendum, the text is rewritten and it remains to be seen how the Dutch will react on the new text. For the rest it is unclear if a second referendum will be organized. Schweizer Fernsehen travels to the city Oss to find out what the opposition party SP (Socialist Party) has to say about the new treaty. Oss is the birthplace of the SP leader Marijnissen. Activities: advise, research and set-up. to list
June 2007
SFdrs
The ‘Betuwe Line’, the new cargo railway line from the harbour of Rotterdam to Germany, is opened by the Queen Beatrix on the 16th of June 2007. It seems that companies finally become interested. Different transporters have requested to use the new track from now on. Around ten years ago Dutch politics decided to build the line to bring back the huge amount of truck driving from Rotterdam into Europe and to unburden the towns that are located near to the old cargo train lines. It is the question if the formula will work, and if the public will accept the extremely high costs of 4,7 billion euro for the reduction of pollution. In 1992 the total costs for the cargo line were estimated at 2,3 billion, which makes the project 2.1 billion euro more expensive than anticipated. Specialists doubt if the line will ever be profitable and activists chain themselves to the just opened cargo line, mourning over the loss of nature. Activities: research and set-up, book camera man, organise SNG van and feed, planning, organising pool and news footage. to list
June 2007
BBC4 Religion and Ethics
Together with professor MacCulloch of the University of Oxford, BBC4 is making a documentary on the history of Christianity. For this the Portuegese Synagogue in Amsterdam and one of the oldest and largest Jewish cemeteries in Europe are visited. Activities: research & set-up, hire and drive van, hire water taxi, accompany filming, advise on locations for general views. to list
June 2007
JWP
Spain based Justin Webster productions is creating a documentary for the BBC on the Madrid bombings. One of the suspects of the bombings lived in Amsterdam for a while. Since the apartment block where the suspect lived is about to be demolished, the street, building, apartment and former mosque have to be filmed quickly. Activities: providing DV-equipment & filming. to list
April 2007
ARD Tagesthemen/Europamagazin
The Dutch TV station BNN says it will go ahead with a programme in which a terminally ill woman selects one of three patients to receive her kidneys. On the day the Donor Show will be broadcasted ARD needs a journalist in the Aalsmeer Van der Ende studio during the transmission of the show and the press conference. Activities: report on press conference. to list
April 2007
RTE Prime Time
The Dutch TV station BNN says it will go ahead with a programme in which a terminally ill woman selects one of three patients to receive her kidneys. For the RTE program Prime Time a Dutch interview partner has to be casted and organised for a live interview on the Donor Show consternation. Activities: research and organise interviewee and interview- and feed location for live interview from Amsterdam. to list
April 2007
SFdrs
The Smith & Jones mission is to provide multiple treatment options for anyone in Holland and abroad suffering from addictions or compulsive behaviours. The mission of the foundation is to educate young people about addictions and to equip them to attack the addiction if it appears. The Smith& Jones GAMESTERDAM clinic is the first residential treatment facility in the world that is specialised in and focused on treating people whose lives have become unmanageable as a result of their on- or offline video gaming behaviour. Activities: research & set-up and accompany filming. to list
April 2007
SFdrs/ARD
The Dutch public TV station BNN says it will go ahead with a programme in which a terminally ill woman selects one of three patients to receive her kidneys. Political parties have called for The Big Donor Show to be scrapped, but broadcaster BNN says it will highlight the country's shortage of organ donors. The 37-year-old donor, identified only as Lisa, will make her choice based on the contestants' history, profile and conversation with their family and friends. Viewers will also be able to send in their advice by text message during the 80-minute show. The Donor show comes from Big Brother creators Endemol and before it is broadcasted it creates an international outcry and a serious media hype. At the end of the show it turns out that Lisa is an actress and that the show is a hoax. After the huge consternation at the press conference, both the producer and the broadcasters are extremely happy that they managed to get attention for the so sensitive issue of organ donation in The Netherlands and beyond. The news footage is also used by ARD Tagesshau, Tages Themen and Europamagazin. Activities: research and set-up news interviews, donor show footage, accompany filming and satellite feed. Sell reportage to ABC. to list
April 2007
SFdrs
Swiss EU-correspondent Christoph Nufer visits The Netherlands to investigate how the Dutch organised its housing market. Two thirds of the apartments in Amsterdam are rented through a special social housing system that keeps prices low for people with small budgets. The idea behind the policy is that Amsterdam keeps its mixed population. Sadly enough most of the apartments are relatively small and vacancies do not appear often. This forces young families to move to a larger house outside the city. Since many of these family members still work in town, this causes a serious increase of traffic jam kilometers. Also the housing policy from the sixties and seventies to stimulate suburbanisation to centres of growth further away from the bigger cities in the West, plays a large role in the terrifying increase of traffic jams. All new housing projects in the West now factor in larger apartments and a large percentage of market rate housing to keep the families in the west. Activities: research & set-up, find examples of social housing and of suburbanised families. to list
April 2007
Kontentreal
The New York based documentary production company Kontentreal produces a series of documentaries called Design E2. Design E2: The Economies of Being Environmentally conscious is an original HD multipart series that explores the living vitality of the environment. Eight different topics - from sustainable architecture to water culture to alternative energy to organic farming, recycled clothing and more - are each presented in six thirty-minute episoded, challenging us to live smarter, live greener and live with the future in mind. Design E2 is narrated by Brad Pitt. This six-part series is produced by Kontenreal and releases nationwide on PBS in autumn 2007. The Design E2 visits the Netherlands for an episode on sustainable architecture and solving suburban sprawl. In the Amsterdam docklands two neighbourhoods called Borneo and Sporenburg are taken as examples. Drawing upon Dutch architectural heritage, West 8's plan for Borneo Sporenburg was inspired by villages on the former Zuiderzee, where small, intimate houses descend towards the water. More than 100 architects participated; developing new housing prototypes and the resulting designs include patios, roof gardens and striking views of the waterfront. The Borneo Sporenburg approach is especially interesting for very dense luxurious housing near to the city centre. An important alternative for the classical and so widely spread American suburbia concept. Activities: research, set-up, location scouting, organise filming and interviews, hire assistant camera man & soundman, hire van and grip equipment, research and purchase historical footage and photo's, driver, accompany filming. to list
March 2007
Eurocam
For a company film for the international consultancy company Accenture, Eurocam needs a teleprompter machine (auto cue). Activities: organise teleprompter and personnel
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February 2007
SFdrs
Swiss Europe correspondent Christoph Nufer comes to the Netherlands to report on the way the Dutch try to manage the road use on local and national scale. Since a few years a small town in Friesland tests the 'shared space' concept: signs and the borders that separate road users are removed, which makes them much more conscious of each other. The result is a huge decrease in accidents and a much better traffic flow. At the same time the Dutch try to fight the huge increase of traffic jam kilometres of around 10% a year. Apart from the fact that there is not much space left for extra asphalt, the construction of new lanes will take far too long to be a real solution to the actual problems. Innovation in the use of the road and again raising the consciousness of the drivers will be the only alternative. New systems like 'flexible use of emergency lanes', high-way-entrance-dosage-systems and 'section control' are implemented and tested. On the main highways more rules and a high level of communication with the road users, seem to be the only solution to fight the numerous traffic jams. The motorists will first be informed, than guided, and in the end they will have to be totally controlled; so every inch of the available road will be utilized. Activities: research & set-up, organise archive footage, accompany filming. to list
January 2007
ABC/Nightline
A Dutch city in the North of The Netherlands introduced surveillance camera's (CCTV) equipped with microphones that detect aggression and violence. The camera’s start working when they “hear” people becoming aggressive. The software only detects a change in tone in the human voice, so a fear of the system starting to eavesdrop on its citizens seems to be unfounded. But specialists on privacy state that the technical development of new surveillance equipment is so fast that the system barely keeps up with it. Overlooking all the systems that already follow our daily activities and movements in the western world, one has to probably conclude that we already lost the fight for total privacy. Activities: research & set-up, book camera crew, direction general views, organise archive footage, accompany filming, driving.
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January 2007
ABC(US)/Nightline
Research shows that the Dutch took over the position of the 'tallest of the world' from the Americans. At the same time the second runners up, the Scandinavian countries, stay behind now. ABC News correspondent Jim Sciutto follows a member of the Dutch tall people club to see what it means to be so tall. A tall mother has her thoughts about the enormous height of her 9 year young daughter. She might have to take medicines to stop her from growing too tall. A Dutch anthropologist shows ancient bones to show when and why the Dutch became the Giants of the world. Activities: research & set-up, book camera crew, direction general views, organise archive footage, accompany filming, driving. to list
January 2007
SFdrs
On the 18th of January a very heavy storm moves over the West of Europe. While the gusts of wind shake buildings in Amsterdam, SFdrs EU-correspondent Christoph Nufer is stuck in traffic jams on his way to a life stand-up in Oostende, Brussels. The live storm report has to be done in the car. Activities: research European storm info and data for online report. to list
January 2007
90th Parallel Productions Ltd.
Last research, organising and clearing of visual material from French Archives in Paris for documentary with the final title 'Faith without Fear'. Activities: research calls and e-mails.
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2006
December 2006
90th Parallel Productions Ltd.
After years of preparation and filming, now the editing of the documentary on Islam, with the work title 'Faith without Fear', is ready and the last things, people and copyrights have to be checked, cleared and organised. Activities: research and organising video footage, clearing of rights in The Netherlands and in Paris, France. to list
December 2006
ABC Nightline
The London correspondent from the American TV channel ABC wants to know why the Dutch are the tallest in the world. With the working title 'Land of Giants' the Europe correspondent wants to find out what causes the height. Besides the Dutch genes, immigrations history and eating habits, specialists say that also prosperity and well-being play a role in the phenomena. Activities: research & set-up. to list
November 2006
DR
Danish radio reports on the Dutch national elections. Activities: Research and advise on politicians, parties, issue’s and outcome of the elections for radio reports. to list
November 2006
SFdrs
Before and during the Dutch national elections SFdrs correspondent Christoph Nuffer reports on the political situation and the issue’s that play a role in the campaigns. Social democrat leader Wouter Bos, is followed during his campaign for a back ground reportage. On elections day the atmosphere, and information about the outcome and possible coalitions are communicated via life-stand up's. Activities: research & set-up facilities press centre, analysis and translations. to list
November 2006
TF1
Preceding the Dutch national elections, TF1 journalist Françoise-Marie Morel comes to the Netherlands to check out what role the strict immigration policy plays in the upcoming elections. She meets a Dutch Moroccan analyst to discuss the actual situation for immigrants and meets a family from Syria that got stuck in the bureaucratic Dutch immigration system. They ended up in the streets and were found by a local Christian charity organisation. For years the parents with four children wait for answers in a large alternative reception centre run by volunteers. Activities: Research and set-up, accompany filming. Activities: research, set-up and accompaniment of reportage Bos, research, set-up, advise and accompaniment of live stand up's and translations. to list
November 2006
BBC World
Filming reporter Mike Donkin reports on the rigid Dutch immigration policy, and especially the situation of the numerous long term asylum seekers that still can be thrown out of the country any day. In the campaigns for the upcoming national elections most of the opposition parties plea for a general pardon. At the same time the children’s rights organisation Defence for Children International organised an association of 2300 asylum seekers children without papers, and decided to trial the Dutch state to claim the right to stay. In a village in the northern province of Friesland a large emergency centre for stranded asylum seekers is run by volunteers. Angela from Armenia explains on school that she feels totally Dutch, but fears to be expelled. Her parents are killed and she living in the centre with her grand parents. An family from Azerbaijan is living in a caravan in a garden behind a farm. They feel totally accepted by the local population, but are astonished about the fact the that authorities still do not want to accept them. The volunteer that helps the family is ashamed of her government, and opposes the severe inhuman immigration policy emotionally. Activities: propose story, research and set-up, accompany filming, driving, interviews, translations. to list
November 2006
LOGICA CMG
With the slogan 'The rules of the game' the international computer consultancy and systems integration company Logica CMG organises a seminar on Global & Managed Testing in the old Van Nelle factory in Rotterdam. For promotion, analysis and internal presentation, reportage footage of the speeches, lectures and participants is needed. Activities: filming arrival, meetings, speeches, lectures, lunch and location. to list
SFdrs ‘10 vor 10’
The European Commission lately warns the member states that the import of counterfeit goods in Europe is increasing seriously. While China’s production is booming, also the production and export of counterfeit products increases. It is said that famous factories make legal products in the day, and than make the counterfeit product at night. EU correspondent Christoph Nufer comes to The Netherlands to find out what the Dutch customs and a specialised European anti-counterfeit organisation have to say about the increase. Customs specialists give an overview of the counterfeited products coming in via the Rotterdam harbour and the Amsterdam airport. At the end of the reportage a man selling fake parfume on a market is checked by a counterfeit specialist and arrested by the local police. Activities: research & set-up, book hotel, organise & hire pin hole camera, accompany filming. to list
October 2006
BBC SCOTLAND/Eorpa
A background reportage on a huge illegal reception centre for stranded asylum seekers run by volunteers in the Northern Dutch province Friesland. Caused by the very strict immigration system, many asylum seekers that are already waiting for a residence permit for more than five years are helped by volunteers. Often whole families are thrown in the streets, because the Dutch immigration office does not know what to do with them anymore. Many mistakes are made, with human tragedies as a result. A portrait of a Tunisian/Syrian family with 4 children, that lived for a year in the streets. And an interview with Ali from Sudan, who fled the regime in his home country because of political activities, after which his wife divorced him after arriving in The Netherlands. Now he is waiting for a residence permit, while the rest of his family, except his oldest son, got a status. Volunteers explain why these people need help, and why they give the help. Activities: research & set-up, accompany filming, interviews, driving, translations. to list
October 2006
BBC SCOTLAND/Eorpa
Since the Dutch have a special way to handle their fishing quota, the Eorpa program passes by to investigate how the Dutch fishermen work. The Dutch fisherman are often organised in larger companies and together with science they to keep track of the quota themselves. Activities: research & set-up, accompany filming, interviews, driving, translations. to list
October 2006
SFdrs ‘10 vor 10’
The Swiss reportage program ‘10 vor 10’ gives attention to the fact that in The Netherlands and in France suddenly the ‘Armenian Issue’ is in the news again. In The Netherlands Turkish candidates are thrown off the party list, because they cannot confirm that the murder on the Armenians by the Turks in the beginning of the last century, was genocide. In France a new law is taken on that denying the Armenian ‘genocide’ is unlawful. In Turkey any doubt or critics against the government or system is illegal. Activities: research &set-up, book hotel, organise archive footage, accompany filming and satellite feed. to list
October 2006
BBC Bitesize Engineering
For an educational program for children between 14 and 16 years old, a BBC crew visits The Nehterlands to make a background reportage about a factory that produces plastic bottles. For the introduction images are needed of Amsterdam. Activities: advise and accompany director/producer and camera crew on Amsterdam locations. to list
October 2006
SMG/Scottish TV
The regional Scottish broadcaster STV produces a documentary about the history of the Church of Scotland in Europe. Also Amsterdam is included and an old church in a beautiful courtyard in the centre, and its religious community is portrayed. Activities: research & set-up, accompany filming, driving. to list
September 2006
ORF Weltjournal
A background reportage preceding the local elections in Antwerp, Belgium. After the second biggest party of Belgium, the extreme right party Vlaams Belang (VB) is kept out of the political system many years by the other parties, using the famous ‘cordon sanitaire’, ORF weltjournal wants to know if the ‘cordon’ will hold and how the VB is doing. During the campaign the VB leader Filip Dewinter visits cafes in Antwerp to meet his followers and to speak to the press. His main message: Belgium is undemocratic, since they keep the VB out of the political system. Also the actual atmosphere in the picturesque Flemish town is checked by interviewing a Jewish diamond trader and by portraying a local leader of the Arabic European League (a migrant pressure group that gives their supporters advice on how to vote). Apart from that a Minister of State that was involved with the introduction of the ‘cordon sanitaire’ and a well known VB specialised journalist, give their views on the dangers of the extreme right party. Activities: research and set-up, booking camera crew, accompany filming. to list
September 2006
ARD Tagesschau + Tagesthemen
In the Netherlands, Amsterdam Port Services attempted to unload a suspicious load of an oil tanker called the Probo Koala, but they discovered it was more toxic, and that there was more of it, than the Dutch company leasing the boat, Trafigura, let on. When the bill for unloading and safely processing the waste grew, Trafigura balked and the Dutch authorities allowed the Probo Koala to cast off toward Estonia, still full. According to insiders, some sludge that had already been pumped off, was pumped back on. A couple months later, the ship dumped its venomous cargo in the Ivory Coast, killing 7 people and injuring thousands. The ARD actuality programs want to know what really happened in the Amsterdam harbour. Activities: research & set-up, book camera crew, interviews & direction, accompany satellite feed. to list
September 2006
ORF Weltjournal
The three main administrators of the Party for Neighbourly love, Freedom and Diversity (PNVD), better know as the ‘pedo party’, organise a press conference in the political hart of The Netherlands, the press centre of the parliament. After the PNVD got an okay from the Dutch election commission to exist as a party, it lately won a court case trying to prohibit the controversial political party. The three man openly admit being paedophile but stress the fact that their party fights for many other points in their program. The PNVD members complain that they do not get much attention from the Dutch media and politicians. They try to stimulate a debate with the journalists present, but only get harsh questions. The main program point of the PNVD is lowering the age limit for sexual contact with adult, from 16 to 12. A child right organisation stresses that paedophilia is abnormal and that this party needs to be prohibited. A doctor treating paedophiles says that they only want one thing and that is sex with children and that the disease is incurable. He can only help to fight the symptoms. Activities: research & set-up, book camera crew, accompany filming, translations. to list
July 2006
WALL TO WALL
The BBC program ‘Who do you think you are’ checks out the past of TV cook Nigella Lawson and takes here around Europe to discover her family history and her ancestors. It comes out the a Jewish family relative was living in Amsterdam around 200 years ago. In a journey along synagogues, archives and ancient city districts, Nigella Lawson discovers were she is originally descending from. Activities: research & set-up, accompany filming, driving. to list
July 2006
BBC Blue Peter
The BBC children's program Blue Peter decided to film one total program in The Netherlands. The presenters are confronted with loads of Dutch traditions, habits and clichés. Costumed clog dancing in the harbour of Volendam, biking, the flower market and the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam and traditional Ditch jumping near Utrecht are only a few of the hyper Dutch theme’s the program deals with. Activities: research & set-up, accompany filming, organising extra equipment, driving, translations, advise on locations. to list
June 2006
ARD Europamagazin
For the ARD program ‘Europamagazin’ a SWR journalist comes to Rotterdam to make a reportage about the Rotterdam law. A national law that permits city councils to forbid people with a low income to live in poor neighbourhoods. A young inhabitant in Rotterdam explains that he is happy with his new apartment, that he does his best to find a job and that he does not understand why he might be kicked out of his place. His lawyer explains that this new law is violating European human right laws and that he will fight for his client until the European court. The responsible alderman explains that they city hall does not want the poor ‘Rotterdammer’ to live in his neighbourhood. A concentration of poor people might be bad for inhabitants that do not have much money to spend. Activities: research & set-up, accompany filming, interviews, translations. to list
June 2006
90th Parallel Film & TV
The 90th Parallel crew working with Irshad Manji are still working on the completion of the documentary about Islam. More information, footage and translations are needed. Activities: research. to list
June 2006
BBC News
At the day the new Party for Neighbourly love, Freedom and Diversity (PNVD), better know as the ‘pedo party’, since the founders do not make a secret of the fact that the are paedophiles, gets permission to register as a party in the Netherlands, the BBC News produces a background news story about the controversial phenomenon. Activities: research & set-up. to list
June 2006
SFdrs '10 vor 10'
The correspondent of the Swiss TV comes to The Netherlands to check out the harsh Dutch immigration legislation and policy. The new information film for people that want to immigrate to The Netherlands is a starting point for a search for the effects of the policy. The film is offered as an information source when people have to do the immigration exams in an embassy in their mother country. It turns out that the film is pretty paternalistic and that a long shot of a woman with bare breasts coming out of the sea, was the reason to make a censored version for Muslims. A Dutch Pakistani father is fighting for three years to get his wife and son over to The Netherlands and a Dutch Turkish immigration lawyer explains how harsh the Dutch system became. When she takes the correspondent to the local mosque in The Hague, the first generation immigrants complain about the fact that they never got the possibility to learn Dutch and that they are now also forced to do this, paying thousands of euros. In Rotterdam a discussion evening is organised about how to combat the actual Islam phobia and the chairman of the local party ‘Leefbaar Rotterdam’, erected by Pim Fortuyn gives his views on the Dutch immigration policy. Activities: research & set-up, accompany filming to list
May 2006
ABC (Aus)
Research for set-up interview Ayaan Hirsi Ali and filming. Activities: research
May 2006
SFdrs
Research for set-up interview and organise Dutch documentary that led to the fall of Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Activities: research
May 2006
RTE
In a society where prostitution is fully legalised RTE wants to check what effect this has on the trafficking of women. The issue is actual again because the upcoming World Championsships Football taking place in Germany. The huge influx of men watching the games also cause an increase in the women traffict from the east of Europe to work as prostitutes Activities: research
May 2006
TF1
In France the number of people arriving with balls of cocaine in their stomach
is increaing dramatically. The Dutch
already have years of experience with this kind of small scale smuggling. They have special jails with special toilets to collect the balls of cocaine. Nowadays the Dutch do co-called 100%controlls to check all passengers on a plane from the Antillian Islands or from Surinam. This is probably the reason for the increase of small scale cocaine smugling in France. Activities: research
April 2006
ORF Weltjournal
After a new liquidation Alexander Steinbach from ORF Weltjournal comes to The Netherlands to find out more about the long series of criminal murders taking place in and around Amsterdam. It seems that the underworld made its way up into the straight world. Huge criminal profits are invested in real estate via traders and information is leaked by corrupt police. Since the early nineties of the last century dozens of criminals, real estate traders and lawyers have been brutally killed, often in broad daylight and in the middle of the street. Steinbach looks for answers meeting a known and well-informed crime journalist, a criminal law lawyer with a history as a leader of an Amsterdam police infiltration team and a professor of the Dutch Police Academy. They all state that the Dutch criminal branch is turning into a mafia like world, where huge sums of drugs money have to be laundered causing serious corruption, especially in the real estate branch, at law firms and at the police. Activities: propose item, research & set-up, accompany filming & translations, research & purchase archive material
April 2006
ORF Weltjournal
Teachers of a Berlin school with a large percentage of pupils of migrant descent, searched for publicity to express their cry of distress about the tense working conditions. The pupils are very violent, come to school when they want and vandalism is the order of the day. Most of the pupils show a demonstrative lack of interest and a serious hatred against everything that is German. In The Netherlands ´black´ schools are a phenomena that is already known since a while. Dutch organisations and schools developed innovative forms of education to fight violence and segregation on schools and to prepare pupils for the future multi ethnic society. Filming journalist Katinka Nowotny visits a school where the director and teachers managed to change around anarchy to a balanced, disciplined and happy school atmosphere. Obeing a clear set of rules, extra attention from teachers, social workers and coordinators, and the close contact with parents turn out to be vital. Activities: research & set-up, accompany filming & driving, interviews, translations
April 2006
BBC Blue Peter
For the filming of a full episode of BBC Blue Peter, the presenters and crew come to The Netherlands in the summer. In and around Amsterdam they will pay attention to 400 years Rembrandt, traditional ditch jumping, Anne Frank, clog dancing and the flower branch.
Activities: research & set-up
March 2006
ABC (USA)
For their strikt immigration policy the Dutch created an instruction film for immigrants that want to come to The Netherlands. For the preparation of the exams, now taking place in the mother country the newcommers are introduced to the Dutch culture. Immigrants living in The Netherlands explain that it is not easy and that it is cold. Also girls with naked breasts on the dutch beach and kissing gays are shown. For muslim people a censored version of the film is avaiable. Activities: research & set-up, accompany filming, driving & translations
March 2006
ZDF Mona Lisa
While bird flu is spreading around theworld and even people die from it, The Netherlands is still free from the virus. In 2003 the Dutch already experienced a severe outbreak and they have Europe's bird flu specialist Professor Ab Osterhaus. A portrait of Ab Osterhaus in the Erasmus University on Rotterdam. The main issue is the danger of bird flu mixing with a human flu virus and how to be ready top fight a pendamic. Activities: research & set-up, accompany filming & driving
March 2006
TF1
After the Serbian ex-president Slobodan Milsevic died in the UN-jail in The Hague, the Tribunal loses its main suspect on trial. The world media gathers for days at the tribunal and rumours pop up that Misevic was poisoned. Activities: research & set-up and accompaniment of several reportages and stand-ups, translations, organise archive material, driving
March 2006
SFdrs
After the Serbian ex-president Slobodan Milsevic died in the UN-jail in The Hague, the Tribunal loses its main suspect on trial. The world media gathers for days at the tribunal and rumours pop up that Misevic was poisoned. Activities: research &organise camera crew
March 2006
TF1
While bird flu is spreading around the world and even people die from it, The Netherlands is still free from the virus. In 2003 the Dutch already experienced a severe outbreak and although bird flu is nearby the Dutch still do not have any bird flu case. French news travels up to The netherlands to find out what the Dutch learned from the disastrous experience in 2003. An inspector showswhat measures are taken, the director of the Ministry of Agriculture explains how the Dutch will fight a new outbreak and a couple running a chicken famr show how they try to keep out the destructive disease. Activities: propose item, research & set-up, accompany filming, translations & driving
Februay 2006
ABC (USA)
Around a year ago Natalee Holloway, an American 18 year old girl, disappeared on a school trip on the Dutch Antillian island Aruba. A dutch boy is suspect in the case and decides to visit The States to proof his innocence .ABC plans a background reportage about the boy in his native town in The Netherlands. Activities: research
January 2006
BBC Scotland
For a documentary Scottish production company MacTV visits a Dutch specialist on analogue video tapes. In his attic the specialist shows on film how he restores a very old format of black and white video tape. Mystriously the images of a film, shot in rural Scotland in the sixties of the last centruy, reappear on the screen. Activities: research & set-up, accompany filming & driving
2005
December 2005
BBC World
The mayor of Maastricht is promoting change in the Dutch soft drugs policy. Many local authorities want to experiment with regulated cannabis cultivation. Also a majority in the Dutch Lower house is in favour, but the Minister of Justice is against it and does not support the plan. A reportage about the difficulty to get the soft drugs in the coffee shops - the so called 'backdoor problem' - with a coffee shop owner, a cannabis grower, a Dutch member of parliament who is against new regulations. For the rest interviews with the editor-in-chief of a glossy cannabis magazine and of course with the mayor of Maastricht. Activities: propose item, research & set-up, accompany filming & driving
December 2005
TF1 News
After a possible early work of Vincent van Gogh pops up in France, the Dutch Van Gogh museum does not want to give the painting an authenticity certificate. It turns out that there are many more people with possible early work from 'Vincent' that are waiting for approval from the Amsterdam Van Gogh museum. A French Vincent van Gogh specialist living in The Netherlands gives his view, one of the Van Gogh museum curators explains what their policy is and two collectors show their collection of possible paintings from Vincent. The famous Dutch forger Geert Jan Jansen shares his views while he hangs an exhibition of his own work. Activities: research & set-up, accompaniment
December 2005
90th Parallel Productions
In many different locations in the world The Canadian production company 90th Parallel films a documentary on Islam. The documentary is loosely based on a book by author Irshad Manji, called ‘The Trouble with Islam’. The documentary is sponsored by the National Film Board of Canada and Global Television Network and PBS in the United States. This film is a personal journey to see if Mrs. Manji can recover the love she once had for her religion. She is sincerely seeking to learn not to confront and argue. She wants to find ways to reconnect with it. To find answers. In The Netherlands Irshad Manji meets Imams doing a naturalisation course, Muslim gays, a converted Dutch Muslim, a radical Muslim, a Dutch-Moroccan rapper, the Hallal Girls' - three young Muslim sisters that look for things in the Dutch society that are confronting for Muslims, a well known analyst of the Dutch multi-cultural society and of course: Ayaan Hirsi Ali . Activities: research & set-up, accompany filming, driving & translations
November 2005
ARD Europamagazin
The Antillean islands are the last Dutch colonial heritage and located in the Caribbean. In the colonial times the islands where used to sell and transit slaves, now the islands are used to smuggle cocaine to the west or for tourism. The population is mostly very poor so many young people decide to try their luck in the motherland Holland. Since they have the Dutch nationality it is quite easy to enter The Netherlands, but once they arrived usually the misery continues. Many of the Antillean youngsters end up in poverty and crime. Some say that the Antillean's are worse off than asylum seekers even though they have Dutch passports. A portrait of baseball club Bantopa in the Amsterdam south East, that offers structure and attention to Antillean and other migrant youngsters. The youngsters can join the club and at the same time follow the special homework courses, so there is less of a chance that they end up in crime. Activities: research & set-up, direction, interviews & translations
November 2005
BBC SCOTLAND/Eorpa
While the bird flu virus even takes human lives in Asia, the BBC Scotland wants to check out how the Dutch successfully managed to fight the disease in 2003. The Dutch poultry farmers are terrified that Bird flu will pop up again. A Dutch bird flu specialist and adviser of the European commission gives his view on the matter and a virus specialist gives insight in the dangers for humans. A poultry farmer that was one of the first that saw all his chickens die in a few hours explains what it meant for him and his family. A new outbreak of bird flu will definitely mean bankruptcy for many Dutch farmers. Activities: research & set-up, accompaniment, interviews & translations
October 2005
TF1 News
While the bird flu virus is about everywhere in the world, and even takes lives in Asia, it is time to check out how the Dutch successfully managed to fight the disease in 2003. How did the Dutch manage to contain the aggressive and deathly disease in a few weeks. Interviews with a virus specialist that was involved in fighting the disease in 2003 and with a Dutch poultry farmer who had to watch all his chickens being slaughtered by they authorities. The Dutch poultry farmers are terrified that Bird flu will pop up again. It will mean bankruptcy for many farmers. A Dutch bird flue specialist and adviser of the European commission gives his view on the matter and a virus specialist gives insight in the health problems for humans. Activities: research & set-up, accompaniment
October 2005
BBC SCOTLAND Eorpa
A reportage about the actual status of the Dutch Delta Works, the system of dams that is constructed after the disastrous floods in 1953, and that should protect the low lying area’s in the Dutch delta. Activities: research & set-up, accompaniment, interviews & translations
September 2005
ORF Weltjournal
A reportage about the flood dangers the Dutch delta face from the North Sea its rivers. Interviews with the survivor of the 1953 flood disaster, a worried dike grave, a pessimistic professor and the inhabitant and producer of an amphibious house. Also the newest part of the Dutch Delta works protection plan, the ultra modern moving Maeslant dam, is visited. Activities: research &set-up, accompaniment, translations
September 2005
BBC WORLD BBC Radio 5
After the flood disaster in New Orleans TV&radio reporter/camera man Mike Donkin investigates the Dutch protection against the water and the future dangers the low lying delta might face from the sea and its rivers. Activities: research & set-up, accompaniment, interviews & translations
September 2005
CNN Int. Global Office
Reportage for the CNN program Global office about the innovation and its importance for companies. Activities: research & set-up, book camera crew, direction and interviews
July 2005
ARD Tagesshau
At the first day the Public Prosecutor will formulate its demands in the trial of Mohammed B., the world press is present outside the heavily guarded special Amsterdam court, called ‘the Bunker’. Activities: accompany live stand-ups, interviews
July 2005
BBC
As part of a BBC documentary series about the European identity, presenter Tim Samuels is looking around in The Netherlands. The section in Holland is mainly looking at immigration and how that affects questions of national and European identity. Tim Samuels is meeting a spokesperson of the Gay Union, a trash metal band, an Afghan family and a coffee shop owner. Activities: research & set-up, accompaniment, translations, interview
July 2005
SFdrs
An in-depth reportage about the problems some Dutch Moroccans face in the Amsterdam neighbourhood where the murderer of Theo Van Gogh lived and worked, just before he is sentenced. Already way before the brutal murder some Dutch Moroccans decided to set-up a project to receive, re-socialise and help young Dutch Moroccans to future education or a job. One of the mentors explains what the problems are and how the system works. A young Dutch Moroccan city councillor gives his views. A coordinator of so called neighbourhood directors gives a tour through his district to explain what problems the youngsters face and what is done, and should be done. Activities: research & set-up, accompaniment, translations
July 2005
Inst. of Int. Relations Clingendael
A 25 minute instruction film on terrorism and its European history, and about fundamentalism in Europe. A film to explain Dutch police officers about the history and backgrounds of terrorism and about fundamental Islam in the west of Europe. The goal of the film is to take away ingrained prejudices and to give police officers, that work in a multi-cultural society, insight in the different forms of terrorism and Islam. Activities: production, research & set-up, purchase international news footage, direction, editing.
June 2005
TF1
The French shallot farmers started a trial against Dutch producers of shallot seeds, and lost it. In France it is obliged to grow shallots directly from shallots. Since the Dutch developed shallot seeds the French farmers tried to bad shallot seeds. After the Dutch seeds producer won the court case, the judge also decided the Dutch should have a say about the matter on French TV. A reportage about the development and production of shallot seeds. Activities: research & set-up, accompaniment, translations
June 2005
ARD
After the French also the Dutch decided to organise a national referendum about the future European constitution, the rest of Europe is waiting for the verdict. When the people of one of the two European states will decide against the new constitution the plan will not work. The ARD is organising a life discussion. Activities: research interview partners and panel members.
June 2005
TF1
The French economy is not doing very well. All though the Dutch economy is also not doing well many people are economically active. The Dutch have a large number of employees having a part-time job. Especially women. A reportage on how the Dutch part-time economy works. Activities: research & set-up, accompaniment.
June 2005
TF1
After the French also the Dutch decided to organise a national referendum about the future European constitution. Reportages and life stand-up’s before, during and after the referendum. Activities: research & set-up, accompaniment, street interviews.
June 2005
TF1
After the French also the Dutch decided to organise a national referendum about the future European constitution. A reportage on how the Dutch are doing after the brutal murder of film maker Theo van Gogh What effect did it have on society and what will it mean for the outcome of the referendum. Interviews with friends of Van Gogh, an analyst and Dutch Muslims. Activities: research & set-up, accompaniment, street interviews.
May 2005
ARD
Since the capital of the Dutch province Limburg is confronted with a huge wave of drugs tourists and a vast growing cannabis cultivation branch, mayor Gerd Leers decided to organise a special cannabis conference to discuss all the problems and possible solutions with the neighbouring countries, regions and cities. Activities: research
May 2005
Bayerischer Rundfunk
After several incidents with airplanes of the Turkish airliner Onur Air, the Dutch aviation authorities decide to ground the airplanes of Onur Air. Reportage about the Dutch grounding rules, the reasons behind the measure and the effects for the travel branch. Activities: research & set-up, accompaniment.
April 2005
ARD
At the 30iest of April the Dutch queen celebrates her birthday with a huge popular feast day. This year it is 25 years ago that Beatrix came into power. A night and a day of festivities is organised for the Dutch Queen. On her birthday Beatrix gets a special welcome in the Parliament in The Hague. All members of parliament are accompanied by a Dutch 25 year old to symbolise the jubilee. The ARD follows two of the 25 year olds before and during the ceremony. In the streets of The Hague people give their view on the status of the Monarchy and the popularity of the Queen. Activities: research, set-up, book camera crew, direction and interviews, accompany satellite feed.
April 2005
TF1
After the French also the Dutch decided to organise a national referendum about the future European constitution. In France the general atmosphere is to vote against the new constitution. In The Netherlands suddenly a majority is against the constitution as well. TF1 wants to find out why. A member of parliament and a representative of an anarchistic movement ae portrayed and people in a shopping street in Leiden give their view. Activities: research & set-up, accompany filming, vox pops.
April 2005
SFdrs
Since the murder on Theo van Gogh suddenly a new wave of Dutch citizens that want to emigrate to countries like Canada and Australia occurs. The motives: Holland becomes to full, there is too much tension in society and better economical perspective abroad. Just like the period after the Second world War, when many Dutch emigrated to the same countries, looking for adventure and a new start. A portrait of a family that is ready to emigrate to Canada. Interviews with a scientist, an emigration consultant and a report of a gathering of Dutch people planning to emigrate. Activities: propose item, research & set-up, direction & interviews, accompany filming, organise historical footage.
April 2005
JACK MORTON
Philips needs a change. After years of product minded thinking, they need to start marketing the human side of their business. The company Jack Morton produces an internal film to give the new policy a face and a direction. Activities: advise, location research, accompany location research.
April 2005
NDR
The Dutch TV channel SBS6 broadcasts a program called 'Probleemwijken' (Problematic Neighbourhoods). When a man admits he misused his grandchild, his house is destroyed by angry neighbours and he has to run away. Also riots break out, making it necessary to send in the riot police. The NDR media program ZAPP wants to find out if SBS6 can be held responsible for the damage. For the rest the moral question, if a channel can broadcast a man stating that he is a paedophile, needs to be answered. The spokes man of SBS6 is clear. We want to point out what the problems in some Dutch neighbourhood are. A media professor states that the inhabitants of these neighbourhoods are misused for entertainment. Activities: research, set-up, accompany filming, interviews.
April 2005
ARD
The Dutch organise the largest terrorist attack exercise in Europe. The complete Amsterdam Arena stadium and surroundings are rented and on national, regional and local level all involved departments and organisations cooperate in checking if they Dutch are prepared. The scenario is a pop concert where bombs explode and people get killed and wounded. Two thousand volunteers play the role of victims realistically, full of blood and in total panic. Life stand-up for ARD Morgenmagazin and background reportage for Tagesthemen. Activities: research, set-up, accompany filming, vox pops.
March 2005
TF1
What happened to the tolerant culture in The Netherlands, after Theo van Gogh was killed. Where did it go wrong and where will it go to? Who was Theo van Gogh and why was he killed. Interviews with one of the best friends of Van Gogh, producer Gijs van de Westelaken and with sociologist Paul Scheffer. Activities: research, set-up and accompaniment.
March 2005
ORF
Although it does not sound very logic, the Flemish right wing party Vlaams Belang is openly showing off that they have good relation with powerful Jews in Antwerp. One of the main common goals is the aversion to Arab migrants. Activities: research.
February 2005
ARD
The German Minister of Foreign Affairs is heavily criticised about giving out far too many German visa’s for Ukrainian people. Did the Dutch warn the Germans for this? Activities: research.
February 2005
Channel One
The school broadcaster Channel One wants to know what the Dutch youngsters think about George W. Bush and his foreign policy. Interviews with young students, skaters and young tourists visiting a grand cafe in Amsterdam. Activities: research & set-up, find young interviewees, accompany filming, DV cameraman.
January 2005
International Organisation for Migration
Portrait of a young Iraqi women living in The Netherlands on the day she votes in Rotterdam. The material is used for a documentary compiled from footage gathered on the different 'out of country voting' locations in the world. Activities: research and set-up, book camera crew, direction & interviews.
January 2005
ARD Tagesschau
The first pro forma trial of Mohammed B., the suspect of the murder on Dutch movie maker Theo van Gogh, is held in the ‘The Bunker’; the specially guarded court in Amsterdam. Besides being present before and during the trial, the lawyer of Mohammed B. is interviewed and footage of the controversial Dutch Moroccan artist Rachid Ben Ali is included. Activities: research & set-up, vox pops, attend the trial, organise footage of controversial Dutch Moroccan artist.
January 2005
ARD Weltspiegel
After months of absence caused by death threats, the Dutch/Somalian politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali arrives back in the Dutch parliament. A huge media hype arises. Activities: research & set-up, direction and interviews.
January 2005
ARD Europamagazin
Series of reportages on the Dutch Antillean islands in the Caribbean. Activities: research & set-up, organise Dutch Antillean producer to accompany the filming.
January 2005
RTE
For a documentary on the situation in The Netherlands after the murder on moviemaker Theo van Gogh, RTE wants to include images of the controversial film Submission, written by the Somalian/Dutch politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali and directed by Theo van Gogh. Activities: organise footage ‘Submission’ .
January 2005
RFO
Offering short documentary about the role of the black people in Germany during the Nazi regime. The documentary is made by the French RFO (‘Réseau France Outre-Mer’) journalist-cameraman Thierry Ravalet. Activities: offer documentary to the main European broadcasters.
2004
December 2004
ARD Live transmission
A portrait of a Dutch military veteran before and during the ceremonial funeral service of Prince Bernard. Hundreds of old veterans gather in large sleeping halls the night before the funeral. The next day they march to their place along the funeral route. For hours they stand in the cold to salute the coffin of their hero. Activities: research & set-up, direction & interviews.
December 2004
Spiegel TV
It seems that the killer of Dutch moviemaker Theo van Gogh was very much influenced by a religious man from Syria. The Syrian terrorist already disappeared before the murder. Traces of him are found in a small town in Germany. Activities: research & set-up.
December 2004
ARD Morgenmagazin
After the death of Prince Bernard, ARD Morgenmagazin has a 'live' stand-up at the Soestdijk palace to report about the sad occurrence. Activities: rearch, set-up, accompany live stand-up, vox pops.
November 2004
ARD
The Dutch city Venlo decided to finally execute the plan to create a drive-in coffee shop at the German - Dutch border to fight the annoyance of especially German drug tourists in the centre of town. The Dutch Minister of Justice is not very happy with the initiative. He sees more in border crossing German-Dutch police cooperation. For this the police project ‘Hector' was set-up in 2001. At the same time some cities in the south of the Netherlands proposed an idea to the German cities near by, to start coffee shops near the border. Activities: screen item idea, research & set-up, accompany filming.
November 2004
ARD
After murder on Theo van Gogh a wide range of incidents and developments take place: Islamic schools and mosques burn down, suspected terrorists are violently arrested, politicians are heavily guarded after receiving death threats and demonstrations are held. Activities: screen Dutch society and the Dutch media, write daily reports.
November 2004
SFdrs
Swiss TV wants to investigate what happened in The Netherlands, after the brutal murder on the controversial moviemaker and columnist Theo van Gogh. The main question is how the murder influenced the relations between the different cultures. Interviews with a successful and active migrant businessman, a press-officer of one of the Moroccan mosque associations, and a report on a very poplar open day in a mosque in the small Dutch town IJsselstein. Activities: research, set-up, accompaniment, vox-pops, organise footage interview Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
November 2004
ORF Weltjournal
After the brutal murder on the controversial moviemaker and columnist Theo van Gogh, the Dutch society is in a shock. Islamic schools and mosques burn down and around the murder site people of all kinds of cultural backgrounds are debating constantly. ORF Weltjournal measures the social temperature through the eyes of locals, migrants and analysts. Activities: research & set-up, accompany filming, vox pops.
November 2004
Spiegel TV
On the morning of November the second, the controversial moviemaker and columnist Theo van Gogh was killed in the middle of a street in the West of Amsterdam. One of the last projects of Van Gogh was the film Submission, written by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. In this film veiled women actresses are talking about the abuse and mistreatment in the name of Islam. Both Hirsi Ali and Van Gogh were threatened with death. The film Van Gogh was working on is called 0605, the 6th of May 2002, the day that the also controversial Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn was killed. Activities: research & set-up, accompaniment, vox pops.
October 2004
RTE News
A young Irish citizen, called Cooper, is found dead on a toilet in a youth hostel in the centre of Amsterdam. Only in Ireland the autopsy was carried out. Why was there no murder investigation in Amsterdam? What caused his death? Was he doing drugs, or was he actually strangled? Many questions to answer. Activities: research, accompanying filming.
October 2004
BBC News
A British Airways airplane is escorted to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport by Dutch fighter jets after phone calls came in warning for a bomb on the plane. Activities: organise cameraman, research for information, set up, direction and interview.
September 2004
RTE Prime Time
Documentary on the European war against terrorism and the effect it has on the Muslim communities. Shot in Spain, France, England and The Netherlands. Activities: research, set-up, accompaniment of filming, translations, research and organise archive footage.
August 2004
BBC Scotland Eorpa
More and more Dutch cities want to establish container homes for people that cause too much annoyance. The city Kampen has already ten years experience with the container home formula. Activities: research, set-up reportage, planning and accompaniment filming, interview with inhabitant of container home, vox pops, Dutch - English translations interviews.
August 2004
BBC Scotland Eorpa
Under strict conditions it is legal in The Netherlands to carry out euthanasia on people with dementia. The Dutch boards of Attorney Generals decided to stop prosecuting a doctor who helped a patient with Alzheimer disease with suicide. The boards stated that Alzheimer itself is not an indication to carry out euthanasia, unless a doctor can come up with a well-founded case were a patient suffers psychologically and the situation is unbearable and hopeless. A tour along specialists and people that experienced an euthanasia case of a person that suffered from senile dementia. Activities: research, set-up reportage, planning and accompaniment filming, vox pops, Dutch - English translations interviews.
August 2004
ARD Brisant
A German man that runs around with a gun is shot dead in Amsterdam . It seems that the victim wanted to be shot by the Amsterdam police. The police may have overreacted by shooting the man immediately. Activities: research, organise footage of the event.
August 2004
TELEVIDEO Ltd
Last minute assignment to organise a cameraman for the Amsterdam Football Tournament. Activities: organise camera man, accompany him into stadium.
July 2004
WDR Redaktion Markt
In the Dutch city Woerden a test was carried out to see how the rounding off of Euro prices would work out in practice. It turns out that the use of 1 and 2 Euro cent coins turn out to be too expensive for shop owners. Activities: research, set-up reportage, planning and accompaniment filming, Dutch - German translations interviews.
June 2004
ARD
A reportage on the atmosphere in The Netherlands before the European Football Championship match Holland - Germany . In the past the match has been a sensitive event due to some important matches the Dutch lost from the Germans and the emotions still caused by the Second World War. Activities: research, set-up reportage, direction and interviews, rough edit, feeding to client.
May 2004
ARD
Muhammed Metin Kaplan is a Turkish Muslim fundamentalist leader also known as the ´Kalief from Cologne´. From Germany he wants to change the Turkish system into an orthodox Islam state. Since there is a chance that Kaplan will be deported to Turkey the German police decides to arrest him. When they arrive at his home Kaplan disappeared. Since the ´Kalief from Cologne´ also has organisations in The Netherlands, it is expected he escaped to The Netherlands. Activities : research, set-up reportage, direction and interviews.
May 2004
ARD
Since years the Dutch have problems with body packers, mainly from the Dutch Antilles that smuggle cocaine into Europe in or on their body. After controls on the Amsterdam Airport Schiphol so many individual smugglers are arrested that the Dutch juridical system gets stuck. There are not enough cells and judges to process the vast amount of body packers arriving on the airport. The solution: control literarily all passengers from suspect destinations take away the coke and send home everybody that smuggles less than 3 kilos. The big dealers get frustrated because too much coke is lost and the Dutch judges have time for other cases. Internationally the Dutch are criticised for releasing guilty criminals. Activities : propose idea for reportage, research and set-up.
May 2004
RTE
What are the ties between the Irish and the Dutch organised XTC crime? Is it really true that the Dutch are the organiseres of the world wide XTC production and trade? What is the function of Ireland ? Which Irish criminals are doing what in The Netherlands and what are the Dutch doing against it? Activities: research.
May 2004
Bayerisches Fernsehen ARD Report München
On the 15th of June the Dutch will play the Germans on the European Championships in Portugal . This year it is exactly 30 years ago that the Dutch played the Germans in the World Cup Final. A Dutch writer published a book about it with the title: 1974, ‘We were the best'. The Dutch writer did in-depth research and comes with a lot of new clues that explain why the Dutch played so bad in the dramatic or better traumatic final. It comes out that although the Dutch team played quite well and managed to reach the final, it was an undisciplined group of fun makers that had a fierce lifestyle during the tournament. When the match begun the team was already completely exhausted. The writer and one of the players of the 1974 Dutch national team give insight in way the Dutch lost the final. Activities: research and organise footage, directing and interviews, research and set up reportage, organise editing suite to view footage, translate interviews, book camera crew and hotel accomodation, accompany shooting.
April 2004
ARD LIVE Brisant Tagesthemen
Live transmission of the wedding of Prince Friso and Mabel Wisse Smit in Delft. After it came out that Mabel Wisse Smit had an affair with a notorius Dutch criminal and that the couple did not tell the full story to the Dutch Prime Minister, Prince Friso had to give up his rights to the throne. A huge wedding is organised in the Orange city of Delft, most of the European Royal families had to miss the festivities. Activities: general info research, research + organise footage for two background 3 minute reportages, accompany satellite feeding footage, inform correspondents on location, ccompany + organise interviewees for live interviews, and live transmission; vox pops for back ground reportages.
April 2004
ARD LIVE Brisant Europamagazin
After the Dutch ex-Queen Juliana died the Dutch are in mourning. Shortly after the funeral of Prince Claus now a new member of the Dutch Royal family is buried in the historical city of Delft . Activities: research background information, accompany life transmission funeral, organise live interview partners, vox pops for other programs.
March 2004
ORF Weltjournal
The Somalian Dutch politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a striking character in Dutch politics. As an ex-Muslim migrant politician she strongly opposes against the orthodox Islam in the Netherlands . She also criticises the naïve and ignorant way the Dutch handled their migrants. Activities: research and set up reportage portrait.
March 2004
ARD
After a Dutchman designed the Gatzo meter, the famous speeding camera so often seen besides roads, now a new system is experimented, the so called route control. A system where different video camera's record traffic over several hundred meters highway and a computer system calculates the average speed and sends a ticket when necessary. Activities: research and set-up of reportage.
March 2004
Sunday Times
For an extensive reportage about Amsterdam journalists AA Gill and Jeremy Clarkson want to be portrayed in a window in the red light district for the cover of the Sunday Times. Activities: organise shooting and window in Amsterdam Red Light District, organise prostitute to stand in between journalists.
March 2004
ORF Weltjournal
While the Gay wedding is constantly in the news in the United States and gays are waiting in line to marry before it is too late, Holland already knows the legal gay marriage for a few years. A search to check out the status of the Gay Wedding in The Netherlands. The Dutch association for gays and the Dutch Catholic church give their views. A married gay couple explains why they are married and if it is satisfactory. The people in the street make clear that the gay wedding is absolutely no issue in the Dutch culture. Activities: research and set up reportage, accompany shooting, interviews.
March 2004
ARD
When it comes out that Dr. A. Q. Kahn has been selling nuclear secrets to nations like Iran , N. Korea, and Libya for years, also the stories from the early eighties of the last century it came out again. At the time the Pakistan scientist was working in the Netherlands . The naïve Dutch government gave Kahn the possibility to export nuclear knowledge to Pakistan . After Kahn left The Netherlands contacts of his still organise the needed parts and an ex-colleague was one of the first whistle blowers that brought the story in the open. Activities: research.
February 2004
ORF Weltjournal
Before the trial of Dutroux starts the ORF wants to find out in what way the Belgian system and society is influenced by his crimes. What did the authorities do and how is the reform of the police departments doing? Activities: research story, story angles, optional interview partners and find Belgian producer.
January 2004
MARY MURPHY ASSOCIATES
While the Irish do not burn any waste, the Dutch have multi functional clean waste incinerators, dumps for separated waste and even a waste dump to make compost. The incinerators produce clean energy and many durable products. A group of Irish environmental officers visits the Netherlands to have a look at the modern ways of processing waste. The Irish campaign is called ‘Race against waste'. The footage is created in assignment of a PR company for the Irish Authorities. Activities: plan shooting, book camera crew, direction and interviews.
2003
December 2003
BBC Scotland Eorpa
The new populist party in Rotterdam lately came up with a plan to forbid migrants to settle in some parts of the city. Since it is not allowed to judge on skin colour, origin or religion, some are against the plan saying it is discriminating. Still also traditional parties like Dutch labour and the Christian democrats are in favour of what they call spreading out 'underprivileged' people. The idea behind the disputable plan is to fight the ongoing segregation in some of the poor and backward districts in the bigger Dutch cities. In Rotterdam the council does not want to wait for a change in the law. They are already busy formulating measures. One of the responsible populist Rotterdam alderman explains why the policy is necessary, a social worker sums up the problems of the poor neighbourhood she works in and the effects of the new policy, a Afghan doctor living in Rotterdam with his wife and four kids gives his view on the problem. Activities: research and set up reportage, accompany shooting, translations.
December 2003
WDR Talk show Hart aber Fair
Research to find specialised or experienced studio guests for a talk show on euthanasia and the Dutch, Belgian and Swiss euthanasia policy. Activities: research and organise studio guests.
November 2003
ORF
The end of 2003 the Dutch organisation Central Jewish Consultation organises a demonstration against the increasing anti-Semitism in The Netherlands. Besides Jewish organisations also Muslim and Christian organisations and members of local councils participate in the protest. Caused by the cruel politics of Sharon in Israel and the second Golf War in Iraq the Dutch Jews say they are confronted with a rise in anti-Semitism. Orthodox, conservative and progressive Dutch Jews give their view on the actual situation. For this the ORF attends a commemoration of the deportation of the Dutch Jews is attended and the premiere of a documentary on the Israeli wall. For the rest a Rabbi is interviewed in his local Synagogue and the editor in chief of one of the weeklies gives his analyses of the sensitive issue. Activities: research and set up of reportage, book crew, accompany shooting, some of the interviews.
October 2003
ORF Weltjournal
Half of The Netherlands is situated under the rising sea level. Some of the land in the West is so wet that roads constantly sink in it and the rivers have to process more and more water causing floods. All the water and all the problems with water urge the Dutch to live at and with water the water. How do the Dutch cope with their wet surroundings, what will be the future of The Netherlands and a few examples of special house boats and experiments with flooding houses. Activities: research and set up reportage.
October 2003
ARD
After a German woman is caught with cocaine the ARD wants to know how the recruiting of European cocaine body packers works and what routes the smugglers use. Activities: research.
September 2003
BBC Scotland Eorpa
A reportage about the financial problems in the smaller football leagues in Europe . Vitesse is a club near the German border. They play in an ultra modern stadium. They had a chairman that spends far too much money. Now they have a depth of 30 million euros. Vitesse is one of the Dutch football clubs that has serious financial problems. A search to find the reasons behind the financial problems via Football club Vitesse, a known sport journalist and one of the members of the Arnhem city hall who explains the value of the club, the future policy and huge financial investments. Activities: research, set-up and accompanying reportage, interviews, translations.
September 2003
ARTE Info
While a crew of Arte is shooting for a reportage on an art exhibition on Revolutions in the Amsterdam Modern Art Museum, it turns out they lost all the camera batteries on the way. Activities: organise and bring batteries.
September 2003
BBC Scotland Eorpa
2003 is the year of the farm in The Netherlands. The Dutch country side is changing rapidly and since 1940 100.000 from the 192.000 Dutch farms disappeared. The year of the farm especially wants to promote and stimulate innovation in the farming branch. Here the knife cuts on two sides. Some farmers decide to develop new products and services to create more income. For this often the gap between the cities and the country side needs to be bridged. The year of the farm wants to show the consumers that the country side is an important part of the country that needs attention and were you can get high quality products or find quietness, space and beauty. A reportage about the beautiful Midden Beemster region were a farmer receives mental handicapped, were farmers redevelop traditional cheeses and sell their good at the farm and were even a vineyard is set up. Activities: research, set-up and accompanying reportage, interviews, translations.
September 2003
ARD Weltspiegel
The Dutch media report drug use by the Amsterdam police. In a police station in the centre of Amsterdam a group of personnel meets to give or go to parties. During these parties XTC is seriously used and some police officers even sell the pills. When it comes out most of the involved are suspended and a long internal research is carried out. Antje is one of the police women that joined in a few times and also used a pill once in a while. She fights her suspension with the help of an ex-policeman who became a lawyer. The newspapers constantly report about the affair. The chief of the Amsterdam police makes a strict distinction between hard drug and soft drugs. A joint in leisure time is fine, a pill is hard drugs so strictly forbidden. How tolerant have the Dutch become that also the police is using and dealing during working hours. Activities: organise cooperation and interview with Antje, research and set up reportage, organise shooting in Red light district, accompany shooting, stand in as police officer using XTC.
August 2003
ARD
Since the 1 of January of 2003, imams with a temporary permit of stay are obliged to do a special naturalisation course for newcomers. One of the imams in Holland became the talk of the town because he offended homosexuals. The naturalisation course exists of general naturalisation and ten special lessons designed for the holy newcomers. Besides this also topics like homosexuality, the Dutch way of looking at human relations and for example women circumcision are part of the course. The new imams also have to visit a community centre, have talks with personnel of an association for homosexuals and have a meeting with leader of an other religion. Activities: research.
July 2003
ARD
A majority of the Dutch lower house wants to lift the ban on the adoption of foreign children by gay-couples. This is the result of the discussion that arose after the adoption of a child by the Dutch gay TV-producer and personality Paul de Leeuw of an American child came into the news. At the moment three gay couples in Holland have an American adoption child. Activities: research.
July 2003
ARD
GHB is remedy to strengthen muscles and for slimming down. It also has been used as a local anaesthetic for animals and sometimes for humans. Now GHB appears as fluid XTC. Many cases are known were people died from the drug. Even police officers used it in their spare time and died in the darkness of a discothèque. A Dutch report on GHB just came out. In the report 72 users tell about their findings. Activities: research & setup.
June 2003
ARD
In the town of Volendam ten people are dead and about 130 injured after fire swept through a cafe packed with teenagers. Several other youngsters suffered severe burns or smoke inhalations, and about 20 of these victims had to be taken to special burn units in Belgium and Germany . The fire started shortly after midnight as about 700 people were heralding the new year at the bar complex "Het Hemeltje" (Little Heaven) inside a row of old wooden houses in Volendam. The owner of the bar is trailed in the court of Haarlem. Activities: research and set-up reportage, footage research and pickup.
June 2003
Bayerisches Fernsehen Report München
After the Dutch authorities had to let go a few caught ‘body packers' (cocaine couriers) because of capacity problems, a political outrage came into being. The result is more controls and personnel, more juridical capacity, a new law to put more people in one cell and extra temporary jails. Only in January this year, already 457 body packers were arrested. The Dutch juridical system starts to get disrupted completely. The Germans want to know what the Dutch are doing to fight coke coming into Germany . General views of a special body packers jail, interviews with girls that swallowed coke balls, an interview with the responsible civil servant the Ministry of Justice, an interview with one of the Dutch crime journalists and an interview with one of the Dutch MP's who strongly advises to take all the coke away from all the body packers and then send the smugglers home. Activities: advice, research, set-up reportage, footage research, booking camera crew, accompanying shooting, interview and translations.
June 2003
BBC3 News
For a reportage on the effect of the new anti-smoking laws for coffee shops the BBC wants to work with an experienced Dutch digital video cameraman/journalist. Activities: research.
May 2003
ARTE Info
Reportage on the 10 year anniversary of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) The tribunal was established by Security Council resolution 827 of the United Nations that was passed on 25 May 1993 in the face of the serious violations of international humanitarian law committed in the territory of the former Yugoslavia since 1991, and as a response to the threat to international peace and security posed by those serious violations. Activities: research and set up reportage.
May 2003
ARTE Info
The city of Rotterdam wants to get rid of the 'disgraceful' street prostitution of addicted women. The approach is called a new concept. The addicted prostitutes will be removed by putting them into a detoxification project; the rest of the prostitutes will be put into a small scale low profile indoor window brothel. The illegal prostitutes will thrown out of the country. Interviews with addicted street prostitutes and the god mother that fights for their rights in Rotterdam . Activities:
propose idea for reportage
research and set up reportage.
May 2003
ARD Morgenmagazin (2:12 min.)
While Dutch chickens are killed by the millions to fight the Avian Influenza virus spreading like wildfire, the first cases of the disease are reported in Germany . One of the first Dutch chicken farmers that was confronted with the devastating disease gives insight in the serious consequences it had and still has on his life. After the traumatic experience, months of waiting without an income follow. It will take years for the branch to recover. Activities: research & set-up reportage, book camera crew, accompany shooting.
April 2003
BBC S Environmental Issues
The Scottish youth program Higher Geography make an extensive program about urban environment issues in Europe . In the Netherlands urbanisation, air pollution and waste management are covered. We shall be using the Netherlands as a case study because it has problems associated with urban sprawl due to high population density. It has also been extremely pro-active with respect to air pollution and waste management. It comes out that the very densely populated west of The Netherlands has many environmental problems and solutions. Activities: research and set-up reportage, accompanying shooting, translations of interviews.
April 2003
ARD Morgenmagazin
The German live program Morgenmagazin organise a transmission from the Rotterdam harbour. While the German nation is strongly against the war in Iraq the Dutch support the US and UK politically. Rotterdam has one of the biggest oil harbours in the world and through this and the support in the second Golf War, they also might be a future target of terrorists. Activities: research for location, research for interviewees, viewing location Rotterdam harbour, research general information.
April 2003
ARTE Info
While a new Dutch government is formatted, the United States decide to invade Iraq . The Dutch support the Americans and Brits politically, not military. ARTE info comes to The Netherlands to find out why the Dutch are in the coalition of the willing. A protest of the Dutch peace movement against nuclear arms result in violent riots, politicians and political analysts explain the Dutch position and in a stand up comedian theatre in Amsterdam the American comedians do not hesitate to denounce what they think about their people and the new golf war. Activities: advise, research, and set-up.
March 2003
ABC Foreign Correspondent (20 min)
The Australian ABC visits the Netherlands for an in depth research after the status of the Dutch multi cultural society. A Black school is visited; a Mufty (head of the Imams) is portrayed in his Mosque and during his naturalisation course for Imams. The presenter of the so called Great Integration Show explains what changed in Dutch society, the Dutch Somalian politician Hirsi Ali gives her view on the Islam in the West and an orthodox Muslim reacts on her pronouncements and idea's. Activities: research, set-up, planning and accompanying shooting.
January 2003
ABC (Aus)
After the sensation win of the new populist party Lijst Pim Fortuyn (LPF) of the gay politician Pim Fortuyn and after his brutal murder, the ABC comes to The Netherlands to see what happened to the once so tolerant Dutch society. Interviews with party members of the LPF and a political scientist. A Muslim girl in Amsterdam explains the tension that arose because she wears a head scarf and the controversial Dutch Somalian politician Hirsi Ali gives her view on the Dutch society. Activities: research, set-up and accompanying shooting of news reportage, do vox pops.
January 2003
BBC
A WHITE mother who gave birth to one white and one black child after a fertility clinic made a mistake has agreed to hand over the black baby to his biological parents. The saga of the Fasanos' babies has highlighted the dangers of fertility treatment and has recalled a similar incident six years ago in the Netherlands . Wilma Stuart fell pregnant after fertility treatment, but it was only discovered that something had gone wrong when she gave birth to one black and one white boy. Activities: research and set up reportage.
January 2003
NDR Kulturjournal (5.40. min.)
During the recordings of the album Let It Be of The Beatles, all sessions were both recorded and filmed. Since the first name for the album was ‘Get back' the tapes were called the Get back tapes. When the film Let it be was finished all the tapes were stolen. Thirty years later the tapes turn up in The Netherlands. How important is the find? Dutch Beatles fan and – specialist Azing Moltmaker explains. Activities: research, set-up & planning reportage, book crew, direction & interviews. (interview is in English, because main character did not speak German and there was very little editing time).
January 2003
ORF Weltjournal
After the populist government resigned the Dutch are organising the second national elections within a year. After the rise and fall of the new politician Pim Fortuyn the Dutch are openly discussing the sensitive issues in their society. An actual analyses of Dutch politics and the economy and a local example of how one can fight the tensions in society. An ex-local politician of a Rotterdam neighbourhood shows what went wrong and what answers they found to fight the problems. Care, attention and the physical change of environment are key words. In the local boxing school youngster get box training. Through this they get extra attention, they develop social skills and they get education. Activities: research, set-up reportage, accompanying shooting, translating & interviewing.
2002
December 2002
ARD
After a Dutchman designed the Gatzo meter, the famous speeding camera so often seen besides roads, now a new system called ‘route control' is experimented in The Netherlands. A system where different video camera's record traffic over several hundred meters highway and a computer system calculates the average speed and sends a ticket when necessary. Activities:
propose idea for reportage,
research and set-up of reportage.
December 2002
ORF Weltjournal
After the oil spill disaster at the Spanish coast caused by the oil tanker Prestige the ORF wants to find out what the safety situation of oil tankers is in general and what the oil transport branch is doing about it. Activities: research and set up reportage, book crew, organise shooting on oil tanker and in an oil tanker simulator, accompany shooting.
November 2002
WDR / ARTE
Reportage about on a prostitute working behind window in Amsterdam and an ex-prostitute now active as photographer and spokeswoman of the Dutch association of prostitutes. Activities: research, organise prostitute and shooting on Red Light district, organise shooting behind windows, accompany shooting.
October 2002
ARD
Set up background reportage on the actual situation in the Dutch prostitution branch that has become fully legal two years before, by lifting the brothel ban law. Activities: research, set-up and meetings for TV-reportage.
October 2002
ARD
After Prince Claus, the husband of the Dutch Queen Beatrix dies both Holland and Germany are in mourning. The German Prince made himself very beloved in The Netherlands. German TV transmits the funeral live on television. Activities: research for background information and organise and accompany interview partners for live program in Delft, find extra interview partners in Delft.
October 2002
BBC Panorama
Most of the chickens exported from The Netherlands are imported from countries like Thailand and China and the Dutch political system do not have a lot of say about it. Some people say the Dutch should be ashamed of the way they produce and especially handle animals. BBC Panorama decides to do an in depth research to find out what happens with the chicken breasts before they arrive in England. Activities: research and find several journalists that are used to undercover work and that prepared to go into the chicken factories equipped with hidden cameras.
October 2002
ARD
Several countries have shown an interest in the leader of a Kurdish rebel group with alleged links to al-Qaeda, after he has been arrested in the Netherlands. After Mullah Krekar was detained on at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport he was transferred to the high-security prison at Vught in the south of the country. Krekar was expelled from Iran earlier in the week Activities: research and setup back ground reportage, including interview with Dutch lawyer of Krekar and Iraqi specialist based in Holland.
October 2002
ARD
After prince Claus, the husband of the Dutch Queen Beatrix dies both Holland and Germany are in mourning. The German prince made himself very beloved in The Netherlands. German TV transmits the funeral live on television. Activities: Research for back ground information and for interview partners for in the studio.
July 2002
ARD Europamagazin
A reportage on the actual status of the Dutch drug policy in relation with the position of The Netherlands as drug producing and exporting country. In the reportage an organisation that receives and helps addicts, an owner of a coffee shop and a street worker give their opinion on the Dutch situation. The street worker explains how he prevents the use of XTC by informing the target group and by testing XTC pills for clients. The public prosecutor responsible for the fight against production of and trade in synthetic drugs explains how the Dutch organised their fight against synthetic drugs. Activities: research and set up of reportage, accompany shooting.
June 2002
Channel One (USA)
The American West Coast school broadcaster Channel One comes to have a look at the fight against XTC production, trade and use in The Netherlands. The special Synthetic Drugs department give their view, the immense Rotterdam harbour truck scan is visited, a social worker show how the Dutch care for the users by giving all the back ground information and by testing the drugs. An ex-user explains what the effects and dangers are. Activities: research, set up reportage, accompany shooting, organise stand up locations for presenter, like traditional Amsterdam canal boat and shots in discotheque and in coffee shop.
June 2002
BBC News
Suddenly a discussion arises in England to change the urban design. New theories proof that when pedestrians and cars are existing closer together, cars slow down and pedestrians are far more aware what happens around them. The future formula: take away the traffic signs! Since the Dutch already have some experience with the new approach, the BBC comes to see how it works in practice. Activities: research, set up reportage, accompany shooting of reportage and life stand up for BBC News.
June 2002
ARD
Close to two years after the Dutch brothels were legalised the ARD plans a background reportage about the actual situation. Research at organisations that help prostitutes, talks with brothels owners and prostitutes and listen to the ideas and opinion of a specialist that helped writing the new law. Activities: Research.
June 2002
BBC
Driss is first generation Moroccan and born in Rotterdam. After family problems he ended up in a special charity home for Moroccan boys. A portrait of a young Moroccan boy to give insight in the problems third generation migrants encounter after being neglected for years. While the populism of the late Pim Fortuyn is more and more adapted by the Dutch, the natives and migrants do not live so well together anymore. Activities: propose idea for item, research & set-up reportage, book crew, accompany shooting.
May 2002
BBC Wales
Two Welsh policemen visit Amsterdam to find out more about the liberal Dutch soft drugs policy. Dutch colleagues explain how it works; a Welsh woman living in Amsterdam explains how she sees it and obviously a visit to a coffee shop, to check out how the Dutch system works in practice. Activities: research, set-up and accompanying TV-reportage.
May 2002
ORF Weltjournal
After the huge success of the List Pim Fortuyn, the party of the murdered gay politician the Dutch culture is shocked. To find out how the major change in the Dutch political landscape could happen the ORF interviews a migrant journalist and his family, a tour trough a run down area in Rotterdam by a member of the local Pim Fortuyn Party, a talk with the Dutch Moroccan director of a local migrant radio station and a visit to an inhabitant of one of the poorer areas in the South of Rotterdam. Activities: research and set up reportage, book crew, accompany shooting.
May 2002
SFdrs
News-, back ground reportages and life stand up to cover the Dutch national elections. In a run down area a young Rotterdam family give their opinion about the problems they encounter. Activities: research, set-up, accompanying shooting and editing, vox pops and translations, general production for back ground & news reportage.
May 2002
ARD
What do elderly gays think of the success of the new populist party of the late Pim Fortuyn, the LPF, and the tensions that arise in the Dutch society. Activities: research and set up reportage.
May 2002
ARTE
After the murder on Pim Fortuyn and the striking win of his party in the 2002 Dutch elections ARTE makes a series of reportages on the outcome of the elections, the effects of the murder of Fortuyn and the cultural tension that possibly as the cause of his success. Activities: research and set-up of reportages.
May 2002
ABC (Aus)
After the new popular politician Pim Fortuyn is killed outside on of the radio stations the Dutch are in shock. Activities: research, organise interviews.
May 2002
ORF Weltjournal
After the huge win of the LPF party of murdered gay politician Pim Fortuyn in the Dutch elections ORF wants to know what the effect is of this drastic change. A tour along the players: a migrant journalist, a right wing LPF member of the local Rotterdam Fortuyn Party, a analyst, an inhabitant of a run down neighbourhood in the south of Rotterdam and one of the leading MP's of the Dutch Christian democrats give their opinion and analysis of what all has happened. Activities : research, setup, planning, booking Crew, accompanying shooting, interviews`and translations TV-reportage.
May 2002
WDR
The UEFA cup final 2002 is organised in the football stadium the “kuip” in Rotterdam. Luck for the finalists Feyenoord since they are based in Rotterdam. The opponent is Dortmund from Germany. Caused by traditional hatred from the side of the Rotterdam because of the bombing the war this might be the moment for riots. A 15 minutes reportage on the two sides. The supporters of Dortmund are moved into Rotterdam and the stadium like cattle, while one of the most fanatic Feyenoord supporters Koos prepares for the match of the decade. He visits the city hall where people line up to sign the register after the killing of politician Fortuyn and the statue to remember the German 2 WW bombardments. Before Koos walks to the Feyenoord Rotterdam stadium he visits the amateur complex of Feyenoord and his mobile snack bar outside the stadium. Here the hard core fans gather and eat. Since the owner has the snack bar he cannot see the football. While listening to the report on the radio he happily jumps around his snack car when it comes out that Feyenoord wins the final. Activities : research and set up of reportage, accompany reportage, interviews, DV -filming.
May 2002
ARD
After the new popular politician Pim Fortuyn is killed outside on of the radio stations the Dutch are in shock. People from all levels in society visit the scene of the crime, city hall and his house in Rotterdam. Sea's of flowers are the result. The elections planned for the 15 th of May will have to continue. What' is the effect of the rise and fall of Pim Fortuyn in the Dutch society and who would be behind the killing itself. Activities: research, set-up and accompany shooting, street interviews.
May 2002
ABC (Aus)
Since columnist, writer and ‘public gay' Pim Fortuyn won one third of the votes in the city of Rotterdam in the Dutch local elections early March, he is one of the mayor players in the Dutch National elections the 15 th of May this year. A very homosexual outsider attempts to seize political power using hard language, causing the current politicians to be tongue-tied, insecure and divided. Around the Dutch elections the ABC wants to find out how the Dutch are handling the migrant issue after new politician Pim Fortuyn suddenly seems to win most of the votes. Activities: research, set-up interviews with Pim Fortuyn, an analyst and other involved politicians.
April 2002
BBC News
England wants to reform its health system. Health correspondent Neill Dickson visit The Netherlands to find out how they organised their health care. Interviews with an English doctor living and working in the Netherlands and a reportage about an expensive private hospital were publicly ensured people are also helped. Activities: research and setup reportage, book crew and accompany part of reportage.
April 2002
BBC News
On July 15 1995, the Dutch battalion of the UN protection force fled the Bosnian Srebrenica enclave for Zagreb. That same day, the Serbs began massacring Muslims; soon at least 6,000 were dead. After 5 years of research the Royal Dutch Institute for War documentation will present their report on the Srebrenica disaster. Activities: research and set-up reportage, book crew, direction and interviews.
April 2002
ARD Tagesschau/Tagesthemen
On July 15 1995, the Dutch battalion of the UN protection force fled the Bosnian Srebrenica enclave for Zagreb. That same day, the Serbs began massacring Moslims; soon at least 6,000 were dead. Srebrenica mayor Nesib Mandzic recently told a the Dutch daily that Thom Karremans, commander of the Dutch battalion, had totally forgotten the Moslems whom his force were supposed to protect. After 5 years of research the Royal Dutch Institute for War documentation will present their report on the Srebrenica disaster. Activities: research and set-up reportage.
April 2002
BBC Scotland Eorpa
the Dutch Religious Peace Deliberation organisation IKV will organise a series of activities concerning the presentation of the Dutch Srebrenica report. Apart from the already presented the pamphlet 'Srebrenica, the Genocide that was not prevented', the IKV organises ‘The Night of Srebrenica' and they invited the 'The women of Srebrenica' and other Bosnian witnesses for all kinds of activities and a quiet demonstration. Also one of the Dutch soldiers of the UN peace keeping force gives his view on the matter. Activities: propose idea for reportage, research & set-up reportage, accompany reportage, translation interviews.
March 2002
BBC News
In the Netherlands a course ‘how to run a coffeeshop' is organised for English people since there are more and more rumours that small sales of cannabis it will be tolerated. Activities: of research for feeding point and -process and accompanying feeding in Media Park in Hilversum.
March 2002
BBC News
'The only thing to fear, is running out of beer', is the slogan accompanying a new computer game called ‘Hooligans' designed by a company based in Amsterdam. The aim is to become the most notorious group of hooligans in Europe. The game is just released in England. Activities: research and set-up interview, direction and interview, accompany satellite feed.
March 2002
ARD
After long talks and a lot of research Holland will finally start some small experiments in giving heroine for free to problematic addicts. Apart from this the cities of Rotterdam and The Hague started up so called living rooms for hard drugs addicts, where they can find some shelter and have the possibility to use their dope. Activities: propose idea for reportage, research & set-up reportage.
March 2002
ORF Alpen Donau Adria
Activities: research & booking of camera crew for stand up in front of the The Hague Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
March 2002
BBC Scotland Eorpa
The Netherlands has the larges percentages of Teleworkers in Europe. Teleworking is being able to work at home like you work in the office. The Dutch Telecom is advertising Teleworking to stimulate people to use Teleworking services. Some companies have build flex offices, the working places of the future. The employee, from the general manager to the secretary, does not have a personal desk anymore. When they come to the office, they pick up their personal trolley, a 'flex-suitcase' with their [personal belongings and a company mobile phone to find a free desk. For teamwork there are the 'island-desks', for meetings there are special conference rooms and for individual work there are the 'cockpits'. Activities: propose idea for reportage, research & set-up reportage, accompany reportage, translation interviews.
March 2002
BBC Scotland Eorpa
For years The Netherlands is known to be the turn table in the world wide XTC branch. Apart from a lot of production, also the export of the synthetic pills is organised from the Dutch low lands. A reportage on the actual status. Interviews with the public prosecutor connected to the specialised Unit Synthetic Drug, with a specialist of the Ministry of Health. Opposite the fight against the production of and the export in XTC, the prevention plays a big role. Apart from the possibility to bring an XTC pill to a drug centre for a test to see what is in it, for a while it was also possible to test pills on house parties. Safer for the users and easy to find out what pill is on the market. When a dangerous pill appeared on the market, it was easy to warn the public with flyers with warnings. Now the Dutch government decided to stop the testing on parties, since it seems to legitimise the use of synthetic drugs. It is the question if that is a good idea. Activities: Activities: propose idea for reportage, research & set-up reportage, accompany reportage, translation interviews.
January 2002
ORF Weltjournal
After the activities of the Belgian Dutroux became public and he ended up in jail waiting for his sentence, again a new paedophile case arose in the North of France. A paedophile network abusing many children. To complete the reportage shot in France, the ORF also wants to hear what the department of EUROPOL, called Unit Trafficking in Human beings & Child pornography, knows about these networks and how they organise the fight against these organisations. Activities: research + organise interviews at the head office of Europol in The Hague.
January 2002
ARD Monitor
For some time the German economy is not doing so well. The State wants to stimulate to people with social security take cheap jobs by letting them have all the tax contributions. Through this measure the authorities expect to create 100.000 part-time jobs. In The Netherlands a large percentage of the work force works part-time. An interview with a specialist of the Dutch scientific board that advises the government, with a part-time working woman and with her boss about the pro's and con's of part-time work. Activities: research & setup reportage, book camera crew, direction and interviews, accompany editing.
2001
December 2001
BBC World
East European prostitutes are allowed to work in the Netherlands as independent entrepreneurs. The ruling involves the case of a number of prostitutes from Poland and the Czech Republic , who had tried unsuccessfully to obtain a work permit in the Netherlands They based their case on a treaty of association that their countries have with the EU. which states that business people from these countries are allowed to base themselves in the EU as independents. Activities: research & setup of reportage, accompany shooting.
November 2001
BBC THE WINSOR GARDEN
Activities : Organise rental dolly and gripper for shooting gardening program in The Netherlands.
November 2001
ORF Weltjournal
A reportage about the threat of terror in The Netherlands and the possibility of sleeping terror cells. Interview with terror expert of Europol and of the University of Leiden and a look around in the harbour of Rotterdam – a possible target – and in a mosque to see how they see the new situation after the world trade centre attacks. Activities : research and set up reportage, book camera crew, accompany shooting.
November 2001
ARD
In the last years many smart shops where established in every city. Interesting outlets of new drugs. Paddo tourism ( Germany , Belgium ) came up. There is a possibility that the Dutch higher court will pronounce a sentence on the status of magic mushrooms (paddos) in The Netherlands this month. Paddos are natural hallucinating drugs, which you can eat or drink as tea. The substances Psilocyne and Psilocybin in the paddo are forbidden, but at the moment the possession and sales of fresh Paddos is tolerated. The paddos are cultivated industrially and sold throughout the country in one of the numerous smart shops. Any processing or drying makes the whole thing illegal. Activities : research & setup of reportage, accompany shooting.
October 2001
BBC Liquid News
After years of serious annoyance the Dutch stalker of Melanie C of the Spice Girls is arrested after he threatened her to death. Activities: research, organise interviewees.
September 2001
Wall to Wall
Activities : Research for the setup of a series of reportages about police stations in Europe.
August 2001
Chrysalis Entertainment for BBC (40 min)
For the BBC the Jeremy Clarkson team is producing a series of infotainment programs on the European mainland. The idea behind the series is to give the English viewer a different view on Europe . One day they have to accept that they are a true part of the European Union. Jeremy drives trough Europe and an old Jaguar E-type and also the Netherlands is portrayed: canal tours, camping's & caravans, legal prostitutes & brothels, sex shops, joints, … to mention but a few topics. Activities : organise the Dutch production, help finding and selecting topics, set up shooting in Holland , accompany shooting, special effects: for example create an enormous joint.
August 2001
ORF Weltjournal
In The Netherlands not only the authorities organise naturalisation courses for newcomers. Now also companies give the cultural course, including learning the Dutch language, in combination with a job. All new comers get a native employee as tutor. A reportage on the day of the presentation of the diplomas for the succeeded migrant students and an interview with the Dutch Minister of Internal Affairs. Activities: research and setup of reportage, book camera crew, accompany reportage, editing and satellite feeding.
August 2001
BBC NEWS
After the AJAX – CELTIC match in Amsterdam a Scottish supporter gets shot. Activities : Last minute research to find out more about the status of the victim and the identity of the perpetrator.
August 2001
ORF
A reportage on the legalisation of brothels in The Netherlands. A brothel owner, who already participated in the 1996 brothel toleration experiment, explains how he experiences the new legal situation. Also some of the prostitutes in the brothel give their view. An interview with the press woman from the hooker association and a scientist who accompanied the realisation of the new law gives the in's and out's and pro's and con's. Activities: research and set up reportages, book camera crew, accompany shooting.
August 2001
ORF After a Dutch girl gets wounded in a train crash during a vacation in Austria, she is flown into Holland. Research to see if it is possible to interview the doctor and the girl herself. Activities: story research, research footage and satellite feeding facilities.
July 2001
BBC 6 o'clock News
After the issue of legalisation of soft drugs is raise by one of the Members of Parliament in England the BBC comes over to see how the Dutch are coping with their famous toleration policy. The spokesman of the Amsterdam city hall, a doctor of an anti-addiction institute and a coffee shop owner give their view on the actual situation. Activities : last-minute research and setup reportage, accompany reportage and accompany life stand up.
June 2001
ARD Mittagsmagazin (03.45 min)
In Nursing home Hogewey in Weesp, the elderly are seen as clients that should have fun in the last phase of their life. In little groups and in their own traditional atmosphere the elderly can still determine their own life. They can take along their own furniture, cook, do shopping, listen to music and decide themselves when they want to eat. Although most of the elderly suffer from senile dementia they are still able to run their lives as independent as possible. Activities : research & set-up reportage, book crew, direction & interviews, translations.
May 2001
SFdrs
Reportage on Ementhaler. Cheese makers, cheese testers and tasters, cheese experts give their few on the famous Swiss cheese. Part of the story is the Ementhaler made outside of Switzerland . Holland is one of the bigger producers. What's the difference in price, production and taste? Activities : research + organise a Dutch Ementhaler cheese.
April 2001
BBC
Continuation of the non-vaccination policy in the European Union is, according to LTO-Nederland, no longer justified. LTO-president Gerard Doornbos made public this position of his organisation on Friday afternoon at a press conference in The Hague . In the light of the way the epidemic is spreading and the urgent need to control the disease, LTO feel the time is right to influence actively the discussion at the European level. A reportage on the Dutch situation and the discussions. Activities: research and set up reportage, accompany reportage.
April 2001
ORF
A reportage on the legalisation of euthanasia. Interviews about the new euthanasia law with a politician, the director of the euthanasia association, the spokesman of the religious ‘cry for life foundation' and a mother of a patient and a doctor that experienced euthanasia. Activities : research & setup of reportage, book camera crew, accompany shooting.
April 2001
Hessischer Rundfunk Dienstag
Due to the fact that he murdered several people in the Second World War, Dirk Hoogendam was sentenced to death in 1950. After the war he fled to Germany and got the German nationality. A Dutch newspaper comes up with his actual place of residence. Extradition is discussed, but it will probably be impossible since Hoogendam has the German nationality. A reportage the little town Nieuwlande in the North of The Netherlands were Hoogendam was hunting for Jews. Witnesses and family of witnesses come up with the stories form the past. There is even a special little war museum in the village. A search for the past of a Dutch war criminal. Activities : research & setup of reportage, accompany shooting, do some of the interviews + translations.
April 2001
ARD Europamagazin
Although homosexuality is very accepted in Holland and Amsterdam is seen as the Gay-capital of Europe, it is still a taboo in old people's homes. Elderly homosexuals fear the moment they become in need of care. An ordinary nursing home in Amsterdam established the first 'old people's gay-wing' of the world. Interviews with some of the inhabitants of the first old people home for gays. Activities: propose idea for reportage, research & set-up reportage, accompany reportage.
April 2001
ARD Morgenmagazin
On the moment a new law is approved by the Dutch Senate, Euthanasia is legal in the Netherlands . The German first channel is present with a life program on the morning of the vote. Interviews with a doctor that practised euthanasia and a daughter that saw it happen with their mother. Activities: research, setup, arrange footage & accompanying Life Broadcast.
April 2001
ARD / MDR
A fire broke out in one of the terminals of the Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. It is said that the fire is caused by terrorists in the end it turns out to be tramps that that set the fire deliberately. Activites: info research, life TV intereview on the phone.
April 2001
ORF Report
After England, France and The Netherlands, Germany is the fourth country in Europe that is stuck by the devistating foot & mouth disease. A reportage on two side of the border. In the Netherlands farmers, authorities and scientiest are in the middel of a gigiantic effort to defeat the disease. In Germany the farmers and authorities try to prepare. Activities: research and set-up, book crew, direction and interviews, translations.
April 2001
WDR
For an actual development in the trial against Slobodan Milosevic a quick interview with the spokesman of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. Activities: setup, book crew, direct and interview, arrange feed
March 2001
ARD Morgenmagazin
After England and France The Netherlands is the third European country that is stuck by the devistating foot & mouth disease. Activities: information research and set-up.
March 2001
BBC
After England and France The Netherlands is the third European country that is stuck by the devistating foot & mouth disease. It is bad news because although the Dutch only have 34000 square kilomoeters it is the third producer of agricultural products in the world, with hyper intensive cattle breeding. The number of pigs is spectacular: 705 per square kilometer. With such a high concentration of animals the risk of contamination is enormous. The whole country is in turmoil and millions of animals have to be killed to prevent the disease form spreading. Interviews with specialists from the Dutch Institute for animal science and health, a head of the health service for animals doing the vaccinations and checking out the effects of the devastating disease at a farm in the contaminated area. Activites: research and setup reportage, accompany shooting.
March 2001
Deutsche Welle
After it became clear that the Dutch heir of the throne prince Willem Alexander was engaged to the Argentinian blonde Maxima Zorreguieta, it also came out that her father had been an important Minister during the dictatorship of Jorge Rafael Videla regime. Maarten Mourik a former Dutch ambassador of UNESCO explains why he started a court case against the royal family to prevent Prince Willem Alexander to marry a woman with a dubious past. The Dutch Royal family already has such a bad reputation marrying the wrong partners and the link with the former dictatorial regime of Videla would be indigestible. Activities: research, setup, accompany shooting.
March 2001
BBC
The upcoming years the percentage of elderly in Europe will increase dramatically, causing huge financial instability. Already now four working Europeans have to bring in the pension of one other European citizen. If nothing is changed in the upcoming thirty years two working Europeans have to bring up the pension of one. the Dutch are working hard on changing the whole working- and social system and on emancipating the elderly. They say elderly have to emancipate and become as independent as possible. Younger people and all organisations have to get used to the fact that they will have to fight more for their society, for example by doing volunteers work once a week. Some Dutch specialists conclude the whole system has to be changed as soon as possible into a socially responsible system to absorb the devastating bang of the demographic time bomb. A few examples of elderly at work and employment agencies that espcially focus on elderly employees. Activites: research and setup.
March 2001
SFdrs
After it became clear that the Dutch heir of the throne prince Willem Alexander was engaged to the Argentinian blonde Maxima Zorreguieta, it also came out that her father had been an important Minister during the dictatorship of Jorge Rafael Videla regime. A tour along a leading member of one of the royal organe society and a critical royalty watcher. Maarten Mourik a former Dutch ambassador of UNESCO started a court case to prevent prince Willem Alexander to marry a woman with a dubious past. Activities: research, setup, accompany shooting.
March 2001
ARD
At the presentation of the report of the Enschede Fireworks explosion research, the German ARD is checking out how the actual situation is close to one year after the disaster. How is the destroyed neighbourhood doing? How do the authorites cope with reception of victims and the lack of housing? Is the Foundation of the vicitms satisfied about the way the authorieties deal with the situation and with the final question: who is guilty? Only the owners of the factory or also the authorites, by not controling if the rules. Activites: research & set-up reportage, accompany shooting
February 2001
WDR
Reportage on the bad economical situation of Dutch multinational Philips.
Activites: research and set-up of interview
February 2001
BBC
Mainly caused by lack of space the Dutch come up with a revolutionary plan for new farming. The Agro Prudction Parcs should be situated in Industrial areas near cities and harbours. On different levels all kinds of farming activites should be combined so less space is used, less money is spent and less pollution is accomplished. A specialist of the Dutch Minister of Agriculture states that the way farming is organised these days makes it quite easy to switch to farms in blocks of fltas. The pigs can be kept on the roof.
Activities: research and set-up reportage.
January 2001
ZDF Mona Lisa (07.00min.)
On the 1st of October 2000 the Dutch Brothel ban was lifted. Dutch brothels became legal business and prostitutes entrepreneurs. The big question is: does it work? Brothel owners, prostitutes and prostitution specialists give their view. Activities: research & set-up reportage, accompany reportage, interviews & direction of part of reportage, research TV footage.
January 2001
ARD Morgenmagazin
Live transmissions with the Pruissian age as main theme. In The Netherlands : the last years of the life of the German king Wilhelm II. After he fled Germany he waited for his death in The Netherlands. Activities: research and set-up reportage.
2000
November 2000
SFdrs ‘10 vor 10' (5.30 min.)
After huge interest for the first Dutch prohibited dinner, now a last prohibited dinner is organised somewhere in The Netherlands. A secret dinner set-up by food-lovers and experimental ‘chefs de cuisine'. A protest against clean cooking and eating. All the ingredients and the preparation of all courses are illegal because of severe European hygiene-laws. The prohibited dinner is organised by the Dutch department of the Slow Food Movement, an international movement with 60,000 members.. Slow Food is an international response to the effect fast food has and the hygiene rules has on our society and life. Activities: propose idea for reportage, research & set-up reportage, film dinner preparations + interview (DV Camera), accompany reportage.
November 2000
SFdrs
The Dutch Lower house is debating and voting on the legalisation of euthanasia. A family doctor and a daughter of a mother who had cancer explain what ending life means in practise. The Dutch Association of Voluntary Euthanasia explains the working of the new law and a manager of an hospice sums up the reasons against the new law proposal. Activities: research & set-up reportage, accompany shooting.
November 2000
ARD Europamagazin
In 1975 and 1977 Dutch Molluccans hijacked trains and many people were taken hostage. At the time the hijackers were fighting for their own state. The Moluccan Islands are still part of Indonesia and in the present time horrific massacres take place daily. Cruel Muslim Jihad fighters butcher the Christian minority. The Dutch Moluccans draw attention to the suffering of their people and the silence from the side of the former colonial power, The Netherlands that keep aloof from the tragedy. Activities: propose idea for item, film demonstration (DV Camera), research & set-up reportage, accompany shooting, translations.
November 2000
ARD
Reportage about the smuggling of Chinese people to England. The Netherlands plays quite a big role. Both the truck and the driver of the tragic Dover disaster, were 58 Chinese people died, were from Holland . Many of the transport of illegal immigrants are partly organised from The Netherlands. In Amsterdam a Dutch confidant helps Chinese people with their business. He explains how it all works and how difficult it is for the Chinese that get stuck in Europe . A Chinese family explains how they ended up in The Netherlands. Activities: research & set-up reportage, accompany shooting.
November 2000
BBC News (2.12 min.)
Doctors in The Netherlands help thousands of people to die each year. But now the Dutch Parliament is to legalise euthanasia under strict conditions. The mother of Nelleke Dumme was terminally ill of cancer and she choose the moment to die. She explains what it meant to her mother and herself. Still many people remain opposed to the new legislation. At the Johannes Hospice they believe they offer a better solution. Activities: research & set-up reportage, accompany shooting.
October 2000
WDR
After the son of the Peerbooms family had an accident with his motor bike he ends up in a hospital. Sadly enough he stays in a coma and after a while the responsible doctor comes with the suggestion that it is maybe better to carry out euthanasia. The Peerbooms couple is shocked and they decide to try an alternative doctor in Austria . The results of the therapy are incredible successful. In The Netherlands the treatment exists but is still experimental and only for people up to 25 years of age. The son is 30 so the insurance does not pay anything. Should insurance companies pay treatments in other European countries? The Peerbooms family decided to go to court. Activities: find & organise persmission of family, prepare and accompany shooting.
October 2000
Deutsche Welle
Reportage on the Child porn unit of Europol in The Hague . Interviews with the Europol specialists on the policy and the way of working. Shots of the Europol premises. Activities: research & set-up reportage, book camera crew, direction & interviews.
August 2000
ARD
A few months after the exploding firework factory in Enschede the local football club organises a benefit match for the victims and the surviving relatives. A good moment to find out what the actual situation is. Meeting the inhabitants of the destroyed neighbourhood, talking with the authorities and training with the football players. Some of the FC Twente supporters will never come back. Activities: research & set-up reportage, accompany reportage.
June 2000
ARD Morgenmagazin (2.00 min.)
During the European Football championship 2000 The Netherlands and their football fans turn completely orange. The Dutch national colour. A portrait of an orange café owner and his orange customers in patriotic Volendam, preceding and during the football match Holland – Denmark . Activities: Research and set-up reportage, book crew, direction and interviews.
June 2000
ARD (15 min)
After 58 Chinese are found dead in a horror truck in Dover, England, it came out that the Chinese were smuggled via The Netherlands. A reportage about the Dutch situstion. Interviews with a stuck Chinese people and a Dutch counsellor mainly working for Chinese clients, to find out more about the smuggle routes and the way it all Works. What are the reasons for leaving China and how could some many people suffocate in a cooling truck. While the Dutch just established a special unit to fight the trafficking of humans, it could not prevent the dreadful death of 58 Chinese looking for a new future in Europe. Activities: Research and set-up reportage, book crew, direction and interviews.
June 2000
BBC Panorama
BBC Panorama follows some of the most notorious British hooligans during their stay in Europe during Euro 2000. Both in The Netherlands and in Belgium it comes out that the English hard core football fans behave extremely aggressive and some of them turn out to be linked to right wing organisations. Hidden cameras show what happens in the centre of Amsterdam and Brussels ; ending with a violent climax during the England - Germany game in Charleroi . Activities: research, help during Amsterdam shoot, organise shooting in Amsterdam Red Light district.
June 2000
ARD Mittagsmagazin (3.45 min)
In Nursing home Hogewey in Weesp, the elderly are seen as clients that should have fun in the last phase of their life. In little groups and in their own traditional atmosphere the elderly can still determine their own life. They can take along their own furniture, cook, do shopping, listen to music and decide themselves when they want to eat. Although most of the elderly suffer from senile dementia they are still able to run their lives as independent as possible. Activities: research & set-up reportage, book crew, direction and interviews, translations.
une 2000
BBC
The Libyan suspects of the terrorist attack against an American airplane causing a huge crash in the Scotisch village Lockerbie, are adjudged in a special court in The Netherlands. Activities: story and location research.
June 2000
SFdrs
When Erna and Henk found out that they had bought a fake painting of Matisse in a well-respected gallery in Amsterdam , they decided they might as well start focusing on collecting fake paintings. In the former city hall of the village Fledder, Erna and Henk started a fake paintings museum. From Picasso to Leichtenstein and from Klee to Appel, all the movements are virtually present. The Dutch have a professional tradition in the production of fake paintings. It came out that the first fake Matisse that initiated the museum came from the counterfeiter Geert Jan Jansen , who was producing an incredible amount of fake paintings in a castle when he was caught by the French authorities. Another well-known Dutch counterfeiter was Hans van Meegeren. The couple says that there is a large amount of fake paintings on the market. The official buyers leave the fake ones, which leave them for the fake-paintings-museum. The museum still misses some important works of art, like the sunflowers of Van Gogh for example. If somebody has a spare one the fake museum is very interested to buy it. Activities: propose idea for item, research & set-up reportage, accompany shooting. May 2000
ARD / WDR / BBC / ORF
On the 13 of May 2000 a fireworks factory in the centre of the Dutch city Enschede explodes. Many are killed and half a district is completely destroyed. A media hype unfolds. Activities: general research, footage research & purchase, booking crews, organise transport of footage tapes tapes. April 2000
SFdrs 10 vor 10
During the preparation of EURO 200, the European Football Championships in The Netherlands and Belgium safety plays a big role. Some fear the activities of the different hooligans combined with the liberal situation in The Netherlands, were soft and hard drugs are easily available and the police is not know to be very vigorous. The SFdrs meets hooligans, the Hooliganism specialists and has a look at the measures taken in the stadium of football club Feyenoord Rotterdam. The place were the final of Euro 2000 will take place. Activities: propose idea for item, research and set-up reportage, accompany shooting. March 2000
ARD Tagesschau (2.40 min.)
Water is often called the new oil of the future. While the population is growing, the quantity of drinking water is decreasing. During the World Water Forum in The Hague 3000 participants deliberate over the use and the distribution of drinking water. The opening speech with the Dutch Prince Willem Alexander, is cruelly disturbed by naked activists protesting against a new dam ruining nature in Spain. Activities: propose idea for item, research and set-up reportage, direction and interviews.
March 2000
ARD
During the Dutch parliamentary inquiry to find out the truth behind the 1992 ELAL plane crash in the Bijlmermeer area in Amsterdam, many witnesses, specialists, victims, politicians and many others are interviewed. The main questions are: how did the Dutch authorities handle the disaster? What was the cargo of the plane? Was it indeed military cargo? Was the crash site visited by mysterious men dressed in special suits, and if this was the case what did they take? What was the influence on the health of the neighbours and the fire brigades, police- and emergency teams? And what is the truth behind the strange diseases that are reported by some of the neighbours? Several reportages on the preparations of the inquiry and the new developments in the story itself by following and interviewing the local specialists, some of the witnesses and the responsible players of the Dutch authorities. Activities: research set-up and accompany different reportages, for some of them direction and interviews, translations, organise couriers and satellite feed. February 2000
ARD Tagesthemen (3.40)
While ten orange Dutch fans from the east of The Netherlands take their crazy orange bus to see the test match Holland-Germany in the Amsterdam Arena stadium, the Dutch and German police is preparing a test to see if all measures work and equipment is functioning for the start of the European Championships 2000. Activities: screening & proposing item-idea, organise supporters, book crew, research and set-up shooting, direction & interviews of part of the reportage, accompany shooting with Amsterdam police
February 2000
SFdrs
When he saw Elton John singing at the funeral of Lady Di, he thought: ‘I am not a top-singer, but I can communicate feelings.' For years he tried to become famous as a model, as a Chippendale and as a congratulation-stripper. Now he finally gets his fame in ‘Funeral-country', as he calls the branch. The last year he had around 50 performances besides the coffin. Renewal in the funeral branch. Activities: propose subject, research and set-up reportages, accompany shooting January 2000
ARD
For centuries the Amsterdam Taxi Service had the monopoly of exploiting the cabs in Amsterdam . It was only this organisation that could give out the expensive licences for cab drivers in Amsterdam . After a change in law new taxi companies appear on the market and within days a taxi war began. Drivers of new taxi's are abused and their cabs are molested. When the Amsterdam police intervenes, riots begin. A reportage on both sides of the battle ground and on the possibilities to solve the problems. Activities: propose subject, research and set-up reportages, accompany shooting
January 2000
ARD
The ‘Wadden zee' is one of the largest tide-regions in the world and a crossroads of many different migration routes of different 9millions birds. There is around 40 billion cubic meters of gas in the Wadden sea! Since 1994 the dutch are planning to win the natural gas from underneath the Wadden sea. Through diagonal drilling form land. Test drillings where needed for experience and extra facts and figures. The problems are all around the test-drilling. The Minister of economical affairs Weijers already gave the The Dutch Mineral Oil Company (NAM) permission to do the test drilling. Now the NAM is not allowed anymore. Without the test drilling the actual gas-field can not be exploited. The diagonal drilling is risky and the NAM needs to know for sure if it will work or not trough these test drillings. Activities: propose subject , research and set-up reportages, accompany shooting
1999
December 1999
SF drs / Tagesschau (3 min.)
In the Dutch city Maastricht the currency and the further integration of the European Union was established. A visit to celebrate the first universary of the Euro. Over the years the city transformed from a poor old industrial city into a modern booming knowledge centre, attracting loads of multinationals and European Institutes. Maastricht the euro city. Activities: propose subject, research & set up reportage, accompany shooting.
December 1999
ARD / Tagesthemen
Worldwide holland is known for its advanced systems in educating young fooball talent. Since the well-known ‘Bosman arrest' the mature Dutch players are leaving the Dutch league for the money and the fame to countries like Spain, England and Italy. The Dutch football clubs are trying to fill the vacuum with young players from countries outside the EU, like Brasil and many different African countries like South-Africa, Kameroen and Ghana . Investigation of the actual situation. Some of the minors are running around without any permit and with a so called frigde contract to cash when they become 18. In the mean time clubs like Ajax and Feyenoord are establishing Football academies abroad in South Africa and Ghana. Activities: research & set up, accompany reportage.
December 1999
BBC / News (6 min.)
When Erna Jansen and Henk Plenter found out through a German magazine that they had bought a fake painting of Matisse in a well-respected gallery in Amsterdam , they decided they might as well start focusing on fake paintings. In the old city hall of the village Fledder, Erna and Henk started a fake paintings museum. From Picasso to Leichtenstein and from Klee to Appel, all the movements are present. Activities: propose subject, research.
November 1999
ARD / Tagesthemen (7 min.)
Background reportage on Hooliganism in Holland . How is Holland , with its notorius past, preparing for the European Football championships in 2000. The special unit, the mayor and the hooligans themsevles. Will it be war between nations? Activitities: research & set up reportage, accompanying shooting.
November 1999
SF drs / Zehn vor Zehn (6 min.)
More than 1750 people reacted on the request from the Dutch commercial broadcaster Veronica for the TV-program 'Big Brother'. In this program 8 voluntarily participants will be locked-in a house. They are not allowed to have contact to the out-side world for the 3 months the program runs. All the scene will be recorded by around 40 TV-camera's. In the upcoming 6 weeks the producers will select the 8 participants carefully. The first transmission will be in September 1999. The viewers can indicate which participant they like the most. That person wins and get the price of FL. 250.000,= . Activities: propose subject, research & set up reportage, accompany shooting.
October 1999
BBC News (7 min.)
Since the beginning of this month Dinxperlo, a village on the Germany-Dutch border, has a world scoop: the first international police station. The idea was born through necessity: the police station of Dinxperlo should be closed because of cuts and the police station of the near by German village Suderwick did not even have their own police station. Now the green-white German officers and the blue-white Dutch officers patrol together in the streets. On the police station itself it says both Polizei and Politie and all policemen are bi-lingual. Activities: propose subject, research.
October 1999
SF drs / Zehn vor zehn
Since it is getting more and more difficult in Holland to find good personnel. People jump form job to job and if a company wants to keep its employees they have to pay a huge salary. Even the free car, the option arrangement or free mobile phone are already obvious for the employee. SwinxX Employee Benefits & Incentives is supplying innovative services to make jongs attractive. A new business in Europe: complete personal services to keep the employees happy! From a haird- and clothing dresser to the cook at home. Activities: propose subject, research & set up reportage, accompany shooting.
October 1999
BBC News
The employment agency 65+ has hundreds of retired people at It's disposal. Active elderly with a lot of workexperience and wisdom. From highly gifted professors to simple everyday people. Elderly people are still very well Employable. They have a lot of advantages: very flexible availability - both in time and in function -, age gives authority, reliability ('appointment is appointment') and very important: cheap: no social contributions to pay anymore for the employer. Activities: propose subject, research & set up reportage.
October 1999
SF drs / TAF
Because of the high exploitation costs and the lack of any financial help, the world famous tattoo cult figure Hanky Panky (Henk Schiffmacher) decided to close down the Amsterdam Tattoo Museum and stop the Amsterdam Tattoo Convention. A huge aid-movement arises to save the Museum and the Convention. Advertising agencies and world famous musicians try to help. They all love tattoos and one of its guru's. Activities: propose subject, research & set up reportage, accompany shooting.
October 1999
SF drs / TAF
Every morning at nine the ‘Vondelpark' in Amsterdam is filled with roaring and howling sounds for ten minutes. Than it gets quiet. Only the fountain splashes. More and more people join the daily laugh-meditation in the Amsterdam ‘Vondelpark'. How to laugh your problems away. Activities: propose subject, research & set up reportage, accompany shooting.
September 1999 SF drs / TAF
Since 8 years the Dive Holland Clean Foundation organises clean sweeps of the city canals in The Netherlands. What started as a small initiative now grew into an enourmous happening where litterley thousands of divers clean kilometers of canal grounds throughout Holland attracting ten-thousands of spectators. Activities: propose subject, research & set up reportage, direction & interviews.
June 1999
ARD Kultur Weltspiegel
It took train guard Ted Boeree two years and a lot of operations to recover socially and mentally after being beaten up heavily during work. In a period where violence in society is a big theme in The Netherlands, Boeree started up an internal service at the Dutch Railways called 'Guard-rail', to help colleagues with the same experience. Besides this a special anti-violence-course, called 'Listen well' was set up for the trainee train guards and maybe even more important, for schools. The course reached around 20.000 pupils on schools last year. Ted Boeree's methods and idea's are getting more and more acknowledgment, both nationally as internationally. He wrote two books and now even an anti-violence song is recorded and a video-clip shot. The text of the song is written by Ted Boeree, a man with a mission. Activities: propose subject, research & set up reportage, accompanying reportage, direction & interviews.
March 1999
ARD (30 min.)
On the 4th of October 2002 an ELAL Cargo plane crashed on an apartment block complex in the Amsterdam neighbourhood of Bijlmermeer. Apart from mistakes in the handling of the aftermath of the catastrophe, it also came out that the plane was carrying military goods instead of perfume and roses. Also the cockpit voice recorder was never found and strange people were spotted on the crash site taking things away. After people started to get strange diseases the Dutch authorities decided for a parliamentary inquiry to try to get the truth above the table. Activities: research & set-up reportage, accompany shooting, direction & interviews, organise digital- & other footage, accompany editing.
March 1999
BBC SCOTLAND / Eorpa
At the moment that euthanasia is a political issue in Scotland, Professor of the Free Church College, Donald Maccloud visits The Netherlands to investigate the way the Dutch are working towards legalisation. The professor meets pro- and contra family doctors, the chairman of the ‘Life wish Foundation', a c ounselor of the Amsterdam cancer hospital and the widow of a husband definitely choosing for euthansia. Activities: research, research & set up reportage, accompany shooting.
February 1999ARD / Tagesthemen
After months of research the prarlementarian inquiry commission publishes the report on the 1992 ELAL plane crash in the Amsterdam Bijlmermeer. The press, privat researchers and the head of the commisison gather early in the morning around the piles of fresh reports. The expectations, the reading, interviews with the main players. Activities: research & set up reportage, direction & interviews, view, edit, feed news footage to ARD.
February 1999
ARD / Tagesschau
Background interview with Dutch lawyers of Kurdisch leader Öcalan, just arrested in Africa and on transport to Turkey for his trial. Activities: research & set up reportage, direction & interview, organise & accompany satellite feed.
January 1999
ARD
After more than six years the Dutch authorities start a specail parlementarian inquiry to find the truth behind the EL AL planecrash in the Amsterdam Bijlmermeer. Some of the vicitims just arrive back from Los angeles, where they consulted medicial specialist Garth Nicolson to find out what strange diseases they have. The story of the victims, inteviews with the chief of the healthresearch of the Academical Medical centre, the parlementarian specialist Van Gijzel and following the first hearings in The Hague. Activities: propose subject, research & set up reportage, direction & interviews.
1998 November 1998
BBC SCOTLAND / youth program
What has Amsterdam to offer? Sex, drugs and flowers. The Redlight district, diamonds, soft drugs, hiring bikes, flowermarkt, art, canal biking, the Vondelpark, the organic markets, food & dance, ….. 24 hours in Amsterdam. Activities: research & set up, accompany reportage.
November 1998
ARD
The official publicaiotn of the Dictionary of the Dutch language (WNT). Fourty enormous books with around 400.000 words. The Dutch language is discribed from the year 1500 till 1921. In the dictionary articles 1,6 million quotes are used. The WTN has 45.805 pages and is easily the largest dictionairy in the world. The preparations for the WNT started in 1864. When the first linguistic Matthias de Vries got the assignment he thought he needed 25 years. The whole project is drawn out 125 years, 106 years after De Vries died. The editorial staff never used a computer, everything is done by hand. Still scientific- and dirty words are absent in the WNT. There are even words that are forgotten, like the word Febuary. The rest of the year is in. In 1999 three extra apendixes will be published with another 25.000 to 30.000 extra words. The Institute for Dutch Lexicology already started up a new mega-project: a scientific dictionary that discribes the language of the 20th century. Will it be ready, as planned in 2024? Activities: screen-item idea, research, production and planning, direction and interviews.
October 1998
BBC SCOTLAND / Eorpa
A crofter (small farmer) from Scotland is checking out the Dutch farmers going back top basics. Collectively. multi-purpouse farming. Farmerfamilly x keeps cows Biological production, look after nature and in the summer a camping in the field. From large scale to multi-purpouse Back to the small scale small scale farms. Back to the old days. new old farming of the Dutch. Activities: research, production and planning, direction and interviews. September 1998
ARD
The Olympus College in Rotterdam is sending away the average of three of it's pupils per week. They decided to make school-contracts with the pupils. The school with 1500 childern from around 30 different nationalities decided to use this extreme method, after they came out as the worst preforming school in Holland . 'The policy had to change profoundly, says school director J. Castelijn: 'The teacher more occupied with social help instead with teaching.' Activities: screen-item idea, research, production and planning, direction and interviews.
September 1998
ARD /Weltspiegel
Years after the ELAL plane crashing into a highriser in the Amsterdam Bijlmermeer more and more questions come up. Soon there will be decided on a parlementairian inquiry into the disaster. The way the disaster was handled by the dutch, how and why did the plane crash, the contents of the plane, the effects of the crash and the lack of a health research. Interview with parlemtenarian specialist who pushed the subject, journalist and writer of a book on the issue, the privat researcher and the voluntairy fireman suffering of strange long and skin diseases. Activities: research, set-up, planning and accompnying reportage.
Ausgust 1998
ARD
Reportage on the opening of the Gay Games.Activities: screening item idea, research, set-up and fixing shooting.
August 1998
ARD / Weltspiegel
Visiting the neighbourhood with mayor Hannah Belliot ending with a multi racial steelpan concert on a parking lot. A patrol through the neighbourhood with the police and checking out the nightlife of the Bijlmermeer with social worker Guno of resocialisation program ‘Faya Lobi' (Passionate Love). Activities: screen-item idea, research, production and planning, direction and interviews.
June 1998
ARD / Tagesthemen
Half june the Dutch ministery of traffic organised a trade-fare where all kinds of different new high-way-transportation-techniques will be shown on a not yet opened part of a new high way near Leiden . 100 volonteers will help showing en testing the different systems. One of the techniques is guiding cars close to each other so they can drive at the same speed without touching the steering wheel . Also a system will be tested wherein the car is guided automatically over the high way, so the driver can read his newspaper. Car parking by it self after falling to sleep. Activities: screen-item idea, research, production and planning, accompanying reportage.
June 1998
WDR / Europa Boulevard
Do the players of the Dutch national football-team know the anthem? Do the 'orange' fans know them? Watching the training of the Dutch team preparing for the test match Holland – Nigeria . Interviewing the players on the singing of the hymne before the match. Travelling with a bus full of orange supporters to the match in the Amsterdam Arena, woodenshoes included. The Dutch hymne on the beercans. A research for the Dutch pattriotism. Activities: research, set up, planning and accompanying reportage.
May 1998
ARD
In some Dutch cities an experiment called Justice in the neighbourhood' (JIB) started. The idea of J.I.B. is to bring the activities of the Justice department closer to the people. This means that offenders and victims get a more direct and fast treatment around the corner. After a year the officer of justice Mr. Siep Buist understands a lot more about the problems of the inhabitants of Malburgen, a run down neighbourhood in Arnhem. So the punishment is not so much based on dossiers any more, but on direct background information through human contact. Besides this the handeling of the case is faster because of the close cooperation with police and the county court. For the rest the JIB stimluates the cooperation with other organisations like the rehabilitation-department and other organisations: neighbourhood-help-office, social security department, Childern-protection department. Activities: screen-item idea, research, production and planning, direction and interviews.
May 1998
ARD / Tagesthemen
Rotterdam is recruiting extra policeman to walk around in the streets as look-a-like policeman. It is cheaper and faster to recruite fake-policeman and since it is very difficult to see the difference between the real one and the look-a-like, it is reassuring for the citizen. The only difference between the two is that the fake one does not carry a gun.Activities: screen-item idea, research, production and planning, direction and interviews.
March 1998
ARD / Tagesthemen
In the middle of Tilburg an insurance company opened europe 's biggest 'flex-office'. None of the 1500 employees has it's own room, desk or archive. The interior of the building looks more like a futuristic museum than like an head-office of an insurance company. The employees run around with a 'flex-suitcase' on wheels and a mobile phone to find a free desk. For teamwork there are the 'island-desks', for meetings special conference rooms and for individual work the so called ‘cockpits'. Even the managment of the company does not have a room of their own. The employees decide themselves when the come in and more and more it is possible to work at home. The future flexible way of working. Activities: screen-item idea, research, production and planning, direction and interviews. February 1998
ARD / Europamagazin
Form the results of a research last week the Dutch Ministery of Social Affairs concludes that the dutch workers work themselfes to pieces. The Dutch are European topscorers in stress. Causes are reorganisations and cuts, the rationalisation of workprocesses (the use of the computer) and the increase of communication (again via the computer and of course the terror of being within reach constantly because of the mobile phone). Company doctors explain the patients more often tell them that they rather go home to work harder. Companies even give workers lap-tops to take home. An important reason is the growth of the economy. It's working in small groups, pushing eachother and the goal is: 'making money'. Hip stress-mangement is comming up: the massage-break besides your desk. In April this year the socialist Union the FNV starts a campaign to inform their members on the dangers of stress. A medical psychiatrist starts an education for stress-therapy.Even the dutch cleaners complain about stress. The dutch government said so when they started to rule: work, work, work, and the Dutch do so! Activities: screen-item idea, research, production and planning, direction and interviews.
January 1998
ARD (60 min.)
Reportage on the illegal transport of BSE-infected English meat through Europe . Cattle breeded in England , smuggled to Ireland where the stamps are cut away. New labels are attached and the meat is sold sold as European meat on the mainland.. Activities: research.
1997 December 1997
BBC SCOTLAND / Eorpa
A reportage on the famous Dutch ‘Polde rmodel'. The deliberation method wherein unions, employers and politicians are solving the economical problems together. Visiting the Dutch stock exchange and computer company Tulip, a talk with professor in Economy Bomhof, and a portrait of Hilco. Living on social security and having a mission. Is the Dutch 'polder'-model a miracle or a myth? Activities: research, set up, planning and accompanying reportage.
December 1997
BBC Scotland / Eorpa
Two years ago a play group for children between two and four years old, in the Dutch city Leeuwarden, had difficulties to find a new location. Accidentally an old peoples home for lightly demented had space left. The two groups found eachother. Now the young childern visit the "grand parents" on the other side of the hall every day. Since the two generations play togehter the demented old people are more vivid and they even start talking about there own yought. They communicate a lot more and they are less dependant from care because they are occupied with the children. The children are more relaxed and they enjoy all the attention. Usually the childern do not have a lot of contact with their grandparents, because of the project they are more open towards older people. Besides this they develop more social skills and already in an early stage they learn that other individuals think differently. Even the parents of the children are stimulated. They are stimulated to think about there own old age and f.e. about dementia. Since the end of the eighties these kind of projects started to pop up on more locations in Holland . Activities: screen-item idea, research, set up, planning and accompanying reportage.
November 1997
ARD / Europamagazin
Amoc/DHV is a reception centre for stranded Germans in Amsterdam, subsidized by the Dutch and German state. The reportage follows the day of hard drug addicts, heroine hookers and boy prostitutes surviving in Amsterdam. A fight to get lost Germans back on the track. Activities: Activities: screen-item idea, research, production & planning, direction and interviews.
July 1997
ARD / Leinen Los (45 min)
Extensive reportage on two weeks of tradional clipper sailing in the Dutch province Friesland. The so-called Skûtsje Silen. Living with the Skûtsje-families and the crews. Preparing the old clippers and listening to the stories of the old sailors. From moving the historic boats to the Frysian lakes and the lively contest meetings, to living the races on and around the old frieght ships and the joy and dispair at the finishing line. A historical sailing journey along the Frisian lakes. Starting with calm and ending with a storm. Activities: Activities: screen-item idea, research, production and planning, direction and interviews, cameraman (DV-camera), editing.
June 1997
ARD
The Dutch authorities are discussing linking the computer systems of the police, tax office and the social security department When all this information is linked it is easier to catch or 'keep out people without a residence permit. The general view is that people that are in the country illegally should leave. But how? Nobody wants razzia's and discrimination. A series of portraits of people living illegally in Amstedam:. a Tchechenain family with three kids in an industrial squaterhouse, an Armenian conscientious objector and a German street prostitute.Activities: Activities: screen-item idea, research, production and planning, direction and interviews.
May 1997
ARD / Weltspiegel
In Holland Euthanasia is tolerated, accepted and not so much a taboo as in Germany. When will a law be ready? How is euthanasia practised in Holland? Why are so many docotrs too afraid to report euthansia? Rens Potters is very sick and he does not have a long time to live. He is in favor of euthanasia, but is nursed in a Christian dying home. He has to be transported home when he wants euthansia. Rens explains why the euthanasia option is so important for him. The Dutch Association of Voluntarily Euthanasia and the Death-wish Foundation, an organisation accompanying people in the dying provess, give their view. The end of the story is the funeral of Rens. In a canal canalboat his coffin was transported over the Amsterdam canals to his last resting-place. Activities: research, set up and planning, fxing, direction and interviews.
June 1997
ARD / Europa Magazin
During the 1997 Amsterdam Euro Summit alternative movements have their own summit called the ‘Platform for a different Europe '. A clourfull Amsterdam journey along tiny political parties, alternative art movements, militant pressure groups against cars, gay and lesbian associations, squaters- , enviornmental- and pro-softdrugs groups from all around Europe. Activities: screen-item idea, research, set up, planning and accompanying reportage.
May 1997
NBC (news pool) CBS, ABC, CNN, FOX
Floor manager, fixer and researcher for the American pool reporting on Bill Clinton visiting The Netherlands. Activities: prepare location, furnish and equip the US-pool complex in The Hague. Select catherer and motor bike couriers. Floor manager for all networks during Clinton visit, managing runners and couriers, accompany catering, general trouble shooting, propose subjects, research and set up reportage, accompany shooting.
April 1997
ARD / Europamagazin
In the Dutch fanatic collectors tradition the Amsterdam family Hendriks keeps more than 80 rats in their living room. The animals are all over the place. In cages and walking around. Every day new ones are born. The family visits an international rat- and rodent show, where hundreds of European rat freaks gather to trade and exchange thousands of rats, Russian dwarf hamsters, Egyptian Mongols and Chineese mice. The day ends with a breeding-contest and guess what …the Amsterdam family wins. Activities: screening item, research & production, direction and interviews, editing assistance.
February 1997
ARD
Dutch company Koppert is the biggest insect-breeder in the world. The company breeds and sells 26 different kinds of predator-insects. Litteraly millions of different insects are growing up in huge, dark and hot rooms. Koppert has insect-farms in France , England , Italy and Spain and joint-ventures in the USA , Israel , Canada and New Zealand . More and more glass-house products like tomatoes, red-pepers and cucumbers are protected by the natural enemies of harmfull insects. In 1996 in total 2 billion predator-insects were used in Holland . Apart from the use for this 'natural insects war', there are Bee's that impregnate plants, so it does not have to be done by hand. The bad image of the tomatto made Koppert and a few tomatoo-producers decide to start producing and promoting the ‘Bio-plus tomatoo'. A tastelfull, enviornment friendly tamotoo cultivated with the help of insects. Koppert was founded in '67 by Jan Koppert, who was allergic to chemicals in food. The producers of chemicals tried to buy the company out, but the three remaining Koppert Brothers are idealistic and want to expand there business. Activities: screening item-idea, research, planning and accompanying shooting.
February 1997
WDR / Boulevard Europa
The special ‘Hit and run Container-team' comb the gigantic Rotterdam harbour for drugs and other illegal drugs. The search of containers and ships with means of dogs and modern observation techniques and high-tech scan equipment.Activities: research, planning and accompanying shooting.
January 1997
WDR / Boulvevard Europa
Abortion is a daily practise in Holland . It is even siad that is is all far to easy. Especailly new ethnic minorities visit the clinics regulary. Dutch Minister of Health Borst: 'In special cases abortion is permitted and okay, even when the mother does not want a boy or a girl. But, in general a child should be accepted as it is and comes to us. But the abortion-law also says that when there is an emergency for pregnant women, it is alowed to have an abortion.' No catagories are mentioned. Consciously the law is written without any specific details on the term emergency. An update on the dutch abortion situation. Activities: research & set up reportage
1996 December 1996
WDR / Europa Boulevard
Between 1949 and 1987 artists received subsidies for delivering their art to the Dutch state. At the start of the, so called Visual Artists Arrangement (BKR), around 200 artists made use of the regulation. At the end of the wild sixties artists occupied the 'Nightwatch'-hall in the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum to demand access to the BKR for many more artists. In 1983 artists burned their art to protest agianst the cuts in the BKR-budget. In 1992 around 3000 artists where supplying art to the Dutch state who had around 200.000 artworks in stock. The state decided to get rid of the arrangement and in advertisements artists are asked to and pick up their work. December 1996 is the last month for the pick up and the BKR-depots are still bulging of art and many artists did not come. The last destination of the subsidised art will be the oven! Activities: propose subject, research & set up reportage, accompany shooting
November 1996
ARD
Besides marihuana Holland nowadays also cultivates hemp. Already in the 17th century a lot of hemp was grown in Holland. At the time the hempfibre was used to produce ropes and sails. Now farmers start cultivating it again on a large scale. Mister Dronkers has a huge hemp-farm in the north of Holland and Mr. Van Dalen has a special Hemp Ecostore in Amsterdam , called Greenlands. Dronkers: ‘Hemp is the strongest multi-purpouse natural fiber there is! You can use it for many things like clothing, rope, isolation, cattle feed and you even can make petrol out of it. German carproducers use it as environmental materials in cars.' Activities: propose subject, research & set up reportage, direction & interviews
October 1996
ARD / Tagesthemen
Since bishop Muskens quoted in an interview: ‘When you really cannot afford it, you should be allowed to steal bread from a bakery', poverty is an hot item in Holland . A huge demonstration against poverty in The Hague and talks between prime-minister Wim Kok and bishop Muskens. An indepth interview with the bishop and a portrait of a familly kicked out of their house after loosing their job, picking up the pieces in a receptioncentre of the Salvation Army in Amsterdam . In the rich Dutch economy more and more espcially elderly, unemployed and single mothers miss the boat. A bishop puts poverty back on the agenda! Activities: propose subject, research & set up reportage, accompany shooting
October 1996
ARD
A group of people working in the German funeral branch investigate the renewal in the Dutch funeral branch. The group visits graveyards, a crematorium, a gravestone mason company and a huge funeral tradefair in Utrecht.
Activities: propose subject, research & set up reportage, direction and interviews
September 1996
ARD / Weltspiegel + Morgenmagazin
Amsterdam is the most heavist smeared city in Eu rope. The density of grafitti is even worse than New York and the quality is world famous. The Amsterdam authorities want to ban graffiti from the city and launches the special project 'Graffiti finit'. There is a budget of 2.5 million guilders, griffiti are photographed digitally, databases are set up, sprayers are maped and special cleaning teams clean the city. How to get a city free of graffiti. A reportage on the two sides of the story: Portraits of graffiti-sprayers and of the graffiti police and the cleaners. The impossible fight against "city art"? Activities: propose subject, research & set up reportage, accompany shooting .
June 1996
ARD
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Westgaarde Crematorium in Amsterdam a public information day is held, so many young and old can discover what a crematorium has to offer and how it all works. Entering the beatutiful green complex the visitors are welcomed by funeral music preformed by the 'Westgaarde' orchestra and choir. The day is opened by a famous TV-presentor and plans for a Ajax-scatter-field for the ashes (piece of gras from the old Ajax play-ground ) are unveiled. A walking route or train leads the visitors through the complex where examples of graves and urns are displayed and funreal artists present their creations and future idea's. Highlights of the day are the breathtaking laser-ceremony-service, based on 'almost death experiences' and the guided tour through the cellars where the ovens are based. Renewal in the funeral branch: Breaking down taboos for day trippers. Activities: propose subject, research & set-up reportage, accompany shooting.
June 1996
ARD
After more and more questiones come up around the ELAL plane crash in the Amsterdam Bijlmermeer, a special parlementarian study group is formed to make an inventory of the effects of the crash. Visiting the lawyer starting different procedures against the Dutch State and airline company ELAL, an eye witnesses familly and one of the family doctors in the Bijlmer. They all have the same message. Many things are wrong: what was the cargo of the plane, why did it crash and why did the Dutch handle the problem so bad. Activities: research & set-up reportage, accompany shooting
April 1996
ARD / Europamagazin
Because of some XTC-deaths on the trendy gigantic houseparties, the Dutch to state conditions for the organisation of house parties. Besides demands on the availability of water, oxygen and professional advise, the Dutch authorities demands the prescence of a first aid post and a Synthetic drugs testing crew. The test station test pills, speed and other drugs on its ingredients. Apart from the preventive function the pill-market can be monitored and a warning-flyers not to use a specific pill, can be send around in no-time. The Quensday Rave in in the tradefair complex in Eindhoven . Thousands of visotrs , hard core gabber-house-music, laser and a lot of synthetic drugs. Both the Dutch preventive special agent of the dutch police and the head of the health department drop in to see the scene in practice. Interviews with the testers and the users. Activities: propose subject, research & set-up reportage, accompanying shooting
April 1996
ARD / Tagesthemen
The foundation of the parlement in exile of the Kurdisch People in The Hague. Activities: research.
21 April 1996
ARD / Casa Nova
A reportage on the first and last ‘Cage Fight' in Holland. In Emmen multi-disciplined fighters battle a fight with practically no bounderies. Reportage about the fighters, the public, the tournament itself and the moral in's and out's of extreme fighting. Activities: propose subject, research & set up reportage, accompany shooting
April 1996
ARD
Reportage on an exhibition on death in society called ‘In the midst of life, we are in death', in the gallery of the Amsterdam art society ‘Arti et Amicitiae'. Curator Harry Heyink: ‘Obviously death plays a vital role in art, but in this exhibition we put the emphasis on the funeral in society. At the moment we have a trend in Holland using the funeral itself as a medium.' Disciplines like philosophers, writers, architects and other kind of artists exhibit in the gallery. A few examples: modern coffins and schrouds, death poems, concepts for new funeral rituals, futuristic death carriages, new desgins for graveyards and crematoriums, new mourning hats and a wide variety of funeral art. Practical creations in a time where death is still a taboo. Activities: propose subject, research & setup reportage, direction & interviews
March 1996
ARD
The Agricultural University Wageningen is doing tests to analyse the talking of chickens. A research to know more about the welfare of battery chickens for the design of new housing-systems. Activities: propose subject, research & set up reportage, acompany shooting.
Februaray 1996
ARD
A reportage on a course ‘how to smoke a cigar' given in the famous Amsterdam cigar shop P.G.C. Hajenius, and a background story on the oldest Cigar Club of Holland – women included. A sumptuous dinner with the club in one of the oldest restaurants in Amsterdam A tradtional, foggy and smelly story. Activities: propose subject, research & set-up reportage, accompany shooting
Februray 1996
ARD
Interviewing scientists, researchers and journalists to investigate the botorius Second World war past of the Dutch prince Bernhard. Especially the question if the prince was a member of the nazi party NSPDAP. Activities: research & set-up reportage, accompany shooting.
January 1996
ARD / Kultur Weltspiegel (8 min.)
Reportage on the renewal of the the famous ideological Amsterdam highriser district the Bijlmermeer. The set-back of the ideal living of the seventies and the search of a solution for the urban social problems in the nineties. Activities: research & set-up reportage, accompany shooting, direction & interviews
1995 November 1995
ARD / Morgenmagzin
Job already knows for years he is HIV-p[ositive, now he got Aids. Does not want to hide, he wants to live. Expecially socially. That is why he started a relation agency for incurable patients. When people get love, understanding and support they live longer and die better. Activities: research &, set-up reportage, accompany shooting.
November 1995
ACCLIMATIZE CONTRACT FOR NEWCOMERS ARD / Tagesthemen
Reportage on the obliged course for new Dutch citizens in how to live and behave in the Dutch society. A group of Turkisch, Morrocan, Portuguese, Iranian and Iraqi newcomers get a combination of lessons in the classroom and practice outside. How does the Dutch society work? In rainy and windy Rotterdam the newcommers get a tour along the job centre, the education centre, the immigrants centre, cityhall, public transport and other important buildings in Rotterdam. Including a frightening climb to the very windy top of the 185 meter high Euromast. Some of the subjects in the course: bike-riding, Dutch money, the weather, how to shake hands and when and how to kiss somebody in Holland , traffic-jams, the bombing of Rotterdam in the Second Worldwar, the Queen, housing, healthcare and the customs. Dutch people are straight, hospitable but also Attached to privacy. They drink a lot of coffee, live clockwise and with the agenda. So, always make an appointment when you want to visit a Dutchman. Diner is at 6 o'clock and when visiting the Dutch: take a bunch of flowers. The course ends with a drink in a typical Dutch café. Activities: propose subject, research & set-up reportage, accompany shooting.
October 1995
ARD – ‘Tages themen'
Anticipating on the banning of the anti-brothellaw in Holland , the Amsterdam council starts a semi-licencing-stystem for the exploiters of prostitution-companies. Juridically this is impossible because the exploitation of a brothel is illegal, but the Dutch steer the well-known ‘pragmatical middle course' of tolerance. The licence-system has to fight the criminal elements in the prostitution branch like, illegal- and minor prostitution, abuse and takes care of the improvement of the position of the porstitute. Checking brothels in the Red Light district with police and firebrigade, applying for a licence at the Amsterdam cityhal with brothelowner Jan Bik and a talk with his girls in his clubs and the other side of the story from Therese van der Helm , a streetworker from the Amsterdam health department: ‘Where will the illegal prostitutes go?'. Activities: propose subject, research & set-up reportage, accompany shooting.
March 1995
ARD / Europamagazin (4.10 min)
Rerpotage on the last days of airplane factory Fokker. Activities: research & set-up reportage, accompany shooting.
January 1995
BBC SCOTLAND / Eorpa
Reportage on German, Belgium and French drugstourism in Maastricht . A journey from coffeeshops to coffeeshop. The opinion of the police, to politicians and specialists in Maastricht . How many people visit the border city Maastricht to buy drugs. What do they think of the situation? Where do they come from and how do the Dutch fight them flooding the borders for drugs. A reportage on the differences in approach of drugs in society and the toursim caused by it. Activities: propose subject, research & set-up, accompany shooting.
1994 November 1994
ARD / Exclusif'
Extensive 30 minutes reportage on the annoyance caused by hard drugs in the Dutch city Arnhem. Marcel is an addict trying to survive. Since he thinks it is not right to steal, he sells small quantities of heroine to pay for his own use. Henk is the leader of the ‘Dotter-team', a special hard drugs annoyance team that tries to keep the streets clean. A day in Arnhem. Marcel getting up in his “cave” in the charachteristic bridge of Arnhem and Henk patrolling the city at night, interrogating addicts and raiding dealer-locations. Activities: research, cast main charchters, set-up & accompanying reportage, cameraman (handicam).
November 1994
ARD
Reportage on drugstourism in Holland. Many Germans visit border cities like Venlo and Arnhem to buy drugs. How does this work in practise and how do these cities cope with this phenomenon. Interviews with the local police, mayors and meeting some of the drugs tourists in the coffeeshops. Activities: propose subject, research & set-up reportage, accompany shooting.
May 1994
BBC Scotland Eorpa
In Holland euthanasia is tolerated. The Dutch are preparing a euthanasia-law. How does the Dutch euthanasia policy work in practise. An actual research talking with the specialists, doctors, patients, the Minister of Justice and and both the Association of Voluntarily Euthansia and the Lifewish Foundation. The pro's and the contras. How can euthanasia be regulated and legalized? Activities: research & set-up reportage, accompany shooting.
April 1994
BBC Scotland/Eorpa
Reportage on Dutch bulb- and flower-industry.Cultivation of bulbs on the fields, research in the bulb-lab and the auction of millions of flowers and plants in the world biggest commercial building. Activities: research & set-up reportage, accompany shooting.
1993 December 1993
BBC Scotland/Eorpa
A Scotisch progressive police officer visits Amsterdam to checks out the liberal drugs system. The police officer meets a colleague and an owner of a coffeeshop and members of the 'Union for Cannabis Retailers'. Activities: research & set-up reportage accompany shooting.
31 August 1993
WDR/1000 HERZ
German Hardliners against Dutch liberal specialist: a discussion on the Dutch liberal drugspolicy in an European context. A German Christian democrat and a concerned mother traveled to Amsterdam to join a discussion with Dutch specialists a policy maker from the Ministery of Health, a Professor Criminal Law and the head of the Dutch drugs buro. For the rest journalists, police, head of the addiction clinic, etc. A animated discussion in a modern yought hostel, …coffeeshop inlcuded. Activities: research & arrange location, research & select & accompany panel-members; research, set-up & accompany introduction reportage
Augst 1993
ARD Tages Themen
Reportage on the rise of the indoor cultivation of Skunk, Dutch marihuana. Portraits on private and commercial growers. A look around in the Hashmuseum, the coffeeshops and interviews with a specialist, a politician and a police officer. Activities: research & set-up reportage, accompany shooting
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