Productions
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12 April 2010
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Bromet & Dochters NCRV
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Red light district documentary |
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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.