Jury member at the 29th Shanghai TV Festival in China
I had the honor of serving as a jury member for the Documentary category at the 29th Shanghai TV Festival. This festival, renowned for its prestigious Magnolia Awards, is a significant event in the Chinese television industry, attracting talented professionals from around the world. The experience was truly enriching. The hospitality was next-level. Five-star [...]
UPCOMING SCREENINGS AND SHORT NEWS
SCREENING UPDATES My documentary, a WORLD to SHAPE is on the schedule for some special screenings. Join us in Oosterhout, where the film is screened alongside a delicious 3-course dinner. You can reserve your ticket here. I'm also honored to have my film featured at the INNF Innsbruck Nature Film Festival. It's [...]
GREEN ACADEMY AWARD & AUDIENCE AWARD
GREEN ACADEMY AWARD - a WORLD to SHAPE WINNER GREEN ACADEMY AWARD & AUDIENCE AWARD We're happy that our film a WORLD to SHAPE has won a Green Academy Award in the category documentary. edit 02-07: Two days later, the film also won the Audience Award at the 10th Arquiteturas [...]
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM AWARD
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM AWARD on The FECSC - Santa Cruz International Film Festival BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM AWARD We're happy to share that our documentary feature film, a WORLD to SHAPE has been awarded Best Documentary Feature Film at the Santa Cruz International Film Festival (FECSC) in Argentina. The festival [...]
a WORLD to SHAPE special screenings
Festival du Film Vert in Nyon Switzerland Screen & Taste @droog 3 course dinner menu inspired by a WORLD to SHAPE a WORLD to SHAPE special screenings this week This week we had two special screenings of our film a WORLD to SHAPE at two special locations. [...]
DDW DESIGN & DOCUMENTARY
DDW | PANEL TALK: DESIGN & DOCUMENTARY October 25 during DDW (Dutch Design Week) there will be an inspiration evening about the parallels between design and documentary, followed by two of our films a WORLD to SHAPE of a TRAVELER'S GUIDE. Date: October 25, 2022 at 7:30 PM Location: Natlab, Kastanjelaan 500, [...]
PREMIERE a WORLD to SHAPE
PREMIERE a WORLD to SHAPE Ton van Zantvoort's new documentary a WORLD to SHAPE premieres on September 8th at 19.30 in Natlab, Eindhoven. The film is also screening in Pakhuis de Zwijger (free tickets available) on September 14th with an Q&A with Ton van Zantvoort, Nienke Hoogvliet and curator Jeroen Junte. October [...]
FILM BY THE SEA DUTCH PREMIERE
Film by the Sea - Dutch premiere Our new documentary a TRAVELER'S GUIDE premieres in the Netherlands on Saturday September 10th at 13.30 at the 24th Film by the Sea International Film Festival that is held from 9-18 September in Vlissingen, Zeeland. Directors Ton van Zantvoort en Josefien van Kooten will be [...]
PREMIERE ON 25th CINEMAMBIENTE ITALY
PREMIERE ON 25th CINEMAMBIENTE ITALY Our new documentary a TRAVELER'S GUIDE premieres on Sunday June 12th at 21.30 in Italy at the 25th CinemAmbiente film festival. The film is part of the panorama section and Ton van Zantvoort will be present for a q&a online. The CinemAmbiente Festival was founded by Gaetano [...]
FILMING IN PORTUGAL
FILMING PROJECT KAMP IN PORTUGAL Beginning of this month we went to Portugal to film Dave Hakkens who is there building Project Kamp. Dave and his communinty bought a piece of land and are prototyping a more sustainable way of living. Dave Hakkens is one of the two Dutch designers of the [...]
ANIMA – the soul of the harbour
New Teledoc Campus in development A steel surface completely fills a dark image. Along with the sound of irregular thumping, a man's breathing can be heard at close range, clearly exerting. From below, in the middle of the nighttime image, a small moving light suddenly appears. Gradually we can distinguish a rope [...]
a WORLD to SHAPE – in the making
a WORLD to SHAPE - new movie in the making Two Dutch designers, Nienke Hoogvliet and Dave Hakkens, try to make the world a better place. To what extent is their ambition feasible in a world where environmental problems are so overwhelming that most people lose hope? The new film of Ton [...]
‘NO WAY’ IN FRENCH CINEMAS NOW
NO WAY IN FRENCH CINEMAS NOW SHEEP HERO retitled as NO WAY has been released in French cinemas on October 14th. The premiere was in one of the best movie theatres in Paris, the 109-year-old Espace Saint-Michel, that will screen NO WAY already 32 times in the first week only. This week the [...]
AWARDS FOR BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & GRANDPRIZE FOR BEST FILM
Two awards for best film & best cinematography Awards for best cinematography and grand prize for best environmental film On Friday October 9th, SHEEP HERO won two more awards on the INF International Nature Festival, in Innsbruck, Austria. First Ton van Zantvoort was very much delighted to hear that he won the [...]
HONDS CAUSES COMMOTION ON NPO1 OP1
Our documentary HONDS caues a lot of discussion, such as on NPO1 OP1 with Martin Gaus. Watch the hole episode in Dutch OP1 discussion: Martin Gaus is angry on Ron his methodes The Teledoc Campus documentary HONDS by director Josefien van Kooten unexpectedly creates a lot of discussion. Most dog magazines [...]
SHEEP HERO AS ‘NO WAY’ IN FRENCH CINEMAS
SHEEP HERO RETITLED AS NO WAY IN FRENCH CINEMASThe French theatrical release of SHEEP HERO kicks off on October 14th. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the release was delayed for a long time. The film will be shown in various cinemas across the country as NO WAY. The premiere will be launched in one [...]
HONDS SCREENINGS
HONDS premiere and screenings at the Dutch Film Festival Our short documentary HONDS by director Josefien van Kooten will have its premiere in the Golden Calf Competition at the 40st Dutch Film Festival, which will take place from September 25 to October 3rd in Utrecht. In addition to the premiere on Saturday 26 [...]
HONDS selected for Golden Calf Competition
HONDS selected for Golden Calf Competition We are delighted that our film HONDS by director Josefien van Kooten is selected for the Golden Calf Competition! The film will premiere at the 40th edition of the Dutch Film Festival that will be held from September 25 - October 3rd 2020 in Utrecht. The [...]
SHEEP HERO: from a free shepherd to a small rental house
SHEEP HERO: from a free shepherd to a small rental house The film SHEEP HERO by Ton van Zantvoort about the Dutch shepherd Stijn Hilgers, was a hit worldwide. The film has been screened at over 70 international festivals, has won 15 awards and more than 30 nominations. Everyone who has seen [...]
NL AWARD WINNER
NL AWARD WINNER BEST DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR C ompletely unexpectedly Renzo Veenstra (editor in chief of Omroep Brabant) called this afternoon and told that our film SHEEP HERO has won the NL Award! SHEEP HERO was nominated together with Opgeve: amme never nie (Omroep Zeeland) and Mannen in zwart - in the [...]
15 AWARDS & 35 NOMINATIONS
35NOMINATIONS & 15 AWARDS in the last year The Corona virus has put the whole world to a stop. Now that everyone is in quarantine it seemed a good time to recap and do an update. The past few months we won several nominations and film awards on film [...]
NOVEMBER SCREENINGS
SHEEP HERO SCREENINGS IN NOVEMBER In November again more than 10 film festivals are screening SHEEP HERO in their official competition. There are some amazing film festivals and premieres, such as the US premiere on the Academy Award qualifying DOC NYC, the UK premiere on the Bafta and Academy [...]
UPCOMING SCREENINGS
UPCOMING SCREENINGS OF SHEEP HERO It is truly wonderful that SHEEP HERO is being appreciated this much by all these international film festivals (Some of which are quite renowned). We can hardly keep up with all the selections and screenings, let alone visit all these great festivals. [...]
IN GOLDEN CALF COMPETITION | NPO-FUND | TELEDOC CAMPUS
Golden Calf Competition at Dutch Film Festival SHEEP HERO is selected for the Golden Calf Competition of the 39th edition of the Dutch Film Festival. SHEEP HERO will be screened during the Dutch Film Festival in Utrecht. The winners of the Golden Calves will be announced during the Golden Calves Gala [...]
TV RATINGS: IN COMPETITION WITH WORLD CUP SOCCER
Yesterday evening was the national TV premiere of SHEEP HERO on KRO-NCRV 2 DOC NPO2. In the Netherlands you can now watch the film on uitzending gemist. Hashtag 'Schapenheld' was trending yesterday on Twitter. There is also a DocTalk made with director Ton van Zantvoort. In this 15 minute episode you can [...]
ON DUTCH TV KRO-NCRV AND OMROEP BRABANT
After the successful cinema release in the Benelux and many festivals screenings around the world, SHEEP HERO will be broadcasted on Dutch TV. Please mark the dates and share on social media so everyone can watch the film: Omroep Brabant KRO-NCRV 2Doc - NPO2 Saturday June 1st [...]
SUPPORT THE SHEEP HERO
SUPPORT SHEEP HERO Have you seen the documentary film SHEEP HERO? Are you curious how Stijn and Anna are doing? On their site www.schapenheld.nl you can read that they had multiple setbacks. If wanted you can support them in several ways. 1. You can donate directly on www.Schapenheld.nl 2. 80% of the profits [...]
EL HEROE DE LAS OVEJAS AKA SHEEP HERO
Screenings: May 23, 20:00 Cinemex 9 May 24, 18:00 Cinemex 10 EL HEROE DE LAS OVEJAS AKA SHEEP HERO EL HEROE DE LAS OVEJAS aka SHEEP HERO, screens in the international competition at the Cinema Planeta Film Festival in Mexico. The festival started today and the premiere is Thursday 23rd [...]
BEST DOCUMENTARY GREEN WARSAW AWARD WINNER
Best Documentary Green Warsaw Award winner Dutch director Ton van Zantvoort just won with his documentary film SHEEP HERO the Award for best documentary in the Green Warsaw competition on the 16th Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival that took place from May 10-19 in Poland. The Millennium Docs Against Gravity festival had more [...]
IN BELGIUM CINEMAS AND REVIEWS
May 15th is the cinema release of SHEEP HERO in Belgium. SHEEP HERO is screening in venues such as Budascoop Sphinx Cinema en UGC Cinema's Antwerpen. On June 10 and 11 in Mechelen and on June 13 in UGC Turnhout (MOOOV). Also several reviews came out today (see below in Dutch) "SHEEP [...]
EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER
Ton van Zantvoort winner of the European Cinematography Award for best European Cinematography for SHEEP HERO European Cinematography Award winner Director/ cinematographer Ton van Zantvoort won with his film SHEEP HERO the European Cinematography Award on the European Cinematography AWARDS (ECA) events, a film competition for filmmakers worldwide. The Cinematography Awards [...]
DOK.FEST MUNICH AND DOCS AGAINST GRAVITY WARSAW
Screenings on DOK.fest Munich, Germany Thu May 9 - 19:00 - Rio 2 + Q&A Tue May 14 - 19:00 - City 2 Thu May 16 - 21.30 - City 3 Millennium Docs Against Gravity Warsaw Fri May 10 - 19:00 - Kinoteka 3 + Q&A Sat May 11 - 15:15 [...]
DOCVILLE AND MILLENIUM FILM FESTIVAL
Update: 29-03-2019 : SHEEP HERO wins the distribution award of La Trois on the Millenium Documentary Festival in Brussel Docville Leuven & Millenium Film Festival Brussels Thursday March 28 SHEEP HERO will premiere in Belgium on the DOCVILLE International Documentary Festival in Leuven (March 27- April 4) and [...]
VISIONS DU RÉEL – GRAND ANGLE COMPETITION
Screenings on Visions Du Réel Saturday April 6 - 14:00 Théâtre de Marens Sunday April 7 - 19:30 Théâtre de Grand-Champ, Gland 50th Visions Du Réel selected SHEEP HERO in the Grand Angle competition! We are thrilled to announce that our film SHEEP HERO is selected for the highly renowned Visions [...]
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
International premiere on Thessaloniki Documentary Festival SHEEP HERO also selected for One World Prague & DOK.Fest München SHEEP HERO is selected for the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival in Greece, where the film will have its international premiere. The One World Human Rights Festival in Prague and DOK.Fest München also selected the [...]
★★★★ FOUR STARS REVIEW SHEEP HERO
★★★★ SHEEP HERO - The Protagonist The documentary is definitely recommended. The cinematography is beautiful - even the Netherlands has beautiful nature - and more sincere than Stijn you hardly see them anymore.“ The documentary SHEEP HERO is about the sheepherder Stijn. He is a traditional shepherd with an eye for nature. [...]
PASSION THE WAY TO SUCCESS
For "Projectie" a project management magazine published by IPMA, Ariane Moussault wrote an article about the process of documentary film making. My film SHEEP HERO was the practical case. Making a documentary film The English Article will be released soon. Het idee Zo’n tien jaar geleden leerde [...]
TROUW: THIS WILL BE THE 5 FILM MOMENTS OF 2019
Culture - Belinda van de Graaf– 14:18, January 3rd 2019 Who will win an Oscar this spring? And on which films can we rejoice? Film critic Belinda van de Graaf tells us. In the top 5 best films of 2019: Not to be missed is 'Sheep Hero' (February 21 in the cinema) [...]
SHEEP HERO IN TOP 10 BEST OF IDFA AUDIENCE AWARD
TOP 10 BEST OF IDFA 2018 live talkshow The documentary SHEEP HERO ended with a 8.9 in the top 10 best films of IDFA 2018. During the live talkshow on national TV the winner of the IDFA Audience Award 2018 was announced. Director Ton van Zantvoort was there together with Father Loek [...]
WORLD PREMIERE IDFA
The World premiere of SHEEP HERO on IDFA 2018 in EYE Filmmuseum was a big succes. After the screening there was a standing ovation for the director and cast. IDFA said they didn't [...]
SHEEP HERO IN DUTCH NEWSPAPER BNDESTEM
Dutch newspaper BN DeStem wrote an article about the new documentary "SHEEP HERO". Read the article in Dutch below Twintig jaar was hij met zijn leren hoed boven de weelderige haardos een opvallend gezicht in gebieden als de Regte Heide, De Utrecht en de Hoevens. Maar op een bepaald moment verdwenen de lokken. [...]
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VOLKSKRANT INTERVIEW TON VAN ZANTVOORT SHEEP HERO
The national Dutch newspaper wrote an article about the new documentary "SHEEP HERO" Read the article in Dutch below. Ton van Zantvoort laat in Sheep Hero zien hoe het schaapsherderbestaan meer is dan een mooie zondagmiddag op de hei Prachtig toch, zo’n ouderwetse herder die zijn kudde door een slaperig Brabants dorpje [...]
SEE NL – NEVER FOLLOW THE FLOCK
SEE NL # Doc Issue 33 November 2018 - Nick Cunningham In Ton van Zantvoort’s Sheep Hero a traditional shepherd tries to survive within a neo-liberal, highly automated farmingindustry, writes Nick Cunningham. Stijn is young and idealistic. He has hippy tendencies, breeds rare sheep and gives work to former drug addicts who [...]
BUY YOUR SHEEP HERO IDFA TICKETS
IDFA tickets available November 1st The premiere was sold out in 1 day. IDFA has high expectations and they programmed SHEEP HERO 8 times, in the biggest venues of Amsterdam! There are 2962 seats in total. Please join us and get your tickets at IDFA. We get many questions, so to give [...]
VOLKSKRANT RECOMMENDS SHEEP HERO
Fourteen recommendations from the VOLKSKRANT for the documentary festival Idfa in Amsterdam The ticket sale for the largest documentary festival in the world, the Idfa in Amsterdam, starts (partly) today. V's film editors already selects fourteen recommendations from the enormous program. Bor Beekman, Berend Jan Bockting, Pauline Kleijer, Floortje Smit en Kevin [...]
SHEEP HERO ON IDFA 2018
World premiere SHEEP HERO on IDFA We are very delighted that our film SHEEP HERO is selected out of 4000 films for IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam). IDFA is the biggest, most important festival in the world in this genre." The film is in competition with only ten other Dutch documentaries [...]
GRITO de PIEDRA | 4-9 March 2018 | VPRO NPO Cultura
In the context of the VPRO series 'Over de rug van de Andes' the documentary film GRITO de PIEDRA by Ton van Zantvoort is shown four times on NPO Cultura: 4 March 21:01 6 March 17:55 7 March 14:01 9 March 14:21 If you want to know more about Potosí or help [...]
US PREMIERE ON MARGARET MEAD FESTIVAL IN NEW YORK
US PREMIERE ON MARGARET MEAD FESTIVAL IN NEW YORK ‘Dick Verdult – It Is True But Not Here’ is selected for the Award contender of the Margaret Mead Film Festival, New York, USA. The American Museum of Natural History’s Margaret Mead Film Festival screens documentaries that increase our understanding of the complexity and [...]
(IN) JUSTICE FOR ALL FILM FESTIVAL CHICAGO
(in) Justice For All Film Festival Chicago Our film The Benno Tapes will screen April 29th during the (in) Justice For All Film Festival in Chicago. The (In)Justice for All Film Festival (IFAFF) brings to audiences films that explore our current criminal justice system – police, courts, and corrections – the causes [...]
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE ON PRESTIGIOUS BAFICI FESTIVAL
International premiere on the prestigious BAFICI festival Our documentary Dick Verdult - It Is True But Not Here is selected by the renowned BAFICI festival that will be held from April 19th to April 30th in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The international premiere will be attended by the main character Dick Verdult, director [...]
BEST FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARY AWARD 2017
BEST FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARY AWARD Our documentary Dick Verdult - It Is True But Not Here won the award for Best Dutch Feature Documentary on the DOCfeed Documentary Festival Eindhoven. The film was also the opening film and screened in four fully packed venues on Thursday. The National Newspaper Volkskrant gave the [...]
PREMIÈRE: DOCUMENTARY ABOUT DICK EL DEMASIADO
Our 70 minutes documentary about the enigmatic artist and cult musician Dick Verdult -known in Latin America as 'Dick El Demasiado'- is the opening film of DOCfeed 2017. On Thursday February 16th our movie will screen at 20.00 in four venues @ TAC, Eindhoven. Afterwards there are drinks and DJ Mamaluk will play [...]
NL-AWARD for best documentary and GOLDEN NL-AWARD
NL-AWARD for best documentary and GOLDEN NL-AWARD Our documentary the BENNO TAPES did not only win the NL-Award for best documentary but also won the main prize the Golden NL-Award for best production of 2015 from all the regional broadcasters. The jury existed of 12 members, such as documentary filmmaker John Appel [...]
THE BENNO TAPES SCREENINGS
Broadcasts: RTL Z 09-03-2016 at 20.30 uur 09-03-2016 at 23.30 uur 12-03-2016 at 22.30 Canvas Panorama 08-11-2015 at 20:10 Omroep Brabant: 20-09-2015 at 20.30 & 22.30 uur 21-09-2015 at 21.30 uur Omroep West: 20-09-2015 at 20:30 & 22.30 uur 21-09-2015 at 22.00 uur L1: 20-09-2015 at 20:30 uur 26-09-2015 at 18:00 uur 27-09-2015 at 13:00 [...]
PAST AS FUTURE ON FOODFESTIVAL BREDA
The short documentary film PAST AS FUTURE is screened four times during the Fijnproevers & Smaakbarbaren foodfestival 2.0" in Electron Breda 31-10-2015 at 21:30 01-11-2015 at 16:00 to 18:00 - 20:00 hours The main character Stijn is present on the foodfestival 2.0 and so will be one of his lambs. Saturday at 19.30 Stijn will [...]
FALLING |DOCfeed Eindhoven | February 20-22
The documentary FALLING is screening on the 2nd DOCfeed film festival in Eindhoven at 17:00 PM on February 22. The director Jef Monté will be in the TV programme "coffeetime" to talk about the film on February 9th (10.00 AM) .FALLING screening on NPO 3 on May 17th.
GRITO de PIEDRA | NPODoc | February 7-13
In the year of the mines, NPODoc goes underground ... Between February 7 - 13 NPODoc screens the documentary GRITO de PIEDRA in the context of the 2015, year of the mines (M2015) Saturday 07-02-'15 at 17:11 Sunday 08-02-'15 at 05:43 Tuesday 10-02-'15 17:17 Wednesday 11-02-'15 21:23 Thursday 12-02-'15 at 16:13 Friday 13-02-'15 at 06:31 [...]
FALLING premiere on NFF Dutch Film Festival
FALLING premiere on NFF Dutch Film Festival in Rembrandt 1 The trailer of FALLING is now online.
KEES and MIEN on NPO Regio Doc
NPO Regio Doc screens the documentary "Kees and Mien" on Thursday 20-11-'14 19:10 Saturday 22-11-'14 03:55 Monday 24-11 -'14 14:00
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Jury Award on Festival International du Film des droits de l’homme Paris (FIFDH) |
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ARTE France screens GRITO de PIEDRA |
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Audience Award and Special jury mention on Multimedia Festival the ART of the document in Warsaw Poland. |
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BEST PHOTOGRAPHY award was granted to Ton van Zantvoort for the master use of framing and shot construction for re-creating the complex human universe endangered and maybe forever destroyed.GOLDEN OLIVE AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY to Ton van Zantvoort for the outstanding artistic achievement of a strong film. We acknowledge an original author’s approach, revealing a global drama through several simple, touching individual stories. |
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Audience Award on the Millenium International Documentary Film Festival Brussels. Also on air on the Belgium national radio station Klara (VRT), and the Deutsche Welle Ethiopia (Germany/ Africa) |
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Press Award for Best film of the festival FICA – Brasil Two interviews on the national TV channel in Brasil TV Cultura. |
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Jury Award for best treatment Cinema Planeta, Mexico |
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Lovely planet premieres on the International Film Festival Breda. The film is distributed by the Eye Film Institute and is included on a BKKC promotion DVD. |
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The short film Carousel premiered in the Verkade Fabriek in ‘s-Hertogenbosch. More information |
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Special Mention Open Eyes Award: Among the seventeen works in competition, the Jury has unanimously chosen to assign a special mention to a BLOOMING BUSINESS, for the moving and courageous… |
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a BLOOMING BUSINESS wins the DOK Leipzig HW Film Award, on the 52nd International Leipzig festival for documentary and animated film. |
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a BLOOMING BUSINESS is screened on big international film festivals, as TDF (Greece), DOK Leipzig (Germany), EIFF (UK), NZIFF (New Zealand) VIFF (Canada), NFF (The Netherlands) and many more. |
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GRITO de PIEDRA screens during the Pärnu International Film Festival. The film before screened on big international film and art festivals in the USA, Canada, Bolivia, Mexico, Spain, Greece, and more. |
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GRITO de PIEDRA is selected for the Highlights of the Lowlands on the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) |
