Eelko Ferwerda
Filmmaker Eelko FERWERDA (1973, Netherlands) graduated cum laude from Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. His award-winning works contain different styles and techniques and are always concept-driven and visually strong. After years of designing and producing videos for theatre, his debut short film American Dreams (2006) won the Hollywood Discovery Award at the Hollywood Film Festival. His ultra-short film Geboren en getogen (2010) was selected for over 60 film festivals across the world, including the main competition at Clermont-Ferrand, and received six awards. In 2012, he co-wrote and directed the worldwide internet hoax ‘Human Birdwings’. In 2015, he directed ‘Amani’, the critically acclaimed VR experience for Terre des Hommes, which was selected for the Cannes Film Festival. In 2020, he depicted and animated the research paper ‘Descartes Was Here; In Search of the Origin of Cartesian Space’ by C.P.G. Driessen, for Rem Koolhaas’s exhibition Countryside, The Future at the Guggenheim Museum.
Filmography
(selection, all short) American Dreams (2006), Heartcore (2007), Geboren en getogen/Born and Raised (2010), Des duivels/Devilish (2013, co-dir)
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Eelko Ferwerda op IFFR
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Jacob’s Way
Eelko Ferwerda | 90' | Belgium | -
After his dog almost died on his way to Santiago de Compostella, Jacob Splinter, a sporting senior, accepts the invitation of a man to take… -
American Dreams
Eelko Ferwerda | 10' | Netherlands | World premiere
American dream of Russian couple in the 1960s has far-reaching consequences. -
Eis Frei
Ivan Barbosa | 8' | Netherlands | -
EIS FREI is the pure and poetic story of a young girl who tries to escape the harsh reality of war by fleeing into her… -
American Dreams
Eelko Ferwerda | 10' | Netherlands | None
American dream of Russian couple in the 1960s has far-reaching consequences. -
Eis Frei
Ivan Barbosa | 8' | Netherlands | World premiere
EIS FREI is the pure and poetic story of a young girl who tries to escape the harsh reality of war by fleeing into her… -
Des duivels
Eelko Ferwerda, Jasper Wessels | 9' | Netherlands | World premiere
About the age-old battle between Good and Evil. Tygo Gernandt and Juda Goslinga play around with the present and past. ‘Boys will be boys.’