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Juli 2008
Marco Schürmann’s EBB is geselecteerd voor de competitie van het 14e Internationale Short Film Festival in Drama, Griekenland. Het festival vindt plaats van 15 - 20 september.











zaterdag 19 juli 2008
Alice Wolfs sluit zich aan bij GR8 Photography. Wolfs heeft destijds haar productiewerkzaamheden voor Hazazah verruild voor haar camera, wat resulteerde in een Merit tijdens de PANL Awards. Wolfs fotografeert onder andere voor Sony Music, Ahold Real Estate Europe.






Dinsdag 8 mei 2008
Marco Schürmann zijn film EBB is geselecteerd voor de competitie van het I’VE SEEN FILMS International Short Filmfestival met o.a. Rutger Hauer, Richard Gere en Ridley Scott in de jury. Het festival vindt plaats in Milaan, van 22 t/m 26 September.










Dinsdag 18 maart 2008
Kristjan Knigge’s korte film ROOM 303 gaat 20 mei a.s. draaien op het Cannes Internationaal Film Festival.





Zaterdag 1 maart 2008
Room 303 wint award in San José (USA).
De film was al tot beste film van de 48Hour Film Project Amsterdam verkozen en sleept nu ook in San José de prijs voor Best Editing in de wacht.

INFO

Hesdy Lonwijk (NL)

Edo Kars (NL)

because of his curiosity and open mind his field of activity keeps on growing
Photography Portfolio PDF

Robbert-Jan Vos (NL)

Lars Damoiseaux (BE)

Lawrence Jacomelli (UK)

Jamie Lane (UK)

KRUIDVAT SOLAIT

Nieuwe Kruidvat Solait Anti-Age Sunmilk beschermt niet alleen, het verjongt ook je huid. Zo kan het gebeuren dat je als puber helemaal wegdroomt bij die sexy dame in bikini, en ineens ontdekt dat het ook je moeder zou kunnen zijn. click here

ONEMEN.ORG

Brenda de Vries just finnished shooting the ONEMEN.ORG campaign commissioned by Stredge. De Vries has shot both the still campaign as the TV commercial.

TJINGO GOES EGYPTE


5 commercials and a tag-on!


Gr8 spent 3 days in Hurgada, Egypt shooting a series of Tjingo commercials for Lemz. Tjingo is a online tour-operator who promises to be always 5% cheaper than the other online tour-operators. Click here to see the films.

LAWRENCE WINS EUROBEST BRONZE

Lawrence wins Bronze for BEST DIRECTION at EUROBEST.
To get through to youngsters the message “don’t drink and drive”, lawrence created the story of four girls who, after a night out, drive home –unaware of the possible consequences. The video was posted on YouTube and the link was circulated anonymously via e-mail databases, without disclosing it was piece of advertising. The YouTube link was also sent to popular blogs, who embedded it and spread it further It had almost 100.000 visitors during the first week. Click here to see the film.

Tempo-team

Gr8 shoots film and photography for Tempo-team. The film turned out to be a wonderful mood film with the same models/actors (tempo-team staff) as we used for the photography. Take a quick look and let us know what you think.

HOLLAND CASINO ON YOUTUBE

We have produceed and directed this interactive game for Holland Casino, commissioned by TBWA NebokoFlow. The clips form a YouTube click-thru game. The fun part for us: through the comments we can see if the viewing public likes what we made. And they do! Click here to give it a go...

GR8 SHOOTS FOR ASPIRIN










Kristjan has come a long way in the past two years. He has been developing his directorial skills shooting commercials and shorts and is ready to take on bigger and better scripts.
He recently completed postproduction on an Aspirin commercial for BBDO Düsseldorf which we shot in Tanzania. We think it's a pretty good film. Judge for yourself.

a SAN for GR8

a SAN ACCENT for GR8

Lemz's Campina GOEDEMORGEN wins a SAN ACCENT, and we have have shot the interactive game for it .
The SAN accent is the only dutch advertising award, awarded by other advertisers.






BRENDA SHOOTS FOR MILJONAIR

You've never seen Jan and Monique quite like this! When Brenda got the Des Bouvries family in front of her lens she outdid herself yet again. She's reaffirmed why we love her so much and now Yves Gyrath does as well

Next Brenda will shoot Michiel en Pauline Mol. We can't wait to see the shots!




STOP MOTION FUN

Not every film ends up on our showreel, but sometimes a film is worth a mention. One such film is our stop motion commercial for Obesimed. What fun to make, and what a nice little film we ended up with!. Obesimed is currently airing on SBS6 and the print campaign (which we also shot) is running in De Telegraaf.

NEW PORTFOLIO JEROEN NIEZEN

December is the month to forget about calories and enjoy the Gr8 things in life:
Apple and Pear Pie, Hazelnut Fudge, Sticky Toffee Pudding. Here at Gr8 Film and Photography we are pleased to present a new addition to our menu of distinctive image makers: Jeroen Niezen, a true specialist in food and drink. Jeroen has worked for Elle magazine, Allerhande and Miele among many others and can now be booked through us.

So, enjoy the good times and feast your eyes on a new portfolio: www.gr8.nl

KRUIDVAT

We have completed our first production with our newest director Sean Fitzpatrick. As of today the new Kruidvat commercial is airing. In it a young woman is having a leisurely Sunday morning, drinking her morning coffee, checking out her holiday snaps online. When two tanned lads in Speedos walk in, she is transported right back to her holiday dreams. All thanks to the online photobook service provided by Kruidvat.

EBB World Tour

Throughout September and October EBB will be shown at festivals in Italy, Greece, Hungary, Egypt and Chile. More than we could have hoped for and hopefully more on the way.

Director Marco Schürmann is currently working on a new project entitled "Gelukkig Ijzer" (Happy Steel). He is being supported by the CAMMA Foundation and the film is scheduled to premiere in early 2009.

EBB GOES GREECE

Marco Schürmann's short EBB has been selected for the 14th International Short Film Festival in Greece. The festival runs from September 15th to 20th.




TEAM GR8 WINS BIG AT THE 48 HOUR CHALLENGE

For the second year running Kristjan has won the top award at the 48 Hour Film Challenge Amsterdam. His film 'Luwte' won Best Film, Best Editing, Best sound Design and for her amazing performance the young Gaite Jansen won Best Actress.

EBB GOES MILAAN

Marco Schürmann's short EBB has been selected for the I’VE SEEN FILMS International Short Filmfestival in Milan. The jury contains prominent figures like Rutger Hauer, Richard Gere en Ridley Scott. The festival runs from September 22nd to 26th.

INTERNATIONAL AWARD FOR ROOM 303

Having won Best Film at the 48 Hour Film Challenge Amsterdam 2007 Kristjan's film 'Room 303' went on to the World 48 Hour Film Festival in San José, California, where it won Best Cinematography.

PROFILE

GR8 is a small, energetic and creative production house based in the north of Amsterdam overlooking the central station across the IJ. GR8 produces TV commercials, webfilms, games and photography within the Netherlands and abroad. GR8 produces for its own roster as well as for other production companies and other directors and photographers.

GR8 is dedicated to excellence in production and constantly strives to improve standards in this industry. Ultimately GR8 has and is fortunate enough to work with talented people who want to have fun while producing great and effective work. We ensure good production value for any available budget.
Please e-mail us now for more samples of our work and/or to request a highly competitive quote for your next project



Clients we have worked for:

Beyenmeyer, TBWA, Lemz, Open communicatie, Cayenne, Gummo, Mccan Erikssson, Etcetera, Y&R not just film, Lowe plus Draft, Rapp Collins, SWH, BBDO dusseldorf, Inzicht communicatie, Plain Vanilla.

for clients including: Kruidvat, Canon, Sportlife, Campina, Bayer, Pepsi, Tempo team, Holland Casino, Provincie Drenthe, Eet geen dierenleed, Telfort, Centraal beheer, NOC NSF, Delta Loyd, Direct Wonen, Croky, Witte Trappist, Dermatix.

CONTACTS

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EXCECUTIVE PRODUCER
GIDEON RIJNDERS
+31 (0)6 5140 3444
Gideon@gr8.nl


EXCECUTIVE PRODUCER
CEES CLOUS
+31 (0)6 5424 2969
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MARC MADELEYN
+31 (0)6 5236 8306
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Brenda de Vries

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Otto van den Toorn

After working in advertising as a musiccomposer for commercials for 15 years and as a model Otto started photographing models in 2002. Taking the experience as a model standing in front of a camera behind the camera. In 2008 Otto co-hosted the televisionshow Model in 1 day (Net5).

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Jeroen Niezen

food, food, food.