Wanted: film and media makers, eager to investigate their art

• Are you a talented filmmaker, visual artist, scriptwriter, producer, sound designer, art director, cameraman, digital media specialist, journalist... or in any other way involved with moving images?
• Would you like the time, space and support to undertake personal research and development? Are you ready to reflect on your vision and presuppositions about the nature, boundaries and potentials of the art and the industry? Do you want to contribute to the innovation of your profession? Is it your ambition to relate this research to your practice?
• Every year, the Netherlands Film and Television Academy offers a select group of talented film and media makers the chance to enhance their professional development. On the Master's Degree Programme, our students define, improve and realize their research and broaden their long-term professional development skills. The basis for this two year study is a personal research question and the setting is investigative, demanding and international.
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How inspiration works - the IFFR assignment for new students

Ten new students just entered the Master�s Degree Programme 2011-2013. To begin with, we asked them to go to the International Film Festival Rotterdam and share some of the reflections about the films that inspire them. Check these four:
- Gwendolyn Nieuwenhuize
- Pedro Collantes
- Jovana Tokic
- Alexander McKenzie
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Among Horses & Men

Marjoleine Boonstra is a film maker, photographer and mentor in the Master�s Degree Programme of NFTA. Her new film Among Horses & Men is now showing in four cinemas across the Netherlands and at international festivals.

In this film, the wild, unrefined worlds of wild horses and wild men meet in the desert landscape of Nevada. The vast Nevada desert is still home to large herds of wild horses.
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Between the visible and the invisible

Reinier Noordzij (1981) studied direction at the Theatre Academy Maastricht (2007). He has since worked as an assistant director, as an actor and as a casting director. He embarked on the Master of Film Programme in 2009.

'Writing and directing for film and TV is the course I have chosen. I learned a great deal about actor direction in Maastricht, where the programme is good, broad based and highly disciplined. And although I enjoy working with stage actors, I have always had this urge to make films.'
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How to direct transformation?

Bogomir Doringer (Yuogoslavia, 1983) has a background in fashion design and visual art. After studying Sociology in Belgrade and completing a Bachelor�s at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, he started the Master of Film Programme in 2009.

' I grew up in Yugoslavia during wartime. It was an intense and inspiring time with lots of uncontrolled isolated 'freedom', which required maturity at an early age. My exit from the war-isolated zone was film, and the offering was amazing: in one day I could watch Almodovar, Bergman, Lynch, John Carpenter and Dynasty.'
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Screenwriting: A study

Bart Juttmann (1981) graduated as a scriptwriter from the Film Academy in 2005. He wrote several scripts, directed a short film and commenced the Master�s Degree Programme in 2009. Why?

'What I actually want to learn is screenwriting. To me, this implies writing lucid scripts. I have no interest in dictating whole series of details about cutting, light or diction, but want to inspire the cast and crew to perform at their absolute best.'
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