Dutch documentary Wild Boar selected for prestigious international film festivals.

The Dutch documentary Wild Boar by director Willem Baptist will have its international premiere on April 26 at the prestigious documentary film festival Visions du Réel (Nyon, Switzerland). The film will also screen in competition at Hot Docs in Toronto, the largest and most important documentary film festival in North America, in late April. In May, the film continues its tour at DOXA (Vancouver, Canada) and the Food Film Festival (Amsterdam).

Wild Boar was nominated for a Golden Calf for Best Short Documentary at the Netherlands Film Festival last year and was broadcast by the NTR in October 2013.

In nature, only one rule applies: eat or be eaten.

Wild Zwijn begins with this provocative statement. The documentary is a poetic and contrarian narrative about the curious relationship between humans and the encroaching wild boar. Wild Zwijn shows how the boar confuses us humans and drives us to despair. The boar is a virtually uncontrollable, dangerous monster that penetrates ever further into villages and cities from the dark forests, and at the same time is a beautiful and fascinating wild animal that we love to catch a glimpse of. With all its might, through regulations and violence, humans try to control the boar. The wolf is coming, but the boar is already here!

Wild Boar is a production of Zuidenwind Filmprodukties in co-production with the NTR.
This film was made with the support of the Media Fund and produced as part of the documentary project Doc25. Doc25 is an initiative of AVRO, BOS, EO, IKON, NTR, VPRO, and Nederland 2. Together, they are committed to the development of documentary talent and therefore launched Doc25, a series of 25-minute documentaries by emerging filmmakers.

Watch the film trailer and find more information at:
www.wildzwijn-film.nl

Brief background information about the director:
Willem Baptist (Rotterdam, 1979) graduated from the Willem de Kooning Academy in 2009 and works as a director of documentary and drama productions. His previous film, the youth documentary *Ik Ben Echt Niet Bang!* (2010, VPRO), was screened at more than 80 international film festivals. The film won many awards, including the Kinderkast Jury Prize at Cinekid, the Golden Gate Award at the 55th San Francisco International Film Festival, and the Grand Jury Award at the 36th Atlanta Film Festival. The documentary was also nominated for a Television Professional Award from the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.

Type
professional production



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