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Lemming film project exotic pictures wins arte prize

On the closing night of the Asian Project Market (Busan International Film Festival), EXOTIC PICTURES received the ARTE International Prize. The project is a collaboration between Lemming Film and the renowned Indonesian filmmaker Edwin and his production company Babibutafilm. The ARTE International Prize comes with a sum of €6,000 for project development. The film Exotic Pictures will explore the long and suppressed history between the Dutch and the Indonesians through war, sex, desire, and betrayal. The story takes place on Bali in four different periods between 1940 and the late 1950s. The film is directed by Indonesian director Edwin, who is writing the screenplay together with Marco van Geffen. Edwin's short film Kara, Daughter of a Tree was the first Indonesian short film to be selected for the Director's Fortnight (Cannes Film Festival 2005). His feature film debut Blind Pig who Wants to Fly (2008) had its world premiere at the Busan Film Festival, after which the film won various awards at many film festivals worldwide. With his latest film Postcards from the Zoo, Edwin became the first Indonesian director in competition at the Berlin Film Festival in 2012. Screenwriter and director Marco van Geffen wrote several award-winning screenplays and directed various short films, of which *Het Zusje* was selected for the competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007. His feature film debut *Onder Ons* had its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival, where the film won two awards. For the screenplay of his second feature film *In jouw Naam*, he received the International Relations ARTE Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. The film is expected in theaters in the spring of 2014. Exotic Pictures was presented at Paris Projects 2013 and at the Production Platform of the Netherlands Film Festival. The film is produced by Lemming Film and Babibutafilm. Pallas Film is attached to the project as the German co-producer.

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Dear professionals for Film Tv and Theater We are sending this message call with only one purpose do not make ourselfs quite anymore. We know a lot of you are discriminated because of your: -Sex, Orientation -Race, Color -Age, Knowledge or not -Culture, Acent -and we are all discriminated by offering us to work "Unpaid"! -Or just because of your looks A lot of you don't have the chance to make a decent CV or Reel As an example: If a Marrocan or Turkish etc, is an actor we all know what kind of role is going to end up playing, and a lot of them or us have to humilite ourselfs and our people not even say families just because somebody decided that certain group is more important than the rest and we have to always play the same part. There are not bad or good people, just not well educated and we all have of that everywhere, some places more, some places less but are everywhere even in this country. In Europe and in Us and some others developed countries where the biggest group are white people are always for them the main characters. They control the media and any kind of talent agent, editor, writer and screenwriter no need to name any further jobs involucrating media. We don't try to go against these people my only interest is in working all together with the same purpose to make a change of it. We need more writers and screenwriters that they don't just write about white people but multi-ethnic If you see around you in the street you will realize how many different but also similar human beings like you and me are there. We gonna stop making films about racism, plays in Theater with critics about it,Tv series full of it the only thing it does is promoted. http://www.wireservice.co/2012/07/are-multi-ethnic-actors-discriminated-against/ In New York they have already started lets make it Multi Ethnic. WE ARE NOT ALONE. Even the well-known actress: Salma Hayek claims she's being discriminated against in Hollywood because of her Mexican roots. She reckons people look down on actors who are from a Mexican background. The actress is up for a Golden Globe for her role in hit film Frida, which she returned to Mexico to film. "In Hollywood, everybody looks down on you if you are Mexican," she told TV Movie magazine. "They all let you know you are not wanted here." Salma adds that she often wonders whether she was of a sane mind when she agreed to star in Frida. "I go and shoot a period piece about a crippled, bisexual, communist painter," she said. "Sounds a lot like a flop, doesn't it?" if you check Salma hayek in the actor studio you can even hear it yourself. Join!

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