We shot the iceskating scene in Biddinghuizen at the only natural looking ice skating venue in the world. The film has been shot without the sheep, he has been totally built in 3D. Animation was done by Fido in Sweden. The film can be seen on television and in all Pathé cinemas from March 2012 on.

Roel and Bas Welling will be present and comment on the reel for over 1,000 creatives and influential decisionmakers. For more info take a look at regielounge.de. In Germany, Wefilm is represented by the Hamburg-based production company Jotz Film.

Wefilm has been shooting its first MasterPeace film: a documentary about people in conflict situations trying to make music together. The film has been shot in three major conflict zones in India, Ireland and Palestina. Directors are Martijn de Jong, Lennart Verstegen and Thijs Schreuder. The film is produced by Tobias Wilbrink. The first viewing is planned to be at the Big Improvement Day, January 17 at RAI Amsterdam

In the films unknowing passerby enter a filmset, in which they are mistaken for the police negotiator. You can find the result here. Since we had only one chance to capture their first reactions, we decided to film it with 6 cameras, of which one of steadicam and two on dolly. We are very grateful to our crew, who worked on this project voluntarily. Take a look at the reports of RTL Boulevard and SBS Shownieuws, visiting our set. And take a minute to watch the exciting making-of, directed by Thijs Schreuder. At last, Creatie wrote this article about the film.

Earlier this year, the billboard was already awarded with a Bronze Lion in Cannes and two SpinAwards. Creatives Jasper Diks and Ed van Bennekom collected the awards on stage. Thanks to crew, cast, technical partner Bitmove and agency N=5 for the great cooperation.

After a while, Martijn wanted to learn more about storytelling in film and decided to enroll in the Dutch Film Acadamy. At the academy, he made several short films with often a subtle and a spherical nature. Martijn wrote and directed the graduation film ‘dicht bij mij vandaan’, with which he won the Nedcipro price of the audience. With D.O.P. Job Kraaijeveld, he won the VCP Kodak Commercial Award for his commercial ‘Ilse luistert’. Martijn specializes in realistic commercials and online films dealing with the small inconveniences in life.

Moreover, he won the VCP Kodak commercial award for best student commercial. After his study, Lennart was cinematographer for feature film ‘Rabat’ and NPS Kort! ‘Dominique’. Lennart loves to find beauty in small things in life, and to show honesty with images out of the reality. For his commercial ‘Love life. Fight cancer’, Lennart was shortlisted for the Young Director’s Award at the Cannes Lions 2011.

Alain continued his studies at the Dutch Film academie where he made many short films and a few commercials. His trailer for the Cinestud Filmfestival 2010 won a Porsche Award in Germany and was selected for the Cannes Young Directors Award. In his graduation year he made several more commercials and was accordingly drafted by Wefilm to join the award winning team. Alain loves high-concept innovative commercial with a strong visual style.

Roel wrote and directed “Max the Hacker”, the best-viewed Dutch YouTube viral ever with over 27 million hits. In 2009, Roel directed the social media viral “Stanislav” that won 4 Cannes Lions, 2 gold ADCN lamps and gold at Eurobest 2010. Next to his own projects, Roel creatively accompanies the other Wefilm directors in their projects. Once a year, Roel works as guest lecturer at the Dutch Film Academy in Amsterdam.

Bas produced commercials for clients like Albert Heijn, Holland Casino, and UPC, and organised shoots in Argentinia, Colombia and Finland. In 2010, Bas won the Student Enterpreneurship Award. In 2011, Bas was shortlisted for the Adward. Next to his work at Wefilm, Bas works as a guest lecturer at the UvA and VU, and he is a frequent speaker on the topic of viral video, reprensented by The Next Speaker. He is a proud member of the MasterPeace campaigning team.

During his study at the Film Academy Tobias specialized himself in producing documentaries. After his graduation Tobias became a producer at Wefilm and creative entrepreneur at nufilm where he produces documentaries. Besides that Tobias is active as first assistant director and has been a guest teacher at the Film Academy for three years.

This expresses itself in producing television programmes as well as short films, but also events and festivals. Because of this, Dania is very versatile. Searching for combinations that amplify one another, instead of limiting, is something that is very useful at Wefilm.