Director Joshka Wessels commissioned us to film for the BBC World-documentary Go With the Flow. The Documentary will be broadcast on BBC World 13 March 2009 on the BBC Earth Reports.
In November 2008, the country carried out a three-day major exercise to prepare for the worst credible flood. In the worst case the dikes will break and one-third of the country will be flooded. In 2009 the Dutch government will implement a law to unlock major funding of more than 165 billion Euros to reinforce the dikes and strengthen the coastline.
The documentary film for BBC World entitled Go With the Flow, is about a recent disaster management exercise conducted by the Dutch authorities. It offers a rare, behind-the-scenes insight into the workings of state authorities and emergency services personnel.
The fictional disaster itself – a massive, once in a century flood that threatens to submerge large parts of the Netherlands beneath a wall of flood waters – is both dramatic and at the same time terrifyingly possible.
Alessio and Sander were offered unprecedented access to the disaster exercise and its participants, conducting interviews with Guusje ter Horst, the Dutch minister of Internal Affairs, as well as emergency services personnel, military strategists and a number of real-life flood victims.
Check Earth Reports for more details.
Monday 3 November 2008
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