ColdSun in Mexico for short documentary on 3D Artist Edgar Mueller

ColdSun directors Alessio Cuomo and Sander de Nooij were invited in Mexico to make a short documentary about 3D Street Artist Edgar Mueller. ColdSun was commissioned by the state of Nayarit to film the artist during his two week project. The 3D painting project 'Hacia Donde Voy' (Where am I going) is part of a bigger project, 'Ciudad de las Artes' (City of Arts) in the city of Tepic, Mexico.

The film is currently in post-production and will soon be online.

ColdSun in Florida (USA) for Street Painting documentary

After filming at Street Painting festivals in England, Italy and Holland, we are now invited to follow street artists at the Avenida de Colores festival in Florida.
ColdSun is working on a documentary about the worldwide movement of street painters. Follow this documentary in progress here.

Cuba RebelioN selected for Filmfestival Albania

Our documentary Cuba RebelioN is selected for the fifth edition of the International Human Rights Film Festival Albania from 5 - 10 October 2010. The festival is held in the capital of Albania, Tirana.

Cuba RebelioN will be screened on the 9th of October and ColdSun's director, Sander de Nooij, is invited to attend this screening for an introduction of the film and a Q & A.

Mora Viral online

We just finished another viral! Mora launched a viral marketing campaign for the World Championship. The video features the retired Dutch international soccer twins Willy and Rene van de Kerkhof. The viral is commissioned by Holy Apples and Comm'pas. We directed and edited it.

Check http://morawkactie.nl/

'24 hours in Utrecht' selected for festival Utrecht voor Utrecht

Our short film '24 hours in Utrecht' will be shown on June the 13th.

Check www.utrechtoverutrecht.nl for more info.

Music in Me in Lebanon and Syria

A film by Lokaalmondiaal and commissioned by Music in Me. ColdSun Director Alessio Cuomo went to Lebanon and Syria to make a film for Music in Me about their projects in Palestinian refugee camps.

Music in Me supports and organizes different music related development projects for poor children in the Middle East. They use the power of music to improve tolerance and increase mutual respect between people in conflict zones. See film here

24 Hours in Utrecht

24 Hours in Utrecht is an observation of a modern society. It's an impression of life in a Dutch city. What we sought to capture is the strangeness of our daily life. On a very cold winter's day we took our camera and filmed this city for 24 hours.

Dutch journalist and tv host Cees Grimbergen wrote an article (6th of Januari, 2010) about this short documentary in the Dutch newspaper Het Algemeen Dagblad.

24 Hours in Utrecht will be broadcasted by RTV Utrecht on the 12th of March.

Cuba RebelioN selected for festival in Budapest and Amersfoort

BUDAPEST
We are glad to inform you that Cuba RebelioN is selected for the Verzio International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival in Budapest.
This festival is committed to presenting quality creative documentaries. It seeks to promote the ideals of open society, democracy, rule-of-law, tolerance, political and cultural pluralism within a global context as well as to expose abuse and human rights' violations throughout the world. Verzio works towards creating a forum where the films, viewpoints and interpretations are examined creatively and critically. It aims at promoting the use of documentaries in teaching and involving broad audiences in debates on challenges facing humanity.

AMERSFOORT
Our documentary will be also shown at Scenecs, the Central Dutch Film Festival in Amersfoort.

Cuba RebelioN selected for Miradas-Doc

We are glad to inform you that Cuba RebelioN is selected for the International Documentary Film Festival Miradas-Doc in Tenerife (Spain). This festival is focuses primarily on films produced or shot in the Third World and in developing countries.

Cuba RebelioN op De Nacht van de Vrede

Maandag 21 september wordt Cuba RebelioN vertoond op de Nacht van de Vrede. Er zal een kort vraaggesprek zijn met de makers Alessio Cuomo en Sander de Nooij.
Andere sprekers die avond zijn peacemaker Jan Pronk, oud-minister president Ruud Lubbers, Obama-strateeg Kirsten Verdel en Staatsecretaris van Defensie Jack de Vries.

Go with the Flow is broadcasted on BBC World

Go with the Flow is broadcast on BBC World at the following times (all times quoted as UK time zone currently GMT): Friday 13 March at 20:30, with repeats on Tuesday 17 March at 15:30 and Wednesday 18 March at 02:30.

See full details of the film @ www.tve.org/earthreport

CUBA REBELION selected for RIFF 2009

Our documentary Cuba RebelioN has been selected for the ROMA INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL (RIFF) 2009. Accordingly Cuba RebelioN has also been selected for the RIFF awards 2009 and will be submitted to the jury during the festival. The projection of the film will take place between 19/27 March 2009 at the Nuovo Cinema Aquila in Rome.

ColdSun in South America

For our latest project we will travel for a period of four months to Argentina, Chile and Brazil, where we will carry out research for our next documentary. At the end of March 2009 we will be back in Holland.
For this documentary we will cooperate together again with producer Gijs van de Westelaken (Column Film) who was also involved in our film Cuba RebelioN.
In South America we’re going to the ALMA observatory in the Atacama desert in Chile (the driest place on earth), where we will conduct research and preliminary filming for a feature-length documentary.

ColdSun filming for a BBC World-documentary

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.

Charity-fesitval ‘ÉÉN tegen Armoede’

ColdSun will make a portrait of the charity meeting One Against Poverty in Utrecht. More about EEN at www.een.nl

Gorki free again!

A court in Havana, Cuba, has ordered a punk rock musician to pay a fine of 30 dollar for public disorder for playing his band's music too loud. However, Gorki Aguila was cleared of a more serious charge that could have led to a jail sentence.
Read more on the bbc site.

BBC World interviews ColdSun-filmmaker Alessio Cuomo

Gorki Arrested Again
The Cuban authorities have arrested one of the island’s leading punk rock musicians, Gorki Aguila of the band Porno Para Ricardo. BBC World Service interviewed Alessio Cuomo who followed Gorki in the documentary Cuba RebelioN. Read more about his arrest.

Cuba RebelioN in release

After a year of hard work we finally released the documentary Cuba RebelioN. It is a documentary about Cuban underground musicians who rebel against the Castro-regime.
We illegally filmed this in Havana and smuggled the footage out of Cuba. Producer Gijs van de Westelaken and editor Marvin Schoemaker helped us to realize our dream to make this portrait of these courageous Cuban artists.