Buladó director Eché Janga dedicates the Golden Calf for best Dutch film to Curaçao. The magical-realistic film, set on the island, won the main prize at the Dutch Film Festival (NFF) in Utrecht on Friday.
“The discharge was very big,” said Janga on Friday after the presentation on talk show On 1. “This is not only important for me, the crew and the producers, but also for Curaçao. Now the country is illuminated in a different way. Not just as a holiday destination or a Zandvoort in the Caribbean. A shoot-out to Curaçao.”
Bulado is about an eleven-year-old girl in Curaçao, who never knew her mother. Where her father Ouira (Everon Jackson Hooi) hides his scars, grandpa Weljo (Felix de Rooy) believes he can make a door to the world of his ancestors.
The Papiamento spoken drama has already garnered a lot of praise from the Dutch film press, although the film was not nominated in any other category by the Golden Calves.
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Beppie Melissen received a Golden Calf for best actress for her role in Kapsalon Romy. The film was the big winner at the Netherlands Film Festival. (Photo: BrunoPress)
Those involved pleasantly surprised with the lead role Romy Hair Salon
Mischa Kamp was pleasantly surprised with the lead role she directed Hair salon Romy at the Netherlands Film Festival. The family film was the big winner with four Golden Calves, for best actress (Beppie Melissen), best screenplay (Tamara Bos), best supporting actress (Noortje Herlaar) and best direction (Mischa Kamp).
“I didn’t think: cat in the cup. Not at all, I was very surprised”, says Kamp. “We went very well, but that doesn’t mean anything, because the best film went to another. It remains super exciting with the new system”, Kamp referred to the changed voting procedure, in which approximately five hundred colleagues determined the nominations and winners for the first time. of a professional jury.
Melissen, voted the best actress for her role in Hair salon Romy, was so happy with her Golden Calf as a child. “Without any reserve,” she stressed. “It’s a really nice screenplay, I was immediately moved when I read it. I thought: I must have this. If they had said at the casting that they would take another one, I would have made up a trick that made anyway. He just had to go to me. Fortunately it happened. “
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