DOCU/SHORT

A Club Called Willpower

Year
2018
Country
Netherlands
Duration
23’
Director
Nina Karim van Oort

Willpower, a community centre and music school, is a safe haven for the needy and outcasts from society. When the centre is threatened with closure because they have to make way for urban development, the question arises: Can they find the willpower to preserve their beloved place?

CREW:
Director: Nina Karim van Oort
Producer: Nienke Korthof, Willem Baptist
Cinematographer: Aziz Al-Dilami
Editor: Ralf Verbeek
Sound: Matthijs Klein, Brandon Grötzinger
Production
Tangerine Tree
Sales:
NPO Sales
Director
Nina Karim van Oort

Nina Karim van Oort studied Fine Arts at ArtEZ in Arnhem and graduated from the Dutch Film Academy in 2015 with the short documentary Joyland. In the same year she directed the short documentary In Name Of Puck. In 2019 she finished her short documentary A Club Called Willpower, which premiered at the Debut Competition of the Netherlands Film Festival.

 

Selected Filmography

Joyland (2015), In Name of Puck (2015), A Club Called Willpower (2018)

 

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