THOSE WHO FEEL THE FIRE BURNING to Oscars
5 October 2015
Dutch
documentary THOSE WHO FEEL THE FIRE BURNING directed by Morgan Knibbe
is submitted to the Academy Awards for the category of Documentary Feature.
Those Who Feel the Fire Burning
is produced by Amsterdam film producer BALDR Film. The Dutch Oscar
Selection Committee was very impressed by Those Who Feel the Fire Burning
and the film ended up as the highest documentary. The Oscar Selection
Committee was struck by the poetic, artistic and intimate narrative
style of the film. Prompted by the positive opinion of the committee and
by the current theme of the film, the Netherlands Film Fund and EYE
International decided then to join forces and to send the documentary to the
Academy Awards.
EYE International and the Netherlands Film Fund
jointly support the submission to the Oscars® and the qualifying
screenings of the film in the United States. In December, the
documentary will have a run both in cinemas in New York and Los Angeles
during a week. This is one of the qualifying requirements for a
documentary to participate in the Academy Awards. On January 14, 2016
the Academy announces the nominees for all categories. The Academy
Awards are handed out in February 2016.
The film shows in an
unconventional, poetic form a serious social and topical issue: the
daily life of refugees who are stuck on the edge of Europe.
Last Friday, Those Who Feel the Fire Burning won
two Golden Calves at the Netherlands Film Festival: one for Best Long
Documentary and one for Best Sound Design. Knibbe also received the
award of the Directors of the Forum, a program of the Netherlands Film
Festival for groundbreaking cinema. In May, the movie was released in
Dutch cinemas and then received very positive reviews: "The film is a
virtuoso master thesis" (De Volkskrant).
Those Who Feel the Fire Burning
was selected for many international film festivals, like IDFA
(nominated for best documentary) and Hot Docs and also won the prize for
best documentary at the Guanajuato International Film Festival. Due to
the current situation of the refugee problem, the film was shown in
September to both the European Parliament in Brussels and the Council of
Europe in Strasbourg.
Morgan Knibbe graduated in 2012 from the
Netherlands Film Academy with his film A twist in a fabric of space. For
this film he won a Wildcard of the Netherlands Film Fund. With his
short film Shipwreck he won a Silver Leopard at the Locarno Film
Festival.
Film producer BALDR Film previously produced
award-winning films such as Seville, According Protocol and for Emilia.
Currently, the motion picture Brothers is being filmed on location in
France.
Netherlands distribution of Those Who Feel the Fire Burning is by Cinema Delicatessen.
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