MOOI LEVEN - Delphis Films

Delphis Films proudly presents a Lemming Film productionMy Grandpa,the BankrobberPresskit

QUICK FACT SHEETDirector:Script:Length:Language:Genre:Producers:Dutch Broadcaster:Dutch Distributor:Financed by:Country:International Sales:Ineke HoutmanSjoerd Kuyper90 minutesDutchFamilyLeontine Petit & Joost de VriesLemming FilmVPROA-FilmHet Nederlands Fonds voor de FilmSuppletieregeling Filminvesteringen NederlandMedia FondsCoBo Fondsthe NetherlandsDelphis Film

SHORT SYNOPSISGrace wants to find out everything about her roots and her black Surinamese father, whom shenever knew. But nobody wants to tell her anything. Grandpa is the only person who can help, but hismemory gets worse every day. Grace tries to do everything she can to bring back his memory andkeep him out of the retirement home his family wants to put him in. When the pair decides to travelto Surinam together, they discover that the family has blocked grandpa´s bank account, so Grace andgrandpa are left with no option but to rob the bank.LONG SYNOPSISGrace loves her grandpa and helps him whenever she can. Especially since grandma died andgrandpa seems to be a little confused. Although the whole family lives in the same street, they hardlylook out for him. His granddaughter Grace is the only one who drops by every day.But Grace also wants her grandpa to help her. She’s the only one in her whole white family with adark skin. The only thing she knows about her father is that he is from Surinam. She never met herfather and now that she’s 12 years old, she thinks she’s entitled to know everything about herSurinam roots. Unfortunately nobody wants to tell her anything. Grandpa is the only one who canhelp her, but he seems to forget more and more about the past.The rest of the family wants grandpa to move into a retirement home. Grace and grandpa disagreeand Grace tries to do everything to lift his spirits and bring back his memories. This way he can tellher all about her Daddy. When grandpa does end up in a retirement home, they decide to travel toSurinam together. Grandpa has some money to pay for the trip. Unfortunately the family blocks hisbank account, which leaves the two with one solution…. rob the bank!

CASTGRACEOPABIRGITTEUNKNEELELLESWILLEMCLEMENTINEMENNOJOOSTMARIANNEBABY MATTIJSGERRITJELLEWILLEMROOSJONNATHIJSFREDDIECHANDRAFRANKIEBO/BEAUOMA ASTRIDZoë van der KustMichiel RomeynLoes HaverkortWaldemar TorenstraKees BootTanja JessMicha HulshofMartine SandifortPelle NelissenDyon WilkensSam HarteminkZoe & Lizzy KoopmanSebas KuyperDaan KuyperCasper MolinLieve de PutterLotje MolinMees HalsemaGustav BorremanCheryl AsrufJahlani ArrindellMandela Wee WeeManoushka Zeegelaar Breeveld

CREWDirectorScreenplayDirector of PhotographySoundGafferProduction DesignCostumeExecutive producerEditingSongs & MixageSongsIneke HoutmanSjoerd KuyperTheo Bierkens (NSC)Joost RoskamErwin RoodhartVincent de PaterMonica PetitEva VisserMichiel ReichweinVincent van WarmerdamChrisnanne WiegelMerlijn SnitkerMelcher Meirmans

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT (INEKE HOUTMAN)“I think Sjoerd wrote a magnificent scenario at daggers drawn; it keeps tipping over in all directions.It seems to have been written effortlessly, but everything has been thought about. It’s a scenariothat dares to take a risk, the risk of a signature of its own. The scenario is multifarious but it has onesingle style. It’s emotional as well as light, it puts things in perspective and it is tragicomic. On thesurface is the smile that makes you eager to see this film, but under the surface is that deeper andmelancholy tone that makes you even more eager to watch this film.Love and forgetting are the two central themes in the film. They are treated both hilariously andharrowingly. Hilarious in the scenes in which grandpa fools his relatives, who’ve come to ‘guard’ himby acting demented. Or the scenes where Grace and grandpa try to make the old people’s home alivelier place. Harrowing because it’s tragic that people die, or want to forget or are forgotten or areunable to forget.Fortunately grandpa and Grace are cheerful persons, stubbornly looking for quality of life. As a resultthe film is not a gloomy but a tragic-comic and in the end an adventurous film about two people whoneed each other to struggle their way out of their situation. It’s a multifaceted film with a deep,sensitive layer and an absurd, comic layer. During the film Grace develops from being a highlyadaptive girl into a girl that stands up for herself. Eventually this allows her to have the kind ofcontact with her mother that she always wanted. Grandpa is a wonderfully extreme personality. He’ssturdy as well as incredibly clumsy, deeply unhappy and utterly cheerful. He finds himself and then,finally, dares to stand up for himself too.The “De Haan” family lives in a realistic universe. A universe one can leave by going out of theneighbourhood. From their point of view the rest of the world lies behind that gate. The world of thebank, the cars and the offices. Vincent de Pater was responsible for the art direction, he has atimeless and classic style.Music is very important in this film. We were very fortunate to work with Vincent van Warmerdamagain. He composed the music for the western songs and the western themes and Melcher Meirman,Merlijn Snitker and Chris Nanne Wiegel composed the rest of the score and other songs.”

FILMOGRAPHY INEKE HOUTMAN2008 THE INDIANAWARDS• Prize of the City of Malmö, BUFF International Children & Youth Film Festival, Malmö,Sweden 2010• Special Jury Award & Ecumenical Children's Award, Film Festival Zlin, Czech Republic 2010• Golden Kite Best Feature Fiction Film for Children, International Film Festival NuevaMirada for Children and Youth Buenos Aires 2010• UNICEF Prize, International Film Festival for Children and Youth Montevideo, Uruguay,20102005 SILENT NIGHT2002-2003 POLLEKEAWARDS• 1st prize competition for Teenage Audiences, Cinema delle Donne, Italy 2005AWARDS:• Jury Award for Best Feature Film, European Youth Film Festival Flanders, 2004• Youth Factory Filmcup, BUFF festival Malmo, Sweden• 2004 Golden Film (over 100.000 cinema visitors)• 2 Golden Goats in Poznan Polen 2004: Jury and Children Jury Award.• Great Prize ‘Guri’, for Best Feature Film and Children Jury Award, Uruguay 2004• Cinema delle Donne Turijn 2004: Silver Plate Award. Special Mention school jury.• Rimouski, Canada 2004: Camerio Best Feature Film & Camerio Best Screenplay• Chicago Childrens Film Festival 2004: Adult jury: 2nd Prize live-action Film or Video en 2ndPrize Childrens’s jury, live action Feature Film or Video• Vancouver Reel to Reel fest 2005:Youth Jury Award for Best Picture (for ages 13 & up),and the Professional Jury Award for Best of the Festival• Int. Film Festival for Children and youth 2005: Best film by both Children Jury and CinemaProfessional Jury.1997-1998 MADELIEF KRASSEN IN HET TABELBLADAWARDS• Honourable mention at the International Film Festival in Berlin• Special Jury Award & Children Jury Award, International Film Festival for Children inMontreal• International Jury Award for Best Film op Les 400 Coups (Montreal)• ‘Guri’ Award and Award for Best Feature Film at the festival Divercine in Montevideo• Public Award at the Netherlands Film Festival and Golden Calf for Best Actor and Award ofthe Dutch Journalist.• Dutch entrance for Acedemy Award (Oscar)• 3 Golden Goats in Poznan Polen for Best Film, Best Actor and Best Screenplay• Cinekid Award for the film as series.1996 VOILA MADAME

1992 IDOMENEO1991 BOBBYAWARDS:• Cinekid television award 1993• Nomination Emmy-Award 1993• Prix Jeunesse 1994

PRODUCTION COMPANYLEMMING FILMEsthablished in 1995, Lemming Film is a film and television company based in Amsterdam, with aproven track record in delivering quality commercial films and television productions. Lemming Filmis specialized in fiction for children, teen- and family audiences and international art house films.They produce projects that reflect an open-minded vision on contemporary society. The filmsperform well at the box office, have been widely shown at prestigious international festivals, wereregularly financed from several international sources and sold internationally to more than 25territories. The company now ranks amongst the leading Dutch production houses. Lemming Filmcontinues to be run by producers and co-CEO’s Leontine Petit (Head of Productions) and Joost deVries ( Business and Legal), producers Eva Eissenloeffel and Marleen Slot and recently expanded withjunior producer Derk-Jan Warrink.Lemming Film initiates and nurtures close collaborations with the most exciting screenwriters,directors and acting talent, as well as being a key player in international co-productions, with aproduction span from continental Europe to Africa, South America and Eastern Europe. It also seeksto actively contribute to a European film production community. They therefore take active part inthe structural collaboration of six production companies from all over Europe, called d.net and arepart of the ACE network.WORLD SALESDelphis Films5455 de Gaspe Ave., Suite 803Montreal, Quebec, H2T 3B3, Canada+1-514-843-3355distribution@delphisfilms.comwww.delphisfilms.com