FILMOGRAPHY
Jeanette Groenendaal (1964)
Independent Filmmaker, Writer, Artist, Producer, Advisor, Astrologer
Founder G-Network Film Foundation
Independent Filmmaker, Writer, Artist, Producer, Advisor, Astrologer
Founder G-Network Film Foundation
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'I just Love it'
Victor Kossakovski ‘Het vlied als een roes voorbij: Blikvernauwend en Bewustzijn verruimend’ Dana Linsen, NRC Next ‘Gelukkig zijn er op het IDFA ook films die in geen enkele categorie passen. Jeanette Groenendaal maaktte met REFORMATION een verleidelijk en woest beeldessay’ Raymond van den Boogaard NRC Als Jeanette Groenendaals 'De Nederlandse Cocaine Fabriek' begint, zit je de eerste vijf minuten met je ogen te knipperen. What the? Is dit echt? Pro Paranoia Pictures. Mike Naafs |
DRAMAYAMAA Film by Jeanette Groenendaal
A Space-Time Travel, Independent, Experimental 99 min | Netherlands | 2021 Premiere Eye Film museum |
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Jeanette Groenendaal take us on a Space Time Travel through the eyes of Maya Shaman Branly Gio Lopez.
A journey through the past, present and future, along rituals for the Planets of our Solar System
in the Ancient Dravidian Temples in the Vedic South of India.
Ever since the end of the Mayan calendar, Branly is on a Vision Quest on the nature and meaning of the Mayan Cosmology, but finds that in Guatemala, after 500 year Colonisation, the Mayan rituals were mainly banned as witchcraft. In Dramayama we follow Branly in a space time travel through a poetic, emotional experience in which he recognises his roots in the echo of the past in an old civilisation. Meanwhile the volcano erupts, the tempel elephant dies and the turtle breaths homewards.’
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Director Jeanette Groenendaal
Producer Jeanette Groenendaal Scenario Jeanette Groenendaal Camera Jeanette Groenendaal Starring Branly López Quemé Editing Zoot Derks and Jeanette Groenendaal Composers Stephanie Pan and Stelios Manousakis Color Correct. Jeroen Weeda Sound Post Warning Studios Post PA/Design Zilfer de Boer Co-Production Ted Baijings Production G-network Film Foundation Supported by NL Film Foundation Spoken Languages Spanish, English, Tamil, Sanskrit and Maya Subtitles English, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch 
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REFORMATIONWritten, Filmed, Directed and Produced by Jeanette Groenendaal
Perform a Doc, Movie, Experimental | 82 min | Netherlands | 2011 Premiere IDFA 2011 ‘How does one group of people who think that they know the truth, what is right and wrong, decide if somebody else is going to hell?’
At the age of seven, director Jeanette Groenendaal moved to a deeply religious village. It was the 1970s, and the girl's arrival from the big city of Utrecht provoked fear in the hearts of the inhabitants of the small hamlet in the Dutch Bible Belt. They saw her as an "alien" and a "city whore," and treated her accordingly. The teacher at her strict Calvinist school called her the "Devil's daughter" and the whole class repeated his words. Thirty-eight years later, Groenendaal returns to the village to film a personal study of the scapegoat mechanism. She sets up a complex performance/film project in the village, staging tableaux performances based on the frozen images from her memories of this emotionally charged location. This stylized autobiography is more than a personal therapy session or a documentary about a fundamentalist community. It returns to the past, not out of revenge or a need to judge, but to investigate the roots of a past that is returning to the present, with the contemporary outpouring of religion, conservatism, xenophobia, and judgmental moral standards. Workshopped at IDFA 2009, Groenendaal had the public contribute their thoughts and feelings to the creation of the film. Official Selection IDFA 2011 Premiere Paradocs, Planet Doc Documentary Film Festival, Reykjavik International Film Festival, Alchemy Film Festival, Edinburg film festival, Bogota Film Festival, Buenos Aires, Guanajuato International Film Festival, EYE Film Institute, Somnio Film Festival, Art house Tour Holland, De Balie Amsterdam, Nutshuis Den Haag. |
Performances Eva van Kleef, Lotte Duncker,
Cille Lansade, Manah Depauw, Stephanie Pan, Otobong Nkanga, Jihyun Youn, Susanne Ohmann, Jochen Stechmann, Sarah Manya, Voin de Voin, Wendela ter Horst Screenplay Jeanette Groenendaal Additional Camera Baronesse van Wassenaer Editing Zoot Derks, Jeanette Groenendaal Sound Jeanette Groenendaal Music Stephanie Pan and Stelios Manousakis Audio Post Warning Studios Color Correction Jeroen Weeda Translation Stephanie Pan Subtitles Zoot Derks Financially supported by Netherlands Film Fund, Fonds BKVB LIVE en AFK DasArts |
DUTCH COCAINE FACTORYWritten, Filmed, Directed and Produced by Jeanette Groenendaal
A Docu-Tective, Documentary, Experimental 55 min | Netherlands 2007 Premiere IDFA 2007 |
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Through footage derived from a 16 cam self-surveillance video-diary we are swept into the pro-paranoia world view of Dutch Cocaine Factory. Champions league cocaine consumer Arend, a lawyer and a drugs scientist unveil a well-kept secret of the past:
the Dutch Cocaine Factory. Until World War II, the Netherlands were the largest producer of quality cocaine in the world. An attempt to fair trade? What if cocaine production prices would not extend the price of coffee? Who surveys the surveillance? Arend seeks 'Solutions', while the decadent party feasts on (we visit the Wasteland and Erwin Olafs parties in Amsterdam). The power of the images, the structure of the film and the implausibility of the events are reminiscent of fiction, but performance artist Jeanette Groenendaal's documentary debut tells the truth and nothing but the truth. IDFA link DUTCH COCAINE FACTORY |
With Arend ter Horst
Criminal lawyer Mr. Leon van Kleef Criminologist drug researcher Dr.Ton Nabben Criminal lawyer Erasmus University Dr. Damián Zaitch Addiction treatment consultant Don Schothorst Participants of ZootenGenant Install. Erwin Olaf and Wasteland Camera Jeanette Groenendaal Additional Camera Martin Hansen, Zoot Derks Intellex 16 cameras x 3 years 24/7 Arend ter Horst Offline Edit Jeanette Groenendaal, Zoot Derks, Jan Dries Groenendijk Online Edit Zoot Derks Sound Martin Hansen, Jeanette Groenendaal Audio post production Warning Studios Sound design Jan Dries Groenendijk Music Glamour Twins, 20th Century boy, Björn Warning, Moral Fashion Authorised video GNN Alex Jones DJI AT5 NOS Colour Correction Jeroen Weeda Subtitles Zoot Derks Translations Alison Fisher Special thanks Ritsaert ten Cate Sponsors ZootenGenant, Erwin Olaf Studios, DASArts Financially supported by Netherlands Film Fund Official Selection
IDFA 2007 Premiere Paradocs, Transvizualia Polish Documentary channel, Somnio Filmfestival Bergen, PAFID Patagonia De Balie Amsterdam, Theater Kikker preview ’t Hoogt Utrecht, Focus Film theater Arnhem, Vera Zienema Groningen. Plaza Futura Eindhoven, Planet Doc Review Warsaw, Filmhuis Lumière Maastricht, Cinekarree Aken, Filmhuis Den Haag, Seoul Independent Documentary Film & video Festival Korea, Illuseum Amsterdam, Planet Doc Review Warsaw, De Brakke Grond Amsterdam, De Poorterij Zaltbommel, Filmhuis Lumen Delft, HOTDOCS DOC SHOP Toronto- Canada, TEK filmfestival Rome, Verkadefabriek Den Bosch, Film Museum Amsterdam, DOCUFEST Kosovo, Ketelhuis Amsterdam, Bogota Colombia, Dockanema festival Maputo Mozambique, Kassel Film en documentary festival, “Under Influence” Kunsthaus Dresden Germany, Nationale Wetenschapsdag Leiden, “All about Freedom” Gdansk, Women's Art Festival Le Pont Gallery Aleppo Syria, “Strikt Vertrouwelijk” Leiden Scheltema complex, De Nieuwe Anita Amsterdam, Dasha Cinema Amsterdam, Artisterium New Art Café Tbilisi Georgie, Villa Garigula Georgie, Patagonia experimental filmfestival South America. |
SOULSCAPE
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Directed by Yuri Bongers and Jeanette Groenendaal
Dance Film | 6,38 min | Netherlands | 2022 Premiere Cinedans Fest 2022 - section "New Dutch 4" |
* Yuri Bongers *
1974 - 2021 |
Dancer/ choreographer Yuri Bongers (1974-2021) received a research grant for the development of a choreography with camera, dancers and the landscape as protagonist, when he discovered this would be his last project.
With filmmaker Jeanette Groenendaal, he decided to escape a few days every season in 2021. Dancer, Choreographer, Artistic and Managing Director worked together with Anja Reinhardt, Founders of vloeistof Dance Company in the Netherlands His mind never stopped dancing |
Director Yuri Bongers and Jeanette Groenendaal
Concept Yuri Bongers Dancers Yuri Bongers and Anja Reinhardt Camera Jeanette Groenendaal Montage Zoot Derks and Jeanette Groenendaal Composers FALT Titel: Offshore Niels Kuiters Bas van Rijnsoever Special thanks Radislav Semenov Production G-Network-Film Foundation With the Support off PRINS BERNHARD CULTUURFONDS CINEDANS '22 New Dutch, EYE Film Museum
Nederlandse Dansdagen '22 Nd Online Maastricht Vimeo on Demand Soulscape |
Dancer, Choreographer, Artistic and Managing Director worked together with Anja Reinhardt,
Founders of vloeistof Dance Company in the Netherlands
His mind never stopped dancing
The completed Biografie of Jeanette Groenendaal can be found here:
