FILMOGRAPHY

Jeanette Groenendaal (1964) 
Independent Filmmaker, Writer, Artist, Producer, Advisor, Astrologer
Founder G-Network Film Foundation

Jeanette Groenendaal

'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

INDEPENDENT FILMMAKER               ____              

DRAMAYAMA

​​Written, Filmed, Directed and Produced by Jeanette Groenendaal
A Space-Time Travel, Independent, Experimental | 99 min | Netherlands | 2020 ​

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.’

REFORMATION

​Written, Filmed, Directed and Produced by Jeanette Groenendaal
​Perform a Doc, Movie, Experimental | 82 min | Netherlands | 2011

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.

​‘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?’
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​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.

DUTCH COCAINE FACTORY

​Written, Filmed, Directed and Produced by Jeanette Groenendaal
A Docu-Tective,  Documentary, Experimental | 55 min | Netherlands | 2007 ​

​IDFA link       DUTCH COCAINE FACTORY

Through footage derived from a 16 cam self-surveillance videodiary 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.

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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.

The completed Biografie of Jeanette Groenendaal can be found here: