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FILMOGRAPHY

Jeanette Groenendaal (1964) 
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

DRAMAYAMA

A 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.
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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
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English, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch
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​Official Selection
Screening In a monthly series “Spirituality and Well Being” (6x), Picl Ketelhuis & Picl Eye Film Netherlands (3 Months), New Film Makers USA, 
International Film Festival Buenos Aires Argentina, Ketelhuis Netherlands, Toronto International Women Film Festival Canada,
Eye Filmmuseum Netherlands, Anticensura FilmFestival Argentina, the 14th Jaipur International Film Festival India, Filmhuis Breda Netherlands,
Virginia Dares Cinematic Arts Awards for Decolonizing/Re-Indigenizing Media USA, Garifuna International Indigenous Filmfestival USA,
Salón Municipal Guatemala, Indo Singapore International Film Festival Singapore, Cinema Farol Santander Brazilie, ​La Galeria Guatemala, 
ARFF Barcelona // International Awards Spain, SAW-SOFIA ART WEEK 5 *Re-Spirit Trans-Spirit* Bulgaria, Plein Theater Netherlands, 
​Kalaburagi International Film Festival India, Theatre Cinépolis Utz Ulew Quetzaltenango Guatemala, 5th New Delhi Film Festival- NDFF India, 
La Palapa de la Posada Guatemala, Maracay International Film & Video Festival Venezuela, Toronto Tamil International Film Festival Canada, Conference day VZLA Utrecht, First Hermetic International Film Festival Italie, 21st Pune Internațional Filmfestival, Amritapuri Campus,
​Filmclub Kollam, 
Sideshow Kochi Biennale Kerala, Neo Filmschool Ernaculam,  Dakshinachitra Centre Chennai, Cinema Paradiso Auroville, Cultural Program Indeco Resort Swamiemalai, Dreaming Tree Tiruvannamalai, College of Architecture & Sculpture Mahabalipuram,
​Aurodhan Gallery Pondicherry, Theosophical Society Adyar Chennai, Hotel Broadlands Chennai, Tamil Virtual Academy Auditorium Chennai, Shiva Shakti House Tiruvannamalai, Pune International Film Festival The Pavallion Mall and Inox Camp Maharastra,

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REFORMATION

​Written, 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?’

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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Financially supported by Netherlands Film Fund, Fonds BKVB LIVE en AFK DasArts
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DUTCH COCAINE FACTORY

​Written, 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.


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​​IDFA link       DUTCH COCAINE FACTORY
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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

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
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​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, 
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Founders of vloeistof Dance Company in the Netherlands

His mind never stopped dancing
 The completed Biografie of Jeanette Groenendaal can be found here:
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