Leendert Pot
7 November 1959, Hilversum Netherlands.
Leendert Pot is independent filmmaker since 1986. The main films he has made include:
Director of 'DOORGAAN' (The Oarsmen) a poetic film about the eldest oarsman in Holland (2009)
Camera, editing 'Boobells' live art preformence by Kaat Schulte (Kunsteyssen Alkmaar 2009)
Production 'POES BAL DOBBER' (Cat Ball float) a deaf youngster doubts about his identity and looks for the stories of elder deaf people. production St. Geelprodukt / RTV-Gelderland 2009
Leesmij, Adriaan van Dis 'Het beloofde land. Production Viewpoint 2009
Direction, production & camera My Opportunity (Youtube) co-production with UNICEF Ethiopia, Licht fuer die Welt & ETV. A young blind women tells a classroom in Addis Ababa with blind students the opportunities she has because she is blind. Shot in Ethiopia. 2008 Unicef.
Direction, production & camera Ambition a co-production with UNICEF Ethiopia, Licht fuer die Welt & ETV. A young women from Addis Ababa in a wheelchair tells about her desire to go to school and her ambition. Shot in Ethiopia. 2008
Director, producer, camera ‘HORMAATEE’ (She brings money) A documentary about Micro finance. Shot in Ethiopia. In collaboration with Olanya Jimmy K. Olenge & Kebede Assefa. Premiere Goethe Institute Addis Ababa 2006. Production St. Geelprodukt /Oxfam-Novib
Co-director and producer ‘BEWOGEN’ (‘Motioning’ ) 5 film-poems in Dutch Sign Language Polder, Strand, Fire, Reflection & Growth. A book with DVD: Dutch & English translations including a photo-exhibition.
Première International Film Festival Rotterdam + 70 international festivals
"Best innovative video poetry" award at the Potenza International Film Festiva Italy 2006.
Honorable Mention in Poetry at the DCAD Festival Colombia USA 2009
Co-director of 'Cristina Branco, a minha casa' about the Portuguese fado-singer Cristina Branco. Premiere in Paradiso Amsterdam, production PvH film & tv/ VPRO-TV. 2004. (Youtube)
Co-director and producer ‘GROEI’ (Growth) 1st film-poem in Sign Language Polder Production St. Geelprodukt
Première & Openings-film Deaf in the Picture Amsterdam April 2003,
1ste prize DFFF-Edinburgh,
Special Jury Mention Lausanne Underground Film Festival. 2003
Co-director & production of 'VERLOREN' (Lost). A short about deaf kids watching television. Premiere Dutch Film Festival Utrecht. 2001.
Director of 'GEWOON DOOF' ( Just deaf). A film about a deaf boy, attending a normal school. Premiere at the Interna¬tional Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. 2000.
Director of 'ITHAKA'. (Ithaca) (35mm). The film is a poem. Based on the poem Ithaca by the Greek poet Constantine Cafavy. Premier at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. 2000. Production St. Geelprodukt
Director of 'SPREKENDE OGEN'.(Eloquent eyes)(16mm) A film about a young woman who can only speak with her eyes. Premiere Stadsschouwburg Hoorn, 1999. Production St. Geelprodukt & NCRV-TV.
Director of 'GEBROKEN VERLEDEN' (Broken past)(16mm) A road movie about the past of his mother, showing the history of Europe. 1997. Production St. Geelprodukt & NPS-TV.
Director of 6x short six abstract shorts. 1996. Production TV-Dits & NPS-TV.
Director of 'SAUDADE'. (Saudade) (35mm) A music film about the World-music Department of the Rotterdam Conservatory. Premiere at the cinema release Am¬sterdam and Rotterdam. 1996. Production TV-Dits & NPS-TV.
Director of 'DIT KAN HARDER'. (Let's go faster)(16mm) A film about Dutch top feminine cycling. 1993. Production St. Jura & VPRO-TV.
Director of 'DE KORENSLAG'.(Choir power)(35mm) A film about conductor Geert van Tijn who tries to sing with 80,000 people. Premiere at International Documentary Film¬ festival Amsterdam. 1992. Production St. Jura & NCRV-TV.
Director of 'IN DE GREEP VAN DE TANGO'. (Embraced
by the tango) (35mm) A music-film about Dutch bandoneon-¬player Carel Kraayen¬hof in Buenos Aires. Premiere at the International Documentary Film festival Amster¬dam. 1991. Production St. Jura & NOS-TV.
Special mention by the jury IDFA,
Nomination Gouden Kalf
Director of 'ANNE ANDERS'. (Anne is one of us) (16mm) A film about his sister with Downs Syndrome. Premiere at the Interna¬tional Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. 1989. Production St. Jura & NOS-TV.
Co-director and sound 'NA DE STAKING'. (After the strike) (16mm) A film about miners' wives, a year after the big strike.1986. Production St. Geelprodukt.
His films were shown in festivals in Belgium, Brazil, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Scotland, France, England, Croatia, India, Canada, Switzerland, USA and Holland.
All his films were televised in the Netherlands.
Anja Hiddinga is independent filmmaker; she writes columns and essays. She is associate professor at the University of Amsterdam.
Co-director & producer ‘BEWOGEN’ (Motioning) A book with DVD: 4 new film-poems in Dutch Sign Language (Polder, Strand, Fire & Reflection), Dutch & English translations and a photo-exhibition. Première International Film Festival Rotterdam, Theatre release Holland Polder. Many international poetry-, art-, film- and deaf-festivals. Production: St. Geelprodukt 2005
Direction of GROEI (Growth). A film poem in Dutch Sign Language. Premiere & Openings-film at Deaf in the picture Amsterdam April 2003, theatre release Holland. (5 min., video, together with Leendert Pot). Broadcasted by Dutch Television in April 2003.
Research of DOOF, NOU EN?' (Deaf, so what?) (2003, 52 min.)
Direction of DE GEBARENSINT KOMT. Rimes and songs in Dutch Sign Language (video, 50 min.) 2003
(Co) producer of a project in which a number (6) of existing youth films were made accessible to deaf children by means of an inserted image of a sign language interpreter in the picture. Since 1998 Anja Hiddinga directed the performance of the interpreters.
Production and direction of ZWANGER!! (Pregnant!!). Information about pregnancy and delivery in Dutch Sign Language (56 min.)
Research and production of GEWOON DOOF. (Just
Deaf) and direction of the sign language interpreter (50 min., video, Direction by Leendert Pot). Premiere at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (November 2000). Broadcasted by Dutch Television in 2001
Scenario, direction and editing of the short film VERLOREN (Lost) (2 min., together with Leendert Pot), Premiere at the Nederlands Filmfestival Utrecht, September 2001
Direction of: GRIEZELVERHALEN. (Horror stories), a number of stories told by deaf narrators in Dutch Sign Language (20 minutes, video, 1996)
Texts for and (co)production of the web site GEWOON DOOF (Just Deaf) in addition to the documentary (Web design IJsfontein, Amsterdam, April – August 2001)