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The Olympus College in Rotterdam is sending away the average of three of it’s pupils per week. They decided to make school-contracts with the pupils. The school with 1500 childern from around 30 different nationalities decided to use this extreme method, after they came out… Read More
Reportage about the opening of the Gay Games: the gay parade. A bombastic parade of boats full of gay and lesbians dancing on different kinds of music. Activities: screening item idea, research, set-up & set-up filming.
A Visit with the neighbourhood with Dutch Surinam mayor Hannah Belliot, the first migrant mayor of the Netherlands, ends with a steelpan concert on a parking lot. A patrol through the neighbourhood with the police and checking out the nightlife of the Bijlmermeer with social… Read More
Half June the Dutch ministry of traffic organised a trade-fare where all kinds of different new high-way-transportation-techniques will be shown on a not yet opened part of a new high way near Leiden . 100 volunteers will help showing en testing the different systems. One… Read More
In some Dutch cities an experiment called Justice in the neighbourhood’ (JIB) started. The idea of JIB. is to bring the activities of the Justice department closer to the people. This means that offenders and victims get a more direct and fast treatment around the… Read More
In the middle of Tilburg an insurance company opened europe ‘s biggest ‘flex-office’. None of the 1500 employees has it’s own room, desk or archive. The interior of the building looks more like a futuristic museum than like an head-office of an insurance company. The… Read More
Form the results of a research last week the Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs concludes that the dutch workers work themselves to pieces. The Dutch are European top scorers in stress. Causes are re-organisations and budget cuts, the rationalisation of work processes (the use of… Read More
Amoc/DHV is a reception center for stranded Germans in Amsterdam, subsidized by the Dutch and German state. The ARD Europamagazin reportage follows the day of hard drug addicts, heroine hookers and boy prostitutes surviving in Amsterdam. A fight to get lost Germans back on the… Read More
An ARD 40 minutes documentary on two weeks of traditional clipper sailing in the Dutch province Friesland. The so-called Skûtsje Silen. Living with the Skûtsje-families and the crews. Preparing the old clippers and listening to the stories of the old sailors. From the preparations, moving… Read More
The Dutch authorities are discussing linking the computer systems of the police, tax office and the social security department When all this information is linked it is easier to catch or ‘keep out people without a residence permit. The general view is that people that… Read More
During the 1997 Amsterdam Euro Summit alternative movements have their own summit called the ‘Platform for a different Europe ‘. A clourful Amsterdam journey along tiny political parties, alternative art movements, militant pressure groups against cars, gay and lesbian associations, squatters- , environmental- and pro-soft… Read More
Floor manager, local producer and researcher for the American TV-pool reporting on Bill Clinton visiting The Netherlands. Activities: prepare location, furnish and equip the US-pool complex in The Hague. Select caterer and motor bike couriers. Floor manager for all US networks during Clinton visit, managing… Read More