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INTERNATIONAL
ROME FILM
FESTIVAL
CREDITS
Original title: Noordzee Texas
Director: Bavo Defurne
Cast: Jelle Florizoone, Ben Van den Heuvel, Mathias Vergels,
Nathan Naenen, Nina Marie Kortekaas, Eva Vander Gucht,
Katelijne Damen, Thomas Coumans, Luk Wyns, Patricia
Goemaere, Noor Ben Taouet, Ella-June Henrard
Screenplay: Bavo Defurne, Yves Verbraeken
Based on the novel ‘Nooit gaat dit over’ by André Sollie
Photography: Anton Mertens, SBC
Editing: Els Voorspoels
Sound: Johan Somers
Music: Adriano Cominotto
Production Design: Kurt Rigolle
Art Director: Merijn Sep
Costume: Nathalie Lermytte
OFFICIAL COMPETITION
2011 MONTREAL
WORLD FILM FESTIVAL
PRODUCTION
Production company: Indeed Films
Flemish producer: Yves Verbraeken
Supported by: Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), Eén, Mollywood
Shot on location in and around Ostend
INFO
Indeed Films
Torhoutsesteenweg 35 #003
BE8400 Oostende
Belgium
M: +32 486 46 37 70
E: yves@indeedfilms.be www.indeedfilms.be
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FORMAT
Original version: Dutch
Running time: 96’
Release format: DCP Jpeg 2000
Available formats: HD Cam SR, HD Cam, Pal Digital Beta
Ratio: 2.35 Cinemascope
Sound: Dolby Digital SRD
Year of production: 2011
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A FILM BY BAVO DEFURNE
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ABOUT BAVO DEFURNE
Born in 1971 and a graduate of the St Lukas Art School in Brussels, artist, photographer and filmmaker
Bavo Defurne worked as assistant director on experimental filmmaker Matthias Mueller’s shorts Alpsee
(1995) and Pensão Globo (1997) and as a set decorator on many films, including Peter Greenaway’s The
Baby of Macon (1993).
Then he established himself as an exciting new talent with a sequence of critically acclaimed
award winning shorts. He was praised for shorts such as Particularly Now, In Spring (1995),
Saint (1997), Sailor (1998) and Campfire (1999). They examine his regular themes of gay
love and loss, the body, the power of nature and silence. North Sea Texas is his debut feature.
www.bavo.org
ABOUT THE PRODUCTION COMPANY
Set up by Yves Verbraeken, Indeed films is determined to fill gaps in the market place and to maximise
the potential of niche markets.
The Ostend-based company nurtures authors with a unique vision, is committed to supporting first-time
filmmakers on low-budget films, and strongly believes in building lasting relationships with its directors
moving into bigger films.
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As a kid at the end of the Sixties Pim dreams of a better life, imagining princesses and beauty
queens. But when Pim turns 15 he dreams of Gino, the boy next door, instead. Ever since they were
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