Patroon

Short Film

Project

My long time friend, director and agency owner Mario Gonsalves was going to write and direct this short film for this graduation project at Hogeschool van de Kunsten Utrecht when he asked me to join him and produce this short film alongside him. 6 months, a crowdfunding campaign, amazing partners, and blood sweat and tears we created an award-winning short film called Patroon.

Role

For this project i had the role of Lead Producer. Bringing the whole team together and guiding all operations within preproduction, production and postproduction. Making sure everyone is headed in the same direction, actively pushing a succesful crowdfunding campaign, managing budgets, seeking and writing sponsors to support the message we are communicating, pre-prod, production and post-prod. I had never done something like this before.

Credits

Creative Agency: Recent
Written & Directed: Mario Gonsalves
Line Producer: Hansel Pahmer
Art Director: Kevin Osepa
DOP: Ken Thiel
Graphic Designer: Valentino Angela

Intro

After the breach with his mother, a teenager who emigrated from Curacao to the Netherlands looks for friendship and romance. Meanwhile, he struggles with his future as a grown man.

Since Malik and his mother moved from Curacao to the Bijlmer district in Amsterdam, they take their frustrations out on each other. Malik seeks refuge in friendships outside, in pranks,spoken word and fights. Until he falls in love and leaves the hood. When the brand-new couple expects a child and he vainly turns to his mother for advice, Malik realises that, despite the circumstances, he is the only one who can decide how to lead his life.

Partners & Awards

We sought partnerships with various companies like VICE Media Group facilitating us with a state of the art edit room including all equipment & catering needed for post production. Panavision Films BENELUX providing us with the newest camera bodies, lenses and camera accesories on the market. Maloney Amsterdam offering over 90% discount on lighting equipment.

Patroon has been featured in many occasions like Nederlands Film Festival 2020, Vice Night, Rialto for Shorts and Curacao International Film Festival. Winning the HKU Award for Most Creative Short Film of 2020 and the Young Directors Award 2020.