RED STAR LINE
Info
un collection de documentaires de Daniël Cattier et Kristof Bilsen, en coproduction avec VRT-Canvas, avec le support de Flanders Media Fund.
De 1873 à 1934, la Red Star Line a transporté pas moins de 2,7 millions de migrants d’Anvers à New York. Ce documentaire de création en trois volets se base sur l’histoire de la Red Star Line pour raconter celle de migrants fuyant la guerre civile, la pauvreté et la persécution et cherchant à vivre le rêve américain. L’histoire d’un drame, d’un mélange d’espoir et de désespoir, d’échecs et de détermination.
Director
Daniel Cattier is a freelance film director. His aim is to tell stories linked with Africa. Through his mixed cultural and linguistic background, his father being Belgian and his mother Zimbabwean, the issue of identity is at the core of his interests. After completing the first cycle of a law degree, he read Politics and History at London University School of Oriental and African Studies. Prior to filmmaking he worked as a Reasearch and Campaign Assistant at the International Secretariat of Amnesty International. He then moved into TV production by working as a Reasercher for documentaries produced for Channel 4, BBC and France 3. Beside his personal projects, he does storyboards and directs corporates, TV programmes as well as commercials.
Kristof Bilsen
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE AS FILMMAKER:
• Director/Camera/Producer documentary “White Elephant (nzoku ya pembe)”, 34 mins, NFTS, shot in Belgium and Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, released in 2011.
• Director/Camera/Producer documentary “The Perfect Belgian”, NFTS, 35 mins, shot in Belgium, released in 2011.
• Director/Camera/Producer documentary “Once”, 4 mins, NFTS, shot in Manchester (UK), released in 2009.
• Director/Camera/Producer documentary “Parallel Lives”, NFTS, 14 mins, shot in Belgium and UK, released in 2011.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
• Co-director/Camera/Producer documentary “Three Women (Drie Vrouwen)” together with Daniel Billiet, 50 mins, selfproduced, shot in prison in Belgium, released in 2005 and broadcasted twice on Belgian National Television.
• Director/Camera/Producer documentary “Fez return-ticket” , 24ʼ, self-produced, shot in Morocco, 2008.