| Jeroen Berkvens Director: Jimmy Rosenberg - the Father, the Son and the Talent |
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Jeroen Berkvens (1968) studied for 5 years at the Academy of Arts in Breda. He graduated in 1993 with Let Me Have It All, a roadmovie-like documentary search for the legendary pioneer in soul music Sly Stone. It was awarded by ARTE for best European student film, and broadcasted in
several countries.
Among his documentaries is the internationally acclaimed A Skin Too Few - The Days of Nick Drake, a film that "beautifully evokes the enduring appeal of English singer-songwriter Nick Drake" according to Variety. It picked up several international awards and nominations, and was described "a cinematic tone poem as much as a biography" by the NY Times when it got a theatrical release in the USA.
Besides Mirror of Time, a series on the non-narrative ex-Soviet documentary, Jeroen directed films like A Lawyer's Story in which a criminal lawyer reshapes his life after a bomb attack.
Jimmy Rosenberg - The Father, the Son & the Talent is Jeroen's follow-up in his line of work to depict stories about the burden of being gifted or passionate.
At the Krakow Film Festival in Poland this film not only won the Grand Prix for Feature Length Documentary, but the Diploma of Honour for Best Director of Photography as well. In the Netherlands it won a 'Golden Calf' for Best Feature Length Documentary, and in the USA the film won Best Feature Documentary at the Big Sky Documentary festival, Montana, followed by a Best Film Award in Montréal, Canada at Fifa Festival International du Films sur d'Art.
Among his documentaries is the internationally acclaimed A Skin Too Few - The Days of Nick Drake, a film that "beautifully evokes the enduring appeal of English singer-songwriter Nick Drake" according to Variety. It picked up several international awards and nominations, and was described "a cinematic tone poem as much as a biography" by the NY Times when it got a theatrical release in the USA.
Besides Mirror of Time, a series on the non-narrative ex-Soviet documentary, Jeroen directed films like A Lawyer's Story in which a criminal lawyer reshapes his life after a bomb attack.
Jimmy Rosenberg - The Father, the Son & the Talent is Jeroen's follow-up in his line of work to depict stories about the burden of being gifted or passionate.
At the Krakow Film Festival in Poland this film not only won the Grand Prix for Feature Length Documentary, but the Diploma of Honour for Best Director of Photography as well. In the Netherlands it won a 'Golden Calf' for Best Feature Length Documentary, and in the USA the film won Best Feature Documentary at the Big Sky Documentary festival, Montana, followed by a Best Film Award in Montréal, Canada at Fifa Festival International du Films sur d'Art.
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