Jos de Putter
Jos de Putter (Terneuzen, 1959) is a Dutch film director, film critic and screenwriter who primarily makes Dutch documentary films. He studied political science and literature at the University of Leiden, and was a member of the editorial staff of the film magazine Skrien. He has also worked on a number of Dutch television programs and has written film critique for various Dutch newspapers and magazines. His documentaries have been shown at many film festivals, and his debut film, Het is een schone dag geweest, won the City of Utrecht Film Prize at the Dutch Film Festival. This documentary has been included in the Dutch Film Canon. He won the Joris Ivens Prize at the IDFA for Solo, de wet van de favela and the Teheran Film Festival Jury Prize for Nagasaki Stories. The Chicago International Documentary Film Festival featured a retrospective tribute to De Putter’s work in 2003. De Putter played a part in the Heddy Honigmann film Tot ziens and ‘discovered’ the Brazilian footballer Leonardo Vitor Santiago, whom he cast as the star of Solo, de wet van de favela at the age of 11. He wrote and directed Beyond the Game.
Writer
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Beyond the Game
BEYOND THE GAME is a fascinating look at the incredibly popular online game "Warcraft III." The documentary follows the world's best game players in the run-up to the World Championship Cybergames. Using a traditional narrative structure, filmmaker Jos de Putter slows down the actions and...Watch Movie
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It's Been a Lovely Day
"A riveting study in the purest documentary tradition" is how Variety described Jos de Putter's look at the final year of his own parents' farm. But the film's connection between landscape and art is best described by its opening dedication: "For my father, who made me love...Watch Movie
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Solo: The Law of the Favela
Leonardo and Anselmo are both eleven years old and live in the slums of Rio de Janeiro. It is the summer of 1994, the World Championship Soccer is held in the USA, and Brazil is the favorite for the world title. Leonardo and Anselmo dream of becoming professional soccer...Watch Movie
Director
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Beyond the Game
BEYOND THE GAME is a fascinating look at the incredibly popular online game "Warcraft III." The documentary follows the world's best game players in the run-up to the World Championship Cybergames. Using a traditional narrative structure, filmmaker Jos de Putter slows down the actions and...Watch Movie
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It's Been a Lovely Day
"A riveting study in the purest documentary tradition" is how Variety described Jos de Putter's look at the final year of his own parents' farm. But the film's connection between landscape and art is best described by its opening dedication: "For my father, who made me love...Watch Movie
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Alias Kurban Saïd
The hunt for the identity of a pseudonymous author leads extraordinary filmmaker Jos de Putter from Azerbaijan to New York to Italy in this "magnificent historical whodunit" (according to Variety), a travelogue through old films, crumbling letters and a minefield of religious...Watch Movie
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In Memoriam Alexander Litvinenko
Were it an episode in a lurid spy thriller, it would be dismissed as too fantastical: a dissident intelligence officer, a thorn in the side of a ruthless and unforgiving regime, dispatched in the most inventively terrifying of ways, by nuclear poisoning. Not only that, hotels,...Watch Movie
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Solo: The Law of the Favela
Leonardo and Anselmo are both eleven years old and live in the slums of Rio de Janeiro. It is the summer of 1994, the World Championship Soccer is held in the USA, and Brazil is the favorite for the world title. Leonardo and Anselmo dream of becoming professional soccer...Watch Movie
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Solo: Out of a Dream
In 1994, eleven year old Leonardo, was portrayed in the Award-winning documentary SOLO: THE LAW OF THE FAVELA. His dream was to become a soccer player, to escape the poverty and violence of the slum in Rio de Janeiro. As a result of the film, Leonardo was invited to join Dutch...Watch Movie
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See No Evil
The daily life of three famous elderly apes who spend their days in sanctuaries; a movie-star, a scientist and a crippled are portrayed in SEE NO EVIL. We have watched them closely for many years. And they have been watching us... A poetic, sometimes bitter tale on the intriguing relationship...Watch Movie
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Brooklyn Stories
Intersecting inadvertently with Brooklyn's early-21st century battle for a new sports team, BROOKLYN STORIES looks back on the borough's last, the immortal Brooklyn Dodgers. A musician, a dock worker, a homeless man: this assortment of yarn-spinning old-timers traipse around...Watch Movie
Producer
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It's Been a Lovely Day
"A riveting study in the purest documentary tradition" is how Variety described Jos de Putter's look at the final year of his own parents' farm. But the film's connection between landscape and art is best described by its opening dedication: "For my father, who made me love...Watch Movie
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9 Days
One morning on August 2012, the world-renowned Syrian photographer Issa Touma saw youths lugging sandbags along his street. It turned out to be the start of the Syrian uprising in the city of Aleppo. He grabbed his camera and spent nine days recording what was happening outside his window. The...Watch Movie
Actor
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Solo: Out of a Dream
In 1994, eleven year old Leonardo, was portrayed in the Award-winning documentary SOLO: THE LAW OF THE FAVELA. His dream was to become a soccer player, to escape the poverty and violence of the slum in Rio de Janeiro. As a result of the film, Leonardo was invited to join Dutch...Watch Movie
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