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Peet Gelderblom

Freelance regisseur/editor/vormgever
06-50524382 · peet [at] directorama [dot] net

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Style is what unites memory or recollection, ideology, sentiment, nostalgia, presentiment, to the way we express all that. It’s not what we say but how we say it that matters. — Federico Fellini

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Screening Room: Rating System Lab

The last few weeks I’ve had the pleasure to direct a new commercial for the Dutch rating system for movies, television and games, called Kijkwijzer. It’s basically a system that gives parents the usual age recommendation (AL for all ages, 6, 12 and 16), accompanied with a selection of nifty pictograms for Violence, Fear, Sex, [...]

Obama and the Impossible Divide

Europe loves Obama and I’m proud of all my American friends today. I say this without a shred of irony. A few years ago, I saw a documentary about the US that went into the impossible divide between liberal thinkers on one side and born-again Christians on the other. During an interview with a protest [...]

Image and Sound Award nomination

Well, this came out of the blue! A program I’ve directed has been nominated for the Image and Sound Award, under the category Entertainment. The program in question is Waar Is De Mol? and I can best descibe it as a cross between a real-life road movie and a celebrity interview show. The winners will [...]

Movie Geeks United! interview

Yesterday I was interviewed for Movie Geeks United!, one of my favorite radio podcasts out there. It was 40 past midnight here in Holland when we spoke on the phone and I was quite nervous (writing in English is one thing, speaking live to a quarter of a million listeners is a whole new challenge!). [...]

The book has arrived!

This Friday my advance copy of the Directorama book fell on our doormat and, well… it looks pretty cool! It’s been a lot of work to put together, but I really love the way it turned out. After some last-minute tweaks (mostly having to do with color and font size), I’ve uploaded the final version [...]

24LiesASecond will merge with The House Next Door

I have good news and bad news, everybody… First the bad: In the next few months, the 24LiesASecond website as you’ve come to know it will ceize to exist. Now the good: 24LiesASecond will merge with The House Next Door. Yes, you’ve read that right. So what’s going on? Let me explain… When Jim Moran [...]