What makes director Bas Roeterink Happy?

What makes director Bas Roeterink Happy?

By Richard Trombly

Shanghai, Sept. 6, 2010 -- Director Bas Roeterink's new documentary HAPPY STREET: JOHN KÖRMELING aired on Ductch TV and will screen in Shanghai on September 11. Roeterink is also the editor of Gan Chow's 2009 documentary The Red Race. Here is what the director had to say about the film.

HAPPY STREET: JOHN KÖRMELING was made for about 40,000 Euros, which Roeterink.characterizes as a low budget film. The film was well underway when it attracted the interest of a producer in Rotterdam.

"I didn't have any funding when I started," says Roeterink. "So I paid for everything myself."

Starting with a strong interest in following designer and architect John Körmeling and almost no money, Roeterink did everything himself from shooting and sound to directing and editing. But the hard work paid off when the producer sold the documentary to Dutch TV before it was even entirely completed shooting. It aired on May 7, 2010 and is traveling to various international film festivals. It will be shown at Shanghai's unique "1933Shanghai" slaughterhouse-turned-art venue on  September 11, 2010 at 08:00 pm   with an entrance fee of 20 rmb.

53 minutes, Dutch/Chinese/English spoken. English subtitles.

http://www.1933shanghai.com/  1933Shangahi's Glass Theater, 29 Shajing Lu, Shanghai tel: (0)21 6888 1933