BIND Slate 2021

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Award winning production company BIND FILM BV is presenting five projects, two high-end feature films, one feature film aimed at a young audience, a virtual reality interactive project and a creative documentary. LAWS OF THE JUNGLE is a feature length written by Bastiaan Ticher and directed by Sander Burger (IFFR, New Directors New Films NY, Sao Paulo IFF, CPH:DOX). The story is based on the true story of the Dutch botanist and explorer, Marc van Roosmalen who moved to the heart of the Amazon with his family determined to protect it. THE WALLED OFF HOTEL is a VR installation and our second venture into interactive story content. Banksy, the world famous yet anonymous British graffiti artist, has created a fully functioning hotel in Bethlehem which overlooks the wall separating Israel and Palestine in the occupied West Bank. Through our VR experience we hope to build a virtual platform for tourists and artists by creating graffiti on the wall and thus turning this monument of oppression into a canvas for expression, debate, and exchange. SHARKS TEETH is a story about a young girl who runs away from her home. Her mother has cancer and she believes if she can cycle around lake Ijsselmeer in one night, she will be able to prove to the universe that she cares. In her adventure she meets a young boy named Finely who is facing difficulties of his own. STRANDED ASSETS is a powerful story about two siblings from West Africa who grow up with very different values, or so it seems... Just as Grace Adu is about to rise to the top of Rotterdam-based oil multinational BOC, her brother, a leader of militant activists, hijacks a BOC drilling rig off the coast of their oil-soiled and corrupted homeland. AEOLUS is a high end documentary by Alex Pitstra in which we follow the crew members of an eponymous installation vessel, from the bottom to the top of the ship?s hierarchy, as they construct one windmill in a new wind farm at sea.