Editorial Portraits for IFFR 2013
For the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2013 edition i am working on various editorial portraits. Guests, usually directors and producers – sometimes cast-, will have their portrait taken for festival magazine Daily Tiger and other publications.
The main competition is the Hivos Tiger Awards Competition, in which debutante directors (with their first feature-length film) compete. A small selection of the, so-called, Tigers.
Visra Vichit Vadakan, director Sao karaoke (Karaoke Girl), in the Tiger Awards Competition.January 2013, Bram Belloni for IFFR
Giovanni Columbu, director Su Re (The King), in the Tiger Awards Competition.January 2013, Bram Belloni for IFFR
Mohammad Shirvani, director Larzanandeye charbi (Fat Shaker), in the Tiger Awards Competition.January 2013, Bram Belloni for IFFR
Besides interesting personalities in front of the camera, Rotterdam city itself is also amazing for taking pictures. With modern architecture, the light and locations differs so much from, for example, the more historical Amsterdam where i am used to work in.
Fien Troch, director Kid, in the IFFR Spectrum program.January 2013, Bram Belloni for IFFR
> Read more; International Film Festival Rotterdam 2013 site
Editorial Portraits for IDFA Magazine
More editorial portraits for the cover of the IDFA Special (the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam festival-paper).
Every cover highlights a certain program shown during the festival. The portraits are combined with stills of the films which are featured in that specific program. Like we did in issue #1, seen here; Holly Hardman for IDFA Magazine.
Alexander Reben and Brent Hoff, initiators project Robots in Residence (BlabDroids).
2012, Bram Belloni for IDFA
Malik Bendjelloul, director Searching for Sugar Man.
2012, Bram Belloni for IDFA
Victor Kossakovsky, director ¡Vivan las antipodas! and this years festival Special Guest.
2012, Bram Belloni for IDFA
> publication: IDFA Special, www.idfa.nl
> art direction: Sjoukje van Gool
Holly Hardman for IDFA Magazine
First editions cover of the IDFA Special (the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam festival-paper) features Holly Hardman, director of feature length documentary Good People Go to Hell, Saved People Go to Heaven.
We combined a rather clean portrait with stills of the film.
Holly Hardman, director documentary Good People Go to Hell, Saved People Go to Heaven.
2012, Bram Belloni for IDFA
> publication: IDFA Special, www.idfa.nl
> art direction: Sjoukje van Gool
Tearsheet: Daily Tiger – IFFR
Festival paper The Daily Tiger of the International Film Festival Rotterdam features in this years edition a two-page interview. With a picture over the spread. Here some examples of what i made.
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Aki Kaurismäki by Bram Belloni for Daily Tiger - International Film Festival Rotterdam 2012
Ruben Öslund by Bram Belloni for Daily Tiger - International Film Festival Rotterdam 2012
Visual Diary #013 – IFFR Portraits
With the International Film Festival Rotterdam still in full swing, a small selection of portraits i shot last week for the festival.
Albert Serra, director Els noms de Crist
February 2012, Bram Belloni for IFFR
Mia Hansen-Løve, director Un amour de jeunesse
February 2012, Bram Belloni for IFFR
Óskar Thór Axelsson, director Black's Game
January 2012, Bram Belloni for IFFR
Orhan Eskiköy and Zeynel Dogan, directors Voice of My Father
January 2012, Bram Belloni for IFFR
Vasily Sigarev, director Living
January 2012, Bram Belloni for IFFR
Simon Pummell, director and visual artist
January 2012, Bram Belloni for IFFR
> more on: the International Film Festival Rotterdam website
Visual Diary #009 – IDFA
Present at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam; Jason Baldwin, one of the West Memphis 3 and depicted over an 18 year span in the documentary series Paradise Lost by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky.
Jason Baldwin (middle), with Joe Berlinger, co-director Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
2011 Bram Belloni for IDFA
> more about Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory on Radical Media
Visual Diary #008 – IDFA
Meanwhile at IDFA.
Kevin Allison, host of the Risk Show
2011, Bram Belloni for IDFA
Kevin Allison, host of the Risk Show and in the IDFA DocLab 2011 programme.
Visual Diary #007 – A double double
The IDFA Daily of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam features a double interview spread accompanied with a double portrait. Two meetings were incidentally scheduled on the same time, so with colleague photographer Felix Kalkman we incorporated the two double portraits into each other.
Impression of the shoot, with on top Felix's picture and mine below.
With many thanks to the filmmakers Victor Kossakovsky, Alina Rudnitskaya, Steve James and Mandy Chang, guests of the festival and in the picture(s).
