Festivals/Awards:
The 14 min. short trailer film version of Silent Snow (2007) won:
Stop Global Warming Award and J-Wave Audience Award, Short Shorts Film Festival In Japan / First Prize Planet in Focus, Toronto / Best International Film, HRAFF Australia / Prix du meilleur court métrage, FIFFEL, Lausanne / Children Earth Vision Award, Japan / Golden Snail, Slow Food on Film Festival Bologna / Honorable Mentions at INKAFEST Peru and HR Film Fest. Buenos Aires / First Prize Green Film Fest Seoul.
Director's Bio-Filmography:
Writers, artists and filmmakers are working together in drsFILM, a production company founded by Jan van den Berg, who in the early seventies started making films from his original field of study: cultural anthropology. Since that time drsFILM made many documentaries and drama productions. The films are mostly about people at the cutting edge between cultures. Jan van den Berg made several earlier films on environmental issues, like Gallow Creek (2009) and Taming the Floods (1999). Jan van den Berg won various awards on international film festivals, i.e. a Golden Calf for Deacon of Death, looking for justice in today's Cambodia (Dutch Film Festival), Golden Snail for the short trailer film of Silent Snow (Bologna) and a Golden Key for Bye Jan (Lorquin, France).