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NEWS: Working title of the film: “The last dance on Java”

The realisation of a feature film about European women and children during the Japanese occupation (1942-1945) of the former Dutch Indies. Never before a movie was produced about the hard-hearted way women and children suffered from the Japanese occupation. For three years over 65.000 Dutch woman and children and several other Western nationalities lived in Japanese internment camps under grim circumstances. In 15 to 20 years there will not be any survivor left to give testimony of the hardship they endured. As a memento for those who suffered, this story has to be told to the next generations.

The movie will be produced by FATT Productions an international film, arts, television and theatre production company, based in Amsterdam. Their core business is the development of high quality feature films and TV series for a wide, international ‘From Amsterdam to Tokyo’ audience. Founder Hans de Weers has already produced many award winning films and television series a.o. ANTONIA’S LINE, winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and BLUEBIRD, winner of the Crystal Bear in Berlin. De Weers joined forces with Elwin Looije who has worked as a line-producer all over the world. Looije’s extensive international experience accompanies FATT’s ambition to put international co-productions front and centre. Recent successful premiere of the Netherlands-Italy-Canada co-production TULIPANI at TIFF (feature film directed by Oscar winner Mike van Diem) proves FATT projects strategy.

The Moluccan author Sylvia Pessireron and Henriette van Raalte wrote the 1st treatment of the film, based on this first set-up with extensive research. Kees van Beijnum will now write a filmscript with working title: ‘The last dance on Java’. Kees van Beijnum has already written many filmscenarios.