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Stijn Bouma
Stijn Bouma (1991) is a Dutch filmmaker who grew up in Hoorn. After obtaining a (professionally oriented) Master in Film Studies (UvA), he left for Sarajevo. There, he attended the film.factory program at the Sarajevo Film Academy (SFA), set up by Béla Tarr, for three years. There, he made several short films and was taught by leading filmmakers such as Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Pedro Costa, Atom Egoyan and Carlos Reygdas.
Stijn Bouma
During his education, he worked on many different sets of his fellow students, with whom he also gained experience as a camera assistant (and DoP) and as a recording director.
Second-year film LEJLA (22 mins, 2017) was selected for the Cinéfondation in Cannes. Graduation film REGAINED MEMORY (55 mins, 2018) shot as part of Future Frames at Karlovy Vary IFF. Together, these films also shot in the Forum of Directors, NFF and had Dutch distribution via Mokumfilm.
Brief! He then made VISITE (12 mins, 2019), which had an international premiere in Clermont-Ferrand. ALONE AGAINST THE STATE (docu, 55 mins, 2021) sent a shock wave and received praise from both the national and international press.
Stijn Bouma wants to show documentary about the benefits affair to all politicians
- September 22, '21
Acting party leader Sophie Hermans and CDA leader Wopke Hoekstra announced on Wednesday that they had not seen the film. SP leader Lilian Marijnissen asked Hermans this during the debate. The Rutte cabinet fell over the benefits affair almost a year ago. Despite various promises, most of the affected parents have still not been compensated by the outgoing cabinet.
Show film in The Hague
“To say the least, we find it remarkable that not all ministers of this outgoing cabinet saw the documentary,” says director Stijn Bouma on behalf of the makers. “We think it is very important that all politicians in The Hague hear these women's stories. It shows how great the suffering that this person has done to them, and all those other victims, is. That is why we firmly support the SP's proposal to show the film in The Hague for all politicians in the short term.”
Impact of the affair
In Alleen tegen de staat, Stijn Bouma lets five mothers who were victims of the benefits scandal speak. They are the first victims to tell their story extensively in front of the camera and explain the impact of the affair on their lives. Many viewers and TV reviewers noted that it would be good if all politicians saw the movie.
Pieter Omtzigt, one of the two parliamentarians who brought the case to the House, praised the film earlier after seeing it in a pre-premiere. Only against the state can be looked back on NPO Start.
By: ANP
Stijn Bouma
PLAYTIME
'55 + aftertalk
LANGUAGE
Dutch
In the movie Only against the State filmmaker Stijn Bouma records the testimonies of five affected mothers in the benefits scandal. The story ranges from the first recovery letters, and the humiliating years that followed, to the slow path to recovery that has now been taken.
The mothers talk about their lives before the letters arrived. When they were ordinary citizens, with jobs, families and homes. The benefits affair changed everything. One of them had to deal with the removal of her child, others ended up in debt, received visits from bailiffs and were forcibly fired.
In the film, Janet, Nazmiye, Badriah, Derya and Naoual talk about what they have experienced in recent years in a vulnerable and candid way. The film is followed by an aftertalk with the duped Derya, filmmaker Stijn Bouma and whistle-blower Pierre Niessen. He worked at the tax authorities for years and addressed the abuses there since 2009, but received no response.
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Stijn Bouma Documentary maker
Derya Duped benefits affair
Stijn Bouma (1991) is a filmmaker and made the documentary Alone Against the State, about the victims of the Allowance scandal, which was broadcast on 2Doc at the NPO on September 20, 2021.
For EW Stage, the opinion platform of WE for young writers, Bouma wrote a triptych about the physical damage of mental problems and blind spots in medical science. In this podcast, Bouma talks about this with Geerten Waling, chef of EW Stage.
Also read Stijn Bouma's triptych:
Part 1: The benefits scandal shows that medical science also has blind spots
Part 2: Pent up emotions may play a role in serious illness
Part 3: Time for a broader view of healing
Read all articles by EW Stage upon https://www.ewmagazine.nl/ewpodium/
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