Archive: Year 2008
International Dox
The Lost Colony
Director
Astrid Bussink
Cinematographer
Jacko van’t Hoff
Editor
Katarina Türler
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71 min
Color
The oldest monkey laboratory in the world has been near most destroyed by the struggle for independence of the enchanting former sovjet republic of Abkhazia. However, the lab workers will not give up the existence of their lab and have come up with a new idea to restore the pride and glory the lab once had. The Lost Colony follows their efforts against all odds made with limitless confidence and unwavering hope…
Astrid Bussink (Eibergen, Netherlands 1975) studied fine art at the Academy of fine Arts, AKI, Enschede (BA) in the Netherlands and an MA in film at the Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland. During this Master she shot her award winning documentary ‘The Angelmakers’ (First Appearance Award IDFA, Little Stamp award, ZagrebDOX, Best short Documentary, Dokufest, nomination Grierson Award and more). After this she made the short films Rückenlage / Upside Down ( Best Short Experimental film at Vermont International Film Festival, selection Silver Cub, IDFA 2006), ‘The 9 lives of my car’ (a.o. Dutch Filmfestival 2007) and I shot the mayor (Or: Plan B) (a.o. nomination Silver Cub IDFA 2007, Best short film competition Zagrebdox). Astrid now lives and works in Amsterdam where she has finished her first feature length documentary The Lost Colony (Official Selection Rotterdam International Filmfestival) and is now working on her second feature documentary.
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