Gone Bald
The Netherlands, 18' , 2007

Directed by: Jan Jaap Kuiper
Script: Jan Jaap Kuiper
Producer: Dania Lopies
Production company: NFTA (Dutch Film and Television Academy)
Cinematography: Casper Brink
Editing: Tim Wijbenga
Music: Gone Bald

Format: video, boja
Running time: 18'

Synopsis
Ivica Košaviæ (‘Razorblade Jr’) has been chasing the same dream for 13 years: becoming famous with his band Gone Bald. He gives everything but gets nothing in return – he even left his beloved hometown Zagreb to continue his quest in rainy Amsterdam. Is he a loser wasting his life? Or a hero willing to give it al up for his dream?

Directors Biography
Jan Jaap Kuiper received his master in contemporary Eastern European history in 2001 and has been making documentaries ever since. For ThankEve,an amateur production company which he co-founded, he shot 2 documentaries and 1 short fiction film in Russia. In 2004 he entered the documentary directing course at the Amsterdam Film Academy. Jan Jaap is currently shooting his graduation film ‘Pyotr’, based on the letters of a Gulag prisoner. In between filmmaking he works for Dutch film distributor Cinemien.

Location and screening schedule:
premiere: SC Cinema, Thursday, October 25th at 17.00
reprisal: &TD Cinema, Friday, October 26th at 11.00