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Millennial History

In Millennial History, we relive impactful moments in recent European history, through the eyes of millennials who were there when it happened.
The Troubles in Northern-Ireland, the mafia in Sicily, Change and Unification in East-Germany & the ‘Children of the Decree’ of Ceausescu in Romania.
Against a backdrop of real danger and profound change, ten young Europeans have to forge a completely new reality. They show us how to live an intense life, driven by the will to fight for each other, with lots of love and care.
This is musical journalism, to get where we are coming from.
Composed and performed in 2022 by recorder player Sarah Jeffery, composer Luke Deane and Andrea Voets on harp, in direction of Catinca Draganescu.
Millennial History is based on the podcast with the same title, which got shortlisted by the association for International Broadcasters as 'best of human interest radio/audio'. www.millennialhistorypodcast.com

  • Andrea Voets
    Director
    While We Live
  • Resonate Productions
    Producer
    While We Live
  • Andrea Voets
    Key Cast
    "harp/electronics/voice"
  • Luke Deane
    Key Cast
    "keys/electronics/voice"
  • Sarah Jeffery
    Key Cast
    "recorders/electronics/voice"
  • Catinca Draganescu
    Key Cast
    "stage director"
  • Thomas Beltsios
    Key Cast
    "film (camera 1) & edit"
  • Giorgos Kyvernitis
    Key Cast
    "film (camera 2)"
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Feature, Music Video, Web / New Media
  • Genres:
    history, documentary, music
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 35 minutes 29 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    October 1, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    45,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Netherlands
  • Country of Filming:
    Netherlands
  • Language:
    English
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Distribution Information
  • Resonate Productions - creating musical journalism -
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Andrea Voets

Andrea Voets (1989) is the founder and artistic director of Resonate Productions: the world's only creator of musical journalism. She makes documentary-concerts and podcasts on emotional blinds spots in society. In 2018, she paired up with De Balie -the main house for debate of the Netherlands- and Company New Heroes for her New Makers trajectory of the Dutch Fund for the Performing Arts (FPK). This resulted in Wings & Roots -shaping identity between cultures- and While We Live -a compass to connection-. The Dutch quality-newspaper NRC listed this show in best classical music of 2020, calling it a “fascinating new genre”. The film-version won over 30 international film-festival selections and prizes.That same year, the Berliner Festspiele commissioned a piece of analogue musical journalism, based on the writings of Bruno Latour. In 2022, Andrea released the podcast Millennial History which she made with composer Luke Deane. It was distributed by the pan-European media-platform Are We Europe. This production got shortlisted for by the Association of International Broadcasters for best human interest audio/radio of the year 2022.
Andrea is now diving into the question “how to feel safe” in worldwide artistic research, supported by the very selective FastForward grant, given to just two Dutch performing artists per year (FPK).

Andrea obtained her BA of harp and philosophy in Amsterdam and her MA of harp at the Hanns Eisler conservatory in Berlin, where she has been teaching her own course of practical music philosophy since 2014. During her studies, Andrea won various first prizes, built a solo-career as a harpist and created many interdisciplinary concerts. Upon graduation, she received an Elsa Neumann Stipendium -issued by all art universities of Berlin to a few selected graduates- and took part in the Concerto21-program of the Töpfer Stiftung.

She developed the concept of 'musical journalism' after the creation of XENITIA (2016): a documentary-concert on migration, based on the testimonies of eighteen Greeks who left their country because of the crisis. After a presentation at ClassicalNEXT, the head of music of the British Council called this production “the sort of show we need after Trump and Brexit.”
Because of her international activities, Andrea speaks six languages fluently, including New-Greek and Farsi. She is a fellow of the European Music Council and a guest lecturer at art universities throughout Europe. Andrea divides her time between the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Greece.
www.resonate-productions.com
www.facebook.com/musicaljournalism

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