After graduating the Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam I have mainly been working as an editor/director for television. After some commercial videos and some short personal projects it felt like the time was right for my first feature documentary.
It had been a long treasured dream to make a documentary while traveling through the Balkans. So that's what me and my girlfriend did and we combined our love for traveling with film making. The trip took us through all the republics of former Yugoslavia and we did the research for our film while traveling. We got deeper and deeper into the history of this part of Europe and we were very much affected by it.
We've done everything ourselves and we work completely independent with no commercial goals whatsoever. We've set up a crowdfunding campaign to cover the final post production costs and this has been a huge success. The whole film has been made with a micro budget of less than €20.000 and we filmed/directed/edited/produced everything ourselves.