The Phantom of the Cinema

Phantom in Bucharest

erikvans — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:57:20 +0000

Anim’est 2010 has the pleasure to welcome in Bucharest special jury members: Phil Mulloy (UK), Simone Massi (Italy), Regina Pessoa (Portugal), Erik van Schaaik (the Netherlands) and Mihai Chirilov (Romania) – short film and feature film, Géza M. Tóth (Hungary), Michiel Snijders (the Netherlands) and Sorin Botoşeneanu (Romania) – student films, Romanian short films and Balkanimation.
Mark your calendars for the 5th edition of anim’est International Animation Film Festival, October 8-17, 2010!

TRAVEL

erikvans — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:57:17 +0000

Erik will be guest at the Cinanima festival in Espinho, Portugal from November 9 – 15. After that he will be visiting Etiuda & Anima in Krakow, Poland from November 30 – December 4. On both occasions the Phantom will be showing in competition.

Looking forward to it, and hoping to see you there.

Anim’est winner

admin — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:57:03 +0000

PHANTOM has won Grand Prize and Trophy at Anim’est international film festival Romania! Many thanks to the jury!

Click here for an impression of the Anim’est festival.

Anima Mundi

admin — Mon, 25 May 2009 09:36:24 +0000

The Phantom Of The Cinema is selected for the ANIMA MUNDI festival, in the category Short Films – Competitive. I am thrilled!

Stuttgart

admin — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:28:40 +0000

PHANTOM is playing at the 16th Festival Of Animated Film in Stuttgart, in the international competition.

DVD out now!

admin — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:10:46 +0000

The DVD of PHANTOM OF THE CINEMA is out now! The film is introduced by the director. If you want to learn all about the complexities and secrets of the Phantom story you can listen to the directors commentary. Alternatively, if you only want to enjoy the terrific music, you can choose to do just that! To get your copy, please contact il Luster productions.

Jinxed

admin — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 12:25:30 +0000

THE PHANTOM, a movie about a film show gone wrong, is now showing in different theaters, on different festivals in different countries. I’ve been visiting several of these screenings. All of them had a problem of some sort. I have never seen so many failed attempts to project a movie. There were problems with the sound, they forgot to dim the lights, they cut off the epilogue scene, the film was projected much to big so all action happened off screen, it was projected with the wrong aspect ratio, the operator even knocked over the projector one time. I am not lying! THE PHANTOM OF THE CINEMA is jinxed. Beware!

DVD

admin — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:23:06 +0000

I finished work on the Phantom DVD. It has some great special features and it will be avaliable soon. This site will be filled with even more extra’s soon. (I’m a bit busy working on other films and television series, but I promise to post some great stuff soon!)

Second

admin — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:47:00 +0000

At the HAFF the audience award Dutch Animation 2008 was won by Big Buck Bunny (produced by the Blender Institute). Second and third place came The Phantom Of The Cinema and The Seven Brothers (Paul and Kaj Driessen).

Oscars

admin — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:47:06 +0000

Today I got the news that THE PHANTOM OF THE CINEMA is chosen to be the Dutch short animated film to go to the Oscars. I know this is not yet a victory. First we have to be nominated (22 January 2009) and than we can win the Oscar (22 February 2009). If everything goes well. Just imagine everything going well…

THE PHANTOM OF THE CINEMA will premiere soon. It will then visit the Holland Animation Film Festival and the Nederlands Filmfestival.