Jaap Mees
filmmaker
Gouda / NL
productions
productions
documentaire
2022 documentaire / 67 ' min. / Free Spirits Film / Jaap Mees
directing
2019 documentaire / 7,30' min. / Free Spirits Film / Jaap Mees
directing
2019 documentaire / 6' min. / Jaap Mees
directing
2019 documentaire / 46' min. / Jaap Mees
directing
2018 documentaire / 9 min. / Jaap Mees
directing
2017 documentaire / 24 min. / Filmhuis Gouda en Free Spirits Film / Jaap Mees
camera operator film / directing
2016 documentaire / 9,28 min. / Jaap Mees
camera operator film / directing
2016 documentaire / 12.40 min. / Jaap Mees
camera operator film / directing
2015 documentaire / 42 min. / Free Spirits Films / Jaap Mees
camera operator film / directing
2015 documentaire / 19 min. / Jaap Mees
camera operator film / directing
2014 documentaire / 7 min. / Jaap Mees
camera operator film / directing
2013 documentaire / 55 min. / Free Spirits Films & Vuursteen Communicatie / Jaap Mees
film producer / directing
2011 documentaire / 28 min. / Free Spirits Films / Jaap Mees
film producer / directing
2009 documentaire / 22' min. / Free Spirits Film Productions
film producer / directing
2001 documentaire / 65' min. / Free Spirits Film Productions
directing
drama
2017 drama / 7,5 min. / Jaap Mees
directing
2014 drama / 4.30 min. / Free Spirits Film / Jaap Mees
camera operator film / directing
2013 drama / Jaap Mees
directing
2007 drama / 10 min. /
directing
2005 drama / 12 min. /
directing
2003 drama / 10 min. / Jaap Mees
directing
opdrachtfilm
2017 opdrachtfilm / 13 min. / Museum Gouda / Jaap Mees
directing
2016 opdrachtfilm / 18' min. / Free Spirits Film & Art Gouda 2016 / Jaap Mees
camera operator film / directing
2015 opdrachtfilm / 12.30 min. / Free Spirits Film Productions / Jaap Mees
directing
overig
2004 overig / 53 min. /
film producer / directing

videos
videos

photos
photos

details
details
trackrecord
* Deeply Estranged, director/screenplay/drama
* Rainbow Days, documentary
* The Singing Conductor, documentary, (shown at MOMA, New York)
* Off The Beaten Track/doc.
*Inside The Circle/ doc.
* The Primrose Place, short/drama
* Naturally Different/ doc.
* No Day Without Bach/ doc
* The Dance of the Crane./doc
* Taize in Rotterdam , short doc.
* Johann Sebastian Bach doc (in the making)
* Labyrinth
* Interphilosophical 5 May celebration
* The light of Tabor (doc) 53 minutes / co-production Vuursteen Communicatie
* The Cockatoo/ short
* The wanton tenderness of Marjolijn van den Assem / 19 doc.
* Breath & Heartbeat / documentary 42 '.
* Art Gouda, a journey of discovery through the old orphanage./ 18' 9(assignment)
* Eye for detail 7"" (commission Museum Gouda)
* Paul Daelmans: 12" individuality and refinement.
* Why are things going well in your life/ photographer/artist Jaap van den Berg/ 12 (commission museum Gouda)
* Filmhuis Gouda 40 years, 18 min. (commissioned film Filmhuis Goua)
* Op Scherp, 12 min. about four Gouda fine painters / commissioned film museum Gouda.
*Koutaiba: my camera is my soul mate. About Award winning filmmaker and Iraqi photographer
Koutaiba Al Janabi. He fled from Saddam's regime when he was 17 years old
Hussein.
* Troubadour, 6 min/HD video about visual artist Ruben van Veen.
* Zuheir born glassblower. 7.30 m, HD video. About the Syrian glassblower Zuheir
Alkazzaz.
* Tangible Light, 67 min, HD video and DCP. First long documentary about fine painter
Jan Mankes.
awards
Nominations: * Deeply Estranged, graduation film was shortlisted for BBC Bristol. * Off The Beaten Track, shortlisted New York Independent Film Festival
ask me for
gefilmde portretten
documentaires kort en lang
boeiende fictie scenario's kort en lang
specifics
see www.free-spirits-film.eu
equipment
Sony PXW Z150 4K (2022)
Sony HDR-CX305E
Sony A 6500

education
education
education
London International Film School
fictie
1990-1992

employers
employers
Skrien
free-lance journalist
2010-nu
Conrad Languages
leraar Nederlands als vreemde taal
1996-2003

website
website

info
info
Studied journalism in Tilburg and directing/screenplay at the London International Film School. Made many low-budget films, both fiction and documentary. Write for film magazine Skrien since 2010 and wrote in London for Talking Pictures and in Amsterdam for the NFTVM site (now VERS). Now working for digital publishers
Reporters Online, Blendle, Cultuurpers.nl

Some films were selected for international film festivals in Dublin, London, New York, Sitges, Manchester, Vancouver, Utrecht and Amsterdam. My latest film The Light of Tabor is screened in the healthcare world and at medical symposia. Also regularly make commissioned films for Museum Gouda. Such as about visual artists Juane Xue and Marjolijn van den Assem, Maarten van Rossum. Latest films 'Paul Daelmans, individuality and refinement' , 'Why is your life going well' (Multi media project Jaap van den Berg, commission Museum Gouda) a commission film about Filmhuis Gouda 40 years. Completed a documentary series Refugee and Art in 2019: 'Zuheir born glassblower' and 'Koutaiba: my camera is my soulmate'. Just completed in 2022 a documentary 'Feelable Light' about fine painter Jan Mankes.
contact
contact
sections
sections
  • film critic / film journalist
  • directing - documentary
  • directing - drama
discipline
discipline
Documentary, Drama film, ENG / TV reports, Short film