ETERNAL MASH
2007
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Eternal Mash has won one of the three awards in the category full-length films at the Crocevia Festival Della Biodiversita. “Eternal Mash was beautifully photographed and lit, and conveyed not only the beauty of agricultural biodiversity, but also the passion with which some people approach its conservation…”.
The film also won the price for the best long film at the Planet in Focus Film Festival in Toronto. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) did show Eternal Mash in her Documentary Fortnight 2009, their annual festival of non-fiction film and video, which was held February 11-28. Other festivals where the film was shown are; Cinema Planet Film Festival in Mexico, DOXA in Vancouver, Emision Cero Film Festival in Madrid, the International Film Festival of Thessaloniki (Greece), at the Green Film Festival in Seoul (Korea), at the Reel Earth Film Festival in New-Zealand, at the FICA Film Festival in Brazil, at the Cine Eco Film Festival in Portugal, at the Festival International du Film d'Environnement in Paris, at Megapolis in Helsinki, at the Northern Film Festival in Leeuwarden, at the International Audiovisual Festival Biodiversity in Rome and the Dutch Film Festival in Utrecht where the film was nominated as best debut.
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In May Eternal Mash was broadcasted on Dutch television by coproducer NPS and screened during the United Nations conference on Biodiversity in Bonn.
Catherine van Campen developed the scenario for this film in the IDFA workshop 2006 and won with it the Dutch Cultural Broadcasting Fund Price of
€ 125.000,- the biggest documentary filmprice in the world.
Ruurd Walrecht`s interest of historical crops began when he was very young. He started a life long crusade to protect, preserve and maintain them. This Dutch Don Quichote of rare vegetables built an incredible collection of hundreds of crops that were on the brink of extinction. Suddenly, Ruurd moved to Sweden leaving his colourful mix of helpers behind. They tell the story of this master horticulturist and his Green Ark. Because his life work is very important to all of us.
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This documentary was realised with the support of:
The Dutch Cultural Broadcasting Fund
VSBfonds
SNS REAAL Fonds
Stichting Triodos Foundation
script & director Catherine van Campen
photography Wiro Felix
editing: Stefan Kamp
music and sound editing: Jeroen Goeijers
executive producer: Estelle Bovelander
producer: Joost Seelen
coproduction: NPS television
