Wiebe Werner
director with acting background
Amsterdam / NL
about me
Initiator with acting/directing experience (36) is looking for fellow fanatics [players, makers, technicians] to set up an independent studio or artistic team.

Background & Reason:
Almost 15 years ago I directed short fiction films, mostly for training.
This resulted in the enthusiastic projects below, which had a lot of potential on paper, but in practice on set had to be hurriedly completed to meet impossible deadlines.
These passionate but unpolished short films were barely shown at the time ['social media' did not exist] and so they disappeared into the refrigerator.
We have now republished some of them online here.

Our most ambitious script [set in a distant foreign location] proved unfeasible with the then primitive resources and, after many obstacles and postponements, was never realized, after which our small creative group gradually drifted apart.
I decided to refocus and take a "short, temporary break" from filmmaking.
A break that would ultimately last more than 10 years; in which (after extensive wanderings as a photographer, among other things) I also took up acting again on the local stage.

ask me for
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Nu is het tijd voor een doorstart:
waarin ik een nieuw team eigenzinnige artiesten en technische experts bij elkaar wil brengen in een onderneming die de vorm van een studio kan aannemen.
Waar ik in het verleden vooral een regisserende rol op me nam, ben ik nu ook geïnteresseerd in acteren vóór de camera; met een getalenteerde groep creators achter de schermen.

trackrecord
2015 - 2023: freelance photography, illustrator and theater work

2013/14: repeatedly canceled pre-production "Jacob's Creek" ~ a complex, unfilmed screenplay set in an overseas jungle location

2012: 33rd Degree Roulette (with English subtitles)

2011: 'Sword of Sorrow' - see Video thumbnails above

2010: Silent Pastic - alternative editing

2009: WEERZI(E)N 2.0 (final version for course)

2007/08: largely spontaneously improvised private test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI3FJ6_j_GE&t=39s

2005 - 2011: audiovisual training (mainly within 'Open Studio Amsterdam')

1987 - 2004: primary plus secondary education

discipline
Drama film, Short film, Theatre, Experimental

Wiebe Werner
Amsterdam / NL
director with acting background