Project coordinator, editing, camera, workshops (Miranda van der Spek)

Workshops in collaboration with Antonio Guzman and Armando Espinoza (Netherlands) and Aldo Cardoso (Bolivia)

Mirandas filmproducties developed and produced the Focus on Water project commissioned by and together with OLAA (Organisation for Latin American Activities).

Focus on Water is a video exchange project between children (10-12 years old) from the Netherlands and Bolivia. For this project, from 2004 to 2006, children from 30 schools in the Netherlands and 30 more in Bolivia made video reportages about the role of water in their environment. They sent the films to each other. The children then communicated online about the situation in both countries via the Focus on Water website.

Publicity Focus on Water project:

2003 August: broadcast in NCRV/Netwerk, dedicated to the Focus on Water project

2004 and 2005, October: Cinekid Festival in Amsterdam, screening of 12 reportages from the Focus on Water project, made in the Netherlands and Bolivia

2005, April: DTV Oss news programme, a reportage on the production of The Harbour of Oss

November 2005: Binnen de Dijken programme of the Flevoland broadcasting company, a reportage on the production of I Love Dijken

2006, March: Agua y Cine Film Festival, as part of the World Water Forum in Mexico, screening of 6 film from the Focus on Water Project.

Special Award in the competition program

2006: broadcast of The Environment is fed up! on Lokaal Mondiaal TV, Amsterdam

Photography on this page: Bert Verhoeff, Antonio Guzman

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