ALS DE WOLKEN VALLEN / IF THE CLOUDS FALL (2023)

Dutch premiere at the Netherlands Filmfestival 2023

Toen Damy vier jaar geleden zijn beste vriend Rens verloor aan zelfdoding, kon hij het niet opbrengen om naar de uitvaart te gaan. Tot op de dag van vandaag loopt hij rond met spijt. Nu stort hij zich volledig in zijn muziek om het verlies alsnog een plekje te geven. (NL)

When Damy lost his best friend Rens to suicide four years ago, he could not bring himself to attend the funeral. To this day, he still carries the weight of regret. Now he throws himself fully into his music to give the loss a place. (ENG)

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^DirectorCleo Julia Mullis
^{Produced by}Makaki Producitons
Marrit Greidanus
^{Cinematography by}Daan Huttinga
^{Editing by}Festus Toll
^{Sound Design by}Burak Öztaş
^CastDamy Raimundo

Het is het éénjarig jubileum van de negentienjarige, introverte Noa en de assertieve Moon. Wanneer Noa ’s avonds naar Moon toe fietst, begint ze te twijfelen aan haar gevoelens voor haar eerste grote liefde. Een korte film over opgroeien, je eerste liefde, jezelf verliezen en de druk om de juiste keuze te maken. (NL)

On the one-year anniversary of the nineteen-year-old introverted Noa and the assertive Moon, as Noa rides her bicycle to Moon in the evening, she finds herself questioning her feelings for her first great love. A short coming-of-age fiction film about a first love, losing yourself and the pressure to make the right choice. (EN)

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Awaiting a title (2020)

Schipper en Van Gucht

Awaiting a title is a short experimental film starring Elina, Daniël, Parmida Tina, Kevin, Unsin, Misha, Mohamed, Achmed, Hasana, Hosna, Eyob, Zohra, Banen, Sara and Louay. This film was created this summer where theatermaker Juup Luijten, filmmaker Cleo Julia Mullis and word-artist Hind Eljadid spent a week working with children and young people from AZC Gilze. They worked around the themes of identity, waiting and dreaming and are now finalising the film.

more info (NL) (click here)

experimental documentaire onderdeel van de theater performance ‘Gezien, wacht op groen’

^TekstHind Eljadid
^{Art direction}Juup Luijten
^VisualsCleo Julia Mullis
^SoundCleo Julia Mullis
^DirectorsJuup Luijten, Cleo Julia Mullis ^ProducersJuup Luijten, Schippers en Van Gucht, De Vrolijkheid

Then So Are We (2018)

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An absurd short fiction film which I made in my second year of Film Studies. A divorce is turned around: instead of the parents, the brother and sister are divorcing one another. The film shows how a single mother is caught between her two children.

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^CastManon Hanreats, Maud Swinkel,Tomas Delena, Saskia van Zijderveld

^DirectorCleo Julia Mullis
^ProducerMyrthe Laarakker
^DOPPauline Skoreng
^EditorMarre Bonke
^{Art direction}Bente De Bruin, Joy Heijnen
^AssistentsSterre Heinis, Romee Ven 

This theatre performance is about a young boy trying to find his own personal story through talks with different sides of himself. These different sides of him are shown as projections on the decor. Carefree (?) is a theatre solo performed by Rick van der Werd.

theatre performance

^CastRick van der Werd
^DirectorCleo Julia Mullis
^{Producers + Ass. directors}Mathies Florentinus, Femke Stasse
^VisualsCleo Julia Mullis
^TechDaan Hazendonk
^DecorDavid Masson

Tomer and Elias (2016)

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A coming of age film based on a short story written by Maartje Wortel. Sven feels trapped in his own family which only consists of duos. With the arrival of new neighbours, Tomer and Elias, Sven starts to break free from his older brother Alex and in return Alex tries to keep him closer.

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^CastNoah De Kruijf, Mingus Claesse, Catalijn Willemse, Thomas Bijsterbosch, Joost Huisman

^DirectorCleo Julia Mullis
^1ADCasper Steketee
^ProducerCéline Villevoye, Susannah Elmecky, Flip Zonne Zuijderland, Kate Hummel
^DOPDavid van der Drift
^GafferDaan van de Voort
^SoundThijs Pausma, Thomas Machtel ^{Production Design}Zino Bakker
^MontageRohan van Wijk
^MuziekFranz Neuman, Thomas Machtel
^{Graphic design}Thomas Machtel

Over meisjes van twintig en bijna twintig (2017)
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A theatre performance which I made in my first year of Film Studies with Bente de Bruin. We made this theatre performance/installation out of our research on doubts. We showed doubts of young people and made the public doubt themselves.

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^tekstBente de Bruin
^{directors + perfromance + visuals}Bente de Bruin, Cleo Julia Mullis