Bio

Tom Fassaert

Tom Fassaert (Naarden, 1979) grew up in both the Netherlands and South Africa before studying documentary film at the Dutch Film Academy in Amsterdam.

In 2006 Fassaert graduated with the critically acclaimed documentary Doel Leeft, a film about a small Flemish village threatened with demolition. Doel Leeft was nominated for the Tusckinsky Award at the Dutch Film Festival and received an honorary mention from the jury at the International DOK Leipzig festival.

Since his graduation Fassaert made several short documentaries, including L’homme et la forêt and In het wild, edited a feature length music documentary for director Frank Scheffer and wrote a scenario for a feature length documentary titled Sons of the Sun. In the meantime Fassaert stayed closely connected to Doel and it’s last residents, and decided to continue the story that started with his graduation film. After five years he finally finished shooting and in 2011 his debut feature length documentary De engel van Doel (An angel in Doel) was born. De Engel van Doel had it's world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival where it received an honorary mention from the jury. Since the Berlinale the film has been screened on more than thirty festivals worldwide and received several prices.

Currently Tom is working on a new feature length documentary titled Een geschiedenis van de liefde (A history of love). A film that explores the delicate terrain along the fault line of his own family.

  Films

De engel van Doel

Sons of the sun

L'Homme et la fôret

Cockerill est á nous

Een geschiedenis van de liefde

Ellipse

  Agenda

Screenings

2012

  • November: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ Le Mois du film documentaire, France
  • October: ELLIPSE @ Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Turkey
  • 12 June: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ Forum des Images Paris, France
  • 28 May - 2 June: ELLIPSE @ ACT festival Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain
  • 22 May: ELLIPSE @ Focus Filmtheater Arnhem, NL
  • 16 - 23 April: ELLIPSE @ Beirut International Platform of Dance, Libanon
  • 12 April: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ Full Frame Film Festival, USA
  • 7 April: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ Association l'Oeil Lucide Bergerac, France
  • 6 April: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ Association Mondes et mult. Conques, France
  • 5 April: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ Association Peuple et Culture Cantal, France
  • 25 March: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ Regional TV broadcasters, NL
  • 22 - 25 March: ELLIPSE @ LOIKKA dance film festival, Finland
  • 13 - 17 March: ELLIPSE @ Lighthouse festival Korzo, NL
  • 14 March: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ HollandDoc24 channel, NL
  • 1 March: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ Utopolis Turnhout, Belgium
  • 16 - 18 Feb: ELLIPSE @ Ciné Privé filmfestival, Belgium
  • 5 - 13 Feb: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ Traveling Festival Rennes, France
  • 27 Jan - 4 Feb: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ Göteborg Int Film Fest, Sweden
  • 21-26 Jan: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ Cinema Flagey Brussels, Belgium
  • 17 Jan: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ Filmhuis Mechelen, Belgium
  • 2011

  • 16 Dec: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ Nova Cinema Brussels, Belgium
  • 15 Dec: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ L'Univers Cinema Lille, France
  • 8 Dec: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ BUDA Kortrijk, Belgium
  • 2 - 4 Dec: ELLIPSE @ Cinedans dance film festival (World Premiere), NL
  • 20 Nov: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ Sphynx Gent, Belgium
  • 16 - 27 Nov: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ IDFA, NL
  • 9 - 20 Nov: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ Rencontre Int Doc Montreal, Canada
  • 12 Nov: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ Lumière Cinema Brugge, Belgium
  • 9 Nov: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ Z33 Hasselt, Belgium
  • 4 - 13 Nov: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ International Film Fest Cine//B, Chile
  • 15 - 20 Nov: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ Corsica.Doc, France
  • 27 - 31 Oct: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ Klappei Antwerp, Belgium
  • 20 - 30 Oct: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ Doclisboa, Portugal
  • 12 - 16 Oct: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ Filmfestival Münster, Germany
  • 7 Oct: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ Studio 2000 Haacht, Belgium
  • 27 Sept - 9 Oct: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ Kaunas Int Film Fest, Lithuania
  • 29 Sept - 4 Oct: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ Seoul Christianity Film Fest, S-Korea
  • 28 Sept - 5 Oct: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ NIHRFF, Germany
  • 22 - 28 Sept: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ DMZ Docs, S-Korea
  • 21 - 30 Sept: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ Nederlands Film Festival, NL
  • 14 - 20 Sept: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ Cinema ZED Leuven, Belgium
  • 9 - 18 Sept: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ Film by the Sea, NL
  • 2 - 10 Sept: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ Filmfestival Oostende, Belgium
  • 20 - 27 Aug: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ États Généraux du Film Doc, France
  • 4 - 13 Aug: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ Pluk de Nacht Filmfestival, NL
  • 7 - 16 July: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ Jerusalem International Film Fest, Israel
  • 26 June - 3 July: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ Lubuskie Lato Filmowe, Poland
  • 8 - 14 June: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ Festival Millenium, Belgium
  • 23 - 29 May: DOEL LEEFT @ Krakow Film Festival, Poland
  • 29 April - 7 May: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ Docville, Belgium
  • 5-10 April: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ Made in Europe Film Festival, NL
  • from 31 March: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ about 30 cinema's accros NL
  • 10-20 Feb: DE ENGEL VAN DOEL @ Berlinale FORUM (World Premiere), Germany
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