Alicia
Maasja Ooms 89'- Synopsis
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“It’s not easy to find a foster family for you,” an orphanage supervisor explains to nine-year-old Alicia. “After all, you are a very special girl.” Alicia is crying. “I’m not special. I’m just a girl.” This disturbing scene sets the tone for this film about Alicia, who was taken away from her teenage mother by the Child Welfare Bureau when she was 12 months old. She’s been living in an orphanage since the age of five, and they have never managed to find a foster family for her. InAlicia, we watch as she becomes a teenager, still craving safety and love.
Over the course of three years, filmmaker Maasja Ooms follows her daily life up close. Alicia’s yearning and powerlessness are palpable in these observations, which painfully reveal the effects of having no prospects.
IDFA Special Jury Award for Dutch Documentary, 2017
Prix Italia – Best Feature, 2018
Best Film, Gdansk DocFilm Festival, 2018
Special Jury Award, Cinema Verité, Iran International Film Festival, 2018
Hartenhuis Award, 2018
Nominated for BANFF 2018, Prix Europe 2018, Best Long Documentary at Dutch Directors Guild
and Gouden Kalf for best feature length long documentary, Netherlands Film Festival, 2018
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attended the photo academy and the film academy in the early 1990s. After working as a cinematographer for some 15 years, she developed as an editor. First for documentaries she had filmed herself, later also of others and as an edit coach. Due to her strong commitment to content as a cinematographer, films gradually became more collaborative, co-directed.
In 2013, Maasja started extensive research that focused on observations of behaviour between people; from this flowed two films which Maasjadirected, camera and edited: Between People (Tussen Mensen) (55’, VPRO, 2015) and Alicia (90’, VPRO, 2017) about a girl looking for a foster parent but ends up in a closed juvenile institute.
In 2019 Punks (Rotjochies, VPRO ) was broadcasted, about a group of young adolescents trying to avoid the closed juvenile institution. And in 2021 Jason was released, about a boy looking back on his traumatising experience within a closed juvenile institution.
Maasja Ooms – regie, camera & editor
Sander Vos – edit coach & final cut
Rik Meier & Fokke van Saane – geluid
Joost Oskamp – geluidsnabewerking
Mark Lizier – consult sounddesign
Xandra Terhorst – kleurcorrectie
Jesper Ankarfeldt – componist
Liza Kemman – research
Vera Born – impact
Margreet Ploegmakers – line producer
Willemijn Cerutti – producent
In coproductie met VPRO. Met steun van het Mediafonds.
IDFA Alicia
19 November 2018ALICIA, de nieuwe film van Maasja Ooms is geselecteerd voor het competitieprogramma voor beste Nederlandse film. 18 November is de première in Eye 1, 16:45u. Op 19 november is de tweede vertoning, om 14:25 uuur in Eye1, gehost door de VPRO met extended Q&A (English spoken). ALICIA is een indringende, observerende film die het dagelijks leven...
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Alexa
1 October 2018Alexa (13) draagt voor hoe ze de uithuisplaatsing heeft ervaren via een Engels opstel, ten overstaan van de een verzameling kinderrechters, wethouders, beleidsmakers, bestuurders, jeugdzorgwerkers, pleegouders en andere ervaringsdeskundigen. WAT een parel! Alexa’s voordracht was onderdeel van een dialoog die gehouden werd in Rotterdam, tweede van een serie van tien, naar aanleiding van de documentaire ALICIA, over...
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10 January 2018De impactcampagne die de documenatire Alicia in gang heeft gezet, is in Pakhuis de Zwijger van start gegaan met een prachtig programma: dezwijger.nl De komende maanden vinden er gesprekken plaats in tien zogenaamde trekkersgemeenten, met professionals, beleidsmakers en anderszins betrokkenen, om te praten over de mogelijke oplossingen die er te verzinnen zijn voor de Alicia’s in Nederland. In...
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