The Heir tells the story of a father, Raf, and a son, Dominique, and their relationship to their passion: horse races, a long family tradition. Raf is 65 years old but is still jockey. The son could have had the same career as his father, but had an accident when he was young. Since then, he's in a wheel chair. It is therefore impossible for him to be the heir his father wanted him to be. In an attempt to give this accident a meaning in everyday life, they've become very religious.
Info
| Title | The Heir |
|---|---|
| Original title | De Opvolger |
| Original version | Dutch |
| Status | Completed |
| Category | Docs |
| Year of production | 2011 |
Credits
| Photography | Jeremy De Ryckere |
|---|---|
| Editing | Kwinten Gernay |
| Music | Thomas van de Ven, Jeremy De Lombaerde |
Technical specs
| Running time film | 19' |
|---|---|
| Release format | Beta Digit, HDV |
| Aspect ratio | 16/9 |
| Sound format | Jonathan Dock |
| Colour | Colour and Black & white |
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VAF Wildcards 2011 announced
The Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF) has once again awarded five promising graduation filmmakers with a VAF Wildcard. This year’s winners are Kenneth Mercken’s The Letter and Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah’s Brothers in the fiction category, Kenneth Michiels’s Twenty-One + Seven and Jeremy De Ryckere’s The Heir for Documentary and Boris Sverlow’sShattered Past for Animation.
The VAF Wildcards are aimed at giving young filmmaking talent a chance to embark on a first professional project by providing a (starting) budget of €40,000 or €60,000, plus a professional coach. Now in its seventh edition, the VAF Wildcards have quickly become the most important awards in Flanders.
IDFA presents Flemish doc bonanza
A record-breaking haul of eleven documentaries and four docu projects from Flanders have been selected for this year’s IDFA, the international Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam (16-27 November). Works from Jeremy De Ryckere and Kristof Bilsen, who recently graduated from RITS and NFTS (UK) respectively, are shown in the Student Documentary competition. The other entries feature in the Reflecting Images: Panorama, Paradocs section and IDFA pitching Forum.
Both Jeremy De Ryckere’s The Heir and Kristof Bilsen’s White Elephant compete for the IDFA Award for Best Student Documentary, worth €2,500. The Heir tells the story of a father, Raf, and a son, Dominique, and their relationship to their passion: horse racing, a long family tradition. White Elephant is a documentary about the Central Post Office and its employees in Kinshasa, DR Congo. This grandiose relic of a colonial past has trapped its employees in a frozen timewarp from which they are planning their escape. Last year the Award for Best Student Documentary went to the Flemish doc What’s in a Name by Eva Küpper.
Last edited on 17 November 2011