- Eline Flipse
Eline Flipse (born in 1954 in
Wageningen , the Netherlands) is afilm director of documentaries.Flipse studied at the Film Academy in
Amsterdam , where she got her degree in 1978. In 1982, she made her first documentary, "Het Verschijnsel B", about bibliophily.She directed her first documentary for Scarabee Films in 1995; "Broken Silence" was about five young Chinese composers. The film won many international awards, including the Grand Prix of Visions du Réel in
Nyon , Switzerland, the Grand Prize Ethos Bacao (Romania ), and the Best Discovery Documentary, Festival Du Nouveau Cinema inMontreal . It also was nominated for best feature-length documentary at theDutch Film Festival .Since "Broken Silence", the collaboration between Eline Flipse and Scarabee Films has led to several very successful documentaries. "Biografi", for example, won the
Prix d'Europa in 2001 (Berlin ).At the moment, Eline Flipse is finishing "Eat Your Enemy", a documentary about aggression and spirituality. It is a film full of paradoxes and has already been selected for the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2005. Eline already has plans for her next film: "Galina" will be a portrait of the Russian opera diva
Galina Vishnevskaya , wife of the world famous cellist Rostropovich.External links
* [http://www.elineflipse.com/ Flipse's own site]
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