Even Cowboys Get To Cry
Student film
Directed by
Mees Peijnenburg
Written by
Merinde Verbeek
Production
Netherlands Film Academy
Genre
Coming of age drama
Duration
20 minutes
Release
September 2013
Directed by
Mees Peijnenburg
Written by
Merinde Verbeek
Production
Netherlands Film Academy
Genre
Coming of age drama
Duration
20 minutes
Release
September 2013
Even Cowboys Get To Cry
Sven and Gijs are best mates. They do absolutely everything together, whether going clubbing or mucking about or simply pondering life. Their intimacy is such that one of them can even stroll blithely into a room where the other is having sex. In ten years’ time they plan to have travelled the length and breadth of South America on motorbikes. But all at once everything changes: Sven gets involved in a fight one night, Gijs tries to intervene and sustains a blow to the head which sends him into a coma. There’s no knowing if he’ll pull through and their friendship is tested to the limits.
Cast
Ko Zandvliet
Jonas Smulders
Festival & Awards
Keep an Eye Film Festival, Nederland 2013 – Best Fiction Graduation Award+ Audience Award
Netherlands Film Festival, 2013 – Nieuwe Lichting – Dutch Film Producers Award
Berlinale, Germany2014 – Generation 14Plus
SXSW, USA 2014 – Competition
Brussels Short Film Festival, Belgium 2014 – Next Generation Competition – Best International Student Film
Sehsüchte International Student Film Festival, Germany 2014 – Youth Programme – Best Youth Film
Premiers Plans Film Festival, France 2015 – Student Film Competition – Audience Award
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France 2015
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Crew
Director
Mees Peijnenburg
Written by
Merinde Verbeek
D.O.P.
Stephan Polman
Production design
Tim Balk
Casting
Kemna Casting – Job Castelijn, Shanti Besseling
Costume
Vita Mees, Maxa van Panhuis
Make-up
Elsa Helwig
Line producer
Lotte Bronshoff, Paul Overste
Sound
Dennis Alink
Sound design
Taco Drijfhout
Editor
Imre Reutelingsperger
Composer
Robin Assen
Production
Nederlandse Filmacademie
Producer
Layla Meijman



