We Will Never Be Royals
Single-play
Directed by
Mees Peijnenburg
Written by
Bastiaan Kroeger, Mees Peijnenburg
In co-production with
NTR, VPRO, VARA
Genre
Drama
Duration
40 minutes
Release
October 2015
Directed by
Mees Peijnenburg
Written by
Bastiaan Kroeger, Mees Peijnenburg
In co-production with
NTR, VPRO, VARA
Genre
Drama
Duration
40 minutes
Release
October 2015
We Will Never Be Royals
What Tomas, a withdrawn seventeen-year-old and his fiery sister Naomi would really like to get out of life, is hard to find in the tough world of Child Protection, in which they just about manage to hold their own. After a dramatic incident, they gradually realise what their most important source of support is. They will never be Royals, but as a brother and sister they have each other.
Cast
Jonas Smulders
Olivia Lonsdale
Malou Gorter
Rifka Lodeizen
Festival & Awards
Regards sur Courts, France 2017 – Special Mention
Cinema in Sneakers, Poland 2017
Guanajuato International Film Festival, Mexico 2017
Silhouette Film Festival, France 2016 – Audience Award
2ANNAS Film Festival, Latvia 2016
Konstanzer kurz.film.spiele, Germany 2016 – Audience Award
Television Images, the Netherlands 2016 – Beste Script Drama, Beste Drama, Nominatie Beste Regisseur Drama
Netherlands Film Festival, 2015 – Best TV Drama, Best actor (Jonas Smulders)
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Crew
Director
Mees Peijnenburg
Written by
Bastiaan Kroeger, Mees Peijnenburg
D.O.P.
Jasper Wolf, NSC
Production design
Elza Kroonenberg
Casting
Kemna Casting – Job Castelijn, Shanti Besseling
Costume
Minke Lunther
Make-up
Trudy Buren
Line producer
Sabine Smits
Sound design
Taco Drijfhout
Editor
Imre Reutelingsperger
Co-producer
NTR, VPRO, VARA
Producer
Iris Otten, Sander van Meurs, Pieter Kuijpers





