independent film production from Brussels since 2006
Minds Meet makes its production offices, rehearsal rooms and studio facilities available for film- and photoshoots on location in Brussels.
The building, close to the Atomium, is modest and sober but has all the privacy and tranquility, ideal for an intimate working atmosphere.
All spaces can be rented separately, according to your needs, availability and budgets.
Caroline Strubbe(1965) started her filmstudies at the Escuela Cinematografica de Barcelona and continued them at IAD in Louvain-La-Neuve. At the end of her studies, she co-directed the acclaimed documentaries Une mouche dans la salade, Shocking Manjira and the cardboard box and Un portrait de la Belgique, shown on ARTE. With her first short fiction film Melanomen, Caroline won several awards, including Oberhausen, Krakow and Figuera da Foz. Two years later her silent mid-feature Taxi Dancer received a special mention at the Sundance filmfestival. The screenplay of her feature film debut ‘Lost Persons Area’was selected for Cinemart in Rotterdam and the Berlinale Coproduction Market. The feature film was selected for the Critic’s Week in Cannes 2009 and won the SACD prize for best script. The film went on to get selected for the Lux Prize 2009 and was shown at more than 40 international festivals includingKarlovy Vary, Warsaw, Rome, San Paolo and Rotterdam.In 2013 she presented I’m the same I’m an other at the Toronto International Film Festival. This second film of the Lost Persons trilogy was selected at several international film festivals like Valladolid and Les Arcs. Both films were presented at the MoMA in New York. Currently Caroline is working the third part of the Lost Persons trilogy The Silent Treatment.
Bas Devos
Bas Devos (Belgium, 1983) studied at LUCA School of Arts in Brussels and made the short filmsThe Close(2008) andWe Know(2009). In 2014 he made his feature debut with Violet, a film about fifteen-year-old Jesse who witnessed the violent murder of his friend Jonas and about his inability to talk about it with others. The film premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and won the Grand Prix of the Generation 14plus International Jury. Five years later, Bas Devos returned to Berlin with Hellhole(2019), a film that interweaves the stories of three lost Brussels residents in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on March 22, 2016. Less than three months later, in May 2019, his next film Ghost Tropicwas selected for the Quinzaine des réalisateurs in Cannes. The film follows the fifty-eight-year-old Khadija who, after a long day at work, falls asleep on the last subway train. When she wakes up at the end of the line, she has no choice but to make her way home on foot. On her nocturnal journey she finds herself compelled to ask for and give help to the other inhabitants of the night. His fourth feature film Here, won the Encounters and the Fipresci Award at the 73rd Berlinale 4.
Gust Van den Berghe (1985) is a multi-talented artist. Driven by a passion for music, he discovered dance, and he quickly became a danced. He performed in plays, including for Praga Khan, Royal Ballet of Flanders, and Marc Bogaerts. He studied the audiovisual arts at the film school RITCS in Brussels. His first feature film, 'Little Baby Jesus Flandr' his graduation project, was selected for the Directors Fortnight in 2010. ‘Blue Bird’, his second feature film was made with a wildcard; a scholarship for young filmmakers awarded by the VAF. ‘Blue Bird’ was selected for the Directors Fortnight in 2011, returning for the second time to Cannes. In 2012 he directed the opera Zauberflöte for the Flanders Opera-house. In 2014 he premiered with his third feature film ‘Lucifer’ at International Festival of Rome. The film went on to be selected in more then 40 festivals and won several prizes. Currently he is lecturing at Luca School of Arts and finished his latest feature film project called ‘The Magnet Man’ premièring at Tallinn Black Nights.
Liesbeth De Ceurlaer is a Belgian independent filmmaker based in Brussels, whose documentary films explore the tense and complex relationship between man and his environment. She directed Behind the Redwood Curtain en Holgut in production with Minds Meet. These cinematic explorations lead to captivating worlds, in which documentary and fiction are in continuous exchange.
Flo Flamme (born october 10, 1986) is a Belgian film director. Being the daughter of a painter, Flo developed a love for the creative arts at an early age and spended most of her youth in a Belgian theater company. At 18 she retreated from the spotlight, enrolling in the audiovisual arts program at the LUCA, School of Arts in Brussels. Concentrating on the balance between reality and fiction, she specialised in documentary filmmaking. After her studies she learned the practical aspects of filmmaking throughout collaboration with other directors and as a videoclip director. Añoranza is her first feature movie. It’s inspired by the Cuban reality and a desorientated generation. Shot in Havana, Añoranza is the poetic voice of three older Habaneros, balancing on a rope between their revolutionary past and an uncertain future. She is currently working on her second feature Word of Advice.
Tom Heene is a film director, assistant director, line producer and post production manager. He collaborated with filmmakers like Frédéric Fonteyne, Philippe Vanleeuw, Philippe Falardeau, Alex Stockman, Patrice Toye, Olivier Smolders, Laurent Van Lancker, Jürgen Leth & Lars Von Trier. In the summer of 2012 his first feature film ‘Welcome Home‘ had its international premiere at the Mostra of Venice in the Critic’s Week selection. From there it travelled in film festivals around the world. Through cinema he likes to reflect on the city of Brussels, that strange capital of Europe, a Babel he loves and hate and is the buzzy town he lives in since 25 years.
Bert Scholiers (1984, Ecuador) studied Film at Sint-Lukas Brussels and has an MA degree in Film and Theatre Studies from the University of Antwerp. He co-wrote Hilde Van Mieghem’s romantic comedy Madly in Love (2010) and Speechless (2014), an adaptation of the novel of the same title by celebrated Belgian author Tom Lanoye. Charlie and Hannah’s Grand Night Out (2017) is Scholiers’ feature film debut. Bert went on to make some television
Tom Heene is a film director, assistant director, line producer and post production manager. He collaborated with filmmakers like Frédéric Fonteyne, Philippe Vanleeuw, Philippe Falardeau, Alex Stockman, Patrice Toye, Olivier Smolders, Laurent Van Lancker, Jürgen Leth & Lars Von Trier. In the summer of 2012 his first feature film ‘Welcome Home‘ had its international premiere at the Mostra of Venice in the Critic’s Week selection. From there it travelled in film festivals around the world. Through cinema he likes to reflect on the city of Brussels, that strange capital of Europe, a Babel he loves and hate and is the buzzy town he lives in since 25 years.
Minds Meet is a self-propelled entity drifting in search of authentic stories and emotions // it is inserting itself as an active force within the projects it chooses to engage and to those that surround it // it tries to withstand the corrosive effect of capital, media, misinterpretation, translation and bad luck by constantly remaining flexible and focused // our work walks the fine line between the purity of invention and the contamination of compromise // it is a strategy that seems impossible // and thus needs a maximum of innocence on the one hand and a willingness to accommodate to almost any input on the other hand // this methodology is without any boundaries // since we strive for excellence in every project we will always be lacking money, assets and time // therefore we develop and produce in a budget minded spirit and a solution driven attitude // as we are well aware of the Result Bias and the Texas Sharp Shooter Fallacy, no result - good or bad - can ever prize the ego nor blame the person // thus Minds Meet is to blame for every mistake we make // and we are proud of all of them // we deal in the make-believe // and thus the truth is only important in the way it is percept // the production is a pleasure and joy which it must stay _
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