George Sluizer
{{short description|Dutch filmmaker}}
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| occupation = Film director · Film producer · Screenwriter · Film editor · Author
| years_active = 1961–2014
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| notable_works = The Vanishing
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Dark Blood
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George Sluizer (25 June 1932 – 20 September 2014)[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/george-sluizer-director-best-known-for-two-versions-of-film-the-vanishing-9754138.html Director George Sluizer: Best known for two versions of film ‘The Vanishing’] was a French-born Dutch filmmaker whose credits included features as well as documentary films.
Career
Born in Paris, France, he was best known for directing two versions of The Vanishing, a 1988 Dutch-language release, originally titled Spoorloos, and the 1993 American version. Other feature films directed by Sluizer included Utz (1992) for producer John Goldschmidt, Crimetime (1995), and Dark Blood, which was discontinued after the death of its lead actor River Phoenix, but later completed and premiered at the Netherlands Film Festival in 2012.{{cite web|last=Roxborough|first=Scott|title=River Phoenix's Last Film 'Dark Blood' to Debut at Film Festival in September|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/river-phoenixs-last-film-dark-blood-finished-357228|work=The Hollywood Reporter|date=August 2012 |access-date=28 September 2012}}
From 2012 until 2014 he was part of the film jury for ShortCutz Amsterdam.[https://vimeo.com/73885040 ShortCutz Amsterdam Jury Team], Shortcutz Amsterdam. Retrieved 5 September 2013.[https://www.prweb.com/releases/dutch_short_films_are_the_focus_shortcutz_amsterdam/prweb11717312.htm Dutch Short Films Are the Focus - Shortcutz Amsterdam] Go Social Film Magazine. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
Director Dennis Alink made a documentary called Sluizer Speaks during the final years of Sluizer's life. It premiered two months after his death at the IDFA in Amsterdam.{{cite web |title=Sluizer Speak |url=https://www.idfa.nl/en/film/5a62acfd-7030-4dd4-9f30-492de1e0b563/sluizer-speaks |website=IDFA |access-date=28 August 2023}}{{cite news |last1=Vijn |first1=Ard |title=Documentary SLUIZER SPEAKS Has A Trailer, Needs Some Funds |url=https://screenanarchy.com/2013/03/documentary-sluizer-speaks-has-a-trailer-needs-some-funds.html |access-date=28 August 2023 |publisher=Screen Anarchy |date=26 March 2013}}
Accusations against Ariel Sharon
Sluizer was accused by Israeli officials of a 'modern blood libel' for his claims – which in 2010 finally achieved front page level publicity in Israel – that he had witnessed the then-Defense Minister Ariel Sharon personally shooting two Palestinian children from close range near the Sabra-Shatilla refugee camp in November 1982, after the Sabra and Shatila massacre.{{cite news |last1=Winter |first1=Leon de |title=Het onvoorstelbare zwijgen van George Sluizer |url=https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/het-onvoorstelbare-zwijgen-van-george-sluizer~be8e8b2e/ |access-date=29 August 2022 |work=de Volkskrant |date=24 November 2010 |language=nl-NL}}Cnaan Liphshiz, [http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/i-saw-ariel-sharon-murder-2-palestinian-toddlers-in-lebanon-1.325540 "I saw Ariel Sharon murder 2 Palestinian toddlers in Lebanon,"] Haaretz (19 November 2010). Retrieved 4 August 2013
Filmography
File:Director George Sluizer.jpg premiere of Dark Blood in 2013]]
=As director=
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| Year | Title | English title | Notes |
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| style=background:#efefef; | 1961
| De Lage Landen | Hold Back the Sea | | |||
| style=background:#efefef; | 1967
| Yankee Sails Across Europe | | National Geographic Special | |||
| style=background:#efefef; | 1968
| The lonely Dorymen | |National Geographic Special. Documentary about Portuguese fishermen | |||
| style=background:#efefef; | 1969
| Siberia: The Lost Horizon | | National Geographic Special | |||
| style=background:#efefef; | 1971
| | Directed with Hansjürgen Pohland | |||
| style=background:#efefef; | 1972
|João and the knife |Entered into the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival | |||
| style=background:#efefef; | 1979
| {{Interlanguage link multi|Twice a Woman (1979 film)|nl|3=Twee vrouwen (film)|lt=Twee Vrouwen}} | Twice a Woman | | |||
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| style=background:#efefef; | 1982 | Tepito Si | | |||
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| style=background:#efefef; | 1983 | Adios Beirut | | | |||
| style=background:#efefef; | 1985
| Red Desert Penitentiary | Red Desert Penitentiary | | |||
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| style=background:#efefef; | 1988 | The Vanishing | | |||
| style=background:#efefef; | 1992
| Utz | Utz | Entered into the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival{{cite web |url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1992/03_preistr_ger_1992/03_Preistraeger_1992.html |title=Berlinale: 1992 Prize Winners |access-date=2011-05-29 |work=berlinale.de}} | |||
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| style=background:#efefef; | 1993 | | |||
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| style=background:#efefef; | 1996 | Crimetime | | |||
| style=background:#efefef; | 1996
| Dying to Go Home | Directed with Carlos da Silva | |||
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| style=background:#efefef; | 1998 | The Commissioner | Entered into the 48th Berlin International Film Festival{{cite web |url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1998/02_programm_1998/02_Programm_1998.html |title=Berlinale: 1998 Programme |access-date=2012-01-15 |work=berlinale.de}} | |||
| style=background:#efefef; | 2002
| The Stone Raft | | |||
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| style=background:#efefef; | 2009 | The Chosen One | The Chosen One | | |||
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| style=background:#efefef; | 2010 | Homeland | Homeland | | |||
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| style=background:#efefef; | 2012 | Dark Blood | Originally filmed in 1993 and technically unfinished. Entered into the 32nd Netherlands Film Festival |
Awards and nominations
- 1988 - Golden Calf Best Film, Nederlands Film Festival, for Spoorloos
- 1997 - Nomination Crystal Star, Brussels International Film Festival, for Mortinho por Chegar a Casa
- 1998 - Nomination Golden Bear, Berlinale, for The Commissioner
- 2002 - Nomination Golden Calf Best Film & Beste Director, Nederlands Film Festival, for La balsa de piedra
- 2002 - Juryprize, Nederlands Film Festival, for La balsa de piedra
- 2013 - ShortCutz Amsterdam Career Award
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0806293}}
- [http://www.georgesluizer.com Official George Sluizer website]
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Category:Dutch male dramatists and playwrights
Category:20th-century Dutch short story writers
Category:20th-century Dutch male writers
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