Projects

On this page you will find all Mini Chronicles projects.

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Please contact Masja de Roy: masja@minikronieken.nl

Everyday Heroes

This international project will start in January 2024. Young people in Suriname and in the Netherlands will work together online for 8 weeks to produce 30 mini-chronicles in both countries about persons past and present who are committed to Dutch and Surinamese society. The young people get to choose which individuals they will make their films about. They are role models who inspire them, from the young to the old, or heroes of history. Because they produce films together in international teams and need each other in the process, it creates an intensive way to learn from each other and about each other’s cultures.

Moving stories of young people

Ukrainian and Dutch youths aged 12 to 17 are making 7 Mini Chronicles as part of the Oldenzaal Film Festival. The Ukrainian young people each interviewed a compatriot in their own language. The Dutch youth are making a film about their own lives. All films will be subtitled so that both Ukrainian and Dutch audiences can follow everything.

It premieres Nov. 5, 2022, at Filmhuis Oldenzaal in Stadstheater de Bond.

Local agriculture in Overijssel

Volunteers will make films about 6 farming families across Overijssel in the summer of 2022, focusing on regional agriculture. The films are part of the project “regional agriculture” of the Foundation Landscape Overijssel. The goal is to share stories from the past and present and provide inspiration for future plans in and around the yard.

In Search of Eastern Sages’

In Search of Oriental Sages is a film project for 3rd grade vmbo students of the Assink Lyceum in Neede, in cooperation with Minikronieken. In two months time the students will make a series of film portraits about inhabitants of the Achterhoek and Twente region. The short documentaries were screened for audiences in the school’s theater on June 25, 2021 and March 31, 2022.

Director in your New World

In this project, refugees and Dutch people made film portraits about each other. The theme refers to how people regain control of their lives after a major event. Sharing life stories across cultures inspires and creates opportunities. With 24 authentic film portraits, the amateur filmmakers demonstrate this convincingly. This project was supported by five Twente organizations and will be completed in 2019.

Feel at Home

Every day, housing corporation Domijn encounters tenants who give color to their street or neighborhood in a special way, and is curious about their stories. In the project “Mini Chronicles – Feel at Home,” tenants of the corporation create a film portrait of people from their neighborhood with the main question, “What makes you feel at home?

The premiere of the films is on April 29, 2018 from 7 to 10 pm at the Performance Factory in Enschede, building Zuid.

Flying Chair

On October 30, 2017, a project for Flying Chair will start in Hengelo with the theme “How I follow my heart. Flying Chair is engaged in theater making and talent development, and now wants to explore the world of filmmaking.

Want to learn to make a film portrait about someone who inspires you in 4 days? Then sign up quickly! Any resident of Hengelo and surrounding areas can participate. For info and sign up, click the button below!

POWER on Tour Twente

A project where women who want to be financially independent make films about their role models. The partner organization is M-pact that coordinates the national campaign KRACHT on Tour for Twente.

The films are used to visualize women who are financially self-sufficient and an inspiration to others.

The premiere of the films is on November 18 from 12:30 to 17 hours in Theatre Concordia in Enschede.

Story House Kampen

A Mini Chronicles project with the theme Healthy in the City.

Verhalenhuis Kampen organizes the exchange of spoken and written personal stories between people and communities in the city of Kampen. This creates attention and understanding for each other’s diversity resulting in a more engaged local community.

The Story House is also a museum of intangible heritage, where personal histories can take place in both the past and the present.