Green Screen Gringo
- Logline
- Behind a green screen, a foreigner finds his way in an enchanting - and yet turbulent - Brazil.
Where the streets are a stage for politics, art and affection, a gringo can only watch. - Talent
- Douwe Dijkstra
- Role of participant
- Director, Editor, Cinematographer, Screenwriter
- Director
- Douwe Dijkstra
- Producer
- Douwe Dijkstra
- Screenwriter
- Douwe Dijkstra
- Status
- finished
- Year of production
- 2016
- Running time
- 16 min
- Genre
- Documentary (Creative)
- Countries of Production
- Brazil , Netherlands
- Production Company
- Douwe Dijkstra
Festivals and Awards
1. Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Sweden (24 – 30 October, 2016)
International Competition
2. Sleepwalkers International Short Film Festival, Estonia (12 – 16 November, 2016)
International Competition
3. Vilnius International Short Film Festival, Lithuania (18 – 22 January, 2017)
International Competition Won: Best Documentary
4. Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, France (3 – 11 February, 2017)
Lab Competition Won: Grand Prix Labo
5. Punto De Vista - International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra, Spain (6 – 11 March,
2017)
International Competition
6. Tampere Film Festival, Finland (8 – 12 March, 2017)
International Competition
7. Glasgow Short Film Festival, United Kingdom (15 – 19 March, 2017)
International Competition Won: Bill Douglas Award For Best International Short Film
8. Short Waves Festival, Poland (21 – 26 March, 2016)
International Competition
9. Flatpack Film Festival, United Kingdom (4 – 9 April, 2017)
International Competition
10. Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen, the Netherlands (5 – 9 April, 2017)
Dutch Competition
11. International Film Festival of Lanzarote, Spain (18 – 29 April, 2017)
Documental Short Film Section
12. Kyiv International Short Film Festival, Ukraine (19 – 23 April, 2017)
Special Program
13. Skopje Film Festival, Macedonia (20 – 28 April, 2017)
Out of Competition: thematic program on capitalism
14. IndieLisboa - Lisbon International Independent Film Festival, Portugal (3 - 14 May, 2017)
Silvestre Section
15. International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany (11 – 16 May, 2017)
Out of competition: Award Winners of Other festivals
16. Kinodot Experimental Film Festival, Russia (27 – 28 May, 2017)
International Competition
17. VIS Vienna Shorts Film Festival, Austria (1 – 6 June, 2017)
Out of competition: FAKE NEWS. SAD COUNTERFEITING REALITY
18. Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival, South-Africa (1 – 11 June,
2017)
19. Rooftop Films Summer Series, United States (10 June, 2017)
20. Contis Festival, France (15 – 19 June, 2017)
European Short Film Competition
21. Art Film Fest Kosice, Slovakia (16 – 24 June, 2017)
International Competition
22. Palm Springs ShortFest, United States (21 – 27 June, 2017)
International Competition
23. NexT International Film Festival, Romania (22 – 26 June, 2017)
International Competition
24. International Short Film Festival Tabor, Croatia (6 – 9 July, 2017)
International Competition
25. Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival, Portugal (8 – 16 July, 2017)
Go Short: Best Dutch Shorts
26. European Film Festival Palic, Serbia (15 – 21 July, 2017)
Young Spirit of Europe
27. Guanajuato International Film Festival, Mexico (21 – 30 July, 2017)
Official Selection: Experimental Short Film
28. Lago Film Fest International Festival of Short and Documentaries, Italy (21 – 29 July, 2017)
New Signs Special Mention for Best Experimental Film
29. Kinemastik International Short Film Festival, Malta (27 – 30 July, 2017)
Official Competition
30. Dokufest - International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Kosovo (4 – 12 August, 2017)
Short Film Competition
31. Pleinbioscoop, the Netherlands (9 – 27 August, 2017)
En Plein Public Won: Best Sound Design and Music
32. Zomerparkfeest, the Netherlands (17 – 20 August, 2017)
33. Seoul International New Media Festival, Korea (17 – 25 August, 2017)
Competition: Glocal Propose Won: Best Glocal Propose Award
34. Concorto Short Film Festival, Italy (19 – 26 August, 2017)
International Competition Won: Special Jury Prize
35. São Paulo International Short Films Festival, Brazil (23 August – 3 September, 2017)
International program
36. MEETINGS - Video And Performance Festival, Denmark (1 – 10 September, 2017)
37. Seoul International Architecture Film Festival, Korea (4 – 24 September, 2017)
38. Eureka University Film Festival, Colombia (18 – 23 September, 2017)
39. First Step Film Festival, Albania (19 - 23 September, 2017)
Go Short: Best Dutch Shorts
40. Bolton Film Festival, United Kingdom (20 – 21 September, 2017)
Experimental strand Won: Best Experimental Short Film
41. Nederlands Film Festival, Netherlands (20 – 29 September, 2017)
Gouden Kalf Competition
42. Lille International Short Film Festival, France (24 September – 1 October, 2017)
International Competition
43. 25 FPS Festival, Croatia (28 September – 1 October, 2017)
Competition
44. Milano Film Festival, Italy (28 September – 08 October, 2017)
International Short Film Competition
45. Vancouver International Film Festival, Canada (28 September – 13 October, 2017)
MODES program
46. FESTCURTASBH - Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival, Brazil (29 September – 8
October)
Special program: Atravessamentos
47. Hancheng International Short Film Festival, China (1 – 8 October, 2017)
International Competition
48. Heart of Gold International Film Festival, Australia (5 – 8 October, 2017)
Official Selection
49. IndieCork Festival, Ireland (8 – 15 October, 2017)
International Competition
50. Sapporo International Short Film Festival & Market, Japan (5 – 9 October, 2017)
One Title Section Won: Best Contemporary Experimental Short
51. Timishort Film Festival, Romania (12 – 15 October, 2017)
Videorama Competition Special Jury Mention
52. International Short Film Festival of Cyprus, Cyprus (14 – 21 October, 2017)
International Competition
53. Document Human Rights Film Festival, United Kingdom (19 – 22 October, 2017)
Official Selection
54. Kaohsiung Film Festival, Taiwan (20 October – 5 November, 2017)
International Short Film Competition Won: Green S.O.S. Award
55. Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Sweden (23 – 29 October, 2017)
Out of competition: FAKE NEWS. SAD COUNTERFEITING REALITY
56. Leeds International Film Festival, United Kingdom (2 – 16 November, 2017)
Short Documentary Films Panorama
57. Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife, Brazil (3 – 12 November, 2017)
Short Film Competition
58. Fike International Short Film Festival, Portugal (3 – 12 November, 2017)
Competition
59. Escales Documentaires - International Festival of Creative Documentary, France (7 – 12
November, 2017)
Out of Competition: Escale en courts
60. Cinemaforum, Polen (8 - 12 November, 2017)
Go Short: Best Dutch Shorts
61. Interférences Documentary Festival, France (8 – 18 November, 2017)
Official selection
62. ALCINE - Festival de Cine de Alcalá de Henares, Spain (10 – 17 November, 2017)
European Competition Won: Third Prize
63. l'Alternativa - Barcelona Independent Film Festival, Spain (13 – 19 November, 2017)
Out Of Competition: l’Alternativa Hall Selects
64. Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Germany (15 – 19 November, 2017)
Official Selection
65. Short Film Festival Cologne, Germany (15 – 19 November, 2017)
New Aesthetic
66. Invideo, Italy (16 – 19 November, 2017)
67. International Bosphorus Film Festival, Turkey (17 – 26 November, 2017)
International Short Documentary Competition
68. Interfilm - International Short Film Festival Berlin, Germany (20 – 26 November, 2017)
Documentary Competition
69. Sequence Short Film Festival, France (22 – 26 November, 2017)
International Competition
70. Crossing The Screen, United Kingdom (23 – 26 November, 2017)
Competition
71. Festival Tous Courts, France (27 November – 2 December, 2017)
Experimental Short Film Competition
72. Verín International Short Film Festival, Spain (1 – 10 December, 2017)
Offical Competition
73. Leuven International Short Film Festival, Belgium (2 – 9 December, 2017)
Labo Program
74. Eindhovens Film Festival, the Netherlands (6 – 10 December, 2017)
Official Selection
75. Zubroffka International Short Film Festival, Poland (7 – 11 December, 2017)
Out of competition: FAKE NEWS. SAD. COUNTERFEITING REALITY
76. THESS International Short Film Festival Thessaloniki, Greece (13 – 17 December, 2017)
Official Selection
77. London Short Film Festival, United Kingdom (12 – 21 January, 2017)
International Shorts Competition
78. Vilnius International Short Film Festival, Lithuania (18 – 20 January, 2017)
Out of competition: FAKE NEWS. SAD. COUNTERFEITING REALITY
79. Festival International du Film d'Aubagne, France (19 – 24 March, 2018)
Short Film Competition Won: Mathieu Hoche Prize for Best Documentary
80. Ammehoela Film Festival, the Netherlands (31 March, 2018)
Official Selection
81. Filmfest Dresden, Germany (17 – 22 April, 2018)
Open Air Programme
82. cellu l’art Short Film Festival, Germany (24 – 29 April, 2018)
International Competition Won: Lichtstadt Award
83. Nashville Film Festival, United States (10 – 19 May, 2018)
Official Selection Won: Grand Jury Prize Best Experimental Short
84. LUNATIK Short Film Festival Leipzig, Germany (16 June, 2018)
85. Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz-Art, Ukraine (6 – 12 August, 2018)
Out of competition: Urban mobility
86. Court c’est Court, France (14 – 18 November, 2018)
87. Manaki Brothers International Cinematographers Festival, Italy (14 – 21 September, 2019)
Short Waves Special program
88. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland (5 – 11 November, 2019)
Focus program
89. Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival, United States (11 – 20 September, 2020)
Official Selection
90. Glasgow Short Film Festival, Scotland (22 – 28 March, 2021)
10 th Anniversary Bill Douglas Award & Opening program
91. Busan International Short Film Festival, South-Korea (21 – 26 April, 2021)
Dutch Panorama
92. Minute Short Film International Film Festival, China (November, 2021)
Out of Competition
93. Fenêtres sur courts, France (5 – 12 November, 2022)
Out of competition
94. Minimalen Short Film Festival, Norway (10 - 15 January, 2023)
Retrospective Douwe Dijkstra
International Competition
2. Sleepwalkers International Short Film Festival, Estonia (12 – 16 November, 2016)
International Competition
3. Vilnius International Short Film Festival, Lithuania (18 – 22 January, 2017)
International Competition Won: Best Documentary
4. Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, France (3 – 11 February, 2017)
Lab Competition Won: Grand Prix Labo
5. Punto De Vista - International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra, Spain (6 – 11 March,
2017)
International Competition
6. Tampere Film Festival, Finland (8 – 12 March, 2017)
International Competition
7. Glasgow Short Film Festival, United Kingdom (15 – 19 March, 2017)
International Competition Won: Bill Douglas Award For Best International Short Film
8. Short Waves Festival, Poland (21 – 26 March, 2016)
International Competition
9. Flatpack Film Festival, United Kingdom (4 – 9 April, 2017)
International Competition
10. Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen, the Netherlands (5 – 9 April, 2017)
Dutch Competition
11. International Film Festival of Lanzarote, Spain (18 – 29 April, 2017)
Documental Short Film Section
12. Kyiv International Short Film Festival, Ukraine (19 – 23 April, 2017)
Special Program
13. Skopje Film Festival, Macedonia (20 – 28 April, 2017)
Out of Competition: thematic program on capitalism
14. IndieLisboa - Lisbon International Independent Film Festival, Portugal (3 - 14 May, 2017)
Silvestre Section
15. International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany (11 – 16 May, 2017)
Out of competition: Award Winners of Other festivals
16. Kinodot Experimental Film Festival, Russia (27 – 28 May, 2017)
International Competition
17. VIS Vienna Shorts Film Festival, Austria (1 – 6 June, 2017)
Out of competition: FAKE NEWS. SAD COUNTERFEITING REALITY
18. Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival, South-Africa (1 – 11 June,
2017)
19. Rooftop Films Summer Series, United States (10 June, 2017)
20. Contis Festival, France (15 – 19 June, 2017)
European Short Film Competition
21. Art Film Fest Kosice, Slovakia (16 – 24 June, 2017)
International Competition
22. Palm Springs ShortFest, United States (21 – 27 June, 2017)
International Competition
23. NexT International Film Festival, Romania (22 – 26 June, 2017)
International Competition
24. International Short Film Festival Tabor, Croatia (6 – 9 July, 2017)
International Competition
25. Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival, Portugal (8 – 16 July, 2017)
Go Short: Best Dutch Shorts
26. European Film Festival Palic, Serbia (15 – 21 July, 2017)
Young Spirit of Europe
27. Guanajuato International Film Festival, Mexico (21 – 30 July, 2017)
Official Selection: Experimental Short Film
28. Lago Film Fest International Festival of Short and Documentaries, Italy (21 – 29 July, 2017)
New Signs Special Mention for Best Experimental Film
29. Kinemastik International Short Film Festival, Malta (27 – 30 July, 2017)
Official Competition
30. Dokufest - International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Kosovo (4 – 12 August, 2017)
Short Film Competition
31. Pleinbioscoop, the Netherlands (9 – 27 August, 2017)
En Plein Public Won: Best Sound Design and Music
32. Zomerparkfeest, the Netherlands (17 – 20 August, 2017)
33. Seoul International New Media Festival, Korea (17 – 25 August, 2017)
Competition: Glocal Propose Won: Best Glocal Propose Award
34. Concorto Short Film Festival, Italy (19 – 26 August, 2017)
International Competition Won: Special Jury Prize
35. São Paulo International Short Films Festival, Brazil (23 August – 3 September, 2017)
International program
36. MEETINGS - Video And Performance Festival, Denmark (1 – 10 September, 2017)
37. Seoul International Architecture Film Festival, Korea (4 – 24 September, 2017)
38. Eureka University Film Festival, Colombia (18 – 23 September, 2017)
39. First Step Film Festival, Albania (19 - 23 September, 2017)
Go Short: Best Dutch Shorts
40. Bolton Film Festival, United Kingdom (20 – 21 September, 2017)
Experimental strand Won: Best Experimental Short Film
41. Nederlands Film Festival, Netherlands (20 – 29 September, 2017)
Gouden Kalf Competition
42. Lille International Short Film Festival, France (24 September – 1 October, 2017)
International Competition
43. 25 FPS Festival, Croatia (28 September – 1 October, 2017)
Competition
44. Milano Film Festival, Italy (28 September – 08 October, 2017)
International Short Film Competition
45. Vancouver International Film Festival, Canada (28 September – 13 October, 2017)
MODES program
46. FESTCURTASBH - Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival, Brazil (29 September – 8
October)
Special program: Atravessamentos
47. Hancheng International Short Film Festival, China (1 – 8 October, 2017)
International Competition
48. Heart of Gold International Film Festival, Australia (5 – 8 October, 2017)
Official Selection
49. IndieCork Festival, Ireland (8 – 15 October, 2017)
International Competition
50. Sapporo International Short Film Festival & Market, Japan (5 – 9 October, 2017)
One Title Section Won: Best Contemporary Experimental Short
51. Timishort Film Festival, Romania (12 – 15 October, 2017)
Videorama Competition Special Jury Mention
52. International Short Film Festival of Cyprus, Cyprus (14 – 21 October, 2017)
International Competition
53. Document Human Rights Film Festival, United Kingdom (19 – 22 October, 2017)
Official Selection
54. Kaohsiung Film Festival, Taiwan (20 October – 5 November, 2017)
International Short Film Competition Won: Green S.O.S. Award
55. Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Sweden (23 – 29 October, 2017)
Out of competition: FAKE NEWS. SAD COUNTERFEITING REALITY
56. Leeds International Film Festival, United Kingdom (2 – 16 November, 2017)
Short Documentary Films Panorama
57. Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife, Brazil (3 – 12 November, 2017)
Short Film Competition
58. Fike International Short Film Festival, Portugal (3 – 12 November, 2017)
Competition
59. Escales Documentaires - International Festival of Creative Documentary, France (7 – 12
November, 2017)
Out of Competition: Escale en courts
60. Cinemaforum, Polen (8 - 12 November, 2017)
Go Short: Best Dutch Shorts
61. Interférences Documentary Festival, France (8 – 18 November, 2017)
Official selection
62. ALCINE - Festival de Cine de Alcalá de Henares, Spain (10 – 17 November, 2017)
European Competition Won: Third Prize
63. l'Alternativa - Barcelona Independent Film Festival, Spain (13 – 19 November, 2017)
Out Of Competition: l’Alternativa Hall Selects
64. Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Germany (15 – 19 November, 2017)
Official Selection
65. Short Film Festival Cologne, Germany (15 – 19 November, 2017)
New Aesthetic
66. Invideo, Italy (16 – 19 November, 2017)
67. International Bosphorus Film Festival, Turkey (17 – 26 November, 2017)
International Short Documentary Competition
68. Interfilm - International Short Film Festival Berlin, Germany (20 – 26 November, 2017)
Documentary Competition
69. Sequence Short Film Festival, France (22 – 26 November, 2017)
International Competition
70. Crossing The Screen, United Kingdom (23 – 26 November, 2017)
Competition
71. Festival Tous Courts, France (27 November – 2 December, 2017)
Experimental Short Film Competition
72. Verín International Short Film Festival, Spain (1 – 10 December, 2017)
Offical Competition
73. Leuven International Short Film Festival, Belgium (2 – 9 December, 2017)
Labo Program
74. Eindhovens Film Festival, the Netherlands (6 – 10 December, 2017)
Official Selection
75. Zubroffka International Short Film Festival, Poland (7 – 11 December, 2017)
Out of competition: FAKE NEWS. SAD. COUNTERFEITING REALITY
76. THESS International Short Film Festival Thessaloniki, Greece (13 – 17 December, 2017)
Official Selection
77. London Short Film Festival, United Kingdom (12 – 21 January, 2017)
International Shorts Competition
78. Vilnius International Short Film Festival, Lithuania (18 – 20 January, 2017)
Out of competition: FAKE NEWS. SAD. COUNTERFEITING REALITY
79. Festival International du Film d'Aubagne, France (19 – 24 March, 2018)
Short Film Competition Won: Mathieu Hoche Prize for Best Documentary
80. Ammehoela Film Festival, the Netherlands (31 March, 2018)
Official Selection
81. Filmfest Dresden, Germany (17 – 22 April, 2018)
Open Air Programme
82. cellu l’art Short Film Festival, Germany (24 – 29 April, 2018)
International Competition Won: Lichtstadt Award
83. Nashville Film Festival, United States (10 – 19 May, 2018)
Official Selection Won: Grand Jury Prize Best Experimental Short
84. LUNATIK Short Film Festival Leipzig, Germany (16 June, 2018)
85. Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz-Art, Ukraine (6 – 12 August, 2018)
Out of competition: Urban mobility
86. Court c’est Court, France (14 – 18 November, 2018)
87. Manaki Brothers International Cinematographers Festival, Italy (14 – 21 September, 2019)
Short Waves Special program
88. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland (5 – 11 November, 2019)
Focus program
89. Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival, United States (11 – 20 September, 2020)
Official Selection
90. Glasgow Short Film Festival, Scotland (22 – 28 March, 2021)
10 th Anniversary Bill Douglas Award & Opening program
91. Busan International Short Film Festival, South-Korea (21 – 26 April, 2021)
Dutch Panorama
92. Minute Short Film International Film Festival, China (November, 2021)
Out of Competition
93. Fenêtres sur courts, France (5 – 12 November, 2022)
Out of competition
94. Minimalen Short Film Festival, Norway (10 - 15 January, 2023)
Retrospective Douwe Dijkstra