FEMALE CINEMATOGRAPHER BELGIUM

NESTING (SHORT)

A pregnant woman ignores her sister's pleading calls to visit their dying mother. She hides out in a filthy hotel, smoking out her troubles with cigarettes and drowning them with alcohol. When the hotel staff begins to reflect the trauma she is fleeing from, she realizes she will have to confront her past.

DIRECTED BY ALEX VERHAEST
PRODUCED BY IN HINTERLAND
GAFFER | DRIES CUMPS
COLOURIST | FLORIAN KEIRSE

* WINNER BREEDBEELD KORTFILM FESTIVAL (BELGIUM) 2020 *
* SPECIAL JURY MENTION BRUSSELS SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (BELGIUM) 2020 *
* WINNER  BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY LEUVEN INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (BELGIUM) 2019 *
Maxime Lahousse, a female Belgian cinematographer, shot “Nesting,” which won the Best Cinematography Prize at the Leuven International Short Film Festival in 2019.
Motivation of the jury:

"The sophisticated cinematography of NESTING is entirely at the service of the narration of the script. The "framing" of the scenes are actually so unobtrusively well executed that they unnoticed lift the short film to a higher level. The cinematographer also uses a sophisticated, sober, color palette that accentuates the atmosphere of grimness and excitement, but at the same time radiates something sensual and beautiful. This as a result of the continuity used in light and framework supported by a correct technical interpretation. It gets in the craftsmanship of someone who has mastered the subject of cinematography both technically and artistically."