[ˈsɪə.ri.əl ] - In Developement

 

Written and directed by Wim Vanacker

 

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Welcome to this week’s episode of The Dating Game, the show that alters lives. Meet Henry, flâneur by day, serial killer by night. He’s here to educate us in the art of amour and to confront us with society’s rotten and superficial ways.

 

Welcome if you will.

 

Sensational Henry who’ll take us through his own perverted fantasies and ritualistic acts. Feel free to join his personal quest to find structure and salvation in this consumerist maze of seduction and destruction with me, the Host, as his guide and schizophrenic counterpart. 

 

 

• About Wim Vanacker:

 

Wim Vanacker was born in Izegem, Belgium on the 12th of May 1982. After studying psychology and filmstudies in Gent and Antwerpen, he moved to Dublin to work as a psychologist in the field of drug addiction. During this period he was employed as a film critic and a programmer for several filmfestivals. 

 

Whereupon he moved to Paris and picked up studying again at EICAR, the International Film School of Paris where he made two shorts. Endgame, which got selected for 24 festivals and won 5 awards along the way, and The Naked leading the Blind, which got selected for 60 festivals thus far while winning 20 awards.

 

After graduating, he discovered NISI MASA – European Network of Young Cinema and started off working as the project coordinator of the MEDIA funded project, European Short Pitch to finally become the Head of the Script Department. On the side, he also works as a script consultant, tutor and guest speaker for festivals such as Cannes, Clermont-Ferrand, Encounters and Interfilm.

 

Recently, he founded Sireal Films, a Brussels based production company where he’s at present producing the VAF funded short film empire by Kristof Hoornaert.