couscous & cola
From march 19th Al Jazeera International will broadcast 'couscous & cola' worldwide! Read about it in English or in Dutch. And more: Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf.
Nevejan filming 'couscous & cola II' in Africa. (broadcasted in spring 2007 on BNN). Read more about it in English or Dutch.
Follow the adventures of couscous&cola in Afrika day by day via weblogs2.bnn.nl/
Read about Nevejan's masterclass Couscous & cola in B the change, january 2007.
Dutch Media Award 2005
'Zilveren Zebra' for
couscous & cola!
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cc & c Nominated for the Golden Rose Competition 2005 in the category ’Social Awareness Award’
couscous & cola was screened from 17 th - 23 th december 2005 in Sudan, Khartoum, at the international Conference: 'My unknown Enemy, Theater between Frontiers'.
- Read the travelling diary (in Dutch: Vrij Nederland, januari 2006).
- Read an artical in Arabic about the couscous & cola screening in Sudan (newspaper: ASHARQ AL-AWSAT)
- Or just see the photo's.
Read more about couscous & cola in English:
The Dutch newspaperclippings (PDF) translated.
Nevejan’s letter, presenting couscous & cola, selected for the Emmy Awards USA.
Read more in Dutch:
NRC Handelsblad couscous & cola selected as number one TV series!
Travelling diary published in the NRC
’Het Parool’ Article about couscous & cola.
Screenings & Debates cc & c 2005-2006:
Hoge School Amsterdam, College Amsterdam, los Angeles USA UCLA, ’Zomergasten’.
Debate:
Dutch Parlement 2006, Amsterdam, Forum Imagining Europe, Felix Meritis, nacht van het debat, The Wordshow black soil hiphop-filmfestival Adam.
More about couscous & cola, and viewing the parts you missed: http://couscous.bnn.nl
From November 2004 till January 2005 BNN broadcasted the 9 episodes of the documentary soap 'couscous & cola' directed by
Maartje Nevejan and presented by Patrick
Lodiers. The camera follows nine young
VMBO (secondary school) students on their way
to the country they both love and hate, The
United States of America.
In this series you get to know Kacem, Deborah, Ramy,
Omar, Ahlam, Youssef, Jalil, Akosua and Ilknur who
have been in Holland for a couple of years and are traveling
to The United States. The country of unlimited possibilities,
and unlimited hate.
The debating club at school provides the pulse of the series, it is here that the students: Christian and Islamic, boys and girls with and without headscarves, rapping and riming, passionately confront and oppose themselves and others.
The camera follows the youngsters
at school, and at home, with their family and friends.
Presenter Patick Lodiers takes post in the school, is astounded and aggravated by the kids but also becomes their friend and confidant. At the end of the series Patrick leaves for the US with some of the youngsters.
Who survives older brothers, parents, exams and passport
requests? The program gives a humorous, shocking and moving view of the world in
which they survive.
couscous & cola
9 x 25 minutes
Producer: IDTV
Broadcast by: BNN
start: monday 8 november 2004
channel: Nederland 2/BNN
19.55 hrs
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