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Antoniak’s Nude Area starts filming

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- Dutch-Polish auteur Urszula Antoniak (Nothing Personal, Code Blue) starts filming her third feature

After her award-winning first feature for the cinema, Nothing Personal [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Urszula Antoniak
interview: Urszula Antoniak
film profile
]
, with Lotte Verbeek and Stephen Rea, and her second film, the Directors Fortnight-selected Code Blue [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
, Polish-born, Netherlands-based director Urszula Antoniak is now at work on her third project, Nude Area.

Filming started today (23 August) on the feature produced by Frans van Gestel and Arnold Heslenfeld of Amsterdam-based Topkapi Films.

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Nude Area tells the story of two 15-year-old girls, Naomi (Sammy Boonstra) and Fama (Imaan Hammam), both from the Dutch capital though from very different neighbourhoods.

Naomi comes from the rich southern side of the city, while Fama, who is of Moroccan origin, lives in the working-class Amsterdam West.

When Fama discovers that Naomi has fallen in love with her, a game of friendship, seduction and attraction plays out over one summer against their very different backgrounds.

Partly inspired by the Godard film Vivre sa vie, Nude Area is described as being a film about attraction and looks.

The project, which was part of Rotterdam's Cinemart lineup this year and has a budget of €925,000, is co-produced by German outfit Pandora Filmproduktion and the Poles of Apple Film.

The Netherlands Film Institute, the Polish Film Institute and Canal Plus Poland are also backing the project.

The shoot will continue through the end of October on locations in Amsterdam and also in Poland.

Wild Bunch will release the film in Dutch cinemas in mid-2013.

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