Bad Bad Belgium 'Uranium'

Synopsis

Erased from history, brought back to life. The first episode of a 3-part animated documentary series reveals the unknown story of Belgium's shady involvement in the production of the atomic bomb that wiped away Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It's not pretty.

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Cast and crew

Filmmaker Biography:



Jasper Declercq: Jasper started off in advertising and it took him 10 years and a list of useless awards to realize he wanted to do something completely different. Combining his love for conceptual thinking with a fascination for storytelling he slowly learned the ins and outs of directing. Failing miserably at first, failing slightly less afterwards. Bad Bad Belgium is his first documentary series and it scares him he has to make something better now.

Wouter Medaer: Wouter graduated cum laude as a graphic designer after failing miserably as a philosophy student, and worked various projects as a freelancer in design, print artwork and advertising. Co founded Visuals Internationals in 2015 to make pretty stuff move in animation, and make the Belgian animation business more aesthetically pleasing. In this function he made record sleeves and billboards, tv commercials and live music visuals and got into developing concepts and strategies, while figuring out how to run a creative company.

Jonas Wellens: Jonas started out as a traditional 2D animation guy but was really tired of the monotony after graduated and pivoted to whatever came up, experimenting and learning doing music video’s, arty stuff and advertising for years without much of a plan. He then met wouter while handing his butt to him in a local battle of the bands thing and formed Visuals Internationals. Together they’ve expanded the skillset and horizon of possibilities, doing every animation job but try to always have that personal touch of whatever it is that makes our work ‘our work’. He still likes to say yes to everything, like making a 90 min animated documentary, for instance.

Thomas Vangeel : Thomas has been active in the motion design field in advertising and TV for years after accidentally getting hired as an editor for what he thought was an animation position. Not long after he became a fancy art director for the animation company formerly known as Storyme, telling a bunch of people what not to do. After a few years he wanted to spend some one on one time with his computer but ended up joining visuals internationals instead, animating and directing all kinds of awesome video’s. Some say you can still hear the sound of his trademark laughter in the wind at night.

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