International succes for Dutch production GALAPAGOS: Hope for the Future

GALAPAGOS: Hope for the Future had its official premiere in the Galapagos Islands last Saturday.

From this week, all residents can visit the film and special school screenings are organized at various schools. The wildlife documentary will premiere in Quito (Ecuador) in December, followed by US premieres in New York and San Francisco in January and in April in Germany. At the end of last month, the Dutch premiere of GALAPAGOS: Hope for the Future took place in the presence of King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima in Pathé Tuschinksi in Amsterdam.

GALAPAGOS: Hope for the Future can now be seen in Dutch cinemas with the voice-over of Annechien Steenhuizen. For the international release, Ronan Keating provided the voice-over, who also provided the title song. Especially for the Spanish-speaking countries, actress Marisol Romero has provided the voice-over.

GALAPAGOS: HOPE FOR THE FUTURE | now on view in the cinema

GALAPAGOS: Hope for the Future is a beautiful portrait of the unique archipelago and its nature in the middle of the Pacific Ocean near Ecuador. It is a film full of beautiful images of untouched nature and special animal species such as the Galapagos penguins, hammerhead sharks, Blue Footed Boobies and the largest turtles in the world. The Galapagos, famous worldwide by Charles Darwin, who based his pioneering theories on the exceptional nature of the Galapagos, is, like the rest of the world, threatened by climate change and human influences. The film highlights a new side of the Galapagos, one where humans and animals are close together. It tells the hopeful story of passionate researchers who are committed to making this special but fragile ecosystem future-proof. GALAPAGOS: Hope for the Future takes the viewer on an inspiring journey to a sustainable future.

NATURE CONSERVATION FILMS - Evert van den Bos

Director Evert van den Bos has already produced 150 nature films. He has made critically acclaimed films such as The Leopard Son, Serengeti Symphony, African Bambi and Survivor and is the Netherlands' most productive nature filmmaker. GALAPAGOS: Hope for the Future is his biggest film project. While Evert van den Bos was still in Africa for another film, he was looking for people to help him raise funds. He ended up with an old acquaintance, now the director of the COmON Foundation, who approached him with a completely different proposal: the foundation wanted a film about the joint efforts of the Charles Darwin Foundation and the Galapagos National Park to create this unique archipelago to preserve for the future. It took some getting used to working on the Galapagos Islands. “75 of my 150 films were shot in Tanzania and the surrounding area. I knew about every rock by heart, and you can sit there under a tree for two months. Sometimes we only had a few hours here ”, says Van den Bos.

Director: Evert van den Bos | Camera: Pieter Huisman | Production: Jochem van Rijs and Dorian Pieters | English voice-over: Ronan Keating | Dutch voice-over: Annechien Steenhuizen | Title song: Ronan Keating Play time: 85 minutes |  All Ages | Distributor: Just Film Distribution |

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