WHEN THE BEAT DROPS
On a breezy summer night Maya and Sem look up at the starry night sky. Life is smiling down at them. Everything makes sense… until the beat drops. Tragedy hits them. Swiftly and ruthlessly.
Director: Amy Janna
Netherlands, 2022
14:58 min
Amy Janna (1993) is a Dutch director.
In 2017 Amy graduated from Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht (HKU). With her graduation film ‚Boefjes‘ (Rascals) she won the Fiction Wildcard prize from the Netherlands Film Fund. Amy was 9-years-old when she first saw the world through the lens of a handycam and with this her love for film was born. For Amy, visualising the emotions of her characters is the most exciting thing there is.
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