About the Film

Update (Oktober-2006)

After its premiere in 2005 Hold the Line is shown (and will still be shown) on several festivals.

-The Dutch National Film Festival (Holland)

-Gronings Filmfestival (Holland)

-Festival Bimini (Latvia)

-Animago (Germany)

-Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film (Germany)

-Krok (Ukraine)

-Anima Mundi (Brasil

-Leids Filmvestival (Holland) Nominated for “Hollandse Nieuwe”

-Festival Intern. de Escuales de Cine (Buenos Aires) Nom. for “Best Student Film”

-Hollands Animatie Film Festival Nominated for “Best Student Film Benelux”

-Izolanima (Slovenia)

Soon (in a few weeks) Hold the Line will be shown in total on this site!

Hold the Line is an animation about four soldiers marching through the remains of a ruined world. Discipline keeps them together. When they are ambushed by an invisible foe, the men come up with the ultimate tactic to take him out.

The film premiered on 22 June, 2005 at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy. The animation was created by:

Sem Assink, who wrote, directed and designed the film.

Niels de Groen, who assisted Sem during the nine month-project. Together they modeled, rigged and animated the characters; and afterwards they composited the characters in the 2D backgrounds.

Steven Geldof produced Hold the Line.

Dusan Petkovic edited the film, first at storyboard level, but as the animations progressed, Dusan refined his edit.

Ruth Bader handled the decoupage during storyboard creation.

Jeroen Damen recorded and created all the effects and sound creation together with Donovan Kemper.

The production was made possible with the help of people outside the film academy:

Juus Piek, a talented voice-actor (and sound-technician), lent his voice to all four actors.

Bart Redingius coached the students during the production.

Alan van Ramshorst and Lennart Kleinen created an inspiring alternative soundtrack.

Jeroen Hooghoudt and Marijn Eken assisted with the visual effects.

Contact semassink at hotmail.com for more information.

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