Nico Crama

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Nico Crama (born August 20, 1935 in Leiden ) is a Dutch film producer .

Life

Crama was born the son of a mechanic in Leiden. After finishing school he became an auditor and later worked in a printing company. Interested in films since school, he joined the Leidse Smalfilmliga in Leiden and exchanged ideas with other amateur filmmakers there. In the early 1950s, Crama briefly studied at the Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques (IDHEC) in Paris on a scholarship , joined the Triofilm film studio in Amsterdam in 1955, and the following year at the Stichting Nederlandse Onderwijs Film (NOF, later NIAM), where he was editor works for educational and instructional films.

Crama trained in film education in 1959 and taught film theory and practice at the Montessori School in The Hague , among other places . From 1961 he was active as a film producer and film director with his company Nico Crama Productions. For Oh My Darling by Børge Ring , Crama received an Oscar nomination in 1979 for the producer of the Best Animated Short Film category . Crama worked on numerous films with Paul Driessen and produced among others his films Ei om zeep (1977), La belle et la boîte (1982) and Sunny Side Up (1985). Driessens short animation film 3 Misses , produced by Crama, was nominated for an Oscar in 2001.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1953: Impressions de Paris
  • 1963: The Happiest Time ... (director only)
  • 1967: Het oponthoud (only direction)
  • 1970: De worstelaar
  • 1971: Stuiter
  • 1973: Piet Mondriaan (only director)
  • 1976: It's Me
  • 1977: Ei om zeep
  • 1978: Oh My Darling
  • 1978: It Wasn't Easy (director only)
  • 1980: From the Ashes of War
  • 1980: Co Hoedeman, animator (only director)
  • 1982: La belle et la boîte
  • 1983: Het scheppen van een koe
  • 1985: Passage: A Richard Erdman Sculpture
  • 1986: De karakters
  • 1988: De schrijver en de dood
  • 1992: Back to the Inkwell (also director)
  • 1993: Hotel Narcis
  • 2000: 3 misses

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul Driessen . In: Jeff Lenburg: Who's who in animated cartoons . Applause, New York 2006, pp. 70-71.
personal data
SURNAME Crama, Nico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch film producer
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Suffer