A BLOOMING BUSINESS
A Blooming Business is a poetic documentary about people in Kenya who are imprisoned by the global flower growing industry. Flowers love people, is a well known Dutch saying, that the flower industry tries to propagate. But whether flowers actually do love people remains the question. A large percentage of flower production in third world countries, where the pay checks are low and the environment constraints are flexible, is auctioned in The Netherlands.
2009, The Netherlands, 52 min.
Prod. / Dir. / Script / Dir. of Phot. / Edit.: Ton van Zantvoort
Music: Roy Bemelmans
Sound: Stijn van Eekelen
Ton van Zantvoort (b. 1979)Ton van Zantvoort is an independent filmmaker and takes the initiative to produce a film in accordance with his own interest. He graduated from Grafisch Lyceum Eindhoven, Art-direction (1996 - 1999), Art Academy St. Joost, Audiovisual design (1999 - 2003). Worked for radio and television.
Filmography
Khamu Village (2003), Grito de piedra (2006), A Blooming Business (2009), Lovely Planet (2010), Day Is Done (2010), Kees and Mien (2011).