Amsterdam, Netherlands
$500 - $1000 / Day
Stuart Acker Holt is a British born director, editor and photographer and the founder of CRUMB.FILM based in Amsterdam. After studying Music at University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Stuart went on to lecture in Film Music at Chichester University. During this time he created the ‘Expressing Computers’ lecture series with film-makers and composers presenting live audio-visual work. This opened the doors to inspiring partnerships and creative collaborations in photography and film. In 2008 Stuart released Most Interesting Person; a ‘self generative’ story where each subject nominated the next in an ongoing trail of connected interviews. The project took him around the world creating over 200 episodes of the world’s ‘most interesting’ people. This premiered at The Balhaus Ost, Berlin attracting 1,000 visitors over 24 hours. This format was later adapted for commercial commissions by Philips, the Van Gogh Museum, Ableton and ID&T. Other story-telling formats created by Stuart include the ‘I HEART….’ series. I HEART USA documented the 2016 US presidential election, which was screened at the Bicycle Film Festival in NYC and The House of St. Barnabas in Soho, London. The story of Stuart’s father’s escape from NAZI occupied Vienna in I HEART EUROPE. As a second generation survivor, Stuart’s interest in history features regularly and motivated him to write his first book, ‘The Short 6ft Tall Man’. In 2020 he will be releasing his new film For The Record, which has been selected for the Crystal Palace International Film Festival in London, as well as festivals in Berlin and The Hague.
Produced for Ableton
CRUMB is a mini-documentary by Stuart Acker Holt, filmed entirely at the Loop summit in Berlin. The film uses a simple but effective format to bring to light the unseen connections between creative individuals. Watch the film below to see how a chain of inspiration leads from multi-media artist Sougwen Chung to reggae and dub pioneer Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry.
Shot with a cast of children, this project is dedicated to providing tools, books and activities to raise kind, confident and happy children.
rt documentary, part scripted fiction the films takes an unconventional approach to depicting the music festival experience. The focus is the real-life dilemma, personal highs and lows experienced by the four protagonists, pulling the viewer along a tale of their journey to the music, to each other and ultimately - joy.
Produced for The Guardian [UK]
A teacher coerced into giving classes in Xinjiang internment camps has described her forced sterilisation at the age of 50, under a government campaign to suppress birth rates of women from Muslim minorities.
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