How would it be to suddenly loose consciousness? To loose control of your own body and life? That an attack is constantly on the prowl? Director Jef Monté knows how this feels as he developed epilepsy recently. In this documentary he follows a young woman who wants to live an independent life, but who is prevented from this because of her epilepsy. The film shows the struggle she must make to get control of her own life again.

25 minutes, September 2014

FALLING trailer

FALLING documentary epilepsy poster

SPECIAL THANKS TO
JOYCE
ELLY
RUUD
MERIT
SOPHIE

THANKS TO
KEMPENHAEGHE
HUBERT VAN KEULEN
TECHNIEKHUYS
SUMMACOLLEGE
ROBIN VAN LING
ELLES DIJKHUIZEN
STÉPHANIE NEEFS
RIRIEN ASMARI

DIRECTED BY
JEF MONTÉ

CINEMATOGRAPHY
JEAN COUNET
JEF MONTÉ

SOUND
MENNO EUWE

EDITING
ALBERT ELINGS
JEF MONTÉ

SOUND DESIGN
KLEVR SOUNDDESIGN

MUSIC
ROY BEMELMANS

POST-PRODUCTION
LOODS LUX & LUMEN

LINE PRODUCER
ANNEROSE LANGEVELD
TON VAN ZANTVOORT

PRODUCER
TON VAN ZANTVOORT

PRODUCTION
NEWTON FILM

DUTCH FILMFUND
DOREEN BOONEKAMP
PIETER FLEURY
MIRJAM BAL

COBO
JEANINE HAGE
PETER VAN BEEK
INA VAN DER SPOEL

COMMISSIONING EDITOR EO
FLOOR KOOMEN

PRODUCTION EO
HERMA VAN BOVEN

THIS PRODUCTION WAS DEVELOPED IN THE CONTEXT OF TELEDOC CAMPUS WITH SUPPORT FROM CoBO, DUTCH FILM FUND, NPO, EO

Teledoc Campus Logos filmfonds NPO COBO EO

ISAN 0000-0003-DFF1-0000-3-0000-0000-S

Festival / OmroepDateTimeLocation
NPO 3Zondag 17 mei 2015–National Broadcast
DOCfeedSunday 22-02-201517:00Eindhoven
Nederlands FIlm Festival LogoNFF Dutch Film FestivalSaturday September 27, 2014
Monday September 29, 2014		18:45
21:15		Rembrandt 1, Utrecht
Rembrandt 3, Utrecht

VALLEND - NFF vertoningen

Regisseur-Jef-Monte

In 2008, Jef Monté graduated from the AKV St. Joost in Breda with the documentary ‘Fancy suits, wet soils’. His heart is at documentary filmmaking. The reality sometimes is more strange or complicated than you could have thought. The whole dynamic process of documentary filmmaking is what attracts Jef. His subject interests are paradoxes, the significance of the past for the present, people with distance from society, music, art and culture. He gets his ideas for his films from everywhere and he finds the search for the right form just as interesting as the subject. As Jef got epilepsy on his 29th, he felt the urge to make a film about this to give insight in what it means to have this disease.

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Press releases (in Dutch)

TV & Radio
Koffietijd (RTL) February 9th
Eenvandaag Radioprogramme May 15th, 15.00
RailTV at Train stations

Newspapers
Brabants Dagblad Kwetsend en kwijlend in beeld bij het herstel van een epilepsieaanval
Algemeen Dagblad (402.000)
NRC Handelsblad (192.336)
NRC Next (69.263)
de Volkskrant (262.537)
de Volkskrant (262.537) Friday April 17th, review


Magazines
EO Visie (140.675) Epilepsie is meer dan af en toe zo’n vervelende aanval
Cinemagazine Recensie
Avrobode (242.451)
MAX Magazine (60.000)
Mikro gids (390.296)
NCRV Gids (259.618)
Televizier (127.495)
Totaal TV (71.853)
Tros Kompas (380.064)
TV Film (117.263)
TV Krant (188.293)
Veronica Magazine (543.872)
VPRO Gids (206.298)

Weekly magazines
De Filmkrant – Teledoc Campus 2015: Jef Monté over Vallend
De Groene A’dammer (20.730)
Epilepsie Magazine (7.000) interview Jef & Joyce
EVA (50.000) interview Joyce

INTERNET (selection)
China2025.nl
Eo.nl/beam interview Joyce
Epilepsie.nl
Epilepsiefonds.nl + social media
Filmkrant.nl interview Jef
Hollandsefilm.nl
Koffietijd.nl
Lindanieuws.nl
Veronicamagazine.nl