Hiya!
Drained, depressed, sick, chilly, nauseous, tense, exhausted… In 2014, cartoonist, graphic novelist and illustrator Maaike Hartjes suffered a burnout.
For a very long time, she could not actually do a lot of something, she could not work, she could not go to appointments, she could not even search for practice instances; simply the considered it was an excessive amount of.
All she might do was hold a diary, within the type of drawings and collages. For half a yr she described her each day actions, emotions and reflections.
In 2018, this diary was printed as a graphic novel by Nijgh & Van Ditmar, beneath the title ‘Burn-out Diary’.
Many individuals acknowledged themselves in Maaike’s story, together with animation director Dario van Vree.
He had suffered a burnout too, and through that interval he had skilled how troublesome it was to simply accept the state of affairs and be open about his burnout. He realized that Maaike’s e book introduced a possibility to show her story into an animated movie and thus to encourage a broader dialog about burnout and perfectionism.
Since then, for some 5 years now, Studio Pupil has been laborious at work on the 30-minute movie adaptation of Maaike’s e book: I am completely tremendous. On this animated movie we depict what it feels prefer to wrestle with perfectionism and burnout, in a light-hearted but profound manner.
With the help of the Netherlands Movie Fund, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts and our Belgian companions, we now have been capable of understand a big a part of the movie. However making an animated movie is numerous work, and to have the ability to end the movie, we’re nonetheless a bit brief.
That is why we need to ask you: would you please assist us to complete this movie? We now have began a crowdfunding marketing campaign on Voordekunst.nl, the place you possibly can learn extra in regards to the mission, in addition to see which rewards we now have to give you in return, in case you make a donation.
So, donate now, and assist us make this film *excellent*… no wait, *ok*!
https://www.voordekunst.nl/projecten/14843-film-maaike-hartjes-burn-out-…
Thanks!
With form regards,
Studio Pupil (additionally on behalf of Dario van Vree and Maaike Hartjes)
