Bad Bad Belgium
February 2024
Bad Bad Belgium is an animated documentary that we made along with the nice people of AKA de Mensen (writers and producers) for Streamz. It's a tad fictionalised for dramatic effect with three distinct parts about untold or purposefully forgotten Belgian history;
Perfection and 'to market strategy' of XTC in the early 90's by a Belgian medical doctor who suffers the consequence of choosing a life of crime,
2nd ep. is about TenBel, one of the first resort destinations in the 60's and the blueprint for the canary island chain as a holiday destination, before crashing and literally burning in the 80's,
and the story of how one man was instrumental in brokering the sale of massive amounts of Belgian controlled uranium without which the first generation of atom bombs would have been impossible to make, makingat least two civillian locations in Belgium and the US radioactive to this day.
We spent the better part of a year along with a great team creating, soryboarding, designing animating and dispair-ing over this sucker, but it was all worth it. Look at its marvelous beauty beautifully marvelling! Can’t show the whole thing obviously, go get a vpn, a Belgian streamz account and watch on repeat! Update: it made the Annecy filmfest selection, amazing!
- Presenting the VI awards of excellence in participation and completion
- Best animation design and beautifulness
- Jonas Wellens,
- Wouter Medaer,
- Thomas Vangeel
- Maxim Defossez
- Salvatore Volpe
- Axelle Govaerts
- Floris Thijs
- Julian Cielen
- Christophe Davids
- Debora Lauwers
- Malou de Jonghe
- Merel Ghyssaert
- Best making sure everybody does his job
- Lyn Bleyen
- Best directing-scriptwriting-antwerping
- Jasper Declercq
- Best production company
- AKA De Mensen
- Tom Willems
- Eline Rousseau
- Rana Cools
- Best and most correct journalism
- Tom Pardoen
- Best Soundtrack ever
- We Hear Different
- Melawati
- Best sticking out of neck for commissioning animated docu series
- Jules Duys / Streamz
- Best acting of the voice
- Peter van den Begin
- Liesa Van Der Aa
- Gene Bervoets
- Best color grading crash course and assistance
- norah+birger
- Best let me tell you this story
- Wim Gombeer
- Jan Vanbriel






