Delft Blue, the new screenplay by Unveil’s Andrew Kooman was named a semi-finalist in Season 3 of the Filmmatic Screenplay Awards in Los Angeles.
The screenplay, a follow up to Kooman’s critically acclaimed screenwriting debut She Has A Name, is a family drama set in Holland in World War II after the nation falls to the Nazis in May of 1940. After a brief but surprising resistance, the story’s main characters — Machiel and Sophia van Leeuwen — prepare for a long and difficult occupation in a war Holland never dreamed it would enter.
Along with their 12-year-old daughter Johanna, they are soon faced with impossible decisions: to choose between resistance and passivity, family and friendship and whether or not the sincere faith they’ve observed with its quiet traditions might now require unthinkable violence.
“Ultimately, it’s the story of one family doing its best to make sense of the times; to fight the good fight and to survive with their faith, their sense of what is right, and their lives in tact,” notes Kooman.
“I hope the film will captivate and inspire audiences’ imaginations and challenge all of us to ask relevant questions about the nature of violence and faith in our times.”
Delft Blue is one in a slate of films Unveil has its eye on developing for future production. Owned and operated by Matthew, Daniel and Andrew Kooman, Unveil Studios is currently in production on a documentary series entitled Dream.
The Kooman brothers received the New Filmmakers Award at the ICVM Crown Awards in Nashville this July.
The Filmmatic Screenplay Awards were created to locate and expose up-and-coming screenwriters, as well as to empower and educate those talented writers still waiting for their invitation to the mainstream industry. The honourable mention of Delft Blue was for the historical script category; the announcement was made August 17 in LA.
