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"I Want To Believe" released to the public!

July 1, 2015
Today, "I Want To Believe" has been released to the general public!
The film and the behind the scenes video is available on Vimeo, with YouTube following soon.

I Want To Believe -  a sci-fi film by Andre Theelen

The film on Vimeo: I Want To Believe - the film

Behind the scenes: I Want To Believe - behind the scenes


Public release of "I Want To Believe" on July 1st!

June 27, 2015
Now that the festivals are over "I Want To Believe" will be released online on Wednesday, July 1st!
It has been a long journey, from concept to script to shooting to post production to festival run. I'm very happy that my film has been selected by 8 festivals from all over the world and that people were able to see it in a real cinema.



"I Want To Believe" to be screened at Cellu L'Art Short Film Festival!

March 26, 2015
As a result of the screening of "I Want To Believe" at Landshut Short Film Festival I received an invitation to screen my film at Cellu l'Art International Short Film Festival in Jena, Germany. The festival will be held from 21-26 April, 2015.



Zedfest Film Festival awards for "I Want To Believe"!

January 6, 2015
Today I received exciting news from the Zedfest Film Festival organisation. "I Want To Believe" has won two awards:

- Outstanding Foreign Short Film Direction
- Outstanding Low Budget Sci Fi Short Film

Zedfest 2014 Award: Outstanding Foreign Short Film Direction Zedfest 2014 Award: Outstanding Low Budget Sci Fi Short Film



"I Want To Believe" selected by the Landshut Short Film Festival!

January 2, 2015
Landshut Short Film Festival Official Selection"I Want To Believe" has been selected by the Landshut Short Film Festival (Landshuter Kurzfilm Festival) and is a contender for the Deadline Award. The full program will be published on their website in February.
The film festival will be held in Landshut, Germany on March 18-23, 2015.



"I Want To Believe" part of official selection of Zedfest!

October 27, 2014
Zedfest Film Festival Official Selection"I Want To Believe" has been selected by the Zedfest Film Festival 2014. Zedfest will be he held in Burbank, CA, USA on November 8-10, 2014.



"I Want To Believe" selected by the Canton Film Festival!

September 28, 2014
Canton Film Festival Official Selection"I Want To Believe" has been selected in the "Sci-Fi/Superhero" category by the Canton Film Festival. The festival will be he held in Canton, OH, USA on October 2-4, 2014.

The film will screen on Saturday, October 4th at 4:30 pm in the Canton Palace Theatre in Canton, Ohio.


"I Want To Believe" selected by the Tri-Cities International Fantastic Film Festival!

September 1, 2014
Tri-Cities International Fantastic Film Festival Official Selection"I Want To Believe" has been selected by the Tri-Cities International Fantastic Film Festival. The festival will be he held in Richland, WA, USA on Sept 27-28 and Oct 3-5, 2014.


Visited Cinestrange Film Festival

July 21, 2014
Last weekend I visited Cinestrange Film Festival in Braunschweig, Germany where "I Want To Believe" was screened as part of the short film selections. I enjoyed my stay and it was an amazing experience seeing my film on the big screen for the first time!

Cinestrange catalog



"I Want To Believe" selected for Galactic Film Fest!

July 9, 2014
"I Want To Believe" has been selected by the Galactic Film Fest in Santa Ana, CA, USA. The festival will run from August 9 - 10, 2014.

Galactic Film Fest Official Selection



"I Want To Believe" on the Cinestrange website

July 7, 2014
"I Want To Believe" will be screening at the Cinestrange Film Festival on July 19 between 1700 and 1800 hrs.

More info on "I Want To Believe" at Cinestrange.


Final results Viewster Online Film Fest

June 26, 2014
"I Want To Believe" ended at #38 with a Viewster Hotscore of 93.4%!
I am very happy with that result.

Viewster Online Film Fest: ranked #38

Thanks to everyone who supported the film by voting, commenting and sharing!


I Want To Believe selected for Cinestrange Film Festival

June 16, 2014
Logo Cinestrange Film Festival More good news today.
"I Want To Believe" has been selected to screen at the Cinestrange Film Festival in Braunschweig, Germany from 18-20 July, 2014!


Watch I Want To Believe on Viewster Online Film Fest!

June 12, 2014
"I Want To Believe" is now screening on The Viewster Online Film Fest (#VOFF)!

You can watch the film there and vote for it.


I Want To Believe selected for Viewster Online Film Fest

May 24, 2014
Logo Viewster Online Film Fest The Viewster Online Film Fest (#VOFF) is an online film festival where the festival visitors will watch, comment, share and vote for their favourite entries. The festival will be held from June 12 - 26, 2014. The theme for the festival is "Relationship Status: IT'S COMPLICATED".

When I read the theme of this festival I immediately decided to submit my film as I thought the story would fit. I'm very excited to see the selection committee had the same opinion.

"Love has never been easy. Relationships are tricky so show us the good, the bad and the ugly and compete for awards totaling US$100,000. For the second edition of #VOFF, we invite all films, series and project teasers longer than three minutes with the theme "Relationship Status: It's Complicated"



Azores Fringe Festival 2014 loses major festival venues

May 17, 2014
I Want To Believe was selected for the Azores Fringe Festival. However, today I received an e-mail from the festival director that many of the selected films could not be programmed due to losing a couple of major locations where the films were planned to be screened.

"We have programmed over 50 films for the SHORTS@FRINGE program at the Azores Fringe Festival 2014, happening in June 2014. We apologize as most of the short-list films were not able to be programmed due to lack of space. At the last minute, our major venues were booked for an international busincess confrerence which took premise over the arts festival :("