Nijmegen film scores on YouTube
Telephone calls from Hollywood, an item in NOS News, thoroughly interviewed in the Dutch television programme ‘De Wereld Draait Door’, picked up by various blogs, and all this because of their short film at YouTube. Tim Smit, student of Radboud University, and Thibaut Niels really scored high with their self-made film, which has been viewed half a million times.
Apart from the film, there is also a website: whatsinthebox.nl
Thibaut Niels and Tim Smit created their film for the Master Class Meestermakers: korte fictie [Master Makers: Short Fiction] during the Nijmegen Film Festival Go Short. Tim Smit thought up the concept together with Niels, student of Film and Television Sciences at the Utrecht University, and placed it on YouTube. The setting of the film ‘What's in the Box?’ is at the Radboud campus and in Nijmegen East, and has a high Half Life content. Half Life is a popular science fiction First Person Shooter, where players play-act Gordon Freeman, a scientist who must fight his way out of an underground laboratory after a teleport experiment has got completely out of hand.
Tim Smit was equally successful last year when he, together with Steven Roeters, made a film for a Discovery Channel’s Myth Busters competition. The film was viewed over 470,000 times on YouTube. With this film they won a trip to the real myth busters of Discovery Channel in San Francisco.
