Name: Fabio Wuytack
Address: Axelsvaardeken 14
9185 Wachtebeke
Belgium
tel: + 32 485 41 65 85
E-mail: fabio.wuytack@gmail.com
Website : www.fabiowuytack.com
Master Degree: master in audiovisual arts (Brussels/Sint Lukas)
Specialisation: film direction documentary.
Master Degree: MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY post degree "SOCIAL INCLUSION THROUGH ACCESS TO THE MEDIA INDUSTRIES - programme"
Master Degree: pedagogical degree / master in audiovisual arts (Gent/Sint Lucas)
“Alles wat je voor mij doet, maar zonder mij, doe je tegen mij.” - Gandhi
Wat is armoede? Gaat armoede over louter een gebrek aan geld of is er meer aan de hand?
In THE MISSING LINK gaat Fabio Wuytack op zoek naar de binnenkant van armoede, in de marge van de welvaartstaat.
In de ontroerende en fascinerende gesprekken met mensen die de armoede aan den lijve hebben ondervonden, komt de psychologische kant van armoede boven water. Hun aangrijpende levenservaringen confronteren ons met de impact van sociale uitsluiting.
In een samenleving die verscheurt lijkt te raken door de steeds grotere kloof tussen arm en rijk, verenigt DE MISSING LINK verhalen vanop beide oevers.
Authentiek, onthullend, diep-bewogen.
Prosecuted as a revolutionary...
banned as a priest...
arrested as a rebel...
celebrated as an artist...
This is Frans Wuytack's truly inspiring and overwhelming story. Unchaining a social and cultural revolution in the 60's he changed the lives of many people, from the Venezuelan slums to the Belgian Ports. PERSONA NON GRATA is an epic journey, made by his son, documentary filmmaker Fabio Wuytack.
In MADE IN ITALY Fabio Wuytack discovers an old film, shot more than 100 years ago in Carrara (Italy) by the inventors of the cinema, the Lumière brothers. Fabio decides to bring the film back to the charming little marble-city where even Michelangelo came to make his sculptures. With the help of a sinister cinema-owner, some rough mineworkers, an enthusiast old priest and other fascinating characters he tries to find the mythical location where the Lumière brothers have filmed. MADE IN ITALY is an Italian journey full of ‘commedia dell’arte’ that brings Fabio closer to his roots then he could ever have imagined ...
Palestine has only four cardiac surgeons and Mohammed Tamim is one of them. In 2003 he came to Belgium to specialise in paediatric surgery. But the second Intifada has made Mohammed a war surgeon and every day he is fighting his war. But despite it all, Mohammed has a dream that keeps him alive. Two Hands is a touching document about an intense personal grief. Director Fabio Wuytack creates a poetic visual bridge that goes beyond the here and now.
Spain suffered a major civil war between 1936 to 1939. In 1937 ten thousands of children were evacuated from the horrible warzone. More than 3000 children found a new home in guest families in Ghent. A couple of the 'niños de la guerra' returned to their home country after the war, others started a new life in Belgium. Trefpunt, in cooperation with composer Dick van der Harst, director Fabio Wuytack and scriptwriter Brecht Vanmeirhaeghe, wants to emphasize the occurrences with a special multidisciplinary project. The exponent of the project is Vlernika, an extraordinary visual and musical story, which explores the links between history, experience and emotion.
In 1979 Dirk Tieleman was one of the international journalists who accompanied Ayatollah Khomeini to Teheran. The experience of reporting the Iranian Revolution marked Dirk Tieleman’s career. 30 years later he decides to return to Iran together with the filmmaker Fabio Wuytack. The plan they have in mind is to make a documentary without official permission, exploring the daily lives of Iranian people. On their 3000 kilometer voyage they discover the many faces of Iran. An image very different from the strong fundamendalist image the mainstream media shows.
CITTADELLARTE, a city of art where creativity merges with new ideas to
be reinjected into society. This was the dream that Michelangelo Pistoletto had at the end of the nineties. Today CITTADELLARTE is no longer a dream,
the city of art is based on the riverside of the Italian city Biella. Young
artists, economists and scientists from around the world gather to develop
their projects for a social responsible transformation.
After his film ‘Made in Italy’ filmmaker Fabio Wuytack returns to his
beloved Italy. Together with the creative team of CITTADELLARTE he tries
to unravel the inspiring character of the place. It’s an adventure full of
surprising poetry.
‘STORYTELLING AND DOCUMENTARIES’
KASK filmschool / Gent 2006
‘Developing the point of view of a personal documentary’
TAIWANESE INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL 2006
‘The storyboard: Drawing documentary frames’
Sint Lucas / Antwerpen 2006
‘Auschwitz IMAGE/MEMORY’ Secondary school Ursulinen Mechelen 2007
‘Journalism or filmmaking?’
Mediaweek Lyceum Gent 2009
‘Independent filmmaking’
Universidad Guadalajara / Mexico 2009
‘PERSONA NON GRATA’
Latin American studies / New York University 2009
‘The face of a portrait film’
Hoge School West Vlaanderen departement Journalistiek 2009
‘Director or Filmmaker’
RITS film academy / Brussel 2010
‘The different layers of a portrait film'
film & video department / KSO / SISA / Antwerp 2010
Coach at the audiovisual journalism department (2008) / Katholieke Hogeschool Mechelen
Personal coach documentary project ‘Children of the sea’ / RITS film academy Brussel 2010
Panel: ‘Film and commitment’
ROOFTOP FILM FESTIVAL New York 2009
Panel: ‘Documentaries and new media activism’
THESSALONIKI Film Festival 2009
Panel: ‘New media: from cell phones to HD’
Visions Du Réel Film Festival 2009
Panel: ‘Making Independant documentaries in Iran’
ULB universiteit 2009 (Brussel/België)
Panel: ‘Documentary film in the satellite channel age’
Ismailia International Film Festival for Documentary (Egypt)
In 1999 the European Union granted Fabio Wuytack with a scholarship to develop an artistic project in Italy. He went to Carrara to design his own sculptures in marble. For a period of 6 months he worked in the ‘Laboratorio de Nicoli’, the workshop where Cezar, Vangi and Cardenas created their sculptures. He is also in the habit of going to Barcelona for a period of time each year, to design bronze sculptures.
Considering his interest and experience in the world of the arts, the International Art Consultants LTD gallery in London asked Fabio Wuytack to realise a film for them. The film had to be an impression of the collection of modern works of art brought together in the new headquarters of Glaxo Smith Kline in London. This documentary was broadcast in Great-Britain by TV/Williams. In 2003 this film was presented in Cannes, at the occasion of the International Architectural Conference.
In 2000 Fabio wrote a film review for the millennium-contest of the organization CJP. Fabio’s analysis of the Cuban film ‘El elefante y la bicicleta’ was awarded by the jury with the prize of ‘best film-review’.
Anno 2000 Fabio Wuytack directed a 25-minute short film with a close group of friends in Catalunia. This film premiered in Vooruit Ghent, on the occasion of a provincial cultural project.
During his studies at Sint-Lukas Film Academy he realized various short films. In May 2001 he started his graduation-project for the first Bachelors year: a short fictional film of 5 minutes, entitled CELESTE. This film received an AVS Award in 2002.
In August 2001, Fabio Wuytack filmed the performance of JAZZNO TRAUMA in Diepenheim , a performance by the composer/musician Frans Joseph Goof.
In December 2001 Fabio Wuytack was asked to make a film, on the occasion of the dancing-project ‘9x9’. This European Union dancing-project for young people took place in the museum for contemporary art SMAK (Ghent).
In 2002 Fabio Wuytack made a portrait film entitled ‘André Rouler’. The film shows the urban odyssey of an 83-year old Belgian through the African districts of Brussels.
In April 2002 Fabio left for Barcelona to shoot another documentary. This time his documentary storytelling is settled in an impoverished bronze foundry in the industrial area San Adrian de Besos.
Near the end of 2002, Fabio made the autobiographical documentary DYLSEXY. The film, in which he tells of his own struggle with dyslexia, was received very positively on account of the humoristic undertone full of self-mockery and zany editing. This film was also broadcast at the Interacademic Colloquium 2004 in Flanders.
In January 2003 music magazine RIFRAF asked Fabio Wuytack to make a visual statement to broadcast on TMF, on the day the UN-Commission had to approve the American war in Iraq. He worked out a fake breaking news-item, in which Bush and Saddam fraternally sang a duet for world peace. It was broadcast 29 times on the channel, the visualization reminding heavily of the typical Monty-Pythonesque technique of animation, which elevated the satire to make it even more hallucinogenic.