Name: Fabio Wuytack
Tel/fax: + 32 9 345 76 59
Mobile: + 32 485 41 65 85
E-mail: fabio.wuytack@gmail.com
Website: www.fabiowuytack.com
Born on the 22nd of March 1981 in Antwerp, Belgium.
A portrait of Mohammed Tamin. He is one of four hart surgeons in Gaza and Westbank. While staying in Belgium, far away from the ongoing war in his homeland, he tells about his powerlessness and his struggle with the future.
The following nominations and awards have been awarded to ‘Two Hands’:
Fabio Wuytack brings back an old film, shot more than 100 years ago in Carrara (Italy) by the inventors of the cinema: the Lumière brothers, back to the charming little marble-city where even Michelangelo made 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’ who brings Fabio closer to his roots then he could ever imagined.
The following nominations and awards have been awarded to ‘MADE IN ITALY’:
Prosecuted as a rebel
banned as a priest
committed as an artist
loved as a father
Persona non grata is the epic story of Frans Wuytack’s life. after thirty years of exile, he returns to South- america with his son, film director Fabio Wuytack. their overwhelming journey reveals the Venezuelan slums, where Frans unchained a social and cultural revolution as a young priest in the 60’s. a blend of humorous and touching characters from the slums take Fabio on a voyage through the maze of his father’s exciting past. the poetic film style lifts the story over the borders of a biopic and confronts us with some of the most important moments in the second half of the 20th century.
‘Young award-winning documentary maker Fabio Wuytack reveals a reality bigger, more thrilling and more magical than any fantasy.’ -- BLANCA EEKHOUT
In 1999, the European Union granted me a four month scholarship in Italy. I went to Carrara, the
Mecca of marble, where I got the opportunity to design my own sculptures. I worked in the legendary
“Laboratorio de Nicoli”, the workshop where Cezar, Vangi and Cardenas created their sculptures.
Every year I return to Barcelona to design bronze sculptures.
Some prizes my sculptures have received:
Considering my experience in the world of the arts, the International Art Consultants LTD gallery in
London asked me to realise a film for them. An impression of the collection of modern works of art
brought together in the new headquarters of the international pharmaceutics concern Glaxo Smith
Kline in London. This film was broadcast in Great-Britain by TV/Williams. In 2003 this film,
commissioned by the International Art Consultants LTD, was presented in Cannes, at the occasion
of the International Architectural Conference.
In 2000 I wrote a film review for the millennium-contest of CJP. My analysis of the Cuban film "El
elefante y la bicicleta" was nominated by the jury as "best film-review.
I also realised a few short-films in during my training at Sint-Lukas Hogeschool. Among many others,
I’ve worked together with choreographer Celine van Rossem.
Anno 2000 I 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.
In may 2001 I started my graduatation-project for my first Bachelors year: a short fictional film of 5
minutes, entitled CELESTE with the co-operation of Frans Joseph Goof for the scenario. This film
received an AVS Award in 2002.
In August 2001, I filmed the performance of "JAZZNO TRAUMA, un opèra sans clou", in Diepenheim ,
a performance by the composer/musician Frans Joseph Goof (excerpts shown on the internet for an
extended period of time on : www.fransjosephgoof.com).
In December 2001 I was asked to make a film, on the occasion of the dancing-project "9x9". This
European Union organised dancing-project for young people took place in the museum for
contemporary art SMAK (Ghent).
In 2002 I made a portrait film entitled "André Rouler", that was received very well. The film shows the
urban odyssey of an 83-year old Belgian (born in Congo) through the African districts of Brussels.
Near the end of April 2002 I left for Barcelona to shoot my graduation film. I had decided to film a
documentary on an impoverished bronze foundry in the industrial area "San Adrian de Besos".
My works were the only ones to be awarded "cum laude" by the jury of the 2nd Bachelors year.
In January 2003 music magazine "RifRaf" asked me to make a sort of filmic statement for them. The
film was to be broadcast TMF, on the day the UN-Commission had to approve of the American war in
Iraq. I 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 visualisation reminding heavily of the
typical Monty-Pythonesque technique of animation, which elevated the satire to be even more
"hallucinogenic".
Near the end of 2002, I made the autobiographical documentary DYLSEXY. The film, in which I tell my
own struggle with dyslexia, was received very positively on account of the humoristic undertone full of
self-mockery and the zany editing. This film was also broadcast at the Interacademic Colloquium 2004
in Flanders.
In October 2003 Rob Rombout offered me the opportunity to film a documentary on pellicule. The
result was a short and intense portrait of Mohammed Tamim: he is one of the only four heart surgeons
working in Palestina – TWO HANDS became my first film to be distributed. The impact of the
documentary convinced the tv-programme "LICHTPUNT" (VRT CANVAS) to purchase the
documentary.
I was invited as to be a jury member for the International short film festival Leuven KORT
during for the edition 2005.
Also in 2005 I was jury member together with Robbe de Hert for the short film festival in Sint-
Niklaas.
During the international documentary film festival in TAIWAN I was part of the jury for the documentary section.
KASK film school (Gent): "The tradition of storytelling reflected in documentaries"
TAIWANESE INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL November 2006 : "developing the point of view of a personal documentary"
Sint Lucas (Antwerp). "drawing documentary frames"