Stanek weekend vids: Filmmaker chronicles teens’ lives
by Hans Johnson
Dutch filmmaker Franz Hofmeester chronicled his children’s lives from newborn to teenager:
Putting the film together has taken discipline – my alarm is always set for Saturday morning. Sometimes the children wouldn’t want to be filmed, and then I’d try to stimulate them. Each week it gave me the opportunity to talk to my kids, to get to know their likes and dislikes. I’d say: “Tell me what you did last week, what you did at school. Tell me about the nicest thing that happened, or the saddest thing.”
The first time-lapse video was a viral hit when it showed daughter Lotte to age 12. It now goes to age 14.
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The other is of son Vince to the age of 11.
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Hofmeester discussed his family projects in an op-ed in The Guardian.
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[HT: Susie Allen]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Just so cute ! The film,the idea -AND the kids. :D