SEEDS OF DECEIT - directed by Miriam Guttmann

SEEDS OF DECEIT – short doc – 22 min
Winner Palm Springs International Short Fest
IDFA World Premiere

LOGLINE
In a shocking breach of trust and ethics, famed Dutch fertility doctor Jan Karbaat inseminated dozens of unsuspecting patients with his own sperm.

CREW
Director | Miriam Guttmann
Producers | Thomas Mataheru, Mathilde Niekamp
Line producer | Hanna Burkhardt
Associate producer | Loes Komen
Story supervisor | Jessie Tiemeijer
Cinematographer | Sjors Mosman
Production designer | Louka Hoogendijk
Editor | Lianne Kotte
Sound on Set | Koos van der Vaart
Sound Designer | Max van der Oever
Sound Mixer | Sam van Eenbergen
Composer | Moritz Gabe
Festival Distributor | Cut-Up TV
Dutch broadcaster: KRO-NCRV

WITH SPECIAL THANKS TO
Janneke Lupker | Lidian Huegen | Yvonne Hoofdman | Joey Hoofdman

ARCHIVE MATERIAL
Tip van de Sluier, 1980 Frans Bromet
Zwart Zaad, 1995 Ditteke Mensink
The last interview with Jan Karbaat, 2016, Kamil Baluk
Shutterstock

© Netherlands Film Academy, 2018

AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
Palm Springs International Short Fest (Award for Best Student Documentary)
NFFTY (Jury award for best student doc)
Keep An Eye Film Academy Festival

FESTIVALS OFFICIAL SELECTION
IDFA: World Premiere
Palm Springs International Short Fest
CPH DOX
Doc Edge Film Festival, May 2019
LAKFF 2020
13th Vilnius International Short Film Festival
GZDOC
39. Filmschoolfest Munich
International Film Festival Etiuda&Anima
St. Louis Intl. Film Festival
NFFTY
One world festival
Fidba
Shnitt Festival, October
Make Dox
Leiden International Short Film Experience
48th Sehnsuchte International Student Film festival
Festival du cinema Europeen Lille
Fipadoc
Nederlands Film Festival
Keep An Eye Film Academy Festival

Tags: identity, siblings, donor, Jan Karbaat, children, short documentary, IDFA, Palm Springs, CPH DOX, NFFTY and deceit