| After ten years with the Belgian Broadcasting Television, Eric left for Geneva to work as a consultant with the United Nations Development Programme.
First as a freelancer, later through his company (Personnes sprl), Eric Vander Borght has produced films, worked as a consultant or provided technical services for, among others, ICRC, ILO, UNDP, CNN+, TV3, Discovery Channel, etc.
Eric has produced several independent documentaries (broadcast by Swiss TV, ARTE, TF1, RTBF, Canadian TV, NOS, Finnish TV, etc.) co-produced and co-financed by ARTE, Swiss TV, UNICEF, ICRC, Handicap International, DDC, to name a few.
Eric works like a photographer, filming on his own. This approach creates a unique intimacy with the filmed persons. Portraying people, communicating their feelings, moving the audience, creating an encounter of the viewer with the subject, this is mostly what drives him. Eric now lives in Brussels.
Independent productions:
God’s Footprint
26 minutes; a musical portrait of Madagascar; with Sylvain Van Holme
Pas de frontière pour les poissons (Fish without Frontiers)
52 and 26 minutes; portraits of French and Swiss customs officials in a small frontier village on the shores of Lake Geneva; 7 millions viewers in France only
Vanna's New Life
26 minutes; a portrait of Vanna, a little Cambodian girl victim of an antipersonnel landmine; best film at Media Nord-Sud in Geneva, special price of the jury at the Montecatini festival
Vanna
52 minutes; continuation of Vanna's portrait, filmed during one year
The Strength of Angels
1h20; movie, a Khmer story
Film production with the United Nations Development Programme:
Father Unknown (street children in Kingston, Jamaica)
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (men of Lesotho)
Black Women’s White Gold (women of Lesotho)
Women’s Stories (Tunisia in the Feminine)
Spf 66 (Dr Patarroyo's anti-malaria vaccine testing in Tanzania)
Peace According to Husnieh (economic development in Palestine)
The Living Fields (working conditions in Cambodia)
Moon Walking (a portrait of the mine-clearance expert Chris Moon)
A Profitable Business (micro credit in Cambodia)
The Mediator Monk (a Buddhist monk works with the UN)
After the Storm (mine clearance in Cambodia)
Carmen's Dance (Carmen Zubiaga helps the Cambodian disabled)
Others:
Eric works also closely with film-directors or journalists, as a cameraman, editor, direction advisor or editing doctor.
He has directed or edited hundreds of reports, commercials and commissioned films.
He does corporate production for the United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the International Labour Office, UNICEF, Spa water, John Martin beers, etc. |
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