FICTS in Netherlands: 6-8 April at “AD Sport Film Festival Rotterdam”

Rotterdam (Netherlands) – in the framewok of the International Circuit “World FICTS Challenge 2017” – will host from April 6^th to 8^th  the third edition of “AD Sport Film Festival Rotterdam” in “Cinerama Film Theatre”. The American documentary “Facing Ali” (directed by Pete McCormack) about the life and career of Muhammad Ali as well as “Pelè: Birth of a Legend” (written and directed by Jeff and Michael Zimbalist), about the life of famous Brazilian footballer Edson Arantes do Nascimento well-known as Pelè, will be among the movies shown at the Festival. The Program of “Sport Film Festival Rotterdam” – besides projections of 30 videos coming from 15 Countries (in 5 points of projections) – expects an Exhibition and two debates (speaker famous Dutch tv-presenter Wilfried de Jong) with the Olympic Theme to which will attend Olympic Marathon in Rio Abdi Nageeye and swimmer who specialized in short and middle distance freestyle events Sebastiaan Verschuren.

On Thursday 6^th , will be shown in premiere the docu-film “Feyenoord 1999” (with which in 1984 won the title Johan Cruyff Member of “FICTS Hall of Fame”) at the presence of some football players: Leo Beenhakker (former trainer of Dutch National Football Team, of Real Madrid F.C., etc.), Jon Dahl Tomasson, Paul Bosvelt, Kees Van Wonderen, etc.

Media partners of the event: AD (national newspaper), RTV Rijnmond (Dutch broadcasting), Andere Tijden Sport (Dutch broadcasting – producer sport documentaries), Sportnext (online platform) and Helden (sport magazine). Info: http://sportfilmfestivalrotterdam.nl/.