“Sjaak the World” DVD

• DVD Sjaak the World nominated at the Black Hills Film Festival. May, 2011.
There were over 1000 entries so we are proud that the documentary “Sjaak the World” was screened and one of the finalists!

• DVD Sjaak the World receives special recognition.
“Festival judges have selected one of this year’s feature-length documentaries for special recognition.
It evidences superb technical skill and true mastery of the documentary form;
it underscores the myriad possibilities of the art of the moving image in portraying life that is real.
Outstanding achievement in photography is especially notable given the challenging worldwide locations required to tell a most unusual story of a most unusual man.

For outstanding achievement in documentary filmmaking,
The Black Hills Film Festival, 2011, to Sjaak the World.”

 • 2010 December, Kansas City, Kansas, USA.
Brandon Green, Director of EvergreenImages, has won the prestigious Award of Merit from The Indie Fest.
The award was given to SJAAK THE WORLD in the short documentary category.
The Indie Fest recognizes film professionals who demonstrate exceptional achievement in craft and creativity, and those who produce standout entertainment or contribute to profound social change. Entries are judged by highly qualified professionals in the film industry.
In winning an Indie, EvergreenImages joins the ranks of other high-profile winners of this internationally respected award. Thomas Baker, Ph.D., who chairs The Indie Fest had this to say about the latest winners, “The Indie Fest is not an easy award to win. Entries are received from around the world. The Indie helps set the standard for craft and creativity. The goal of The Indie is to help winners achieve the recognition they deserve.”

• Veronica Magazin

"The speed of development in the world of micro-technology and the lure of YouTube fame has led to an explosion of travel DVDs. Many of them provide some stunning footage of breathtaking vistas or friendly, rather mundane banter between the protagonists, but they are generally formulaic.
This shouldn’t be a surprise as film-making, like every craft, is best executed by the professionals, but once in a while something different comes along, like Austin Vince’s ‘Terra Circa’ or Sjaak Lucassen’s ‘Sjaak the World’
I’ve met Sjaak, but wondered if the novelty of spending 5 years on the road with an R1 Yamaha would be the DVD’s only hook; the usual formula, but without the knobbly tyres.
It isn’t.
It’s personal interview interspersed with some extreme footage, but simultaneously manages to be classified as neither. In the early segments of the film the viewer is introduced to the man and his travel ethics in a remarkably compelling way and the story unfolds without any heroism, or self-aggrandisement.

That is particularly refreshing, because there’s certainly room for it: riding an R1 through rivers as deep as the headlight, through sand deeper than the belly pan or through a Congolese quagmire demonstrating stunning clutch control, deserves accolade, but doesn’t really get any. Sjaak just likes riding his bike and seeing beautiful places, so he’s incapable of linear travel and is disinterested in joining points on a map.

Only at the end are we subjected to stats, which are actually quite welcome; distance travelled and countries visited. In essence, the graphics, editing and direction create a docu-film that really inspires, deservedly endorses one of Yamaha’s more extreme products, and extols the virtue of the real ethos of overlanding: following your heart on any bike, anywhere".

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