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Voices
Various Male voices are spoken by Johnny
Daukes
Various Female voices are spoken by Penny
Rawlins
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Georgina
Verbaan
For the beginning of Georgina's acting career, we have to go back
to 1988, when as an eight year old girl she made her first appearance
in the musical theatre troupe 'Harlekijn' in The Hague. Until
her twelfth birthday she fulfilled her childhood dream by performing
in many children's musicals, and it soon became evident that her
talent and perseverance could create a surprise. She wanted to
be an actress.
After playing several small parts she made her breakthrough with
the part of 'Hedwig Harmsen' in the Netherlands' most popular
soap opera, 'Goede Tijden Slechte Tijden' on RTL 4. In the three
years that Georgina was 'Hedwig' in GTST she became extremely
popular in the Netherlands. The Academy Award nomination in 1998
in the category 'Best Actress Soap' was a welcome surprise for
her and an acknowledgement of her accomplishments as an actress.
In the spring of 2000 Georgina decided to leave the soap to concentrate
on her development as an actress. In 1999 Georgina played the
part of 'Dash' in the VPRO TV/ arthouse movie 'ENIGMA', directed
by Paul Ruven.
In the VPRO-soap opera 'Hertenkamp', broadcasted in the first
months of 2000, she played the part of Anne-Clair.
In 2001 Georgina played a leading role in Costa! Furthermore she
appeared in several popular feature films like Costa, Volle maan,
Adrenaline, Amazones, Medea (miniseries) and ‘t Schaep met
de vijf poten (comedy series) .
In Kika and Bob, Georgina Verbaan
plays the role of Kika.
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Brian
Blessed
Boisterous Brit Brian Blessed is known for his hearty, king-sized
portrayals on film and TV. A giant of a man accompanied by an
eloquent wit and booming, operatic voice. He came to fame as PC
'Fancy' Smith in the BBC TV police drama series Z Cars and often
plays powerful, bushy bearded men in Shakespearean and medieval
dramas, and also many humorous roles.
Blessed is generally recognised as a Shakespearean actor, as well
as an immensely entertaining and often satirised comic figure,
mainly because of his instantly recognisable voice. His role in
Blackadder was a parody of the "typical" Shakespearean
actor rather than reflecting the qualities of Blessed's own Shakespearean
skills. Other roles that have emphasized his comedic abilities
were those of Prince Vultan in Flash Gordon (1980) and Spiro in
the BBC adaptation of My Family and Other Animals (1997).
Blessed stole the show as Long John Silver in the 1985 miniseries
Return to Treasure Island. His Shakespearean skills took center
stage for Kenneth Branagh's Henry V (1989), Much A do About Nothing
(1993), and Hamlet (1996), and, in 1999, Blessed directed himself
in a U.K. version of King Lear. That same year, he gained even
more international exposure when he essayed a small role in Star
Wars: Episode 1 -- The Phantom Menace and provided vocal work
for Disney's Tarzan. After taking the lead in the 2003 horror
film Devil's Harvest, Blessed once again travelled back in time
for a role in Oliver Stone's Alexander (2004). In Kika and Bob, Brian Blessed plays the role of Bob. |
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Tim
McInnerny
is best known for his roles in the British comedy series Blackadder
as Lord Percy and Captain
Darling. He has worked as a dramatic actor, appearing on stage
in the original production of Pravda with Anthony Hopkins, and
on television in Edge of Darkness (1985) where he played a nervous
and embittered anarchist. He has starred in Ian McKellen's film
production of Shakespeare's Richard III (1995), as Catesby, Notting
Hill (1999) as Max, as well as Severance (2006), The Emperor's
New Clothes (2001), 102 Dalmatians (2000), FairyTale: A True Story
(1997), Wetherby (1985) and Erik the Viking (1989).
In 2004, he joined the cast of the BBC/Kudos spy drama Spooks
for its third season, playing Oliver Mace, a semi-regular character.
This character recurred in Series 5 Episode 5 of the series. And
in 2006, he starred in the BBC adaptation of The Line of Beauty
as Gerald Fedden. In summer 2007 he will be playing Iago in Shakespeare's
Othello at Shakespeare's Globe on Bankside in London. In Kika and Bob, Tim McInnerny is doing the voice of
the Narrator. |
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Vincent
Bal (Ghent, Belgium, 1971)
As
a kid, Vincent Bal adored comic books and acted in a youth theatre
group. He even did some acting for film and TV. But Vincent soon
realized he would feel much more comfortable behind the camera
than in front. At the Sint Lucas Film Institute in Brussels, he
directed his first short films. His first professional short 'The
Bloody Olive' won some twenty awards at film festivals all over
the world. Subsequently, Vincent's debut feature 'Man of Steel'
won the international jury prize at the Kinderfilmfest of the
Berlinale 2000. 'Minoes' ('Undercover Kitty'), his second feature,
did very well at the box office, drawing in about a million viewers
in Belgium and Holland. Vincent's future projects include a feature
film, 'The Zig Zag Kid', based on the book by David Grossman.
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Colette
Bothof (Harare, Zimbabwe, 1962)
While studying Psychology and Communications, Colette Bothof started
making documentaries. After graduating cum laude, she attended
the Dutch Film and Television Academy. Since 1994, she’s
been working as a screenwriter and director for film and television
and on various multidisciplinary projects. Colette's films won
several international awards. For her short 'one Way Ticket to
Oblivion' , she won the Panorama Award at the International Film
Festival Berlin. Her next short, 'Dwaalgast, won Best TV Film
at the Dutch Film Festival. But her first feature 'Black Swans'
tops it all. It was nominated five golden Calves during the Dutch
Film Festival 2005. Colette teaches at The Dutch Film Academy
and at drama schools and she's is on the board of the Dutch Directors
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Fons
Schiedon (Amersfoort, Netherlands, 1980)
Fons Schiedon studied Design in Illustration at the Utrecht School
of the Arts. After graduating, he's been working as a designer,
director and illustrator on a wide variety of projects. He created,
among other things, the corporate identity for the online platform
Submarinechannel.com, he worked on a number of interior projects
and designed a museum exhibition and he created the motion graphics
for the documentary 'Sneakers'. As a director, Fons delivered
music videos, commercials and animated shorts, as well as channel
id’s for Nickelodeon – most of which he animated himself.
He created, wrote and directed 'MobSquad', a short format bi-weekly
animated mini-series for MTV Asia/Australia, featuring three friends
celebrating their dysfunctional lives.. |
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Bruno
Felix (Haarlem, Netherlands, 1967)
As an independent creator of TV programs, Bruno Felix worked for
the Dutch public broadcasters AVRO and VPRO making cultural TV
programs. In 1994 he was invited to start up a digital research
department for VPRO. As the head of this department, he developed
many innovative websites that explored new forms of drama, children's
entertainment and journalism, such as the popular online radio
station '3 voor 12' and the comprehensive film information website
Cinema.nl. With Femke Wolting, he made a documentary series about
the influence of Internet on the media industry ‘It’s
the end of TV as we know it’. In 2000, Felix was one of
the founders of the cross-media production company Submarine.
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Femke
Wolting (Ouderkerk a/d Amstel, Netherlands, 1970)
From 1994 to 2002 Femke Wolting was the initiator and programmer
of 'Exploding Cinema', a program section of the International
Film Festival Rotterdam, which explored the future of cinema and
digital media. Between 1995 and 2000 she worked at the television
network VPRO as editor on several documentaries and new media
productions. Since 1999, Femke has directed the documentaries
‘It’s the end of TV as we know it’, 'Sneakers',
about the rise and rise of the sports shoe, and 'Viktor &
Rolf: “Because We Are Worth It”', which followed a
year in the lives of avant-garde fashion designers Viktor &
Rolf. Together with Bruno Felix, Wolting is managing director
of Submarine. |
Production Submarine
| Co-production Peachblossom Media
| Sales Submarine
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