Karel Tuytschaever - Easy Tiger
Karel Tuytschaever - Easy Tiger

EASY TIGER

By Karel Tuytschaever

An unexpected moment in a session with a client confronts a psychologist with his own inner world. Alienated by the isolation of his seemingly perfect city life, the psychologist encounters an extreme inability to understand and embrace his own human nature. His inescapable desires for his male client force the psychologist to look at who he does not want to be; it is the only way to find out who he really is.

EASY TIGER is an intimate portrait of a vulnerable man in the midst of a true and insurmountable romance.

This auteurist film explores how the medium of film can be reimagined and deployed to place physicality as narrative before the lens, and how the same audiovisual work provides as much of the same experience for both a hearing and a differently-hearing viewer as possible.

Credits

Premiere

2022

Awards

2022, France, Paris Film Awards
Honorable Mention: Indie Feature Film

2022, India, Calcutta International Cult Film Festival
Winner Debut Filmmaker

2022, Canada, Alternative Film Festival Spring

2022
Nominee for Best Actor and Best Writer

2022, Indiefare International Film Festival
Nominee for Best Queer Narrative

2022, Italy, Milan Gold Awards
Honorable Mention: Cinematography

2022, Czech Republic, Brno Film Festival
Nominee for First Time Director (Feature)
Winner Best LGBTQ

Cast

Mickaël Pelissier, Giada Castioni, Casper Wubbolts, Evgenia Brendes, Hilde Wils & Benjamin Ramon

Crew

Directed by Karel Tuytschaever
First assistant director, Louise De Groef
Production manager, Erik 'Wolf' Moonen
Sign language interpreter on set, Lissa Zeviar

Screenplay, Karel Tuytschaever
Writing advice, Nathalie Haspeslagh
Dramaturgical advice, Melinda Van Berlo
English translation, Martha Gardner
Translation to International Sign Language, Jorn Rijckaert & Jaron C. Garitte

Director of Photography, Lothar Legon
First Assistant Camera & Focus Puller, Giel Dhaenens
Gaffer, Henry Commerman
Sound recordist & Boom Operator, Bruce Stevens
Art director, Gert Stas
Costume Designer, Chris Snik
Assistant Costume Designer, Eli Verkeyn
Make-up & Hair Artist, Alexander Kinds
Casting, Karel Tuytschaever
Catering, Erik Moonen
Set photographer & Making-of, Joery Erna

Edited by Karel Tuytschaever
VFX artist, Arno Ringoet & Bart Winckers
Colour grading, Kene Illegems

Sound design & mixing, Frederik Van de Moortel
Foley artist, Elias Vervecken
Foley recording studio, Rec'N Roll
Foley studio engineer, Loïc Mulleneers

Location holders, Doktershuis Antwerp, Van der Valk Hotel Brasschaat, Art Center Hugo Voeten Herentals, ZEIT - Luc Franken Antwerp, Municipality Bergen Op Zoom, Q-park Antwerp, Koen Verkeyn - Chris Snik, Erik Moonen - Sarah Van Loon, Sint-Lievenscollege Antwerp

Thanks to, Dr Ghada Ed Marogy, Bruno Maertens, Victor Lange, Sigrid Spruyt, GP group De Markgraaf Antwerp,
Voordekunst, B&B hotel Antwerp, Squash Casteleyn Boom, Marlies Janssens, Sabrina Haazen, Manu Kamanda
Special thanks to Lisa Reinheimer, Wim van Stam, Dirk Verhoeven, Leon Caarls, Joke Daniëls, Petra Damen, Pieter Desmet, Joery Erna & Lumière Antwerp

Crowdfunders, Bart Hinderks, Bart van Merode, Chris Embrechts, Elke Van Mello, Guido Verelst, Klaartje
Lambrechts, Leen Dendievel, Martine Van Canegem, Nathalie Haspeslagh, Nico Krols, Peter Anthonissen, Veerle Segers, Wim De Smet & those who wish to remain anonymous Sponsor, Visual Box

A production of BARRY - Karel Tuytschaever
Co-producer, DansBrabant
With the financial support of Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds & Grensverleggers - deBuren, an arrangement to support cultural collaborations between parties in Flanders, the province of North Brabant, the province of Limburg and/or the Province of Zeeland