Martin Beek | FilmMaker | Director of Photography

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Birth of a SongA silent non-profit short about HIV and prejudice.
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Filmmaking-hardware testdrives and non-biased reviews

During the course of 2010 my team and i will be conducting hardware tests - and writing reviews - for a number of essential filmmaking tools.

My production team, existing of Karel Hamm, Patrick Huiberts, Bart Keimen, me myself and i, will be putting some selected products to the tests during shoots and other real-life production situations. Barry Johnson and i will publish test results, reviews, pictures and how-tos of these tests.

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Music videos, new styles wanted

Gothic, metal, grunch, techno, hardcore... Special deals to welcome new artists.

Gimme gimme gimme

Hot gear: GearNex brings back oldschool Geared Head, but for half the price of a mini Worrall.

Testdrive January 2010

The DollyTrax camera dolly system from MidSouth Visual is a budget trackless dolly system. UPDATE!

Testdrive december 2009

Tascam DR-07 digital audio field recorder, tested in production (documentary) environment.

George Lucas

talks about the development and future of Digital Cinema. YouTube video from AFI.

Steven salutes Martin for his camera work for VHF.org.

Martin has recently received praise from Steven Spielberg for his camera work for the Survivors of the Shoah project. Martin interviewed over 60 holocaust survivors in the Netherlands and Belgium.

More information on the website of www.vhf.org

MB's Essential Gear store UK

With extensive Cinematography Books section!

MB's Essential Gear store US

Martin Beek Marvels Film Film maker director

Hello and welcome to my website!

It's nearly 2010 and this new Martin Beek website is still more-or-less under construction. I hope to get all content migrated from the old website to this new one, before the end of December.

Some new topics and sections will be launched soon, such as the Filmmaking Hardware Testdrives. I am also having talks soon with other contributors, to provide even more film-making-related content.

Parallel to this website, there is the Marvels Film Shooters Blog, where filmmakers discuss some of the topics and articles on this website. Select the Blog or Twitter menu items at the top of this page to stay up to date.

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About MartinBeek.Net

You have landed at the website of film maker Martin Beek. Martin lives in the Netherlands with his wife, two daughters, two dogs (bitches too) and a guinea pig called Jean-Pierre. Martin is a traditionally schooled cinematographer who has over 20 years of experience in the field of film making. Via his production company Marvels Film, Martin produces TV documentaries, shorts, commercials and music videos. The last few years, Martin participates in a growing number of non-profit projects; both for "tzedakah" and for sharing his skills and knowledge with the new generation of filmmakers.
Recently, Martin put his Arriflex camera in a museum and switched to digital film making. His weblog is targeted towards this new medium.

Read Martin's Bio page to learn more about him, and for contact information. Use the contact form to send Martin a message.

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