Rutger Hauer Master Class

june 12th 2009

Emile Jansen has been asked to participate in Rutger Hauer`s Master Class.

He`ll be playing in the short film Something`s got to burn and in a commercial for Smart Cars.


This little short commercial has been written , produced , filmed and edited in less than 20 hours !!!

by students of the Master Class being helped by professional actors . Emile Jansen appears in this “Lowest CO2 Emission” for Smart Cars.


Lectures will be given by Rutger Hauer , Lech Majewski , Paul Verhoeven ,

Robert Rodriquez , Claudia Llosa , Mark de Cloe to name but a few.

Friday 19th 2009


The first shorts have arrived. Since their briefing on Friday the 5 teams of the Rutger Hauer Filmfactory have been losing sweat, blood and tears (and maybe sleep) over producing a short commercial for Smart in just less than two days. After a frantic Saturday spent on editing the results premiered Saturday evening at the Filmfactory in Rotterdam and online worldwide…

world premiere Sunday July 

28th 2009 at

Kriterion / Rotterdam

16.00 and 20.00 hours

emile jansen and rutger hauer at the premiere

emile jansen and lech majevski , director of hauer`s new film The Mill and the Cross)