BASED OUT OF AMSTERDAM
COLUMNBINEFILM IS
A FAMILY OF FILMMAKERS

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FUTURE: COMING SOON

“FLORIDA TALES” (2025) - FILM

"Florida Tales" tells the Emotional Hurricane of a Journey by an Angry Young Man who gets lost on the road down a familiar path of medication, therapy and self reflection seeking the correlation between his and others' creative genius and their mental health.

“#” (2025) - SERIES

“#” = An Amsterdam Based Anthology Collection in a Series Form.

For Amsterdam, By Amsterdam, With Amsterdam. ❌❌❌

"#" tells the tragic rise and fall of a group of friends in a city during one week of life and death. A contemporary tale of what goes up must come down.

“POPS” (2025) - DOCUMENTARY

A Feature Length DOC on POPS. Produced by BOTHWORKS x COLUMNBINEFILM
Written & Directed by PIETER BOTH & TOMMY BOTH

"POPS" tells the Autobiographical tale of Amsterdam's most notorious hedonist. An extroverted prisoner who kept his mouth shut. An Icon in the Advertising Industry and a Restaurant owner in Miami. Last but not least a true Family Man.

“FLORIDA TALES” (FILM)

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"Florida Tales" tells the Emotional Hurricane of a Journey by an Angry Young Man who gets lost on the road down a familiar path of medication, therapy and self reflection seeking the correlation between his and others' creative genius and their mental health.

“POPS” (DOC)

“POPS” IS THE TRUE STORY OF NATURAL BORN STORYTELLER PIETER BOTH (1940). AN ORIGINAL AMSTERDAM TALE TOLD BY ONE OF ITS MOST COLOURFUL AND LEGENDARY LOCALS. IN 85 MINUTES HE FINALLY SHARES HIS 85 YEAR OLD BOOK OF LIFE IN CONVERSATION WITH HIS TWO SONS. FILMED ON ICONIC SQUARES OF THE CITY OF AMSTERDAM (THE 'RED SQUARE', THE LEIDSEPLEIN, AND MUSEUMPLEIN) BUT ALSO ON LOCATION ABROAD (IN MIAMI, FLORIDA & SWEDEN).

“POPS” IS THE SON OF A COMMUNIST IN THE 40s AND A TWENTY-YEAR-OLD TRAIN CONDUCTOR ACROSS EUROPE. POPS IS A TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD FATHER AND HAIRDRESSER WHO SAYS GOODBYE TO HIS FAMILY AND LOSES HIS CAFÉ WITH A CARD GAME BET. HE'S ALSO A TOUR MANAGER FOR A GROUP OF GO-GO DANCERS TOURING THEM THROUGH THE MIDDLE EAST IN THE 1970s. A PRISONER WHO SPENTS 15+ MONTHS BEHIND BARS IN SCANDINAVIA. POPS EVENTUALLY BECOMES THE FIRST ADVERTISING AGENT & REPRESENTATIVE OF A SERIES OF TOP PHOTOGRAPHERS IN AMSTERDAM IN THE LATE 70s & EARLY 80s. LATER IN LIFE HE MATURES INTO A LOCATION SCOUT, LOCATION MANAGER, AND ADVERTISING PRODUCER IN THE 90S. AFTER HIS RETIREMENT IN ADVERTISING, HE BECOMES A 75 YEAR OLD RESTAURATEUR OF THE ONLY INDONESIAN RESTAURANT IN MIAMI BEACH. RUNNING THE SHOW TOGETHER WITH HIS (THIRD) WIFE INEKE, THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE AND RUNNER-UP MISS WORLD 1977...

BUT “POPS” THE DOCU BEGINS AND ENDS IN HIS OWN CITY WITH A CONVERSATION IN CAFE SUD - HIS LAST ACE: THE FAMILY-RUN NEIGHBOURHOOD RESTAURANT THAT WILL SOON CLOSE ITS DOORS AFTER GREAT SUCCES. A GOOD MOMENT TO START THIS LIFE STORY. “POPS” RECENTLY BECAME A GRANDPA. THIS IS THE REASON FOR HIS TWO SONS TO BUNDLE THEIR CREATIVE FORCES FOR A PORTRAIT OF DAD IN THE FORM OF AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FAMILY CHRONICLE... HE WHO ALWAYS LEAVES EVERYONE BEHIND WITH A GOOD FEELING. BUT DOES THIS ALSO COUNT FOR HIS FAMILY?

"POPS" - 85 MIN. - DOCUMENTARY

“#” (SERIES)

Meet LISA, CARO, BEA & MIA: 4 beautiful influential 20-somethings everyone
Likes, Loves, or Hates. They're the Talk of the Town growing up chasing dreams.
Their four Diaries are the ones trending in Music, Art, Fashion & Lifestyle.

Their powers combined are the independently published online magazine "#".
Sharing the Zeitgeist from four very different perspectives in good writing, without fear.
We meet them sky high on the top of their game on the last Friday of the Summer.
A new era and next chapter of a life changing event unfolds, as we follow them BTS
after signing a huge contract with a media publisher. It'll turn their hobbies into
careers, or so they thought... Celebrating their Coffee Table Book Launch at a newly
opened pop-up store they decide to bring their online talents into the offline community.

After live-streaming the inking of matching "#" tattoos and toasting with their entourage
at a sold-out Anniversary party later that evening, the first cracks start to reveal in a
Picture Perfect Image. With the increase of too much attention, lights and unfiltered noise
we see them lose sight of each other in the fast lane and the limelight.

MIA (Missing in Action) for most of the day and night is LISA: our Poster Girl and
The Popular One who falls from the Rooftop of her Art School. She hits Rock Bottom.
Literally. Family, Friends, Followers and Haters are left in shock The Mo(u)rning After.
The unstoppable are Held on Pause. From Sky's the limit to Six Feet Under.
Once so seductive and powerful all of a sudden without a plan, clueless, #nofilter

During one week of this Live Fast Die Young generation we experience these
Friends Non-chronologically from four perspectives as we see them together and
alone. At The Party. The Wake. The Funeral... In a silent state of shock.
A decade later Dear Friend of the Fam SHAMIRO (our narrator of this cautionary tale)
He who mc'd the Anniversary Party and Mic Dropped as Master of Ceremonies at The Funeral.
One evening in Berlin he accidentally opens up his little black book from ten years ago.
Lost & Found in a forgotten pocket of an old coat, while looking for fire while rollin’ a joint.
Reminiscing... The Summer that Shaped him for life… He still here.
Whatever happened to The Girls?

FIND OUT AND GO SEE: "#"