Pierre De Clercq

To find the right words for every story, it is a gift that Pierre De Clercq is honored for in the Flemish film and television landscape. As a scriptwriter of Verlengd Weekend, Hasta La Vista, Halfweg and Broer, he manages to keep the fragile balance between drama and comedy time after time. It should come as no surprise that Hasta La Vista started the prize for best scenario at the Flemish Film Awards 2012 and in the same year also received the prize for best scenario from the Flemish Writers' Guild. Pierre also wrote for the successful television series Windkracht 10, Flikken and Amigo's. After three successful collaborations with Pierre, hopefully more will follow.

Works

Why Do You Love Me

Baskara, a paraplegic with paralyzed nerves, Danton with a brain tumor that paralyzes his lower body, and Miko with retinitis pigmentosa, which has made him completely blind. But they are not going to let anything stand in their way, hellbent to finally losing their virginity.

Release Date:2023-06-28

Department:Writing

Job:Original Film Writer

Vote Count:3

Amigo's

Five guys spent their time in prison. Some of them even for murder. Now they want to run a restaurant called Amigo's. But not everything goes how it was supposed to go.

Release Date:2017-01-16

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:5

Adios Amigos

Three young guys with disabilities want to go on a party holiday in Salou, just as their friends do. Only their parents block this idea. But then a caretaker, found on the internet, makes the dream possible. Adios Amigos is a remake of the Belgium movie Hasta La Vista.

Release Date:2016-09-08

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:15

Brother

The extravagantly rich Grace wants to revive a 20-year old love affair. Mark travels to Ireland, together with pushy Ronnie and pretends to be his deceased brother Michel.

Release Date:2016-01-20

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:14

Belgian Rhapsody

The Flemish harmony Sint-Cecilia from Staaikerke and the Walloon harmony En Avant are both selected for the big European finale. The Walloon En Avant comes up with the great trumpeter Hugues. Hugues is so amazing during his solo that Willy, from the Flemish Sint-Cecilia, has to give everything he has, the highest note, the lowest note, the last note... Willy falls dead on stage. Surprising everyone, both harmonies get selected for the finale. But what will the Flemish do without their best player? Elke, the daughter of conductor Jozef, has an idea. A transfer! What works easily on a football field seems to be more difficult in the music world. The young, handsome Hugues generates a lot of emotions in the quiet village of Staaikerke. His transfer drives the conflict between En Avant and Sint-Cecilia on.

Release Date:2014-12-10

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:11

Labyrinthus

Frikke, a 14-year-old boy, discovers a sinister computer game that uses real children from his neighbourhood as players. In a race against time Frikke must find the evil creator of this horrible game.

Release Date:2014-07-02

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:48

Halfway

Stef moved to a new home, but there is another man in his home, Theo. Theo is the previous owner of the house, he died a few years ago. Stef seems to be the only one who can see him.

Release Date:2014-02-26

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:9

Come As You Are

Three young guys like wine and women. They tested wine with pleasure, but the second they have never been able to taste. Under the guise of a wine tour, the three plans a trip to Spain to finally have sex. Nothing will stop them. Certainly not the fact that the first guy is blind, the second is in a wheelchair and the third is completely paralyzed.

Release Date:2011-09-02

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:163

Flikken Maastricht

Former Amsterdam police detective Floris Wolfs has been transferred to the police department of the south-Dutch country town Maastricht. His metropolitan experience nicely complements the local expertise of his new country colleagues, who know the folks. Slowly he fits in, while solving countless crimes together with his female partner Eva van Dongen.

Release Date:2007-09-03

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:24

Stormforce

A maverick military diver gets demoted to a dangerous search-and-rescue squadron and must gain the trust of his new team.

Release Date:2006-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:15

Long Weekend

Businessman Christian Vandenheuvel planned to spend the long weekend with his young mistress, Lisa. Instead, they're take hostage by Jos Diels and Nick, two of the 46 laborers who lost their job recently when Christian had his family film bankrupted. Each victim fails to escape, even the fire alarm doesn't get them freed. After Jos realizes the mistress is his only daughter, and Nick falls in love with Lisa, the masked men's mood evolves as they progress to truth time, when the police arrives.

Release Date:2005-10-12

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:14

Flikken

Flikken was a popular Flemish-Belgian TV series about a police-department located in Ghent. The show started in 1999 and ended recently on 19 April 2009. In the series, a team of six police officers solved various crimes, petty crimes as well as organised crime. The series always aimed at showing the policework in a realistic way - though a little personal drama was never far off. Of all the actors that came along during the ten seasons, only Mark Tijsmans and Ludo Hellinx appeared throughout the entire series. Flikken was produced by the VRT and broadcast on Belgian public channel Eén and TROS in the Netherlands. Flikken is very popular in Belgium and the Netherlands. The show has had very high ratings of up to 1.8 million viewers during the last season. Every year the VRT organises the Flikkendag, a family day where the public can meet the actors of the show. There are many games, demonstrations of the real police and other safety organisations and performances of singers. On 18 April 2009, a special farewell party was organised in Ghent, in which the actors and crew said goodbye to their fans - thousands had assembled to watch the show on stage.

Release Date:1999-10-17

Department:Writing

Job:Scenario Writer

Episode Count:52

Vote Count:14

Windkracht 10

Release Date:1997-04-22

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:4

Jan Cox, a Painter's Odyssey

Biographical film about the life and work of the Belgian painter Jan Cox. Cox had a tempestuous youth, during which he co-founded the Jeune Peinture Belge group and worked on the fringes of the Cobra movement.

Release Date:1988-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Jean-Gina B.

This film is based on the true story of Jean Bella, who served as an officer in the Belgian Marine while being convinced, from an early age, that he was in fact a woman. Director Jean-Pol Ferbus follows Jean Bella and makes him talk about his life, psychological and spiritual experiences and reveals the true poet who remained undisclosed for most of this person's life. The film ultimately isn't about transexuality but about loneliness one can experience when he/she feels very deeply that she/he belongs to the two sexes and this in a deep, almost religious, fashion, to such an extent that sexuality itself is being erased from one's life. Jean-Gina Bella is a woman in the body of a man who bravely lived a life on the sea, eventually fighting the elements, talking to God when lost on the immense solitary ocean. This testimony is a very touching and poetic one.

Release Date:1984-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Ad vitam aeternam

A man remains dazed and confused after his wife's death. Strange things start happening in his house. The next day the undertaker comes to collect the body.

Release Date:1978-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Assistant Director