The creators met Orange Is the New Black’s Laura Gómez while screening the first season of Anne+ at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2019. And the broadcaster also got on board to develop season 2 for TV, which aired in 2020. It was released on the broadcaster’s YouTube channel with English subtitles in 2018. Then BNNVARA, a public broadcaster in the Netherlands, acquired the web series. Screenwriter Wiemeijer explains, “We didn’t give up when people didn’t want to buy our show, and we just did it ourselves because we are all queer filmmakers and we felt how important it was to make something like this.” Millstreet pitched the show to several Dutch TV outlets, all of which indicated a lesbian lead character wasn’t viable nor was funding a web series, so Millstreet decided to finish the other four episodes of the web series. This got producer Millstreet Films on board. A crowdfunding campaign that was funded at nearly 200 percent supported the endeavor. The trio of Dutch media makers decided to “go guerrilla” and shoot the first two episodes with a volunteer cast and crew who felt connected to the need for queer female representation. There’s still tons of other types we still have to fit in somewhere, but I think we’ve come quite far,” says Van Vliet.Īnne+ was strongly influenced by the French-Canadian lesbian web series Féminin/ Féminin as well as Australia’s Please Like Me and Transparent in the U.S. We tried to make it as diverse as possible. “We wanted to avoid the stereotyped view on lesbian women - at first, and now we’ve broadened the spectrum. It’s clear Anne+ grew from its beginnings as a light-hearted series made to normalize lesbian life to a show possessing a more specific and broad queer orientation. There’s also realistic - and hot - sex between women. The cast diversifies further in the second season and includes a range of BIPOC and trans people, gay men, and other queers of various sizes, shapes, and persuasions. As her story unfolds, we see Anne go in and out of relationships, grow as a person, gain awareness about herself and her privileges, and figure out what and who she really wants.Īnne+ tackles questions of privilege as well as identity, community, love, friendship, and other issues. The series features clubbing and partying, daily life struggles, and frank discussions among friends and lovers. The “+” in the title conveys that each episode about Anne plus one of her lovers (first season) or a couple (second season) to whom she is connected. Portrayed by actor Van Vliet, Anne Verbeek is a charming white cisgender middle-class lesbian who is often more than a little self-involved. The well-made series is a funny, sexy, and sometimes heartbreaking portrayal of a young lesbian living in Amsterdam exploring what she wants out of life and how to get it. The city is a big character in the entire series and the film,” says Bisscheroux, the first-time director who steered the first season of the web series, a second season made for TV, and the forthcoming feature film. “We wanted to portray the Amsterdam queer culture as it is so when people do come to Amsterdam, they maybe know where to go or have a feeling of what queer culture is like. Van Vliet, along with screenwriter Maud Wiemeijer and director Valerie Bisscheroux, is co-creator of the series, which has garnered an extraordinary international following of folks enchanted by Anne, her lovers and friends, and the city of Amsterdam. Amsterdam is seen as so free, but there is really not that much representation coming from Amsterdam - yet,” says Dutch actor Hanna van Vliet.Įnter Anne+, a web series about a 20-something Dutch lesbian that has captivated viewers around the world. “There is actually not much queer content from Amsterdam, even though we are known as the queer capital and the first country (Netherlands) where gay marriage was legalized.
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