Unrestricted shooting
The film is exceptional in more than one way. Firstly because its director was able to follow in those of Bart De Wever for… ten years. Then because he was able to carry his camera around without restriction and benefit from very personal interviews with him that no journalist was able to obtain. Even in his car or in his bunker (“war room“), on election day.”I was there, I was part of the decor, I was very discreet too”recognizes Paul Jambers.
As evidenced by the film’s trailer, this is a mainstream documentary. The objective was clearly to show the behind the scenes of a little-known world, considered inaccessible, very harsh and where anything goes. A world where the mayor of Antwerp, president of the N-VA and federal trainer feels very comfortable.
In the documentary “BDW political beast”the boss plays his own role. Politics is his life. The two merge in him. When asked what motivates him, power or happiness, he answers that it comes down to the same thing. According to BDW, the happiness of a political leader comes from the power with which he is invested. Asked whether the lifestyle he leads (at the expense of his family, he regrets) is worth it, he responds laconically: “We will know the answer in thirty years.” “Here is an example of his true speech that the Flemings love”laughs Jambers in an interview with the magazine There.
Bande-annonce du documentary BDW – political animal
Director and producer
The Well-known Flemish Paul Jambers is not very well known in French-speaking Belgium. Born in Antwerp in 1945, the television director has produced a large number of unusual reports and hard-hitting documentaries. We owe him in particular the scathing report devoted to mountain jackets Milleta very popular brand among schoolchildren at that time. Jambers showed that these jackets had become very popular with young people. We were talking about the “Millet Generation. The Panorama program on BRT (the former name of VRT) was a hit in 1986: 2.1 million viewers, a record.
The Antwerp resident left the public channel in 1989 and launched, this time on VTM, a new television series which would bear his name: Jambers. He will also work for the competing channel VT4 and for commercial television in the Netherlands. At the same time, Paul Jambers created his own production house (The Television Factory) which he subsequently sold to the Dutch company Eyeworks.
