About That Life (film)

About That Life
Film poster
Dutch	De Libi
Directed by	Shady El-Hamus
Written by	Shady El-Hamus Jeroen Scholten van Aschat
Starring	Bilal Wahib Daniel Kolf Oussama Ahammoud Vera Bulder
Cinematography	Stephan Polman
Edited by	Patrick Schonewille
Music by	Terence Dunn Ko Zandvliet
Distributed by	Gusto Entertainment
Release date	13 June 2019 (2019-06-13)
Running time	102 minutes
Country	Netherlands
Language	Dutch
Box office	$477,162[1][2]

About That Life (Dutch: De Libi) is a 2019 Dutch comedy-drama film directed by Shady El-Hamus (in his directorial debut)[3] who co-wrote with Jeroen Scholten van Aschat.[4][5] In July 2019, it was shortlisted as one of the nine films in contention to be the Dutch entry for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, but it was not selected.[6]

Cast

• Bilal Wahib as Bilal
• Daniel Kolf as Gregg
• Oussama Ahammoud as Kev
• Vera Bulder as Liv

Production

In September 2018, it was announced that rapper Hef, Bilal Wahib and Daniel Kolf were added to the cast.[3] Principal photography took place in the summer of 2018.

References

1. "De Libi (2019)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 18 July 2019.
2. "De Libi (2019)". The Numbers. Retrieved 18 July 2019.
3. "Rapper Hef en Bilal Wahib in nieuwe film De Libi" (in Dutch). NU.nl. 8 September 2018. Archived from the original on 16 July 2019. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
4. "Shady El-Hamus over De libi". filmkrant. 3 June 2019. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
5. "'Alles moest groots' voor het debuut van filmmaker Shady El-Hamus". parool. 12 June 2019. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
6. "International Feature Film Academy Entry". Eye International. Retrieved 14 July 2019.

External links

• About That Life at IMDb