Beyond Sleep Opening IFFR New IFFR Director Bero Beyer Strike A
Total Page：16
File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb
Beyond Sleep opening IFFR New IFFR director Bero Beyer Strike a Pose in Berlin Panorama Fiona Tan’s History’s Future in Tiger competition Dutch line-up in Sundance, Rotterdam and Berlin ProfilesHanneke Niens and Richard van Oosterhout Issue #22 January 2016 IFFR/Sundance/Berlin issue Download the free app for iPad and Android Index Renate Rose: Managing Director EFP View from the edge COLOPHON See NL is published four times per 3 View from the Edge Renate Rose 26-27 Caught on film Maurice Dekkers’ year by EYE International and presented to the international film The Netherlands Film Fund and Managing Director, European Film Ants on a Shrimp world prems in Berlin’s is distributed to international film industry and media during the 66th Promotion Culinary Cinema section professionals. Berlinale this year. Past editions of 4-5 Silence and Nothingess Boudewijn 28-29 Digging to Berlin Rosie Stapel’s the talent showcase saw the Editors in chief: Marten Rabarts (EYE), Jonathan Mees Koole’s Beyond Silence opens IFFR feature doc, about a kitchen garden, will spotlight turned on such actors as (Netherlands Film Fund) 2016 whet appetites in Berlin Culinary Cinema Sylvia Hoeks, while the multi- Executive editor: Nick cultural dimension of Dutch society Cunningham Contributors: 6-7 Taking Charge IFFR director Bero 30-31 Food for thought In Need for Meat, Geoffrey Macnab, Melanie Beyer talks to See NL about his first selected for Berlin Culinary Cinema, Marijn reflected in the selection of such Goodfellow and Renate Rose Concept & Design: Lava.nl, Frank examines her carnivore within actors as Marwan Kenzari. festival at the helm Amsterdam Layout: def., It is almost two decades since the Amsterdam Printing: mediaLiaison 8-9 Beyond Memory Visual artist Fiona 32-33 Viking in Sweden Minority co-pro pan-European promotional Dynamic and entrepreneurial Printed on FSC paper Circulation: 2600 copies Tan makes her feature debut with Siv Sleeps Astray will open Berlin organisation European Film women producers are a force to be History’s Future, about a man in search Generation. Dutch producer Marleen © All rights reserved: Promotion (EFP) was launched to reckoned with in the Dutch film The Netherlands Film Fund and of his past Slot talks to See NL promote European cinema around industry, as shown by the EFP’s EYE International 2016 10-11 Chasing the Tiger Dutch minority 34-35 The Vanishing Minority co-pro the globe and, despite its relatively Producers on the Move platform in CONTACT co-productions in IFFR Tiger competition Humidity is selected for Berlin Forum small size for a film industry, the Cannes. Over half of the 14 Dutch Sandra den Hamer CEO EYE Netherlands has always played a key producers selected have been E [email protected] 12-13 In a Strange Town Kaweh 36-37 To Berlin via Amsterdam The role in the development of joint women, beginning in 2000 with Modiri’s feature debut Bodkin Ras, set to Turkish All of a Sudden, co-produced by Marten Rabarts activities under the EFP umbrella. Els Vandervoorst and followed in world premiere in IFFR Bright Future. Topkapi, is selected for Berlin Panorama Head of EYE International subsequent years by such colleagues E [email protected] 38-39 Art of Deception A Real Vermeer To start with, Holland Film, the as Petra Goedings and Leontine 14-15 Holland in Rotterdam Profiles of EYE International three new Dutch projects that will be about Dutch master forger Han Van predecessor of EYE Int’l, was one of Petit, all now key figures in the PO BOX 74782 pitched at CineMart 2016 Meegeren is in production. Producer EFP’s ten founding members back European co-production landscape. 1070 BT Amsterdam Reinier Selen talks fake with See NL The Netherlands in 1997, with Holland Film’s MD 16-17 Way out West Dutch films at T +31 20 758 2375 W www.eyefilm.nl Sundance 2016 40-41 Character Building Producer Claudia Landsberger serving as the It goes without staying that we have profile: Hanneke Niens organisation’s President for 12 always admired Dutch cinema (and Doreen Boonekamp 18-19 Berlin Commune Topkapi Film years until 2009, then continuing as its funding institutions) for the CEO Netherlands Film Fund is Dutch co-producer on Thomas 42-43 Lensing by Candlelight Talent Vice-President until May 2013. commitment to the development of E [email protected] Vinterberg’s Berlin comp selection profile: Richard van Oosterhout a vibrant and diverse children’s film Ellis Driessen The Commune Today, EFP has a membership of sector, but Holland has also been International Affairs 44-45 In Short Dutch shorts in selection Netherlands Film Fund 20-21 Express yourself Reijer Zwaan at Clermont Ferrand 37 organisations representing 36 the source of innovation for the E [email protected] and Ester Gould Strike a Pose with the countries in Europe and serves as a international film industry. IFFR’s Jonathan Mees 46-47 More in Short Dutch shorts in dancers from Madonna’s Blond Ambition forum for the exchange of ideas and CineMart prides itself on being the Head of Communications tour selection at Berlin and IFFR best practice between the members. ‘mother of all co-production Netherlands Film Fund The Dutch industry has featured in markets’, while the Hubert Bals E [email protected] 22-23 China Crisis Sophia Luvarà’s 48-49 New Dutch disorder The latest particular in two of EFP’s flagship Fund provided the inspiration for Inside the Chinese Closet is selected for EYE exhibition focuses on the new Netherlands Film Fund initiatives: Shooting Stars in Berlin the creation of numerous other Pijnackerstraat 5 Berlinale Panorama and competes in generation of Dutch film and video artists 1072 JS Amsterdam TEDDY competition and Producers on the Move (Cannes). festival funds around the globe to The Netherlands 50-51 Short Cuts News from the Dutch Now in its 19th year, Shooting Stars foster the production of T +31 20 570 7676 W www.filmfonds.nl 24-25 Fight Club Dutch-Turkish film industry 2016 includes Reinout Scholten van independent artistic cinema. producer Mete Gümürhan’s directorial Aschat as one of ten promising debut Young Wrestlers will world 52 Star profile Reinout Scholten van premiere in Berlin Generation Asschat, Shooting Star 2016 European acting talents who will be Cover still: Beyond Sleep. Boudewijn Koole Still: Siv Sleeps Astray See page 32 Script: Boudewijn Koole Production: KeyFilm (NL) Co-production: Nordisk Film (NO) See page 6 2 3 IFFR opening film Silence and nothingness Beyond Sleep Boudewijn Koole guide him, to help him make the meeting him when he visited the right choices.” Netherlands to give a talk about producing the Golden Globe and Alongside producers Hanneke Niens Academy Award nominated film ‘We were in a film and Hans de Wolf at Amsterdam- Kon-Tiki. Aaberge’s film starred Pål bubble for six weeks, based KeyFilm, Koole secured rights Sverre Hagen who was also cast in it was a very special to Hermans’ classic partly because the lead supporting role of Arne atmosphere’ Boudewijn Koole the late writer’s son loved Koole’s opposite up and coming Dutch actor award-winning last feature Kauwboy, Reinout Scholten van Aschat. Dutch director Boudewijn Koole about a young boy who develops a talks to Melanie Goodfellow relationship with a jackdaw. Koole originally planned to cast a about Beyond Sleep which opens British or German-speaking actor for IFFR in the presence of Queen Koole has focused on the middle the lead but changed his mind after Maxima of the Netherlands. section of Hermans’s novel, when meeting Van Aschat on an audition troubled Dutch protagonist Alfred for another film. “I auditioned Director Boudewijn Koole, like many embarks on the geological another 30 to 40 actors – many of people in the Netherlands, first read expedition alongside three them very good – but there was Dutch writer Willem Frederik Norwegian researchers, Arne, something about Reinout which Hermans’ classic novel Beyond Sleep Qvigstad and Mikkelsen. “You can’t stuck with me,” says the director. while at school. The survivalist- adapt a book without making big Van Aschat was subsequently existentialist tale, about a man choices. This isn’t so much an selected as Dutch Shooting Star 2016. grappling both with the elements adaptation as [a film] inspired by the and his inner demons during a book. Once I decided what to focus Koole praises cinematographer and scientific research trip to prove the on I started to write it like it was my long-time collaborator Melle van existence of meteorite craters in own screenplay,” explains Koole. Essen for artfully capturing the Norway, was a staple on the Dutch majestic landscape. “He did such a school curriculum for many years. The production was located August good job. He understands how to and September 2015 in the film landscapes and faces… It was not until re-reading the novel municipality of Malselv in northern sometimes he films the face like a during a trip to Scandinavia some Norway, using a former military landscape,” says the director. 20 years later that Koole was struck compound as a base. “We were in a by its cinematic potential. “I fell in film bubble for six weeks. Working The pair are set to work together love with the silence and the hard by day and then having fun at again on an upcoming dance-based nothingness that the author creates night, smoking and drinking fiction feature which is currently in in the quest of the main character whiskey, grabbing a few hours sleep development. Prior to that, a second which I thought would be interesting and then heading back to the set.