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Film Producers Netherlands 4 Netherlands Film Production Incentive 5 Finance possibilities Selective Schemes 5 Netherlands Film Commission 7 EYE International 7 Project markets 7

Members Film Producers Netherlands

BALDR Film 8 Lemming Film 26 BosBros 9 Millstreet Films 27 Cadenza Films 10 Mountain Road Group 28 Circe Films 11 Mulholland Pictures 29 Cool Beans 12 New Amsterdam Film Company 30 CTM Films 13 OAK Motion Pictures 31 De Productie 14 PVPictures 32 Family Affair Films 15 Rotterdam Films 33 FATT Productions 16 Sigma Pictures Productions 34 Graniet Film 17 Sluizer Films 35 House of Netherhorror 18 SNG Film 36 IJswater Films 19 Submarine Film 37 Incredible Film 20 The Film Kitchen 38 Johan Nijenhuis & Co 21 Topkapi Films 39 Films 22 Viking Film 40 Kaap Holland Film 23 Volya Films 41 Keren Cogan Films 24 24 FPS features 42 KeyFilm 25 Film Producers Netherlands Film Producers Netherlands

Welcome to the world of Dutch cinema!

Dutch film producers have extensive experience with international co-productions and Film Producers Netherlands are always interested in broadening their horizons. We proudly present Companies, Films & Film Producers Netherlands is the association Projects on behalf of our members. In this brochure, you will find many completed films and of Dutch film producers. Our aim is to projects in development in search of international partners for financing, co-production, stimulate and support a dynamic and creative distribution or sales. film industry. We represent the majority of Dutch film producers, promoting their The diversity of the projects gives a good impression of the variety and vivacity of Dutch film common interests and collaborating with culture. Dutch cinema offers excellent opportunities. In 2014, the Netherlands Film Production (international) parties in the film industry. Incentive was launched, offering a 30% cash rebate on production costs that are spent in the Netherlands. This scheme has proven to be highly successful, with a total of 80 projects receiving the cash rebate in 2015. The 2016 budget for the Production Incentive is € 29.2 million. Marjan van der Haar Managing Director With this overview, we hope to continue to stimulate international co-production and +31 6 31 79 00 17 distribution between Dutch film producers and international partners. [email protected]

Welcome to the world of Dutch cinema! Contact Boardmembers Korte Zoutkeetsgracht 2 Marleen Slot Marleen Slot, Viking Film, Chairman 1013 MC Amsterdam Chairman Ate de Jong, Mulholland Pictures, Treasurer The Netherlands Film Producers Netherlands Joost de Vries +31 20 627 00 61 Sander Verdonk, New Amsterdam Film Company +31 6 31 79 00 17 Maarten Swart, Kaap Holland Film [email protected] www.filmproducenten.nl

4 Finance possibilities • The Netherlands should be one of the Apply: applications can be submitted in 4 The budget available for funding for the Film countries of origin among the co-producers. application rounds (Februari, May, August, Production Incentive is € 29.2 million. Further • In order to ensure the cultural objectives November) by a Dutch co-producer who has € 2.5 million is available for selective schemes of the measure, a test of qualifying produced at least two films that have been targeting minority co-productions. In 2015, characteristics will be conducted. released theatrically in the Netherlands. 80 film projects received cash rebates of 30% Applications should meet at least three of through the Film Production Incentive. In ten cultural criteria to be eligible. Finance possibilities addition 30 projects received minority co- • The production expenses that are taken Selective Schemes production support through selective schemes. into consideration must be directly related Production support for minority to the filmmaking process. co-productions Netherlands Film Production • The amount of the grant is determined • Maximum contribution is € 250,000 Incentive by the production costs that are both for a feature film and € 50,000 for a Criteria for the 30% cash rebate on eligible and demonstrably spent on (film) documentary or a short animation. production spent in the Netherlands: professionals or (film)companies based • The requested grant must be fully spent on • Open to applications for feature films in the Netherlands, multiplied by 30%. Dutch services, cast and crew. and feature-length animated films with a The maximum grant is 1 million euro • A deal memo from a Dutch film distributor production budget of at least 1 million euro per application. An advance payment for the theatrical release of the film in the and to feature length documentaries with a is possible up to 30% of the financial Netherlands is required. production budget of at least € 250,000. contribution after conclusion of the • The total Dutch share of the project needs • A planned theatrical release in the Production Agreement. to be at least 10% of the production costs, Netherlands or, in case of a minority co- • A grant will only be awarded if there including any Dutch share from Eurimages. production, at least a non-theatrical release is a minimum of € 100,000 of eligible • The project must have substantial financial in the Netherlands and a theatrical release production spent in the Netherlands. support already in place from the country in another country should be confirmed • During each round, eligible applications will of origin of the main producer, amounting upon application. be ranked on the basis of a points system. to at least 50% of its own share and • At least 50% of the production budget Only applications that reach a minimum of containing at least a production grant from should be in place upon application. 75 points are taken into consideration. a regional/national film fund.

5 Apply: applications can be submitted 10,000) a script (€ 20,000 ), a re-write of a Co-production treaties and agreements throughout the year by a Dutch co-producer script or script coaching (€ 2,500) + € 1,000 The Netherlands currently has co-production who has produced at least one film that has for translation costs. treaties with France, Canada, Germany, been released theatrically in the Netherlands. China, South Africa and Wallonia Brussels Distribution support for minority Federation. There are agreements with Production support for minority co-productions in the Netherlands Germany (children’s film co-development co-productions with partner Funds • Minority co-productions granted by the Fund with MDM), Norway (co-operation The Film Fund runs several special reciprocal Film Fund are eligible for distribution agreement with Norwegian Film Institute), co-production schemes together with support for the Dutch theatrical release, VAF (agreement with Flanders Audiovisual partner funds abroad: up to a maximum of € 10,000. Fund) and South-Africa. • VAF (Flanders Audiovisual Fund) for Apply: throughout the year by the distributor. the support of features, documentaries More details and information and (short) animation films. Maximum International distribution and/or dubbing Netherlands Film Fund contribution is € 200,000 and € 50,000 for a support for Dutch films abroad Doreen Boonekamp, CEO short animation or documentary. • Foreign distributors can apply for support Ellis Driessen, International Affairs • NFI (Norwegian Film Institute) for the for distribution and/or dubbing costs for a Production Incentive support of documentaries. Maximum theatrical release outside the Netherlands José van Doorn, contribution is € 50,000. of Dutch features and documentaries Manager Film Production Incentive • NFF+HBF Co-production Scheme for the which have received funding from the Selective Schemes support of feature films developed by Netherlands Film Fund. Frank Peijenburg, Head of Screen NL HBF (Hubert Bals Fund). The maximum • The Film Fund can match up to 40% Peggy Driessen-Bussink, contribution is € 50,000. Annually € 200,000 of the total distribution costs with a Production Manager International affairs is available. maximum of € 10,000 and up to 50% of Dany Delvoie, • MDM (Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung) the total dubbing costs with a maximum Project coordinator international affairs for the development of original children contribution of € 20,000 per film. www.filmfund.nl and youth features. Support can be • For dubbing support priority is given to requested for writing of a treatment (€ Dutch children’s and youth films.

6 Netherlands Film Commission Holland Film Meeting of the directors and/or producers from all The Netherlands Film Commission is the 22 - 25 September 2016 over the world. offi cial liaison between the Dutch creative The Holland Film Meeting Co-Production • Projects should be new or recent and fresh media industries and foreign producers and Platform is the co-production meeting of on the market. production companies. the Netherlands . • Feature fi lm with theatrical potential Netherlands Film Commission Criteria: (minimum length of 60 minutes). Bas van der Ree, • European feature projects suitable for • A complete screenplay should be available Netherlands Film Commissioner Dutch or European co-production are during CineMart, diff erent stages of www.fi lmcommission.nl eligible. development allowed (budget not to • Fiction, documentary, animation and exceed € 6 million). EYE International transmedia projects with a minimum Apply: application deadline 1 September 2016. EYE International is responsible for the length of 70 min. Contact: Marit van den Elshout / Inke van international marketing & promotion of Dutch • Local fi nancial support must be in place. Loocke, +31 10 890 90 90, cinemart@iff r.com, fi lms. EYE International off ers a wide variety of Apply: application deadline July 1, 2016. iff r.com/en/professionals/iff r-industry/cinemart services for Dutch fi lmmakers and producers Contact: Vanja Kaludjercic, +31 6 24 97 22 93, to enhance the perception and visibility of hfmcopro@fi lmfestival.nl, www.fi lmfestival.nl/ Cinekid Dutch fi lmmaking worldwide. EYE is involved profs_en/holland-fi lm-meeting/ 18 - 21 October 2016 in every stage in the life of a Dutch fi lm The Junior Co-production Market is an abroad, from its selection at a recognized fi lm Cinemart integrated 2-day co-production market festival to its presentation at an international 28 January - 3 February 2017 that enables fi nanciers, broadcasters and market. It provides the international fi lm CineMart is a Co-Production Platform producers to assess new and innovative circuit with information on current activities and was one of the fi rst of its kind to off er projects across the cross-media, fi lm and within the Dutch fi lm industry. fi lmmakers the opportunity to launch their television sectors. Eye International ideas to the international fi lm industry. Apply: application deadline June 15th, 2016. Marten Rabarts, Criteria: Contact: Nienke Poelsma, +31 (0)20 531 78 96, Head of EYE International • Viability and quality of the plans suitable [email protected], www.cinekid.nl/ www.international.eyefi lm.nl for an international market, proven talent professional

7 BALDR Film

BALDR Film (2012) is the Amsterdam- Brothers Etgar Keret: A Truth-telling Liar based production company of producers Release: summer 2016. Status: production. Release: winter 2016. Status: production. Sort: Frank Hoeve and Katja Draaijer. They focus Sort: feature-length film, 100 min. Genre: documentary, 54/70 min. Director: Stephane on developing and producing high-quality drama. Director: Bram Schouw. Screenwriter: Kaas. Screenwriter: Rutger Lemm & Stephane features and documentaries of a select Marcel Roijaards. Cast: Jonas Smulder, Kaas. Co-producers: 2-Team Productions number of filmmakers with a distinctive Niels Gomperts, Christa Theret and Rufus. (Israel) & To Be Continued ( France), NTR. personal signature for an international Financers: Netherlands Film Fund, Dutch Financers: Dutch Cultural Media Fund, CoBO. market. Their latest credit is the IDFA Cultural Media Fund, CoBO, NTR. Aim at market: to present the film to nominated and Dutch Academy Award Aim at market: to present the film to potential buyers, local distributors and winner Those Who Feel the Fire Burning by potential buyers, local distributors and festivals. Morgan Knibbe (IDFA, True/False, Hot Docs, festivals. Sarajevo Film Festival, CPH:Dox). BALDR Film In his extremely short stories, Israeli writer Etgar is a member of the ACE-network. Coming of age drama about the 19-year-old Keret plays an impressive game with fantasy Lukas. He has to step out of the shadow of and reality. Even his life story sounds like a his charismatic older brother – who he loves modern fairy tale. In this hybrid documentary, till death. the filmmakers examine why telling fabrications is essential for Keret’s continued existence.

Frank Hoeve, Katja Draaijer

BALDR Film Oudezijds Achterburgwal 77 1012 DC Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 20 303 26 70 [email protected] www.baldrfilm.nl

8 BosBros

BosBros has set the standard for high- Coupe Confused Marionette quality fi lm and television productions in Release: TBC. Status: script development. Marionette is an Accento Films/BosBros the Netherlands since 1989. BosBros has a Sort: feature-length fi lm. Genre: comedy/ production. Release: September 2017. Status: proven track record to produce such classics drama. Director: Mischa Kamp. Screenwriter: fi nancing. Sort: feature-length fi lm. Genre: as The Flying Liftboy, Minoes, Winky’s Horse Tamara Bos. Co-producer: TBC. Financiers: psychological thriller. Director: Elbert van Strien. and The Amazing Wiplala. In addition to Dutch Film Fund Development, Creative Screenwriter: Elbert van Strien, Ben Hopkins. producing many new feature fi lms, BosBros’s Europe Development. Sales: In The Air. Cast: TBC. Financiers: Dutch Film Fund, Creative challenge for the future is to conquer the Aim at market: to present the fi lm to Europe. Sales: Protagonist Pictures (UK). European market with animation projects. potential fi nanciers, buyers, local distributors Aim at market: to present the fi lm to and festivals. potential equity and gap fi nanciers.

Romy (8) does not enjoy having to go to her A psychological thriller about a child grandmother’s hair salon after school; but then psychiatrist who treats a disturbed child that it turns out that her grandmother really needs claims to control the world. Marianne van Burny Bos Romy’s help. Coupe Confused is a story about Zanten, a child psychiatrist, loses her husband dementia, through the eyes of a young girl. in a terrible, random accident. Resolving to make a new start, she moves to Glasgow, taking on a job in a clinic where they treat disturbed children. One of her new patients, Manny, a closed and secretive 9-year old BosBros boy, has an unusual delusion: he claims to Arie Biemondstraat 111 have created the world. He even claims to 1054 PD Amsterdam have invented Marianne. Marianne, deeply The Netherlands intrigued, begins an obsession that will derail +31 20 524 40 30 her life. Her grip on reality begins to spiral out

Script: Tamara Bos [email protected] Director: Mischa Kamp of control, taking her on a journey that will Production company: BosBros www.bosbros.com question the nature of existence itself.

9 Cadenza Films

The Dutch film production company Cadenza Orestes Films is owned by Dutch film director Rudolf Status: financing. Sort: feature-length Status: financing. Sort: feature-length film, van den Berg, Dutch producer Jeroen film,115 min. Genre: drama. Director: Rudolf 120 min. Genre: historical drama. Director: Koolbergen and international producer van den Berg. Screenwriters: Rudolf van den Rudolf van den Berg. Screenwriter: Rudolf Pierre Spengler. The aim of Cadenza Films is Berg & David Rudkin. Co-producers: Roberto van den Berg. Co-producers: San Fu Maltha, to produce feature movies in the English and Bessi, Jeroen Beker. Developed with support Ilann Girard. Developed with support from the Dutch language, which combine quality from the Dutch Film Fund. Shooting in the the Dutch Film Fund. Shooting in 2017. with realistic commercial possibilities. fall of 2016. Contact: San Fu Maltha, [email protected]

The feature film Orestes is based on the famous Armed with his razor-sharp quill pen, trilogy by Aischylos. The film tells the story of Spinoza wages war against the hegemony the oldest family drama in European literature. of the church. The clergymen of the Golden It is the archetypal soap and it is based on Age strike back ferociously. Because of his Jeroen Koolbergen Greek mythology. After twenty-five hundred trail-blazing ideas about God and Freedom, Pierre Spengler years, the story still is urgent, the plot still heart- Spinoza is branded as a heretic, treated as an Rudolf van den Berg (director) wrenching. Nowan, the son of a king is brought outcast, almost murdered. But even Clara, the up as a shepherd boy in a desolate land where love of his life, cannot stop him from writing the law of the fittest reigns. This barbaric law the revolutionary work that underlies the is subordinate only to one other: Blood for democratic liberties we now take for granted. Cadenza Films Blood. And that is why it is Nowan’s duty to take Utrechtsestraat 149 revenge on his father’s murderer. He swears 1017 VM Amsterdam he will repay evil with evil. But when Nowan The Netherlands finds out that it was his mother who killed his +31 20 638 28 25 father, he decides to put this law aside. His +31 6 54 98 15 03 defiance will not be looked upon favorably. [email protected] Contact: Jeroen Beker, +31 6 54 27 46 99, www.cadenzafilms.com [email protected]

10 Circe Films

Since its establishment in 1996, Amsterdam Cobain Avrupa based Circe Films has (co-)produced over Release: 2017. Status: production. Sort: Release: 2018. Status: treatment. Sort: 20 feature films by outstanding filmmakers feature-length film, 95 min. Genre: drama. television series, 10 x 55 min. Genre: drama. from across the globe. Owner and managing Director: Nanouk Leopold. Screenwriter: Director: Sacha Polak. Screenwriter: Sacha director Stienette Bosklopper has collaborated Stienette Bosklopper. Cast: TBA. Co-producer: Polak & Stienette Bosklopper. Cast: TBA. on all of much-lauded filmmaker Nanouk A Private View - Belgium, Coin Film - Financers: NTR & BNN-VARA Television, Leopold’s films. She has also contributed Germany, The Film Kitchen - the Netherlands, Netherlands Film Fund, Creative Europe to many debut features including Hemel VPRO Television - the Netherlands. Financers: MEDIA Programme. by Sacha Polak, De Jueves a Domingo by Netherlands Film Fund, Eurimages, CoBO, Aim at market: sales, co-production partners. Dominga Sotomayor, and The Happiest Girl Netherlands Production Incentive, VAF, Film in the World by Radu Jude. Since 2015 und Medienstiftung NRW, Tax Shelter Casa Avrupa, after the Turkish word for Europe, (former line) producer Lisette Kelder joined Kafka, Creative Europe MEDIA Programme. centers on a Turkish family that owns a cafe Circe Films as an in-house producer. Sales: Beta Cinema. in a small provincial town in the Netherlands Aim at market: distribution, buyers. in the 1980s. Osman and Cansu Çelik and Stienette Bosklopper, their four adolescent children Ergün, Sibel, +31 6 24 55 68 25 When Cobain (15) finds out that his drug- Mert and Tülay, are facing difficulties while Lisette Kelder, addict mother is pregnant again, he tries to trying to make East and West meet. The story +31 6 15 95 09 89 convince her to clean up her act. Because opens when the Çeliks, who are strapped Mia rejects all help, Cobain decides the time for cash, leave for the fishing village of Foça has come to save his unborn brother. on the Turkish southern coast where Sibel Circe Films is supposed to get married to Zafer, son of Da Costakade 176 HS an old well-to-do friend of Osman. There, 1053 XE Amsterdam things start badly when Cansu discovers her The Netherlands father has died without her being notified +31 20 625 35 91 by her family, hurling her back to a traumatic [email protected] experience in the past. www.circe.nl

11 Richard Claus & Co. / Cool Beans

Richard Claus & Co / Cool Beans is a Dutch Black Butterfl ies The Price of Sugar based production company. In addition to Released: 2010. Director: Oscar nominee Released: 2013. making fi lms in the Netherlands, he has been Paula van der Oest. Cast: Carice van Houten, Director: Jean van de Velde. producing in Germany, the United States and and Liam Cunningham more recently South Africa. His productions (The Wind that Shakes the Barley). This period drama set against the backdrop include the international co-productions of the slave trade opened the Netherlands Mute Witness, An American Werewolf in Paris, Black Butterfl ies won the Best Actress award Film Festival 2013. It is the winner of the The Little Vampire, The Thief Lord and The at Tribecca and the Audience Award in Golden Film award in the Netherlands and Price of Sugar. In the last fi ve years, Claus Taormina, three Golden Calves at the Dutch has become the best performing fi lm ever has produced four Dutch international co- Film Awards 2011 including Best Picture in Suriname. productions, all of which were shot at least in and six SAFTA (South African Film and TV part in South Africa. Academy) Awards including Best Picture.

Richard Claus

Richard Claus & Co. / Cool Beans Utrechtsestraat 69-1hg 1017 VG Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 20 589 60 60 +31 6 50 28 14 10 +27 79 891 31 90 [email protected]

12 CTM Films

CTM Films was founded in 2004 by Strike a Pose Denis Wigman and is since part of CTM Released: May 26, 2016. Sort: documentary, Entertainment. From January 2016 onwards 83 min. Director: Ester Gould and Reijer he runs CTM Films together with his Zwaan. Co-producer: Serendipity Films daughter Marijn Wigman. We produce films (Belgium), NTR, ARTE in collaboration with that are based on unique collaborations with SWR. Financers: Netherlands Film Fund, The a diverse group of people and organisations Netherlands Film Production Incentive, Dutch with a specific message. By combining new Cultural Media Fund, CoBO Fund, Creative stories, personalities and platforms CTM Europe Program, Flanders Audiovisual Fund Films develops films for an audience we can (VAF), Aids Fonds. Sales: XYZ Films (North reach. Our productions aim to be authentic, America), Cinephil (ROW). recognisable and not to be missed. Aim at market: distribution, sales.

In 1990, seven young male dancers – 6 gay, 1 straight – joined Madonna on her most controversial tour. On stage and in the iconic Photographer: Linda Posnick filmTruth or Dare they showed the world how Denis & Marijn Wigman to express yourself. Now, 25 years later, they reveal the truth about life during and after the tour. Strike a Pose is a dramatic tale about CTM Films overcoming shame and finding the courage Emmastraat 21 to be who you are. 1211 NE Hilversum The Netherlands +31 35 647 40 40 [email protected] www.ctmpictures.nl Photographer: Lisa Guarnieri

13 De Productie

Annemiek van Gorp and René Goossens have 10 Songs for Charity (an urban musical) film. Music plays a much bigger part in their been working together at De Productie since Release: 2017. Status: financing. Sort: daily lives than in ours and is an expression September 1998. De Productie produces feature-length film, 100 min. Genre: urban of their vitality and resilience. This is why I art house drama and documentaries with musical. Director: Karin Junger. Screenwriters: want to make a modern musical about these a strong social involvement and an artistic Karin Junger, Brigit Hillenius. Cast: TBC. Co- women. Their raw and topical story will be challenge. De Productie does not only producer: Minds Meet - Belgium, Tarantula enriched by vivacious and contemporary intend to be a meeting place for local and Belgium. Financers: Netherlands Film Fund. dance, song and music. Music which belongs national talent, but also a reliable partner in Sales: M-appeal. to them and encompasses their history: soul, international co-productions. Our films are R & B, gospel, African and Caribbean music. often a mix of fiction, documentary and art. Five black women reside illegally in the The songs in the film enables the characters We are especially looking for universal stories Netherlands, in search of prosperity and to briefly transcend their harsh reality and straight from the heart, as varied and colorful happiness. They share a flat in a bleak, reveal their secret inner life. The women sing as the creators of these stories are. anonymous suburb, earning their living as about subjects of which they cannot speak cook, dancers or prostitutes. They endure the out loud. Homesickness, dreams of a better exploitation and the many humiliations of life, the truth behind human trafficking, which their fate with much humour, resilience and is simply a matter of supply and demand and song. Until one day it becomes too much for the clichés about black women being sexually them and they revolt, singing their fury from uninhibited and wild.’ Annemiek van Gorp, René Goossens the rooftops. The wellknown producer Giorgio Tuinfort De Productie (Michael Jackson, Rihanna) and Nigerian Regulierstraat 10 singer songwriter Nneka will be working 2021 HE Haarlem together with Karin Junger on the songs of +31 6 14 53 51 62 the film. +31 6 51 51 37 44 Karin Junger about the film: [email protected] ‘I want to capture the beauty of these woman, www.deproductie.nl their dynamic energy and musicality in this

14 Family Aff air Films

Family Aff air Films is an Amsterdam- Bloody Marie The Return of the Honey Buzzard based production company founded by Release: end 2017. Status: fi nancing. Sort: Release: Fall 2017. Status: in production. Floor Onrust. We produce urgent and feature-length fi lm, 90 min. Genre: drama. Sort: feature-length fi lm, 90 min. Genre: contemporary television drama, short and Director: Guido van Driel. Screenwriter: Guido thriller. Director: Stanley Kolk. Screenwriter: feature fi lms of high artistic quality with a van Driel. Cast: TBD. Co-producer: Schiwago Philip Delmaar, Based on a graphic novel by strong author-driven vision. We develop Film, Germany. Financers: Netherlands Film Aimee de Jongh. Cast: Benja Bruijning, Sanne projects with new talent and video artists, Fund, Media Program. Sales: TBD. Langelaar, Mandela Wee Wee. Co-producer: and we continue our relationships with AVROTROS. Financers: CoBo Fund. established fi lmmakers. Cartoonist Marie Wankelmoed doesn’t know how to keep herself together, after the In this psychological thriller the traumatic commercial success of her erotic cartoon. past of Simon and his youth friend Ralph Thirsty for alcohol she wanders about, from slowly unravels and we discover the terrible her home in Amsterdam’s Red Light district, secret Simon has been carrying around for to liquor store or pub. Horrifi c events on the years. Will he manage to come to terms with Floor Onrust, fl oor@familyaff airfi lms.nl other side of the wall of her apartment force himself and secure his future with his wife Noortje Wilschut, Delegate Producer, her to action. Laura or will Simon give in to the tremendous noortje@familyaff airfi lms.nl pressure of the past?

Family Aff air Films Entrepotdok 77A 1018 AD Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 20 707 17 13 info@familyaff airfi lms.nl www.familyaff airfi lms.nl

15 FATT Productions

Producing Films, Arts, Television & Theatre Tokyo Trial Tulips, Honour, Love and a Bike for a wide, international audience, FATT Release: Q4 2016. Status: Post-production. Release: 2017. Status: production. Sort: Productions is the new production company Sort: feature-length film, 120 min. Genre: feature-length film, 100 min. Genre: romantic founded by Hans de Weers. In his previous drama. Director: Pieter Verhoeff, Rob King. tragicomedy. Director: Marleen Gorris. companies, Bergen, and Egmond Film Screenwriter: Kees van Beijnum. Cast: Marcel Screenwriter: Peter van Wijk. Cast: (sold to Eyeworks), De Weers produced Hensema, Paul Freeman, Jonathan Hyde, Gijs Naber, Giancarlo Giannini, Anneke many award winning films including Irrfan Khan. Co-producer: DCTV Tokyo Sluiters. Co-producer: Don Carmody Antonia’s Line (Oscar), Nynke (Dutch best productions, Canada & Nippon Hoso Kyokai, Productions, Canada, Draka Productions, film & actress) and Bluebird (Crystal Bear). Japan. Financers: Dutch Film Fund, Dutch Italy. Financers: Dutch Film Fund, Dutch Cash cash rebate, NHK & Netflix. Sales: BETA. Rebate, Eurimages, Eurogroei Equity, E-One, Apulia Film Commission, MIBACT, OMDC In 1946, eleven judges from Allied nations Canada. Sales: ATLAS. formed the Tokyo Trial, a “Nuremberg Trial” for Japanese wartime leaders. When the In the romantic tragicomedy Tulips, Honour, Hans de Weers unprecedented two and a half year trial Love and a Bike, Dutch farmer Gauke mounts Elwin Looije became an intriguing stage for international his bike on the evening of the 1953’s North power play and backroom politics, the judges’ Sea Flood, only to get off in the dry, warm, brilliance and deception; Their word was final, South of Italy. Here he finds his prospective but these were men with flaws, as they came tulip farm. Together with his wife Ria he stands to conclusions whether or not to end twenty- up against the local mafia. 25 years later the FATT Productions eight Japanese men’s lives. Canadian Anna arrives in the same village. Herengracht 174 She finds out that the woman who raised 1016 BR Amsterdam her was not actually her mother, but that her The Netherlands real mother was Ria. Together with her Italian +31 20 341 94 69 lover, Anna uncovers the tragic past of her [email protected] family and decides to avenge her father. www.fatt.nl On the set of Tulips, Honour, Love and a Bike

16 Graniet Film

Graniet Film is the independent company Borgman (2013) Schneider vs. Bax (2015) of producer Marc van Warmerdam and his Screenwriter & Director Alex van Warmerdam Screenwriter & Director Alex van brother writer/director Alex van Warmerdam. Dutch/Belgian/Danish co-production, Warmerdam. Dutch/Belgian co-production The company’s initial aim is to produce nominated for Palme d’Or Festival de Cannes Cast: Tom Dewispelaere, Maria Kraakman. the feature films of Alex van Warmerdam: 2013, Official Competition Award Sydney Distributed by Cinéart (Benelux), Potemkine De Jurk (1996 The Dress), Kleine Teun (1998 International Film Festival, Australia and Films (France), Russian Report (Russia), Film Little Tony), Grimm (2003), Ober (2006 Waiter), Dutch entry for the Academy Awards. Best Movement (USA and Canada), Film Buro De laatste dagen van Emma Blank (2009 European Film Palic Film Festival, Serbia. Best Producciones (Spain), HBO Central Europe, The Last Days of Emma Blank), Borgman European Film Strassbourg International Pandastorm (Germany), Film Europe (Czech (2013) and Schneider vs. Bax (2015). Film Festival, France - City of Athens Award, Republic), Calinos (Turkey) and Continental Oeuvre Prize Athene International Film Film (Croatia) covering almost 40 countries. festival, Greece - Fipresci Award Haifa A contract killer named Schneider gets a rush International Film Festival, Israel – Grand job: before nightfall, the author Ramon Bax Prize of European Fantasy Film in Gold Lund will have to be liquidated. The writer lives on Fantastic Film Festival, Sweden – Lifetime the shore of a lonely lake. The assignment Marc van Warmerdam achievement award and Best Film Sitges seems simple enough. Catalonian International Film Festival, Spain. Sales: Fortissimo Films, +31 20 627 32 15 A gentle Creature (2017) Screenwriter & director Sergei Loznitsa. French/German/Lithuanian/Dutch Graniet Film co-production. Archangelkade 15 1013 BE Amsterdam “Missing person. Missing truth. Missing The Netherlands reality. Once upon a time in an impossible +31 20 606 06 30 place…” [email protected] www.granietfilm.nl

17 House of Netherhorror

House of Netherhorror was established by In the Dark Amsterdam Gothic producers Jan Doense aka Mr. Horror, founder Release: TBD. Status: Financing. Sort: feature- Release: TBD. Status: Financing. Sort: feature- of the Imagine: Amsterdam Fantastic Film length film. Genre: supernatural thriller/ length film (English language). Genre: Festival and Herman Slagter, producer of the horror. Director: Mark Weistra. Screenwriter: supernatural thriller/horror. Director: Chris W. first ever Dutch martial arts film Fighting Fish Mark Weistra. Cast: TBD. Co-producer: TBD. Mitchell. Screenwriter: Chris W. Mitchell. Cast: with the sole purpose of producing low to Financers: Netherlands Film Fund. Sales: TBD. TBD. Co-producer: TBD. Financers: Netherlands medium budget Dutch and international Aim at market: find co-producer and Film Fund. Sales: TBD. (co-)productions in the horror genre. international sales rep. Aim at market: find international sales rep.

Linda Henstra, a troubled teenager suffering The four-hundred year old De Witte House from reccurring nightmares, visits her ancestral stands brooding on its Amsterdam canal, Jan Doense home for the first time after the sudden waiting... When Robin Taylor accepts the Herman Slagter death of her estranged grandmother. Much offer to take part in an art restoration project House of Netherhorror to her surprise she discovers that this old at the De Witte House, she does not realize Amsterdam office / Jan Doense family mansion, just outside a small Frisian that the mysterious organizer of the project Prinsengracht 770, 4th floor village, is somehow connected to her dreams. has brought her here for a dark purpose: as 1017 LE Amsterdam Linda embarks on an increasingly frightening a sacrifice to his master, the great Floris de The Netherlands journey of discovery Witte, who learned +31 6 54 26 56 61 to the origins of that an artist, if [email protected] her disturbing prepared to perform Rotterdam office / Herman Slagter nightmares, her the necessary grisly Delftsestraat 25 grandmother tasks, can indeed live 3013 AD Rotterdam and another long on in his work. The Netherlands deceased relative. ordinary term. +31 6 55 10 75 33 [email protected] www.houseofnetherhorror.nl

18 IJswater Films

IJswater Films (‘Icewater’) produces and co- As If I’m Crazy In Blue produces for almost 20 years high-quality, Release: June 2, 2016. Status: completed. Release: Winter 2016/2017. Status: post- award-winning features and shorts, including Feature-length film, Dutch, 95 min. Genre: production. Feature-length film in English, The Polish Bride (Cannes Semaine de la critique), drama/thriller/black comedy. Writer & Dutch and Romanian, 95 min. Genre: Headrush (Miramax Script Award), Skin (Int Director: (based on the Dutch relations drama. Writer & Director: Jaap van Emmy Award Nomination), Win/Win (Best novel As If I’m Crazy by Michiel Stroink) Cast: Heusden, co-writer: Jan Willem den Bok. Actor, Brooklyn Film Festival), 22nd of May Mike Weerts, Monic Hendrickx, Fedja van Cast: Maria Kraakman, Bogdan Iancu, Line (Toronto Film Festival), Supernova (Berlinale), Huêt, Maarten Heijmans, Bianca Krijgsman. Pillet. Co-producers: Caviar (Belgium), NTR Contact (Berlinale Golden Bear Best Short), Co-producers: Pellicola, kieM, AVROTROS (The Netherlands), line producer Strada Film The New World (Winner International Emmy (NL). Financers: Brabant C, Netherlands (Rumenia). Distributor Benelux: Paradiso Award Best Actress) and Paradise Trips Production Incentive, NL Film Fund, CoBO. Filmed Entertainment. (Festival International du Film d’Aubagne, Aim at market: distribution, buyers (foreign Aim at market: distribution, buyers (foreign Palm Springs Film Festival 2016. rights outside The Netherlands available). rights outside The Benelux available).

When successful young artist Benjamin (25), When a fortysomething Dutch flight is involuntarily committed, he is completely attendant named LIN has to help deliver a baffled, for he doesn’t remember anything baby in mid-air, it leaves her off kilter. In the about what happened. Life in the psychiatric emotional aftermath she meets NICU (15), Producer - Marc Bary institute is violent and absurd, but step who’s living on and under the streets of Project supervisor - Eline van Hagen by step, Benjamin seems to come to grips Bucharest, and gets involved in a confusing Junior producer - Steven Rubinstein Malamud with himself again. He starts to realize mother/lover relationship with him. IJswater Films how narcissistic he used to be. When he Kromme Mijdrechtstraat 110-4 is released and 1079 LD Amsterdam meets up with his The Netherlands old friends, he is +31 20 442 17 60 confronted with [email protected], www.ijswater.nl yet another truth.

19 Incredible Film

Incredible film is a dutch production Disconnected Angel company and a worldwide sales agent. Release: TBA. Status: developing and Release: TBA. Status : developing and Danielle Raaphorst launched her company financing. Sort: feature-length film, 100 min. financing. Sort: feature-length film, 80 min. Incredible Film in order to expand her work Genre: thriller. Director: Diederik van Rooijen. Genre: family adventure. Director: Dennis as a independent producer and sales agent. Screenwriter: Diederik van Rooijen. Cast: Bots. Screenwriter: Ellen Barendregt. Cast: Since 2009, she has produced successful films TBA. Co-producer: Marmalade Films Belgium. TBA. Co-producer : TBA. Financers: TBA. such as Madly in Love and the Escape. Financers: TBA. Sales: Incredible Film. Sales: Incredible Film.

Disconnected centres around the huge and Angel is about a young girl who has special increasingly desperate attempt of Mara de powers: she can make wishes come true – Wolff to bargain for her children lives in but only for good people. It is not long before exchange for her participation in a terrorist she is preyed on by people who use her gift Danielle Raaphorst plot. Mara hides her essential aloneness in for their own ends. Angel is kidnapped and it her work as the owner of a company that seems as if she has lost her special talent. Present at market: Palais - 1 23.05 specializes in hacking into the security systems of big companies in order to test But then it turns out the wishes of one of her them. The rest of her life is taken up with kidnappers can come true… desperately seeking for the two children that were cruelly taken from her and out of the country by her Iraqi husband. Used to solving Incredible Film impossible puzzles, the puzzle of where her Hekendorperweg 21 children are is one puzzle that she can’t solve, 3421 VJ Oudewater until one of her trusted hackers, puts her on The Netherlands the trail of a possible terrorist attack. +31 (0)6 53948 986 [email protected] www.incrediblefilm.com

20 Johan Nijenhuis & Co

Johan Nijenhuis & Co is a film and television Skirt Day Trollie production company that specializes in Released: 10 March 10 2016. Sort: feature- Released: February 15 2016. Sort: feature- (romantic) comedies and family films. length film, 120 min. Genre: romantic comedy. length film, 85 min. Genre: family adventure. We produced mainstream box-office hits Director: Johan Nijenhuis. Screenwriter: Eveline Director: Gert Embrechts. Screenwriter: Pieter such as Loving Ibiza and Tuscan Wedding in Hagenbeek. Cast: Lieke van Lexmond, Birgit Bart Korthuis. Cast: Leo Willems, Jelka van 2013 and 2014. We are always developing Schuurman, Manuel Broekman, David Lucieer, Houten, Koen de Graeve, Olga Zuiderhoek, new screenplays and offer continuity to Martijn Fischer. Financiers: Netherlands Film Stefaan Degand. Co-production: Zilvermeer our filmmakers. Other projects include the Fund, RTL, eOne Distribution. Productions (BE). Financiers: KRO-NCRV, feature films Body Language, Bennie Brat CoBo Fund, Media Fund, Ketnet (VRT), Screen and Monkey Business. On 10th March 2016, Every spring, there comes a day when women Flanders, VAF Media Fund and Mollywood. we have released Skirt Day. suddenly appear in skirts. Love is in the air on Sales: Attraction Distribution, Xiao Zhou, skirt day and the film follows sixteen colourful [email protected]. characters who attend a ‘Cooking Class for Singles.’ They hope to find their match during The ten-year-old Max Plume and his family cooking speed-dates. Skirt Day is a modern visit their grandma Mimi for Christmas. day romantic comedy full of sparkle. It is Grandma Mimi lives in an old mansion Johan Nijenhuis, Ingmar Menning hilarious and at the same time holds a mirror in the mountains. When Max goes out to to us: what has become of our quest for true investigate by himself, he meets a young love in this day and age? troll. Max and Trollie become friends and embark on a great adventure together. Johan Nijenhuis & Co Trollie is a lighthearted, Karperweg 45 fun and endearing 1075 LB Amsterdam Christmas story. +31 20 760 19 60 [email protected] www.nijenhuisenco.nl

21

Jos Stelling Films

Founded in 1975, Jos Stelling Films is an The Girl and Death The Flying Dutchman independent film production company. Released: 2012. Sort: feature-length film, Released: 1995. Sort: feature-length film, It produces feature films and shorts by 127 min. Genre: drama. Director: Jos Stelling. 140 min. Genre: drama. Director: Jos Stelling. director and scriptwriter Jos Stelling. It has Screenwriters: Bert Rijkelijkhuizen and Jos Screenwriter: Hans Heesen and Jos Stelling. established co-productions with producers Stelling. Cast: Sergey Makovetsky, Sylvia Cast: René Groothof, Veerle Dobbelaere, from Belgium, Germany and Russia. Its Hoeks, Leonid Bichevin, Dieter Hallervorden, Nino Manfredi, Gene Bervoets, Gerard films (including and The Renata Litvinova. Co-producers: TV Indie Thoolen. Co-producers: Christoph Mayer- Illusionist) have won many awards, both in Film Production (Russia) and AVROTROS Wiel (Germany), NPS (NL). Financers: ao the Netherlands and beyond. Stelling’s first (NL). Financers: Netherlands Film Fund, CoBo, Netherlands Film Fund, CoBo, Filmstiftung feature Mariken van Nieumeghen was in MdM, DFFF, Cinema Fund Russia, Media Nordrhein-Westfalen, Eurimages. the official competition of the Cannes Film Programme i2i. Festival (1975). An epic tale about the search of a serf for A timeless story of love and death. Russian his alleged father: the Flying Dutchman. doctor Nicolai returns to the old, abandoned The fairytale-like story is an ode to fantasy hotel/brothel where he once met the and is set in the times of the Dutch Revolt courtesan Elise. His reliving of this intense (16th and 17th centuries) in Flanders and love story causes past and present to become the Netherlands. Iconoclasts, the Spanish Jos Stelling one. Leitmotifs include Sehnsucht, Chekhov inquisition and Dutch rebels all play a part. Judith van den Burg (assistant) and Pushkin. Won the Golden Calf for Best Nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film at the Netherlands Film Festival. Film Festival in 1995. Won the Silver Frog at Jos Stelling Films Camerimage (Poland), 1996. Called one of Springweg 50 the best 100 films of the 20th century in the 3511 VS Utrecht renowned book Making Pictures: A Century The Netherlands of European Cinematography, by IMAGO, the +31 30 231 37 89 Federation of European Cinematographers. [email protected] www.stellingfilms.nl

22 Kaap Holland Film

Kaap Holland Film is a Dutch film and TV Ron Goossens, A Shining Flaw drama production company responsible Low Budget Stuntman Release: 2018-2019. Status: financing. Sort: for some of the highest grossing films in Release: 2016-2017. Status: pre-production. feature-length film, 110 min. Genre: drama/ The Netherlands in recent years, including Sort: feature-length film, 100 min. Genre: romance. Director: Erwin Olaf. Screenwriter: titles as Stricken, Chubby Drums and the comedy. Directors: Steffen Haars and Flip van Arthur Japin. Cast: TBA. Co-producers: TBD. international success comedies New Kids der Kuil. Screenwriters: Steffen Haars and Flip Financiers: Netherlands Film Fund, TBA. Turbo & Nitro, Bros Before Hos and Bon Bini van der Kuil. Cast: Tim Haars, TBA. Financiers: Aim at market: to present the film to Holland. In addition, films like The Marathon, WBITVP Nederland, eOne, RTL, Netherlands potential buyers, local/international Jackie and The Dinner have acclaimed Film Fund. distributors and festivals. international recognition. In 2016, the films Aim at market: to present the film to Family Weekend, Hart Beat and The Seventh potential buyers, local/international Italy, the 18th century. Teenagers Lucia and Heaven will be released. Kaap Holland Film is distributors and festivals. Casanova desperately fall in love. When he a subsidiary of Warner Bros. needs to leave for a few months, he promises Alcoholic and low budget stuntman Ron to marry her when he returns. But when she Goossens has to get The Netherlands’ most waits, smallpox deform her face and she successful actrice between the sheets, in flees home. When he returns, a devastated order to save his Casanova doesn’t know why she’s gone. own marriage. Will 16 Years later in Amsterdam, Lucia, now Maarten Swart he succeed? A new a veiled prostitute, meets Casanova, and outrageous comedy they become lovers again. She realizes her Kaap Holland Film from the writers/ betrayal is keeping him from loving someone Raamplein 1 directors of ever again. Will she dare to 1016 XK Amsterdam New Kids Turbo, unveil herself to him, and risk The Netherlands New Kids Nitro and rejection, or will she keep him +31 20 346 37 37 Bros Before Hos. in the dark forever? Based on [email protected] the international bestseller www.kaaphollandfilm.nl In Lucia’s Eyes by Arthur Japin.

23 Keren Cogan Films

Keren Cogan Films is an Amsterdam-based Jesse Upside Down Maktoub company. We look for filmmakers with a Release: Spring 2019. Status: financing. Release: 2018. Status: financing. Sort: feature- distinct and authentic signature, sharing Sort: feature-length film, 90 min. Genre: length film, 90 min. Genre: drama. Director: our love and excitement for daring and tragicomedy. Director: Peter Hoogendoorn. Beri Shalmashi. Screenwriter: Chafina Ben extraordinary storytelling. We bring creative Screenwriter: Peter Hoogendoorn. Cast: Dahman & Beri Shalmashi. talent together and make it work; our Georgina Verbaan (yet to be confirmed). Co-producer: Phanta Film. mission is to help and challenge filmmakers Co- producer: Phanta Film. to realize their full potential. After a terrible car accident Hanane “I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.” (Moroccan-Dutch, 37) ends up in a – S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders wheelchair. Her husband Frank (Dutch, 38) claims their marriage had been dysfunctional Just like in Nina Simone’s unforgettable song for a long time and leaves her. When she Ain’t Got No, Jesse (37) has no job, money, reaches rock bottom her younger brother Keren Cogan Galjé love, god, man, children and mother… but Hassan (33) comes and takes her back to her she got a smile, a heart, a soul and some true parents house. friends. She got the life! There she is being taken in by the love she The film draws a humoristic portrait of a has run from so hard. She can’t take care of sympathetic, but desperately dysfunctional herself and although she is ashamed and woman approaching the forties, who makes loathes the situation she has no other option Keren Cogan Films a total mess of her life, and cannot stop than accepting the help of her parents. Gijsbrecht van Aemstelstraat 16-18 doing it. In Jesse Upside Down, we follow Hanane will have to learn to accept and love 1091 TC Amsterdam Jesse for a year. From summer through winter herself again, by doing so she will finally find The Netherlands to summer again. With seasons, nature and peace with her parents and accept the love +31 6 48 33 32 44 weather changing alongside the bumpy she feels for them and for her heritage. [email protected] path of her everyday life. www.kerencoganfilms.com

24 KeyFilm

Producers Hanneke Niens and Hans de Beyond Sleep The Beast in the Jungle Wolf have built an extensive network of Released: February 11th 2016 (opening film Status: in development. Sort: feature-length co-producers, funds and financiers, and (co-) IFFR 2016). Sort: feature-length film, 106 min. film, 90 min. Genre: drama. Director: Clara produced numerous features, tv series, shorts Genre: drama. Director: Boudewijn Koole van Gool (Emmy Award of Performing and documentaries. Vital to their approach (European Film Award and Chrystal Bear for Arts for Enter Achilles). Screenwriter: Clara is the close collaboration with writers and Kauwboy). Screenwriter: Boudewijn Koole, van Gool and Glyn Maxwell. Co-producer: directors to develop intelligent, character- based on the novel Nooit meer slapen by W.F. Amour Fou - Luxembourg. Financers till date: driven audience favourites (in production Hermans. Cast: Reinout Scholten van Aschat Netherlands Film Fund, British Film Institute, Soof 2, sequel of box office hit Soof) and (Shooting Star Berlin 2016), Pål Sverre Hagen, public broadcaster NTR. Distributor: Cinéart accessible art-house films (Beyond Sleep, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Thorbjørn Harr. openingfilm IFFR 2016). Co-producer: Nordisk Film-Norway, FilmCamp- “You said it was very simple. You said that Norway. Financers: Netherlands Film Fund, you had had, from your earliest time, as the Netherlands Film Production Incentive, CoBO, deepest thing within you, the sense of being VPRO, Norwegian Film Institute, FilmCamp. kept for something rare and strange, possibly Distributor: September Film. prodigious, terrible! Sooner or later it would happen to you.” Hanneke Niens & Hans de Wolf A young man’s mythical quest for a stone – From the novella The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James. that fell from the sky.

KeyFilm Van Diemenstraat 332 1013 CR Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 20 423 15 96 [email protected] www.keyfilm.nl

25 Lemming Film

Established in 1995, Lemming Film is one of Dead & Beautiful Invite me to War the leading fi lm and television production Release: TBD. Status: fi nancing. Sort: feature- Release: TBD. Status: fi nancing. Sort: feature- companies in the Netherlands. It has a length fi lm, 90 min. Genre: smart vampire. length fi lm, 100 min. Genre: drama. Director: proven track record in delivering quality fi lm Director & Screenwriter: David Verbeek. Shariff Korver. Screenwriter: Jolein Laarman. and television productions and is specialized Cast: TBD. Co-producer: TBD. Financers: NL Cast: TBD. Co-producer: TBD. Financers: in fi ction for children, families and teens as Film Fund, MEDIA Creative Europe. Sales: TBD. NL Film Fund, MEDIA. Sales: TBD. well as international arthouse productions. A group of young and spoiled elites – all Invite me to War tells the story of Erik and children of extremely rich expats in Abu Roy, two 18-year-old soldiers that go on a Dhabi – turns into vampires after a wild night mission in Afghanistan. The military camp life, out. While discovering the potentials that the cultural diff erences and sometimes grim are brought about by their new fangs, they war situations gradually begin to take its toll, Leontine Petit, Eva Eisenloeff el, Derk-Jan gradually start to feel stronger, indestructible leading to an irreversible deed. Warrink, Fleur Winters and irresistible. However, tensions within the group quickly rises, for can they really trust each other? And do they actually believe the fact they are indestructible, or in other words immortal? When the shroud has fi nally lifted, there is no way back and they are forced to face the horrible consequences of their actions. Lemming Film Valschermkade 36F 1059 CD Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 20 661 04 24 info@lemmingfi lm.com www.lemmingfi lm.com

26 Millstreet Films

The mission of Millstreet Films is to produce Soof 2 The Hero commercially driven and creatively spirited Release: December 2016. Feature-length Release: November 2016. Feature-length independent feature films and TV series film, 90 min. Genre: comedy. Director: Esmé film, 100 min. Genre: thriller/drama. and to build long-term relationships with Lammers. Screenwriter: Marjolein Beumer. Director: Menno Meyjes. Screenwriters: writers, directors and co-producers. Our film Cast: Lies Visschedijk, Fedja van Huêt, Anneke Jessica Durlacher & Menno Meyjes. Cast: catalogue includes major box office hits such Blok, Dan Karaty, Achmed Akkabi, Elise van Monic Hendrickx, Fedja van Huêt, Daan as Loft, Vipers Nest and Soof. We currently ’t Laar. Producers: Millstreet Films, KeyFilm. Schuurmans, Susan Visser. Co-producer: VPRO have three feature films in production: Financers: RTL Entertainment, Netherlands Television. Financers: Netherlands Film Fund, The Hero, Soof 2 and The Prime Minister. Film Fund, Netherlands Film Production Netherlands Film Production, CoBO Fund, Incentive, Abraham Tuschinski Fund, DFW. Abraham Tuschinski Fund, DFW. Aim at market: to present the film to potential Aim at market: to present the film to buyers, local distributors and festivals. potential buyers, local distributors and festivals. After a good dose of marriage counseling, Rachel van Bommel - Producer Soof and Kasper have come to a dead end. Novelist Sarah Silverstone has just moved Suzan de Swaan - Jr. Producer Soof tries to look on the bright side, but is back from Los Angeles to the Netherlands losing control over her already chaotic life. when her family falls victim to various violent Is an attractive chef and ‘foodie’ the solution assaults. It seems that her father’s secret past to her marital problems? might be coming back to haunt her.

Millstreet Films Goudsbloemstraat 132A-hs 1015 JT Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 20 772 54 99 [email protected] www.millstreetfilms.nl

27 Mountain Road Entertainment Group

Mountain Road Entertainment Group is a Triptipz Love at Second Sight powerful force in local Dutch and Belgian fi lm Triptipz is a multimedia project developed by Release: in 2017. Status: fi nancing/pre- and television productions, and is also well Mountain Road Entertainment and CTM. production. Feature-length fi lm,95 min. known for its creative marketing and sales Genre: romantic comedy. Director: Pollo campaigns. The founder of Mountain Road The series follows Senna and Joy in various de Pimente. Screenwriter: Elle van Rijn. is Sjef Scholte. Scholte has produced four countries, in search of the ultimate vacation Productie: Mountain Road/Marmalade. successful feature fi lms. Scholte draw from his destination for kids. Through the course of extensive experience in the industry to focus the episode Senna and Joy are put in exciting Danielle (39) is desperate after her divorce on (co-)productions of fi lms and TV series, situations, give the best tips and learn to get and tries to fi nd new love by searching old both in creative development and funding. to know each other bit by bit. Watch a new lovers from the past on Facebook. episode every week and don’t forget to visit the app for more content.

Sjef Scholte

Mountain Road Entertainment Group Bergweg 12 1217 SC Hilversum The Netherlands +31 35 623 55 59 [email protected] www.mountainroad.nl

28 Mulholland Pictures

Mulholland Pictures aims to produce quality Forgiveness international features. We produced or co- Status: financing, early pre-production. Sort: Four historical celebrities, from different produced films such as Enigma (starring Kate feature-length film, 102 min. Genre: macabre ages, meet as they have to atone for their Winslet), The Discovery of Heaven (starring psychological action adventure. Director: influence on society. Their need for personal Stephen Fry), Left Luggage (starring Isabella Emily Harris & Ate de Jong. Screenwriter: redemption easily is more important as Rossellini and Maximilian Schell), Fogbound Anonymous. Co-producers: Mulholland their legacy but they can only achieve it in a (starring Luke Perry and Ben Daniels) Deadly Pictures BV (Holland) & Barnsbury Picturs Ltd macabre adventurous game. Virtues: Love, Honour, Obey (released in 2014). (UK). Financiers: Private equity + EIS. Our most recent production is Love is Thicker Than Water (starring Johnny Flynn, Lydia Wilson, Juliet Stevenson) currently in post production.

Ate de Jong

Mulholland Pictures Amsterdam/London/LA +31 20 627 43 39 +31 6 42 93 91 57 +44 751 901 71 24

29 New Amsterdam Film Company

New Amsterdam is an independent film The East The Super Code company that operates like a studio. Release: 2019. Status: financing. Sort: feature- Release: 2019. Status: development/ It develops, produces, and releases high- length film, 120 min. Genre: war epic. financing. Sort: feature-length film, 120 min. end visual narratives. While being firmly Director: Jim Taihuttu. Screenwriter: Jim Genre: black comedy thriller/true story. rooted in contemporary culture, New Taihuttu & Mustafa Duygulu. Cast: Marwan Director: Max Porcelijn. Screenwriter: Amsterdam Film Company combines an Kenzari (Ben-Hur, The Mummy remakes). Max Porcelijn & Vincent van Zelm. Cast: international network, production knowhow, Co-producer: Savage Film (Belgium), Fastnet Ton Kas. Co-producer: Fobic Films craftsmanship and marketing knowledge. Films (Ireland). Financers: Netherlands Film (Belgium), Fastnet Films (Ireland). Financers: Fund, CoBO fund, NTR. Sales: XYZ. Netherlands Film Fund, AVROTROS. “In film we trust.” Aim at market: sales and financing. Aim at market: sales and financing.

1946, during the Indonesian war for The bizarre but true story of Jan Sloot, a TV Independence, the young Dutch recruit Johan repairman who could change computing joins an elite squad led by charismatic captain forever and become the richest man in the Westerling. As fighting intensifies, Johan trials world. But the day before he reveals his Sander Verdonk - Producer Westerling in his invention – the Julius Ponten - Producer brutal attempts super code – he Philip Harthoorn - Head of Production to strike down drops dead, the Thomas den Drijver - Head of Development resistance. code lost without a trace… New Amsterdam Film Company Admiraal de Ruijterweg 545 1055 MK Amsterdam The Netherlands +3120 820 23 08 [email protected] www.newams.com

30 OAK OAK Motion Pictures MOTION PICTURES

We aim to stimulate, inspire and challenge Daoud’s Winter Stroop our directors and writers. We work on a select Release: 2017. Status: pre-production. Sort: Release: 2018. Status: development. number of projects in order to produce feature-length film, 100 min. Genre: period/ Sort: feature-length film, 100 min. Genre: daring and accessible quality films for an thriller/drama. Director: Koutaiba Al-Janabi. road movie. Director: Hanro Smitsman. international audience. Screenwriter: Original screenplay by Koutaiba Screenwriter: Willem Bosch. Cast: TBA. We strive for transparency and integrity, and Al-Janabi. Adapted by Koutaiba Al-Janabi Co-producer: None yet. Financiers: we believe that it takes time to grow and & Antoine Le Bos. Cast: TBA. Co-producer: Netherlands Film Fund, September Film. develop layer by layer, in order to end up Alcatraz Film, France; Orjouane Films, with a solid company and films to match. Lebanon. Financers: Creative Europe, SANAD, A stubborn Dutch car dealer discovers that We are a member of both EAVE and ACE. Hubert Bals Fund, Torino Filmlab, Empire two boys heading to Iraq to join the jihad Dubai Film Market, Dutch Filmfund, CNC have stolen two of his rental cars. He teams Cinema du Monde. Sales: TBA. up with the father of one of the thieves on Aim at market: finding co-producers, a moral crusade against each others will. A meeting funding institutions and sales road trip through war-torn Iraq, where he agents. finds an unlikely friendship, new visions on Charlotte Scott-Wilson life and finally, his cars. Trent Daoud’s Winter is the story of a 22 year old soldier who deserts his army base to return the body of a survivor to his home. Set on the backdrop of the Iran-Iraqi war. OAK Motion Pictures Jacob van Lennepkade 334P 1053 NJ Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 20 717 35 04 [email protected] www.oakmotionpictures.com

31 PVPictures

PVPictures is a well-established production Master Spy Quarterlife company existing in its present form since Release: September 2016. Status: post- Release: September 2017. Status: pre- 1986. Since then, we have produced several production. Sort: feature-length film, production. Sort: feature-length film, 80 min. feature films and hundreds of hours of 80 min. Genre: adventure. Director: Genre: rom com. Director: Danny Stolker. TV drama. PVPictures is a small company Pieter van Rijn. Screenwriter: Tijs van Marle. Screenwriter: Liesbeth Strik. Cast: TBA. at its core, consisting of producer Paul Cast: Beau Schneider. Co-producer: Not Co-producer: not applicable. Financers: Voorthuysen, Chris Derks, Katja Scheffer, applicable. Financers: AVROTROS, Abraham RTL Nederlands, Netherlands Film Fund. Guido Lippe, Kiki The, Hans de Bruin, Tuschinski Fonds, Netherlands Film Fund. Sales: Sales: Dutch Features Global Entertainment. Dag Neijzen en Joep Zwaan. Dutch Features Global Entertainment. When at 29 four best friends realize that Tim (10) and his family move to a new town they did not fulfil their teenage dreams (and a new school). His parents are ecstatic. they decide to help each other to do this Their dream is coming true: they’re starting before they turn 30. Too late they see that a small hotel at the beach. Tim is not so sure. crossing certain boundaries jeopardises their Paul Voorthuysen Accindentaly he discovers a cellar at the relationships and careers. Until they find out hotel. A very weird room with switches and that there’s only one thing they can really strange things like a big box that makes funny count on: their friendship. noises…. And in it is a human being!

PVPictures Joop van den Endeplein 1 1217 WJ Hilversum The Netherlands +31 35 677 47 76 [email protected] www.pvpictures.nl

32 Rotterdam Films

Rotterdam Films is an independent Hier (Yesterday) The Hunter’s Son production company founded in 1980 by Status: In pre-production. Release: shooting Status: in development, shooting 2017. Dirk Rijneke and Mildred van Leeuwaarden. 2016, release in 2017. Sort: feature-length Sort: feature-length fi lm, 90 min. Genre: It has produced more than 45 fi lms. fi lm, 110 min. Genre: drama. Director: Balint drama. Director: Ricky Rijneke. Screenwriter: One recent production was the award- Kenyeres. Screenwriters: Balint Kenyeres, Ricky Rijneke. Co-producers: Les Films de winning Silent Ones, Ricky Rijneke’s fi rst Matthieu Taponier. Cast:Vlad Ivanov, Richard l’Après-Midi (France). Financers: Netherlands feature, which was released in Dutch theatres Bohringer, Johanna Ter Steege a.o. Co- Film Fund. in December 2014. It gained great critical producers: Tegnap (Hungary), Les Films Aim at market: to present the project to acclaim and won eleven awards out of fi fteen de l’Après-Midi (France), One-Two Films potential co-producers, buyers, sales agents. nominations. (Germany), Chimney Pot (Sweden). Financers: Netherlands Film Fund, Hungarian Film Fund, Selected for Script & Pitch of the Torino CNC, Arte, Film-i-Väst. FilmLab and invited to TIFF’s Toronto Talent Lab for emerging talents. The central character, 50-year-old Otto Ganz owns a thriving building and civil engineering A father and a son face a range of confl icting Dirk Rijneke, +31 6 50 29 35 86 company that operates worldwide. Some emotions when the son commits a Mildred van Leeuwaarden, +31 6 21 42 59 93 very costly problems on a building site in random act of violence. Nort-Africa mean he has to go there (he hates travelling), to a country where he is confronted with memories of his youth, which have Rotterdam Films been carefully buried in the depths of his Provenierssingel 33 mind. Meetings in ministries, disinformation, 3033 EG Rotterdam the reappearance of a past love who had The Netherlands mysteriously disappeared, an investigation in +31 10 465 85 65 the local underground to fi nd her: Otto Ganz info@rotterdamfi lms.com slowly plunges into a labyrinthine world where www.rotterdamfi lms.com present and past intertwine.

33 Sigma Pictures Productions

Founded in 1974, Sigma Pictures has The Fury produced many shorts and 39 feature films. Released: March 2016 in 55 theaters a major confrontation in which all family Their first, Melancholy Tales, opened the Berlin by Entertainment One Benelux. Sort: secrets are finally revealed. Film Festival in 1975. The film library includes tragicomedy, 113 min. Screenwriter: Andre international co-productions and some of the van Duren. Producer: Sigma Pictures. D.O.P.: most successful films in the history of Dutch Theo Bierkens. Production design: Alfred cinema. In 1994, Matthijs van Heijningen Schaaf. Cast: Hannah Hoekstra, Benja Bruijning, was knighted for his contribution to the Hadewych Minis, Gijs Scholten van Aschat Dutch film industry. Five years later, on the & Frank Lammers. Sales: Incredible Film - 25th anniversary of Sigma, the jury of the Danielle Raaphorst, [email protected] Netherlands Film Festival awarded him with Aim at market: sales. a special Golden Calf for his oeuvre. The Fury amuses and astonishes the viewer. But when we find out what happened to her in her youth we are left devastated, and a Matthijs van Heijningen shiver will replace our smile. Guurtje Buddenberg We meet Albert Egberts’ Aunt Tini. She is jokingly known as Tidy Tini as her cleaning Sigma Pictures Productions and polishing is both ferocious and ruthless. ‘t PC Hooft Huys She has a relentlessly acerbic tongue, ruining Singel 132 many family celebrations. As a boy Albert 1015 AG Amsterdam eavesdropped on her and tried desperately The Netherlands to fathom what she meant by her semi- +31 20 535 33 20 explicit faultfinding. As a student he even [email protected] ended up in bed with her. But once he www.sigmapictures.com becomes a father himself, he seems set for

34 Sluizer Films

Sluizer Films was founded by producer, Dark Blood Sluizer Speaks director and screenwriter George Sluizer George Sluizer’s feature Dark Blood was An intimate portrait of George Sluizer, (1932-2014) and Anne Lordon. From the filmed in 1993 in Utah, but shooting came to Sluizer Speaks was directed by Dennis Alink 1960s until the early 1980s, he directed many a halt 10 days before completion due to the and produced by Molenwiek Film during the documentaries. With Spoorloos (The Vanishing, sudden death of leading actor River Phoenix. last year of the director’s life. George looks 1988) he received worldwide recognition. The The other cast members were Judy Davis and back on his rich life, his sources of inspiration, film won many awards and was the Dutch Jonathan Price. After almost 20 years, Sluizer legendary encounters and above all his films, entry for the Academy Awards in 1989. In 1992, and his production company were finally the leitmotif in his life. Special screening at Sluizer directed the remake of The Vanishing for able to finish the film in 2012. IDFA 2014. George Sluizer died in September 20th Century Fox starring Jeff Bridges, Kiefer 2014 at the age of 82. Sutherland and Sandra Bullock. In 1991 Sluizer Dark Blood is the story of Boy, a young directed UTZ starring Armin Mueller-Stahl widower living near a nuclear testing site in Contact Molenwiek Film: (Best actor in Berlin 1992). He was a honorary the desert. His solitude is interrupted when Joop van Wijk, joop@molenwiekfilm.nl member of Film Producers Netherlands. a Hollywood couple become stranded after Dennis Alink, [email protected] their car breaks down. The couple is rescued by Boy, who holds them prisoner because of his desire for the woman and his ambition to Anne Lordon create a better world with her. Anouk Sluizer, assistant

Sluizer Films Stadionweg 212 1077 TE Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 20 778 61 88, +31 6 20 52 80 98 sluizerfi[email protected], [email protected] www.georgesluizer.com

35 SNG Film

Studio Nieuwe Gronden, nowadays known Tazara as SNG Film, was founded in 1979 out of Status: financing. Sort: documentary, the legendary film collective Amsterdams 80 min. Genre: creative documentary. Stadjournaal (ASJ). SNG Film still seeks to Director: Jeroen van Velzen. Screenwriter: produce distinctive documentaries and Jeroen van Velzen & Esther Eenstroom. feature films (and everything in between). Financers: Netherlands Filmfund, EO (Dutch What is important is the involvement of broadcaster). the filmmaker. SNG Film likes to work with Aim at market: to present the project to young talent, but does not limit itself to that. potential co-producers, buyers, sales agents. Moreover, it is not only about the urgency in which somebody wants to tell something, The Tazara Express is a riding microcosm but primarily the form chosen to do so. mirroring hardships in East Africa. While International co-productions can be a means travelling on this train, three main characters to initiating exceptional, artistic films. reflect on the power of survival within this society.

Digna Sinke SNG Film Van Hallstraat 52 1051 HH Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 20 686 78 37 [email protected] www.sngfilm.nl skype: sng.film

36 Submarine

Submarine produces features, documentaries Race Against the Machine and animation with talented and acclaimed Status: development stage. Sort: feature Secondly, it explores the so-called ‘Internet directors, all with an international focus. documentary, 80 min. Genre: science fiction of Things’, the robots embedded in the world With offices in Amsterdam and Los Angeles, documentary. Director: Femke Wolting. around us. And finally the film explores what Submarine’s founders Bruno Felix and Femke the human applications of robotics, like bio Wolting are experienced in bringing together The prospect of robot overlords, friends hacking. This episode deals with the way international co-productions, and collaborate and lovers has been the topic of science robots and human life collide. with co-producers, broadcasters and distributors fiction films for years. But more and more from around Europe and the US such as BBC, the bots have been creeping into our homes, Our film tells the story from a robot’s point VPRO, HBO, ZDF, Arte, Channel 4 and many others. workspace and social lives. Race Against the of view, looking at humans from the same Machine is a three episode documentary positions as robots would. A robot with a series and feature on a new age of robots human voice will do the narration of the film. that are amongst us. We will show how beautiful machines can be – the aesthetics of robots and the ballet of It is both a series about science and about technology. Bruno Felix society, focussing on the interaction between Femke Wolting men and machine. It deals with the question Sabine Veenendaal - Submarine Film what’s left for humans, when machines are Jeroen Beker - Submarine Film capable of doing almost any work humans can do? Submarine Arie Biemondstraat 111 In three episodes we’ll explore different 1054 PD Amsterdam aspects of the new robotics, explaining how The Netherlands the robots have developed in recent years. +31 20 820 49 40 Firstly, our film examines the rise of the [email protected] ‘classic’ flexible humanoid robots that have www.submarine.nl filled our world, working alongside us.

37 The Film Kitchen

The Film Kitchen specializes in producing Disappearance Sleep and co-producing feature fi lms for the Release: 2016. Status: post-production. Sort: Release: 2018. Status: fi nancing. Sort: feature- international market. feature-length fi lm, 90 min. Genre: drama. length fi lm, 100 min. Genre: drama. Director: Boudewijn Koole. Screenwriter: Director: Jan-Willem van Ewijk. Screenwriter: Jolein Laarman. Cast: Rifka Lodeizen, Elsie de Jan-Willem van Ewijk. Financers: Netherlands Brauw, Jakob Oftebro. Co-producer: Sweet Film Fund. Sales: TBC. Films Norway. Financers: Netherlands Film Aim at market: co-producers, sales, fi nancing. Fund, Netherlands Film Incentive, CoBO Jan van der Zanden, Ineke Kanters Fund, AVROTROS, Abraham Tuschinski Traumatized by a gun violence incident, Fund, Norwegian Film Institute, FilmCamp, Jacob slowly loses his sense of reality as he Eurimages, September Film. Sales: TBD. drives across America with his beautiful, witty Aim at market: sales. and troubled teenage daughter Sophie.

Roos travels to her mother and half-brother in Norway to tell them about her incurable illness. A silent reproach and bottled up anger about the past, however, make it impossible to talk. The unavoidable confrontation that The Film Kitchen follows brings about a big change. Lijnbaansgracht 369E 1017 XB Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 6 52 39 36 26 (Jan) +31 6 22 37 82 54 (Ineke) jan@thefi lmkitchen.nl ineke@thefi lmkitchen.nl www.thefi lmkitchen.nl

38 Topkapi Films

Topkapi Films is an Amsterdam-based Layla M. company run by producers Frans van Gestel, Status: post-production. Sort: feature-length Aim at market: to present the film to Arnold Heslenfeld and Laurette Schillings. film, 90 min. Genre: drama. Director: potential buyers, local distributors and The company, well experienced in producing Mijke de Jong. Screenwriter: Jan Eilander, festivals. and co-producing feature films and television Mijke de Jong. Cast: Nora el Koussour, drama for the Dutch and international Ilias Addab. Co-producer: Menuet (Belgium), When the 18-year old Layla, a Dutch girl with market, strives to build long-term Chromosom Film (Germany), Schiwago Film Moroccan roots, feels less and less at home relationships with writers and directors. Titles (Germany), NTR (Netherlands). Financers: in The Netherlands, she, slowly but surely, successfully produced and co-produced Eurimages, MEDIA Creative Europe, becomes involved with a group of extremists include Public Works, Land and Shade, Belgica, Netherlands Film Fund, Netherlands Film and radicalizes. She encounters a world that The Commune, All of a Sudden, Out of Love Production Incentive, CoBo Fund, Flanders nurtures her ideas, but eventually confronts and The Broken Circle Breakdown. Audiovisual Fund, Screen Flanders, Casa her with an impossible choice. Kafka, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, German Federal Film Board (FFA). Sales: Beta Cinema.

Frans van Gestel, Arnold Heslenfeld, Photographer: Pief Weyman Laurette Schillings

Topkapi Films Kloveniersburgwal 131 III 1011 KD Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 20 30 32 494 [email protected] www.topkapifilms.nl

39 Viking Film

Viking Film is the Amsterdam based film Zurich Monk production company founded in 2011 Status: international premiere at Berlinale Status: in post-production. Director: Ties by Marleen Slot. International in scope, Forum 2015. CICAE Art Cinema Award Schenk. Screenwriter: Roosmarijn Roos Viking Film wants to make high-quality Berlinale 2015. Duration: 89 minutes. Rosa de Carvalho. Cast: Sam Louwyck, films for both Dutch and international Director: Sacha Polak. Screenwriter: Helena Olivia Lonsdale, Teun Stokkel, Maria Gatell. audiences with a special focus on arthouse, van der Meulen. Cast: Wende Snijders | Sacha Co-producer: A Private View. Financiers: children films and animation films. Marleen Alexander Gersak | Barry Atsma | Martijn Netherlands Film Fund, VAF, Eurimages, worked as a producer at Lemming Film for Lakemeier. Co-producer: A Private View, Netherlands Production Incentive, Belgian many years. She is part of EAVE and member Belgium | Rohfilm, Germany. Financiers: Taxshelter, Creative Europe, Cineart. of the board of ACE. Marleen is chairman of Netherlands Filmfund, CoBO, NTR, MDM, Film Producers Netherlands. ZDF/ARTE, VAF, Belgium Taxshelter, Casa The family of hypochondriac Monk (13) is Kafka. Sales: Beta Cinema. about to collapse, nevertheless the family travels to Spain together to say goodbye to a In a desperate attempt to leave the past dying relative. En route, each of them tries to behind, Nina is wandering along Europe’s survive both the trip and their own personal motorways. She meets a German lorry driver, crisis. As they go along, they recognize the Marleen Slot and joins him on his journeys. Nina doesn’t reality that the family has to cope with is even reveal much about who she is. Slowly it stronger than all their individual anxieties. becomes clear that she is suffering from They realize that there is no place on earth the pain of an ultimate betrayal. where they would rather be than in this family. Viking Film Lindengracht 17 1015 KB Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 20 625 47 88 [email protected] www.vikingfilm.nl

40 Volya Films

Volya Films produces author films, fiction Waiting for Giraffes Totem and documentary, mainly in the form of Release: 2016. Feature-length, 85 min. Genre: Status: development. Genre: cross-over international co-productions. Recent films human interest. Director: Marco de Stefanis. family movie. Director: Sander Burger. include Problemski Hotel (Manu Riche; IFFR Co-producer: Cassette for timescapes Screenwriter: Bastiaan Tichler. Financers: 2016), Big Father, Small Father & Other Stories (Belgium), EO (Netherlands). Financiers: Netherlands Film Fund. (Di Phan Dang; Berlinale 2015 - Official Netherlands Film Fund, CoBO, Flemish Competition), Kurai Kurai - Tales on the Wind Audiovisual Fund. World sales: CAT & Docs. Ten-year-old Ama, the daughter of two illegal (Marjoleine Boonstra; Competition Dutch immigrants, sees her four-year-old brother Film Festival 2014). Dr. Sami is the veterinarian of Qalqilya Zoo taken away from school by the police. In a (Palestine), the only zoo in the world in panic, she tries to warn her parents, only occupied territory. He loves his animals and to find out that they have already been to improve their situation and replace the arrested and will be deported. On the run giraffes they lost in the last intifada he needs from the police, alone at night on the streets to collaborate with the Israeli’s and he needs of Rotterdam, Ama has to take care of herself Denis Vaslin international recognition. Will he manage? and find her way back to her family – when Fleur Knopperts suddenly her totem animal appears.

Volya Films Schiekade 189, unit 508 3013 BR Rotterdam The Netherlands +31 10 415 56 21 [email protected] www.volyafilms.com

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