Branding Dutch Cinema Bruno Felix: Submarine’S 360° Approach Hisko Hulsing on Montage of Heck
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Rosto gets animated Take the Netherlands: one year in Marten Rabarts: branding Dutch cinema Bruno Felix: Submarine’s 360° approach Hisko Hulsing on Montage of Heck Issue #19 May 2015 Cannes/Annecy issue Download the free app for iPad and Android Index View from the edge COLOPHON See NL is published four times per 3 View from the edge Olivia Stewart – 26-27 The Long View Film Fund year by EYE International and international platform and invited The Netherlands Film Fund and Producer and international script animation consultant Peter Lindhout will the best of the world’s film is distributed to international film consultant be banging the drum for Dutch animation professionals. in Annecy professionals both as advisors and 4-7 One Year In Netherlands Film Fund participants - believing that Editors in chief: Marten Rabarts (EYE), Jonathan Mees CEO Doreen Boonekamp on the Film 28-29 The Band is Back As is Rosto dialogue with the rest of the world (Netherlands Film Fund) Executive Production Incentive’s successful first with his short film Splintertime, in would benefit all, including the editor: Nick Cunningham competition in Annecy year Dutch film industry. Contributors: Geoffrey Macnab, Melanie Goodfellow and Olivia 8-9 Oui to Belgium The Netherlands 30-31 Heck of a Job Hisko Hulsing Stewart Concept & Design: Lava.nl, Amsterdam Layout: def., discusses his animated work for the The financial support given by and Wallonia are set to sign a co- Amsterdam Printing: mediaLiaison production treaty. See NL reports global hit doc Kurt Cobain: Montage Olivia Stewart, producer, mentor Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund Printed on FSC paper of Heck for Binger and NFDC-India, and co- (HBF) has transformed the lives of Circulation: 2450 copies © All rights reserved: 10-11 The Flying Dutchman creator of the EYE Prize for Art and many talented directors. Together Netherlands Film Commissioner Bas van 32-33 True Colours EYE Chief Curator The Netherlands Film Fund and Film, reflects on the Dutch impact with CineMart, the HBF broke the EYE International 2015 der Ree explains the benefits of shooting Giovanna Fossati discusses the impact on international production. mould of film finance and in Holland of colour in the Silent Era CONTACT development and made the world Sandra den Hamer 12-13 The Lobster Lemming Film’s 34-35 Keeping it Green Els Rientjes, In 2008 I was asked by Marten stage both wider and much more CEO EYE E [email protected] Leontine Petit on her co-pro investment recently appointed Sustainability Rabarts whether I would be accessible. Later, the Boost! in the Cannes competitor Manager for the Netherlands film interested in coming to work with programme launched by Binger, Marten Rabarts industry, gets eco with See NL Head of EYE International him and Ido Abram at the Binger CineMart, the HBF and the NFDC 14-15 Land and Shade Frans van E [email protected] Gestel on Topkapi’s interest in César 36-37 360° approach Emmy award- Film Lab in Amsterdam as a meant that filmmakers from EYE International winning Submarine’s Bruno Felix talks script advisor for their Writers and emerging countries were also able Acevedo’s debut feature, screening in PO BOX 74782 Critics Week about his company’s success Directors’ programmes. I said I to find international support in 1070 BT Amsterdam was, and the experience was a realising their films. Fourth The Netherlands 38-39 Short Cuts News from the Dutch T +31 20 589 1400 16-17 Direction Cannes Gurvinder revelation. Once again I found Direction, a beautiful and important Singh’s second feature Fourth Direction film industry W www.eyefilm.nl myself in a world where talent and film by Gurvinder Singh - a uniquely was backed by the Hubert Bals Fund Doreen Boonekamp and then IFFR’s Boost. Now it screens in 40 Picture profile Thekla Reuten content, rather than marketing talented filmmaker with absolute CEO Netherlands Film Fund Un Certain Regard potential, was given first position. confidence in his cinematic vision E [email protected] - is a Boost! film and has been Ellis Driessen 18-19 Joining a Commune: Frans van Binger was fantastic in both its selected for Un Certain Regard 2015. International Affairs Gestel explains why he boarded Thomas pursuit of excellence and its Netherlands Film Fund Vinterberg’s new feature The Commune E [email protected] protection of the creative process, What Binger, Cinemart and the 20-21 EYE on International New EYE and it seemed to reflect very well the Hubert Bals Fund did, and what Jonathan Mees Head of Communications International chief Marten Rabarts on Dutch mindset - in which national EYE and the Netherlands Film Fund Netherlands Film Fund promoting Dutch cinema ego takes second place to the are doing now, is to provide a forum E [email protected] recognition and development of for creativity - a modern version of a 22-23 Brand NL Branding the Netherlands Film Fund talent within an international café society, like Paris in the 30s or Netherlands film industry within the Pijnackerstraat 5 context. It’s also what makes New York in the 60s. This makes 1072 JS Amsterdam global market The Netherlands Amsterdam such an attractive and EYE a perfect home for the EYE T +31 20 570 7676 24-25 Producer on the Move PRPL’s desirable place to work. Binger Prize. For many talented filmmakers W www.filmfonds.nl Ellen Havenith represents the embodied the view that there is no and artists, Amsterdam is becoming Netherlands at the annual EFP event in reason why you have to operate the new cultural magnet - everybody Cannes. She discusses the hows and the whys of production with See NL within boundaries. It provided an wants to come there. Cover still: Splintertime Director: Rosto Script: Rosto Still: Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck See page 30 Production: Studio Rosto Sales: Autour de Minuit See page 28 2 3 Sector report One Year In… It was the big news from the is clear and transparent - in other with her. “It was a very good Netherlands at last year’s words user-friendly. There isn’t a encounter. We said that if one day Cannes festival, writes Geoffrey mountain of paper work. The rebate one of us has a project that seems Macnab. After many months of is paid up promptly. To access it, interesting to the other, we should lobbying and negotiation, the producers must pass a points stay in contact,” he comments. country was finally in the system. The pot is limited (the position to announce its new rebate was capped this year at a Thanks to the cash rebate, it 30% cash rebate scheme for little over €25 million) but it still became much easier to bring the local and foreign filmmakers. represents a huge opportunity. Dutch aboard. “Before, it was quite complicated to make international Twelve months on, it is already Projects looking for a grant from the co-productions,” Dumreicher- apparent that the scheme has had a scheme should have 50% of their Ivanceanu says of the chance the transformative effect on the local budget in place and firm plans for a rebate gave him to strike a industry. “Since the launch last year, Dutch release. (This can be partnership with KeyFilm. “We had it (cash rebate scheme) really did non-theatrical for minority Dutch a project that she (Niens) liked and what we expected it to do,” states projects.) One early film to take that was also quite interesting for Netherlands Film Fund CEO Doreen advantage of the rebate scheme has the Netherlands. And what the Boonekamp. “Actually even better!” been The Night Of A Thousand Netherlands could give was Hours, the €6.6 million Euro drama interesting for us.” The scheme is still very new but its produced by Amour Fou, directed by initial results are easy to measure. Virgil Widrich and co-scripted by Many of the key creative technicians At the time of writing (in mid-April), the legendary Jean-Claude Carriere. on the film, including the art the Fund had given grants to 67 The film follows a young man who director and the costume designer, projects. 48 of these were takes over his family business. The are Dutch. Visual effects and international co-productions, both moment he does so, ghosts of long post-production house Filmmore majority and minority Dutch. dead relatives begin to appear to Amsterdam also have an important him and try to guide him. creative part in the project, which is Boonekamp fought for the rebate to the first ever Austria/Luxembourg/ be established for 2 key reasons. On The Night Of A Thousand Hours Dutch co-production. “We do not the one hand, the Film Fund CEO hasn’t actually been shooting in the just have the cash rebate. We also was desperate to boost the local Netherlands but its very ambitious have the support of minority production sector and to stem the VFX and post-production work is co-production scheme,” explains talent drain. (Some of the country’s being carried out by Filmmore Dumreicher-Ivanceanu of the film’s best professionals - especially those Amsterdam. Dutch involvement two different sources of Dutch working in post-production - were comes as a result of the producer support. “You can combine the two being lured abroad in search of Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu of systems.” work.) On the other, the goal was to Vienna and Luxembourg-based attract international producers and Amour Fou wanting to work with One high-profile international inward investment. Dutch colleague Hanneke Niens of production that has come to the KeyFilm.