Film Producers Netherlands
Companies, Films & Projects | 2017
Film Producers Netherlands | index
Film Producers Netherlands 4 Netherlands Film Production Incentive 5 Selective Schemes 5 Netherlands Film Commission 7 EYE International 7 Project markets 7
Members Film Producers Netherlands
An Original Picture 8 KeyFilm 27 BALDR Film 9 Lemming Film 28 BosBros 10 Millstreet Films 29 Circe Films 11 Mountain Road / JWP Scholte Beheer 30 Cool Beans 12 Mulholland Pictures 31 CTM Films 13 New Amsterdam Film Company 32 De Familie Film & TV 14 OAK Motion Pictures 33 De Productie 15 PVPictures 34 Family Affair Films 16 Rotterdam Films 35 FATT Productions 17 Sigma Pictures Productions 36 Graniet Film 18 Sluizer Films 37 House of Netherhorror 19 SNG Film 38 IJswater Films 20 Submarine Film 39 Incredible Film 21 The Film Kitchen 40 Johan Nijenhuis & Co 22 Topkapi Films 41 Jos Stelling Films 23 Viking Film 42 Kaap Holland Film 24 Volya Films 43 Kaliber Film 25 24 FPS features Keren Cogan Films 26 (Anton Scholten, [email protected]) 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 181 projects receiving the cash rebate from July 2014 to December 2016. The maximum award is 1 million Marjan van der Haar euro per application. The maximum amount per year per applicant is 2 million euro. The Managing Director budget for 2017 is € 19.25 million, of which at least 70% for international co-productions. +31 6 31 79 00 17 [email protected] With this overview, we hope to continue to stimulate international co-production and distribution between Dutch film producers and international partners. 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 Maarten Swart, Kaap Holland Film +31 20 627 00 61 Sander Verdonk, New Amsterdam Film Company +31 6 31 79 00 17 Laurette Schillings, Topkapi Films [email protected] Digna Sinke, SNG Film www.filmproducenten.nl
4 Finance possibilities in NL
Netherlands Film Production Incentive • In order to ensure the cultural objectives be released 24 months after conclusion of 30% cash rebate on production spent in of the measure, a test of qualifying the Production Agreement. the Netherlands for feature films, animated characteristics will be conducted. Apply-deadline 2017 features and feature-length documentaries. Applications should meet at least three of 7 February, 9 May, 29 August, 31 October Main principles: ten cultural criteria to be eligible. • Applications can be submitted by a • The amount of the grant is determined Selective Schemes production company that has operated by the production costs that are both Focus on creative co-productions with a strong consistently for a minimum period of two eligible and demonstrably spent on (film) artistic and international appeal, reciprocity years in the Netherlands, the EU, EEA or professionals or (film)companies based will enhance the likelihood of funding, EU- Switzerland and which is legally represented in the Netherlands, multiplied by 30%. based productions companies and countries by a producer who has been responsible for The maximum grant is 1 million euro with co-production agreements, Directors with at least two film productions. per application. An advance payment an international track record. • Open to applications for feature films is possible up to 30% of the financial Production support for minority and feature-length animated films with a contribution after conclusion of the co-productions production budget of at least 1 million euro Production Agreement. • Maximum € 250,000 euro for a feature film and to feature-length documentaries with a • A grant will only be awarded if there is and maximum € 50,000 for a documentary or production budget of at least € 250,000. a minimum of € 100,000 of eligible a short animation. • A planned theatrical release in the production spent in the Netherlands. • The requested grant must be fully spent on Netherlands or, in case of a minority • During each round, eligible applications will Dutch services, cast and crew. co-production, at least a non-theatrical be ranked on the basis of a points system. • A deal memo from a Dutch film distributor release in the Netherlands and a theatrical Only applications that reach a minimum for the theatrical release of the film in the release in another country should be of 75 points out of 200 are taken into Netherlands is required. confirmed upon application. consideration. • The total Dutch share of the project needs • At least 50% of the production budget • If the Netherlands Film Fund awards a grant, to be at least 10% of the production costs, financed upon application. the subsequent film production should be including any Dutch share from Eurimages. • The Netherlands should be one of the completely financed within 6 months of the • The project must have substantial financial countries of origin among the co-producers. Fund’s decision. The film production should support already in place from the country
5 of origin of the main producer, amounting for the development of original children Co-production treaties and agreements to at least 50% of its own share and and youth features. Support can be The Netherlands currently has co-production containing at least a production grant from requested for writing of a treatment treaties with France, Canada, Germany, a regional/national film fund. (€ 10,000) a script (€ 20,000 ), a re-write of a China, South Africa and Wallonia Brussels Apply: applications can be submitted script or script coaching (€ 2,500) + € 1,000 Federation. There are agreements with throughout the year by a Dutch co-producer for translation costs. Germany (children’s film co-development who has produced at least one film that has Fund with MDM), Norway (co-operation been released theatrically in the Netherlands. Distribution support for Dutch minority agreement with Norwegian Film Institute), co-productions in the Netherlands VAF (agreement with Flanders Audiovisual Production support for minority • Minority co-productions granted by the Fund) and South-Africa. co-productions with partner Funds Film Fund are eligible for distribution The Film Fund runs several special reciprocal support for the Dutch theatrical release, up co-production schemes together with to a maximum of € 10,000. More information partner funds abroad: • VAF (Flanders Audiovisual Fund) for International distribution and/or dubbing Netherlands Film Fund the support of features, documentaries support for Dutch films abroad Doreen Boonekamp, CEO and (short) animation films. Maximum • Sales agents can apply for support for Ellis Driessen, International Affairs contribution is € 200,000 and € 50,000 for a distribution and/or dubbing costs (for Production Incentive short animation or documentary. family/youth films only) for a theatrical Ilse Ronteltap, • NFI (Norwegian Film Institute) for the release outside the Netherlands of Dutch Project Manager Film Production Incentive support of documentaries. Maximum features and documentaries which have Selective Schemes contribution is € 50,000. received funding from the Netherlands Frank Peijenburg, Head of Screen NL • NFF+HBF Co-production Scheme for the Film Fund. Peggy Driessen-Bussink, support of feature films developed by HBF • The Film Fund can match up to 50% of the Production Manager International affairs (Hubert Bals Fund). The maximum contribution total distribution costs or dubbing costs Dany Delvoie, is € 50,000. with a maximum of € 10,000 and up to 50% Project coordinator international affairs • MDM (Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung) of the costs. www.filmfund.nl
6 Netherlands Film Commission the Netherlands Film Festival. on the market. The Netherlands Film Commission is the Criteria HFM Platform: • Feature film with theatrical potential official liaison between the Dutch creative • European feature projects suitable for Dutch (minimum length of 60 minutes). media industries and foreign producers and or European co-production are eligible. • A complete screenplay should be available production companies. • Fiction, documentary, animation and during CineMart, different stages of Netherlands Film Commission transmedia projects with a minimum development allowed (budget not to Bas van der Ree, length of 70 min. exceed € 6 million). Netherlands Film Commissioner • Local financial support must be in place. www.filmcommission.nl • For BOOST NL only Dutch project for EU Apply: application deadline September 1, 2017. coproduction can apply. Contact: Marit van den Elshout / Inke van EYE International Loocke, +31 10 890 90 90, [email protected], EYE International is responsible for the Apply: application deadline June 15, 2017 iffr.com/en/professionals/iffr-industry/ international marketing & promotion of Contact: Vanja Kaludjercic, +31 6 24 97 22 93, cinemart/about-cinemart Dutch films. It provides the international film [email protected], www.filmfestival. circuit with information, films and current nl/profs_en/holland-film-meeting/ Cinekid activities within the Dutch film industry. 24-27 October 2017 Eye International Cinemart-IFFR Pro Days The Junior Co-production Market is an Marten Rabarts, 28-31 Januari 2017 / 2 February 2017 integrated 2-day co-production market Head of EYE International CineMart is a Co-Production Platform, which that enables financiers, broadcasters and www.international.eyefilm.nl offers filmmakers the opportunity to launch producers to assess new and innovative their ideas to the international film industry. projects across the cross-media, film and Project markets Criteria: television sector. • Viability and quality of the plans suitable Holland Film Meeting for an international market, proven talent Apply: application deadline June 15, 2017. 20-29 September 2017 of the directors and/or producers from all Contact: Nienke Poelsma, +31 (0)20 531 78 96, The Holland Film Meeting Co-Production over the world. [email protected], www.cinekid.nl/ Platform is the co-production meeting of • Projects should be new or recent and fresh professional
7 An Original Picture
After being owner and producer of renowned Sharing risks and involving partners from Short Filmography production company Lemming Film for different territories in the development, over 20 years, Joost de Vries has established production, financing and distribution, is a Producer: himself as an independent producer way as independent to be able to work on Rintje, stop-motion animation tv series, since april 2016, to be able to work more productions with top writing talent, creative Ben Tesseur & Steven de Beul, 2016 closely with exceptional filmmakers with packages and production values, all of which Toen Mijn Vader een Struik Werd international ambitions and potential. are needed to prevail in today’s competitive (When my father became a bush), feauture film, market. Nicole van Kilsdonk, 2016 Having established a considerable track Uilenbal (Owls and Mice), feature film, record in international feature films and Training and Other Experience Simone van Dusseldorp, 2016 television series, Joost will be working on In 1993 he graduated in Arts Administration, Boy 7, feature film, Üzgur Yildirim, 2015 international projects as a stand alone and in 1996 he enrolled in the high profile Boy 7, feature film, Lourens Blok, 2014 producer, in changing alliances with European producers training and network established production companies and Ateliers du Cinéma Européen (ACE). In Co-producer: distributors. 2006/2007 he was chairman of the board The Lobster, feature film, of the MEDIA Desk Netherlands. He was a Yorgos Lanthimos, 2015 member of the board for the Dutch film Heli, feature film, Amat Escalante, 2013 producers association (FPN) between 2008 Blind, feature film, Eskil Vogt, 2013 and 2017. Recently he started working as In The Fog, feature film, Sergei Loznitsa, 2012 Joost de Vries expert for the European MEDIA Programme My Joy, Sergei Loznitsa, 2010 and has taken over the management of the An Original Picture international post production workshop EP2C. Complete filmography on imdb: Ertskade 65 www.imdb.com/name/nm0212297/ 1019 BB Amsterdam ?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 The Netherlands +31(0)6 51 13 99 34 [email protected]
8 BALDR Film
BALDR Film (2012) is the Amsterdam- Brothers Etgar Keret: Based on a True Story based production company of producers Release: summer 2017. Status: finished. Release: June 2017. Status: finished. Sort: Frank Hoeve and Katja Draaijer. They focus Sort: feature-length film, 105 min. Genre: feature documentary, 54/67 min. Director: on developing and producing high-quality drama. Director: Bram Schouw. Screenwriter: Stephane Kaas. Co-producer: 2-Team features and documentaries of a select Marcel Roijaards. Cast: Jonas Smulder, Productions (Israel). Financers: Dutch Cultural number of filmmakers with a distinctive Niels Gomperts, Christa Théret and Rufus. Media Fund, CoBO, NTR. personal signature for an international Financers: Netherlands Film Fund, Dutch Aim at market: distribution, sales. market. Their latest credit is the IDFA Cultural Media Fund, CoBO, Netherlands Film nominated and Dutch Academy Award Production Incentive, NTR. In his extremely short stories, the Israeli winner Those Who Feel the Fire Burning by Aim at market: distribution, sales. writer Etgar Keret plays an impressive game Morgan Knibbe (IDFA, True/False, Hot Docs, with fantasy and reality. The story of his Sarajevo Film Festival, CPH:Dox). BALDR is When Alexander suddenly leaves on a road life, too, sounds like a modern fairy tale. In a member of the ACE- and EAVE-netwerk. trip to France, Lukas decides to join him as this hybrid documentary, the filmmakers he’s been trailing his charismatic brother investigate why telling lies is essential to for his entire life. But during this journey he Keret’s survival. discovers that he finally has to go his own way, not knowing this decision would be so all-encompassing. Frank Hoeve, Katja Draaijer
BALDR Film Oudezijds Achterburgwal 77 1012 DC Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 20 303 26 70 [email protected] www.baldrfilm.nl
9 BosBros
BosBros has set the standard for high- Coupe Confused Marionette quality film and television productions in Release: fall 2018. Status: pre-production. Release: fall 2018. Status: financing. Sort: the Netherlands since 1989. BosBros has a Sort: feature-length film. Genre: family film. feature-length film. Genre: psychological proven track record to produce such classics Director: Mischa Kamp. Screenwriter: Tamara thriller. Director: Elbert van Strien. Screenwriter: as The Flying Liftboy, Minoes, Winky’s Horse Bos. Co-producer: Leitwolf (Germany). Elbert van Strien, Ben Hopkins. Cast: TBC. and The Amazing Wiplala. In addition to Financers: Dutch Film Fund Development, Financers: Dutch Film Fund, Creative Europe. producing many new feature films, BosBros’s Creative Europe Development, Broadcasters Sales: Protagonist Pictures (UK). challenge for the future is to conquer the Sales: In The Air. Aim at market: to present the film to European market with animation projects. Aim at market: to present the film to potential equity and gap financiers. potential buyers, local distributors and festivals. A psychological thriller about a child psychiatrist who treats a disturbed child that Romy (8) does not enjoy having to go to her claims to control the world. Marianne van grandmother’s hair salon after school; but Zanten, a child psychiatrist, loses her husband Burny Bos then it turns out that her grandmother really in a terrible, random accident. Resolving to Jolande Junte needs Romy’s help. Coupe Confused is a story make a new start, she moves to Glasgow, Eefje Smulders about dementia, taking on a job in a clinic where they treat through the eyes disturbed children. One of her new patients, of a young girl. Manny, a closed and secretive 9-year old boy, has an unusual delusion: he claims to BosBros have created the world. He even claims to Arie Biemondstraat 111 have invented Marianne. Marianne, deeply 1054 PD Amsterdam intrigued, begins an obsession that will derail The Netherlands her life. Her grip on reality begins to spiral out +31 20 524 40 30 of control, taking her on a journey that will
Script: Tamara Bos [email protected] Director: Mischa Kamp question the nature of existence itself. Production company: BosBros www.bosbros.com
10 Circe Films
Since its establishment in 1996, Circe Films Cobain Avrupa has (co)produced over 20 feature films by Release: 2017. Status: post-production. Sort: Release: 2018. Status: script development. outstanding filmmakers from across the globe feature-length film, 94 min. Genre: drama. Sort: drama series. Duration: 10 x 55 like Nanouk Leopold, Sacha Polak, Martijn Director: Nanouk Leopold. Screenwriter: minutes. Genre: drama. Director: Sacha Maria Smits, Dominga Sotomayor, Radu Stienette Bosklopper. Cast: Bas Keizer, Polak. Screenwriter: Sacha Polak & Stienette Jude and Sebastián Hofmann. Since 2015 Naomi Velissariou, Wim Opbrouck, Dana Bosklopper. Cast: t.b.a. Co-producers: BNN- Lisette Kelder works as the company’s second Marineci. Co-producers: A Private View VARA & NTR Television (the Netherlands), producer next to Stienette Bosklopper. (Belgium), Coin Film (Germany), The Film NADCON (Germany) and Lunanime (Belgium/ Kitchen (the Netherlands), VPRO Television the Netherlands). Financers: Netherlands Film (the Netherlands). Financers: Netherlands Fund, Creative Europe MEDIA Programme. Film Fund, the Netherlands Production Target audience: international viewers high Incentive, Eurimages, CoBO, VAF, Film- und quality television drama. Aim at market: Medienstiftung NRW, Casa Kafka Pictures, sales, co-production partners. Stienette Bosklopper, Casa Kafka Pictures Movie Tax Shelter +31 6 24 55 68 25 empowered by Belfius, Creative Europe Avrupa centers on the Turkish Çelik family Lisette Kelder, MEDIA Programme, WDR, Abraham Tuschinski who run a declining pension in the mid +31 6 15 95 09 89 Fonds. Sales: Beta Cinema. Target audience: 1980s. art house. Aim at market: distribution, buyers.
Cobain tries to get his pregnant mother Mia Circe Films to quit her self-destructive lifestyle. When she Da Costakade 176 HS refuses to clean up her act, Cobain takes over. 1053 XE Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 20 625 35 91 [email protected] www.circe.nl
11 Richard Claus & Co. / Cool Beans
Richard Claus & Co / Cool Beans is a Dutch An Act of Defiance Mandela was such a man, fighting for his based production company. In addition to Release: 2017. Sort: feature-length film, 124 own people against the white establishment making films in the Netherlands, he has been min. Genre: political drama. Director: Jean of South Africa. An Act Of Defiance is about producing in Germany, the United States and van de Velde. Screenwriter: Jean van de Velde the man behind Nelson Mandela, his lawyer more recently South Africa. His productions & Dominic Morgan & Matt Cameron Harvey. and highly esteemed member of the white include the international co-productions Cast: Peter Paul Muller, Antoinette Louw, José establishment Bram Fischer, giving his life Mute Witness, An American Werewolf in Paris, Domingos, Conrad Kemp, Sello Motloung, while fighting against his own people for the The Little Vampire, The Thief Lord and The Daniel Janks, Morné Visser, Fezile Mpela, better of all people. Price of Sugar. In the last five years, Claus Willie Esterhuizen, Izel Bezuidenhout. has produced four Dutch international co- Co-producers: Spier Films (South Africa), productions, all of which were shot at least in On Stilts (UK), BNN-VARA. Financers: The part in South Africa. Netherlands Film Fund, Cobo Fund, Abraham Tuschinski Fund, The Department Of Trade And Industry South Africa. Sales: Cinema Management Group. Aim at market: sales.
Richard Claus South Africa, 1963: Mandela is prepared to give his life for the freedom of his people. Richard Claus & Co. / Cool Beans Another man sacrifices his life for the Utrechtsestraat 69-1hg freedom of Mandela: Bram Fischer. 1017 VG Amsterdam In an era when people die while making The Netherlands selfies, it is important to tell stories about +31 20 589 60 60 people in other eras: when men and women +31 6 50 28 14 10 were prepared to die for the benefit of +27 79 891 31 90 others; for the benefit of a better future; [email protected] for equal rights for black and white. Nelson
12 CTM Films
CTM Films is the film production company Kill Switch of CTM Entertainment. Its objective is clear: Release: May-June 2017. Status: delivery. Sort: to develop, finance and produce feature feature-length film, 90 min. Genre: science films with originality, authenticity and a fiction. Director: Tim Smit. Screenwriter: C. compelling story. Kindinger and Omid Nooshin. Cast: Dan Stevens, Tygo Gernandt, Berenice Marlohe. Originally set up by recognised international Co-producer: Film Nation, USA. Financers: producer Denis Wigman. Today, the day to Film Nation & Dutch Film Fund. Sales: Film day management is run by his daughter Nation. Target audience: Male (20-35). Marijn, combining more than 30 years of experience with the young, energetic view First-time feature writer-director Tim Smit’s on film and media of the next generation. VFX-heavy futuristic feature charts the story of a pilot battling to save his family and the planet, based on Smit’s short What’s In The Box?.
Set in a future version of the world, the video game style plot follows an experiment Denis & Marijn Wigman for unlimited energy, harnessing parallel universes, which goes wrong. Chased by drones and soldiers, pilot and physicist CTM Films Will Porter must race through an imploding Emmastraat 21 world to get the Redivider box to a tower, 1211 NE Hilversum which will save humanity, including his family, The Netherlands in the real world. +31 35 647 40 40 [email protected] www.ctmpictures.nl
13 De Familie Film & TV
De Familie Film & TV is an international The Empty City Life on Mars award winning production company in the Release: March 2018. Sort: feature-length Status: in development. Sort: feature-length Netherlands, founded in 2005 by Monique film, 90 min, Genre: drama. Director: Michiel film, 90 min. Genre: drama. Director: Michiel Busman and Michiel van Erp. We produce van Erp. Screenwriter: Philip Huff. Cast: Minne van Erp. Screenwriter: Marnie Blok. Dutch documentaries and drama for theatre and Koole, Jonas Smulders, Chris Peters. NIDS Film fund, Phanta Film, AVROTROS. Life on television. The documentaries cover subjects Filmproductie VOF in co-production with Het Mars is also project in development during such as the international motorcycle gang Familiedrama, Phanta Film, Eyeworks Drama EAVE Producers Workshop 2017. Satudarah, elderly transgenders, a portrait Belgium, AVROTROS. Financers: Dutch Film Aim at market: looking for co-producers. of the famous photographer Erwin Olaf Fund, Production Incentive the Netherlands, or the FVP of the European Commission Tax Shelter Belgium, COBO. Distributor: When Joris, at his 50th birthday, confesses Frans Timmermans. September Film. to his family and friends that he is going to Mars, a one-way ticket, it blows everyone In the no-holds-barred state of freedom away. Life on Mars is a film about the courage that Amsterdam student life appears to be, to keep questioning ourselves: what is really three friends learn that they cannot escape important in your live. the approaching Producer: Monique Busman responsibilities of Producer/director: Michiel van Erp adulthood.
De Familie Film & TV Schollenbrugstraat 4 1091EX Amsterdam +31 20 663 33 03 www.defamilie.net [email protected]
14 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: tbd. Co- women. Their raw and topical story will be challenge. De Productie does not only producers: Minds Meet/Need Productions enriched by vivacious and contemporary intend to be a meeting place for local and (Belgium), Jomami Films (Germany). dance, song and music. Music which belongs national talent, but also a reliable partner in Financiers: Netherlands Film Fund, VAF. to them and encompasses their history: soul, international co-productions. Our films are Distribution: Benelux Cinemien/ABC R & B, gospel, African and Caribbean music. often a mix of fiction, documentary and art. Filmdistribution. Sales: M-appeal. The songs in the film enables the characters We are especially looking for universal stories to briefly transcend their harsh reality and straight from the heart, as varied and colorful Five black women reside illegally in the reveal their secret inner life. The women sing as the creators of these stories are. Netherlands, in search of prosperity and about subjects of which they cannot speak happiness. They share a flat in a bleak, out loud. Homesickness, dreams of a better anonymous suburb, earning their living as life, the truth behind human trafficking, which cook, dancers or prostitutes. They endure the is simply a matter of supply and demand and exploitation and the many humiliations of the clichés about black women being sexually their fate with much humour, resilience and uninhibited and wild.’ Annemiek van Gorp, René Goossens song. Until one day it becomes too much for them and they revolt, singing their fury De Productie from the rooftops. The wellknown producer Regulierstraat 10 Giorgio Tuinfort (Michael Jackson, Rihanna) 2021 HE Haarlem and Nigerian singer songwriter Nneka will be +31 6 14 53 51 62 working together with Karin Junger on the +31 6 51 51 37 44 songs of the film. 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
15 Family Affair Films
Family Affair Films is an Amsterdam-based Bloody Marie Light as Feathers production company founded by Floor Onrust. Release: September 2018. Status: financing. Release: Februari 2018. Status: post-production. We produce urgent and contemporary Sort: feature-length film, 100 min. Genre: Sort: feature-length film, 90 min. Genre: television drama, short and feature films of action, thriller. Director: Guido van Driel. drama. Director: Rosanne Pel. Screenwriter: high artistic quality with a strong author- Screenwriter: Guido van Driel. Cast: tbd. Rosanne Pel. Cast: local non actors. Financers: driven vision. We develop projects with new Co-producers: Bulletproof Cupid (Belgium), Netherlands Film Fund. Amsterdam Fund for talent and video artists, and we continue our Schiwago Film (Germany), VPRO. Financers: the Arts. Target audience: Primair: men and relationships with established filmmakers. Netherlands Film Fund, Netherlands Producion women 35-49, arthouse, educated, cultural Incentive, Creative Europe, CoBO Fund. Sales: interested. Secundair: men and women 25-34, Global Screen. Target audience: Primair: men, cultural interested, young professionals. age 20-50. Secundair: women, age 20-50. Aim at market: sales agent, distributor.
Cartoonist Marie Wankelmut barely stands her 15 year old Eryk lives with his mother, Floor Onrust, [email protected] ground after the success of her erotic cartoon. grandmother and great-grandmother in a Noortje Wilschut, Delegate Producer, She drifts from her home on the Red Light District small village in Poland. Eryk is in love with [email protected] to the liquor store or pub with her dog Polly on his 13 year old neighbor Claudia, but he her side. Horrific events on the other side of the does not know the difference between wall in her house, force Marie to take action. love and abuse.
Family Affair Films Entrepotdok 77A 1018 AD Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 20 707 17 13 [email protected] www.familyaffairfilms.nl
16 FATT Productions
Producing Films, Arts, Television & Theatre Deadman’s Passport A as in Abel (FATT) for a wide, international audience, Release: 2019. Status: writing. Sort: feature- Release: 2018. Status: financing. Sort: feature- FATT Productions is the new production length film, 90-120 min. Genre: thriller/drama. length film, 90-100 min. Genre: family. company founded by Hans de Weers. In his Screenwriter: Roel & Berend Boorsma. Financers: Director: Arno Dierckx. Screenwriter: Janneke previous companies, De Weers produced development funding Netherlands Film Fund. van de Pal. Co-producer: Smarthouse Films many award winning fims including Antonia’s Aim at market: co-producer. (Danielle Guirguis)-Netherlands. Target Line (Oscar) and Bluebird (Crystal Bear). FATT audience: Children 6-9 y. recently produced the Netflix series & feature When the Mauritanian slave William is freed Aim at market: co-producer, sales-agent. Film Tokyo Trial and Mike van Diem’s Tulipani. by an adventurous Dutch couple, his real trouble only begins: chased by his Morish When 8 year old Abeltje find out his friend slavemaster, he puts his life on the line to Laura’s gone missing while preparing their regain his identity and humanity in one of circus act, Abeltje has to find her. His journey the forgotten corners of the world. brings him past tigers and bandits, escapes by a flying circus-wagon to finally find Laura. Hans de Weers Though in script development, Deadman’s Elwin Looije Passport would be a great project to further Succesor of the popular film Abeltje (The flying develop in this lift boy) based on early stage the book by Annie (director/cast/ M.G. Schmidt. finance) with co- FATT Productions producing partners. Herengracht 174 1016 BR Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 20 341 94 69 [email protected] www.fatt.nl
17 Graniet Film
Graniet Film is the independent company Nr. 10 A Gentle Creature of producer Marc van Warmerdam and his Screenwriter & Director Alex van Warmerdam Screenwriter & director Sergei Loznitsa. brother writer/director Alex van Warmerdam. International coproduction, release French/German/Lithuanian/Dutch The company’s initial aim is to produce 2018/2019. After the acclaimed films co-production. Nomination Palme the feature films of Alex van Warmerdam: Borgman (premiered in the Palme d’Or d’Or, Cannes 2017. Loosely inspired by De Jurk (1996 The Dress), Kleine Teun (1998 competition of Cannes in 2013) and Dostoyevsky’s short story, A Gentle Creature Little Tony), Grimm (2003), Ober (2006 Waiter), Schneider vs. Bax (premiered in the Golden revolves around a woman who travels to a De laatste dagen van Emma Blank (2009 Leopard competition of Locarno 2015) prison in a remote region to find out what The Last Days of Emma Blank), Borgman Alex van Warmerdam just finished the script has happened to her incarcerated husband (2013) and Schneider vs. Bax (2015). of his new film with the working title Nr. 10. after a parcel she sent is returned without The shoot is planned in the winter of 2018. explanation. Distribution Benelux: Cinéart Sales: Distribution Benelux: Imagine Sales: Fortissimo Films, phone +31 20 215 93 10 Wild Bunch, phone +33 4 93 99 73 54 Supported by the Dutch Film Fund and public broadcaster BNN/VARA. Marc van Warmerdam Still from A Gentle Creature
Graniet Film Archangelkade 15 1013 BE Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 20 606 06 30 [email protected]
18 House of Netherhorror
House of Netherhorror was established by Amsterdam Gothic New Blood producers Jan Doense and Herman Slagter Release: tbd. Status: Financing. Sort: feature- Release: tba. Status: financing. Sort: feature- with the sole purpose of (co-)producing low length film (English language). Genre: length film, 90 min. Genre: Horror. Director: to medium budget Dutch and international supernatural thriller/horror. Director: Chris W. Frank van Geloven. Screenwriter: Edwin Visser, horror films. Mitchell. Screenwriter: Chris W. Mitchell. Cast: Frank van Geloven. Cast, Co-producer, Financers, tbd. Co-producer: tbd. Financers: Netherlands Sales: tba. Target audience: young adults. Film Fund. Sales: tbd. Target audience: young Aim at market: find sales rep and financing. adults and crossover. Aim at market: close deal with international sales rep. Mark works as a nurse in a private clinic run by the charismatic and ambitious Doctor Jan Doense The four-hundred year old De Witte House Morter. The arrival of an Eastern European Herman Slagter stands brooding on its Amsterdam canal, patient carrying a unique form of rabies waiting... When Robin Taylor accepts the offer seems to hold out the hope of finding a cure House of Netherhorror to take part in an art restoration project at the for cancer and Aids. Morter sets to work in Amsterdam office / Jan Doense De Witte House, she does not realize that she a sealed wing of the hospital. When one Prinsengracht 770, 4th floor will be plunged into a terrifying maelstrom of Mark’s favourite patients disappears, he 1017 LE Amsterdam of malevolent forces and traumas well buried discovers that Morter’s experiments have The Netherlands beneath her busy life. For the mysterious left ethics and even sanity far behind and +31 6 54 26 56 61 organizer of the project replaced them with a [email protected] has brought her here horde of blood-thirsty Rotterdam office / Herman Slagter for a dark purpose; as a flesh-eating monsters. Delftsestraat 25 sacrifice to his master, the 3013 AD Rotterdam great Floris de Witte, who The Netherlands learned that an artist, if +31 6 55 10 75 33 prepared to perform the [email protected] necessary grisly tasks, can www.houseofnetherhorror.nl indeed live on in his work.
19 IJswater Films
For 20+ years IJswater Films is (co)producing In Blue The Wondrous Journey of Little Sophie award-winning shorts, docs, TV drama & Status: completed, screener available. Status: in development/financing. Selected features: The Polish Bride (Cannes Critics Release Benelux: Autumn 2017 (distribution for Cinekid/Berlinale Script Lab and Cartoon Choice), Win/Win (Best Actor Brooklyn FF), Paradiso Films). Winner HFM WiP Award NL Movie 2017. Genre: children/ family drama 22nd of May (TIFF), The New World (Emmy Film Festival 2016. English/Dutch/Romanian, (period). Feature-length 3D Computer/ Award Best Actress), Supernova (Berlinale 102’. Genre: drama. Writer/director: Jaap van Live action. Writers/directors: Roel & Berend Generation), Paradise Trips (Best Camera Heusden (Win/Win, The New World). Cast: Boorsma (Milo; Opening Cinekid FF, Special Sopot IFF), As if I’m Crazy (Jury Award Noida Maria Kraakman (Schneider vs. Bax), Bogdan Jury Award Giffioni FF). In coproduction with IFF) and Contact (Berlinale Golden Bear Best Iancu (A Farewell to Fools). Co-producers: Pellicola Film (NL) and Public Broadcaster Short). In production: The Heart of Hadiah Caviar BE, NTR. Service producer: Strada Film AVROTROS, backed by NL Film Fund. Tromp (85‘ Telefilm) & other new gripping Romania. Support: NL Film Fund/Incentive, Aim at market: co-producers, sales agents, projects are in development. VAF/BE Tax shelter, MEDIA. distributors (world rights available). Aim at market: sales, distribution, buyers, festivals (rights outside Benelux available). Based on the internationally acclaimed children’s book by Els Pelgrom, this is the When LIN, a 40-something Dutch flight story of terminally ill seven-year-old Sophie, attendant, delivers a passenger’s baby who has a strong will and a curious spirit. Producer/Owner: Marc Bary in mid-air, it leaves her off kilter. In the One night, all her stuffed animals and toys Producer: Steven Rubinstein Malamud emotional aftermath, she meets NICU (15), come to life and she embarks on a magical Project Supervisor: Roddia Rumahloine who lives on & under the streets of Bucharest, journey with her puppets and talking cat to Junior Producer: Eva van Dorland and gets involved in a confusing relationship. discover what life has to offer. IJswater Films Kromme Mijdrechtstraat 110-4 1079 LD Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 20 442 17 60 [email protected], www.ijswater.nl
20 Incredible Film
Incredible film is a dutch production His & Hers Angel company and a worldwide sales agent. Every Release: 2019. Status: developing and Release: 2019. Status : developing, year they bring a varied portfolio of Dutch financing. Sort: feature-length film, 100 min. financing completed. Sort: feature-length films to Cannes. From family adventure, to Genre: romantic comedy. Director: tba. film, 80 min. Genre: family adventure. horror, from drama to comedy. Since 2009, Screenwriter: Anouk Smit. Cast: tba. Director: Dennis Bots. Screenwriter: Ellen she has produced successful films such as Coproducer: tba. Financers: tba. Sales: Barendregt. Cast: tba. Co-producer : Madly in Love and the Escape. Incredible Film. Mountain Road Entertainment. Financers: a.o. Netherlands Film Fund, Marmalade. Of course the colourful, creative, Sales: Incredible Film. environmentally aware laboratory analyst Emma (26) should not have opened those Angel is about a young girl who has special cages and let those rabbits run free. And she powers: she can make wishes come true – Danielle Raaphorst definitely should have known better than to but only for good people. It is not long before keep a flame burning in the lab while doing she is preyed on by people who use her gift Present at market: Palais du Festival so. In the big fat lawsuit that her former for their own ends. Angel is kidnapped and it Riviera, Marina Club H6, table 6 employer file against Emma, the verdict is seems as if she has lost her special talent. clear: either she pays an enormous fine or she But then it turns out the wishes of one of her goes to German prison for 5 months. In kidnappers can come true… shock, she calls Lynn, her 15 year older friend-for-life who lives in Amsterdam. She is Incredible Film more than happy to put Emma up for a few Hekendorperweg 21 weeks and to use her extensive network to 3421 VJ Oudewater get Emma job interviews in laboratories or The Netherlands eco-friendly companies. And so it happens +31 (0)6 53948 986 that Emma moves in with Lynn and Michael [email protected] and starts working in His & Hers, but if that www.incrediblefilm.com works…
21 Johan Nijenhuis & Co | JOCO Media
Johan Nijenhuis & Co and JOCO Media are Boys will be Boys The Swell film and television production companies, Released: December 2016. Status: finished. Released: November 2016. Sort: TV miniseries, specialized in (romantic) comedies and Sort: feature-length film, 111 min. Genre: 6x45’ min. Genre: event drama. Director: Hans family content. We focus on subjects that a comedy. Director: Johan Nijenhuis. Herbots. Screenwriter: Karin van der Meer, wide audience can identify with, and subjects Screenwriter: Annelouise Verboon. Cast: Maarten Lebens, Wout Thielemans. Cast: Gijs which have a high entertainment value. We Jim Bakkum, Martijn Fischer, Barbara Sloesen, Scholten van Aschat, Susan Visser, Thomas produce mainstream box-office hits such Sanne Vogel, Matheu Hinzen. Financers: Rijckewaert, Daisy Van Praet. Co-producer: as Loving Ibiza and Tuscan Wedding. We are Netherlands Film Fund, CoBO, AVROTROS, Menuet Bvba (Belgium). Financers: EO, VRT, always developing new screenplays and offer Entertainment One Benelux. Target audience: CoBO, Screen Flanders, Casa Kafka Pictures continuity to our filmmakers. Other projects Women 19-45. and the Tax Shelter measure of the Belgian include the feature films Body Language Federal Government. Sales: Dutch Features. and Bennie Brat and the TV series Trollie and When Jorrit returns from several years The Lion’s Den. abroad, he isn’t warmly welcomed by his The Swell explores what happens when the ex-wife or 8-year-old son. At the construction national flood defenses of The Netherlands company of his friend, business is going and Belgium start to collapse. Five million downhill as well. When the men discover people live on land below sea level. How that their muscled bodies impress the female will major cities and rural areas survive the customers, they turn the company into a male disastrous consequences of flooding? Can Johan Nijenhuis, Ingmar Menning strippers’ troupe. But how will their families people cope with rebuilding not just their respond to this extraordinary career change? individual lives, but their entire countries too? Johan Nijenhuis & Co | JOCO Media Karperweg 45 1075 LB Amsterdam +31 20 760 19 60 [email protected] [email protected] www.nijenhuisenco.nl
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Jos Stelling Films
Founded in 1975, Jos Stelling Films is an The Dance of Natasja The Girl and Death independent film production company. Release: 2018. Status: pre-production. Released: 2012. Sort: feature-length film, It produces feature films and shorts by Sort: feature-length film, 90 min. Genre: 127 min. Genre: drama. Director: Jos Stelling. director and scriptwriter Jos Stelling. It has tragicomedy. Director: Jos Stelling. Screenwriters: Bert Rijkelijkhuizen and Jos established co-productions with producers Screenwriter: Jos Stelling & Bert Stelling. Cast: Sergey Makovetsky, Sylvia from Belgium, Germany and Russia. Its Rijkelijkhuizen. Producer: Jos Stelling Films. Hoeks, Leonid Bichevin, Dieter Hallervorden, films (including The Pointsman and The Financers: Dutch Film Fund. Renata Litvinova. Co-producers: TV Indie Illusionist) have won many awards, both Film Production (Russia) and AVROTROS in the Netherlands and beyond. Stelling’s The Dance of Natasja is about the love (NL). Financers: Netherlands Film Fund, CoBo, first feature Mariken van Nieumeghen was in between the eccentric and unworldly MdM, DFFF, Cinema Fund Russia, Media the official competition of the Cannes Film Daantje and the Russian dancer Natasja, Programme i2i. Festival (1975). who is scarred by life. A timeless story of love and death. Russian doctor Nicolai returns to the old, abandoned hotel/brothel where he once met the courtesan Elise. His reliving of this intense love story causes past and present to become Jos Stelling one. Leitmotifs include Sehnsucht, Chekhov Judith van den Burg (assistant) and Pushkin. Won the Golden Calf for Best Film at the Netherlands Film Festival. Jos Stelling Films Springweg 50 3511 VS Utrecht The Netherlands +31 30 231 37 89 [email protected] www.stellingfilms.nl
23 Kaap Holland Film
Kaap Holland Film is a Dutch film production A Shining Flaw Hannah’s Paradise company, managed by producer Maarten Release: 2019. Status: financing. Sort: feature- Release: 2019. Status: developing/financing. Swart, that consists of a team of passionate length film, 110 min. Genre: epic drama/ Sort: feature-length film, 95 min. Genre: family professionals that strive to bring high quality romance. Director: Erwin Olaf. Screenwriter: drama/coming of age. Director: Alejandro projects to a wide audience. Kaap Holland Arthur Japin. Cast: tba. Target audience: Agresti. Screenwriter: Moniek Kramer. Cast: Film has a solid track record for crossover women 20-60. Co-producers: tbd. Financiers: tba. Target audience: cross-over/arthouse . films with international appeal and projects Netherlands Film Fund, CoBo Fund, tba. Co-producers: tba. Financiers: Netherlands that were amongst the highest grossing in Aim at market: to present the film to Film Fund, CoBo Fund, tba. Aim at market: The Netherlands. The slate for the next years potential co-producers, sales agents, local/ to present the film to potential co-producers, includes (co-)productions A Shining Flaw, The international distributors, investors. sales agents, local/international distributors. Book of Everything, The Racer and the Jailbird, Dunkirk, Hannahs Paradise and Sea of Time. In Amsterdam, Lucia, a veiled courtesan, Hannah’s Paradise is a tragic comedy about recognizes Casanova, her greatest and first a complicated mother-daughter relation. love she met in Italy 16 years before. Leaving The witty, brave and energetic 17 years old for Venice to become a diplomat, Casanova Hannah has to take care of her unstable promises to marry her the following spring. mother Azucena, when her father, a Dutch Tragically, smallpox leaves her face deformed, brilliant conductor has left his Argentinian Maarten Swart and Lucia doesn’t want to ruin his career. wife. Hannah has mainly been raised by the Sixteen years later, Lucia realizes that it is caretaker, Mlle Therese, the chubby, originally her betrayal that is keeping him from truly Belgian, old spinster, with whom she shares Kaap Holland Film loving anyone again. Without her great love for food. Mlle Raamplein 1 revealing her true identity, Therese stimulates Hannah 1016 XK Amsterdam they become lovers once to start her own life, which The Netherlands again. But Lucia’s troubled makes Azucena even more +31 20 346 37 37 life has given her a deeper jealous. [email protected] understanding of love than www.kaaphollandfilm.nl Casanova ever will.
24 Kaliber Film
Founded in 2007, Kaliber Film is a creative Mnk Boy Big Village and internationally oriented independent Release: 2019. Status: development & Release: 2018. Status: financing & production company based in Amsterdam financing. Sort: feature-length film, 90 min. pre-production. Sort: feature-length and Istanbul. We develop and produce Genre: youth film. Director: Mete Gümürhan. documentary, 57 + 90 min. Genre: hybrid author driven original narrative productions, Screenwriters: Sibel Altınbaş, Mete (Part of a Transmedia project). Director: making no distinction between fiction and Gümürhan. Co-producers: Filmaltı and TRT, Beri Shalmashi. Developers: Beri Shalmashi, documentary form or style. Kaliber Film Turkey. Financers: Turkish Ministry of Culture Joost Wilgenhof and Lyangelo Vasquez. productions have screened at several and Tourism, General Directorate of Cinema Financers: Netherlands Film Fund, Creative international film festivals, such as Berlin, and Netherlands Film Fund. Target audience: Industries Fund NL, EO/IKONdocs (TV & Locarno, Toronto, Rotterdam, IDFA and families, children. Aim at market: to find Radio broadcaster) and de Volkskrant Cinekid. Most recently Kaliber Film produced co-producers, broadcasters and international (Newspaper). Sales: tba. Aim at market: to Young Wrestlers, the directorial debut of sales agents to help package and close the find co-producers, funders, broadcasters, Mete Gümürhan, which-world premiered at financing. We are especially interested in distributors and international sales agents the 66th Berlinale and won a Special Mention partners from Europe. to help package and close the financing. We of the Generation Plus Jury. We’re a member are especially interested in partners from of EAVE-network since 2011. 12-year-old Zeki, a secluded boy and Belgium, Germany, France or Scandinavia. comic book fan, moves from the ghettos of Rotterdam to the gated communities In his extremely short stories, the Israeli of Istanbul with his single father Mahir to writer Etgar Keret plays an impressive Bas Broertjes make a new start. There, game with fantasy and Aydin Dehzad Zeki is challenged by the reality. The story of his hardships of this new life life, too, sounds like a Kaliber Film and left with no choice modern fairy tale. In this Ernest Staesstraat 47 other than to become a hybrid documentary, the 1061 CC Amsterdam superhero. filmmakers investigate why The Netherlands telling lies is essential to
A METE GÜMÜRHAN FILM [email protected], www.kaliberfilm.nl © Nicholas Karakatsani Keret’s survival.
25 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
26 KeyFilm
KeyFilm producers have built an extensive The Beast in the Jungle Craving network of co-producers, funds and financiers, Status: in production. Sort: feature-length film, Release: 2017. Status: completed. Sort: feature-length and (co-)produced numerous feature films, tv 90 min. Genre: drama. Director: Clara van Gool film, 95 min. Genre: black comedy/drama. Director: series, shorts and documentaries. Vital to their (Emmy Award of Performing Arts for Enter Saskia Diesing (Special Mention Jury Award Berlinale approach is the close collaboration with writers Achilles). Screenwriter: Clara van Gool and Glyn 2015, Golden Calf Award Best Director Netherlands Film and directors to develop intelligent, character- Maxwell. Co-producer: Amour Fou (Luxembourg). Festival 2015 for Nena). Screenwriter: Saskia Diesing driven audience favourites (Soof 1 and Soof 2 Financers till date: Netherlands Film Fund, & Esther Gerritsen. Cast: Elise van ‘t Laar, Simone € 14 million box office The Netherlands, Netherlands Film Production Incentive, Film Kleinsma, Leopold Witte, Stefan de Walle, Margôt Ros. Ventoux) and accessible art-house films (Nena, Fund Luxembourg, British Film Institute, public Financers: Netherlands Film Fund, Netherlands Film Berlinale Generation Plus 2014, Beyond Sleep, broadcaster NTR. Distribution: September Production Incentive, Abraham Tuschinski Fund, Chios opening film IFFR 2016, The Idol, TIFF 2016, Film (Benelux). Territories available: worldwide Investments. Distribution: September Film (Benelux). Oscar representative for Palestine 2016). excluding Benelux. Sales agent: Media Luna New Film.
Based on the novella The Beast in the Jungle by Coco is a chaotic young woman, who is embroiled Henry James (1903) this film depicts the miraculous in a hopeless affair with Hans, recently divorced and love story of John Marcher and May Bartram. Their in his fifties. She has no idea what to do with her duet around an ominous secret is captured in a life. When she accidentally runs into her unworldly Hanneke Niens, Hans de Wolf, style both physical and poetic. Set in the remote mother in the street, who tells her that she’s Marten van Warmerdam English countryside mansion Weatherend, the seriously ill, Coco seizes this opportunity for a new story stretches over a century, spiraling from the purpose in life with both hands. So she moves in KeyFilm Jamesian late 19th century to the global present. with her mother in order to care for her… Van Diemenstraat 332 1013 CR Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 20 423 15 96 [email protected] www.keyfilm.nl
27 Lemming Film
Established in 1995, Lemming Film is one of The Photo Camera Fokker the leading film and television production Release: 2018. Status: in development. Release: 2019. Status: in development. Sort: companies in the Netherlands. It has a proven Sort: feature-length film, 90 mins. Genre: feature-length film, 100 min. Genre: bio- track record in delivering quality film and psychological drama. Director: Viktor van graphical drama. Director: tbd. Screenwriter: television productions and is specialized in der Valk. Screenwriter: Jeroen Scholten van Oscar van Woensel. Cast, Co-producers, fiction for children, families and teens as well Aschat, Viktor van der Valk. Cast: tbd. Co- Financers, Media, Sales: tbd. as international arthouse productions. producers: tbd. Financers: Netherlands Film Aim at market: co-producer, distribution & Fund development. Sales: tbd. sales, financing. Aim at market: co-producer, distribution & sales, financing. Fokker is a historical biopic based on the life of Anthony Fokker, one of greatest aviation When Eveline’s (38) new camera is taken at pioneers of the 20th century. A genius Leontine Petit, Fleur Winters, Erik Glijnis an unguarded moment, she exaggerates the madman who conquered the international story to make sure the insurance company aviation industry at his own peril. Fokker is a pays out. When the police arrest a young film about beauty and danger, about making man with the camera in his possession, her the impossible possible. white lie unwittingly puts a chain of events in motion that can’t be undone. Fokker is Lemming Film’s second biopic after successfully producing Blood, Sweat & Tears (2015), a film about Dutch singer André Hazes. Lemming Film Valschermkade 36F 1059 CD Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 20 661 04 24 [email protected] www.lemmingfilm.com
28 Millstreet Films
The mission of Millstreet Films is to produce Fright Night Single Street 39 commercially driven and creatively spirited Release: 2018. Status: financing. Sort: feature- Release: tba. Status: pre-production. independent feature films and TV series length film, 90 min. Genre: supernatural Sort: feature-length film, 90 min. Genre: and to build long-term relationships with thriller. Director: Bobby Boermans. romantic comedy. Director: Tjebbo Penning. writers, directors and co-producers. Our film Screenwriter: Philip Delmaar. Cast: tba. Target Screenwriter: Marnie Blok. Cast: Theo catalogue includes major box office hits such audience: men/women, 16-30. Maassen, Jennifer Hoffman, Peter Paul Muller, as Loft, Vipers Nest, Soof and Soof 2. Aim at market: sales, financing. Elise Schaap. Co-producer: N/A. Sales: tba. Target audience: Women 25+. A fun family trip to a theme park turns into Aim at market: sales: financing. a nightmare. While Mo has been focusing on stepping A suburban couple takes their three kids to into her father’s footsteps as a heart surgeon, Rachel van Bommel - Producer an amusement park for some quality time her medical career has taken a toll on her Suzan de Swaan - Jr. Producer and family bonding, but before long the trip relationship. When she’s finally ready to take takes an unexpected turn. It’s Fright Night, a the next step, trying to get pregnant, her Halloween-themed event at the park. Actors boyfriend leaves her for another woman. in terrifying outfits scare the visitors and Mo is devastated, 39-years-old and single. regular rides are transformed into haunted But if she can plan her medical career, then houses. The family decides to stay and make she can figure out family life. Unfortunately the best of the trip. But when one of them most men already have kids, are divorced or Millstreet Films gets seriously hurt, it becomes clear that tediously boring. Then she meets her new Keizersgracht 209-1 not everything is just part of the act. What’s neighbor Max, but even he turns out to be quite 1016 DT Amsterdam more, even this perfect family has some dark different from the man she was hoping for. The Netherlands secrets of its own. +31 20 772 54 99 [email protected] www.millstreetfilms.nl
29 Mountain Road Entertainment Group
Mountain Road Entertainment Group is a Angel powerful force in local Dutch and Belgian film Release: 2019. Status : developing, and television productions, and is also well financing completed. Sort: feature-length known for its creative marketing and sales film, 80 min. Genre: family adventure. campaigns. The founder of Mountain Road Director: Dennis Bots. Screenwriter: Ellen is Sjef Scholte. Scholte has produced four Barendregt. Cast: tba. Co-producer: successful feature films. Scholte draw from his Mountain Road Entertainment. Financers: extensive experience in the industry to focus a.o. Netherlands Film Fund, Marmalade. on (co-)productions of films and TV series, Sales: Incredible Film. both in creative development and funding. Angel is about a young girl who has special powers: she can make wishes come true – but only for good people. It is not long before she is preyed on by people who use her gift for their own ends. Angel is kidnapped and it Sjef Scholte seems as if she has lost her special talent. But then it turns out the wishes of one of her kidnappers can come true…
Mountain Road Entertainment Group Bergweg 12 1217 SC Hilversum The Netherlands +31 35 623 55 59 [email protected] www.mountainroad.nl
30 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.
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Mulholland Pictures Amsterdam/London/LA +31 20 627 43 39 +31 6 42 93 91 57 +44 751 901 71 24
31 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 Sander Verdonk - Producer Westerling. As fighting intensifies, Johan trials world. But the day before he reveals his Julius Ponten - Producer Westerling in his invention – the Philip Harthoorn - Head of Production brutal attempts super code – he Thomas den Drijver - Head of Development to strike down drops dead, the Karlijn Landman - Head of Business Affairs resistance. code lost without a trace… New Amsterdam Film Company Raamgracht 6 1011 KK Amsterdam The Netherlands +3120 820 23 08 [email protected] www.newams.com
32 OAK OAK Motion Pictures MOTION PICTURES
We aim to stimulate, inspire and challenge Daoud’s Winter When Fucking Spring is in the Air our directors and writers. We work on a select Release: 2018. Status: pre-production. Sort: Release: 2019. Status: financing. Sort: feature- number of projects in order to produce feature-length film, 100 min. Genre: period, length film, 95 min. Genre: punky road movie. daring and accessible quality films for an thriller,drama. Director: Koutaiba Al-Janabi. Director: Danyael Sugawara. Screenwriter: international audience. Screenwriter: Original screenplay by Koutaiba Heleen Suer & Danyael Sugawara. Cast: TBA. We strive for transparency and integrity, and Al-Janabi. Adapted by Koutaiba Al-Janabi Co-producers: Manana Films (Poland), Tam we believe that it takes time to grow and & Antoine Le Bos. Cast: tba. Co-producers: Tam (Germany). Financiers: Creative Europe, develop layer by layer, in order to end up Alcatraz Films (France), Kaiho Republic Dutch Filmfund. Aim at market: sales. with a solid company and films to match. (Finland), Orjouane Films (Lebanon), 42 Films We are a member of both EAVE and ACE. (Germany). Financers: Creative Europe, SANAD, A coming of age road movie about Kasia, Hubert Bals Fund, Torino Filmlab, Empire a rebellious and pregnant 17 year old, who Dubai Film Market, Dutch Filmfund, Dutch decides to go in search of her estranged Production Incentive, CNC Cinema du Monde, parents and their money. Wild Bunch, Finnish Film Fund, MDM, WCF Europe, Eurimages, AFAC, Doha Film Institute. Trent Sales: Elle Driver. Aim at market: sales.
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 OAK Motion Pictures backdrop of the Iran-Iraqi war. Jacob van Lennepkade 334P 1053 NJ Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 20 717 35 04 [email protected] www.oakmotionpictures.com
33 PVPictures
PVPictures is a well-established production Quarterlife Dummie the Mummy and the Tomb company existing in its present form since Release: October 2017. Status: post- of Achnetoet 1986. Since then, we have produced several production. Sort: feature-length film, 80 Release: October 2017. Status: post-production. feature films and hundreds of hours of min. Genre: romcom. Director: Danny Sort: feature-length film, 80 min. Genre: family, TV drama. PVPictures is a small company Stolker. Screenwriter: Liesbeth Strik. Cast: comedy, adventure. Director: Pim van Hoeve. at its core, consisting of producer Paul Sarah Chronis, Esmee van Kampen, Yootha Screenwriter: Tijs van Marle. Cast: Julian Ras, Voorthuysen, Chris Derks, Katja Scheffer, Wong-Loi-Sing, Maryam Hassouni. Financers: Yahya Gaier, Roeland Fernhout, Jennifer Guido Lippe, Kiki The, Hans de Bruin, Netherlands Film Production Incentive, RTL Hoffman. Financers: Netherlands Film Dag Neijzen en Joep Zwaan. Nederland, Entertainment One Benelux Production Incentive, Nickelodeon, Dutch Sales: Incredible Film. Target audience: 25-34 Filmworks, Eurogroei. Sales: Incredible Film. women. Aim at market: sales. Target audience: 6-12. Aim at market: sales.
When four best friends realize they are not When arriving in Egypt to look for his fathers even close to their teenage goals at 29 they tomb Dummie realises everything has changed Paul Voorthuysen decide to help each other to reach these in his home country. This makes his quest dreams at 30. Too late they see this makes through the desert by the pyramids very them cross lines in their relationships and complicated. Dummie almost gives up but with careers. This is when they find out that the help of Gus and Klaas he succeeds in finding friendship is the one thing you can count on. his parents tomb and is able to say farewell.
PVPictures Joop van den Endeplein 1 1217 WJ Hilversum The Netherlands +31 35 677 47 76 [email protected] www.pvpictures.nl
34 Rotterdam Films
A production company founded by The Hunter’s Son Hier (Yesterday) Dirk Rijneke and Mildred van Leeuwaarden. Status: pre-production. Shooting: 2018. Sort: Status: post-production. Release: 2017. Sort: It produced and co-produced more than feature-length film, 100 min. Genre: drama. feature-length film, 110 min. Genre: drama. 45 documentaries and fiction films mainly Director: Ricky Rijneke. Screenwriter: Director: Balint Kenyeres. Screenwriters: for cinematic release. They worked with Ricky Rijneke. Script Consultant: Matthieu Balint Kenyeres, Matthieu Taponier. Cast: Vlad directors from all over the world like Béla Tarr, Taponier. Co-producer: Balapolis (Poland). Ivanov, Johanna ter Steege. Co-producers: Krzysztof Kieslowski, Carlos Reichenbach and Financers: Netherlands Film Fund. Rotterdam Films (Netherlands), Mirage/ Mrinal Sen. Aim at market: co-producers, sales, financing. Tegnap (Hungary), Les Films de l’Après-Midi (France), One-Two Films (Germany), Chimney Second feature by multi-award winning Pot (Sweden), LaProd (Morocco). Financers: director Ricky Rijneke. The project has been Netherlands Film Fund, Hungarian Film Fund, selected for Script & Pitch Torino Lab and CNC, Arte, Film-i-Väst. The Toronto (TIFF) Talent Lab. In 2017 she Dirk Rijneke, has been invited to complete the script in 50-year-old Victor Ganz (Vlad Ivanov) owns +31 6 50 29 35 86 The Jerusalem Film Lab. Her first feature a thriving civil engineering company that Mildred van Leeuwaarden, Silent Ones premiered in Rotterdam (IFFR) operates worldwide. Due to problems on a +31 6 21 42 59 93 nominated for the Tiger Award. Selected for building site he has to go to North Africa. In this many international film festivals it won 11 country he is confronted with memories of his awards. Her short WING premiered in Locarno youth. Ganz slowly plunges into a labyrinthine nominated for a Golden Leopard. This award world where present and past intertwine. Rotterdam Films winning film gained international acclaim at Provenierssingel 33 more than 50 film festivals. 3033 EG Rotterdam The Netherlands A father and a son face a range of conflicting +31 10 465 85 65 emotions when the son commits a random [email protected] act of violence. www.rotterdamfilms.com
35 Sigma Pictures Productions
Founded in 1974, Sigma Pictures has Life is Delicious produced many shorts and 39 feature films. Release: by Just Film, Fall 2017. Status: Their first, Melancholy Tales, opened the Berlin shooting May-June 2017. Sort: romantic Film Festival in 1975. The film library includes comedy, 100 min. Producers: Matthijs van international co-productions and some of the Heijningen and Guurtje Buddenberg. Director: most successful films in the history of Dutch Frans Weisz. Screenplay: Theo Nijland, based cinema. Sigma is still going strong in the 21st on the novel by Remco Campert. Director century. Their latest film The Fury by André of Photography: Goert Giltay. Production van Duren premiered in March 2016 and got Design: Vincent de Pater. Costumes: Manon seven nominations at the Netherlands Film Blom. Sales: tba. Starring Reinout Scholten
MATTHIJS VAN HEIJNINGEN presents a film by FRANS WEISZ Festival. Hannah Hoekstra and Anneke Blok van Aschat, Géza Weisz, Romy Louise Lauwers, GÉZA WEISZ ROMY LOUISE LAUWERS REINOUT SCHOLTEN VAN ASCHAT won the Golden Calf for their performances. Anniek Pfeifer, Teun Kuilboer, Willeke van This year, Sigma is shooting Life is Delicious. Ammelrooy en Stefan de Walle.
Life Is Delicious is a feel-good movie about love and longing. Best friends Mees and Boelie are Matthijs van Heijningen spending a beautiful spring day in Amsterdam’s Guurtje Buddenberg Vondelpark. It seems like just a normal day, until they meet the young and attractive Panda. Sigma Pictures Productions While the heat rises in the park, it’s nowhere ‘t PC Hooft Huys to be found between the long-married couple Singel 132 Etta and Ernst-Jan. Ernst-Jan suspects Etta of 1015 AG Amsterdam cheating and has his own ideas of how to catch The Netherlands her in the act. We also meet Rosa and Kees, +31 20 535 33 20, +31 653 160 620 old lovers whose paths cross after decades of [email protected] not seeing each other. On this spring day in www.sigmapictures.com Amsterdam, their love starts blooming again. /HETLEVENISVURRUKKULLUKDEFILM @HETLEVENISVURRUKKULLUKDEFILM
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Sluizer Films was founded by producer, The Clock Dark Blood director and screenwriter George Sluizer Status: in development. Sort: long feature. George Sluizer’s feature Dark Blood was (1932-2014) and Anne Lordon. From the Genre: philosophical thriller. Scenario: filmed in 1993 in Utah, but shooting came to 1960s until the early 1980s, he directed many Nick Fisher and George Sluizer. a halt 10 days before completion due to the documentaries. With Spoorloos (The Vanishing, sudden death of leading actor River Phoenix. 1988) he received worldwide recognition. Professor in physics and best-selling author The other cast members were Judy Davis and The film won many awards and was the Richard Hargreaves leads a perfect life Jonathan Price. After almost 20 years, Sluizer Dutch entry for the Academy Awards in 1989. with his younger wife. He is specialised in and his production company were finally In 1992, Sluizer directed the remake of The notions of time and cosmos. After a lecture able to finish the film in 2012. Vanishing for 20th Century Fox starring Jeff Tempray, a strange antique dealer tempts Bridges, Kiefer Sutherland and Sandra Bullock. Richard into buying a fabulous ancient George Sluizer died in 2014 at the age of 82. chronometer. While Richard is obsessed by The production company is continued by the clock Tempray insinuates himself in their Anne Lordon and Anouk Sluizer. life and particularly making contact with Richard’s wife Samantha. Once Richard finally understands that his own complex theories on time and the intimate relation humans Anne Lordon have with time are embodied in the clock it Anouk Sluizer then could be to late to save his life. Sluizer Films Stadionweg 212 1077 TE Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 20 778 61 88, +31 6 20 52 80 98 [email protected], [email protected] www.sluizerfilmproductions.com www.georgesluizer.com
37 SNG Film
Studio Nieuwe Gronden, nowadays known Tazara Kala-a-zar as SNG Film, was founded in 1979 out of Release: November 2017. Status: post- Release: February 2019. Status: financing. the legendary film collective Amsterdams production. Sort: documentary, 80 min. Sort: feature-length art film, 75 min. Stadjournaal (ASJ). SNG Film still seeks to Genre: creative documentary. Director: Genre: art film. Director: Janis Rafa. produce distinctive documentaries and Jeroen van Velzen. Screenwriter: Jeroen Screenwriter: Janis Rafa. Cast: tba. Co- feature films (and everything in between). van Velzen & Esther Eenstroom. Financers: producer: Heretic (Greece). Financers: What is important is the involvement of Netherlands Film Fund, IKON docs EO (Dutch Netherlands Film Fund, Mondriaan Fund. the filmmaker. SNG Film likes to work with broadcaster) young talent, but does not limit itself to that. Aim at market: sales, festivals, museums, Moreover, it is not only about the urgency in Aim at market: sales, festivals. art events. which somebody wants to tell something, but primarily the form chosen to do so. The Tazara Express is a riding microcosm Kala-a-zar is a hybrid film about a young International co-productions can be a means mirroring hardships in East Africa. While couple who watch over dead animals as an to initiating exceptional, artistic films. travelling on this train, three main characters act to give meaning to their life. 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
38 Submarine
Submarine produces features, documentaries The Detour Ponies and animation with talented and acclaimed Release: tbd. Status: shooting starts the Release: tbd. Status: development. directors, all with an international focus. end of 2017. Genre: feature film, 100 min. Sort: drama series, 8 x 55 min. Genre: crime/ With offices in Amsterdam and Los Angeles, Genre: drama. Director: Klaartje Quirijns. thriller. Director: Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. Submarine’s founders Bruno Felix and Femke Screenwriter: Bastiaan Kroeger. Financers: Screenwriter: Willem Bosch & Wolting are experienced in bringing together Dutch Filmfund, Submarine Film. Target Melle Runderkamp. international co-productions, and collaborate audience: 35-49 yrs, male and female. Aim at market: we are looking for financing with co-producers, broadcasters and distributors Aim at market: we are looking for co- and co-producing partners for this European from around Europe and the US such as BBC, producers in the UK, Germany and Belgium. project. VPRO, HBO, ZDF, Arte, Channel 4 and many others. Amsterdam. A woman disappears. Far away When two computer hackers are forced by in Wales she resurfaces in an isolated house an organized crime gang to hack the Port in the countryside. But her past is chasing of Antwerp, they are involved in one of her, and her future remains uncertain. Only the biggest drug smuggling operations in the present is secur… Secure until a young Europe – but were they forced or were they Bruno Felix man jumps over the wall into her garden. the masterminds in this operation? Femke Wolting The Detour is a story of love and solitude, in Sabine Veenendaal - Submarine Film which a passionate encounter between star- Jeroen Beker - Submarine Film crossed souls proves more devastating than either of them could ever expect… Submarine Arie Biemondstraat 111 1054 PD Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 20 820 49 40 [email protected] www.submarine.nl
39 The Film Kitchen
The Film Kitchen specializes in producing Disappearance Sleep. and co-producing feature films for the Released: 2017. Sort: feature-length film, Release: 2019. Status: financing. Sort: feature- international market. It also produces short 90 min. Genre: drama. Director: Boudewijn length film, 100 min. Genre: drama. Director: films and series for television for the national Koole. Screenwriter: Jolein Laarman. Cast: Jan-Willem van Ewijk. Screenwriter: Jan- market and documentaries. Rifka Lodeizen, Elsie de Brauw, Jakob Oftebro. Willem van Ewijk. Financers: Netherlands Film Co-producer: Sweet Films Norway. Financers: Fund. Sales: tbc. Netherlands Film Fund, Netherlands Film Aim at market: co-producers, sales, financing. Production Incentive, CoBO Fund, AVRO/ TROS, Abraham Tuschinski Fund, Norwegian Traumatized by a gun violence incident, Film Institute, FilmCamp, Eurimages, Jacob slowly loses his sense of reality as he Jan van der Zanden, Ineke Kanters September Film. Sales: Pluto Film. drives across America with his beautiful, Aim at market: sales. witty 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 follows brings about a big change. The Film Kitchen Goudsbloemstraat 132A-hs 1015 JT Amsterdam The Netherlands + 31 6 52 39 36 26 (Jan) + 31 6 22 37 82 54 (Ineke) [email protected] www.thefilmkitchen.nl
40 Topkapi Films
Topkapi Films is an Amsterdam-based Tailgating (working title) Locus of Control company run by producers Frans van Gestel, Status: in development. Sort: feature-length Status: in development. Sort: feature-length Arnold Heslenfeld and Laurette Schillings. film. Genre: drama/thriller. Director: Lodewijn film. Genre: drama/thriller. Director: Halina The company, well experienced in producing Crijns. Screenwriter: Lodewijk Crijs. Reijn. Screenwriter: Halina Reijn, Esther and co-producing feature films and television Gerritsen. Cast: Carice van Houten, Marwan drama for the Dutch and international market, Hans, a man of middle class with a little too Kenzari. strives to build long-term relationships with much ego, confronts another road-user with Aim at market: international sales. writers and directors. Titles successfully his driving in a somewhat aggressive way. produced and co-produced include What Hans fails to notice, is that he picked Emma, an experienced psychiatrist working Public Works, Land and Shade, Belgica, a fight with the wrong guy, and has now in a penal institution, starts an affair with The Commune, All of a Sudden, Out of Love turned the situation into an unforeseen client Marco; a psychopatic serial rapist. It is and The Broken Circle Breakdown. nightmare. a dangerous game about power and sex, but Emma starts losing control completely when she confuses this with love.
Frans van Gestel, Arnold Heslenfeld, Laurette Schillings
Topkapi Films Kloveniersburgwal 131 III 1011 KD Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 20 30 32 494 [email protected] www.topkapifilms.nl
41 Viking Film
Viking Film is the Amsterdam based film Zurich Monk production company founded in 2011 Status: international premiere at Berlinale Released: 2017. Director: Ties Schenk. by Marleen Slot. International in scope, Forum 2015. CICAE Art Cinema Award Screenwriter: Roosmarijn Roos Rosa de Viking Film wants to make high-quality Berlinale 2015. Duration: 89 minutes. Carvalho. Cast: Sam Louwyck, Olivia Lonsdale, films for both Dutch and international Director: Sacha Polak. Screenwriter: Helena Teun Stokkel, Maria Gatell. Co-producer: audiences with a special focus on arthouse, van der Meulen. Cast: Wende Snijders | Sacha A Private View. Financiers: Netherlands children films and animation films. Marleen Alexander Gersak | Barry Atsma | Martijn Film Fund, VAF, Eurimages, Netherlands worked as a producer at Lemming Film for Lakemeier. Co-producers: A Private View, Production Incentive, Belgian Taxshelter, many years. She is part of EAVE and member Belgium | Rohfilm, Germany. Financiers: 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
42 Volya Films
Volya Films produces author films, fiction Waiting for Giraffes Totem and documentary, mainly in the form of Released: 2016. Feature-length, 85 min. Status: development. Genre: cross-over international co-productions. Recent films Genre: human interest. Director: Marco family movie. Director: Sander Burger. include Centaur (Aktan Arym Kubat; Berlinale de Stefanis. Co-producer: Cassette for Screenwriter: Bastiaan Tichler. Financers: 2017 - CICAE Award), Waiting for Giraffes timescapes (Belgium), EO (Netherlands). Netherlands Film Fund, Creative Europe. (Marco de Stefanis; IDFA 2016), The Grown- Financiers: Netherlands Film Fund, CoBO, Ups (Maite Alberdi; IDFA2016), Problemski Flemish Audiovisual Fund. World sales: Ten-year-old Ama, the daughter of two illegal Hotel (Manu Riche; IFFR 2016) Big Father, CAT & Docs. immigrants, sees her four-year-old brother Small Father & Other Stories (Di Phan Dang; taken away from school by the police. In a world premiere Berlinale Official Competition Dr. Sami is the veterinarian of Qalqilya Zoo panic, she tries to warn her parents, only 2015), Kurai Kurai - Tales on the Wind (Palestine), the only zoo in the world in to find out that they have already been (Marjoleine Boonstra; Competition Dutch occupied territory. He loves his animals and arrested and will be deported. On the run Film Festival 2014). to improve their situation and replace the from the police, alone at night on the streets giraffes they lost in the last intifada he needs of Rotterdam, Ama has to take care of herself to collaborate with the Israeli’s and he needs and find her way back to her family – when international recognition. Will he manage? suddenly her totem animal appears.
Denis Vaslin, Fleur Knopperts
Volya Films Graaf Florisstraat 110A 3021 CM Rotterdam The Netherlands +31 10 415 56 21 [email protected] www.volyafilms.com
43 Film Producers Netherlands
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