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Members Film Producers Netherlands
BALDR Film
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Bijker Film & TV
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BosBros9
Cadenza Films
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Circe Films
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Cool Beans
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CTM Pictures
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De Productie
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Eyeworks Film & TV Drama
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Family Affair Films
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Farmhouse TV & Film
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FATT Productions
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Graniet Film
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House of Netherhorror
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IJswater Films
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Johan Nijenhuis & Co
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Jos Stelling Films
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Keren Cogan Films
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KeyFilm25
Lemming Film
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Mountain Road Entertainment Group 27
Mulholland Pictures
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OAK Motion Pictures
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Pupkin Film
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PVPictures31
Rinkel Film
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Rotterdam Films
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Sigma Pictures Productions
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Sluizer Films
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SNG Film
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Submarine37
Topkapi Films
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Viking Film
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Volya Films
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- 24 FPS features41
- Caviar Film & TV41
- Tulp Fiction41
Film Producers
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Film Producers Netherlands
Welcome to the world of Dutch cinema!
Not only watching across borders, but working across borders contributes to quality and
inspiration in film. With this brochure, we are presenting films and projects in development
on behalf of our members. The diversity of the projects gives a good impression of the
variety and vivacity of Dutch film culture. Many of our members are experienced in coproduction with foreign filmmakers.
Financially speaking, the Netherlands became even more attractive for foreign filmmakers
last year. Since the Netherlands Film Production Incentive was launched at Cannes in 2014,
67 film projects have received a total of € 17,5 million from the scheme. With this overview,
we hope to stimulate international distribution and co-production between Dutch film
producers and international partners.
Film Producers Netherlands
Film Producers Netherlands is the association
of film producers, our aim is to stimulate
and support a dynamic and creative film
industry. We represent the majority of
Dutch film producers, promoting their
common interests and collaborating with
(international) parties in the film industry.
Marjan van der Haar
Managing Director
+31 6 31 79 00 17
[email protected]
Marc van Warmerdam
Chairman, Film Producers Netherlands
Boardmembers
Marc van Warmerdam, Graniet Film, Chairman
Ate de Jong, Mulholland Pictures, Treasurer
Joost de Vries, Lemming Film
Sander Verdonk, CTM Pictures
Marleen Slot, Viking Film
Maarten Swart, Eyeworks Film & TV Drama
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Contact
Korte Zoutkeetsgracht 2
1013 MC Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31 20 627 00 61
+31 6 31 79 00 17
[email protected]
www.filmproducenten.nl
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Finance possibilities
The budget available for funding in 2015 is
in total 50 million euro of which 25.2 million
euro is earmarked for the Film Production
Incentive and 2.5 million euro for selective
schemes targetting minority co-productions.
Netherlands Film Production
Incentive
Criteria
• 30% cash rebate on production spent in
the Netherlands.
• Open to feature films with a budget of
at least € 1 million and feature length
documentaries with a budget of at least
€ 250,000. The minimum production spent
is € 100,000.
• Cultural criteria of the European
convention (at least 3 of 10) and the
Netherlands should be one of the countries
of origin among the co-producers.
• Production expenses must be directly
related to the filmmaking process and
spent on film professionals or film
companies in the Netherlands.
• The maximum grant per film is € 1 million,
while the maximum amount per year per
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applicant is € 2 million.
• A production company must have operated
consistently in the area of production and
distribution in the EU/EEA or Switzerland
for a minimum period of two years.
• A theatrical release is obliged and 50% of
the budget must be in place and within 6
months fully financed.
• During each round, applications will be
ranked and only those with a minimum of
75 point will be taken into consideration.
Finance possibilities
Selective Schemes
of origin of the main producer, amounting
to at least 50% and containing at least a
production grant from a regional/national
Film Fund.
• The total Dutch share of the project needs
to be at least 10% of the production costs,
including any Dutch share from Eurimages.
• Priority is given to coproduction’s from
directors with a proven international track
record, with European based production
companies and co-productions with
countries that have a coproduction
agreement with the Netherlands.
Apply
Production support for minority
co-productions
• Maximum contribution is € 250,000 and
€ 50,000 for a documentary.
• The grant must be fully spent on Dutch
services, cast and crew.
• A deal memo from a film distributor for
the theatrical release of the film in the
Netherlands is required.
• Priority is given to projects that have a
good chance of reciprocity.
• The project must have substantial financial
support already in place from the country
Applications can be submitted throughout
the year by a Dutch co-producer who has
produced at least one film that has been
released theatrically in the Netherlands.
Production support for minority
co-productions with partner Funds
The Film Fund runs several special reciprocal
co-production schemes together with
partner funds:
• Belgium - VAF (Flanders Audiovisual Fund)
support for features, documentaries
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and (short) animation films. Maximum
contribution is € 200,000 and € 50,000 for a
short animation or documentary.
• Norway - NFI (Norwegian Film Institute)
support for documentaries. Maximum
contribution is € 50,000.
• Germany - MDM (Mitteldeutsche
Medienförderung) support for the
development of original children and youth
features. Support can be requested for
writing of a treatment, a script, a re-write of
a script or script coaching.
The maximum contribution per project:
€ 10,000 for a treatment or rewrite of a
script, € 20,000 for a script, € 2,500 for script
coaching or a co-writer.
The Netherlands Film Fund also supports
films developed by the Hubert Bals Fund
through the NFF+HBF Co-production
Scheme. The maximum contribution is
€ 50,000. Annually € 200,000 is available.
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Distribution support for minority coproductions in the Netherlands
Research support for international
productions
• Minority co-productions realised with
a grant of the Film Fund are eligible for
distribution support for the Dutch theatrical
release, up to a maximum of € 10,000.
• International production companies that
are considering using production or postproduction facilities in the Netherlands can
get a partial reimbursement of essential
research costs through their Dutch location
scout, line producer or post-production
supervisor.
• A subsidy of up to € 1,500 can be requested
without having a Dutch minority coproducer.
Apply
Throughout the year by the distributor.
International distribution and dubbing
support for Dutch films abroad
• Foreign distributors can apply for
support for theatrical release outside
the Netherlands of Dutch features and
documentaries which have received
funding from the Netherlands Film Fund.
• Priority is given to Dutch children’s and
youth films.
• The support covers distribution and/or
dubbing costs.
• The Film Fund can match up to 40% of the
total costs with a maximum of € 10,000 and
up to 50% of the total dubbing costs with a
maximum contribution of € 20,000 per film
(limited to a maximum of two countries per
film production).
More details and information
Netherlands Film Fund
Doreen Boonekamp, CEO
Ellis Driessen, International Affairs
Production Incentive
José van Doorn,
Manager Film Production Incentive
Selective Schemes
Frank Peijenburg, Head of Screen NL
Peggy Driessen-Bussink,
Production Manager International affairs
Dany Delvoie,
Project coordinator international affairs
www.filmfund.nl
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Netherlands Film Commission
EYE International
The Netherlands Film Commission is the
official liaison between the Dutch creative
media industries and foreign producers and
production companies.
EYE International is responsible for the
international marketing & promotion of
Dutch films. EYE International offers a wide
variety of services for Dutch filmmakers and
producers to enhance the perception and
visibility of Dutch filmmaking worldwide.
EYE is involved in every stage in the life of
a Dutch film abroad, from its selection at a
recognized film festival to its presentation
at an international market. It provides the
international film circuit with information
on current activities within the Dutch film
industry.
Netherlands Film Commission
Bas van der Ree,
Netherlands Film Commissioner
www.filmcommission.nl
Eye International
Marten Rabarts,
Head of EYE International
www.international.eyefilm.nl
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BALDR Film
Founded in 2012, BALDR Film is the
Amsterdam-based production company
owned by Frank Hoeve and Katja Draaijer,
with a focus on developing and producing
high-quality features and documentaries of a
select number of filmmakers with a distinctive
personal signature for an international market.
Their latest credit is the feature-length
documentary Those Who Feel the Fire Burning
by Morgan Knibbe, which was nominated
for the IDFA Award for International featurelength film. BALDR Film is a member of ACE
(ateliers du cinéma européen).
Brothers
Lieland
Release: summer 2016. Status: financing.
Sort: feature-length film, 100 min.
Genre: drama. Director: Bram Schouw.
Screenwriter: Marcel Roijaards. Financers:
Netherlands Film Fund, Dutch Cultural Media
Fund, CoBO, NTR Television.
Release: November 2015. Status: financing,
pre-production. Sort: documentary, 54 min.
Director: Stephane Kaas. Screenwriter: Rutger
Lemm & Stephane Kaas. Co-producers:
2-Team Productions (Israel), NTR Television.
Financers: Dutch Cultural Media Fund.
Coming of age drama about the 19-year-old
Lukas. He has to step out of the shadow of
his charismatic older brother – who he loves
till death.
In his extremely short stories, Israeli writer
Etgar Keret plays an impressive game with
fantasy and reality. Even his life story sounds
like a modern fairy tale. In this hybrid
documentary, the filmmakers examine why
telling fabrications is essential for Keret’s
continued existence.
Frank Hoeve, Katja Draaijer
BALDR Film
Oudezijds Achterburgwal 77
1012 DC Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31 20 303 26 70
[email protected]
www.baldrfilm.nl
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Bijker Film & TV
Founded in 1999, BIJKER FILM & TV is an
award-winning production company
passionate about creating mainstream and
cutting-edge content for theater, VOD, TV
and internet for youth and family. BIJKER
believes in audience participation by
creating experiences, using different media
(film, print, events, social media) to inspire,
entertain and educate. This resulted in
successes like features Cool Kids Don’t Cry
and Secrets Of War.
Harro van Staverden
Michiel Bartels
Code M
Superteacher!
Release: June 2015. Status: post-production.
Sort: feature-length film, 90 min. Genre:
family film. Director: Dennis Bots.
Screenwriter: Tijs van Marle & Karen van Holst
Pellekaan. Cast: Nina Wyss, Joes Brauers,
Senna Borsato, Derek de Lint. Co-producers:
Elbe Stevens Films (NL), Living Stone (BE)
Financers: Tuschinski Fund, AVROTROS,
Connect Limburg, Independent Films,
Heerlen, Maastricht, Netherlands Film Fund,
Netherlands Production Incentive, Limburg,
Sola Media. Sales: Sola Media GmbH.
Release: summer 2016. Status: financing. Sort:
feature-length film, 90 min. Genre: family
film, live action. Director: Remy van Heugten.
Screenwriter: Wijo Koek. Financers: AVROTROS,
Netherlands Film Fund, Dutch FilmWorks.
Head-strong Isabel (11), together with
friends Rik and Jules, takes over her
grandfather’s search for the legendary
sword of musketeer D’Artagnan. Who can
Isabel trust? An adventurous story about
friendship and loyalty.
Superteacher is an adventurous, exciting and
above all heartwarming family film for young
and old. Josje is a superteacher who is liked
by even the most difficult kids, but she has a
big secret. Whenever she hears an animal’s
cry for help, she has to eat a piece of chalk
and turns into a super heroine. When the new
director of the zoo wants to change the zoo
into an animatronics park, Josje confides in
the children and together they come up with
a plan to save the animals.
Bijker Film & TV
Bremstraat 1-3
1031 EK Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31 20 226 01 00
[email protected]
www.bijker.tv
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BosBros
BosBros has set the standard for highquality film and television productions in
the Netherlands since 1989. BosBros has a
proven track record to produce such classics
as The Flying Liftboy, Minoes, Winky’s Horse
and The Amazing Wiplala. In addition to
producing many new feature films, BosBros’s
challenge for the future is to conquer the
European market with animation projects.
Burny Bos
Heinz
Mr. Frog
Status: financing. Sort: feature-length
animation, 80 min. Genre: roadmovie.
Director: Piet Kroon. Screenwriter: Piet Kroon.
Co-producer: Fabrique Fantastique - Belgium.
Financers: confirmed 5.6%, pending 37.5%,
still needed 56.9%. Distributor: In The Air.
Release: April 2016. Status: pre-production.
Sort: feature-length film, 90 min. Genre:
children/adventure. Director: Anna van der
Heide. Screenwriter: Mieke de Jong. Coproducer: Prime Time - Belgium. Distributor:
In The Air.
The surly freeloader Heinz from Amsterdam,
star of the pleasantly deranged comic strip
of Windig and De Jong, saves the world
from disaster, despite his deeply ingrained
aversion to adventure and owing more to
dumb luck than careful planning, let alone
meticulous execution.
A normal classroom, ordinary children and
a seemingly regular teacher. The lives of
the children in Mr. Frans’s class are turned
completely upside down when they discover
that Frans sometimes transforms into a
frog. Sita is so fond of her teacher that she
wants to protect him at all cost from other
dangerous animals. Based on the novel by
bestselling Dutch author Paul van Loon.
BosBros
Arie Biemondstraat 111
1054 PD Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31 20 524 40 30
[email protected]
www.bosbros.com
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Cadenza Films
The Dutch film production company Cadenza
Films is owned by Dutch film director Rudolf
van den Berg, Dutch producer Jeroen
Koolbergen and international producer
Pierre Spengler. The aim of Cadenza Films is
to produce feature movies in the English and
the Dutch language, which combine quality
with realistic commercial possibilities.
Jeroen Koolbergen
Pierre Spengler
Rudolf van den Berg (director)
Cadenza Films
Utrechtsestraat 149
1017 VM Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31 20 638 28 25
+31 6 54 98 15 03
[email protected]
www.cadenzafilms.com
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Orestes
Sort: feature-length film, 115 min. Genre:
drama. Director: Rudolf van den Berg.
Screenwriters: Rudolf van den Berg and David
Rudkin. Cast: Freddie Highmore, Susan Lynch,
Alan Cumming. Co-producers: Roberto Bessi,
Jeroen Beker. Developed with support from
the Netherlands Film Fund. Shooting in 2015.
The English-language feature film Orestes is
based on the famous trilogy by Aischylos.
The film tells the story of the oldest family
drama in European literature. It is the
archetypal soap and it is based on Greek
mythology. After 2,500 years, the story is still
urgent, the plot still heart-wrenching. Nowan,
the son of a king, is brought up as a shepherd
boy on a desolate land where the law of the
fittest reigns. This barbaric law is subordinate
only to one other: blood for blood. And that is
why it is Nowan’s duty to take revenge on his
father’s murderer. But when Nowan finds out
that it was his mother who killed his father, he
decides to put this law aside. His defiance will
not be looked upon favorably.
Contact: Jeroen Beker, +31 6 54 27 46 99,
[email protected].
Sort: feature-length film, 120 min. Genre:
historical drama. Director: Rudolf van
den Berg. Screenwriter: Rudolf van den
Berg. Co-producers: San Fu Maltha, Ilann
Girard. Developed with support from the
Netherlands Film Fund. Shooting in 2016.
Armed with his razor-sharp quill pen,
Spinoza wages war against the hegemony
of the church. The clergymen of the Golden
Age strike back ferociously. Because of his
trail-blazing ideas about God and freedom,
Spinoza is branded a heretic, treated as an
outcast and almost murdered. But even Clara,
the love of his life, cannot stop him from writing
the revolutionary work that underlies the
democratic liberties we now take for granted.
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Circe Films
Since its establishment in 1996, Amsterdambased Circe Films has produced or
co-produced over 20 feature films by
outstanding filmmakers from around the
globe. Owner and managing director
Stienette Bosklopper has collaborated
on all of Nanouk Leopold’s films. She has
also contributed to many debut features
including Hemel by Sacha Polak, De Jueves a
Domingo by Dominga Sotomayor, and The
Happiest Girl in the World by Radu Jude.
Stienette Bosklopper, Lisette Kelder
Waldstille
Cobain
Status: post-production. Sort: featurelength film, 95 min. Genre: drama. Director
and Screenwriter: Martijn Maria Smits.
Cast: Thomas Ryckewaert, Maartje van
de Wetering, Johan Leysen, Marie-Louise
Stheins, Jelka van Houten, Oscar van Rompay,
Kuno Bakker, Olga Louzgina. Co-producer:
VPRO. Financers: Netherlands Film Fund,
Netherlands Media Fund, CoBO. Distribution
Benelux: Contact Film.
Status: financing. Sort: feature-length film,
95 min. Genre: drama. Director: Nanouk
Leopold. Screenwriter: Stienette Bosklopper.
Financers: Netherlands Film Fund. CoProducers: Belgium - A Private View, Germany
- Coin Film. Distribution Benelux: Cinemien.
After serving two years in prison for
drunk-driving and causing the death of his
girlfriend, Ben returns home to confront his
embittered parents-in-law, who are taking
care of his young daughter. When 15-year-old Cobain finds out that his
drug-addict mother Mia is pregnant again,
he tries to convince her to clean up her act.
When Mia rejects his efforts, Cobain decides
the time has come to save his unborn brother.
Circe Films
Da Costakade 176 HS
1053 XE Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31 20 625 35 91
Stienette Bosklopper: +31 6 24 55 68 25
Lisette Kelder: +31 6 15 95 09 89
[email protected]
www.circe.nl
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Copyright: Kiki Lamers
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Richard Claus & Co. / Cool Beans
Richard Claus & Co/Cool Beans is a Dutch
based production company. In addition to
making films in the Netherlands, he has been
producing in Germany, the United States and
more recently South Africa. His productions
include the international co-productions
Mute Witness, An American Werewolf in Paris,
The Little Vampire, The Thief Lord and The
Price of Sugar. In the last five years, Claus
has produced four Dutch international coproductions, all of which were shot at least in
part in South Africa.
Black Butterflies
The Price of Sugar
Released: 2010. Director: Oscar nominee
Paula van der Oest. Cast: Carice van Houten,
Rutger Hauer and Liam Cunningham
(The Wind that Shakes the Barley).
Released: 2013.
Director: Jean van de Velde.
Black Butterflies won the Best Actress award
at Tribecca and the Audience Award in
Taormina, three Golden Calves at the Dutch
Film Awards 2011 including Best Picture
and six SAFTA (South African Film and TV
Academy) Awards including Best Picture.
This period drama set against the backdrop
of the slave trade opened the Netherlands
Film Festival 2013. It is the winner of the
Golden Film award in the Netherlands and
has become the best performing film ever
in Suriname.
Richard Claus
Richard Claus & Co./Cool Beans
Utrechtsestraat 69-1hg
1017 VG Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31 20 589 60 60
+31 6 50 28 14 10
+27 79 891 31 90
[email protected]
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CTM Pictures
The objective of CTM Pictures is to develop
and produce feature films and high-concept
documentaries professionally, internationally
and independently. All films are characterized
by originality and creativity, but always with
an eye for commercial potential.
Sander Verdonk, MD/Producer
+31 6 53 39 48 75
[email protected]
Porcelain
J. Kessels
Release: autumn 2016. Status: financing.
Sort: feature, 100 min. Genre: drama.
Director: Jenneke Boeijink. Writer: Thibaud
Delpeut and Jenneke Boeijink. Cast: Fedja
van Huêt.
Release: January 2016. Status: postproduction. Sort: feature, 110 min.
Genre: road movie. Director: Erik de Bruyn.
Writer: Jan Eilander. Cast: Frank Lammers,
Fedja van Huêt, Marc Lauwrijs.
Paul, Anna and Thomas appear to have it all,
but when Thomas gets an illness that can’t
be explained, the first crack in their perfect
lives appears. While Paul tries as best he can
to keep control, the world he has constructed
starts to crumble. J. Kessels is both a hilarious road movie and
a bittersweet journey down memory lane.
It’s a crazy ride in an American classic car
from the provincial town of Tilburg to the
Hamburg Reeperbahn and back. Above all,
it is a hallucinatory trip through the mind of
an author, who no longer knows if his novel
is the product of his imagination or if he’s
actually living it. CTM Pictures
Emmastraat 21
1211 NE Hilversum
The Netherlands
+31 35 647 40 40
[email protected]
www.ctmpictures.nl
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De Productie
Annemiek van Gorp and René Goossens have
been working together at De Productie since
September 1998. De Productie produces
art house drama and documentaries with
a strong social involvement and an artistic
challenge. De Productie does not only
intend to be a meeting place for local and
national talent, but also a reliable partner in
international co-productions. Our films are
often a mix of fiction, documentary and art.
We are especially looking for universal stories
straight from the heart, as varied and colorful
as the creators of these stories are.
Annemiek van Gorp, René Goossens
De Productie
Regulierstraat 10
2021 HE Haarlem
+31 6 14 53 51 62
+31 6 51 51 37 44
[email protected]
www.deproductie.nl
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10 Songs for Charity (an urban musical)
Release: 2017. Status: financing. Sort: featurelength film, 100 min. Genre: urban musical.
Director: Karin Junger. Screenwriters: Karin
Junger, Brigit Hillenius. Cast: to be confirmed.
Co-producer: Minds Meet - Belgium,
Tarantula Belgium. Financers: Netherlands
Film Fund. Sales: M-appeal.
Five black women reside illegally in the
Netherlands, in search of prosperity and
happiness. They share a flat in a bleak,
anonymous suburb, earning their living as
cook, dancers or prostitutes. They endure the
exploitation and the many humiliations of
their fate with much humour, resilience and
song. Until one day it becomes too much for
them and they revolt, singing their fury from
the rooftops.
The wellknown producer Giorgio Tuinfort
(Michael Jackson, Rihanna) and Nigerian
singer songwriter Nneka will be working
together with Karin Junger on the songs of
the film.
Karin Junger about the film:
‘I want to capture the beauty of these woman,
their dynamic energy and musicality in this
film. Music plays a much bigger part in their
daily lives than in ours and is an expression
of their vitality and resilience. This is why I
want to make a modern musical about these
women. Their raw and topical story will be
enriched by vivacious and contemporary
dance, song and music. Music which belongs
to them and encompasses their history: soul,
R & B, gospel, African and Caribbean music.
The songs in the film enables the characters
to briefly transcend their harsh reality and
reveal their secret inner life. The women sing
about subjects of which they cannot speak
out loud. Homesickness, dreams of a better
life, the truth behind human trafficking, which
is simply a matter of supply and demand and
the clichés about black women being sexually
uninhibited and wild.’
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Eyeworks Film & TV Drama
Eyeworks Film and TV Drama is a Dutch
film and TV drama production company
responsible for some of the highest grossing
films in the Netherlands in recent years,
including titles as Stricken, The First Dutch
3D Film Nova Zembla and the international
successes New Kids Turbo, New Kids Nitro
and Bros Before Hos. In addition, films like
The Marathon and The Dinner have acclaimed
international recognition. In 2015, the
films Family Weekend, Bon Bini Holland
and Yes, I Do! will be released.
Maarten Swart, Managing Director
Eyeworks Film & TV Drama
Raamplein 1
1016 XK Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31 20 666 18 92
[email protected]
www.eyeworks.tv
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The Big L Hotel
A Shining Flaw
Release: 2016. Status: financing. Sort: featurelength film, 100 min. Genre: drama/family
film. Director: Ineke Houtman. Screenwriter:
Sjoerd Kuyper. Cast: TBA. Co-producers:
FATT productions, German co-producer TBD.
Financers: Netherlands Film Fund, CoBO
Fund, TBA.
Release: 2016-2017. Status: financing. Sort:
feature-length film, 100 min. Genre: drama/
romance. Director: Erwin Olaf. Screenwriter:
Arthur Japin. Cast: TBA. Co-producers: TBD.
Financers: Netherlands Film Fund, CoBO
Fund, TBA.
The Big L Hotel is the wonderful tale of a
13-year-old boy named Kos who, after his
father is hospitalized, has to manage the
family hotel ”Sea View” with the “help” of his
three sisters Libbie, Briek and little Pel. Their
efforts fail epically. Libbie only has eyes for
the young hypochondriac Felix, while Briek
indulges in Weltschmerz and little Pel is in
love with a seal on the beach, whom she’s
feeding the fish from the hotel menu, much
to the despair of their odd cook Walput. Kos
wants to take charge but he can’t get his
sisters under control. So, logically, he tries to
find out how their minds work. He studies
and spies on them, but this only leads to a
“war between the sexes.” Along the way,
he learns invaluable lessons about these
mysterious beings called women.
In Amsterdam, Lucia, a veiled courtesan,
recognizes Casanova, her greatest love
from 16 years before. They met in Pasiano
on the estate, where her parents worked
as servants. Leaving for Venice to become
a diplomat, Casanova promises to marry
her the following spring. Lucia takes
classes to prepare for life as a diplomat’s
wife. Tragically, smallpox leaves her face
deformed, and Lucia doesn’t want to ruin
his career. She has her mother tell him
that she has taken off with another suitor.
Sixteen years later, Lucia realizes that it is
her betrayal that is keeping him from truly
loving anyone again. Without revealing her
true identity, they become lovers once again.
But Lucia’s troubled life has given her a
deeper understanding of love than Casanova
ever will.
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Family Affair Films
Floor Onrust, [email protected]
Noortje Wilschut, Delegate Producer,
[email protected]
Family Affair Films
Entrepotdok 77A
1018 AD Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31 20 707 17 13
[email protected]
www.familyaffairfilms.nl
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Life According to Nino
History’s Future
Released: October 2014. Sort: feature-length
film, 81 min. Genre: family film. Director:
Simone van Dusseldorp. Screenwriter: Urszula
Antoniak. Cast: Rohan Timmermans, Koen de
Graeve, Rifka Lodeizen, Arend Bouwmeester.
Co-producers: NTR Marina Blok, Savage
film Bart van Langendonck. Financers:
Netherlands Film Fund, Eurimages, Media
Programme of the EU, VAF, Screen Flanders,
Tax Shelter. Sales: Attraction Distribution.
Release: summer 2015. Status: postproduction. Sort: feature-length film, 90
min. Genre: drama. Director: Fiona Tan.
Screenwriters: Fiona Tan and Jonathan
Romney. Cast: Mark O’Halloran, Denis Lavant,
Anne Consigny, Christos Passalis, Manjinder
Virk, Rifka Lodeizen, Brian Gleeson, Johanna
ter Steege. Co-producers: Rohfilm, Vico Films,
Antithesis Film. Financers: Netherlands Film
Fund, Mondriaan Fund, MDM, IFB, Fonds 21,
MEDIA, AFK. Sales: Mongrel International.
The sudden death of his mom turns eightyear-old Nino’s family life upside down. With
dad in distress and his big brother in a street
gang, Nino is left to his own devices. But then
Nino finds out he can talk to animals. His
rabbit Bobby gives him comfort, but can he
help Nino to get his family back?
Losing his memory after a mugging, a man
known only as “MP” (Missing Person) leaves
his home and sets out on a journey. On his
travels, through a
series of strange,
illuminating and
sometimes comic
encounters, MP
gains insight into
the complexity
of life in the 21stcentury Western
world.
ARTWORK BY METAORANGE.DE
Family Affair Films is an Amsterdambased production company founded by
Floor Onrust. We produce urgent and
contemporary television drama, short and
feature films of high artistic quality with a
strong author-driven vision. We develop
projects with new talent and video artists,
and we continue our relationships with
established filmmakers.
MARK O’HALLORAN DENIS LAVANT
ANNE CONSIGNY CHRISTOS PASSALIS
MANJINDER VIRK RIFKA LODEIZEN
BRIAN GLEESON JOHANNA TER STEEGE
MONGREL INTERNATIONAL PRESENTS A FAMILY AFFAIR FILMS PRODUCTION
IN CO-PRODUCTION WITH ROHFILM, VICO FILMS & ANTITHESIS FILM
CASTING FIONA TAN & OLIVIA SOPHIE VAN LEEUWEN DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY VLADAS NAUDZIUS
EDITOR NATHALIE ALONSO CASALE SOUND DESIGN HUGO DIJKSTAL COMPOSERS RAY HARMAN & LEO ANEMAET
SOUND ON SET MIROSLAV BABIC & JÖRG THEIL ART DIRECTION PATTY GROOT BLUEMINK
MAKE-UP ARTIST DOROTHEA WIEDERMANN COSTUME DESIGN KATHY STRACHAN
CO-PRODUCERS BENNY DRECHSEL, KARSTEN STÖTER, CORMAC FOX, FIONA TAN LINE PRODUCER OLIVIA SOPHIE
VAN LEEUWEN PRODUCER FLOOR ONRUST SCENARIO FIONA TAN & JONATHAN ROMNEY DIRECTOR FIONA TAN
WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE NETHERLANDS FILM FUND, MONDRIAAN FUND, MITTELDEUTSCHE MEDIENFÖRDERUNG, BORD SCANNÁN NA
HÉIREANN/THE IRISH FILM BOARD, FONDS 21, AMSTERDAM FUND FOR THE ARTS, DOMMERING FOUNDATION, FOUNDATION ELLIPSIS
AND MEDIA PROGRAMME OF THE EU
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Farmhouse Film & TV
Farmhouse Film & TV is a production
company for motion picture entertainment.
Our production focus mainly lies in topics
close to the heart of Europeans. Our goal
is to make local sentiment communicate
widespread and inspire global interest. And
naturally to create productions with a high
entertainment and “feel good” factor about
topics that fit the zeitgeist of today.
Admiral
Monkey Business 3D
Original title: Michiel de Ruyter. Released:
January 26, 2015. Sort: feature-length film,
151 min. Genre: historical drama/action.
Director: Roel Reiné. Screenwriters: Alex van
Galen and Lars Boom. Cast: Charles Dance,
Rutger Hauer, Derek de Lint, Barry Atsma,
Frank Lammers, Sanne Langelaar. Coproducer: Ciné Cri de Coeur (BE). Financers:
Netherlands Film Fund, Eurimages, CoBo
Fund, Screen Flanders, AVROTROS. Sales:
Arclight International. Sales agent: Clay
Epstein (+1-818-426-6359).
Original title: Apenstreken met Aap, Noot,
Mies. Release: June 2015. Status: postproduction. Sort: feature-length film, 90 min.
Genre: family. Director: Johan Nijenhuis.
Screenwriter: Lars Boom. Cast: Kim-Lian van
der Meij, Yvon Jaspers, Mike Weerts, Sanne
Vogel, Loek Peters, Martine Sandifort, Tygo
Bussemakers, Mees Smits. Co-producer:
Mollywood (BE). Financers: Netherlands
Film Fund, CoBo Fund, AVROTROS. Sales:
Mountain Road Entertainment. Sales agent:
Danielle Raaphorst (+31 6 53 72 18 27).
Klaas de Jong, [email protected]
As the deeply torn Netherlands is attacked from
all sides and on the verge of civil war, one man
tries to fight for the interests of the country:
Michiel de Ruyter (1607-1676). But in the eyes
of those in power, his successes make him too
popular, so Michiel is sent on a deadly mission.
It’s the year 1900, and many young children
have to do forced labor. Wim manages to escape
his orphanage to go to school, and hides at
Jet’s farm. It is the start of a summer full of new
friendships and exciting adventures. Monkey
Business is the first Dutch family film in 3D.
Farmhouse Film & TV Ds. Bolleman vd Veenweg 4a 9264 TA Earnewald
The Netherlands +31 511 53 95 10
[email protected]
www.farmhousefilm.nl
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FATT Productions
Producing Films, Arts, Television & Theatre
for a wide, international audience, FATT
Productions is the new production company
founded by Hans de Weers. In his previous
companies, Bergen, and Egmond Film
(sold to Eyeworks), De Weers produced
many award winning films including
Antonia’s Line (Oscar), Nynke (Dutch best
film & actress) and Bluebird (Crystal Bear).
Hans de Weers
Elwin Looije
A as in Abel
Tulips, Honour, Love and a Bike
Status: script development, shoot summer
2016. Sort: family adventure, 90 min. Based on
the novel by Annie M.G. Schmidt. Director: Arno
Dierickx (two times Best TV-Drama winner,
nominated best director). Writer: Janneke van
der Pal (nominated Crystal Bear Finn 2014).
Status: financing, shoot autum 2015.
Sort: romantic tragicomedy, 90 min. Writer:
Peter van Wijk. Director: Marleen Gorris.
Co-producers: Draka Productions (IT) &
Don Carmody Productions (CAN).
When 11 year old Abeltje finds out his
friend Laura’s gone missing while preparing
their circus act, Abeltje has to find her.
His journey brings him past tigertamers,
swordswallowers and bandits, escapes by a
hoovering circus-wagon to finally find Laura.
Dutch producers Danielle Guirguis and
Hans de Weers teamed up for the sequel of the
highly successfull Abeltje (The Flying Liftboy).
Looking for co-producers and distribution.
A young Canadian woman discovers the
truth about her mafia-related past in the
deep South of Italy. She learns who her real
parents were and sets out to revenge her
father’s death.
With Tulips, Honour, Love and a Bike producer
Hans de Weers and director Marleen Gorris
reunite since their Oscar winning Antonia’s
Line. This romantic fairy-tale for adults is
set for release late 2016 and looking for
distribution partners.
FATT Productions
Herengracht 174
1016 BR Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31 20 341 94 69
[email protected]
www.fatt.nl
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Graniet Film
Graniet Film is the independent company of
producer Marc van Warmerdam and his
brother writer/director Alex van Warmerdam.
The company’s initial aim is to produce
the feature films of Alex van Warmerdam:
De Jurk (1996 The Dress), Kleine Teun (1998
Little Tony), Grimm (2003), Ober (2006 Waiter),
De laatste dagen van Emma Blank (2009 The
Last Days of Emma Blank) and Borgman (2013).
Marc van Warmerdam
Sales: Fortissimo Films, +31 20 627 32 15
Borgman (2013)
Schneider vs. Bax
Dutch/Belgian/Danish co-production,
nominated for Palme d’Or Festival de Cannes
2013, Official Competition Award Sydney
International Film Festival, Australia and
releases in The Netherlands, Belgium, Poland,
Russia, France, Denmark, USA and others.
Dutch entry for the Academy Awards. Best
European Film Palic Film Festival, Serbia. Best
European Film Strassbourg International
Film Festival, France - City of Athens Award,
Oeuvre Prize Athene International Film
festival, Greece - Fipresci Award Haifa
International Film Festival, Israel - Grand
Prize of European Fantasy Film in Gold Lund
Fantastic Film Festival, Sweden - Golden Calf
Best Actress, Screenplay, Film Netherlands
Film Festival, The Netherlands - Lifetime
achievement award and Best Film Sitges
Catalonian International Film Festival, Spain.
Release 2015. Sort: feature-length film.
Director & Screenwriter: Alex van Warmerdam.
Cast: Tom Dewispelaere, Alex van Warmerdam,
Maria Kraakman, Annet Malherbe, Gene
Bervoets, Loes Haverkort, Eva van de Wijdeven,
Pierre Bokma and Henri Garcin as Gerard.
Co-producer: CZAR (Belgium).
Distribution: Benelux - Cinéart, France Potemkine Films, CIS - Russian Report.
A contract killer named Schneider gets a rush
job: before nightfall, the author Ramon Bax
will have to be liquidated. The writer lives on
the shore of a lonely lake. The assignment
seems simple enough.
Graniet Film
Archangelkade 15
1013 BE Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31 20 606 06 30
[email protected]
www.granietfilm.nl
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House of Netherhorror
House of Netherhorror focuses on producing
and co-producing elevated medium- and
low-budget horror films.
Jan Doense
Herman Slagter
House of Netherhorror
Amsterdam office / Jan Doense
Prinsengracht 770, 4th floor
1017 LE Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31 6 54 26 56 61
[email protected]
Rotterdam office / Herman Slagter
Delftsestraat 25
3013 AD Rotterdam
The Netherlands
+31 6 55 10 75 33
[email protected]
The Pool
Cherry Tree
Released: May 2014. Sort: feature-length
film, 82 min. Genre: horror. Director: Chris
W. Mitchell. Screenwriter: Chris W. Mitchell,
Gijs Scholten van Aschat. Cast: Gijs Scholten
van Aschat, Carine Crutzen, Bart Klever, Alex
Hendrickx. Co-producer: Fu Works. Financers:
Netherlands Film Fund, Just Entertainment,
New Netherlands Film Platform. Distribution
Benelux: Just Entertainment. Sales: m-appeal
(Germany).
Status: completed. Sort: feature-length film,
85 min. Genre: horror. Director: David Keating.
Screenwriter: Brendan McCarthy. Cast: Anna
Walton, Naomi Battrick, Sam Hazeldine.
Producer: Fantastic Films. Financers: Irish Film
Board, MPI Pictures, Netherlands Film Fund.
Sales: MPI Media Group (USA).
Lennaert and his friend Rob drag their
families into a forest nature reserve for a
cheap camping trip. They erect their tents
on the shore of an idyllic pool. In the night,
Lennaert´s son Jan is awoken by a woman’s
voice, luring him to come and swim with
her in the pool. Is it Rob’s beautiful daughter
Emilie or something else entirely?
When teenager Faith learns that her father
is terminally ill, she turns to her new hockey
coach and mentor Sissy for support. Sissy
asks Faith a tough question: what would
she do to save her father’s life? Faith doesn’t
hesitate. She’ll do anything. Sissy tells
Faith she can save her father but at a price,
and it will not be financial in nature. Faith
must have a baby, but the child will be no
ordinary baby, and the pregnancy will be no
ordinary term.
www.houseofnetherhorror.nl
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IJswater Films
IJswater Films (Icewater) is producing and
co-producing high quality award-winning
features and shorts, including The Polish Bride
(Cannes Critics Choice), Headrush (Miramax
Script Award), Win/Win (Best Actor Brooklyn
Film Festival), 22nd of May (Toronto),
Supernova (Berlinale) and Contact (Berlinale
Golden Bear Best Short). Also documentaries
(recently Navy Mids) and television drama,
both for adults and children, is being
produced. This August the Belgian coproduction Paradise Trips (co-prod. with
CAVIAR) will be released by Cinéart Benelux.
Marc Bary, producer
Eline van Hagen, project supervisor
Steven Rubinstein Malamud, junior producer
Into the Blue
Imprisoned
Status: financing/script available. Sort:
feature-length film, 90 min. Genre: drama.
Director: Jaap van Heusden. Screenwriters:
Jaap van Heusden, Jan Willem den Bok.
Cast: T.B.A. Co-producers: Public Broadcaster
NTR, CAVIAR Belgium, Strada Film Romania.
Financers: Netherlands Film Fund, MEDIA.
Sales: world rights available.
Status: development (treatment available;
selected for SOURCES II 2015). Sort: featurelength film. Duration: 90 min. Genre:
historical drama (WWII). Director: Ben
Sombogaart (Twin Sisters; Oscar Nomination
Best Foreign Language Film). Screenwriter:
Chris Westendorp (in collaboration with
Jetske Spanjer and Ineke Woudenberg).
Cast: T.B.A. Co-producer: we are looking
for foreign partners. Sales: IJswater Films.
A Dutch flight attendant pays a Bucharest
street boy so she can pretend to be his
mother. As they get closer to each other,
their double lives become untenable.
Feature film by Jaap van Heusden after the
successful feature-length telefilms Win/Win
(Prix Europe Best Screenplay) and The New
World (International Emmy Award Best Actress).
The end of the second World War in Germany
is near. When four European women escape
from a death march, they are condemned to
each other by their circumstances. To reach
safe, allied German territory and in order to
survive, they are forced to put their moral
values aside.
IJswater Films
Kromme Mijdrechtstraat 110-4
1079 LD Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31 20 442 17 60
[email protected], www.ijswater.nl
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Johan Nijenhuis & Co
Johan Nijenhuis & Co is a film and television
production company that specializes in
comedies and children’s films. We make
mainstream box-office hits like Loving
Ibiza and Tuscan Wedding. We invest in the
development of screenplays, and offer
continuity to our creative partners. Other
recent projects are the feature films Body
Language and Bennie Brat. In June 2015, we
will release the first Dutch family feature fully
produced in stereoscopic 3D: Monkey Business.
Johan Nijenhuis
Ingmar Menning
Sales Agent: Mountain Road Entertainment,
Sjef Scholte, [email protected],
+31 6 53 72 18 27. Danielle Raaphorst,
[email protected], +31 6 53 94 89 86
Skirt Day
Sumerian’s Specials
Release: March 2016. Status: in production.
Sort: feature-length film, 120 min. Genre:
romantic comedy. Director: Johan Nijenhuis.
Screenwriter: Eveline Hagenbeek. Cast:
Lieke van Lexmond, Martijn Fischer,
Manuel Broekman, Birgit Schuurman.
Financiers: Netherlands Film Fund, RTL, eOne
Distribution.
Release: winter 2016. Status: financing. Sort:
feature-length film, 90 min. Genre: children.
Director: Johan Nijenhuis. Screenwriter:
Sander de Regt. Co-production: Tradewind
Pictures GmbH.
Every spring there is a day when women
suddenly come out wearing skirts. Love is in
the air on skirt day. The film follows sixteen
colorful characters who attend a Cooking
Class for Singles. They hope to find their
match during cooking speeddates. Skirt Day
is a modern-day romantic comedy.
What if children labeled with ADHD actually
had special powers? Nine-year-old Sam
has been trying hard to hide his ability to
make things fly and change the traffic lights.
Ultimately, he is sent to a special needs class
run by Mr. Sumerian. Sam discovers that all
the kids in Mr. Sumerian’s class have special
powers. The question of how to manage his
powers turns into a battle between the forces
of good and evil.
Johan Nijenhuis & Co
Karperweg 45
1075 LB Amsterdam
+31 20 760 19 60
[email protected]
www.nijenhuisenco.nl
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Jos Stelling Films
Founded in 1975, Jos Stelling Films is an
independent film production company.
It produces feature films and shorts by
director and scriptwriter Jos Stelling. It has
established co-productions with producers
from Belgium, Germany and Russia. Its
films (including The Pointsman and The
Illusionist) have won many awards, both in
the Netherlands and beyond. Stelling’s first
feature Mariken van Nieumeghen was in
the official competition of the Cannes Film
Festival (1975).
Jos Stelling
Judith van den Burg (assistant)
Jos Stelling Films
Springweg 50
3511 VS Utrecht
The Netherlands
+31 30 231 37 89
[email protected]
www.stellingfilms.nl
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The Girl and Death
The Flying Dutchman
Released: 2012. Sort: feature-length film,
127 min. Genre: drama. Director: Jos Stelling.
Screenwriters: Bert Rijkelijkhuizen and Jos
Stelling. Cast: Sergey Makovetsky, Sylvia
Hoeks, Leonid Bichevin, Dieter Hallervorden,
Renata Litvinova. Co-producers: TV Indie Film
Production (Russia) and AVRO (NL). Financers:
Netherlands Film Fund, CoBo, MdM, DFFF,
Cinema Fund Russia, Media Programme i2i.
Released: 1995. Sort: feature-length film,
140 min. Genre: drama. Director: Jos Stelling.
Screenwriter: Hans Heesen and Jos Stelling.
Cast: René Groothof, Veerle Dobbelaere,
Nino Manfredi, Gene Bervoets, Gerard
Thoolen. Co-producers: Christoph MayerWiel (Germany), NPS (NL). Financers: ao
Netherlands Film Fund, CoBo, Filmstiftung
Nordrhein-Westfalen, Eurimages.
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
one. Leitmotifs include Sehnsucht, Chekhov
and Pushkin. Won the Golden Calf for Best
Film at the Netherlands Film Festival.
An epic tale about the search of a serf for
his alleged father: the Flying Dutchman.
The fairytale-like story is an ode to fantasy
and is set in the times of the Dutch Revolt
(16th and 17th centuries) in Flanders and
the Netherlands. Iconoclasts, the Spanish
inquisition and Dutch rebels all play a part.
Nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice
Film Festival in 1995. Won the Silver Frog at
Camerimage (Poland), 1996. Called one of
the best 100 films of the 20th century in the
renowned book Making Pictures: A Century
of European Cinematography, by IMAGO, the
Federation of European Cinematographers.
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Keren Cogan Films
Keren Cogan Films is an Amsterdam-based
company. We look for filmmakers with a
distinct and authentic signature, sharing
our love and excitement for daring and
extraordinary storytelling. We bring creative
talent together and make it work; our
mission is to help and challenge filmmakers
to realize their full potential.
Keren Cogan Galjé
Keren Cogan Films
Gijsbrecht van Aemstelstraat 16-18
1091 TC Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31 6 48 33 32 44
[email protected]
www.kerencoganfilms.com
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Between 10 and 12
Release: 2015. Status: distribution. Sort:
feature-length film, 75 min. Genre: drama.
Director: Peter Hoogendoorn. Screenwriter:
Peter Hoogendoorn. Co-producers: Phanta
Film The Netherlands, Minds Meet Belgium,
Unlimited France, AVRO The Netherlands,
Mollywood Belgium. Financers: Netherlands
Film Fund, Eurimages, CoBO, Screen Flanders,
Region Alsace. Sales: none.
Between the hours of 10 and 12, a piece of
news stops a family in its tracks, while around
them life goes on as before. One minute Mike
is at home messing around with his girlfriend
Katja, the next the police are at the door with
terrible news that turns their lives upside
down. Together with the police officers Mike
and Katja search for his parents to relay the
news. During the car ride, time seems to
stand still; the ordinary Rotterdam houses
look just the same, and life outside carries
on as normal. But the family in the patrol car
remain in a state of numb shock. The contrast
between the seriousness of the situation and
the banality of the everyday leads to painful,
absurd and at times comical moments.
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KeyFilm
Hanneke Niens (former co-founder and
producer of IDTV Film) and Hans de Wolf
(former producer of Egmond Film) have
produced numerous feature films, series,
shorts and documentaries. They have built an
extensive network in Europa and Australasia
of co-producers, funds and financiers. Vital to
their approach is the close collaboration with
writers and directors to develop intelligent,
character-driven audience favourites (Soof,
€ 6.500.000 box office in The Netherlands
2014) and accessible arthouse films (Nena,
official selection Berlinale Generation 2015).
Hanneke Niens & Hans de Wolf
KeyFilm
Van Diemenstraat 332
1013 CR Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31 20 423 15 96
[email protected]
www.keyfilm.nl
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The producers have won national- and
international awards, including an Oscar®
nomination for Twin Sisters, an Emmy and
several Prix Europa awards. They scored box
office hits with Twin Sisters, Nynke, Bride Flight
and Soof. Their films were screened in official
competition in Berlin, Locarno, Toronto and
San Sebastian.
Beyond Sleep
Currently they produce Beyond Sleep based on
an iconic Dutch novel, directed by European
Film Award winner Boudewijn Koole, in
co-production with Norway. Meanwhile the
telemovie Camp Holland by Boris Paval Conen
is shooting in Spain and The Netherlands.
Feel good film Ventoux directed by Nicole van
Kilsdonk was shot in Belgium and France in
co-production with Belgium and is released
May 14. The Austrian/Luxembourgish/
Dutch family drama The Night of a thousand
Hours, supported by the new Dutch cash
rebate, is also in production as is the English/
Palestinian/Dutch co-production Arab Idol,
directed by Oscar nominee Hany Abu Assad.
A young man’s mythical quest for a stone that
fell from the sky. He searches, stumbles and
suffers as he traverses the sadistic universe of
Northern Europe. He only finds redemption
on the very edge of madness.
Writer and director: Boudewijn Koole.
Status: in post-production.
Co-producer: NeoFilm, Norway.
Financiers: VPRO, Netherlands Film Fund, The
Netherlands Film Production Incentive, CoBO,
the Norwegian Film Institute and FilmCamp.
Sales: Nordisk Film, September Film.
In the photo: Pål Sverre Hagen, Reinout Scholten van Aschat,
Thorbjørn Harr, Anders Baasmo Christiansen
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Lemming Film
Lemming Film is a film and television
production company based in Amsterdam,
with a proven track record in delivering
quality films and television productions.
Projects that reflect an open-minded vision
on contemporary society and are regularly
financed from several international sources.
Lemming Film is run by CEO’s/producers
Leontine Petit and Joost de Vries, and
by producers Eva Eisenloeffel and
Derk-Jan Warrink.
Joost de Vries, Leontine Petit, Eva Eisenloeffel
Derk-Jan Warrink
Full Contact
Blood, Sweat & Tears
Release: TBA. Status: completed. Sort:
feature-length film, 105 min. Director: David
Verbeek. Screenwriter: David Verbeek. Cast:
Grégoire Colin, Lizzie Brocheré, Slimane
Dazi. Co-producer: Nukleus Film (Croatia).
Financers: Netherlands Film Fund, CoBO,
Dutch Cultural Media Fund, VPRO, Croatian
Tax Shelter. Sales: BAC Films.
Released: April 2, 2015. Sort: featurelength film, 112 min. Genre: biopic. Director:
Diederick Koopal. Screenwriter: Frank
Ketelaar. Cast: Martijn Fischer, Hadewych
Minis, Fedja van Huet. Co-producers: A
Private View, Belgium, BNP Paribas Fortis Film
Finance. Financers: Netherlands Film Fund,
CoBO, AVROTROS, Belgian Tax Shelter,
Screen Flanders. Sales: TBD.
Full Contact is about a UAV pilot who takes
out targets in the Afghan-Pakistani border
region from the Creech Air Force Base, in the
Nevada desert just out of Las Vegas. Both in
his work as in his private life, Ivan feels that he
needs to be in control. He is a lonely character
who cannot love, because to surrender to
love would be to give up control.
The turbulent life story of the most famous
Dutch folk singer: André Hazes. An artist who
loved the blues and who lived the blues.
He was discovered singing in the streets of
Amsterdam as an eight-year-old rascal. We
relive the highlights of his career in the 1980’s
and follow through the aftermath of his career.
Lemming Film
Valschermkade 36F
1059 CD Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31 20 661 04 24
[email protected]
www.lemmingfilm.com
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Mountain Road Entertainment Group
Mountain Road Entertainment Group is a
powerful force in local Dutch and Belgian
film and television productions, and is also
well known for its creative marketing and
sales campaigns. The founder of Mountain
Road is Sjef Scholte. Together with Daniëlle
Raaphorst (Incredible Film), Scholte has
produced four successful feature films.
Scholte and Raaphorst draw from their
extensive experience in the industry to focus
on (co-)productions of films and TV series,
both in creative development and funding.
Sjef Scholte, Danielle Raaphorst
Mountain Road Entertainment Group
Bergweg 12
1217 SC Hilversum
The Netherlands
+31 35 623 55 59
[email protected]
[email protected]
www.mountainroad.nl
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Escape
Keet & Koen and the Treasure Hunt
Release: April 30, 2015. Status: finished.
Sort: feature-length film, 96 min. Genre:
drama. Director: Ineke Houtman. Cast:
Isa Hoes, Abbey Hoes, Rik Mayall, Edwin
Jonker, Matthijs van de Sande Bakhuyzen.
Co-Producer: Marmalade Films Belgium.
Financers: Dutch FilmWorks, RTL
Entertainment, Netherlands Film Fund,
Belgian TaxShelter, Algarve Tourism Bureau
Sales: Mountain Road Entertainment Group.
Keet and Koen are street artists and
entertainers in a theme park. In this family
movie, their mission is to search for the
missing clown Bassie and the acrobat
Adriaan. Bassie and Adriaan are very well
known among the young and old and have
received an award for their great merit as
people rescuers. Their eternal enemy, the old
Baron, wants to prevent this of course, so he
orders his cousin Jonkheer to abduct Bassie
and Adriaan. Keet and Koen prove to be
worthy successors to Bassie and Adriaan as
they embark upon the exciting search for
the famous kidnapped duo.
Sales: Mountain Road Entertainment Group.
Julia has a good job, lives in a new build and has
two children with her caring husband Paul. But
there are antidepressants in her kitchen drawer.
Her life is so different to how she and her brother
Jimmy used to imagine it would be when they
were young. Their tragic goodbye was twenty
years ago, but it still haunts her. After a fight
with Paul, Julia decides to do something drastic.
She leaves – Jimmy style – for the Portuguese
Algarve; the end of the world. She makes new
friends and reinvents herself completely, but
she discovers along the way that escape is not
the same as finding happiness. When she meets
mysterious gigolo Romeo, Julia’s past really
starts to catch up with her.
Still from Escape
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Mulholland Pictures
Mulholland Pictures aims to produce quality
international features. We produced or coproduced films such as Enigma (starring Kate
Winslet), The Discovery of Heaven (starring
Stephen Fry), Left Luggage (starring Isabella
Rossellini and Maximilian Schell), Fogbound
(starring Luke Perry and Ben Daniels) and
Deadly Virtues: Love, Honour, Obey (released
in 2014 and currently screening at a
multitude of festivals).
Ate de Jong
Love is Thicker than Water
Deadly Virtues: Love. Honour. Obey
A UK/Dutch co-production between
Barnsbury Pictures Ltd, Mulholland
Pictures BV and Ingenious. Status: Principal
Photography completed, now in post
production. Sort: feature length film, 100
min. Genre: off beat romantic comedy.
Directors: Emily Harris and Ate de Jong. Cast:
Johnny Flynn, Lydia Wilson, Juliet Stevenson,
Henry Goodman, Al Weaver, Jessica Gunning
A UK/Dutch co-production. Released: 2014.
Sort: feature-length film, 89 min. Genre:
psychological thriller. Director: Ate de Jong
Screenwriter: Mark Rogers. Cast: Matt Barber,
Edward Akrout, Megan Makzko. Co-producers:
Ate de Jong, Elliot Grove. Sales: Jinga Films +44 207 287 00 50, [email protected]
Love is Thicker than Water follows the
journey of a young couple from very diverse
backgrounds through their relationship and
explores their maturing attitudes towards
love. Part quirky and comic, part dramatic
and tragic, always uncompromisingly
truthful, Love is Thicker than Water offers a
very British fresh look how conflicting family
ties challenge love in a modern day Romeo
and Juliet story.
On a Friday night in the suburbs, a stranger
has terrifying plans for a peace-loving couple.
At festivals, this film has been hailed as scary
genre film and a modern feminist jewel.
Not everyone’s cup of tea, but certainly a
unique taste!
Mulholland Pictures
Amsterdam/London/LA
+31 20 627 43 39
+31 6 42 93 91 57
+44 751 901 71 24
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OAK
OAK Motion Pictures
We aim to stimulate, inspire and challenge
our directors and writers. We work on a select
number of projects in order to produce
daring and accessible quality films for an
international audience.
We strive for transparency and integrity, and
we believe that it takes time to grow and
develop layer by layer, in order to end up
with a solid company and films to match.
We are a member of both EAVE and ACE.
Charlotte Scott-Wilson
Trent
MOTION PICTURES
When Fucking Spring is in the Air
Stroop
Release: 2017. Status: financing. Sort: featurelength film, 95 min. Genre: dramedy. Director:
Danyael Sugawara. Screenwriters: Heleen Suer
& Danyael Sugawara. Cast: TBA. Co-producers:
TamTam Films (Germany) & Manana Films
(Poland). Financers: Netherlands Film Fund,
Creative Support. Sales: TBD.
Release: 2017. Status: development.
Sort: feature-length film, 100 min. Genre:
road movie. Director: Hanro Smitsman.
Screenwriter: Willem Bosch. Cast: TBA.
Co-producer: September Film Productions
(Netherlands). Financiers: Netherlands Film
Fund, September Film.
A rebellious and pregnant 17-year-old hits
financial rock bottom when her grandmother
dies. To avoid losing her house, she embarks
on a journey through Europe to seek payback
and money from her biological parents,
whom she hasn’t seen for 15 years.
A stubborn Dutch car dealer discovers that
two boys heading to Iraq to join the jihad
have stolen two of his rental cars. He teams
up with the father of one of the thieves on
a moral crusade against each others will.
A road trip through war-torn Iraq, where he
finds an unlikely friendship, new visions on
life and finally, his cars.
OAK Motion Pictures
Jacob van Lennepkade 334P
1053 NJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31 20 717 35 04
[email protected]
www.oakmotionpictures.com
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Pupkin
Pupkin develops feature films and television
drama. Our collaboration with writers and
directors is based on personal involvement,
trust and sustainability. We strive for a longlasting cooperation with all of our business
relations. We are constantly in search of
challenge. In our writers and directors, our
projects, our audience, their expectations,
and the challenge in ourselves.
Riphagen
Dreamscape
Screenplay: Paul Jan Nelissen and Thomas
van der Ree. Director: Pieter Kuijpers. Genre:
drama. Original Language: Dutch. Format:
Feature film/mini-series, 3 x 50 min. Release:
2016. Status: pre-production.
Original Title: Droomonderduik. Screenplay:
Tijs van Marle. Director: Anna van der Heide.
Genre: family. Original Language: Dutch.
Format: feature film. Release: TBA. Status:
financing.
Riphagen tells the story of one of the most
notorious criminals in the Netherlands during
the Second World War and how he managed
to escape justice. It is a film and mini drama
series that attempts to revise the heroic image
of the Dutch during the Second World War.
Amsterdam, 1942. In the aftermath of a Nazi
round-up, nine-year-old Jewish boy named
Alfred goes in hiding in Artis Zoo. Alone
among the animals, the cheerful and spirited
boy withers away. When a young resistance
fighter takes refuge at the same place, Alfred
learns how to survive.
Sander van Meurs
Iris Otten
Pieter Kuijpers
Based on the novel ‘Riphagen’, by Bart Middelburg
& René ter Steege.
Based on the book by Maarten Frankenhuis.
Pupkin
Weesperzijde 4
1091 EA Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31 20 489 50 88
[email protected]
www.pupkin.com
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PVPictures
PVPictures is a well-established production
company existing in its present form since
1986. Since then, we have produced several
feature films and hundreds of hours of
TV drama. PVPictures is a small company
at its core, consisting of producer Paul
Voorthuysen, Chris Derks, Katja Scheffer,
Guido Lippe, Kiki The, Hans de Bruin,
Dag Neijzen en Joep Zwaan.
Paul Voorthuysen
Dummie the Mummy and the
Sphinx of Shakaba
The Hidden Valley
Release: December 2015. Status: shooting/
production. Sort: feature-length film, 80 min.
Genre: adventure. Director: Pim van Hoeve.
Screenwriter: Tijs van Marle. Cast: Julian Ras,
Roeland Fernhout, Yahya Gaier. Financers:
Nickelodeon, Abraham Tuschinski Fonds,
Netherlands Film Fund. Sales: Dutch Features
Global Entertainment.
When Dummie the little living mummy realizes
he will never grow up to become a Pharaoh, he
decides to become famous instead: as famous
as his father the Pharaoh was 4,000 years ago.
His best friend Gus worries that a famous
living mummy is simply a bad idea, but Gus’s
dad is keen to help. Together they’ll think of
something to make Dummie famous.
Release: 2016. Status: financing. Sort:
feature-length film/documentary, 120
min. Genre: wild life drama. Director: Luc
Enting. Screenwriter: Paul King. Financers:
Gemeenten Veluwe, Provincie Gelderland,
Netherlands Film Fund, Avrotros. Sales:
Dutch Features Global Entertainment.
An intimate portrayal of the survival stories of
a young wild boar, a fledgling black raven and
a red deer foal born in the midst of one of the
world’s most densely populated countries.
Filmed against the magnificent backdrop of
the Veluwe, Holland’s wildest heartland, this is
an in-depth drama featuring the true comingof-age adventures of charismatic wild young
things as they grow to adulthood and set out
to raise their own young.
PVPictures
Sumatralaan 45
1217 GP Hilversum
The Netherlands
+31 35 677 47 76
[email protected]
www.pvpictures.nl
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Rinkel Film
Founded in 1997 by producer Reinier
Selen, Rinkel Film is an independent film
production company located in the artistic
heart of Amsterdam. Our philosophy is to
produce high-quality, character-driven films
and television drama that tell fascinating
stories, always in cooperation with coproducers at home and abroad. Reinier Selen, producer
Frank Groot, delegate producer
Rinkel Film
Playboy Priest
A Real Vermeer
Status: financing. Sort: feature-length
film. Genre: drama. Director: Arne Toonen.
Screenwriters: Jan Eilander and Michel
Sluysmans. Co-producers: HazazaH Pictures
(NL) - Maarten Kuit, Zilvermeer Productions
(BE) - Jacqueline de Goeij. Finances:
Netherlands Film Fund, Paradiso Films,
Creative Europe. Distributor:Paradiso Films.
Status: financing. Sort: feature-length film.
Genre: drama. Director: Rudolf van den Berg.
Screenwriter: Jan Eilander & Rudolf van den
Berg. Cast: Tygo Gernandt. Co-producers: Fu
Works (NL) - San Fu Maltha, Cadenza Films
(NL) - Jeroen Koolbergen, Tarantula (LUX) Donato Rotunno, Nukleus Film (HR) - Siniša
Juričić. Financers: Netherlands Film Fund,
Creative Europe, Cinéart, Belgian Tax Shelter,
Abraham Tuschinski Fund. Distributor:
Cinéart (NL).
The true story of the rise and fall of a playboy
priest. After being educated at a 1970s
seminary where you can sin as long as you’re
really sorry, Jo Kusters moves easily between
Sunday Mass, brothels and bars.
Based on the life of Han van Meegeren.
A very talented but vain painter clashes
with the critics, in love with fashionable
movements like expressionism. He decides
to take revenge
by creating “new”
paintings of his great
idol Vermeer.
Bremstraat 1-3
1031 EK Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31 20 616 32 31
[email protected]
www.rinkelfilm.com
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Rotterdam Films
Rotterdam Films is an independent
production company founded in 1980 by
Dirk Rijneke and Mildred van Leeuwaarden.
It has produced more than 45 films.
One recent production was the awardwinning Silent Ones, Ricky Rijneke’s first
feature, which was released in Dutch theatres
in December 2014. It gained great critical
acclaim and won eight international awards
out of eleven nominations.
Dirk Rijneke, +31 6 50 29 35 86
Mildred van Leeuwaarden, +31 6 21 42 59 93
Rotterdam Films
Provenierssingel 33
3033 EG Rotterdam
The Netherlands
+31 10 465 85 65
[email protected]
www.rotterdamfilms.com
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Hier (Yesterday)
The Hunter’s Son
Release: 2016. Status: in production,
shooting 2015. Sort: feature-length film,
110 min. Genre: drama. Director: Balint
Kenyeres. Screenwriters: Balint Kenyeres,
Matthieu Taponier. Cast: Michael Nyqvist,
Maurice Benichou, Richard Bohringer a.o.
Co-producers: Mirage Film Studio (Hungary),
Les Films de l’Apres-Midi (France), One-Two
Films (Germany), Bleck Film and TV (Sweden).
Financers: Netherlands Film Fund, Hungarian
Film Fund, CNC, Arte, Film-i-Väst.
Status: in development, shooting 2017.
Sort: feature-length film, 90 min.
Genre: drama. Director: Ricky Rijneke.
Screenwriter: Ricky Rijneke.
Fifty-year-old Otto Ganz owns a thriving
building and civil engineering company
that operates worldwide. Some very costly
problems on a building site in North Africa
mean he has to go there (he hates traveling),
to a country where he is confronted with
memories of his youth, which have been
carefully buried in the depths of his mind.
Meetings in ministries, disinformation,
the reappearance of a past love who had
mysteriously disappeared, an investigation
into the local underground to find her: Otto
Ganz slowly plunges into a labyrinthine
world where present and past intertwine.
Second feature by award-winning director
Ricky Rijneke. Selected for Script and Pitch of
the Torino FilmLab 2015.
A psychological drama about the guilt and
innocence of a 12-year-old boy growing
up in a hunting family. An impulsive act
explodes into tragedy, forcing these people
to question themselves and everything they
thought they knew.
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Sigma Pictures Productions
Honorary member
The Fury
Life is Beautiful
Founded in 1974, Sigma Pictures has
produced many shorts and 37 feature films.
Their first, Melancholy Tales, opened the Berlin
Film Festival in 1975. The film library includes
international co-productions and some of the
most successful films in the history of Dutch
cinema. In 1994, Matthijs van Heijningen
was knighted for his contribution to the
Dutch film industry. Five years later, on the
25th anniversary of Sigma, the jury of the
Netherlands Film Festival awarded him with
a special Golden Calf for his oeuvre.
Status: in production. First shooting day 25th
May 2015. Sort: feature-length tragicomedy.
Screenplay by Andre van Duren, based on
the novel by A. F. Th. Van der Heijden, one of
the Netherlands’ most renowned authors.
Director: Andre van Duren, DoP: Theo
Bierkens. Production design: Alfred Schaaf.
Cast: a.o. Hannah Hoekstra (Hemel, FIPRESCI
Prize Berlinale 2012).
Status: in development. Sort: featurelength romantic comedy. Screenplay by
Theo Nijland, based on the novel by Remco
Campert. Director: Frans Weisz.
Matthijs van Heijningen
Guurtje Buddenberg
Sigma Pictures Productions
‘t PC Hooft Huys
Singel 132
1015 AG Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31 20 535 33 20
[email protected]
www.sigmapictures.com
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A sunny day in the famous Vondelpark in
Amsterdam. A story about the growing pains
of the beat generation compared with and in
relation to modern times.
A tragicomedy around the relationship
between a “bitchy” aunt and her nephew,
who is 12 years her junior. During the film, we
discover why the aunt is so angry. When the
truth about her youth is revealed, we are left
horrified.
HANNAH HOEKSTRA
BENJA BRUIJNING
HADEWYCH MINIS
ANNEKE BLOK
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BENJA BRUIJNING
HADEWYCH MINIS
A N N E K E BL O K
ROBERT DE HOOG
FRANK LAMMERS
B E A U SCHNEIDER
G I J S SCHOLTEN VAN ASCHAT
Een ANDRE van DUREN Film
Een MAT THIJS VAN HEIJNINGEN productie
G e b a s e e rd o p d e ro m a n v a n
A.F.T h. van d e r H E IJDE N
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Sluizer Films
Sluizer Films was founded by producer,
director and screenwriter George Sluizer
(1932-2014) and Anne Lordon. From the
1960s until the early 1980s, he directed many
documentaries. With Spoorloos (The Vanishing,
1988) he received worldwide recognition. The
film won many awards and was the Dutch
entry for the Academy Awards in 1989. In 1992,
Sluizer directed the remake of The Vanishing for
20th Century Fox starring Jeff Bridges, Kiefer
Sutherland and Sandra Bullock. In 1991 Sluizer
directed UTZ starring Armin Mueller-Stahl
(Best actor in Berlin 1992). He was a honorary
member of Film Producers Netherlands.
Anne Lordon
Anouk Sluizer, assistant
Dark Blood
Sluizer Speaks
George Sluizer’s feature Dark Blood was
filmed in 1993 in Utah, but shooting came to
a halt 10 days before completion due to the
sudden death of leading actor River Phoenix.
The other cast members were Judy Davis and
Jonathan Price. After almost 20 years, Sluizer
and his production company were finally
able to finish the film in 2012.
An intimate portrait of George Sluizer,
Sluizer Speaks was directed by Dennis Alink
and produced by Molenwiek Film during the
last year of the director’s life. George looks
back on his rich life, his sources of inspiration,
legendary encounters and above all his films,
the leitmotif in his life. Special screening at
IDFA 2014. George Sluizer died in September
2014 at the age of 82.
Dark Blood is the story of Boy, a young
widower living near a nuclear testing site in
the desert. His solitude is interrupted when
a Hollywood couple become stranded after
their car breaks down. The couple is rescued
by Boy, who holds them prisoner because of
his desire for the woman and his ambition to
create a better world with her.
Contact Molenwiek Film:
Joop van Wijk, [email protected]
Dennis Alink, [email protected]
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.georgesluizer.com
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SNG Film
Studio Nieuwe Gronden, nowadays known
as SNG Film, was founded in 1979 out of
the legendary film collective Amsterdams
Stadjournaal (ASJ). SNG Film still seeks to
produce distinctive documentaries and
feature films (and everything in between).
What is important is the involvement of
the filmmaker. SNG Film likes to work with
young talent, but does not limit itself to that.
Moreover, it is not only about the urgency in
which somebody wants to tell something,
but primarily the form chosen to do so.
International co-productions can be a means
to initiating exceptional, artistic films.
Upstream (En Amont du Fleuve)
Georgica
Release: 2016. Status: pre-production.
Sort: feature-length film, 75 min. Genre:
boat movie. Director: Marion Hänsel.
Screenwriters: Hubert Mingarelli and Marion
Hänsel. Cast: Olivier Gourmet, Sergi Lopez,
John Lynch. Coproducer: Man’s Film, Belgium.
Financers: TBA. Sales: Doc&Film International.
Released: 2015, after premiere at IDFA,
Dutch competition. Sort: feature-length
documentary, 70 min. Director: Katelijne
Schrama.
Upstream is a psychological adventure in
which two modest and timid men reveal
some of their secrets and hopes, and in
which their blood ties will bring them closer
together, whether they want to or not.
Over 2,000 years ago, Vergil wrote an ode to
farming called Georgica. Is there something
to be found for a farmer in the Dutch
province of Flevoland that has not lost its
relevance?
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
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Submarine
Submarine produces features, documentaries
and animation with talented and acclaimed
directors, all with an international focus.
With offices in Amsterdam and Los Angeles,
Submarine’s founders Bruno Felix and
Femke Wolting are experienced in bringing
together international co-productions, and
collaborate with co-producers, broadcasters
and distributors from around Europe and
the US such as BBC, VPRO, HBO, ZDF, Arte,
Channel 4 and many others.
Bruno Felix
Femke Wolting
Submarine
Arie Biemondstraat 111
1054 PD Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31 20 820 49 40
[email protected]
www.submarine.nl
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Eisenstein in Guanajuato
Last Hijack
Release: 2015. Status: completed. Sort:
feature-length film, 105 min. Genre: drama.
Director: Peter Greenaway. Screenwriter: Peter
Greenaway. Cast: Elmer Bäck, Luis Alberti,
a.o. Producer: Submarine (The Netherlands),
Fu Works (The Netherlands), Paloma Negra
(Mexico). Co-producers: Edith Film (Finland),
Potemkino (Belgium), Mollywood (Belgium).
Financers: Netherlands Film Fund, the
Netherlands Film Production Incentive of the
Netherlands Film Fund, Finnish Film Fund,
MEDIA Program of the European Union,
Enterpise Flanders, Screen Flanders and
Flanders Audiovisual Fund, Tax shelter of the
federal government of Belgium and tax shelter
investors Película realizada con el estímulo
fiscal del artículo 226 de la LISR (EFICINE).
Released: 2014. Sort: feature-length film,
83 min. Genre: documentary/animation.
Director: Femke Wolting and Tommy
Pallotta. Screenwriter: Femke Wolting and
Tommy Pallotta. Producer: Submarine (The
Netherlands). Co-producers: Still Films
(Ireland), Razor Film (Germany), Savage
Film (Belgium), IKON (The Netherlands) and
ZDF (Germany). Financers: Bord Scannán
na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board, the
Media Programme of the European Union,
Netherlands Film Fund, CoBO, Film- und
Medienstiftung NRW, the Dutch Media Fund
and the Flanders Audiovisual Fund.
Peter Greenaway’s film explores the mind of
a creative genius as he faces the desires and
fears of love, sex and death over the course
of 10 passionate days in Mexico. This journey
helped shape the
later career of
one of the great
masters of cinema.
A journey into the world of a Somali pirate
named Mohamed, exploring how and why
he came to live such a brutal and dangerous
existence. Animated reenactments explore
Mohamed’s memories, dreams and fears from
his point of view, while raw documentary
footage portrays
the harsh and
complex reality
of Mohamed’s
everyday life.
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Topkapi Films
Topkapi Films is an Amsterdam-based
company run by producers Frans van Gestel,
Arnold Heslenfeld and Laurette Schillings.
The company, well experienced in producing
and co-producing feature films and television
drama for the Dutch and international market,
strives to build long-term relationships with
writers and directors.
Titles successfully produced and co-produced
include Frailer, Public Works, Belgica, The
Commune, All of a Sudden, Out of Love and
The Broken Circle Breakdown.
Frans van Gestel, Arnold Heslenfeld,
Laurette Schillings
Topkapi Films
Rapenburgerstraat 123-1
1011 VL Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31 20 303 24 94
[email protected]
www.topkapifilms.nl
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Public Works
Out of Love
Release: autumn 2015. Status: in postproduction. Sort: feature-length film. Genre:
drama. Director: Joram Lürsen. Screenwriter:
Frank Ketelaar. Cast: Gijs Scholten van
Asschat, Jacob Derwig, Rifka Lodeizen.
Co-producers: Menuet (Belgium), I’m Film
and Mythberg Films (Hungary). Financers:
Netherlands Film Fund, VPRO, NPO, CoBO
Fund, Ministry of Education, Culture and
Science (Telescoop), the Matching Fund,
the Netherlands Film Production Incentive,
the Abraham Tuschinski Fund, the Flemish
Audiovisual Fund, Favourite (Belgian tax
shelter) and the Hungarian tax rebate.
Status: in post-production. Sort: featurelength film, 90 min. Genre: drama. Director
and screenplay: Paloma Aguilera Valdebenito.
Cast: Naomi Velissariou, Daniil Vorobjev.
Public Works, based on Thomas Rosenboom’s
best-selling novel, is an epic historical drama
about Vedder and Anijs’s struggle to move
up in life. The film tells the tragicomic story
of two bourgeois men, who at the end of
the 19th century see a massive construction
project adjacent to Vedder’s small house in
the center of Amsterdam as an opportunity
to earn a huge amount of money. But to
do so, they will have to outsmart a ruthless
property magnate.
Out of Love tells the story of a turbulent
love affair, from the moment that Varya and
Nicolae fall in love up to the moment they
decide to let each other go. The film portrays
the passion, the euphoria, the solidarity and
the feeling of infinity, but also of insecurity,
fear and the struggle between autonomy and
dependence.
Still from Public Works
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Viking Film
Viking Film is the Amsterdam-based film
production company founded in 2011 by
Marleen Slot. International in scope, Viking
Film strives to make high-quality films for
both Dutch and international audiences with
a special focus on art house, children’s films
and animation films. Marleen Slot
Zurich
The Summer of Sangaïlé
Status: International premiere at Berlinale
Forum 2015. CICAE Art Cinema Award Berlinale
2015. Duration: 89 min. Director: Sacha Polak.
Screenwriter: Helena van der Meulen. Cast:
Wende Snijders, Sacha Alexander Gersak, Barry
Atsma, Martijn Lakemeier. Co-producers: A
Private View, Belgium, Rohfilm, Germany.
Sales: Beta Cinema.
Status: International premiere at Sundance
Competition and European premiere at
Berlinale Panorama 2015. Duration: 90 min.
Director and screenwriter: Alanté Kavaïté.
Cast: Aistė Diržiūtė, Julija Steponaitytė. Coproducers: Fralita Films, Lithuania, Les Films
d’Antoine, France. Sales: Films Distribution.
In a desperate attempt to leave the past
behind, Nina wanders along Europe’s
motorways. Along the way, she meets a
German truck driver and joins him on his
journeys. Nina doesn’t reveal much about
who she is, but it gradually becomes clear
that she is suffering from the pain of an
ultimate betrayal.
Seventeen-year-old Sangaïlé is fascinated by
stunt planes. Afraid of heights, she has never
dared to even enter in one of the cockpits.
At a summer aeronautical show nearby her
parents’ lakeside villa, she meets Auste, who
unlike Sangaïlé, lives her life to the fullest
with creativity and daring. Viking Film
Lindengracht 17
1015 KB Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31 20 625 47 88
[email protected]
www.vikingfilm.nl
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Volya Films
Volya Films produces author films, fiction
and documentary, mainly in the form of
international co-productions. Our recent
films include Big Father, Small Father & Other
Stories (Di Phan Dang; Berlinale 2015 - Official
Competition), Kurai Kurai - Tales on the Wind
(Marjoleine Boonstra; Competition Dutch
Film Festival 2014); Naziha’s Spring (Gulsah
Dogan; IDFA 2014; winner Audience Award).
Aliyushka, new feature film by Adilkhan
Yerzhanov, is currently in development.
Totem
Men
Status: financing. Sort: feature-length film,
90 min. Genre: family movie. Director: Sander
Burger. Screenwriter: Bastiaan Tichler.
Status: financing. Sort: documentary, 90
min. Genre: tragicomedy. Director: Tatjana
Bozic. Screenwriter: Tatjana Bozic. Financers:
Netherlands Film Fund.
The daughter of two illegal immigrants,
10-year-old Ama sees her four-year-old
brother taken away from school by the
police. In panic, she wants to warn her
parents only to find out that they have
already been arrested and will be deported.
On the run from the police, alone at night
on the streets of Rotterdam, Ama has to take
care of herself and find her way back to her
family – when suddenly her totem animal
appears.
How many times, in how many kitchens,
over how many cups of coffee and glasses of
wine have I heard these stories? Funny, bitter,
mind-blowing, brave, sour stories of women
finding, losing, leaving, loving and struggling
with men. In this film, in endless kitchens,
women talk about men. Sometimes it is a
sorrowful talk, sometimes it is one big laugh.
But it is always as warm as the intimacy they
dare to share.
Denis Vaslin
Fleur Knopperts
Volya Films
Mauritsweg 55B
3012 JX Rotterdam
The Netherlands
+31 10 415 56 21
[email protected]
www.volyafilms.com
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Other members
24 FPS features
Anton Scholten
[email protected]
Caviar Film & TV
Sabine Veenendaal & Jeroen Beker
www.caviarcontent.com
Tulp Fiction
Bernard Tulp
Colophon
Design: JvdH, [email protected]
Tekst editor: Andrew Maggiore
Production: Film Producers Netherlands
Date of publication: May 2015
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Film Producers
Netherlands
Film Producers Netherlands | +31 20 627 00 61 | [email protected] | www.filmproducenten.nl