Film Producers Netherlands
Companies, Films & Projects 2015 | Cannes update
Film Producers Netherlands | index Film Producers Netherlands Netherlands Film Production Incentive Finance possibilities Selective Schemes Netherlands Film Commission EYE International
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Members Film Producers Netherlands BALDR Film 8 Bijker Film & TV 9 BosBros 10 Cadenza Films 11 Circe Films 12 Cool Beans 13 CTM Pictures 14 De Productie 15 Eyeworks Film & TV Drama 16 Family Affair Films 17 Farmhouse TV & Film 18 FATT Productions 19 Graniet Film 20 House of Netherhorror 21 IJswater Films 22 Johan Nijenhuis & Co 23 Jos Stelling Films 24 Keren Cogan Films 25 KeyFilm 26
Lemming Film 27 Mountain Road Entertainment Group 28 Mulholland Pictures 29 OAK Motion Pictures 30 Pupkin Film 31 PVPictures 32 Rinkel Film 33 Rotterdam Films 34 Sigma Pictures Productions 35 Sluizer Films 36 SNG Film 37 Submarine 38 Topkapi Films 39 Viking Film 40 Volya Films 42 - 24 FPS features 42 - Caviar Film & TV 42 - Tulp Fiction 42
Film Producers Netherlands
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 â‚Ź 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 marjan@filmproducenten.nl
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 4
Contact Korte Zoutkeetsgracht 2 1013 MC Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 20 627 00 61 +31 6 31 79 00 17 info@filmproducenten.nl www.filmproducenten.nl
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
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 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
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
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 5
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.
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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
Film Producers Netherlands
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).
Frank Hoeve, Katja Draaijer
BALDR Film Oudezijds Achterburgwal 77 1012 DC Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 20 303 26 70 info@baldrfilm.nl www.baldrfilm.nl 8
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.
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 info@bijker.tv www.bijker.tv 9
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
BosBros Arie Biemondstraat 111 1054 PD Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 20 524 40 30 info@bosbros.com www.bosbros.com 10
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.
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 info@cadenzafilms.com www.cadenzafilms.com
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, jeroenbeker@gmail.com.
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 info@circe.nl www.circe.nl 12
Copyright: Kiki Lamers
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 rc@coolbeanspix.com 13
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 Sander.Verdonk@ctm.nl
CTM Pictures Emmastraat 21 1211 NE Hilversum The Netherlands +31 35 647 40 40 pictures@ctm.nl www.ctmpictures.nl 14
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.
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 info@deproductie.nl www.deproductie.nl
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 Film@eyeworks.tv www.eyeworks.tv 16
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.
Family Affair Films
Floor Onrust, floor@familyaffairfilms.nl Noortje Wilschut, Delegate Producer, noortje@familyaffairfilms.nl
Family Affair Films Entrepotdok 77A 1018 AD Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 20 707 17 13 info@familyaffairfilms.nl www.familyaffairfilms.nl
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, klaas@farmhousefilm.nl
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 info@farmhousefilm.nl www.farmhousefilm.nl 18
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 info@fatt.nl www.fatt.nl 19
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
Graniet Film Archangelkade 15 1013 BE Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 20 606 06 30 info@granietfilm.nl www.granietfilm.nl 20
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.
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 jan@houseofnetherhorror.nl Rotterdam office / Herman Slagter Delftsestraat 25 3013 AD Rotterdam The Netherlands +31 6 55 10 75 33 herman@houseofnetherhorror.nl
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.
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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 CinĂŠart Benelux.
Marc Bary, producer Eline van Hagen, project supervisor Steven Rubinstein Malamud, junior producer
IJswater Films Kromme Mijdrechtstraat 110-4 1079 LD Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 20 442 17 60 films@ijswater.nl, www.ijswater.nl 22
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.
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, sjef@mountainroad.nl, +31 6 53 72 18 27. Danielle Raaphorst, danielle@incrediblefilm.nl, +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 info@nijenhuisenco.nl www.nijenhuisenco.nl 23
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 judith@stellingfilms.nl www.stellingfilms.nl 24
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: RenĂŠ 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.
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 GaljĂŠ
Keren Cogan Films Gijsbrecht van Aemstelstraat 16-18 1091 TC Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 6 48 33 32 44 info@kerencoganfilms.com www.kerencoganfilms.com
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 info@keyfilm.nl www.keyfilm.nl 26
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
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 info@lemmingfilm.com www.lemmingfilm.com 27
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 sjef@mountainroad.nl danielle@incrediblefilm.nl www.mountainroad.nl 28
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
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, jr@jingafilms.com
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 29
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
OAK Motion Pictures Jacob van Lennepkade 334P 1053 NJ Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 20 717 35 04 contact@oakmotionpictures.com www.oakmotionpictures.com 30
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.
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 info@pupkin.com www.pupkin.com 31
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
PVPictures Sumatralaan 45 1217 GP Hilversum The Netherlands +31 35 677 47 76 mail@pvictures.nl www.pvpictures.nl 32
Dummie the Mummy and the Sphinx of Shakaba 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.
The Hidden Valley 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.
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 info@rinkelfilm.com www.rinkelfilm.com 33
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 info@rotterdamfilms.com www.rotterdamfilms.com 34
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.
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 info@sigmapictures.com www.sigmapictures.com
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 R eO nB E A RT D E HOOG EF RANK N L ADMRMEE Rv Sa n D U R E N F i l m THEU BOERMANS BEAU SCHNEIDER Hebaseerd A N N A op HH E K S Tvan R AA.F.Th. van der HEIJDEN G deO roman 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
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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
Sluizer Films Stadionweg 212 1077 TE Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 20 778 61 88, +31 6 20 52 80 98 sluizerfilms@neuf.fr, anouksluizer@gmail.com www.georgesluizer.com 36
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, joop@molenwiekfilm.nl Dennis Alink, dennisalink@hotmail.com
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 info@sngfilm.nl www.sngfilm.nl skype: sng.film 37
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 info@submarine.nl www.submarine.nl 38
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.
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 info@topkapifilms.nl www.topkapifilms.nl
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.
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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
Viking Film Lindengracht 17 1015 KB Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 20 625 47 88 marleen@vikingfilm.nl www.vikingfilm.nl 40
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.
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 info@volyafilms.com www.volyafilms.com 41
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Colophon
Anton Scholten anton@24fpsfeatures.nl
Design: JvdH, info@jvdh.eu Tekst editor: Andrew Maggiore Production: Film Producers Netherlands Date of publication: May 2015
Caviar Film & TV Sabine Veenendaal & Jeroen Beker www.caviarcontent.com
Tulp Fiction Bernard Tulp
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