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Accent on Trent
In 2005 Dutch producer Trent assumed control of Amsterdam-based NFI Productions and after relocating to Rotterdam began to gain a reputation as a purveyor of quality low-budget arthouse films. In April his new film HUNTING & SONS premieres in New York. He talks to Nick Cunningham.
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Taking Flight
Dutch auteur Ineke Smits presented her long-awaited, and eagerly anticipated, THE AVIATRIX OF KAZBEK at IFFR 2010. She spoke to Nick Cunningham before the closing-night world premiere.
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Lost and Found
Belgian filmmaker Caroline Strubbe presented her Flemish-Dutch co-production LOST PERSONS AREA to Rotterdam audiences during IFFR 2010. The film is currently distributed by the Filmmuseum, part of the new eye institute. Strubbe took time off to discuss co-production, father/daughter relationships and film-endings with Nick Cunningham.
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Sound Sense
Dutch sound director/mixer/composer Michel Schöpping will be off on his travels again in 2010, working on another slew of international projects. He talks to Nick Cunningham.
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Petra Vision
Dutch producer Petra Goedings launched her Young Producers’ Label at the Netherlands Film Festival in September 2009. Four months on, how does she think her initiative will enhance her company’s output - and the Dutch production scene in general? She speaks to Nick Cunningham.
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Cartoon Time
Holland Animation Film Festival (HAFF) director Gerben Schermer gets animated with Nick Cunningham.
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Warrior Queen
Suzanne Raes’ The Rainbow Warriors of Waiheke Island was a big hit with audiences at IDFA 2009. The doc feature debutant speaks to Nick Cunningham
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Getting Personal
Nick Cunningham speaks to multi award-winning director Urszula Antoniak
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Singing in Doreen
Director Doreen Boonekamp may be leaving the Netherlands Film Festival (NFF) to head up the Dutch Film Fund but the international outlook that characterised her stewardship over the past nine years seems set to remain.
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… In With the New
In October 2009 IDTV Docs chief Willemien van Aalst will take over from Film-Fund bound Doreen Boonekamp as head of the Netherlands Film Festival. She talks to Nick Cunningham.
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Keeping It In The Family
With CARMEN OF THE NORTH, Dutch feature-debutant Jelle Nesna re-visits ground previously explored by his grandfather Hans in 1919. Nick Cunningham reports.
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Kaisa Chief
‘In this business it is very important to know what your buyer is looking for,’ points out Kaisa Kriek, sales manager at the Dutch sales outfit NPO/RNW. ‘That comes from experience. You must listen very carefully to their needs. You must know what they want and you must know what you have that can fit into their specific categories.’
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Taking a Feature Bow
Danyael Sugawara, whose debut feature ALLES STROOMT (UPSTREAM) will receive its world premiere during Utrecht 2009, is more shaped by international influences than most of his Dutch counterparts.
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Winds of Change
The opening shot of EN UN MOMENTO DADO (2004), Ramón Gieling’s much-heralded documentary about Johann Cruyff’s Barcelona years, suggested the mysterious meteorological context for the director’s TRAMONTANA, that will open the 2009 Netherlands Film Festival.
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Funding Excellence
When, in 1988, Rotterdam Film Festival founder Hubert Bals attended a Cannes breakfast meeting with a young director experiencing problems sourcing money for his new film, neither was aware that the exchange would lead to the founding of arguably the most important funding mechanism for films from emerging territories.
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Rotterdam Man
Rotterdam Media Fund chief Jacques van Heijningen talks to Nick Cunningham about the city’s production output over the past decade and his plans for the future development of Rotterdam’s audiovisual industry.
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Brewing up a Storm
NL Film’s Alain De Levita is looking forward to a blustery September by the sea. He talks to Nick Cunningham about NL Film’s track record and about The Storm, the company’s eagerly-awaited upcoming film.
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We will Rock You!
Graniet Film's Marc van Warmerdam talks to Nick Cunningham about THE LAST DAYS OF EMMA BLANK and the business of working with an illustrious brother.
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Lemming Teetering on the Edge? Far from it!
Amsterdam-based Lemming Film geared up for Cannes 2009 with a co-production in Critics Week and a slate of films ready to roll later in the year. Nick Cunningham speaks to the company’s head of marketing Esther Schmidt.
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Double Vision
Young Dutch filmmaker Jochem de Vries has two reasons to celebrate, following the selection at Cannes of his short films Messen and Trans-Siberian Voices. Nick Cunningham reports.
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Call me European
‘I always wanted to work in fiction, but documentaries kept getting in the way,’ observes producer Carmen Cobos wryly. The Netherlands-based, but Spanish-born, Cobos will be presented as the Dutch ‘Producer on the Move (PoM) during Cannes 2009. Organised by European Film Promotion, the PoM programme is intended to help widen the output, marketability...
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Producer with a Vision
Phantavision co-founder Petra Goedings leaves no room for doubt when explaining her approach to the business of feature film production. 'For me, there has to be a passion, an urge to make each film,' she asserts. 'And every film must be unique. I like to be daring, and so do my filmmakers, daring in the way I finance them, daring in the way...
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Going Public
'Our task as a broadcaster is very much that of a co-producer,' stresses Marina Blok, head of drama at Dutch public broadcaster NPS. 'We get into a project early, not only by helping with finance but by helping with its development. We think a lot about our films.'
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Flying with the Aviatrix
'The recurring scenes in my films concern the power of imagination,' explains Dutch director Ineke Smits who is currently sound-editing her second feature, THE AVIATRIX OF KAZBEK. Set on the Dutch island of Texel during the Second World War, THE AVIATRIX tells the story of Marie, a village girl from a large family, who seizes the chance to...
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Buying and Stelling
As writer, director, producer and exhibitor, Jos Stelling constitutes a one-man vertically integrated industry. Well almost - he has never operated within a distribution capacity. 'Making films and showing them, these are enough,' he stresses. 'Anymore would be too much. You would end up destroying yourself.'
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Toto the Heroine
Multi-tasking Esther Bannenberg of Amsterdam-based consultancy Toto Cinema added a new string to her bow in January 2009 when she became co-owner of the fledgling Lumiere Home Entertainment, the Dutch arm of Belgian distributor Lumiere. Her brief is to oversee the multi-platform release of product within the Dutch marketplace, with theatrical...
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Extra Rinkel
Dutch producer Reinier Selen of Rinkel Film Productions entered 2009 with a spring in his step following the recent decision of fellow Dutch commercials producers Ivo De Jongh and Jack Kuiper to become shareholders within his company. Aside from the roster of commercials talent that the pair can bring to Rinkel, De Jongh and Kuiper also own...
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Time to go Dutch
Netherlands Film Festival chief Doreen Boonekamp looks forward once again to exposing new Dutch cinema to public and professional scrutiny.
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Brief encounter
Director Pieter Verhoeff, whose BRIEF VOOR DE KONING (LETTER FOR THE KING) continues to outperform all other Dutch fare at the Dutch box-office, seems initially non-plussed by the film’s excellent $2million-plus takings to date.
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Getting away with Merger
Producer Frans van Gestel who, with partner Jeroen Beker, merged his Motel Films with leading Netherlands production outfit IDTV Film in 2007, speaks to the Netherlands Film Festival about how things have changed, and how things have remained essentially the same.
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Fund Fare
Dutch Film Fund co-production czar Ger Bouma outlines the conditions for international producers looking to co-produce with The Netherlands.
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Making a Point
High Point Media Group co-founder Ronald De Neef talks to Nick Cunningham about his company's commitment Dutch film and to the annual Holland Film Meeting.
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