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Hall of Fame
Dutch filmmaker Norbert ter Hall is currently on location in Brussels shooting &ME, produced by Phanta Vision’s Petra Goedings. He speaks to Nick Cunningham.
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Move On Up
Amsterdam-based producer Trent has been chosen as the Netherlands’ Producer on the Move at Cannes 2012. He talks to Nick Cunningham.
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Frank Talk
After serving his production apprenticeship at leading Dutch production houses IJswater Films and Talent United young producer Frank Hoeve is setting up his own company, BALDR Film. He speaks with Nick Cunningham
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Steering Column
Early on in the process, when the financiers and co-producers of the feature film GOOISCHE VROUWEN were determining whether or not to continue with the production, they all sat down together to discuss its prospects. One of those present was co-producer Column Film's Gijs van de Westelaken. Nick Cunningham reports.
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Youth Pitch
At the 2011 Netherlands Production Platform Dutch director Ineke Houtman picked up the Cineco Digital Post Production Award*, valued at €5,000, for her project Thomas and the Book of Everything. She talks to Nick Cunningham.
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Horn Exchange
It's a story that begins at the end - kind of. Nick Cunningham talks to Menna Laura Meijer about KYTEMAN: NOW WHAT?, her documentary about Colin Benders, the prodigal son of Dutch jazz.
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Full Focus Ahead
On the eve of the 24th Holland Film Meeting the event’s new director Signe Zeilich-Jensen was in optimistic mood as she assessed the four days of pitching, workshopping and networking to come.
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Who’s Bos?
It is the production house par excellence for quality family and children’s film, but at the 2011 NPP Bos Bros is pitching HEINZ, an animated project with a little more sauce. Producer Ruud van der Heyde talks to Nick Cunningham.
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The A-Team
A-Film is one of the Netherlands’ most successful distributors with a demonstrable commitment to the release of Dutch films. It is also an avowed fan of the Netherlands Film Festival. The company’s head of theatrical, Dennis van den Berg, talks to Nick Cunningham
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Leader of the Gang
THE GANG OF OSS, produced by veteran Dutch producer Matthijs van Heijningen, has been chosen to open the 2011 Netherlands Film Festival. The producer talks to Nick Cunningham.
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Double Life
He is one of the producers of THE DEVIL’S DOUBLE, one of the Benelux’s most successful film sales exports, and for the last four years he has been overseeing the Images for the Future project to digitise the majority of Dutch cinematic output since the invention of the medium. Producer Emjay Rechsteiner of Dutch production outfit Staccato...
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Ximon Says
The launch of pay-per-view website Ximon.nl means that Dutch audiences can view more and more titles from Holland’s illustrious audiovisual past. Nick Cunningham talks to company md Marc Jurgens
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The New Kids Return
After the success of Turbo, the New Kids are going Nitro. Director Steffen Haars talks to Nick Cunningham
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Interview Nanouk Leopold - Berlin Movement
Nanouk Leopold’s BROWNIAN MOVEMENT received its long-anticipated European premiere at Berlinale 2011. The director talked to Nick Cunningham about the choice of Berlin, and about her next project IT’S ALL SO QUIET.
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Interview Gamila Ylstra - No Stranger to the job
She may be only a couple of months into the job, but Gamila Ylstra knows more than most how the Binger works, having been instrumental in its foundation in 1996. She talks to Nick Cunningham.
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Interview Sander Verdonk - The Sky's the limit
Producer/director team Sander Verdonk and to Marinus Groothof picked up the 2010 NPP Kodak Development Prize for their Belgrade-based project THE SKY ABOVE US. Sander Verdonk of Amsterdam’s LEV Pictures talks to Nick Cunningham about the project’s origins and where he plans to go from here.
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Interview Lotte Verbeek - Lotte Success
Following the success of Urszula Antoniak’s multi award-winning NOTHING PERSONAL (2009), Dutch actress Lotte Verbeek has had a stellar year. She took time off from shooting on Neil Jordan’s Showtime epic THE BORGIAS to talk with Nick Cunningham.
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Interview Bero Beyer - Land Ahoy
Together with screenwriter and director Jan-Willem van Ewijk, Augustusfilm’s Bero Beyer pitched the project LAND at the 2009 Netherlands Production Platform, picking up the Kodak Development NPP Prize in the process. How has the project progressed since then? He tells Nick Cunningham.
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Ode to Joy
Mijke de Jong’s JOY may not have seen substantial box-office returns in 2010 but was nevertheless a critical and, for the director, a personal success. She speaks with Nick Cunningham
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More than Skin Deep
Esther Rots hit the ground running in 2009 with her critically-acclaimed drama CAN GO THROUGH SKIN. how has the experience prepared her for a career behind the camera? She talks to Nick Cunningham.
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Game On
Dutch auteur David Verbeek’s R U THERE, a film about gaming in the virtual world, received the nod for Cannes 2010, where it screens in Un Certain Regard. He speaks to Nick Cunningham
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A Woman Goes to Cannes
Ahead of Cannes 2010 Hans de Weers, Eyeworks’ Managing Director of Film and TV Drama, talks to Nick Cunningham about one of this year’s most successful Dutch titles.
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Commercial Break
Oscar-winning director Marleen Gorris was invited earlier this year to assume consultant responsibilities for the Dutch mainstream film sector. She speaks with Nick Cunningham.
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Statement of Intent
In March 2010 Frank Peijnenburg was charged with the task of sourcing and funding art-house production excellence during his two-year term as intendant for the Netherlands Film Fund. He speaks with Nick Cunningham
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Getting With The Programme
Netherlands Film Festival programmer Herman de Wit is busier than most right now as he builds the programme for the 30th anniversary edition of the festival in September 2010. He talks to Nick Cunningham
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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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