The Netherlands Film Festival is the central, most extensive meeting place for professionals from all corners of the Dutch audiovisual industry. Within the framework of the festival, the annual Holland Film Meeting builds and expands bridges between the Dutch and international worlds of film, TV, and digital storytelling.

HFM opportunities

Projects in different stages of development from the Netherlands and far beyond can apply for the creative development part of the HFM. Projects are eligible if they are of feature-length (fiction, documentary, animation), unless they are projects of digital or interactive storytelling (for which no length requirement exists); and if they are fit for international co-production and collaboration. The programme is shaped like a multiple-week creative lab. It consists of plenary workshops, one-to-one expert meetings, and other events geared towards your project’s creative deepening and marketplace potential. It starts ahead of the actual film festival and the Holland Film Meeting, and its duration and focus are different depending on the scheme the project has been selected for New Dutch, BoostNL and Stories & Beyond.

HFM during the festival

In light of world events, and in keeping with our festival’s ecological mission, the annual gathering of industry professionals from the Netherlands and the rest of the world will once again take place in an online context in 2021.

During the final weekend of the Netherlands Film Festival, around the festive announcements of our annual Golden Calf winners, the three-day programme for invited industry professionals will consist of pitch presentations of our projects in selection, one-to-one meetings, daily industry talks (our renowned “boat sessions”), and a funky final awards ceremony for the projects in development.