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2024: FREE FALL- Bregt Pepijn Verhagen
2023: MESTER MURI - Kristen Dania & Ralph Winedt

Best Live Pitch Award

2024: GET UP STAND UP - Mari Sanders
2023: HER NAME WAS LABONI - Claudio Montesano Casillas & Loretta van der Horst

Emerging Cinema Award

2022: I'LL NEVER BE A COP (NUNCA SERÉ POLICÍA) - Carolina Moscoso & Camila José Donoso
2021: FLAT GIRLS - Jirassaya Wongsutin & Pom Bunsermvicha & Noorahaya Lahtee
2020: HOLY ELECTRICTY - Tato Kotetishvili & Irakli Metreveli & Tekla Machavariani
2019: THE STATION - Sara Ishaq & Nadia Eliewat
2017: THE WHOLE - Timers van Bibhusan Basnet & Pooja Gurung
2017: LIFE AFTER ZORO - Raf Reyntjens
2016: TEHRAN, CITY OF LOVE - Ali Jaberansari
2016: THE RELIGION OF NIGHT WALKS - Nikola Nikola Ležaic
2015: APPLE OF MY EYE - Yaron Shani
2015: UNKNOWN FAMILY - Ron Termaat
2015: SUMMER 1993 - Carla Simón
2014: GAMEOVER - Olena Fetisova
2014: I WANT TO BE LIKE YOU - Konstantin Bojanov
2014: A SHINING FLAW - Erwin Olaf
2013: HEARTSTONE - Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson
2013: MONK - Ties Schenk
2012: EUROPE'S BORDERLAND - Jakob Preuss
2012: J. KESSELS - Erik de Bruyn
2012: KNUCKLES' LAST TAPE - Jos de Putter
2011: KORSO - Akseli Tuomivaara
2011: METRO - Marcel Visbeen
2011: THOMAS AND THE BOOK OF EVERYTHING - Ineke Houtman
2011: WHISPERING CLOUDS - Meikeminne Clinckspoor
2010: THE SKY ABOVE US - Marinus Groothof
2009: ATLANTIC. - Jan-Willem van Ewijk
2008: SHOCKING BLUE - Mark de Cloe
2007: MILO - Berend en Roel Boorsma
2006: DOOD MEISJE - Elbert van Strien. Claudia Brandt
2005: WHITE WOMEN - Reinier Selen, Edwin van Meurs, Melinda Jansen
2004: POL & LOT - Maria Uitdehaag, Jacqueline de Goeij en Ruud van der Heyde
2003: WHEN NIGHT FALLS - Ineke Houtman, Jan van der Zanden & Wilant Boekelman
2002: CALIMUCHO - Eugenie Jansen & Stienette Bosklopper

2020: ANOUSCHKA - Tamara Shogaolu
2019: I DON'T WANNA DANCE - Flynn von Kleist & Jeroen Scholten van Aschat

Sponsored by Intermission Film

2022: PÈNC 13 - Selly Raby Kane
2021: SHOW UP - Andrew Brukman

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2017: LA CAMA - Monica Lairana
2016: IN BLUE - Jaap van Heusden
2016: MORMAÇO - Marina Meliande,
2015: A QUIET PASSION - Terence Davies
2015: UPSTREAM - Marion Hänsel
2014: DUST CLOTH - Ahu Öztürk
2014: PARADISE TRIPS - Raf Reyntjens
2013: EUROPE'S BORDERLAND - Jakob Preuss
2013: ATLANTIC. - Jan-Willem van Ewijk

2022: ANTON DE KOM - I SHALL BE HEARD - Philip Delmaar & Raoul de Jong, Edson da Conceicao
2021: LOST SONGS OF DISTANT REALMS - Kiro Russo
2019: MARINA – Laís Santos Araújo & Pethrus Tibúrcio, Nara Aragão & João Vieira Jr.

• Deep Love
  Feature fiction film | advanced script stage
  Director: Sophie Dros
  Screenwriter: Emily Reekers
  Producer: Paula van der Oest, Sunny Pictures
  

• Free Fall
  Feature fiction film | advanced script stage
  Director/screenwriter: Bregt Pepijn Verhagen
  Producer: Fleur Knopperts and Denis Vaslin, Volya Films
  

• Get Up Stand Up
  Feature fiction film | pre-production
  Director/screenwriter: Mari Sanders
  Producer: Ineke Kanters and Lisette Kelder, The Film Kitchen
  Co-producer: Dries Phlypo, A Private View
  
  
• Hêvi
  Feature fiction film | advanced script stage
  Director/screenwriter: Reber Dosky and Emily Reekers
  Producer: Annemiek van Gorp and René Goossens, De Productie
  

• Look Like Jackie
  Feature documentary film | research stage
  Director/screenwriter: In-Soo Radstake
  Producer: Nadadja Kemper, Holland Harbour Entertainment BV
  

• Paradiso
  Feature fiction film | pre-production
  Director/screenwriter: Martijn Maria Smits
  Producer: Wout Conijn, Conijn Film
  Co-producer: Marc Goyens, Quetzalcoatl

• Alles komt goed (Everything Will Be Fine)- Belgium, Netherlands
  Director and screenwriter: Marcel Visbeen
  Producer: Annemiek van Gorp, René Goossens (De Productie)
  
• Stairway to Earth - Netherlands
  Director and screenwriter: Finn Szumlas
  Producer: Edwin Goldman (Goldman Film & Phanta Film)
• An Other Green World - Netherlands
  Director and screenwriter: Jesse van der Kolk
  Producer: Jelmer Wristers (No End Cinema)
• Porte Bagage - Netherlands
  Director and screenwriter: Abdelkarim El-Fassi
  Producer: Asma El-Fassi, Karim Mrabti (Zouka)
• Mester Muri - Curaçao, Spain
  Director: Kristen Dania
  Screenwriters: Kristen Dania, Ralph Winedt
  Producer: Kristen Dania
• Her Name Was Laboni - Bangladesh, Netherlands
  Director and screenwriter: Claudio Montesano Casillas
  Producer: Loretta van der Horst
  
• 24 Strong - Belgium, Netherlands
  Director and screenwriter: Rieneke van Santen
  Producer: Kristian van der Heyden (Harald House), Rieneke van Santen (Dendezo Productions)
• Boni - Netherlands, Belgium, Suriname
  Directors: Edson da Conceiçao, Timo Ottevanger
  Screenwriter: Tessa Leuwsha
  Producer: Emjay Rechsteiner (Staccato Films)

• A Hellfighters Odyssey - NL
  Directors: Yvonne van Ulden, Gavin-Viano Fabri
  Screenwriter: Yvonne van Ulden
  Producer: Michiel Snijders (il Luster)
• Gay Simulator - NL
  Director and screenwriter: Iris van der Meule
  Producer: Corine Meijers (Studio Biarritz)
• Moeder Suriname - NL, SR
  Director and screenwriter: Tessa Leuwsha
  Producer: Pieter van Huystee (Pieter van Huystee Film)
• Ni una más - NL
  Director and screenwriter: Julia Louisa Hollander
  Producers: Guido Jeurissen (Rauwkost Film), Herman Slagter (Riverpark Films)
• Sketchy Fables - NL
  Director, screenwriter and producer: Alle Jong
• The Best Time - AW
  Director, screenwriter and producer: Rebecca Roos
• Walking Fish - NL, USA
  Director and screenwriter: Nathan Saucier
  Producer: Firat Sezgin (Institute of Time)

Selections of 2021

• Descending the Mountain
  Director: Maartje Nevejan
• Femi
  Director and Screenwriter: Dwight Fagbamila
• The Miracle Basket
  Director: Abner Preis
• Swipe
  Director: Mieke Gerritzen

Selections of 2020

• • Anouschka
    Director: Tamara Shogaolu
    Screenwriter: Sandy Bosmans & Elinor Vanderburg
    Production: Jamari Perry, Tamara Shogaolu & Marcela Stolzmann
    
  • Apollo
    Director: Aaron Rookus (The Idyll & Other Exotics was part of BoostNL 2019-20; directed a Gouden Kalf winner. Een goed leven, 2015, nominated for Dutch Directors Guild Award in 2018)
    Screenwriter: Wander Theunis
    Producer: Laurette Schilings
    
  • BLACK PETE, OR: How I Found My True Self And Accidentally Unleashed A Race War
    Screenwriter: Ashar MedinaDirector: Gonzalo FernandezProducer: Ashar Medina, Gonzalo Fernandez & IJswater Films (NL)
    
  • Candy
    Screenwriter and Director: Carin Goeijers
    Producer: Sanne Cousijn & Camiel Zwart
    
  • Exhibit #8
    Director: Ruben Broekhuis (Exhibit #8 is Ruben’s feature debut)
    Screenwriter: Sarah Offringa
    Producer: Monique van Kessel
  • The Man From Rome
    Director: Jaap van Heusden
    Screenwriter: Rogier de Blok
    Producer: Marc Bary
    
  • Nosferatu Reanimated
    Director and Screenwriter: Erik van Schaaik
    Producer: Ate de Jong
    
  • Paradise
    Director and Screenwriter: Wout Malestein
    Producer: Aydin Dehzad
  • Under the Naked Sky
    Director and Screenwriter: Lilian Sijbesma (this script won the 2018 Visser-Neerlandia Award for Best Screenplay of the Netherlands and Flanders)
    Producer: Germen Boelens & Kirsi Saivosalmi

• Er Tin Tin
  Feature fiction film | early script stage
  Screenwriter/director: Abigail Prade
  

• The Familiar
  Feature fiction film | early script stage
  Screenwriters: Jochum ten Haaf and Micha Alexander
  Director: Matthijs van Heijningen
  Producer: Alain de Levita, Dark Alley Pictures
  

• The Granddaughter
  Feature fiction film | early script stage
  Screenwriter/director: Nafiss Nia
  

• The Streak, the Muse and the Envy
  Feature fiction film | early script stage
  Screenwriter: Linda de Veer
  Director: Dennis Nap
  Producer: Linda de Veer, Fundashon di Kurason
  
  
• Self Tape
  Feature fiction film | early script stage
  Screenwriter/director: Urszula Antoniak
  Producer: Steven Rubinstein Malamud and Sacha Gertsik, GROM Productions

• .Nevel (Curtain) - Netherlands
  Director and screenwriter: Herbert Alfonso
  Producer: Jonathan Smiths (Cabon Content)
• Meet Jimmy - Netherlands, Belgium
  Director: David-Jan Bronsgeest
  Screenwriter: Tim Koomen
  Producers: Tim Koomen (Broodrave)
• The Thief's Mantra - Netherlands
  Director and screenwriter: David Verbeek
  Producer: Wout Conijn (Conijn Film)
• Keelin's Return - Netherlands
  Director and screenwriter: Erik de Bruyn
  Producer: Rianne Poodt (The Rogues)
• Lily - Netherlands
  Director: Jan Doense
  Screenwriter: Nathalie Pagie
  Producers: Annemiek van der Hell (Windmill Film)

• Ami ta Kòrsou - CW
  Screenwriter: Elizabeth Francisco
  Producers: Sulin F. S. Passial, Anton de Bies, Jermain Lo (Pantalla Chica Productions)
• Anton de Kom - I Shall be Heard - NL
  Director: Edson da Conceicao
  Screenwriters: Philip Delmaar, Raoul de Jong
  Producers: Marc Bary, Nicky Onstenk (IJswater Films)
  Co-producers & initiators: Vincent Berkleef & Ray Blinker (Tulsa Studio’s)
• FRIWIL - CW
  Director and screenwriter: Tittel Del Mar
  Producer: Michel Drenthe (Caribbean Filmcom)
• Gouverneur de Goijer - SR
  Director, screenwriter and producer: Ivan P. Tai-Apin (It Goes Productions)
• Het Excuus - SR
  Director: Suleigha Winkel
  Screenwriters: Suleigha Winkel, Bryan Blinker
  Producer: Noémie Vilchez
  Co-producers: Sulin Passial (Pantalla Chica Productions), Dino Kapel (Chaquel Productions), Josscy Aartsen (Film TOKO)
• La isla inútil - AW
  Director, screenwriter and producer: Raydrick Feliciana
• PBM Enterprise - SR
  Director: Rafael Chan Pin Jin
  Screenwriter: Hilkia Lobman
  Producer: Aegina Brahim (Craftameleon N.V i.o)
• Sinned Martin - SX
  Director: Peter Sagnia
  Screenwriters: Tony Hendriks, Gilian Royes
  Producer: Peter Sagnia (Peter Sagnia Films B.V)
• Killabees - NL
  Director and screenwriter: Eché Janga
  Producer: Derk-Jan Warrink (Keplerfilm)

Selections of 2021

• Mata Hari
  Director: Paula van der Oest
• Plantation Wildlust
  Director: Hesdy Lonwijk
• Shiny New World
  Director: Jan van Gorkum
• Collapse
  Director: Damien Faure
• A Good Girl
  Director: Maxime Kathari
• Tunis-Djerba
  Director: Amel Guellaty
• Galeo of the Seawalkers
  Director: Andra Fembriarto
• The Silent Path Director: Yonri Revolt
• 13th Year
  Director: Silas Miami
• Chance Encounters Director: Naomi van Niekerk
• Show Up
  Director: Andrew Brukman
• Cursed Circus: Sweet Vengeance of A Tale Teller
  Director: Fajar Nugros

Selections of 2020

• The Clock (NL)
  Screenwriter: Reinier Smit, based on an original script by George Sluizer & Nick Fisher
  Producer: Anouk Sluizer
• Dakar (NL)
  Director: Tim Oliehoek
  Screenwriter: Alexander de Bruijn
  Producer: Kaja Wolffers
  
• Good Enough: Burnout Diary (NL)
  Director: Dario van Vree
  Screenwriter: Eveline Hagenbeek, Dario van Vree
  Producer: Tünde Vollenbroek
  
• Mengelberg (NL)
  Director and Screenwriter: Annette Apon
  Producer: Digna Sinke & Hugo Naber
  
• Monument (Germany)
  Director and Screenwriter: Christoph Rainer
  Producer: Maximilian Haslberge
• Roxy (Germany)
  Director: Joachim Massanek
  Screenwriter: Katharina Reschke
  Producer: Oliver Schütte
• Sirens Call (Germany)
  Director and Screenwriter: Miriam Gossing & Lina Sieckmann
  Producer: Claus Reichel
• Darlington Academy (Ireland)
  Screenwriter: Sarah-Kate Fenelon
• Lima 616 (Ireland)
  Director: Martin Stalker
  Screenwriter: Colin Weldon
  Producer: Jules Charlton
• Oileán (Ireland)
  Screenwriter: Deborah Grimes
• Outside the Family (Ireland)
  Director: Miro Mirko Mastropasqua
  Screenwriter: Roberto Scarpetti & Miro Mirko Mastropasqua
  Producer: Anniina Kankaansivu
• Brutes (UK)
  Director and Screenwriter: Lucy Brydon
  Producer: Jessie Mangum
• This Is Home (UK)
  Screenwriter: Silas Parry
  Producer: Gill Parry

Selections of 2019

• Below (UK)
  Screenwriter: Aaron Gray
  Director: Paul Skillen
  Producer: Louise Gallagher (Gallagher Films)
• Burma Roots (UK)
  Screenwriter: Charlotte Scott-Wilson
  Director: Charlotte Scott-Wilson
  Producer: Hannah Price (Fable Pics)
• Heineken in Afrika (UK)
  Screenwriter: Olivier van Beemen
  Producer: Mike Chamberlain
• For the Record (België)
  Screenwriter: Andrew van Ostade
  Director: Michael van Ostade
  Producer: Tomas Leyers (Minds Meet)
• Making Plans for Oscar (België)
  Screenwriter: Brian Windelinckx
  Director: Brian Windelinckx
  Producer: Xavier Rombaut (Polar Bear)
• Blaosmuziek (Nederland)
  Screenwriter: Sophie van de Pol, Paul Jan Nelissen
  Director: André van Duren
  Producer: Felix van Gisbergen
• The Waste Land (Nederland)
  Screenwriter: Chris Teerink
  Director: Chris Teerink
  Producer: Joost Verheij, Frank van Reemst (DocEye)
• Truly Naked (Nederland)
  Screenwriter: Muriel d’Ansembourg
  Director: Muriel d’Ansembourg
  Producer: Isabella Depeweg, Els Vandevorst (Isabella Films)
• The Secret Life of Penny Fletcher (Nederland)
  Screenwriter: Martijn de Jong
  Director: Diederik Koopal
  Producer: Derk-Jan Warrink (Kepler Film)

• Jasmine - Netherlands
  Director: Mischa Kamp
  Screenwriter: Kate Brown
  Producer: Loes Komen, Eva Verweij (Room for Film)
• Clockwork Universe - Netherlands
  Director and screenwriter: Cindy Jansen
  Producer: Iris Lammertsma, Boudewijn Koole (Witfilm)
• Awa - The sea between us- Curaçao, Netherlands
  Director: Shamira Raphaëla
  Screenwriter: Roelof Jan Minneboo
  Producers: Michel Drenthe, Robin Amatmoester (Caribbean Filmcom N.V.)
• A Tied Woman - Peru
  Director and screenwriter: Olivia Manrufo, Miguel Angel Moulet
  Producer: Katitza Kisic (El Navegante Films)
• Cold Ashes Can Cause Forest Fires- France, India
  Director and screenwriter: Ashmita Guha Neogi
  Producer: Avantika Singh Desbouvries (Salt For Sugar Films)
• Mi papá el camion- Colombia
  Director and screenwriter: María Cristina Pérez
  Producer: Mauricio Cuervo Rincón (Pez Dorado Animaciones)

• Cameron & How to Never Outshine a Bride and Other Futilities In A Life and Death Situation - NL
  Director and screenwriter: Wiebe van den Ende
  Producer: Reinier Selen (Rinkel Film)
  
• Elephants in the Fog - NP
  Director and screenwriter: Abinash Bikram Shah
  Producer: Anoup Poudel (Underground Talkies Nepal)
• Grushka - NL
  Director and screenwriter: Marta Parlatore
  Producer: Denis Vaslin (Volya Films)
• I´ll Never Be a Cop - CL
  Director and screenwriter: Carolina Moscoso
  Producer: Camila José Donoso (Transparaiso)
• On the Edge of the Lake - NL
  Director and screenwriter: Hyo Soon Kaag
  Producer: Chris Stenger (Family Affair Films)
• Pènc 13 - SN, ZA
  Director and screenwriter: Selly Raby Kane
  Producers: Tamsin Ranger, Steven Markovitz (Big World Cinema)
  Co-producer: Selly Raby Kane (Lunek Productions)
  
• Quatro Meninas - BR
  Director: Karen Suzane
  Screenwriter: Clara Ferrer
  Producer: Marcello Ludwig Maia (República Pureza Filmes)
• The Part of the Day When You’re Not Here - NL
  Director and screenwriter: Nicole Jachmann
  Producers: Loes Komen, Eva Verweij (Room for Film)

Selections of 2021

• Becoming Dubois
  Director and screenwriter: Joost van Hezik
• A Chronicle From Nagorno-Karabakh
  Directors: Ibrahim Karatay, Janneke Pol
• Flat Girls
  Director: Jirassaya Wongsutin
• Lost Songs of Distant Realms
  Director: Kiro Russo
• Nightsong
  Director: Maya Da-Rin
• The Right Answer
  Director and screenwriter: Mariia Ponomarova
• A Winner Is Seen At The Start
  Director: Zhannat Alshanova

Selection of 2020

• A Flying Character
  Director and Screenwriter: Martina Juncadella
  Producer: Julieta Juncadella
  
• Holy Electricity
  Director and Screenwriter: Tato Kotetishvili
  Producer: Irakli Metreveli (Zango Studio), Tekla Machavariani (Nushi Film)
  
• Jacob's Way
  Director: Eelko Ferwerda
  Screenwriter: Froukje Tan
  Producer: Joram Willink & Maaike Neve
  
• The Malstrom
  Director: Teddy Cherim
  Screenwriter: Kim Kokosky Deforchaux
  Producer: Marten van Warmerdam
  
• Marina
  Director and Screenwriter: Laís Santos Araújo & Pethrus Tibúrcio (Aguda Cinema)
  Producer: Nara Aragão & João Vieira Jr.
  
• Marionettes
  Director and Screenwriter: Arianne Hinz
  Producer: Ibrahim Karatay & Reinier Selen
  
• The Settlement
  Director and Screenwriter: Mohamed Rashad
  Producer: Hala Lotfy (Hassala Films)
  Co-producer: Caracteres Productions (FR)
  
• Wood
  Director: Flynn von Kleist
  Screenwriter: Matthijs Bockting
  Producer: Guusje van Deuren

Selections of 2019

• The Dumped (De afvalligen)
  Scenario: Malu Janssen & Joeri Kloppert
  Regie: Malu Janssen
  Producent: IJswater Films
• Figures in the Urban Landscape
  Scenario: Ekaterina Selenkina
  Regie: Ekaterina Selenkina
  Producent: Vladimir Nadein
• From Guiné (De Guiné)
  Scenario: Caroline Leone
  Regie: Caroline Leone
  Producent: Vulcana Cinema
• The Great Orator
  Scenario: Daniel Ernst
  Regie: Daniel Ernst
  Producent: Submarine Channel
• Groundswell
  Scenario: Ian Bruce
  Regie: Daniel Bruce
  Producent: New Amsterdam Film Company
• The Idyll & Other Excotics (De idylle & andere exoten)
  Scenario: Aaron Rookus
  Regie: Aaron Rookus
  Producent: Studio Ruba
• Rapture (Rimdogittanga)
  Scenario: Dominic Sangma
  Regie: Dominic Sangma
  Producent: Anna Films
• The Station
  Scenario: Sara Ishaq & Nadia Eliewat
  Regie: Sara Ishaq
  Producent: Nadia Eliewat
• The Unknown Filmmaker Who Wants To Go To Space
  Scenario: Mauro Colombo
  Regie: Mauro Colombo
  Producent: Apertura Films

Read the interviews of 2019

Selections of 2018

• THE LAST RIDE OF THE WOLVES
  scenario: Alberto De Michele & Simone de Rita
  regie: Alberto De Michele
  producent: HALAL Pictures (Nederland)
• METHUSALEM
  scenario: Bastiaan Kroeger
  regie: Floor van der Meulen
  producent: Keplerfilm (Nederland)
• MR. K
  scenario & regie: Tallulah Schwab
  producent: The Film Kitchen (Nederland)
• WHEN WE LOST TO THE GERMANS
  scenario: Bas Blokker & Guido van Driel
  regie: Guido van Driel
  producent: Family Affair Films (Nederland)
• LA HIJA DE TODAS LAS RABIAS
  scenario & regie: Laura Baumeister
  producent: Tanacatana Films/Pomme Hurlante Pictures (Nicaragua/Frankrijk)
• THE NEO-NEW ADVENTURES
  scenario & regie: Qiu Jiongjiong
  producent: Little Reunions Culture and Media Co., Ltd. (China)
• EL ROSTRO DE LA MEDUSA
  scenario & regie: Melisa Liebenthal
  producent: Gentil (Argentinie)
• TIGER STRIPES
  scenario & regie: Amanda Nell Eu
  producent: Ghost Grrrl Pictures (Maleisie)

Selection of 2017

• BABY, director: Marcelo Caetano (Brazil)
• EL AZUL BAJO SUS PIES, director: Isabel Lamberti (the Netherlands)
• THE HAGUE HILTON, director: Boris Paval Conen (the Netherlands)
• LIFE ON MARS, director: Michiel van Erp (the Netherlands)
• NASIR, director: Arun Karthick (India)
• THE STRANGER, director: Zhengfan Yang (China)
• LA VACA QUE CANTÓ UNA CANCIÓN SOBRE EL FUTURO, director: Francisca Alegría (Chile)
• LA CAMA, Monica Lairana (Argentina)
• NOCTURNE, Viktor van der Valk (the Netherlands)
• DER UNSCHULDIGE, Simon Jaquemet (Switzerland)

Tom van Blommestein (producer), Chris Stenger (producer), Ashgan El-Hamus (writer - director), Aiman Hassani (writer - director)

Stefanie Kolk (director), Sharif Abdel Mawla (director), Rogier Kramer (producer), Maaike Neve (producer)

Rosanne Pel (director), Max de Wolf (producer), Sven Bresser (director), Julia Rombout (producer)

Shady El-Hamus (director), Thessa Meijer (director), Loes Komen (producer), Randy Vermeulen (producer)