Katrin Pors of Denmark’s Snowglobe and Jussi Rantamaki of Finland’s Aamu Film Company are among the 12 producers selected for Ace Leadership Special, the business workshop hosted by the Ace Producers network.
The 2024 edition will take place in Bergen in the Netherlands in June and Mallorca in Spain in September, with online elements over the summer.
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Danish producer Pors produced Hlynur Palmason’s Cannes 2022 title Godland, which became Iceland’s entry for the best international feature award at the 2024 Oscars. Her other credits include Jonas Carpignano’s A Chiara, Dagur Kari...
The 2024 edition will take place in Bergen in the Netherlands in June and Mallorca in Spain in September, with online elements over the summer.
Scroll down for the full Ace Leadership 2024 selection
Danish producer Pors produced Hlynur Palmason’s Cannes 2022 title Godland, which became Iceland’s entry for the best international feature award at the 2024 Oscars. Her other credits include Jonas Carpignano’s A Chiara, Dagur Kari...
- 4/2/2024
- ScreenDaily
The film is directed by Saskia Diesing (Nena) and stars Hanna van Vliet alongside Eugénie Anselin and Anna Bachmann.
Munich-based sales outfit Global Screen has taken world rights to female-driven Second World War drama Lost Transport. The film is directed by Saskia Diesing (Nena) and stars Hanna van Vliet alongside Eugénie Anselin and Anna Bachmann.
Based on a true story, it follows a train with 2,500 Jewish former prisoners aboard leaving the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The train comes to a stop by a German village in the path of advancing Russian troops, with three women forced to pool their resources to survive.
Munich-based sales outfit Global Screen has taken world rights to female-driven Second World War drama Lost Transport. The film is directed by Saskia Diesing (Nena) and stars Hanna van Vliet alongside Eugénie Anselin and Anna Bachmann.
Based on a true story, it follows a train with 2,500 Jewish former prisoners aboard leaving the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The train comes to a stop by a German village in the path of advancing Russian troops, with three women forced to pool their resources to survive.
- 10/12/2021
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Film Producers Netherlands is proud to present its members and their new films and projects. Many of their producers have extensive experience with international co-productions and are always interested in broadening their horizons. New films and projects of producers will be presented at Sundance Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam (see line up) and at the Berlinale (see line up) / Efm in Berlin. Go to meet and contact these producers and find out about Netherlands 35% cash rebate.
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An Original Picture
Joost de Vries
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Joost de Vries
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- 1/24/2019
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Film is a Henry James adaptation with a focus on dance.
Clara van Gool’s The Beast In The Jungle, which will have its premiere at the forthcoming International Film Festival Rotterdam, has been bought for the Us by Juno Films.
Based on the 1903 novella by Henry James, director van Gool has put an emphasis on dance in her interpretation of the epic love story. Dancers Sarah Reynolds and Dane Jeremy Hurst star.
Producers on the project are Hanneke Niens and Hans de Wolf. Dutch artist and filmmaker van Gool co-wrote the script with Glyn Maxwell.
Berlin-based Picture Tree International handles sales.
Clara van Gool’s The Beast In The Jungle, which will have its premiere at the forthcoming International Film Festival Rotterdam, has been bought for the Us by Juno Films.
Based on the 1903 novella by Henry James, director van Gool has put an emphasis on dance in her interpretation of the epic love story. Dancers Sarah Reynolds and Dane Jeremy Hurst star.
Producers on the project are Hanneke Niens and Hans de Wolf. Dutch artist and filmmaker van Gool co-wrote the script with Glyn Maxwell.
Berlin-based Picture Tree International handles sales.
- 1/16/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
The Beast in the Jungle
Dutch director Clara van Gool tackles the Henry James novella The Beast in the Jungle, adapting the text as a dance-based romantic melodrama, stretching the narrative from its 19th century setting to the present. Produced by Hanneke Niens and Hans de Wolf of KeyFilm, with co-production credit for Bady Minck and Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu of Amour Fou Luxembourg, the film is lensed by Richard Van Oosterhout and stars South African choreographer/dancer Dane Jeremy Hurst and Irish dancer Sarah Reynolds. Clara van Gool won an Emmy Award for performing arts for 1996’s Enter Achilles.…...
Dutch director Clara van Gool tackles the Henry James novella The Beast in the Jungle, adapting the text as a dance-based romantic melodrama, stretching the narrative from its 19th century setting to the present. Produced by Hanneke Niens and Hans de Wolf of KeyFilm, with co-production credit for Bady Minck and Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu of Amour Fou Luxembourg, the film is lensed by Richard Van Oosterhout and stars South African choreographer/dancer Dane Jeremy Hurst and Irish dancer Sarah Reynolds. Clara van Gool won an Emmy Award for performing arts for 1996’s Enter Achilles.…...
- 1/1/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Variety has been given exclusive access to the international trailer for Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Clara van Gool’s “The Beast in the Jungle,” which world premieres at the 48th Rotterdam Film Festival.
The English-language dance-based romantic drama, adapted from Henry James’ 1903 novella, will play in Rotterdam’s Limelight section. The film, starring South African choreographer-dancer Dane Jeremy Hurst and Irish dancer Sarah Reynolds, was written by Van Gool alongside British author and poet Glyn Maxwell.
The movie depicts “the mysterious and epic love story” of John Marcher and May Bartram, according to a statement. Van Gool, who won the Emmy Award for performing arts for “Enter Achilles,” described it as “an unconventional love story about a man obsessed with a premonition that he is destined to experience, something great, mind-blowing even, and a woman who decides to wait with him for this to happen.”
The movie, which is being sold by Picture Tree Intl.
The English-language dance-based romantic drama, adapted from Henry James’ 1903 novella, will play in Rotterdam’s Limelight section. The film, starring South African choreographer-dancer Dane Jeremy Hurst and Irish dancer Sarah Reynolds, was written by Van Gool alongside British author and poet Glyn Maxwell.
The movie depicts “the mysterious and epic love story” of John Marcher and May Bartram, according to a statement. Van Gool, who won the Emmy Award for performing arts for “Enter Achilles,” described it as “an unconventional love story about a man obsessed with a premonition that he is destined to experience, something great, mind-blowing even, and a woman who decides to wait with him for this to happen.”
The movie, which is being sold by Picture Tree Intl.
- 11/29/2018
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
September is diversifying into international co-production and sales.
Pim Hermeling’s September Films, one of Benelux’s leading art house distributors, is diversifying into international co-production and sales.
The Amsterdam-based company is setting up its own international sales agent, Nine Film, of which Nelleke Driessen, former MD at Fortissimo, is now managing director. September has also bought a 50% stake in production outfit KeyFilm, run by Hanneke Niens and Hans De Wolf, through which Hermeling would like to co-produce international features. It has also launched its own VOD platform for arthouse films.
“The old-fashioned way of distribution is not making sense any more,...
Pim Hermeling’s September Films, one of Benelux’s leading art house distributors, is diversifying into international co-production and sales.
The Amsterdam-based company is setting up its own international sales agent, Nine Film, of which Nelleke Driessen, former MD at Fortissimo, is now managing director. September has also bought a 50% stake in production outfit KeyFilm, run by Hanneke Niens and Hans De Wolf, through which Hermeling would like to co-produce international features. It has also launched its own VOD platform for arthouse films.
“The old-fashioned way of distribution is not making sense any more,...
- 5/12/2018
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Company sets up own international sales agent, Nine Film.
Pim Hermeling’s September Films, one of Benelux’s leading art house distributors, is to diversify into international co-production and sales.
The company is setting up its own international sales agent, Nine Film, of which Nelleke Driessen, former MD at Fortissimo, is now managing director. September has also bought a 50% stake in production outfit KeyFilm, run by Hanneke Niens and Hans De Wolf, through which Hermeling would like to co-produce international features.
It has also launched its own VOD platform for arthouse films.
“The old-fashioned way of distribution is not making sense any more,...
Pim Hermeling’s September Films, one of Benelux’s leading art house distributors, is to diversify into international co-production and sales.
The company is setting up its own international sales agent, Nine Film, of which Nelleke Driessen, former MD at Fortissimo, is now managing director. September has also bought a 50% stake in production outfit KeyFilm, run by Hanneke Niens and Hans De Wolf, through which Hermeling would like to co-produce international features.
It has also launched its own VOD platform for arthouse films.
“The old-fashioned way of distribution is not making sense any more,...
- 5/11/2018
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Cologne-based sales agent nabs international rights ahead of film’s world premiere in Rotterdam.
Source: Rotterdam Film Festival
‘Anna’s War’
Cologne-based sales agent Media Luna has picked up international rights to Russian director Aleksey Fedorchenko’s Anna’s War ahead of its world premiere in Rotterdam’s Voices sidebar on January 28 and its subsequent screening in Göteborg’s International Competition.
Set in the Soviet Union of 1941, the story centres on the six-year-old Jewish girl Anna who miraculously survives the execution of her whole family by the Nazis and then hides in the disused chimney of the Nazi commander’s office without food or water, in solitude and fear. So begins the struggle for life that lasts for more than two years.
“Anna’s reality is not too far from many children in several countries where they must fight many wars to survive,” Media Luna’s CEO Ida Martins commented.
Anna’s War was...
Source: Rotterdam Film Festival
‘Anna’s War’
Cologne-based sales agent Media Luna has picked up international rights to Russian director Aleksey Fedorchenko’s Anna’s War ahead of its world premiere in Rotterdam’s Voices sidebar on January 28 and its subsequent screening in Göteborg’s International Competition.
Set in the Soviet Union of 1941, the story centres on the six-year-old Jewish girl Anna who miraculously survives the execution of her whole family by the Nazis and then hides in the disused chimney of the Nazi commander’s office without food or water, in solitude and fear. So begins the struggle for life that lasts for more than two years.
“Anna’s reality is not too far from many children in several countries where they must fight many wars to survive,” Media Luna’s CEO Ida Martins commented.
Anna’s War was...
- 1/22/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
First projects announced for initiative aimed at boosting Dutch features and international co-productions.
Six international and five Dutch projects in development, as well as three works-in-progress, have been selected for the first BoostNL programme that kicks off at the Netherlands Film Festival’s Holland Film Meeting in Utrecht (Sept 22-25) and continues through to International Film Festival Rotterdam’s CineMart 2017 (Jan 29-Feb 1).
The initiative, first reported in May, is designed to strengthen market assistance for international projects that have already received support from the Hubert Bals Fund or have previously been presented at CineMart, as well as Dutch projects in development.
Throughout BoostNL, project participants will benefit from ongoing guidance, whether in terms of business planning or creative decision-making, and participants will be encouraged to incorporate inspired feedback into their project.
One-on-one sessions with key international mentors will deliver bespoke festival, sales and marketing strategies that will support the project through all stages of development, from advanced...
Six international and five Dutch projects in development, as well as three works-in-progress, have been selected for the first BoostNL programme that kicks off at the Netherlands Film Festival’s Holland Film Meeting in Utrecht (Sept 22-25) and continues through to International Film Festival Rotterdam’s CineMart 2017 (Jan 29-Feb 1).
The initiative, first reported in May, is designed to strengthen market assistance for international projects that have already received support from the Hubert Bals Fund or have previously been presented at CineMart, as well as Dutch projects in development.
Throughout BoostNL, project participants will benefit from ongoing guidance, whether in terms of business planning or creative decision-making, and participants will be encouraged to incorporate inspired feedback into their project.
One-on-one sessions with key international mentors will deliver bespoke festival, sales and marketing strategies that will support the project through all stages of development, from advanced...
- 8/19/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
English-language adaptation of Dutch bestseller to open Iffr 2016.
Beyond Sleep, the latest feature from Dutch director Boudewijn Koole (Kauwboy), is to open the 45th International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) on Jan 27.
The English-language film is based on Willem Frederik Hermans’ bestselling novel, Nooit meer slapen, and will world premiere on the opening night of Iffr.
Reinout Scholten van Aschat takes the lead role of ambitious geologist Alfred Issendorf, who goes in search of meteorites in the swampy north of Norway, hoping that the journey will cement his academic reputation by uncovering a significant scientific proof.
The young geologist is also trying to continue the work of his father, who died during a similar research trip, and he only finds redemption when he has reached the brink of insanity. The cast also includes Pål Sverre Hagen (Kon-Tiki).
Beyond Sleep is produced by Hanneke Niens and Hans de Wolf (Soof, Nena, Ventoux, Twin Sisters...
Beyond Sleep, the latest feature from Dutch director Boudewijn Koole (Kauwboy), is to open the 45th International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) on Jan 27.
The English-language film is based on Willem Frederik Hermans’ bestselling novel, Nooit meer slapen, and will world premiere on the opening night of Iffr.
Reinout Scholten van Aschat takes the lead role of ambitious geologist Alfred Issendorf, who goes in search of meteorites in the swampy north of Norway, hoping that the journey will cement his academic reputation by uncovering a significant scientific proof.
The young geologist is also trying to continue the work of his father, who died during a similar research trip, and he only finds redemption when he has reached the brink of insanity. The cast also includes Pål Sverre Hagen (Kon-Tiki).
Beyond Sleep is produced by Hanneke Niens and Hans de Wolf (Soof, Nena, Ventoux, Twin Sisters...
- 12/22/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Stephen Page.s innovative debut Spear is one of five nominees for the Unesco award in the 9th Asia Pacific Screen Awards. Adapted from Page.s original work, Spear tells a contemporary Aboriginal story through movement and dance as it follows young Aboriginal man Djali as he journeys through his community to understand what it means to be a man with ancient traditions in a modern world.
The producer is John Harvey, co-produced with Page.s Bangarra Dance Theatre and supported by he Adelaide Film Festival.s Hive Fund. The film had its world premiere in the discovery program at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Determined by the Apsa international jury, the Unesco award recognises outstanding contribution to the promotion and preservation of the cultural diversity through the medium of film.
In previous years the prize-winner was selected from all Apsa-nominated films. For the first time this year, five films...
The producer is John Harvey, co-produced with Page.s Bangarra Dance Theatre and supported by he Adelaide Film Festival.s Hive Fund. The film had its world premiere in the discovery program at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Determined by the Apsa international jury, the Unesco award recognises outstanding contribution to the promotion and preservation of the cultural diversity through the medium of film.
In previous years the prize-winner was selected from all Apsa-nominated films. For the first time this year, five films...
- 10/5/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Biff co-founder and honorary director Kim Dong-ho has been appointed as president of the international jury for this year’s Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Apsa).
Kim will be joined on the jury by award-winning Bangladeshi filmmaker Mostofa Sarwar Farooki; director/writer/curator and Beijing Film Academy Professor, Zhang Xianmin; Malaysian writer-director U-Wei Bin Hajisaari; Russian writer-director Alexei Popogrebsky; and Iranian actress Negar Javaherian.
Attending a joint Apsa, Unesco, Mpa reception in Busan, Kim announced the nominations for the Apsa Unesco Award, presented annually for outstanding contribution to the promotion and preservation of cultural diversity through the medium of film.
In previous years, all Apsa-nominated films were eligible for the award, while this year a shortlist of five films has been nominated.
The five nominated films are:
Miaoyan Zhang for A Corner Of Heaven (China, France) – produced by Miaoyan Zhang, Guillaume de Seille.
Ella Manzheeva for The Gulls (Russia) – produced by Elena Glikman, Yaroslav Zhivov...
Kim will be joined on the jury by award-winning Bangladeshi filmmaker Mostofa Sarwar Farooki; director/writer/curator and Beijing Film Academy Professor, Zhang Xianmin; Malaysian writer-director U-Wei Bin Hajisaari; Russian writer-director Alexei Popogrebsky; and Iranian actress Negar Javaherian.
Attending a joint Apsa, Unesco, Mpa reception in Busan, Kim announced the nominations for the Apsa Unesco Award, presented annually for outstanding contribution to the promotion and preservation of cultural diversity through the medium of film.
In previous years, all Apsa-nominated films were eligible for the award, while this year a shortlist of five films has been nominated.
The five nominated films are:
Miaoyan Zhang for A Corner Of Heaven (China, France) – produced by Miaoyan Zhang, Guillaume de Seille.
Ella Manzheeva for The Gulls (Russia) – produced by Elena Glikman, Yaroslav Zhivov...
- 10/4/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
See poster and images from Bride Flight, starring Waldemar Torenstra, Karina Smulders, Anna Drijver, Elise Schaap, Rutger Hauer and Pleuni Touw. Ben Sombogaart directs from the screenplay by Marieke van der Pol. The drama is produced by Anton Smit & Hanneke Niens and opened this weekend. Bride Flight is a lavish romantic drama that charts the lives of three women who escape the gloom of post-wwii Holland for what they hope will be a better life in New Zealand. Ada, the shy but sensual farm girl, Marjorie, who dreams of a big family, and Esther, a Holocaust survivor who aspires to be a fashion designer, become fast friends...
- 6/12/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
See poster and images from Bride Flight, starring Waldemar Torenstra, Karina Smulders, Anna Drijver, Elise Schaap, Rutger Hauer and Pleuni Touw. Ben Sombogaart directs from the screenplay by Marieke van der Pol. The drama is produced by Anton Smit & Hanneke Niens and opened this weekend. Bride Flight is a lavish romantic drama that charts the lives of three women who escape the gloom of post-wwii Holland for what they hope will be a better life in New Zealand. Ada, the shy but sensual farm girl, Marjorie, who dreams of a big family, and Esther, a Holocaust survivor who aspires to be a fashion designer, become fast friends...
- 6/12/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
See poster and images from Bride Flight, starring Waldemar Torenstra, Karina Smulders, Anna Drijver, Elise Schaap, Rutger Hauer and Pleuni Touw. Ben Sombogaart directs from the screenplay by Marieke van der Pol. The drama is produced by Anton Smit & Hanneke Niens and opened this weekend. Bride Flight is a lavish romantic drama that charts the lives of three women who escape the gloom of post-wwii Holland for what they hope will be a better life in New Zealand. Ada, the shy but sensual farm girl, Marjorie, who dreams of a big family, and Esther, a Holocaust survivor who aspires to be a fashion designer, become fast friends...
- 6/12/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
AMSTERDAM -- Dutch producers Hanneke Niens (ex IdtV Film) and Hans de Wolf (ex Egmond Film and Television) have created production banner KeyFilm, based in Utrecht.
Working mainly with Dutch filmmakers, projects include a Dutch-Japanese co-production of director Threes Anna's novel “The Silent City, ” about a lonely European in Tokyo and an adaptation of Henry James' novel “The Beast in the Jungle, ” directed by Clara van Gool and co-produced by KeyFilm, London-based Illuminations Films and the Irish Film Board.
Working mainly with Dutch filmmakers, projects include a Dutch-Japanese co-production of director Threes Anna's novel “The Silent City, ” about a lonely European in Tokyo and an adaptation of Henry James' novel “The Beast in the Jungle, ” directed by Clara van Gool and co-produced by KeyFilm, London-based Illuminations Films and the Irish Film Board.
- 4/29/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
AMSTERDAM -- Two leading Dutch independent film and television production companies Motel Films and IDTV Film are joining forces.
The companies will work together under the name IDTV Film. Both parties plan to make film and television drama for the Dutch and foreign market under the IDTV banner.
The name Motel Films will remain a label for art movies, while drama output will be absorbed by IDTV Film.
Negotiations for the merger began this year, and Jeroen Beker and Frans van Gestel of Motel Films said it was necessary in order to grow.
Motel Films recently co-produced Paul Verhoeven's "Black Book" and the current Dutch hit "Love Is All".
IDTV, the company behind the Oscar-nominated "Twin Sisters" and Ben Sombogaart's "Bride Flight", is looking for "further artistic continuity for the film company" and aims to expand its drama output as a result of the collaboration.
The new management consists of Beker and van Gestel, under which Anton Smit maintains his position as independent creative producer.
IDTV's Hanneke Niens has opted not to join the new collaboration and will pursue a career as an independent producer.
The companies will work together under the name IDTV Film. Both parties plan to make film and television drama for the Dutch and foreign market under the IDTV banner.
The name Motel Films will remain a label for art movies, while drama output will be absorbed by IDTV Film.
Negotiations for the merger began this year, and Jeroen Beker and Frans van Gestel of Motel Films said it was necessary in order to grow.
Motel Films recently co-produced Paul Verhoeven's "Black Book" and the current Dutch hit "Love Is All".
IDTV, the company behind the Oscar-nominated "Twin Sisters" and Ben Sombogaart's "Bride Flight", is looking for "further artistic continuity for the film company" and aims to expand its drama output as a result of the collaboration.
The new management consists of Beker and van Gestel, under which Anton Smit maintains his position as independent creative producer.
IDTV's Hanneke Niens has opted not to join the new collaboration and will pursue a career as an independent producer.
- 11/29/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
CANNES -- Miramax Films executive vp acquisitions and co-productions Agnes Mentre said Monday that the mini-major had sealed a deal to acquire North American rights to Dutch Helmer Ben Sombogaart's epic feature "Twin Sisters" (De Tweeling). The film is based on the novel "Twins" by Tessa De Loo and tells the story of German twin sisters who are separated with one being raised in Holland and the other remaining in rural Germany. The sisters' lives take very different turns until they meet again 40 years after World War II. "Twins" was a bestseller in Holland and Germany with more than 3.5 million readers. De Loo's book was originally published in the Netherlands in 1993 and is the author's first to have been translated into English. "Twin Sisters" was written for the big screen by Marieke van der Pol and stars Thekla Reuten, Nadja Uhl, Ellen Vogel, Gudrun Okras, Jeroen Spitzenberger, and Roman Knizka. Anton Smit and Hanneke Niens produced.
- 5/20/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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