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denachtvlinders • 9 j

Horror author HP Lovecraft celebrated with film and concept art Last Thursday marked the 125th anniversary of Howard Phillips Lovecraft's birth in Providence.

filmtotaal • 9 j

First titles of the French-language Film Festival announced The International Festival of French Language Film (FIFF) is preparing to celebrate its 30th edition from October 2 to 9, 2015. On Friday, October 2, the festival will open with Prejudice.

1limburg • 10 j

Maastricht is getting a cross-border documentary festival Under the name DocFest, the first cross-border documentary festival will take place in Maastricht on September 18 and 19. Around the Sphinxkwartier there are workshops, debates, mini cinemas and a free open-air film.

mediacourant • 10 j

Popcorn Time is a threat to new media such as Netflix Popcorn Time poses an increasing threat to on-demand services such as Netflix and Videoland. Young people in particular use the free but illegal on-demand service a lot. This is evident from a study by the Dutch agency SAMR.

mediadesknederland • 10 j

Mediadesk places planning subsidy calls The Executive Agency (EACEA) in Brussels recently published the (provisional) planning of the Creative Europe/MEDIA grant calls. The grant calls are divided into the following subgroups: Producers, Distribution & Exhibition, Training, Promotion and Festivals and Funds.

mediadesknederland • 10 j

Macedonia joins Creative Europe, Ukraine is a candidate Following the entry of Moldova, Georgia and Turkey with partial access to Creative Europe's MEDIA sub-programme (and full access to the Culture programme), Macedonia has had full access to the MEDIA sub-programme since 28 July 2015.

denachtvlinders • 10 j

Dutch horror 'Kristen' premieres at the Dutch Film Festival Last night, director Mark Weistra posted the trailer of his Dutch horror film 'Kristen' online with the announcement that it will premiere at the Dutch Film Festival on September 28. Mark Weistra's Dutch horror film stars Terence Schreurs, Ronald Top and Poal Cairo.

nu • 10 j

Number of Dutch Netflix subscribers doubled in one year The number of Dutch Netflix subscribers has almost doubled in one year. More than 1.1 million people now have a subscription. Netflix now has 1.17 million Dutch subscribers. A year ago there were 'only' 620,000.

tv-visie • 10 j

An Rydant becomes creative director at production house Marmalade An Rydant will become creative director at the Ghent production house Marmalade from September 2015. An thus joins the rapidly growing production house, known for, among others. 'The Escape' and 'Keet and Koen, and the search for Bassie & Adriaan'.

skiinformatie • 10 j

Seventh edition of Freeride Film Festival announced On October 30, WePowder will organize the seventh Freeride Film Festival. Once again, the Tuschinski in Amsterdam will be transformed into a freeride heaven for Dutch and Belgian skiers and snowboarders.

standaard • 10 j

Ghent presents nominations for Film Composer of the Year Alexandre Desplat, Bruno Coulais, Michael Giacchino, Johann Johannsson and Hans Zimmer have a chance to win the title 'Film Composer of the Year' at Film Fest Ghent in October. The World Soundtrack Academy announced this today.

animatieblog • 10 j

Dutch animated film Otto has its world premiere in Toronto The Dutch animation trio Job, Joris & Marieke will present Otto next month. This is a new short animated film that was written, directed, produced and composed at the studio in Utrecht.

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