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Open Call Incentive Fund South by Southwest 2016 The Creative Industries Fund NL is calling on makers from the e-culture, film and game industries to submit a proposal aimed at the 'Interactive' or 'Digital Domain' program components of the South by Southwest festival (SXSW) 2016.

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Fines for secretly watching probably won't happen that quickly The chance that users of Popcorn Time or other illegal viewing services will soon receive a fine in the mail is small. They are not eager to deliver their customers.

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Leidseplein theaters raise tens of thousands of euros for refugees Theaters and stages around Leidseplein in Amsterdam will donate their proceeds to the Dutch Council for Refugees on Wednesday. More than 36,700 euros have already been raised during the evening.

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Dutch Filmworks takes over Sneekweek from A-Film Dutch Filmworks takes over the distribution of the film Sneekweek. Due to the bankruptcy of A-Film, Sneekweek temporarily had no distributor. Dutch Filmworks announced this on Wednesday. Producer Klaas de Jong signed the distribution agreement this week.

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Helmond filmmaker has a budget of 2.5 million euros through favors and donations The shooting for the feature film Olaf and the Hidden Gate is in full swing. Mike Versteegh started making this film with a modest budget. But thanks to favors and gifts from friends, companies and governments, he now has a budget of 2.5 million euros.

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50 years of 3FM: the VPRO on the pop channel The national pop station was successively called Hilversum 3, Radio 3, Radio 3FM, 3FM, and is now called NPO 3FM. It wasn't just the name that changed; the patchwork became a streamlined station, but the author's radio has disappeared. Five insiders talk.

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Amsterdam theaters donate daily proceeds to refugees Today, a large number of Amsterdam theaters are making the proceeds of their programming available to Vluchtelingenwerk Nederland.

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Dutch Filmworks wants to tackle Popcorn Time users The Dutch film distributor Dutch Filmworks has plans to claim damages from individual Dutch Popcorn Time users. The distributor confirms this to NOS. People can watch films and TV series without paying via Popcorn Time.

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Submarine receives TV production support The results of the Support for TV Programming call have been announced. Submarine receives a contribution of €83,000 for the Amazon documentary, Laws of the Jungle. A total of 103 projects were submitted, of which 28 were selected for a total amount of € 7,084,475.

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Success of Dutch film thanks to female audience What has been said for years about the magazine and book market also appears to apply to Dutch film. The audience is largely female. Of all tickets sold for Dutch films in 2014-2015, 74% were paid for by women.

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New European Commission call for support for Selective Distribution The European Commission has published a new call for Support for Selective Distribution within the Creative Europe programme/MEDIA with the aim of promoting transnational distribution of European films.

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Kijkwijzer adjusts inspection of The Maze Runner II: The Scorch Trials Kijkwijzer has adjusted the age rating for the film The Maze Runner II: The Scorch Trials, which is now showing in cinemas. The film had a Kijkwijzer rating of twelve years and older, but that has now been changed to sixteen years and older.

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