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nu • 10 j

Dutch 'American Pie' film in the making Commercial director Willem Gerritsen will make his cinema debut next year with Renesse, a comedy. Gerritsen is currently working on the screenplay with his brother Dirk and Gerben Hetebrij (GTST).

broadcastmagazine • 10 j

North Holland and Hilversum media editors will work together The editorial staff of RTV NH, RTi Hilversum and HilversumsNieuws will immediately work more closely with each other. Knowledge and content are exchanged and, where necessary, joint journalistic productions are set up.

broadcastmagazine • 10 j

Also Summer Guests in Wall of Fame Sound and Vision The portrait of Peter van Ingen was unveiled on Wednesday afternoon in the Wall of Fame of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. With the Honorary Silver Nipkow Disc awarded last year, Zomergasten is now also immortalized in this monument.

moviescene • 10 j

EYE honors director Michelangelo Antonioni with an exhibition From September 12 to January 17, 2016, EYE will focus on Antonioni (1912-2007), one of the greatest film innovators of the last century. The exhibition shows how Antonioni renewed the film language by thinking from the image and less from the story.

rtlnieuws • 10 j

Dutch cinema films are not that popular at all Of the current top 20 most visited cinema films in the Netherlands, eight are homegrown films. But the film at the top of the list, Jurassic World, grossed 1.8 million euros last week, all other 19 films together only 1.5 million. Dutch film is not doing well at all"

animatieblog • 10 j

Lessons from art director François Moret The highlight of this year's Holland Animation Film Festival was a seminar on the design of animated feature films. Below is a list of the most striking lessons he gave to the audience. He gave the audience a number of interesting comments.

mediadesknederland • 10 j

Two more moments to request Eurimages co-productions Mediadesk Netherlands has announced that Eurimages has the next two deadlines for submitting applications in 2015, namely August 25 and October 20. By the date of submission, half of the funding must be confirmed for each of the co-producing countries.

volkskrant • 10 j

Top composer Guo Wenjing filmed by Frank Scheffer A Chinese singer who overwhelms the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ in Amsterdam with her painted face, flowing gestures and screeching voice, is a diva from the Sichuan province. She is a sporan and is called Shen Tiemei.

filmfestival • 10 j

Incredible Film acquires Mountain Road sales operations As of July 1, Danielle Raaphorst (Incredible Film) will take over the international film sales activities from Sjef Scholte (Mountain Road Entertainment Group). Danielle Raaphorst and Sjef Scholte have been working together since 1997.

efp-online • 10 j

Film Joost van Ginkel selected by EFP European Film Promotion (EFP) selected six new European films that could be attractive to the American market, including The Paradise Suite by Joost van Ginkel. "In the Dutch-Swedish-Bulgarian co-production, The Paradise Suite, director Joost van Ginkel interweaves a story of six people in a complex and ruthless society: both a raw and poetic praise of human strength for survival." The six films will be shown during the annual Industry Screenings in New York.

cinekid • 10 j

Nienke Poelsma new head of Cinekid for Professionals Nienke Poelsma will be the new head of Cinekid for Professionals. She previously worked at CineMart (IFFR) and succeeds Fleur Winters, who in turn will work as a producer at Lemming Film.

cinekid • 10 j

Cinekid organizes Script LAB Cinekid Script LAB is a four-month script training for writers with a children's film project. Seven projects will be selected for this second edition (2015-2016). The deadline is July 1, 2015.

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