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Two International Co-productions supported by HBF-plus Film projects from OAK Motion Pictures and Viking Film have been selected in the 2014 autumn round of Hubert Bals Fund Plus. OAK Motion Pictures co-produces John Trengove's The Wound (South Africa) and Viking Film co-produces Felipe Guerrero's Oscuro Animal (Colombia).

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Four awards of refuge for novice screenwriters The Dutch Film Fund has awarded four screenplay development contributions of €7,500 in the context of the Free Space scheme for novice screenwriters.

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Cinekid FilmSpel nominated for Dutch Game Award With the FilmSpel, Cinekid has been nominated for a Dutch Game Award in the category “Best Serious Game”. The Film Game teaches children in a playful way how animated films are made. Creativity and technology come together in a unique way.

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Dutch Delights at animation festival KLIK! Animation festival KLIK! will take place in Amsterdam from 4 to 9 November. place. Every year a special program, Dutch Delights, shows a selection of the best Dutch animated films from the past two years. There are short films, TV series and commercials to see.

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The Hague comes up with another 'broadcasting monstrosity' If the public broadcaster had been a company, it would have already perished in the chaos, argues Fons van Westerloo. Hague chaos, that is. "Public broadcasters once started dividing the scarce air space among the various political or confessional movements.

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Winners of Cinekid Festival 2014 announced The 2014 Cinekid audience and jury awards in the categories film, television and new media were presented in Amsterdam on Friday evening. The opening film of the festival, Life according to Nino, was chosen by the jury as Best children's film.

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ACCUSED Dutch entry Academy Award Dutch feature film Accused, directed by Paula van der Oest, has been chosen as the official entry from the Netherlands to the Academy’s Best Foreign Language Film Award. In 2002 Zus&Zo was nominated but did not win.

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Bas van der Ree assigned as Netherlands Film Commissioner From July 1 2014 Bas van der Ree (1957) will head the Netherlands Film Commission, a new division of the Netherlands Film Fund. The simultaneous launch marked an integrated approach to the positioning of The Netherlands as a viable international production partner.

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