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Antoinette Beumer joins RTL Director and writer Antoinette Beumer joins RTL / Videoland as Creative Producer Fiction. She will be affiliated with RTL for the next six months and if the collaboration goes well on both sides, she will return after the shoot of her film 'My father is a plane'.

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Women win prizes at IFFR The International Film Festival Rotterdam presented a prize list exclusively for women on Friday evening in De Doelen. The sultry-light road film Take Me Somewhere Nice by the Bosnian Dutchman Ena Sendijarevic received the jury prize.

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Rotterdam Film Festival attracts fewer visitors The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) attracted 327,000 visitors during its 48th edition this year. That is slightly less than the 329,000 visitors a year ago, the organization said.

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Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision shows Dutch satire The new exhibition 'Seriously funny' in Sound and Vision in Hilversum shows that the Dutch satire tradition is particularly rich.

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Flemish branch Eyeworks is launching a fiction series for Instagram The Flemish department of Eyeworks, part of Warner Bros., is working on a fiction series for Instagram. Instaverliefd should go live on March 19. It is the first fiction series created specifically for Instagram.

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Michael Roskam again directs an American film about a controversial ex-soldier Michaël R. Roskam, the director of Le Fidèle and Rundskop, will direct Prince of War, based on the life of the controversial ex-Navy SEAL Erik Prince.

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Filmhuis Ermelo wants to take root in 2019 After a cautiously positive first year, the Filmhuis in Ermelo is entering the year of truth. It must then become clear whether Ermelo is structurally enthusiastic about it. The first five films are now back on the docket.

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The failed premiere of a megalomaniac film and art project Last weekend, the long-awaited film and art project by Russian director Ilya Khrzhanovsky premiered in Paris. But what was announced with much fanfare as the event of the year fell completely short. However, within half an hour, half of the visitors have left.

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VPRO Big Screen Award to Transnistra by Anna Eborn Transnistra by the young Swedish director Anna Eborn has won the VPRO Big Screen Award 2019 during the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The documentary will therefore be broadcast by the VPRO on NPO 2 next year.

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Score from Junkie XL is released Milan Music will release Tom Holkenborg's score for Alita Battle Angel on February 5, 2019. Alita Battle Angel is the latest film from director Robert Rodriguez (Planet Terror, Sin City, Deperado 2). The film is based on the popular manga comic by Yukito Kishiro.

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'Films with women in leading roles are more financially successful' A new study appears to counterbalance the old belief that films starring men are the most popular among cinema audiences.

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Documentary maker Marina Meijer in conversation with Cineville Marina Meijer's graduation film, the short documentary Cargo, was about an oil rig in the middle of the North Sea. Before that she made Water on Shore, a short film about a young skipper's son at a reformed skipper's boarding school. A conversation with the filmmaker.

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