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nu.nl • 6 j

Second season for Videoland series Mocro Maffia The crime series Mocro Mafia will receive a second season, the makers of the series announced on Monday. It is not known when the new series will be shown.

nu.nl • 6 j

Banker of the Resistance and Dutch animated short films do not go to Oscars The Dutch entry for the Academy Awards is no longer in the running for an Oscar. Banker of the Resistance was not on the shortlist of the ten candidates for best foreign-language film. The two Dutch short films that were submitted also did not make it.

parool • 6 j

Club Egzotik stops, Koolhoven gets a new stage Film Institute Eye is ending the monthly film program Cinema Egzotik, in which programmer Ronald Simons and Martin Koolhoven drew attention to strange and obscure gems from film history.

spreekbuis • 6 j

Pornhub Annual Review 2018 in Highlights For the sixth time, the world's most popular porn site Pornhub has published an annual overview of its users. The largest international porn platform has reached a new high in 2018. Pornhub was visited 92 million times every day.

ad • 6 j

Writer Soeteman distances himself from Paul Verhoeven's film about a lesbian nun Writer Gerard Soeteman is already distancing himself from Benedetta, the new film that director Paul Verhoeven is currently making from his screenplay. That's why he had his name removed from the credits.

ad • 6 j

Polish film Cold War big winner at European Oscars The Polish black-and-white film Cold War, about a love couple that has been followed for decades during Poland's turbulent history since the 1950s, was the big winner at the European Oscars tonight in Seville, Spain.

plotmagazine • 7 j

Diversity and the stories we want to tell as makers Diversity. Whether you like it or not, the concept appears everywhere in society. Also when it comes to film and drama. NPO board chairman Shula Rijxman believes it is one of the reasons for the existence of the public broadcaster, she said in NRC Handelsblad.

filmfonds • 7 j

World premiere Dirty God by Sacha Polak opens the 48th IFFR Dirty God by Dutch filmmaker Sacha Polak (Hemel, Zurich), produced by Marleen Slot (Viking Film), opens the 48th edition of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) on Wednesday evening, January 23, 2019.

wildgeraas • 7 j

Column Dick Maas: Action! Dick Maas wrote the minutes of a meeting of Concerned Filmmakers with the subject: 'Saving Dutch Film Culture'

broadcastmagazine • 7 j

Documentary competition KRO-NCRV: chance to win 125,000 euros KRO-NCRV 2Doc is looking for surprising, cinematographic documentary films with the perspective of 'the other as enemy'.

nu.nl • 7 j

Dutch and British actors in Netflix series Letter for the King The cast of A Letter To The King, the Netflix adaptation of Letter for the King, has been announced. In addition to a number of British actors, Dutch actors Yorick van Wageningen and Gijs Blom also play roles in the film adaptation of Tonke Dragt's book.

broadcastmagazine • 7 j

Pieter Lossie wins European Film Prize Pieter Lossie, a student at Utrecht's Minkema college, won first prize in the animation category at the European Film Festival Camera Ziziano 2018, which took place in Greece. It is the largest and most important film festival for young people in Europe.

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