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Eight new Dutch-Flemish co-productions supported In the context of the cooperation agreement between the Flemish Audiovisual Fund (VAF) and the Dutch Film Fund, both funds participate annually in feature films, animated films and documentaries that are realized in co-production.

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Foreign distributors fall for D'Ardennen Robin Pront's feature debut D'Ardennen has been sold to a series of new territories including Great Britain, Sweden, Poland and the Netherlands. This is what producer Bart Van Langendonck of Savage Film reports.

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Creative Europe Database online The European Commission has created a results platform for all projects that receive support from the Creative Europe programme, or from the previous Culture and MEDIA programmes. Beneficiaries can add projects themselves after the subsidy contract has been signed.

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10 Film professionals in NRC Culture Top 100 NRC's cultural editorial staff collected data on hundreds of Dutch culture makers. And then asked an expert jury to identify the most influential artists and cultural institutions abroad. The result: the first NRC Culture Top 100.

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On-call training for assistant directors and junior producers FOCAL's eight-day Production Value workshop, which will take place from January 9 to 16, 2015 in Amsterdam, is intended to provide teams of junior producers and assistant directors with tools to budget professionally, create schedules for shooting days and provide creative input to producers and directors.

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Berlinale Co-Production Market deadline approaching Part of the Berlinale is the Co-Production Market. In 2016 it will take place from February 11 to 19. Producers looking for a co-production partner can submit a (feature film) project until October 21, 2015. Producers without a project can also register.

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Consultation about Creative Europe during KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival It CLICK! Amsterdam Animation Festival will celebrate its eighth edition from October 27 to November 1, 2015. You can register for an interview until October 29 at the latest.

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Best European Short Animated Film chosen during Cinekid This year the Cinekid Festival will once again show a selection of the best short European animated films. A jury nominates three films from this selection that have a chance of being declared Best European Short Animated Film.

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New call for support for film festivals The European Commission has published a new MEDIA call for Support for Film Festivals.

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History's Future in competition for Tiger Awards The film History's Future by director and artist Fiona Tan is the first of eight films selected for the 2016 Hivos Tiger Awards Competition at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

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Actor Christopher Plummer wins the Joseph Plateau Honorary Award in Ghent Canadian acting veteran Christopher Plummer has been presented with the Joseph Plateau Honory Award by the management of the Film Fest Ghent in the Ghent town hall. This award honors those who made a special contribution to the art of filmmaking.

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Flemish director Van Passel thinks cinema release is cinema from the last century Frank Van Passel is director and producer at production house Caviar, producer and co-producer of Black, Paradise Trips, Back to Tomorrow, Diary of a Teenage Girl and Le Tout Nouveau Testament. "An initial cinema window of four months is standard: if a film is released in a cinema, it may not be offered on any other platform for the first four months.

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