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Felix van Groeningen directs Hollywood film "Beautiful Boy" Felix van Groeningen has signed a contract to direct the American film "Beautiful Boy". The filmmaker was nominated for the Oscar for best foreign-language film last year. Van Groeningen will shoot the film for the film production companies New Regency and Plan B.

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Flemish film Café Derby selected for American film festival "Café Derby", the feature debut of Lenny Van Wesemael, has been invited to the prestigious Hamptons International Film Festival in New York. The autobiographically inspired story will have its international premiere there, after its world premiere in Ostend.

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Flemish animation talent takes center stage at NFF in They Move, So They Are This edition, on the occasion of the twenty-year celebration of the cultural alliance between the Netherlands and Flanders, the program focuses entirely on our southern neighbors. They proudly and praise present Emily Lefebvre, Pieter Vandenabeele and Simon Lynen.

pzc • 10 j

Springtij wins PZC Prize for best Zeeland film The PZC Prize for the best Zeeland film was awarded on Saturday afternoon to Jeannice Adriaansens for the film Springtij. The PZC Audience Award went to the film Zeeland Suite by Joost Kuiper. The Lions Club Vlissingen Film Award was for The Other Side by Marnix Ruben.

netwerkscenario • 10 j

Prix Fipresci nominations announced During the Oldenburg International Film Festival in Germany, the European Film Academy (EFA) announced the nominations for the European Discovery 2015 – Prix FIPRESCI, an award given annually as part of the European Film Awards to a young director for his first long feature film.

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Significantly fewer visitors for Film by the Sea Film by the Sea attracted significantly fewer visitors this year than in previous years. Festival director Leo Hannewik expected more than 41,000 visitors on Sunday afternoon. That is about 5,000 fewer than last year.

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Winner of the 2015 Visser-Neerlandia Prize for Scenario announced The Visser-Neerlandia Prize for Screenplay 2015 worth 10,000 Euro goes to the Flemish screenwriter An De Gruyter for her film screenplay "Magique Mécanique". They will each receive a prize worth 1666.67 Euro.

filmproducenten • 10 j

FPN Award nominees announced The Film Producers Netherlands Award goes to the best recently graduated producer of 2015. The FPN Award is part of the NFF Student Competition.

pzc • 10 j

'Mustang' and 'Viaje' win Film by the Sea youth awards The film 'Mustang' has won the youth jury prize at Film by the Sea. The international student jury chose 'Viaje'. The youth jury had nominated three films. Besides 'Mustang' these were 'Virgin Mountain' and 'The High Sun'.

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The Bigger Picture wint Cartoon d’Or 2015 The winner of the Cartoon d'Or was recently announced in the French city of Toulouse. This is a prestigious award that is presented every year to the Best Short Animated Film in Europe. Last month, 6 films were nominated from 31 candidates.

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Flemish Audiovisual Fund supports 13 new films The Flemish Audiovisual Fund (VAF) has granted support to 13 films. The best known of these is The Prime Minister, the new print by Erik Van Looy. Actor Mathias Sercu also receives support for his first film script. There is production support for two Flemish films.

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Financing of film project Petit Paris is two-thirds complete Jan Lievens from IJzendijke has now completed two-thirds of the financing of his ambitious film project Petit Paris. The aim is to raise the entire amount of 1.7 million euros in November. “It looks like it will work.

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