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adformatie • 9 j

Owner of NRC starts Mindshakes platform for Millennials Mediahuis Nederland starts the new Mindshakes platform. Text and photography, but also documentary, film, infographic, quote card or cartoon are used for the stories. A new guard of journalists, filmmakers, copywriters, photographers and illustrators tell the stories.

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Company Rolling Dutchman supplied Chrysler J. Kessels The Oldenzaal company Rolling Dutchmen of entrepreneur Marco Kleijssen and his partner René Schippers supplied a Chrysler New Yorker for the film J.Kessels, by director Erik de Bruijn. The sale of the New Yorker did no harm to Marco Kleijssen.

volkskrant • 9 j

A Flemish analysis of the Calf Gala You get to know a culture by watching its elite during a gala evening. That is why Flemish journalist Tim F.

deredactie • 9 j

Belgian director wins British Film Festival prizes The film "Couple in a hole" by Tom Geens, a Belgian director who lives and works in Great Britain, has won the main prize at the British film festival in Dinard in Brittany. "Couple in a Hole", a British-French-Belgian co-production, is Geens' second feature film, after "Menteur" from 2008.

noordhollandsdagblad • 9 j

Director of award-winning Sint film 'not surprised' The film attracted 250,000 visitors in the cinema and was therefore not the favorite for the audience award. It was more in line with expectations that Michiel de Ruyter (700,000 visitors) or Gooische Vrouwen II (2 million visitors) would win the prize.

rtlnieuws • 9 j

Film with Rifka Lodeizen wins prize in Tuscany Jochem de Vries' psychological thriller Cornea wins the top prize for best film at the Fiorentino International Independent Film Festival (MIIFF) in the Italian province of Tuscany. In addition, leading actor Juda Goslinga wins the prize for Best Actor.

filmfonds • 9 j

Development of children's and youth film The Film Fund and MDM (Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung) established a new co-development fund at the beginning of 2015 to jointly support the script development of original children's and youth film plans.

movieinsiders • 9 j

MovieInsiders dedicates podcast to Dutch film The MovieInsiders podcast travels to the Dutch Film Festival together with film journalist Nico van den Berg from MovieScene. The three present their top 5 best Dutch films, review J. Kessels and wonder why we complain so much about the Dutch film climate.

telegraaf • 9 j

Shortcutz organizes an auction of film attributes An auction of special paraphernalia from Dutch film hits will take place on Thursday at the Dutch Film Festival. The auction will take place on Thursday evening in TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht and is free for everyone. The proceeds go to Shortcutz Amsterdam itself.

telegraaf • 9 j

Amnesty International occupies NFF for Oleg Sentsov Amnesty International will campaign for the Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov at the Dutch Film Festival in Utrecht.

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New association of Professional Feature Film Entrepreneurs founded Producers Klaas de Jong and Bernard Tulp are the initiators of a new association for film producers. The direct reason is the difference of opinion regarding the policy of Film Producers Netherlands (FPN) regarding the fight against piracy.

haarlemsdagblad • 9 j

Interview with animator Piet Kroon about the film adaptation of Heinz Heinz had its peak in the 1990s. As a result, many young people do not know the cynical cat. “With this crowdfunding we also wanted to see whether the comic strip is still popular.

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