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see-nl • 6 m

Hot Docs: ‘Nice Ladies’ van Mariia Ponomarova Ukrainian director Mariia Ponomarova, based in the Netherlands, discusses her new documentary "Nice Ladies", which portrays a group of competitive cheerleaders aged 50 and over in Kharkiv.

broadcastmagazine • 6 m

SPLASH! Film Festival conducts fun protest action The SPLASH! Film Festival in Friesland has launched a creative campaign in response to not receiving a €15,000 subsidy from the Province of Friesland due to a bureaucratic error: their project plan was 607 words too long.

plotmagazine • 6 m

Bringing characters to life The Academy Awards will introduce a new category for Best Casting in 2025, a perfect time for Plot to interview casting director Marina Wijn.

plotmagazine • 6 m

Animation requires a different way of writing Fabie Hulsebos, an experienced screenwriter-producer-director with more than forty years of experience in the film profession, has written a feature film scenario for the first time for the animated film "Fox and Hare save the forest" by Mascha Halberstad.

filmkrant • 6 m

Without a trace, it is back in cinemas 36 years later The classic psychothriller "Spoorloos" by George Sluizer, based on "The Golden Egg" by Tim Krabbé, returns to cinemas in a restored version 36 years after the original release.

see-nl • 6 m

Hot Docs: 'Liefjes' by Anneke de Lind van Wijngaarden and Natalie Bruijns In "Liefjes", a documentary by Anneke de Lind van Wijngaarden and Natalie Bruijns, the lives of three Dutch teenage girls during their summer holidays at a French campsite are examined.

broadcastmagazine • 6 m

KRO-NCRV youth series Broodje Aap gets a second season The KRO-NCRV youth series Broodje Aap, created by Niek Roozen and produced by Stepping Stone, is getting a second season.

see-nl • 6 m

Dutch line-up for Hot Docs The 2024 edition of the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, running from April 25 to May 5, will screen several Dutch documentaries.

broadcastmagazine • 6 m

NL Film makes Costa!! - the series for Netflix NL Film and Interstellar Pictures, which previously produced the successful feature film Costa!! produced, now bring Costa!! - the series to Netflix.

see-nl • 6 m

Animations on the way to Stuttgart Three Dutch animated films will be shown at the Stuttgart Trickfilm International Animated Film Festival in Germany, which runs from April 23 to 28. "Panda Bear in Africa" by Karsten Kiilerich & Richard Claus, has its world premiere in the Anifilm Kids section.

spreekbuis • 6 m

New Medical Center West series settles in the former Gooi Noord hospital in Blaricum The former Tergooi hospital in Blaricum, previously known as Gooi Noord, will be given a new function as a recording location for the popular television series 'Medisch Centrum West'.

nu • 6 m

Book Tegen de Stroom by son Gerrit Jan Heijn is being filmed as a television series The debut novel "Against the Current" by Dennis Heijn, son of former Ahold CEO Gerrit Jan Heijn, is being adapted into a series. The story follows four friends who kidnap the son of an oil company CEO to force the company to stop extracting fossil fuels.

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