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emerce • 9 j

'VR is still in the era of silent films' Virtual Reality, in combination with Augmented Reality, offers new possibilities for telling stories. At SXSW in Austin, someone said that with VR film we are in year two of silent film."

destadutrecht • 9 j

'Jos Stelling tries everything to maintain his monopoly position' According to filmmaker and entrepreneur Jos Stelling, city cinema De Kade is being favored by the municipality of Utrecht at the expense of his own plans for the City cinema. VVD municipal councilor André van Schie wants to debate this with Stelling.

brusselnieuws • 9 j

Festival for Dutch-language film founded in Belgium From October 8 to 11, the Dutch-language film festival Cinema Bioscoop will take over Cinéma Galeries. The focus of the first edition of the festival, which wants to put Dutch and Flemish film in the spotlight, is on arthouse films.

bndestem • 9 j

Breda filmmaker Joost Seelen stops producing Breda filmmaker Joost Seelen stops producing films. He announced this during the Dutch Film Festival in Utrecht. One of his productions won a prize during that festival. Seelen says that his company, Zuidenwind Filmproductions, is actually weighed down by its success.

deredactie • 9 j

Razor Reel Flanders Film Festival is shrinking The Razor Reel Flanders Film Festival (RRFFF) in Bruges is shrinking from a ten-day event to a six-day event. The film festival is therefore divided into six festival days, but with almost as many films as before.

trouw • 9 j

Chantal Akerman was a world-class filmmaker (column) Ger Groot in his column about Chantal Akerman: "I believe I have only seen one film by the Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman. But that has stayed with me all my life. 'Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles' was 1975 like a stone in the water.

nu.nl • 9 j

Belgian director Chantal Akerman has passed away Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman died on Tuesday in Paris at the age of 65. Brussels-born Akerman is considered a extrahead of European experimental film of the 1970s and 1980s.

vaf • 9 j

Our City nominated for Les Magritte du Cinema Our City by Maria Tarantino is one of the 10 documentaries nominated for Les Magritte du Cinéma, the French-language film awards in our country.

mediadesknederland • 9 j

Creative Europe publishes two new grant calls The Executive Agency of the Creative Europe/MEDIA program in Brussels published two new calls for grants: A call for support for the development of an Individual project and a call for support for a television production.

mediadesknederland • 9 j

European survey on geo-blocking and online platforms The European Commission has published two public consultations.

mediadesknederland • 9 j

Deadline EAVE Marketing Workshop 8 oktober The EAVE Marketing Workshop is a practical workshop working with projects in different phases of development (from early development to post-production) for which innovative strategies for marketing and international distribution are developed.

entertainmentbusiness • 9 j

Just Media Group strengthened with creative director and COO Niels Houtepen has joined Just Media Group as creative director. In addition, Dennis van den Berg has been appointed as COO Film & TV. Niels Houtepen will focus on the development of new content for the group as a whole.

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