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animatieblog • 9 j

Lumière releases new animated film by Michael Dudok de Wit The Red Turtle is something new in several ways. This will be the first full-length animated film by Dutchman Michael Dudok de Wit, who won an Oscar for his short cartoon Father and Daughter.

nu.nl • 9 j

Henny Vrienten creates soundtrack for Belgian film Henny Vrienten and Triggerfinger will create the soundtrack for the new film Say Something Funny by Belgian director Nic Balthazar. Vrienten has previously worked with Nic Balthazar. In 2012 he composed the music for his film Tot Altijd.

vaf • 9 j

Lili in competition at BFI London Film Festival The short film Lili by director An van Dienderen is one of the 12 films competing for the new Short Film Award at the 59th BFI London Film Festival. In addition to Lili, the short Flemish films Black and Empire will also be shown in London.

vice • 9 j

VICE looking for directors to pitch VICE Netherlands will celebrate its tenth anniversary next year and is therefore issuing a Call for Entry. VICE exists as a magazine, an online magazine and recently in your cinema with Prins. Ideas can be submitted until October 16 at talent.vice.com.

detijd • 9 j

VRT unions shut down radio and television The VRT TV and radio channels will not be able to broadcast their normal programs on Tuesday morning. The public broadcaster's unions say they will ensure that nothing can be heard or seen between six and ten o'clock. This mainly has consequences for Ketnet.

filmfonds • 9 j

Film Fund participant panel at Busan Film Festival During the upcoming Busan International Film Festival, at the Asian Film Market, the Film Fund will participate in the panel 'Film Fund Talk'.

mediadesknederland • 9 j

Call to action against cuts Creative Europe On September 15, in the presence of the Council and the Culture & Education Committee, the budget for the Creative Europe 2016 work program will be voted on. However, a budget of €14.8 million has been reserved for the cross-sectoral Guarantee Facility for 2016.

mediadesknederland • 9 j

French CNC launches international co-production fund With the help of the Creative Europe/MEDIA program, the French CNC has created a subsidy scheme with the aim of promoting the international distribution of films in the production phase.

spitsnieuws • 9 j

Bassie and Adriaan receive Lifetime Achievement Award in Ostend Children's heroes Bas and Aad van Toor received a Lifetime Achievent Award at the Ostend Film Festival yesterday. They received the prize for their contribution to Dutch-language television. The statue is practically never awarded to foreigners.

vaf • 9 j

Black nominated for Discovery Award in Toronto Last night, the makers received confirmation that Black is among the five nominees for the new Dropbox Discovery Award, which is chosen by a three-person jury of film professionals from the 30 films presented in Toronto's Discovery program.

elsevier • 9 j

The bitter battle for the favor of filmgoers The number of cinema visitors is increasing, but the number of theaters is increasing even faster. In Utrecht, both mega cinemas and film houses are moving. Apparently, Dutch cinemas are doing well. There were 31 million cinema visitors in 2014.

newsmonkey • 9 j

New film Michaël R. Roskam announced: La Fidèle Matthias Schoenaerts and Adèle Exarchopoulos star in the next film by the Belgian director Michael R. Roskam, whom we met with Rundskop. This was followed by the wonderful The Drop, with Tom Hardy and the late James Gandolfini in his very last role.

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