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De Storm wins an american award

Posted in News by Amrita Kraakman in August 2010

NEW YORK - The Dutch film De Storm by director Ben Sombogaart has won a prestigious price this weekend on the Stony Brook Filmfestival in New York. This has been reported by the producer Alain De Levita representing NL Film on Monday.

The film about the 18-year old mother (Sylviak Hoeks) who loses her child during the flood of 1953, was presented during the opening screening of the festival. Producer De Levita and Hoeks were present at the screening.

The "Award for Outstanding Achievement In Filmmaking" won by the film consists of a small sculpture. The Stony Brook Festival wants to give more exposure to the foreign-language films in the US. The film "Bride Flight" by Sombogaart has also been screened at the festival.

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Richting West new project

Posted in News by Arjan Eekels in March 2010

We have been taking on a new project. It's called Richting West, Director is Nicole van Kilsdonk who recently did Sekjoeritie (which aired just last Tuesday) with us. Jeroen de Bruin is DOP. Producer is Keyfilm. Pic will be shot on 35mm2perf, shooting starts next Tuesday. We will do one-light dailies, data scanning en grading in Cinema Scratch. George Balatoni is grading with Jeroen first 3 weeks of July. The film will be released in cinema's by A-Film end of 2010.

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ANNIE MG new hit series

Posted in News by Arjan Eekels in January 2010

The television series ANNIE MG, showing the curious life of the famous Dutch writer Annie M.G. Schmidt, has been an success. Since it started airing beginning of January it reached a enormous amount of people. The first episode broadcasted on January the 3rd reached 933.000 viewers and the second episode broadcasted on January the 10th jumped over that magic number: 1.005.000 viewers. The third episode broadcasted on January the 17th got 699.000 viewers in front of the telly. We did all vfx and color correction work on ANNIE MG.
ANNIE MG can be seen every Sunday 20.10 on Nederland 2.
www.anniemg.nl

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