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SXSW Sydney Headliners

Experimental music film “Pavements” and offbeat comedy “Nightbitch” are among five titles designated as ‘headliners’ of the film section on the upcoming SXSW Sydney festival.

“Pavements,” which premiered in Venice, is an experimental hybrid of narrative, scripted, documentary, musical, and metatextual elements from director Alex Ross Perry about the indie rock outfit, Pavement.

“Nightbitch,” which debuted in Toronto, is a darkly comedic fairy tale about a stay-at-home mother, portrayed by Amy Adams, who transforms into a dog.

Others getting the gala treatment include Max & Sam Eggers’ new A24 horror “The Front Room,” starring pop star Brandy as a newly-pregnant woman facing off against her mother-in-law; “Smile 2,” by Parker Finn; and Jason Reitman’s “Saturday Night,” based on the true story of what happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes leading up to the first broadcast of “Saturday Night Live.”

“These bold, hilarious, captivating and thrilling films...

Italy’s TorinoFilmLab, the international film and TV series incubator linked to the Torino Film Festival, has unveiled the nine projects selected for its 2024 SeriesLab workshop dedicated to fostering production of innovative TV shows from around the world.

The projects, which are in the early development stage, hail from 13 different countries: Australia, Belgium, Croatia, Egypt, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Mexico, The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom and the United States.

For the second year in a row, SeriesLab is being led by Hungarian screenwriter and former HBO Hungary development executive Eszter Angyalosy.

“This year, once again, we selected nine original TV series ideas from passionate creatives with unique points of view,” Angyalosy said in a statement. She added that the projects aim to challenge preconceived notions pertaining to “genre, storytelling tradition and the mindset of their future audiences.”

Angyalosy will be working with tutors Filip Kasperaszek (Poland), Kirsten Ittershagen (Germany), Cyril Tysz...

Nfts And Left Bank Pictures Launch UK Writers Program

The National Film and Television School (Nfts) is launching a new writers development program in partnership with Left Bank Pictures, the production company behind shows as Netflix’s The Crown. Set to launch in March 2024, the scheme will replace the Nfts’s former diverse writers development program. Six screenwriters from under-represented backgrounds will be chosen to take part in the paid, intensive 10-week program that will immerse them in a dynamic environment of creativity and collaboration. During the course, four full series ideas will be developed and pitched with the aim of creating commercially viable television drama concepts. “Together with Left Bank Pictures, we hope to carve a new path where diverse voices illuminate the way forward, ensuring the stories we tell on screen are as vibrant and varied as the world we live in,” said Nfts Director Jon Wardle. “We...

Holland Film Meeting is the industry strand of the Netherlands Film Festival.

Paula van der Oest’s €9m English-language drama Mata Hari is among the films being presented during the Holland Film Meeting’s projects programme, the industry side of this year’s Netherlands Film Festival, which begins today (September 24) in Utrecht. It will run until October 2.

Van der Oest, promised a ”feminist approach” to the subject matter. “Most of the existing Mata Hari films are told from a male perspec­tive,” she told Screen. “They focus on Mata Hari being a glam­orous and exotic spy. A dangerous temptress,...

Spolight on the new projects from Rai Com, Latido, TrustNordisk and more.

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Comedians, the new film by Gabriele Salvatores, headlines Rai Com’s market slate. The completed film is based on the play of the same name by Trevor Griffiths and is produced by Indiana with Rai Cinema. It features a cast of aspiring comedians preparing for their big night.

Intramovies is kickstarting sales on the Dutch drama Love In A Bottle, produced by Levitate Film and directed by Paula van der Oest, whose credits include Zus & Zo. It is a lockdown love story that unfolds over FaceTime. The...

Exclusive: Stephen Merchant’s BBC and Amazon comedy-drama The Offenders has assembled an eye-catching cast since it began shooting last year — and now you can add another name to the list.

Centering on a group of strangers completing their community payback sentence in Bristol, England, Dracula and The Square star Claes Bang joins the show as Dean, a mysterious and terrifying London gang boss, who is chasing a debt owed by the offenders.

Bang will star alongside Merchant himself, as well as Christopher Walken, Rhianne Barreto, Gamba Cole, Darren Boyd, Clare Perkins, Eleanor Tomlinson, Richard E. Grant, Dolly Wells, and Julia Davis.

Produced by Big Talk Productions and Merchant’s Four Eyes, The Offenders is currently shooting in Bristol. As previously revealed by Deadline, the show has secured a two-season order from the BBC and Amazon Studios. Amazon will stream the series in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

Producers are busy but there are questions over how films will be released.

As Dutch filmmakers prepare new projects to whet the appetite of the international film industy, the Netherlands Film Fund is keeping an eye on the future with the launch of a range of initiatives to support diverse and emerging talent.

Bero Beyer, CEO of the Netherlands Film Fund (and former artistic director of International Film Festival Rotterdam), believes new talent can be overlooked by crisis support schemes.

“We should not forget the next generation of filmmakers and those who have not gone through the route of film academies,...

Dutch filmmaker Paula van der Oest, director of Oscar-nominated “Zus & Zo,” has wrapped production on “Love in a Bottle,” starring James Krishna Floyd (“No Man’s Land”) and Hannah Hoekstra (“Hemel”).

The film follows two people in two different countries — both in quarantine during lockdown — who have a love affair through Facetime. Floyd plays a damaged British man who lives mainly through his computer who falls for a charismatic Dutch perfume maker (Hoekstra) whom he met at an airport just before the pandemic struck.

“Love in a Bottle” was shot in two locations in Amsterdam during lockdown, and is one of the few films to shoot two locations simultaneously with two crews, in order to come together for one resulting film. Levitate Film (“The Forgotten Battle”) produced.

Van der Oest’s regular cinematographer Guido van Gennep lensed the film and employed new techniques in order to complete the project.

“We were literally shooting with these iPhones,...

Ever since his international breakout role in Sally El Hosaini’s “My Brother The Devil” (2012), where he played the role of a teenager facing prejudice on the streets of gangland London, actor James Krishna Floyd has made a mark with an astonishing diversity of roles.

For “My Brother The Devil,” Floyd won most promising newcomer at the British Independent Film Awards, was selected as a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit and won best actor at the Milan International Film Festival.

Of mixed English and Indian Tamil heritage, Floyd began with a solid grounding in theater and landed his first starring role in “Everywhere and Nowhere” (2011), where he played a British-Pakistani torn between honoring his family traditions and a love for music.

Floyd is one of the leads in Fremantle’s acclaimed Hulu and Arte series “No Man’s Land,” where he plays a London-born British-Egyptian who joins Isis and the war in Syria.

In his latest interview/podcast, host and screenwriter Stuart Wright talks to actor, writer and producer Caroline Goodall about adapting one her favourite stories for screen. Directed by Academy Award nominee Paula van der Oest (Accused) and written by and also starring British actor Caroline Goodall (Schindler’s List), The Bay of Silence is based on the novel of the same name by Lisa St Aubin de Terán.

Starring Claes Bang (Dracula), Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace), Alice Krige (Star Trek: First Contact) and Golden Globe winner Brian Cox (The Bourne Identity), The Bay of Silence is out now on DVD and Digital HD.

Claes Bang and Olga Kurylenko in The Bay Of Silence

A mysterious disappearance. A terrible loss. A secret buried somewhere deep in the past. The Bay Of Silence offers plenty to intrigue fans of psychological thrillers. It stars Olga Kurylenko as troubled mother Rosalind and Claes Bang as her devoted husband, Will, and was adapted from Lisa St Aubin de Terán’s novel by actress Caroline Goodall, who gave me a call from Croatia, where she’s currently filming, to talk about the story and her admiration for director Paula van der Oest.

“When I was writing, I didn't have any director in mind, particularly,” she begins.” I was just keen to write the story, and see if I can get to the end. And it made sense. But Paula came on board in April 2018, just as we were starting to find finance. I had met her a year before in Los Angeles,...

Even the cast appear to be nodding off from boredom in this dated drama about postnatal psychosis and dark secrets

This dull British movie really takes the psychological out of psychological thriller – a drama in which characters are driven to emotional breaking point by trauma and grief yet look as if they’re nodding off from the boredom of it all.

The director is Paula van der Oest, working with a script adapted from Lisa St Aubin de Terán’s 1986 novel. It’s clunky and dated, and what’s really frustrating is that this is a female-driven film with a woman at its centre – a young mother suffering from postnatal psychosis – yet the whole thing is told from the perspective of a man: her husband.

With theaters open in 44 of the 50 states, cinemas are finding something to show — although turnout is still so modest that distributors are still being hesitant about what to release. That means another week in what’s now going on five months of the industry’s pivot to streaming releases, with a fresh batch of respectable lower-profile offerings.

Netflix continues to lead the pack with options, releasing four new features (that we know of), including the superhero-esque movie “Project Power,” a sci-fi thriller about a drug that gives ordinary folks special abilities … for about five minutes. Apple TV Plus paid top dollar at Sundance for “Boys State,” and as soon as you see it, you’ll understand why: The documentary, about a Texas mock-government program for teens, captures all the rowdiness and idealism of the long-running event — offering a virtual glimpse into what can happen when young minds come together in person to share their ideas,...

You may have heard his name uttered by Kanye West or Migos in songs but Martin Margiela isn’t necessarily a household name when it comes to fashion — but it should be. One of the most elusive designers in the fashion industry, there are barely any photos of him on the internet, but his work speaks for itself. In the Oscilloscope documentary, Martin Margiela: In His Own Words, filmmaker Reiner Holzemer takes us behind the scenes of the career of the titular avant-garde.

With the docu, Margiela breaks his no-interview policy and aversion to being in the public eye as Holzemer puts the spotlight on the “Banksy of fashion”. He worked as Jean Paul Gaultier’s assistant and was the creative director at Hermès before he started his own fashion house. For the first time, Margiela reveals his drawings, notes, and personal items in this intimate profile of his vision...

The Hand That Mocks the Cradle: van der Oest Overwhelms in Overstuffed Trauma Drama

Some inherent problems with adapting complex or labyrinthine novels into film requires the excision of some source elements, at least if one is adhering to a traditional ninety-minute running time. An example of continuously juxtaposed and intersecting storylines all vying for attention arrives in the latest film from Dutch director Paula van der Oest with The Bay of Silence, an adaptation of the 1986 novel by Lisa St. Aubin de Teran, scripted by actress Caroline Goodall (also acting and producing) with her screenwriting debut.…...

If Claes Bang didn’t exist so suavely before our eyes, you’d say they don’t make movie stars like him any more: debonair, mature but with sparky wit, and possessed of a flexible accent that is at once evasive and distinctly European. Since breaking out aged 50 in Rubin Östlund’s “The Square,” he could have exclusively cashed in his raised profile on the kind of generically “foreign” villain parts and Europudding filler that tend to await such actors these days, yet he seems to be finding throwback vehicles to match his elegantly out-of-time stardom. First came the slippery, well-dressed art-scene noir “The Burnt Orange Heresy” and World War 2 counterfeiting drama “The Last Vermeer”; now, in a comparably neo-Hitchcockian vein, comes “The Bay of Silence,” in which his coolly compelling man-adrift charisma — backed by sturdy support from Olga Kurylenko and Brian Cox — keeps a splintering mystery together.

If the...

Dutch director Paula van der Oest, whose 2001 rom-com Zus & Zo was nominated for what was then called the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, has gone on in the two decades since to carve out a respectable career with well-received thrillers and romantic dramas. She brings unsurprising polished professionalism to the English-language mystery The Bay of Silence, even if it lacks the Hitchcockian command that might have given this story about the malignant power of buried trauma a more suspenseful edge. Still, the actors are a pleasure to watch and the European locations add atmosphere, making for solid enough adult entertainment ...

Dutch director Paula van der Oest, whose 2001 rom-com Zus & Zo was nominated for what was then called the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, has gone on in the two decades since to carve out a respectable career with well-received thrillers and romantic dramas. She brings unsurprising polished professionalism to the English-language mystery The Bay of Silence, even if it lacks the Hitchcockian command that might have given this story about the malignant power of buried trauma a more suspenseful edge. Still, the actors are a pleasure to watch and the European locations add atmosphere, making for solid enough adult entertainment ...

Vertical Entertainment is proud to present The Bay of Silence, Paula van der Oest’s (director of Oscar nominee Zus & Zo) contemporary Hitchcockian thriller produced and written by actress Caroline Goodall, based upon Lisa St. Aubin de Teran’s novel of the same name. Claes Bang (star of Oscar nominee The Square) and Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace) star in a […] More...

"I'm being followed." "You have to get a grip." Vertical Entertainment has released a new official US trailer for a mystery thriller titled The Bay of Silence, made by Dutch filmmaker Paula van der Oest adapting a dusty old novel. When Will discovers his wife and children have suddenly disappeared, his perfect world begins to unravel. Setting out on a frantic search to recover his family and finding them in a remote village in northern France. What happened to his family, why did they disappear? He believes his wife is innocent, only to discover the devastating truth behind her past links her to another unsolved crime. Claes Bang stars, with Olga Kurylenko, Brian Cox, Assaad Bouab, Alice Krige, and also Caroline Goodall (who also wrote the script). This trailer for this film is way more mysterious and creepy, with strange X-rays and other imagery. What the heck is going on here?...

"I need to know how this happened!" Signature Ent. from the UK has released the official UK trailer for a mystery thriller titled The Bay of Silence, made by Dutch filmmaker Paula van der Oest adapting a dusty old novel. When Will discovers his wife and three children have suddenly disappeared, his perfect world begins to unravel. Setting out on a frantic search to recover his family and finding them in a remote village in northern France, relief soon turns to horror as he discovers his infant son has mysteriously died. What happened to his family? He believes his wife is innocent of their son's suspected murder, only to discover the devastating truth behind her past links her to another unsolved crime. Claes Bang stars, with Olga Kurylenko, Brian Cox, Assaad Bouab, Alice Krige, and also Caroline Goodall (who also wrote the script). This out starts as a chilling mystery,...

Exclusive: The Bay Of Silence, Paula van der Oest’s thriller starring Claes Bang (Dracula), Olga Kurylenko (Death Of Stalin) and Brian Cox (Succession), has sold into numerous key territories.

Vertical Entertainment has swooped on North American rights to the project, striking a deal with Christian de Gallegos of International Film Trust (Ift) who represented the filmmakers.

Ift has also closed a number of other key international territory deals on the film including: UK and Australia/New Zealand (Signature Entertainment), Cis (Paradise), Spain (Corbi), China (Time-In-Portrait), Greece (Spentzos), Israel (Five Stars), Turkey (Filmdom), Poland (Monolith), Hungary (Cinetel), Ex-Yugo (Blitz), India (Pictureworks), Middle East (Shooting Stars), Philippines (Viva), South Korea (Korea Screen), and airlines (Cinesky).

Sales efforts will continue at Efm in Berlin, where Claes Bang, who led Ruben Ostlund’s Palme d’Or winner The Square and more recently BBC series Dracula, will be in town to speak to buyers.

Netflix continues to push into local content, producing its first Dutch film, war drama “The Battle of the Scheldt,” in partnership with local broadcasters and other backers.

Alain de Levita is producing the Dutch-Belgian picture through his Levitate Film banner. It will be in movie theaters in the Netherlands in November 2020, and on Netflix – where it will be branded as a Netflix Movie – in the U.S. and the rest of the world. Production is about to get underway on the $15.5 million war film, which will be helmed by Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr.

Set in late 1944 and shot in Dutch and English, the film centers on the bloody but crucial battle that claimed 10,000 lives but secured supply lines for the Allied forces’ push to liberate Europe from Nazi Germany. It follows the lives of three people involved in the conflict: a young Dutchman fighting for the Germans, a stray English...

Which film will follow on from ‘Roma’ in winning the prize?

Submissions for the best international feature film award at the 2020 Academy Awards have started to come in, and Screen is keeping a running list of each film below.

This is the first year the award will be given under the new name of ‘best international feature film’, after a change in April from ‘foreign-language film’.

The eligibility rules remain the same: an international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the Us with a predominantly non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.

In its second round of funding, the Dutch film body has granted its support to 23 feature films and five high-end TV series. The Netherlands Film Fund, the country’s main film agency, has recently confirmed its support for a new raft of productions through its successful Film Production Incentive. These contributions will generate over €38.1 million in production spend across the entire spectrum of Dutch film professionals and film companies. In detail, 18 fiction features, four documentary features, one animated feature, four drama series and one documentary series (including 14 international co-productions) will be in receipt of financing. The big winner of this slate of funding is Matthijs van Heijningen Jr’s The Forgotten Battle, a war drama penned by Paula van der Oest, and produced by Levitate Film and Belgian outfit Caviar. The plot is set in 1944 and centres on a Dutchman conscripted into the Wehrmacht, a British...

CAA represents Us rights; deal expected soon.

International Film Trust (Ift) has boarded sales rights to Sundance selection To The Stars and will kick off talks with buyers in Cannes.

CAA represents Us rights and a Us deal is expected soon. Ift head of international Todd Olsson will present colour and black-and-white versions of the film to international buyers on the Croisette.

Martha Stephens (Land Ho!) directed the coming-of-age story about a shy farmer’s daughter in 1960s Oklahoma who strikes up a friendship with a lively city transplant that will change their lives forever.

Kara Hayward (Moonrise Kingdom) and...

Ift and UTA Independent Film Group jointly represent Us rights.

Screen can reveal a first-look image from Paula van der Oest’s English-language thriller and Cannes sales title The Bay Of Silence starring Claes Bang and Olga Kurylenko.

International Film Trust (Ift) sales head Todd Olsson represents worldwide rights and will present footage on the Croisette next month. Ift and UTA Independent Film Group jontly represent Us rights.

Brian Cox also stars and Assaad Bouab and Alice Krige round out the cast on The Bay Of Silence, which is currently in post-production in the UK.

Bang plays Will, a man...

Production is underway in London on season two of BBC One and SundanceTV drama The Split from creator Abi Morgan (The Hour) and executive producer Jane Featherstone (Broadchurch).

Set in the messy world of London’s high-end divorce circuit, the legal-world series follows modern marriages and the legacy of divorce. Returning cast includes Nicola Walker, Annabel Scholey, Fiona Button, Deborah Findlay, Stephen Mangan, Rudi Dharmalingam and Barry Atsma.

UK actress and presenter Donna Air will make her first small screen appearance in almost a decade in the second series as one half of a powerful celebrity couple who now wants out of her marriage. Ben Bailey is joining as her husband.

The Split is produced by Sister Pictures for BBC One, co-produced with SundanceTV, and was re-commissioned by Piers Wenger, Controller of BBC Drama, and Charlotte Moore, Director of BBC Content. Series Two is executive produced by Sister Pictures founder Jane Featherstone,...

Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired domestic distribution rights to The Parts You Lose, the Christopher Cantwell thriller starring Aaron Paul, Scoot McNairy, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Danny Murphy. A late summer theatrical release is planned for the pic, which is having its world premiere tonight at the Sun Valley Film Festival.

Paul plays a fugitive criminal who forms an unlikely bond with a deaf child, Wesley (Murphy), when he takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the boy’s family’s farm. With authorities closing in, Wesley must decide where his allegiances lie. Darren Lemke penned the script.

Mark Johnson produced via his Gran Via with Tom Williams, Paul and Kenneth Huang of The H Collective which financed.

. The H Collective’s Nic Crawley and Kent Huang, Douglas Jones, Blue Fox Entertainment’s Todd Slater and Paula Van Der Oest executive produced.

The H Collective fully financed and oversaw production on the dramatic thriller.

Samuel Goldwyn Films has picked up the domestic rights to Aaron Paul’s “The Parts You Lose,” the distributor announced Thursday.

Christopher Cantwell is directing the feature that also stars Scoot McNairy, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Danny Murphy. Mark Johnson (“Breaking Bad”) is producing through his Gran Via banner alongside Tom Williams, Paul and The H Collective’s Kenneth Huang.

“The Parts You Lose,” which was written by Darren Lemke, will have its world premiere at the Sun Valley Film Festival on Thursday. Paul is also being presented with the Pioneer Award at the festival.

Also Read: We Pitched Emily Ratajkowski and Aaron Paul a Couple Movie Ideas - Here's How It Went (Podcast)

In the film, Paul plays a fugitive criminal who forms an unlikely bond with Wesley, a deaf child (Murphy). When authorities close in on the farm he’s chosen to hide out in, Wesley has to decide whom to trust.

Blue Fox Entertainment handles international sales.

China-backed, Los Angeles-based The H Collective has licensed Us rights on its Aaron Paul thriller The Parts You Lose to Samuel Goldwyn Films.

Blue Fox Entertainment handles international sales on the story about a fugitive who bonds with a deaf child when he takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the boy’s family’s farm. Christopher Cantwell directed from Darren Lemke’s screenplay.

Scoot McNairy, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and newcomer Danny Murphy round out the key cast on the thriller, which will receive its world premiere on Thursday (14) at the Sun Valley Film Festival in the Us.

Recent projects include Iffr opener Dirty God.

Dutch producers rarely looked to the UK as potential partners until recently.

The UK is not part of Eurimages and the BFI’s minority co-production fund has limited resources. But now the two industries are coming much closer together as a cluster of high-profile new projects attests. Sacha Polak’s Dirty God, screening in Sundance this week and the opening film at Iffr, is one of several recent or upcoming features on which UK and Dutch producers have partnered.

Further examples include Elbert van Strien’s Scotland-set psychological thriller Marionette, Paula Van Der Oest...

Recent projects include Iffr opener Dirty God.

Dutch producers rarely looked to the UK as potential partners until recently.

The UK is not part of Eurimages and the BFI’s minority co-production fund has limited resources. But now the two industries are coming much closer together as a cluster of high-profile new projects attests. Sacha Polak’s Dirty God, screening in Sundance this week and the opening film at Iffr, is one of several recent or upcoming features on which UK and Dutch producers have partnered.

Further examples include Elbert van Strien’s Scotland-set psychological thriller Marionette, Paula Van Der Oest...

Near record levels of inward investment are boosting the local industry.

As the Dutch film industry comes together at International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr), there is much to be optimistic about in 2019.

The local industry is experiencing near record levels of inward investment as a location and post-production hub and Dutch co-production is blossoming. There may have been a slight - 0.8% - decline in admissions to 35.7 million cinema visitors in the Netherlands in 2018 but box office revenue has risen due to an increase in ticket prices.

Dutch market share for local films has remained broadly stable: it fell slightly from...

Caroline Goodall adapted the screenplay from Lisa St Aubin de Terán’s novel.

Cannes buyers are responding to International Film Trust (Ift)’s upcoming thriller The Bay Of Silence starring Danish sensation Claes Bang, Olga Kurylenko and Brian Cox.

Paula Van Der Oest (Zus & Zo) will direct the feature, which has been reconfigured with new cast and financiers Media Finance Capital and is set to commence shooting on July 11 in the UK, Italy and the Netherlands.

Ift sales chief Todd Olsson has licensed rights to the story of a man who embarks on a frantic search across Europe when his...

The film “Rotterdam, I Love You”, like the previous entries in the ‘Cities of Love’ series, will be a kaleidoscope of stories about love in all kinds of interpretations. Every single segment has its own perspective and its own personal style, woven into the rhythm of this unique city by 11 different directors.

The creative team consists of 11 directors, 20 to 30 wonderful actors in main roles, top producers and screenwriters. The 11 directors will range from Dutch up-and-coming talents to internationally acclaimed directors from all over the world, including Koen Mortier, Paula van der Oest (“Zeus and Zo”), Barry Atsma, Shariff Nasr (“Oblivion”) and Atom Egoyan (“The Sweet Hereafter”). The Cities of Love family of directors already includes people like The Coen Brothers, Brett Ratner, Wes Craven, Guillermo Arriaga, Alexander Payne, as well as Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson and more.

“Rotterdam, I Love You” will show the real Rotterdam, in all its rough beauty,...

Brimstone director Martin Koolhoven also signs on for portmanteau project.

Blade Runner star Rutger Hauer and Brimstone director Martin Koolhoven are among the latest figures to join $7.5mn new portmanteau picture, Rotterdam, I Love You. Their participation was announced at a press conference in Rotterdam this weekend.

Hauer is to direct a segment of the film based on a story by celebrated Dutch novelist Tommy Wieringa.

Details haven’t been revealed of Koolhoven’s segment but the producers have confirmed it is to be based on a story by an international author and will be “quite a lot lighter” than his very bloody revenge western from last year, Brimstone.

Also joining the project is another Dutch director, Joost van Ginkel, best known for The Paradise Suite. His section will be set in the port of Rotterdam, one of the biggest facilities of its kind in the world.

Joeri Pruys, who will be producing alongside Matt Jaems, has confirmed...

Other directors announced for portmanteau film include Paula van der Oest and Koen Mortier.

Atom Egoyan, Paula van der Oest and Koen Mortier are three of the directors who will soon be Rotterdam-bound to shoot episodes of $7.5mn new portmanteau picture, Rotterdam, I Love You. They are due to be announced at a press conference in Rotterdam today (Wednesday.)

This is the latest feature in the Cities Of Love franchise overseen by Emmanuel Benbihy, following on from Paris, New York and Rio. Young Rotterdam director Shariff Nasr is directing the framing story which will link the episodes.

There will be 10 other directors, each helming an episode lasting from 7 to 10 minutes.

The project is produced by Matt Jaems and Joeri Pruys in association with September Film Productions and producer Jeroen Beker. Belgian production company Czar will also be involved as will a number of big name brands. The British coproducer is Gass Man Films.

Further names of...

By Jose Solís.

In Tonio director Paula van der Oest chronicles the grieving process of two parents (Pierre Bokma and Rifka Lodeizen) who have just lost their 21-year-old son (Chris Peters) in a tragic accident. As they cope with the pain and chaos, they must also come to terms with the fact that Tonio was much more than they thought, and we see them discover their son’s passions and dreams. Based on an autobiographical novel by A.F.Th. van der Heijden, the film is an unsentimental portrait of pain, told with inventive storytelling techniques and featuring superb acting by the leads. I spoke to director van der Oest about finding the film’s tone, working with the actors and doing the Oscar circuit once again (she was nominated for Zus & Zo and her film Accused made the finals two years ago)

Read the interview after the jump...

Academy Award Nomination Submission Best Foreign Language Film from Netherlands: ‘Tonio’ by Paula van der OestThree time Oscar submitted filmmaker Paula van der Oest, whose film “Zus and Zo” was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film by the Academy in 2002 has brought “Tonio” to Los Angeles for Oscar consideration.This beautiful jewel touches all our lives as we watch a couple struggle to prevent their lives from being caught in a downward spiral of sorrow as they mourn the loss of their only son.

The question of how an artist transforms real life tragedy into art is a key issue of art, though for us, the consumers of art, what we take home with us is the story itself and how it affects and perhaps even transforms us. The well-known Dutch author A.F. Th van de Heijden has written around twenty books, all documenting his life. When his eighteen...

Exclusive: Drug gang drama to be directed by Belgian directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah.

Ambitious Amsterdam-based Dutch Features Global Entertainment, headed by CEO Pim van Collem, is to begin world sales at the Afm on Patser, the new feature from L.A. and Brussels based Belgian directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah.

El Arbi and Fallah are also attached to direct Beverly Hills Cop 4, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer for Paramount Pictures, and have recently directed the first two episodes for the series Snowfall for FX Networks. Their previous feature, teen gang movie, Black (2015) won the Dropbox Discovery Award at Tiff and became a media phenomenon after provoking riots in a Brussels cinema.

Patser tells the tale of four ne’er-do-wells from the neighbourhood ‘t Kiel’ in Antwerp, aspiring to become gangster legends. They foolishly get involved in high-profile drug affairs, and start a war between gangs from Antwerp, Amsterdam and even...

Paula van der Oest began work on her latest film, “Tonio,” with an ending. On the morning of May 23, 2010, a young man, Tonio van der Heijden, was struck by a driver while riding his bicycle back to his home in The Netherlands. The budding photographer, in critical condition, later died at the age of 21. For his parents, Adri and Mirjam van der Heijden, the time after his death was consumed with grief and longing for a life snuffed out so soon. For Adri, a renowned Dutch fiction writer, his son’s passing resulted in a blaze of creative energy that led.

Eighty-five countries have submitted films for consideration in the Foreign Language Film category for the 89th Academy Awards. Yemen is a first-time entrant.

The 2016 submissions are:

Albania, “Chromium,” Bujar Alimani, director;

Algeria, “The Well,” Lotfi Bouchouchi, director;

Argentina, “The Distinguished Citizen,” Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat, directors;

Australia, “Tanna,” Bentley Dean, Martin Butler, directors;

Austria, “Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe,” Maria Schrader, director;

Bangladesh, “link=tt5510934 auto]The Unnamed[/link],” Tauquir Ahmed, director;

Belgium, “The Ardennes,” Robin Pront, director;

Bolivia, “Sealed Cargo,” Julia Vargas Weise, director;

Bosnia and Herzegovina, “Death in Sarajevo,” Danis Tanovic, director;

Brazil, “Little Secret,” David Schurmann, director;

Bulgaria, “Losers,” Ivaylo Hristov, director;

Cambodia, “Before the Fall,” Ian White, director;

Canada, “It’s Only the End of the World,” Xavier Dolan, director;

Chile, “Neruda,” Pablo Larraín, director;

China, “Xuan Zang,” Huo Jianqi, director;

Colombia, “Alias Maria,” José Luis Rugeles, director;

Costa Rica, “About Us,” Hernán Jiménez, director;

Croatia, “On the Other Side,...

Eighty-five countries have submitted a film for consideration in the 60th anniversary year of the foreign language film category.

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Science said on Tuesday that this season also marks the first time Yemen has submitted a film, Khadija Al-Salami’s I Am Nojoom, Age 10 And Divorced.

The 89th Oscars will take place on February 26, 2017, at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood. László Nemes’ Hungarian entry Son Of Saul won the award last February.

Foreign-language Academy Award Submissions

(Country, Title, director)

Albania, Chromium, dir Bujar Alimani;

Algeria, The Well, Lotfi Bouchouchi;

Argentina, The Distinguished Citizen, Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat;

Australia, Tanna, Bentley Dean, Martin Butler;

Austria, Stefan Zweig: Farewell To Europe, Maria Schrader;

Bangladesh, The Unnamed, Tauquir Ahmed;

Belgium, The Ardennes, Robin Pront;

Bolivia, Sealed Cargo, Julia Vargas Weise;

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Death In Sarajevo, Danis Tanovic;

Brazil, Little Secret, David Schurmann.

Bulgaria, Losers, [link...

Dorst and Marionette will receive support through the Dutch Crossover project.

The Netherlands Film Fund is to provide financial support for projects from Dutch directors Elbert van Strien and Saskia Diesing through their Dutch Crossover project.

Strien’s Marionette tells the story of a therapist who loses her grip on reality when a patient says he dreamed her into existence, while Diesing’s sophmore feature Dorst follows a young woman who finds purpose in life by moving back in with her ill mother.

Both films will receive backing of $910,000 (€800,000).

Dutch Crossover supports the production of auteur films that the Film Fund believe have the potential to attract an audience of at least 50,000 and achieve international distinction.

Marionette previously received a single project grant from Creative Europe and participated in the Frontieres market in 2014. It is being sold by Protagonist Pictures.

Diesing’s debut feature Nena was selected for Generation 14+ at Berlin International Film Festival in 2015 and is being...

Exclusive: Dutch director to remake 2014 feature with Us outfit Stun Originals.

Paula van der Oest is to remake her 2014 feature Accused (aka Lucia De B.) as an English-language Us mini-series.

The Oscar-nominated Dutch director is in development on the series with Stun Originals, the original programming division of Los Angeles-based advertising and branded entertainment company, Stun Creative.

Stun Originals president, Maria Crenna, is a former studio executive who developed hit series Friends, Criminal Minds and CSI, among others.

Accused (handled by Fortissimo) is a thriller based on a true story.

The film follows headstrong nurse, Lucia de Berk (Ariane Schluter), present at one inexplicable death too many. She is charged by the police and eventually sentenced to a life in prison. Her case, though, became acknowledged as one of the biggest miscarriages in the history of Dutch justice.

Van der Oest’s La agent brought the project to Crenna.

“What I’ve experienced in making the film...

Dutch actress Carice van Houten (“Game of Thrones”) will join Emmy winner Aaron Paul in Myriad Pictures’ suspenseful drama “The Parts You Lose,” the company announced Thursday. Oscar and Emmy winner Mark Johnson (“Rain Man,” “Breaking Bad”) is producing the movie, which award-winning Dutch filmmaker Paula van der Oest (“Black Butterflies”) will direct from a script by Darren Lemke (“Jack the Giant Slayer”). “The Parts You Lose” follows a young, hearing-impaired boy named Wesley who encounters an injured and potentially dangerous fugitive (Paul) in his small North Dakota town. The two form an unlikely friendship, and Wesley finds an unexpected refuge.

Game Of Thrones regular Carice van Houten has joined Aaron Paul on the drama that Myriad Pictures has introduced to international buyers at the market.

The Parts You Lose centres on a hearing-impaired boy who strikes up a friendship with a fugitive in a North Dakota town. UTA Independent Film Group represents Us rights with Myriad.

Zus & Zo director Paula van der Oest will helm the Dutch production and shooting is scheduled for early spring in Manitoba, Canada.

Mark Johnson and Tom Williams are producing through Gran Via Productions alongside Nl Film’s Alain de Levita and Joris van Wijk as well as Paul via his Lucid Road Productions.

Buffalo Gal Pictures will handle Canadian production and Phyllis Laing and Rhonda Baker from the company serve as executive producers with Myriad chief Kirk D’Amico.

Aaron Paul is to reunite with Breaking Bad executive producer Mark Johnson for the film The Parts You Lose.

The actor will star in the project which follows an 8-year-old boy with hearing difficulties who meets an injured fugitive.

The pair then strike up an unlikely friendship as the young boy finds a way of temporarily escaping from the troubles of his home and school life.

The Parts You Lose was written by Jack the Giant Slayer's Darren Lemke with Paula van der Oest set to direct, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The film is expected begin filming in Canada at the end of 2015.

Paul has previously said that he won't rule out a cameo appearance in Better Call Saul - the Breaking Bad spinoff series also executive produced by Johnson.

Kirk D’Amico’s Santa Monica-based company heads to the Croisette with international sales rights to the Aaron Paul thriller.

Paul starred in TV smash Breaking Bad and reunites with his producer Mark Johnson, who produces The Parts You Lose alongside Tom Williams through their Gran Via Productions and Holland’s Paula van der Oest, whose credits include Accused, Black Butterflies and Zus & Zo, will direct.

Darren Lemke wrote the screenplay to the story of a boy with hearing difficulties who encounters a fugitive in his small North Dakota town.

The filmmakers expect The Parts You Lose to become a German-Canadian co-production and anticipate a fourth quarter start in Manitoba. UTA Independent Film Group and Myriad co-represent Us rights.

Paul will produce through his Lucid Road Productions. Buffalo Gal Pictures will be the Canadian co-producer with Buffalo Gal’s Phyllis Laing and Rhonda Baker also producing.

D’Amico and Pacific Northwest Pictures’ (Pnp) Emily Alden will serve as...