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THE YEAR I BECAME 30
“The year I became 30” Oversteek project written by Helena van der Meulen, to be directed by Sacha Polak, based on the book from Aaf Brandt Cortius, has been selected for further development. The year I became 30 tells the story of Aagje. This is the year where she will take a chance on her longdistance-off-and-on-flashlight-relationship by taking a leap and jump his way across the ocean. When this is a complete and utter failure she heads back only in possession of her basic-functions to find that even then the light is still on...
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LOVE, SWEET LOVE
“Love, Sweet Love”, a Nu of Nooit project written by Martijn Hillenius and to be directed by Albert Jan van Rees, has been selected for further development. Nu of Nooit is a one time project of the Mediafonds and Z@pp for the development and realisation of cultural diverse youth drama for the targetgroup 8- 12 year. “Love, Sweet Love” is a mini-musical about how unconquerable love returns the candy necklace back to the people.
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MINA MOES SELECTED FOR PRIX JEUNESSE
Mina Moes, the short film directed by Mirjam de WIth, has been selected for the prestigious Prix Jeunesse awards, the most important award for youth programs in the world!
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BIEN DE MOOR WINS SPANISH PRIZE
Actress Bien de Moor has won the award for best actress at the filmfestival of Seville 2011. She received the award for ther role in Code Blue, directed by Urszala Antoniak. The jury praised the portrayal of de Moor: ' torn and unfulfilled desires that ultamitely lead to the destruction of the human soul'.
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HUBERT BALS FUND grands contribute to THE BLUE WAVE
The HBF Plus program of the Dutch Film Fund and the Hubert Bals Fund of the Rotterdam International Film Festival selected the Turkish film The Blue Wave with Family Affair Films as coproducer. The Hubert Bals Fund supports the film with a contribution of € 50,000 of the Dutch Film Fund.
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CODE BLUE is out now in the following movie theaters:
Amersfoort: Filmtheater De Lieve Vrouwe
De Volkskrant ****:
Trouw:
De Filmkrant ****:
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CODE BLUE has won 2 'GOUDEN KALVEREN'!!!
The categories in wich Code Blue has won are:
BEST SOUND DESIGN: Jan Schermer |
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CODE BLUE has been nominated 3 times for the Dutch Film Award the 'GOUDEN KALF'
BEST SOUND DESIGN: Jan Schermer
The award show will be held on september 30 at 19:30 - 22:00 in the 'Stadsschouwburg' Utrecht during the Dutch Film Festival.
You can follow the awarshow live on filmfestival.nl and on Cultura 24. There is also a live broadcast on 'Nederland 1' at 20:30. |
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Bien de Moor has won the price for best actress during the Batumi International Art-House Film Festival (BIAFF) for her role in CODE BLUE. |
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River, House, Summer (Rivier, Huis, Zomer) receives a contribution from the Dutch Film Fund for screenplay development. |
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Family Affair Films is producing two dancefilms for "Point Taken II": |
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"Code Blue" is selected for Karlovy Vary's "Another View" program! |
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"drama series Wyn and Wetter" (Wind and Water) receives a second contribution from Mediafonds for script development. |
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Family Affair Films is producing the short film "Mina Moes". The screenplay is written by Hakima Elouarti and will be directed by Mirjam de With. |
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Family Affair Films is producing 2 dancefilms for the Point Taken II program of NTR Podium! |
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Screening dates and time during Cannes 2011: OFFICIAL SELECTION - DIRECTORS' FORTNIGHT Thu, May 12 | 09.30h | Riviera 2 | Private Screening - Buyers only/No Press |
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Family Affair Films is developing, for the 2nd round of One Night Stand 2012, HONING Ballast Sexting |
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Family Affair Films is selected to produce 2 One Night Stand projects! |
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SK8! by Marc Kniphorst is selected for the competition at the International Filmfestival BUFF, Sweden. |
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Also Family Affair Films' Life According to Nino by Urszula Antoniak is selected for the 8th Berlinale Co-Production Market. |
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Loud by Aneta Lesnikovska is selected for the 8th Berlinale Co-Production Market. |
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Loud by Aneta Lesnikovska is chosen out of 420 projects to participate at CineMart 2011, the co-production market of the International Film Festival Rotterdam. |
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Producer Floor Onrust is selected for EAVE European Producer's Workshop 2011with the project of Stranger by Urszula Antoniak. The workshop takes place from 14 till the 21st of March in Luxembourg, 15 till the 22th of June in Fiskebäckskil (Sweden) and will end in October 2011 in Lugano (Switserland). |
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The shooting of Code Blue, the new feature film of Urszula Antoniak, are finished. De film will probably released in the spring of 2011. |
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De filming rights of the book ik, Driss (I, Driss), based on the successful series written by Asis Aynan and Hassan Bahara and previously published in the NRC Handelsblad (Dutch newspaper), are sold to Family Affair Films. Urszula Antoniak, director of the film Nothing Personal, will take care of the screenplay. |
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Nothing Personal 2 times nominated for European Film Academy Award! |
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SK8! by Marc Kniphorst is selected for 4 Tuned Cities and will be screened at Pristina, Skopje, Sarajevo and Amsterdam. |
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Family Affair Films is really proud that Nothing Personal is released in the United States! |
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Watch Back and Forth Day by Mijam de With and Mowgli & Fidel by Janneke van Heesch online! |
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Life According to Nino, written and to be directed by Urszula Antoniak, is selected for NPP, The Netherlands Producers Platform, the co-production market of The Netherlands Film Festival. NPP takes place from September 23 till september 27 2010. |
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Kort! Back and Forth Day from director Mirjam de With is selected for the Newcomers Competition, price of the city Utrecht! |
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Start shooting of the new film of Urszula Antoniak "Code Blue". |
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SHOOT 'BACK AND FORTH DAY' AND 'MOWGLI AND FIDEL' WENT VERY WELL! |
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DEVELOPMENT CONTRIBUTION FOR LIFE ACCORDING TO NINO |
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WIND AND WATER RECEVIES DEVELOPMENT CONTRIBUTION |
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DEVELOPMENT CONTRIBUTION FOR FALLING AWAY |
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FALLING AWAY SELECTED FOR BABYLON WORKSOP IN CANNES |
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MONKEY KING ON TV AGAIN ON THE 7TH OF MARCH |
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MORE THEN 50.000 VISITORS FOR NOTHING PERSONAL |
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NOTHING PERSONAL WINS PRIZES AGAIN |
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FAMILY AFFAIR FILMS MAKES 2 NPS SHORTS |
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FALLING AWAY |
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NOTHING PERSONAL DOES VERY WELL IN CINEMAS! |
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NOTHING PERSONAL WON MORE PRIZES! |
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MONKEY KING PREMIERS 18TH OF OCTOBER AT CINEKID FESTIVAL sunday 18th of october 15:30 Zuiveringshal Oost, Westergasterrein Amsterdam |
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We are very happy to annouce that the film Dummy is among the selected films for the Special programme Focus on the Netherlands in the 25th International Short Film Festival interfilm in Berlin from November 3th - 8th 2009! |
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NOTHING PERSONAL WINS 4 'GOUDEN KALVEREN' |
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Nothing Personal has been nominates 7 times for the Dutch Film Award the 'GOUDEN KALF' BEST SOUND DESIGN: Jan Schermer |
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IT'S RAINING PRIZES FOR NOTHING PERSONAL IN LOCARNO!!!! |
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Our film Nothing Personal has a distinct pre-festival buzz!!!!! Check out this article! |
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We are very proud to inform you that NOTHING PERSONAL has been selected for the main competition at the 62nd Locarno International Film Festival. The festival will take place from Auguts 5th till August 15th. The festival hasn't set an exact date yet for our international premiere, but we will inform you as soon as possible. |
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After years of producing with much plesure, Sanna Fabery de Jonge has decided that she wants to do something else. Sanne will leave Family Affair Films from August 1st 2009 to focus on other activities. |
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Together with Urszula Antoniak and Diederik van Rooijen Family Affair Films is selected by the NPS to develop the telefilm 'LIFE ACCORDING TO NINO'. December this year we will hear if we made it through the last round. |
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At the end of March we shot KING MONKEY. It went very well. Floris-Jan van Luyn, the director, has edit the movie. Right now SHOSHO is working very hard at the animation part of the film. KING MONKEY will premier at the Cinekid Festival 2009. |
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DISORIENT is very well received at the arttbiënnale of Venice. The work of videoartist Fiona Tan is one of the highlights of the 53rd edition of the tbiënnale, writes British artcritic Laura Cummin in The Observer. The tbiënnale is open untill the 22nd of november this year. At the speciall website for this project you will find more information. The press is very enthousiastic about Tans work, both national and international. |
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Family Affair Films in Venice for the production of DISORIENT, march 2009. |
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For the 53nd Biënnale of Venice in 2009, curator Saskia Bos has chosen Fiona Tans work. The Biënnale of Venetië is ain international artmanifestation that is held every two years since 1895 (from june till november) in Venice, Italy. For the presentation in Venice, Tan is working on a new audiovisual installation DISORIENT. FAmily Affair Films will produce this for Fiona and will shoot in Venice from 4-11 of March. |
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End of March Family Affair Films will shoot the 'Child and Colour' : |
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Rinkel Film and Family Affair Films are co-producing the feature film NOTHING PERSONAL Nothing Personal, written by Urszula Antoniak, has been selected to receive a realisation fund as a part of "De Overteek II". "De Oversteek" is a project set up by the Dutch Film Fund in cooperation with the VPRO in which upcoming filmmakers get the chance to make a feature film. Out of the many entries, 12 synopsises were selected to receive a treatment funding, after which 8 projects were selected to be developed into a scenario. Eventually, only four films were selected for realisation DUMMY is presented a several International Festivals: 26th Fajr International Film Festival, Teheran, 1-11 februari 2008 DUMMY is sold by SND Films to a small Spanish tv canal (Cable) |
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DUMMY was shown at the KARLOVY VARY festival in the Czech Republic and in November it will also be shown at the KOLKATA INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL in Calcutta, India. |
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DUMMY will compete in the Golden Calf (Gouden Kalf) competition at the 26th Dutch Film Festival. On Wednesday September 13th it will be shown at the official opening of Het Ketelhuis.
In DUMMY, the perpetrator and the victim reconstruct the biggest mistake of their lives. The cast consists of, among others, Gijs Scholten van Aschat and Fedja van Huet. On January 23rd, the nominations for Best Short Live Action Film will be made known. |
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Family Affair Films has started with the production of A WARDROBE FOR CHICKEN SAAR; This short film will be shot during the Dutch Film Festival, from September 26th until the 30th, 2007. The première will be on October 4th, during the festival.
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DE BODE can be seen at the LONDON FILM FESTIVAL from October 18th |
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MASS a short film by Diederik van Rooijen, has been sold by SND Films to SBS Australia |