The 19thHolland Film Meeting, held Sept 29-Oct 1 during the Netherlands Film Festival,will present 21 feature film projects this year as part of the NetherlandsProduction Platform.

The eightDutch and 13 European feature will be pitched to apanel of international producers and financiers. The Dutch films are eligiblefor a prize of $6336 (Euros 5000) put up by Kodak.

HollandFilm Meeting also announced that this year's Binger-Screen International interview will be held with Jasmila Zbanic, director of Berlinale Golden Bear winner Grbavica. Zbanicwill discuss her work with ScreenInternational's Finn Halligan on Sept29.

TheHolland Film Meeting's other programmes include the Benelux Screenings offeatures and documentaries to international buyers. The Erich Pommer Institut will give an internationalco-production worksho while panels are also plannedabout new distribution models and international co-productions.

Theprojects selected for the Production Platform are:

1953 (Netherlands)

production company Nijenhuis and DeLevita Film and TV (Alain de Levita,Johan Nijenhuis), director Ben Sombogaart

ALBERTINEAND THE SECRETOF ZATI SONGOR (Germany)

production company Mediopolis Film-und Fernsehproduktion (Alexander Ris,Jog Rothe), scriptwriter DagmarGabler

THE BIGBAD WOLF (Belgium)

production company Cine 3 (AntoninoLombardo, Rudi Van Den Bossche), director Jan Maillard

BONAPPETIT (Spain)

production company Morena Films(Pedro Uriol), director David Pinillos

CHRISTMASSTORY (Germany)

production company Diadik (RolandSchmidt), director Juha Wuolijoki

DEAD GIRL(Netherlands)

production company Accento Films(Claudia Brandt), director Elbert van Strien

HITMAN (Switzerland)

production company Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion (KarinKoch), director Samir Pola

INVOLUNTARY(Sweden)

production company Plattform Produktion (Erik Hemmendorff),director Ruben Otlund

JOESPEEDBOAT (Netherlands)

production company IJswater (Marc Bary), director Andrevan Duren

LARA (Slovenia)

production company Bela Film (IdaWeiss), director Blaz Kutin

LULU'SRETURN (Netherlands)

producer to be announced, scriptwriter Benedict Schillemans

MOSCOW VELOCITY(UK)

production company Swipe Films (Frank Mannion),director Johnny O'Reilly

MUTABOR (Hungary)

production company Eurofilm Studio(Peter Miskolczi), directorCan Togay

NIEMBA (Ireland)

production company Magma Films (Gerry McColgan),director John Conroy

SMOOTHOPERATOR (Luxemburg)

production company T Films (Heinz Thym),director Raffill Stewart

SOMEOTHER STORIES (Serbia)

production company SEE Film Pro(Nenad Dukic), directors:Hanna Slak (Slovenia), Ivona Juka (Croatia), Ines Tanovic (Bosnia & Herzegovina) Marija Dzidzeva (Macedonia) and AnaMaria Rossi (Serbia)

SUMMERHEAT (Netherlands)

production company MulhollandPictures (Ate de Jong), director Monique van de Ven, scriptwriter Edwin the Vries

MYADVENTURES BY V. SWCHWRM (Netherlands)

production company Lemming Film (Joostde Vries, Leontine Petit),director Norbert ter Hall

SURFACE (Netherlands)

production company Isabella Films (ElsVandevorst), scriptwriters Melinda Gerber, Jeroen Lok

ZERO (Poland)

production company Opus film (Ewa Puszczynska), director Pawel Borowski

THE ZIGZAG KID (Netherlands)

production company BosBros Film& TV Productions (Sabine Veenendaal, Michiel de Rooij), directorVincent Bal

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