The Netherlands'Rinkel Film & TV will be joining forces withHamburg-based Neue Impulsto produce writer-director Melinda Jansen's ARecipe For Hendrik Hadders, which won the Talent Highlight Pitch Award2006 at Berlinale's Talent Project Market.

Jansen's script for the "coming of middle-agedrama" was developed at the Binger Film Lab in Amsterdamand had received the KODAK Development Prize at last year's NetherlandsProduction Platform. Several Dutch distributors are reportedly "veryinterested" in the project.

Principal photography will begin this autumn and continue,after a winter break, in spring 2007, with theatrical release planned forautumn 2007.