All NL Wave articles
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NewsSecond edition of NLWave hailed success by international programmers
Several works in progress from last year’s inagural edition have also made it onto the international festival circuit.
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FeaturesNina Gantz on hatching new animated feature ‘Once Upon An Egg’
The UK-based Dutch director’s ambitious stop-motion animation feature has a budget of €9m and is produced by Keplerfilm, the company behind Cannes winner Armand.
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NewsWhy international sales agents are embracing Dutch films
Montreal-based Attraction Distribution attended NLWave in search of acquisitions.
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NewsHow black humour is powering the follow-up doc to ‘Myanmar Diaries’
What Happened To My Country, What Happened To Me is by the underground filmmaking organisation Myanmar Film Collective.
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NewsDutch producer Edwin Goldman on the true story that gave birth to buzzy debut ‘Stairway To Earth’
Ewa Puszczyńska of Extreme Emotions is on board as the Polish producer.
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FeaturesHow NLWave is at the heart of Dutch efforts to get local films in front of audiences
“The bar is set high for standing out,” says Iwana Chronis, CEO of the Netherlands Film Fund.
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NewsEna Sendijarevic’s ‘The Possessed’ starring Ariane Labed among first projects for NLWave 26
The French-language film is in prep for a mid-September shoot.
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Features“There was something for everyone”: International attendees cheer first NLWave25
Source: Courtesy of NLWave NLWave 25 The pilot edition of Dutch showcase NLWave25 took place from September 24-26 in Utrecht and ended on an upbeat note. Forty-five Dutch feature projects were presented over two days to an audience of international execs from companies including The Playmaker ...
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FeaturesIris Otten, producer of anticipated Dutch title ‘A Family’, on why she is driven by the spirit of ‘Dirty Dancing’
Mees Peijnenburg’s ’A Family’ is a coproduction with the Dhont brothers Flemish outfit The Reunion.
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FeaturesWith ‘Our Girls’, Dutch Oscar winner Mike van Diem was determined to make an ambitious film with unlikeable characters
The director says he was inspired by ‘Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf’.
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FeaturesDebut director Muriel d’Ansembourg on portraying the adult film world in NLWave title ‘Truly Naked’
With its dark themes and explicit sexual content, UK-set film will require deft and sensitive handling by distributors.
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NewsNetherlands Film Fund’s Sandra den Hamer on the launch of Dutch showcase NLWave25
Two-day event provides the international industry a first look at 44 hot projects from the Netherlands.