Tonight during the Talkshow of the 27th Netherlands Film Festival, the nominations were announced for the 2007 Golden Calves, the prestigious award for Dutch Cinema. The Jury of the Golden Calves competition selected the nominees after watching 76 film productions in competition. The jury members are André van Duren, Pieter Fleury, Ronald Giphart, Brigit Hillenius, Jannie Langbroek, Reinier Selen, Paula van der Oest (chair woman).

Also in this evening’s Talkshow, the nominations were announced for the Dutch Film Critics Award; 4 Elements by Jiska Rickels, Jimmy Rosenberg – the Father, the Son & the Talent by Jeroen Berkvens and Stages by Mijke de Jong. This press award is granted by the Circle of Dutch Film Critics KNF. This year’s jury is made up of Leo Bankersen, Paul van Es, Sven Gerrets, Oene Kummer en Clementine van Wijngaarden.

The Golden Calves and the Dutch Film Critics Award will be presented during the Netherlands Film Gala on Saturday 6 October from 20:00 to 21:30 in Hall 1 of the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht. The Gala can be watched live on the internet via www.filmfestival.nl, and VPRO TV reports on it from 22:30 on Ned 3.

The Jury awards Golden Calves in seventeen categories: Best Sound Design, Best Editing, Best Production Design, Best Music, Best Photography, Best Short Film, Best Short Documentary, Best Full-Length Documentary, Best TV Drama, Best Male Supporting Role, Best Female Supporting Role, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Script, Best Director, Best Feature Film and the Special Jury Award. No nominations are made for the Special Jury Award.

During the Gala, the Golden Calf for the KPN Audience Award will also be presented to the feature film that got the highest score from festival audiences.

Blind by Tamar van den Dop was awarded the Moviesquad Junior Utrecht Award.

The nominations for the Golden Calves, the prestigious award for Dutch Cinema 2007, in alphabetical order by film title:

BEST SHORT FILM
Missiepoo16 by Anna van der Heide
Le dernier cri by Erwin Olaf
Sigh by Margien Rogaar

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY
Touch me Someplace by Simone de Vries
Martha Vonk goes to Istanbul by Hester Overmars The Bittersweet Temptation by Monique Nolte

BEST FULL-LENGTH DOCUMENTARY
Jimmy Rosenberg – the Father, the Son & the Talent by Jeroen Berkvens Steel and Lavender – The Life and Times of a Dutch Tycoon by Rudolf van den Berg
4 Elements by Jiska Rickels

BEST TV DRAMA
The Prince and the Girl by Peter de Baan Stellenbosch by Michiel van Jaarsveld Slow Love by Boudewijn Koole

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Hubert Pouille for Crusade in Jeans
Vincent de Pater for Wild Romance
Maarten Piersma for Nightwatching

BEST PHOTOGRAPHY
Reinier van Brummelen for Nightwatching Guido van Gennep for The bird can’t fly Richard van Oosterhout for Wolfsbergen

BEST SOUND DESIGN
Jillis Molenaar en Tom Bijnen for 4 Elements
Mark Glynne, Kees de Groot en Joost Roskam for Stages
Peter Flamman for The bird can’t fly

BEST EDITING
Martyn Gould for Wild Romance
Dorith Vinken for Stages
Herman P. Koerts for Crusade in Jeans

BEST MUSIC
Vincent van Warmerdam for Kicks
Bart van de Lisdonk for Duska
Tom Holkenborg for Blind

BEST MALE SUPPORTING ROLE
Sjoerd Pleysier for Dennis P.
Barry Atsma for HannaHannah
Jan Decleir for Wolfsbergen

BEST FEMALE SUPPORTING ROLE
Sylvia Hoeks for Duska
Eva Duijvestein for Kicks
Betty Schuurman for Where is Winky’s Horse?

BEST ACTOR
Marcel Hensema for Wild Romance
Edo Brunner for Dennis P.
Marcel Musters for Stages

BEST ACTRESS
Elsie de Brauw for Stages
Nadja Hüpscher for Dennis P.
Catherine ten Bruggencate for Wolfsbergen

BEST SCRIPT
Nanouk Leopold for Wolfsbergen
Albert ter Heerdt for Kicks
Peter Greenaway for Nightwatching

BEST DIRECTOR
Mijke de Jong for Stages
Peter Greenaway for Nightwatching
Nanouk Leopold for Wolfsbergen

BEST FEATURE FILM
Kruistocht in Spijkerbroek by Kees Kasander for The Kasander Film Company Nightwatching by Kees Kasander for The Kasander Film Company Wolfsbergen by Stienette Bosklopper for Circe Films

Holland Film Meeting
Holland Film Meeting (HFM) ended its five-day run on Monday and the event head Ellis Driessen said it had been “very productive with real results.” Of the projects in the Netherlands Production Platform (NPP), several secured co-producers and sales agents.

Hans de Weers’ Eyeworks Egmond did good business at the NPP. For his new Marleen Gorris project My Father’s Notebook he hopes to sign Germany’s Joachim Von Vietinghoff of Von Vietinghoff Filmproduktion as a co-producer before the end of this year. And Dutch project Cold from director Bea De Visser struck a deal with Berlin-based MDC International to handle international sales.

Several other co-production arrangements are pending, and Driessen said that one of the hottest projects was Irish horror film The Wake Wood to be directed by David Keating (The Last Of The High Kings) and written and co-produced by Brendan McCarthy.

Among the other international producers attending the HFM were Cedomir Kolar of ASAP Films in Paris, Julie Baines of DAN Films in London and Pierre Spengler of Clubdeal Ltd in London.

Holland Film Meeting is backed by the Dutch Film Fund, the MEDIA Programme of the European Union, the Ministry Of Education, Culture & Science and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Among the films in this year’s festival which have been through the NPP process are 2007 Nederlands Film Festival titles Duska directed by Jos Stelling, Nadine directed by Erik de Bruyn, Nanouk Leopold’s Wolfsbergen, Tamar van den Dop’s Blind and Pieter Kuijpers’ Dennis P.

On opening night of the 27th Netherlands Film Festival Frans Afman, chairman of the board of the Netherlands Film Festival, was knighted to Companion of the Order of Orange-Nassau. The festival ends October 6 with the Netherlands Film Gala where the Golden Calves and the Dutch Film Critics Award will be presented.