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rotterdamfilmsProducers Mildred van Leeuwaarden & Dirk Rijneke Rotterdam Films Rotterdam Films is an independent production company founded by Dirk Rijneke and Mildred van Leeuwaarden. It produces and co-produces documentaries and fiction films. Award winning Silent Ones by first time director Ricky Rijneke will be released in the Netherlands in 2014. Festivalhit Silent Ones nominated for the prestigious Tiger Competition for upcoming talent premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2013. Rijneke & van Leeuwaarden produced, initiated and conceived City Life, the monumental award winning episode film. A film consisting of twelve episodes, together forming a visual anthology of international short stories. Directors involved are among others Krzysztof Kieslowski, Béla Tarr, Alejandro Agresti, José Luis Guerin and Mrinal Sen. For this project they (co)produced with companies, broadcasters and funding bodies from all over the globe. City Life had its world premiere on the opening night of the Filmfest Rotterdam, it was the closing film of the Berlin Festivals´ Young Forum and won several awards. Award-winning thriller Reykjavik-Rotterdam by Oskar Jonasson, a co-production with the Icelandic production company Blueeyes Productions and Bavaria Film International, was Iceland’s Oscar entry for best foreign film. ‘Reykjavik-Rotterdam’s Hollywood remake, entitled Contraband directed by Baltasar Kormákur, starring Mark Wahlberg and Kate Beckinsale was released in January 2012 by Universal Pictures. In the first weekend of its release it became USA boxoffice hit nr. 1 In the works is Hotel Europe second arthouse feature film by Ricky Rijneke and Hier by Balint Kenyeres.
Silent Ones by Ricky Rijneke awarded at the Los Angeles Women’s Indie Film Festival 2014.Silent Ones by Ricky Rijneke awarded at the Los Angeles Women’s Indie Film Festival 2014. The Dutch feature film Silent Ones by Ricky Rijneke won two awards last weekend in Los Angeles at the Women's Independent Film Festival 2014. Silent Ones won prize for best cinematography and was also given an ‘Honorable Mention’ in the category Narrative Feature Film. The Los Angeles Women's Independent Film Festival offers a platform to female filmmakers from all parts of the world. The Film Festival is looking for the best independent films made by women. Silent Ones is the feature debut by Ricky Rijneke and has already been screened at many international festivals including Moscow, Sarajevo, Sao Paulo, Montreal, Los Angeles and Berlin. The film has already won several international prizes including ones for the best debut, best cinematography, best actor and recently the main prize for best film at the one Berlin Independent Film Festival.Previously, Silent Ones was nominated for the Tiger Award, the competition program and flagship of the International Film Festival Rotterdam way the film was very positively received by the professional press. Festivalists speak of an “impressive debut feature” and refer to the work of Tarkowski and Béla Tarr. The leading role in Silent Ones is played by the Hungarian actress and Berlinale shooting star Orsi Toth who has also been seen in Delta (Cannes), Women Without Men (Silver Lion at Venice) and The Notebook (Grand Prix Karlovy Vary) and recently White God (Cannes 2014). Silent Ones tells the story of a young Hungarian woman (Orsi Tóth) whose little brother Isti has disappeared and then leaves on board a freighter to fulfil a promise to him. A surrealistic trip balances on the brink of life and death.Silent Ones was produced by Rotterdam Films (Rijneke & van Leeuwaarden) and was made with support from the Netherlands Film Fund and the Mondrian Fund. International sales are being handled by the French sales agent Wide Management. The distributor Contact Film is bringing the film out at the end of November this year in the Netherlands. View the new trailer for Silent Ones: 19.05.2014 | rotterdamfilms's blog Cat. : awarded Los Angeles Women’s Indie Film Festival 2014 Rotterdamfilms Silent Ones Silent Ones a film by Ricky Rijneke AWARDS
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