Netherlands Film Festival announces its selection of Holland Film Meeting 2017

The Netherlands Film Festival (NFF) is proud to present this year’s HFM selection, which includes a total of 24 projects from 19 different countries. Fourteen projects were selected for the Co-Pro Platform, of which three are works-in-progress. They are presented to some of international cinema's most important and influential financiers, distributors, sales agents and producers, in order to stimulate their co-production. The selection of BoostNL, a collaborative initiative with IFFR's Cinemart designed to strengthen market assistance, comprises four international and three Dutch projects in development, as well as two international and one Dutch work-in-progress. All projects are in the running for a number of prizes which will be announced during the closing ceremony on 26 September. Holland Film Meeting runs 24-27 September.

Selection HFM Co-Pro Platform:

• CITIZEN B by Hamy Ramezan – Production company: Aamu Film Company Ltd. (Finland)
• THE GENDARME by Dan Chisu – Production company: Domestic Film (Romania)
• THE GRAVE DIGGER by Khadar Ahmed – Production company: Bufo (Finland)
• IF THE LIGHT TAKES US by Anna Maria Helgadottir – Production company: Masterplan Pictures (Denmark)
• LABOUR DAY by Mladen Djordjevic – Production company: SENSE Production (Serbia)
• LIFE AFTER ZORO by Raf Reyntjens – Production company: Bulletproof Cupid (Belgium)
• LAS NIÑAS by Pilar Palomero – Production company: Inicia Films (Spain)
• RUM DOXY DIVER by Lindy Heymann – Production company: Hurricane Films (UK)
• SNOW AND THE BEAR by Selcen Ergun – Production company: Albino Zebra (Turkey)
• THE WHOLE-TIMERS by Bibhusan Basnet and Pooja Gurung – Production company: Les Films du Tambour (France/Nepal)
• WILD SUMMER by Marteinn Thorsson – Production company: Tenderlee Motion Pictures Company (Iceland)

Selection HFM Work-in-Progress:

• THE CHAMPION by Giordano Bianchi and Martina Marafatto - Production company: Border Studio (Italy)
• LIGHT AS FEATHERS by Rosanne Pel - Production company: Family Affair Films (The Netherlands)
• MAGNETIC PATHWAYS by Edgar Pêra - Production company: Bando à Parte (Portugal)

Selection BoostNL:



International projects in development:

• BABY by Marcelo Caetano – Production company: África Filmes (Brazil)
• NASIR by Arun Karthick – Production company: Stray Factory (India)
• THE STRANGER by Zhengfan Yang – Production company: Burn The Film (China)
• LA VACA QUE CANTÓ UNA CANCIÓN SOBRE EL FUTURO by Francisca Alegría - Production company: Jirafa (Chile)

Dutch projects in development:

• BEYOND THE BLUE BRIDGE by Isabel Lamberti – Production company: IJswater Films
• THE HAGUE HILTON by Boris Paval Conen – Production company: Family Affair Films
• LIFE ON MARS (working title) by Michiel van Erp – Production company: De Familie Film & TV

International and Dutch works-in-progress:

• LA CAMA by Monica Lairana – Producers: Adriana Yurcovich, Paulo Pécora and Gema Juarez Allen (Argentina) 
• NOCTURNE by Viktor van der Valk – Production company: Maniak Film (The Netherlands)
• DER UNSCHULDIGE by Simon Jaquemet – Production company: 8horses (Switzerland)

Awards

The HFM Co-Pro Platform grants the following prizes: The Cam-a-lot & Filmmore Cinema Emerging Talent Prize for Best Project (valued at €10,000 in camera and post-production facilities) and The WarnierPosta Prize (valued at €5,000 in audio post-production facilities in one of the WarnierPosta studios). The Filmmore Work-in-Progress Prize, valued at €5,000 in facility services, will be awarded to one of the HFM work-in-progress selections.



Holland Film Meeting takes place September 24 – 27 and is the business arm of the Netherlands Film Festival, which runs September 20 – 29 in Utrecht.