This month, the Netherlands Film Fund announced the recipients of the second round of the Netherlands Film Production Incentive. On this occasion, the agency will back 35 new projects with a total amount of €11.4 million. More precisely, the bursaries will fund the making of 22 features, five documentaries, one animated film, six drama series, and one documentary series, including 22 international co-productions. These contributions are estimated to generate over €43.7 million in production spend in the Netherlands.

The big winner of this slate of funding is the 3x90 drama series Van der Valk (recipient of a grant of €1,131,404), penned by British writers Chris Murray and Maria Ward, and staged by UK’s Company Television with Dutch outfit  NL Film & TV. The other five drama series supported by the organisation are Tim Oliehoek’s 8x48 Arcadia (€300,000, produced by Belgium’s Jonnydepony and  Big Blue Productions in the Netherlands), Lourens Blok and Edson da Conceicao’s 5x50 The Crash (€951,336, a Big Blue Productions presentation), Thomas Seeberg Torjussen’s 10x20 Dome 16 (€73,000, produced by Norway’s Tordenfilm and co-produced by Big Blue Productions), Meikeminne Clinckspoor’s 10x10 Het Herriehofje (€274,496, staged by Lemming Film) and the third season of Sia Hermanides and Alieke van Saarloos’ 10x25 Ninja Nanny (€497,400, produced by Storytellers Film & TV). The only non-fiction series backed by the fund is Tomas Kaan’s 4x45 The Seasons (€182,384, a De Haaien production).

The other five non-fiction projects receiving the body’s support are all features, namely Joris Postema’s A Fool’s Last Dance (€56,673, produced by DOXY Films), Barbara Makkinga’s Godwit Was Here (€115,577, a Witfilm production), Loretta van der Horst’s Green Line (€97,136, produced by Tangerine Tree), Maria Augusta Ramos’ Justice under Suspicion (€57,299, produced by Brazil’s Nofoco Filmes and co-produced by Germany’s Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion Köln and Dutch firm Docmakers) and Reber Dosky’s Yezidi Girls – A New Life (€85,361, produced by Dieptescherpte).

Meanwhile, the 22 supported features are Sander Burger’s Totem (€448,770, produced by Volya Films and co-produced by Luxembourg’s Tarantula and Germany’s Leitwolf), Aaron Rookus’ Apollo (€316,430, a Topkapi Films presentation), Sahim Omar Kalifa’s Baghdad Messi [+lire aussi :
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interview : Sahim Omar Kalifa
fiche film] (€106,273, produced by Belgium’s A Team Productions and co-produced by Dutch firm Column Film), Camiel Schouwenaar’s Bigman (€342,879, staged by Rinkel Film and co-produced by Germany’s ostlicht filmproduktion), Ineke Houtman’s The Book of Everything (€380,735, produced by Dutch outfits Fatt Productions and Kaap Holland Film with Latvia’s White Picture), Lukas Dhont’s Close [+lire aussi :
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interview : Eden Dambrine
interview : Lukas Dhont
interview : Lukas Dhont
fiche film] (€83,916, produced by Belgium’s Menuet with Topkapi Films, Belgium’s Versus Production and France’s Diaphana), Aurora Gossé’s Dancing Queen [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] (working title: Dance Fever) (€169,086, produced by Norway’s Oslo Pictures and co-produced by Phanta Basta!), Diederik van Rooijen’s Dropping (€228,119, a British-Dutch-Belgian co-production staged by UK’s FilmWave, Belgium’s A Private View and the Netherlands’ Lemming Film), Mannin de Wildt’s Foodies (€422,785, produced by Dutch firms Phanta Film and Goldman Film), Jessica Woodworth’s Luka [+lire aussi :
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interview : Jessica Woodworth
fiche film] (€80,100, led-produced by Bo Films and co-produced by Volya Films in the Netherlands alongside Armenia’s Dokino, Belgium’s Beluga Tree, Bulgaria’s Art Fest and Italy’s Palosanto Films),  Anna van Keimpema’s Happy Single (€499,999, staged by Dutch outfit Tom de Mol Productions), Jelle de Jonge’s Homeward (€547,313, produced by Hazazah Pictures with Belgian partners of Menuetto Film), Milčo Mančevski’s Kaymak (€63,113, staged by Macedonia’s Banana Film in co-operation with Denmark’s Meta Film, Croatia’s Jaako dobra produkcija and the Netherlands’ N279 Entertainment), Omar Razzak’s Killing Crabs (€78,435, staged by Spain’s Tourmalet Films with Dutch partners of IJswater Films), Froukje Tan’s Kung Fu Lion (€422,394, a Dutch-Chinese co-production by Flinck Film and China Film Co.), Jaap van Heusden’s The Man from Rome [+lire aussi :
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interview : Jaap van Heusden et Rogier…
fiche film] (€414,349, also staged by IJswater Films with Germany’s Fiction Park), Tallulah Schwab’s Mr. K. (€713,558, produced by The Film Kitchen and Belgium’s A Private View), Will Koopman’s Neem me mee (€533,912, staged by NL Film & TV and co-produced by Belgium’s Dingie),  Pim van Hoeve’s Pirates Down the Street – 2 (€544,342, a Johan Nijenhuis & Co presentation), Albert Jan van Rees’ Summer in France (€234,000, a 2CFILM production), Ena Sendijarivic’s Sweet Dreams (€527,816, produced by Lemming Film and Sweden’s Plattform Produktion) and Lilian Sijbesma’s Under the Naked Sky (€227,559, a Dutch-Belgian co-production by Revolver Film and Herzele-based Serendipity Films).

Finally, the only animated feature receiving a bursary is Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal’s They Shot the Piano Player [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] (€198,268, produced by Spain’s Fernando Trueba Producciones and co-produced by France’s Les Films D'ici, Portugal’s Animanostra Cam Lda and Dutch studio Submarine Animation).