Dear film lover, With the Line Dolly crane, you can create images from the ground up to 3 meters high in a smooth motion and also rotate 360 degrees. Furthermore, a low shot is included to create super low shots in combination with the Line Dolly. This allows for panning and tilting. All this, together with 6 meters of solid tracks that can be assembled without tools, for only 80 euros per day. Check out http://linedolly.weebly.com/ now for more information. Kind regards, Line Dolly Support

In the former Hendrik de Keijser school building in Amsterdam-West / Bos en Lommer, we offer two workspaces in a beautiful, renovated, high-ceilinged space with plenty of light and a built-in mezzanine. The floor area of the space measures 50m², and there is a built-in mezzanine of an additional 25m². There is a kitchenette, a large table, and a seating area for general use, meetings, etc. Furthermore, the studio floor is kept as clear as possible so that it can be used as a photo studio from time to time. We have four desks on the mezzanine serving as individual workspaces. Two connected desks will become available as of October 1st. The spots are ideal for, for example, two freelancers running a business together, but we are also offering the desks individually. We are a photo and video production company and share the space with another documentary photographer. None of us use the studio full-time. We are looking for two co-tenants who work in roughly the same field. Think of photographers, filmmakers/videographers, graphic designers, editors, producers, image editors, etc. The rent is €200 incl. VAT and service charges / per workstation per month, incl. gas, water, electricity and Wi-Fi usage. Interested? Contact us at [email protected]. We would love to hear about your work and how you plan to use the studio.

RICKY RIJNEKE selected for Toronto Talent Lab Filmmaker Ricky Rijneke is the first Dutch woman invited to the prestigious Toronto Talent Lab, an artistic development program taking place during the Toronto International Film Festival from September 10–20. Each year, the Toronto Talent Lab selects only ten new international talents from all continents and ten young Canadian filmmakers. The Lab has appointed 'Governors', prominent film professionals who act as mentors. This year's 'Governors' are director Wim Wenders and American producer Jim Stark. Participants can also meet with renowned filmmakers to discuss their projects and focus on the artistic and substantive aspects of filmmaking. Guest speakers include Stephan Frears, Claire Denis, Christopher Doyle, Jia Zhang-Ke, and Agnieszka Holland. Rijneke is going to Toronto with her new feature film project, The Hunter's Son. With this project, she was also selected for the intensive 8-month Script&Pitch training at Torino FilmLab 2015. The Hunter's Son is produced by Rotterdam Films in co-production with, among others, France. The Hunter's Son is Ricky Rijneke's second feature film project. She made an international name for herself with her first short film, Wing, the fish that talked back, and her award-winning feature film debut, Silent Ones, for which she brought together a host of award-winning European talent. Silent Ones was nominated for the Tiger Award competition at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. This was followed by a triumphant tour of many international festivals, including Moscow, Sarajevo, Sao Paulo, Montreal, and Rio de Janeiro. The film was nominated a total of twelve times and won eight international awards, including in New York, Toronto, Berlin, and Los Angeles. Talent Lab Governor and producer Jim Stark (including a number of films by Jim Jarmusch) about Silent Ones: “With gorgeous visual imagery and an elliptical but very poetic story, her debut film Silent Ones has earned Ricky Rijneke a place among Europe's best young up and coming directors.” Silent Ones appeared in Dutch cinemas in December 2014 and was unanimously praised by the national press. Het Volkskrant 2014 Year in Review included Silent Ones in the list of 'Best Dutch Films': “a dreamscape that is unprecedented in Dutch Cinema”.

Een documentaire-dag met lezingen over animatie en interactie in en bij documentaires, feedback op de documentaireplannen en de vertoning van de bijzondere, interactieve Submarine productie Last Hijack. Deze dag wordt je aangeboden door Cinesud, DocFest en Zuyd Hogeschool. Stijl en inhoud De manier waarop in documentaires verhalen worden verteld verandert. De manier waarop we ze ervaren ook. Tijdens deze dag willen we je aan de hand van twee prikkelende lezingen m.b.t. concrete cases, de viewing van een bijzondere (interactieve) documentaire en gerichte feedback op je eigen idee (vernieuwende) inzichten geven in hoe je je verhaal en visie kunt verbeelden in een documentaire. Er zijn talloze mogelijkheden. Hisko Hulsing is een animatieregisseur, schilder, illustrator, storyboardtekenaar en componist. Hulsing's korte animatiefilms worden wereldwijd op filmfestivals, internet en televisie vertoond. Zijn laatste korte film Junkyard won 25 internationale prijzen, was de Nederlandse inzending voor de Oscars en werd genomineerd voor een gouden kalf. Voor de Amerikaanse documentaire Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck van Brett Morgen maakte hij in zijn stijl twee lange animatiesequenties met zijn 18-koppige team animators. Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck is wereldwijd uitgebracht in de bioscopen door Universal Pictures. HBO zond de film uit in mei 2015. De film is genomineerd voor 7 Emmy awards. Hisko Hulsing's stijl kenmerkt zich doordat zijn duistere, realistische olieverfschilderijen de basis vormen van de animatie. In zijn lezing zal hij met beeld- en geluidmateriaal alle aspecten van zijn animatietechnieken bespreken en verslag doen over zijn samenwerking met Brett Morgen. Remco Vlaanderen van Submarine zal een lezing geven over Last Hijack, een interactief documentaireproject met een bijzondere vorm en bijzondere inhoud. Vlaanderen zal onder andere ingaan op algemene zaken zoals het financieringstraject, de pr en distributie, maar er is ook speciale aandacht voor de totstandkoming van de animatiestijl van Last Hijack, welke vandaag ook wordt vertoond. Fredrik Nicolai van Off World zal een vooruitblik geven op de interactieve documentaire Archibelge. De televisieserie Archibelge heeft de kijker een goed idee gegeven hoe het Belgische architecturale landschap eruit ziet. Nergens anders ter wereld als in België kom je deze bizarre en intrigerende vorm van urbanisatie tegen. Of beter geformuleerd: elk gebrek aan urbanisatie. Na de lunchpauze is er gelegenheid om in één-op-één gesprekken met deskundige documentairemakers en professionals (zoals Erik van Drunen en Marc Schmidt) je idee te toetsen en, naast de input uit de lezingen van de ochtend, te voorzien van extra lagen en diepte. Het is de bedoeling dat je na afloop van de één-op-één sessies kort je bevindingen die je hebt opgedaan presenteert, zodat ook de andere aanwezigen hier iets aan kunnen hebben. We sluiten de dag af met een borrel. Na afloop hiervan ben je vanzelfsprekend van harte welkom tijdens de officiële openingsavond van het festival. Het programma 09.30 - 10.30 uur: lezing Hisko Hulsing 10.45 - 11.15 uur: lezing Remco Vlaanderen (Submarine) 11.30 - 13.00 uur: vertoning Last Hijack 13.00 - 14.00 uur: lunch 14.00 - 16.00 uur: één op één sessies met vakprofessionals waarin je feedback kunt krijgen op je docu-idee. In een andere zaal zijn lezingen door regionale documentairemakers 16.00 uur: borrel (De tijd waarop Fredrik Nicolai (Offworld) een lezing zal verzorgen wordt spoedig bekend gemaakt.) Schuif na de borrel gezellig aan op de hoofdlocatie van het festival in de foodgarden en kom naar de gratis openingsfilm! Aanmelden Kosten voor deze totale dag bedragen €45 inclusief lunch en twee consumpties. Vooraf aanmelden is verplicht. Als je feedback wilt op een plan, gelieve dit expliciet aan te geven in het opmerkingenveld tijdens het aanmeldproces.

Euregion Shorts offers you not only a continuous traveling program with the best short films from the Meuse-Rhine Euregion, we also offer you a two-days festival experience with the best films from all over the world (maximum duration: 20 minutes, every genre), an award show, workshops and more. As a professional, you can submit your film only by using FilmFreeway (see www.euregionshorts.eu). Please read the regulations carefully. For you as filmfreak or regular public, take a look at our events-page, you don’t want to miss our next event! The first edition of the Euregion Short Film Festival will take place in December 2015 in Limburg (NL). You can submit your film via www.filmfreeway.com/festival/EuregionShorts For the traveling program, every three months an event will be organized in a different city in the Euregion in which the best and most remarkable films from the Meuse-Rhine Euregion will be screened. Each event, an experienced professional will be invited to share his or her knowledge. At the end of the year, a festival program will be presented. This program contains selections of films from all over the world, workshops, an award show and more. If your film is selected, you are automatically in the running for several prizes during the festival. Euregion Shorts aims to connect professionals, filmmakers and the public in an international context. For more info please visit www.euregionshorts.eu.

Filmpeople, the online platform for Dutch filmmakers, has refreshed the interface for its users and is working on improving communication with members and account holders. The organization has been maintaining platforms such as Filmvacatures.nl, Filmindustry.nl, Filmstart, and Filmnieuws.nu for years. The number of users is steadily increasing. Consequently, many structural technical adjustments have been implemented on the Filmpeople platforms over the past two years. The software on which the websites run was well prepared for the future, but as a result, much of the work took place behind the scenes. Significant improvements are now also visible on the outside. Fedor Limperg, one of the founders of Filmpeople: “Letting the programmers do their thing is enormously important, because without that, nothing is possible. But we have now reached the point where we can also tackle the visible aspects. We recently created clearer icons in the dashboard and rewrote accompanying texts and explanations. It is very simple, but it makes the platform a lot more user-friendly.” In the process, the helpdesk was also streamlined, an extensive archive of 'frequently asked questions' was compiled, and information about Filmpeople and the ideals behind the network is now available online. “During an email survey, we discovered that many filmmakers enjoy using our services and websites, but are not always aware of the full range of possibilities.” The organization aims to better communicate what Filmpeople offers as a network for people working in the Dutch film industry. The improvements to the network's websites are partly driven by the growing membership base; the number of paying members more than doubled last year, from 700 to 1,500. Limperg explains: “Thanks to this strong growth, we can now further develop the networking functions of our sites. And that is great, because our heart lies with the creative maker, and we want to facilitate and make easier the creation of beautiful, distinctive films. We want to connect filmmakers with each other as much as possible, so that they can creatively cross-pollinate each other.” For more information about Filmpeople, you can visit: http://www.filmpeople.nl/paginas/view/150

A review of the latest film by filmmaker Terrence Malick, Knights of Cups, can be found on https://myjour.com. Also available to read on Blendl, TPO Magazine, and Elinea. (Film and TV & Art)

The KADER Film Festival is looking for new audiovisual productions in the categories feature film, documentary, animation, experimental, and music video from emerging and more experienced filmmakers from the South-East Brabant region*. An expert jury will select a winner in each category, who will be awarded a certificate. For the terms and conditions and the registration form, go to: www.kaderfestival.nl The deadline for submissions is November 16, 2015. The festival will take place on the weekend of January 15 to 17 at De Cacaofabriek in Helmond. Reusel-De Mierden, Oirschot, Bladel, Eersel, Bergeijk, Valkenswaard, Waalre, Veldhoven, Best, Son en Breugel, Laarbeek, Nuenen, Geldrop-Mierlo, Cranendonck, Heeze-Leende, Helmond, Someren, Gemert-Bakel, Deurne, Asten, Eindhoven

Dear filmmaker, ShortsTV, the premier TV channel for short films, offers you the chance to pitch your new short film project during The Pitch competition at the 35th Netherlands Film Festival. The winner will receive a €5,000 production budget plus professional guidance from ShortsTV. Additionally, the winning pitch will be promoted on Cinecrowd.nl to secure an additional €5,000 in crowdfunding for the project. What is The Pitch? After previous editions, we have decided to make The Pitch a bit more exciting and implement some changes – including a live final opposite a jury panel of experts. You get 30 seconds to present your idea – The Pitch – for a future short film project live at the NFF. The pitches are then presented to the audience via Facebook, supplemented by a 15-second reel of previous work. For example, a short film or a showreel (which may be screened with permission). The four pitches with the most votes automatically advance to the final, while the fifth finalist is selected by the NFF. If your application is accepted, you will be invited to the Netherlands Film Festival on Thursday, September 24, to deliver your pitch directly in front of the camera, in one take. The final takes place on Monday, September 28, with a live audience and in the presence of a jury panel of experts. For the final, each participant receives 2 minutes, plus an additional demoral of 45 seconds. The winner will be announced that same evening. For detailed information, visit The Pitch page at www.eu.shorts.tv Application closing date Sunday, September 13, 2015. See you at the festival! Kind regards, SHORTS TV