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Media Scout is a start-up organization that can provide all the necessary resources for producers of films, television, and commercials. This includes extras, animals, transport (for filming), locations, crew, specials, and audience. Media Scout is building an extensive database to be able to act quickly on all requests. Currently, RTL Nederland, Talent United, LEV Pictures, and NL Film are among Media Scout's clients. It is possible for every client to search our database themselves for what the client is looking for.

If you want to see something you can't see anywhere else, you need to be at the BUT Film Festival in Breda from September 7 to 11. The B-film, Underground, and Trash Film Festival is being organized there for the sixth consecutive year. BUTFF showcases the most experimental, unconventional, bizarre, groundbreaking, and absurd films. Between screenings, you can immerse yourself in performances, fashion shows, bands, and wandering poets with a high BUT factor. During the festival, you can meet many directors and performers, including this year's Nick Zedd (USA), the founder of the Cinema of Transgression Manifesto from the 70s and 80s. And Martin Degville, the frontman of the 80s hit parade band Sigue Sigue Sputnik, will make an appearance on Saturday night in a glitter suit and high heels.

Theo Maassen, Egbert Jan Weeber, Michiel Huisman, Jack Wouterse, Yorick van Wageningen, Robert de Hoog, Tygo Gernandt, and so on: None of them had played a leading role in a film before when they were asked. Who was to play Joran van der Sloot: An actor with film experience or someone who was suitable for the role? Read about it at http://meandmrjonesonnataleeisland.blogspot.com/2011/08/mag-dat-een-filmhoofdrol-zonder-acteer.html

On August 12, 26-year-old composer Matthijs Kieboom won the film music competition of the 'Transatlantyk International Film & Music Festival' in Poznan, Poland. The eight-day festival and competition were founded by Academy Award-winning composer Jan AP Kaczmarek. Hundreds of composers from around the world participated in the competition, in which each participant had to provide an original composition for two designated films. Ultimately, ten finalists were selected who presented their films to a professional jury during the festival in Poznan. The winner was announced during the closing gala ceremony. Film composer Matthijs Kieboom won the competition with his two compositions and received $20,000 in prize money. Second place was shared by the Greek/Polish Natali Drosou and the American Garth Neustadter. Third place went to the Polish/French Krzysztof A. Janczak. For the young composer from Dordrecht, this prize comes at a perfect time. Together with established film composer Martijn Schimmer, he has started a new company. The company, 'Scripted Music', will focus on writing music for foreign film and drama productions. Schimmer and Kieboom jointly composed the music for, among others: 'Me and Mr Jones', 'In Therapie', and 'Foeksia de miniheks'. The two are now putting the finishing touches on the music for the new Sinterklaas film 'Bennie Stout', which will have its premiere as a family film at the Utrecht Film Festival. The jury of the Transatlantyk Film Music Competition consisted of renowned professionals: - Michael Phillips, producer (Taxi Driver, Close Encounters of the Third Kind) - Richard Gladstein, producer (Finding Neverland, Cider House Rules, Pulp Fiction)
 - Peter Golub, composer (Frozen River, The Great Debaters) Director of Film Music Program at Sundance Institute - Jan AP Kaczmarek, composer (Finding Neverland, Unfaithful), Jury President - Christopher Young, composer (Shipping News, Spider-Man 3) Website: http://www.transatlantyk.org/en/news/closing-gala-and-the-awards http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O87ijP-WPY

Acting Film and TV 2 is a course for advanced students. People with demonstrable (camera) acting experience and participants who have successfully completed Acting Film and TV 1 are admitted. In Acting Film and TV 2, participants are challenged to bring out the best in themselves in front of the camera without being held back by nerves or insecurity. Through the frequent use of the camera, participants will begin to apply their acting skills in practice in a credible manner. The 3 main pillars of the Acting Film and TV 2 program are: 1. Adhering to the basic principles of acting. Keeping acting qualities simple and fluid. Focusing on one's own acting qualities. Feeling comfortable and performing for the camera, fellow actors, and crew. 2. Gaining practical experience; Acting frequently and presenting oneself, preparing scenes, recording, reviewing, and evaluating. Learning to articulate one's own or others' acting skills based on one's own insight. 3. Floor: • Game credibility • Emotions • Focus and concentration • Empathy (imagination) • Collecting • Offer teamwork and counterplay • Character development • Voice usage & diction • Text and role analysis • Camera angles • Style analysis, comedy, drama Practice: At TVCollege, camera and recording equipment is available with which the recorded scenes are reviewed and critically evaluated. During the final lesson, a separate film crew is used. Throughout the study program, every student works towards their own final scene. The film crew records this. This final project is also given to the student on a DVD. If you want to know more about this program or one of the other programs, click now on: