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Rotterdam media fund in court

ROTTERDAM MEDIA FUND BEFORE THE JUDGE Ricky Rijneke (1981, www.rickyrijneke.com) Werkstad Producties, producer, director, and copyright holder of the short film WING, the fish that talked back (2007), has sued the Rotterdam Media Fund (RMF) for intentional infringement of her copyright. The case will be heard by the court in Rotterdam on February 23. The Rotterdam Media Fund, among other things, made the film publicly available on its website for free with English subtitles without requesting or obtaining permission. This public disclosure of the film is detrimental to the exploitation of the rights by Ricky Rijneke and her international sales agent Elypse Short Film Distribution (www.elypsefilm.com). RMF refused to remove the film from the internet. Only after the intervention of a lawyer was the film removed from the RMF website. The film fund infringed copyright by the publication (Articles 31 and 31a of the Copyright Act). According to the legislature, intentionally infringing copyright is a criminal offense. Copyright infringement is also known as piracy or copyright crime. Ricky Rijneke is filing a lawsuit to obtain a ruling regarding the intentional infringement of her copyright. She will subsequently seek compensation for the material and immaterial damages suffered. The first request in July 2009 to remove the film from the web was answered by the director of the Rotterdam Media Fund, Mr. J. van Heijningen, with the remark: 'Dear, don't know what you're talking about. It's not on our website.' The Chairwoman of the Rotterdam Film Fund, Ms. A. van Leeuwen-Gijsberts, responded to the second request for removal with intimidation and threats of retaliatory measures. After RMF removed the film from the website following a cease and desist letter from a lawyer, the fund issued a number of serious threats once again and attempted to sweep the matter under the rug. Rijneke states that the position of a subsidy-dependent filmmaker is indeed vulnerable, but she does not wish to give in to intimidation. WING, the fish that talked back is Rijneke's debut film. The film was screened at about fifty international festivals, including the prestigious Locarno Film Festival ('Leopards of Tomorrow' competition), where it had its world premiere. The film received various international awards, including: Best International Short (USA), Prix Du Jury (France), Special Mention, and Best Debut (Scenecs). Summary WING, the fish that talked back Six-year-old Wing lives in the Netherlands. Her family comes from China. Little Wing is fascinated by aquatic life and curious about the country she comes from. Fantasy and reality mingle in Wing's story: an old grandma who doesn't want to talk, a few fish, and a cup of tea. OR: One day, six-year-old Asian girl Wing gets lost in her fantasy, which takes on strange forms. The events in her world are wondrous, sometimes strange and frightening. Cast and Crew Cast: Winola Wong, Kiemlan Tjong, Moon Lee Ho Direction and Script: Ricky Rijneke - Production: Werkstad Producties - Camera: Benito Strangio - Sound Design: Ranko Paukovic Source: Werkstad Productions www.nieuwsbank.nl/inp/2011/02/23/G007.htm

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Seven short films from the Netherlands on Imagine

In its annual short film program, Imagine once again explores every corner of Europe; from France to Poland, from Great Britain to Spain. 21 films, divided into two blocks, with a striking predominance of the Netherlands. Seven Dutch short films were selected: Last year, animation studio il Luster delivered Imagine the Méliès d'Argent winner Pivot. This year, the studio is represented by three contributions: the film noir featuring stuffed animals Little Quentin (Albert 't Hooft, Paco Vink), the one-minute space adventure Lost in Space (Frodo Kuipers), and Variété (Roelof van den Bergh), which was nominated for an Oscar last year—beautiful traditional animation in which an entire life is reduced to a variety show. In Get Real! (Evert de Beijer), a rebellious love story rooted in the imaginative world of gamers, the studio colors wildly outside the lines. In Suiker (Jeroen Annokkee), we are back in the three-dimensional world. How the classic question: 'Neighbor, can I borrow a cup of sugar from you?' can derail into a full-fledged tragicomedy in just a few minutes. The film won both the audience award and the award for best comedy at the recent Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival. So, not to be missed! A mouse plague doesn't surprise us, but in De Grote Stad (Nova van Dijk), a student living in a rented room is plagued by a… plague of whores. You don't solve that with a traditional trap. In Walzer (Rob Lücker), we find ourselves underground, where three men in a tense atmosphere are searching for… well, for what exactly? Meanwhile, the viewer imagines themselves in a stylized horror fairy tale à la Caro & Jeunet.

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