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One of Europe's most celebrated actresses, Carice van Houten is perhaps best known as 'Melisandre' in the iconic TV show Game of Thrones, a performance for which she has been recognized with an Emmy Award nomination in 2019. Other projects include Paul Verhoeven's award-winning Black Book and Bryan Singer's Valkyrie opposite Tom Cruise and as Melisandre on Game of Thrones. Recent projects include Instinct and Temple, a TV show for Sky opposite Mark Strong, which has been picked up for a second season.
Her Dutch-language feature Love Life, gained her further critical acclaim and broke box office records in her native Holland. Her next film Happy Housewive won her a record breaking 5th Golden Calf at The Netherlands Film Festival and was voted 'Best Dutch Actress of All Time' by the Dutch audience. Other awards include Best Actress for Black Butterflies at the Tribeca Film Festival and the Best Performance award for Instinct at the Les Arcs Film Festival 2019.
Her credits include Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's Intruders and Bill Condon's The Fifth Estate, the Jesse Owens biopic, Race, with Jason Sudekis and Jeremy Irons and voiced a character in The Simpsons. She can also be seen in Brian de Palma's Domino and in Brimstone, opposite Dakota Fanning, Guy Pearce and Kit Harrington, and The Glass Room, with Claes Bang. She played a leading role in Halina Reijn's directorial feature debut Instinct, opposite Marwan Kenzari (Aladdin), which won the Variety Piazza Grande Award in Locarno Film Festival 2019. Instinct is the first outing for the Carice and Halina's production banner, Man Up.
Up next is the new Dutch series Red Light, in which she not only plays the lead role but she is also creative producer of the show, together with Halina and their production company Man Up The show is expected to air in Autumn 2020.- Actress
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Gaite Jansen is considered one of the most promising Dutch young acting talents of her generation. She can be seen on the HBO/ Cinemax show Jett (2019), opposite Carla Gugino, directed by Sebastian Gutierrez. Prior to this, she played recurring roles on BBC's Peaky Blinders (2013) Season 3 and Line of Duty (2012) Season 4.
Her performance as a deaf teenager in the groundbreaking 2011 drama 170 Hz (2011) earned her nominations for Best Actress at the Seattle Film Festival and the Netherlands Film Festival. Supernova (2014), in which she plays the lead role, screened in the Generations competition at Berlinale film festival 2014. She also played the lead role in The Price of Sugar (2013), the opening film of the Netherlands Film Festival in 2013.
Apart from her TV and film work, Gaite worked on stage with internationally renowned theatre directors such as Tony-winner Ivo van Hove and Simon Stone.- Actress
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Halina Reijn is a renowned director, actress, author and producer. She is the winner of multiple awards, including the Dutch film Award, the Golden Calf for Best Actress , the Dutch theater awards Theo D'Or and Colombina, as well as the Courbois pearl, an oeuvre award which honours an actress who has made an indelible impression, both on stage as in film and television. Since 2017 she is also the proud owner of the Theo Mann-Bouwmeester Ring, an award to honour an actress who has contributed greatly to the Dutch theatre.
Her critically acclaimed directorial feature film debut INSTINCT (2019), starring Carice van Houten (GAME OF THRONES) and Marwan Kenzari (ALADDIN) has been selected for film festivals in Locarno (winner Variety Piazza Grande Award and special mention First Feature Competition), Toronto (world cinema competition), BFI Londen (Sutherland competition), Gent and Chicago, and is the foreign language Oscar submission of The Netherlands. INSTINCT is the first outing for Man Up, the production banner of Halina and Carice. MAN UP's goal is to create films and television drama with high current value and relevance, told from a female perspective. To explore darker, edgy stories that, through shame or fear, often remain untold. Quality, artistic integrity and openness to their audiences defines the productions of MAN UP.
Halina was professionally trained at the Maastricht Academy of Dramatic Arts and in 1997 debuted on stage as Ophelia in Hamlet, directed by Theu Boermans. She continued to act on stage in such productions as Shopping & Fucking, Three Sisters, Mourning Becomes Electra, Hedda Gabler, La Voix Humaine, The Fountainhead and recently Obsession, opposite Jude Law. Halina works with internationally acclaimed director Ivo van Hove at the International Theatre Amsterdam, performing their plays all over the world. She starred in the Oscar nominated film ZUS & ZO, in Paul Verhoeven's critically acclaimed BLACK BOOK and in Bryan Singer's VALKYRIE, opposite Tom Cruise. She can also be seen in the Swedish series CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE, directed by Charlotte Brändström.
In 2005, her first novel Prinsesje Nooitgenoeg (Prometheus) debuted, followed by Halina: doen alsof ik iemand anders ben (Prometheus, 2009), Antiglamour (co-written with Carice van Houten, Nijgh & Van Ditmar, 2013), and Loos (Nijgh & Van Ditmar, 2016). She is working on film scripts and television series based on original ideas. In 2019, Halina was named one of 20 most influential people in the Dutch media by a leading Dutch newspaper. She writes columns for Dutch and Belgian magazines and newspapers and is regularly a co-host on one of the best watched daily news shows on Dutch TV.- Director
- Script and Continuity Department
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Joost van Ginkel (1971, The Netherlands) produced his first short film SAND (2008) by himself. SAND was selected for the 2008 Venice Film Festival, won 13 international awards and was the Dutch submission for the Academy Award Best Live Action Short. His second short film KISS (2009) was selected for the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival. His first feature film, 170 HZ, was nominated for Best Actress and Best Sound Design and won the YouthMovieSquad Award and the Public's Choice Award at the 2011 Netherlands Film Festival. 170 HZ was also selected for the 2011 Busan International Film Festival.
In his second feature film THE PARADISE SUITE (2015), the lives of six people, who seem to have nothing more in common than their faraway homelands, become inextricably linked in Amsterdam, the city they have chosen as their new home. THE PARADISE SUITE is a profound and lyrical reflection on human resilience in the face of ongoing evil within 21st Century Europe. THE PARADISE SUITE has been chosen as the official entry from the Netherlands for Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category, and had its world premieres at International Film Festival Toronto 2015 in the Discovery section.
Currently, Joost is working on his 3rd feature film BO.- Katja Herbers is the daughter of violinist Vera Beths and oboist Werner Herbers. Growing up she spent time in America, accompanying her mother on tour with the chamber music group L'Archibudelli. Her mother remarried cellist Anner Bylsma and her father remarried costume designer Leonie Polak, who introduced her to the theater. She had a Canadian au pair and learned to speak Dutch, German, and English growing up.
Herbers went to the Ignatius Gymnasium in Amsterdam. She studied psychology at the University of Amsterdam. During her psychology studies she attended the local theatre school De Trap. She moved to New York and went to the HB Studio. She then got accepted to the Theaterschool in Amsterdam.
During her studies, she starred in the films Pietje Bell (2002) and Brush with Fate (2003). After graduation, Herbers became a member of Johan Simons' Theater Company NTGent in Ghent. She then joined the renowned Munich Kammerspiele in Germany. She worked with directors such as Alex van Warmerdam, Ivo van Hove and Theu Boermans under whose direction she performed many Schnitzler plays, including his monologue Fräulein Else, for which she received rave reviews. In 2013, she won the Guido de Moor Award for young talent, for her portrayal of Irina in Chekhov's Three Sisters. She played a lead role in Theu Boermans' The Chosen, which won an International Emmy and the prestigious Prix D'Europe.
Katja is also a gifted singer and has performed Im Wunderschönen Monat Mai - a composition inspired by the great Schubert and Schumann songs by Reinbert de Leeuw especially written for an actress.
While achieving many successes on stage, Katja continued filming as well. She worked with the Oscar Nominated and International Emmy Awarded Director Ben Sombogaart on the Dutch blockbuster feature De storm (2009). Critics raved about her portrayal of the Dutch Queen (then Princess) Maxima in the mini-series Beatrix, Oranje onder Vuur (2012). Rudolf van den Berg directed her in the feature film Süskind (2012), in which she played the right hand of Dutch war hero Walter Süskind, who helped escape over a thousand children during World War II. Jelle de Jonge directed her in the romantic comedy Love Over Distance (2017), which she co-wrote.
Really all of Holland knows her for her portrayal of the emotionally unstable but lovable Joyce in the TV hit series Divorce (2012), which glues a record breaking 25% of all Dutch television viewers to the screen every Sunday evening.
Internationally, Katja is known for playing physicist Helen Prins on Sam Shaw's Manhattan (2014). She had a recurring role on season three of FX's The Americans (2013). She played Dr. Eden on the final season of HBO's The Leftovers (2014), and starred opposite Mark Duplass in Manhunt (2017).
In 2018 she joined HBO's Westworld (2016) as Grace/Emily.
Katja divides her time between Los Angeles, New York and Amsterdam. - Director
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- Music Department
After Ten Horn's debut movie The deflowering of Eva van End, with its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival 2012, film magazine Variety listed Ten Horn as one of 'Ten European directors to watch'.
Michiel ten Horn (1983) graduated in 2007 from the HKU, the University of the arts Utrecht, where he studied animation. As a student he already focused on live-action, but his animation background stayed active, in his storytelling and use of form.
Recently, Michiel directed the first Dutch Netflix Original Series Ares. The show premiered in January 2020 and tells the story of an Amsterdam student who joins a secret society that has been around since the 17th century, the Dutch Golden Age, but must decide how far she is willing to go to rise up to the ranks.
Michiel's debut film The Deflowering of Eva van End is a tragicomedy about the Van End family who, after the arrival of an impossibly perfect German exchange student, can no longer imagine how they ever managed to live with their imperfect selves. The film has been sold to 23 countries including USA, and went on to receive three Golden Calf nominations for Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress and Best Music. At the same festival, the film won the Dutch Film Critics Award for Best Film of the Year and was honored with the Film Poster Award.
His next film The Peter Pan man (Aanmodderfakker, 2014) was originally produced as a TV film but after it gloriously conquered the 2014 Netherlands Film Festival with six nominations (Best Music, Best Production-Design, Best Actor, Best Screenplay, Best Director and Best Film), the network uniquely decided to give the film a theatrical run as well. Eventually the film won three Golden Calf Awards for Best Film, Best Actor and Best Screenplay.
Currently, he is in preproduction for his next Dutch feature film Volgens de Overlevering and is attached to direct the German/ Canadian feature film Nightlife.- Director
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- Producer
Paula van der Oest is an Academy Award nominated director and screenwriter. Her film ZUS & ZO (2001) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 2015 her film ACCUSED (2014) made it to the Academy Award's shortlist and her latest film TONIO (2016) is again chosen as the Dutch entry for the Foreign Language Oscar. Recently, she directed BBC's THE SPLIT Season 2.
For her film THE DOMINO EFFECT (2012), Paula won Best Director at the Netherlands Film Festival. Many of her films, such as BLACK BUTTERFLIES with Carice van Houten and Liam Cunningham (both GAME OF THRONES) in the lead roles, have been nominated and won awards at international film festivals. Her film TONIO, based on the famous novel by iconic Dutch writer A.F.Th van der Heijden, hit the big screen in October 2016 to raving reviews, calling it an instant classic and one of the best Dutch films to date. The film was nominated for seven Golden Calf Awards including Best Film and Best Director. Her latest Dutch film YOUNGER DAYS (OT: DE KLEINE IJSTIJD) had its international premiere in October 2017 at Chicago International Film Festival and was nominated for Best Directing, Best Screenwriting and a Da Vinci Award for Best Film at the Milano International Film Festival.
Her upcoming film THE BAY OF SILENCE, with Claes Bang and Olga Kurylenko in the lead roles, is set for release in 2021. Paula also directed the first block of BBC's THE SPLIT Season 2, which launched in March 2020. In addition, she wrote the screenplay and is the creative producer on THE FORGOTTEN BATTLE (2021).
In 2018, Paula started production company Levitate with Alain de Levita and Mark van Eeuwen.- Director
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- Actor
Shady El-Hamus is an award winning Dutch-Egyptian director and screenwriter. He directed and co-wrote the first Dutch Netflix Original Film FOREVER RICH about a popartist having to fix his reputation and save his career after his watch is stolen in a violent robbery and humiliating images of the encounter go viral. The film came out to rave reviews.
Shady's first feature film, ABOUT THAT LIFE, about three friends being driven apart by the looming end of high school life, only to learn their friendship does not depend on their chosen paths. The film was released in 2019, came out to rave reviews and won a Golden Calf (the equivalent of an Academy Award) for Best Screenplay.
In 2012, Shady graduated from the Netherlands Film Academy as the first student in the history of this school to simultaneously graduate in two specializations: directing and writing. Dutch newspaper Volkskrant named him one of three directing talents of 2018.
He wrote Sam de Jong's award winning graduation film MAGNESIUM and directed his own film ABOUT SONS, starring Marwan Kenzari (ALADDIN) in the lead role. At the 2012 Netherlands Film Festival, MAGNESIUM was awarded Best Student Film, and Shady received the Dioraphte Award for Most Outstanding Graduation Student of the Year. MAGNESIUM was selected for many international film festivals, including the Sundance Film Festival.
After graduating from the Netherlands Film Festival, Shady was accepted by the prestigious MA Directing Fiction Course at the National Film and Television School in the United Kingdom. His 2015 graduation film FAIRUZ, starring acclaimed Palestinian actor Mohammad Bakri, premiered at the 2015 Dubai International Film Festival as part of the Main Competition. His most recent short film NIGHTSHADE was the Dutch submission for the Academy Awards 2018, and was selected for the competition of Clermond-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, the biggest international film festival dedicated to short films.