Cinekid Festival, touted as the world’s largest festival for children’s film and media, opens October 20 at Pathé Amsterdam Noord with Beta Film’s “Benjamin Bat,” an animated musical adventure pic about a bat with nyctophobia.
“Benjamin Bat” follows a timid bat whose fear of the dark (aka nyctophobia), makes him an oddity among his peers. They find his sensitivity and love for singing, an activity reserved for their bird enemies, baffling. Everything changes when Benjamin meets Sherida, a tropical songbird. To save her and embrace his true self, Benjamin must summon all his courage.
Produced by Storytellers Film & TV (producers Errol Nayci and Julia Ton) and Zeilt Productions (co-producer Laurent Witz), in collaboration with il Luster, the 76-minute toon is directed by Patrick Raats and Sarah Sutter from a screenplay by Karen van Holst Pellekaan, based on a story she co-created with Errol Nayci.
Dutch public broadcaster Avrotros co-produces the toon,...
“Benjamin Bat” follows a timid bat whose fear of the dark (aka nyctophobia), makes him an oddity among his peers. They find his sensitivity and love for singing, an activity reserved for their bird enemies, baffling. Everything changes when Benjamin meets Sherida, a tropical songbird. To save her and embrace his true self, Benjamin must summon all his courage.
Produced by Storytellers Film & TV (producers Errol Nayci and Julia Ton) and Zeilt Productions (co-producer Laurent Witz), in collaboration with il Luster, the 76-minute toon is directed by Patrick Raats and Sarah Sutter from a screenplay by Karen van Holst Pellekaan, based on a story she co-created with Errol Nayci.
Dutch public broadcaster Avrotros co-produces the toon,...
- 6/26/2024
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Dutch company working on big budget historical family film dramatising the events behind the Reformation of 1517.
Dutch company Bijkers TV (the outfit behind local box office hit Cool Kids Don’t Cry) is developing an ambitious, big budget new historical family film, Falko, that will dramatise the events behind the Reformation of 1517.
The new film is to be directed by Dennis Bots [pictured], and is scripted by Karen van Holst Pellekaan - the team behind Cool Kids Don’t Cry and Secrets of War. The producer is Harro van Staverden.
Falko will be coproduced with German partner Flying Moon.
The film, which is budgeted at €6m, is aimed at family audiences
It tells the story of Falko Voeten (12), the son of printer Klaas Voeten, who secretly prints banned literature about the new religious movement. When his father is arrested, Falko unwittingly becomes the focal point in the hunt for an important letter written by Martin Luther.
Threatened...
Dutch company Bijkers TV (the outfit behind local box office hit Cool Kids Don’t Cry) is developing an ambitious, big budget new historical family film, Falko, that will dramatise the events behind the Reformation of 1517.
The new film is to be directed by Dennis Bots [pictured], and is scripted by Karen van Holst Pellekaan - the team behind Cool Kids Don’t Cry and Secrets of War. The producer is Harro van Staverden.
Falko will be coproduced with German partner Flying Moon.
The film, which is budgeted at €6m, is aimed at family audiences
It tells the story of Falko Voeten (12), the son of printer Klaas Voeten, who secretly prints banned literature about the new religious movement. When his father is arrested, Falko unwittingly becomes the focal point in the hunt for an important letter written by Martin Luther.
Threatened...
- 2/10/2014
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
The Surrogate: Beumer’s Road-Trip Drama Breaks Down All Along the Way
Wince-worthingly announcing itself as the bonding roadtrip type where strength is in the numbers, secrets will be revealed and internal struggles will be projected onto those that are within arms’ length distance, by design, helmer Antoinette Beumer’s formulaic Jackie covers no new ground with its let’s throw caution to the wind epiphanies, and digs a hole for itself fairly early on when trying to insert comedic elements in what is essentially a watered-downed dramatic feature. A pro women, family values and same-gender relationships, this mostly Dutch despite Amerciana landscape struggles because of its severe lack of emotional depth and vaguely sketched characters.
Scribes Marnie Blok and Karen Van Holst Pellekaan’s portrait is one of newly tacked on life lessons told via the Pov of a pair of mid 30-ish non identical twins (the miscast Van...
Wince-worthingly announcing itself as the bonding roadtrip type where strength is in the numbers, secrets will be revealed and internal struggles will be projected onto those that are within arms’ length distance, by design, helmer Antoinette Beumer’s formulaic Jackie covers no new ground with its let’s throw caution to the wind epiphanies, and digs a hole for itself fairly early on when trying to insert comedic elements in what is essentially a watered-downed dramatic feature. A pro women, family values and same-gender relationships, this mostly Dutch despite Amerciana landscape struggles because of its severe lack of emotional depth and vaguely sketched characters.
Scribes Marnie Blok and Karen Van Holst Pellekaan’s portrait is one of newly tacked on life lessons told via the Pov of a pair of mid 30-ish non identical twins (the miscast Van...
- 9/7/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
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